skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble with Levi's is that when you buy, say, a pair of 501s, there are a bunch of things that factor into what you're getting. Bought them on eBay for a good deal? Solid chance they're counterfeit. Bought them at WalMart or Target? You're getting a variant that was manufactured for downmarket, price-sensitive consumers - thinner denim, cheaper manufacturing. Is it stretch denim, or 100% cotton? Shrink to fit? Levi's Premium? Or maybe you're splurging for something from the Made & Crafted line. Or if you're really looking to spend on Levi's, you've bought something from the Levi's Vintage Clothing line. (In the US, you can still sometimes find LVC and Made & Crafted items at TJ Maxx and Marshalls for a tenth of their retail price) Sometimes the fit is inconsistent, but if you buy from levi.com, you get free returns if you have an account with them, or if you can drop them off at a nearby Levi's store.

And that's just Levi's... I don't have the time or the energy to bother with the kind of denim fanaticism that blew up over the last decade or so.

Before they IPO'd, my trick to long-lasting Levi's was to wait until whatever seasonal collection they had with 'toughness' in mind went on sale or blowout, because they used to experiment more with fabrics. I've got a pair of 501s made with Dyneema, the stuff they make ropes for ships out of. The Skateboard line was marketed as being able to take more abuse than normal, and so far has lived up to that. For better or for worse, they've simplified their product line a lot since being publicly traded.

And if you want to get real weird, the other thing that I found helps is... that's right, not washing my jeans every time I wear them. There are exceptions, but I work from home, I'm generally not doing much to stink up my jeans. I have a rolling rack that I keep 10 pairs of jeans on, and I cycle through them, so that at the very most, any pair gets worn once every week and a half.

Anyway... I haven't had to buy new jeans in a long time, and I switched over to all-Levi's years ago - but It took a little trial and error to get a lay of the land.
Some interesting malware I found
You absolutely cannot use the BSL code in production without a commercial license. That's literally the first thing it says:

> The Licensor hereby grants you the right to copy, modify, create derivative works, redistribute, and make non-production use of the Licensed Work. The Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above, permitting limited production use.

Maybe specific software modifies that as you say, but the base BSL doesn't. I agree it's super vaguely worded ("production" isn't defined at all). Also it turns out MariaDB itself isn't BSL licensed - it's GPL, just some extra projects around it.
Git hosting services cannot change the address on the actual commits, so trying to hide it on the web frontend is pretty pointless. You could always just clone the repo to get the addresses.

It will always be up to the user to set it up in a way they want.

Well I guess GitHub could refuse non-GitHub e-mail addresses when pushing, but let's seriously not go there.
A lazier step 2 that works for me is to sleep for a full night.
Good point, but if the standard defines EOF as a negative value while at the same time permitting implementations to support default-unsigned char types, then the sanity train obviously left the tracks at that time, or at some time prior to it.
Email is less and less decentralised. Unless you send email as a big provider, you'll risk being blocked.
Am I wrong? Are women not the more submissive sex? Is it not generally accepted that men are more independent than women?

What's your argument against what I said?
I'm hosting one in AWS and my monthly bill is only like $10/mo but I have other stuff running too. Static S3 with a codebuild pipeline so all I have to do is commit markdown to GH when I want to post. Here's a writeup on how I set it up. http://blog.bytester.net/posts/about-blog/
Does the gravity force affect measurement? I’m curious if there is a tidal effect that can be observed from the various locations of the Moon and Sun.
> If you have 10 Years experience and take a year off to birth and raise a child, you should be able to come back and be paid similarly to a man or woman who has 10 years of experience and not be penalized 2-3 years of experience for it.

Except that 1 year off has put them 1 year behind their peers who now have 11 years experience. Their skills have also decayed by a year, and they missed 1 year of developments in the industry.

People shouldn’t be penalised for having kids, but likewise it should be recognised that having children does impact career trajectory in a non-discriminatory way.
This coincides with about seven months of going back to school.

My kids did so much better when they were not in school. They got plenty of time with other kids, but none of the toxic middle school culture.
It did not: actually it'd keep asking to "complete setting up" without F-Droid installed too, just as long as Google Play is not configured.
Ask HN: How many dependencies does manufacturing a light switch have?
I've been trying to understand how various common objects, say, a light switch or a suitcase, are manufactured if we thought about the entire process starting from raw materials. Where do all necessary materials come from for the final assembly? How are those materials manufactured? If we follow down the line, how many dependencies does manufacturing a light switch have and what are they? I recently realized that all these steps are very much invisible to consumers and I'd love to learn more. Any recommendations where to look?
So you are ok that Ukranian women atm to also not be able to leave the country and have to fight? Because there are also a lot of consequences for being a man that just keep being ignored (famous Hillary Clinton's quote that the real victims of war are the widows of the fallen soldiers springs to mind)
I'm both a joyful person, and perhaps the futility of the entire Universe is what makes me so joyful in laughing at the meaningless of it all, while also appreciating the connections, insights and flames that are ultimately worthless.

> I find this hard to believe.

I would suggest you give Emil Cioran [0] some time. It sounds like the kind of person that you find hard to believe exists, so might provide some context.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran
We were mostly thinking that the stuff that came before was hard to use and had a steep learning curve. And being decentralized, it was way harder to iterate on than a wholly-owned service.

Twitter (the technology) is okay. It turns out people work poorly when you put them all in the same room and let them shout at each other.
This is exactly it. I'm not sure why people are surprised by this, I've seen it happen plenty of times before. The lid never tightens itself, it literally is just falling into place along the grooves.

Why is such boring, normal stuff going 'viral'?
As the worker:retiree ratio goes from 5 to less than 2 in the coming decades, I hope people realize this will be more of a luxury to retire.
The emails are part of the commit hash. https://blog.thoughtram.io/git/2014/11/18/the-anatomy-of-a-g... - good luck comparing them when the emails have been rewritten.
> Although young people were spared the brunt of the virus — falling ill and dying at much lower rates than older people — they might still pay a steep price for the pandemic, having come of age while weathering isolation, uncertainty, economic turmoil and, for many, grief.

The honest truth that most people don’t want to face is that there is a direct relationship between economic turmoil and mental health. Instead, we will get politicians and community leaders blaming everything else for the problem, when all you have to do to address it is to pay people a living wage and provide an adequate social net to fall back upon. Our leaders will never admit this.
> Doesn't look very practical if your DB has >100s of TBs

If that's in one shard, then you've got big issues. with larger DBs you need to be practising rolling replacement replicas, because as you scale the chance that one of your shards cocking up approaches 1.

Again, it depends on your use case. RDS solves 95% of your problems (barring high scale and expense)

If your running your own DBs then you _must_ be replacing part or all of the cluster regularly to make sure that your backup mechanisms are working.

For us, when we were using cassandra (hint: dont) we used to spin up a "b cluster" for large scale performance testing of prod. That allowed us to do one touch deploys from hot snapshots. Eventually. This saved us from a drive by malware infection, which caused our instances to OOM.
Sorry, we didn't mean to spam you with this email, we intended to send this other spam mail instead?
Try Ubuntu-MATE, not GNOME. Scroll speed is in a settings dialog.
I'm not claiming it's number one, just that it's one of 'the professions', degree leads to a job, it pays relatively well. A lot of humanities students are studying just to study (which is fine) without a clear job that it leads to, and many inevitably end up in unrelated roles that don't require their degree and don't compensate for it.

I only special-cased EE & CS because that happens to be HN's skew, not because there's something more special about them than some other engineering or science.
Agreed, but on a technical level it makes it harder for the client software to have to decide what to do with those resources. A plain-text post can sit on my drive for months until I get around to reading it with barely any impact on disk space usage.

With images I either have to eat the storage utilization for them or suffer a privacy leak by loading them when the post is opened. For the latter, there's always a small risk that a post could be deleted or an entire website vanish in between the time my feed updates and the time I open a post, in which case it would be left with text but broken images. I guess they could be inlined (like `<img src="data:image/png;base64,etc"/>`) to avoid that risk. It's even more obnoxiously complex if we're using the modern `picture`/`srcset`/etc to serve multiple resolutions and image formats for various screen sizes, connection speeds, and platforms.
I worked for Facebook out of college because it was the only FAANG i got an offer from and it was a great start to my career. Definitely had a bit of a bad conscience and felt like a sell-out though, which eventually drove me to quit.
Follow the chain.

1. Confirm domains are known for phishing and spam.

2. Figure out who registered said domains.

3. Add those people to known blacklists so they can't register anymore domains ever again. Likewise block all domains owned already by them.

4. Get domain registrars and email servers to block said domains too.

5. Rinse and repeat every time it happens.

6. Find similar accountability chains as above and make sure to close the loop on them each time. "Sorry we can't give out emails and personal details. Fuck you, stop enabling illegal activity." And fight for legislation and tech solutions to enable the above.

If you can't move to a better spot after identifying bad patterns, then it's just a giant game of useless wack-a-mole.
> And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk

Are you suggesting that this story is inaccurate? Your claim is baffling in the face of… well, all the stories I’ve been reading the past two years.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-coronavirus...
Tests, ha
Few major effects. Young people mostly work service or part time jobs which were completely destroyed. Very few were able to work from home. Property values across the planet exploded, further benefiting those who already had them. Cost of living and inflation exploded without any bump to wages on these low end jobs.

If you don't work in tech, are an exec, or own significant assets, your life has been ruined by covid restrictions.
Hmmm. Well. From what I understand he's now all-in on the crypto-currency craze. So, either his regrets have nothing in-particular to do with how simultaneously inane and toxic Twitter is for society, or he's very bad at actually recognizing his preternatural bias toward simultaneously inane and toxic "innovations", so can't recognize that his current passion is just as bad as his former passion.

Though I'm not entirely sure it matters much which one of those is the case here. The difference between cynical exploitation and illconceived idealism isn't much when assessing the results.
At one point - and perhaps still today - Java would refuse to JIT class files with more than a couple of thousand lines in them, falling back to interpreted mode. So in that case, you really, really wouldn't want the 5,000 line file.
As much as a cloud of atoms doth protest that free will is irrelevant, reality has a way of not caring :)
Did I miss the EMACS post? Cause you know it’s coming.
Once Again, Environmentalists Are Sabotaging Climate Progress
How does this happen so often with YC companies? You'd think the amount of applicants would raise the bar of scrutiny a little.

Can't tell if I'm getting older or if more often now some of the newer YC inductees are getting accepted on factors other than their tech accumen.
The government already has these answers. There is a value assigned to life per year it could be extended. For some reason that was thrown out the window for covid.
I treat GitHub as a social coding network and I want individuals to be able to email me. I’ve received genuine questions, compliments and friendship by providing an email address on my GitHub profile. And if that’s not the product manager’s dream over at GitHub, I’m not sure what is!

So I think the solution to the problem is not to blackhole my GitHub profile, but to put systems in place that prevent the spamming techniques reported by the OP.
Hence pretty much. Not something that would be consequential for this calculus.
He’s not all-in on crypto. He’s only all-in on bitcoin.
>> (January 13th) "We are being absolutely crushed," says Dr. Gabor Kelen, chair of emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Maryland.

https://knpr.org/npr/2022-01/ers-are-overwhelmed-omicron-con...
This list of suggestions matches my experience of what works too.

Management doesn't really start to care about things until there is a large percentage of underlings who care. Raising the issue privately with calm but direct language is the best way to add yourself to the list of those concerned.

At the end of the list is indirect non-compliance, which can be way more effective than expected. Suppose you are asked to add a bad feature to the Facebook news feed sorting algorithm by your manager. There are tons of ways of writing the feature "wrong" by "misunderstanding" what they are asking for. Tons of ways to slow down the progress of releasing the features. Tons of ways of prioritizing other projects over work on the feature for months. Sure, eventually a desire to make bad product decisions can overpower everything at a company, but it's worth throwing a bit of gravel into the gears to slow down the progression towards mediocrity and unethical behavior.
Ask HN: Resources for Contractor Contracts?
Howdy HN,

I have a few ideas I’m considering hiring contractors to bootstrap, however I need help on how to protect myself, my ideas, and code from the contractors I hire. I know I can hire an attorney, but I was wondering if there are any resources around common contracts to use as a starting point?

Thanks!
>I don't recall this happening. Can you provide a source for this?

https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/USA/2020/1119/O...
> Do you include the definite article in the band's name? If so, what about The The?

My SiriusXM radio omits leading articles like “The”, so “The Beatles” is displayed as “Beatles”. I alway long wondered how it would display “The The”. Would it be “The”, empty string “”, “The The”, or something else entirely. I eventually learned the answer: “The The”. Which is good, but then made me frustrated that it wouldn’t allow the “The Beatles” to be “The Beatles”.
The Most Important Performance Management Rule for Software Engineers
> people were actively undermining them pretty much from day one.

This is what actually fucked the US and led to the million deaths there. I live in Ecuador and we had a bad go in the first few months of the pandemic, with near total lockdown and many deaths. Afterwards though, we went very hard with masks and reasonable restrictions on numbers of people in buildings at once and the cases/deaths have been very steady and controlled since then. Yes, masks really do work, if everyone actually wears them, our numbers have proven this. The biggest restriction has been that schools have shut or gone remote during the entire pandemic and only recently have in-person classes started back up. The US seems to have had it much much worse and it seems to be entirely self inflicted. I personally don't understand why the US didn't just give up after a few months once it was obvious that people wouldn't really do what it takes for success. It looks like the US has stayed on a path that everyone hates, but keeps getting no benefit from.
Ex-Russian oligarch says one moment in war drove Putin ‘insane’
Electronic music is also full of remixes, for example:

Artist: Moby

Title: Simple Love (B-Motion Remix)

The actual artist is B-Motion and any kind of browser/catalog must group this track with other B-Motion music, or in worst case both, because remixes are in entirely different genres than the original.

So "Artist" is not necessarily the artist.
My state in Australia had a lockdown where for a while it was not permitted to go outside for fitness by yourself. I can't imagine the physical and mental health damage this caused.
I too have become a nap fiend since a bout with covid last year. I can't get through a working day without one now. (I do extend the day afterwards, if anyone is wondering)
What about the proteins the mrna and vector vaccines turn your cells into factories for, at various locations in your body, for a various amount of time?

Is there a difference?
There's such a range of bizarre opinions and hot takes about anything Covid related that it's impossible to even guess what point you're trying to make.
I really like Firebase + Flutter Web.

But I will say Flutter Web is rather ugly compared to React... React has had UI libraries for years which are way beyond anything flutter can do
> Note that the "psychological benefits" mentioned here are completely individual: greater self-esteem, increased feelings of power/control

Yes, I read that as well. But the last time I check deriving benefit from the pain or at least discomfort of others is sociopath 101.

It would be foolish to buy into this usefulness of this study without gaining an understanding of the long term effects.

That is, one soda per week...not so bad. One or two per day and before you know it you're packing on pounds.
I guarantee if these numbers keep trending downward, Microsoft will just find ways to force you into upgrading, or trick you into upgrading like they did with windows 10 and the weirdly phrased update prompt options.
Food and housing and education and healthcare are all more expensive than ever. I work in tech making six figures and can't afford a single family home. My employer pays $700 a month for my insurance. I spent $1000 a month on groceries.
> How do we, as the people building the platforms these perpetrators ride on, stop them?

We don't, because there is more money to be made with the way things are setup as-is. And since builders are generally not the money-decision-makers, the platforms keep being built (technically) bad.

Take phone-number-based-scams, since there is no trust in identity, but there is a money-made-per-usage, everyone except the end-user wins to keep everything as-is.

Scammers get money if a scam succeeds, network providers get money regardless, transit agreements stay up since traffic being passed at volume keeps the lines open, maintained and at size. End-users don't disconnect since they'll need it for legitimate use, so they keep being profitable as well.

If the money were to stop being made at any point in the chain it would suddenly all be over. But since legitimate and scam usage is mixed that will never happen.

Replace phones and SS7 and telcos with any other transportation and information system for comparison. Email spam keeps 'working' because there is no real way to identify the sender in such a way that the identity can be barred. Postal spam has the same anonymous sender problem.

Heck, the best way that does work is having to physically hand flyers to people since you can simply not take the flyer, and since you (as a person) can't be handing out flyers without physically being there you can also be identified and barred.
Proxmox is better for running VMs and LXC containers, You can run TrueNAS or unRaid on top of it with disks passthrou
Yup, I think that's what should be. Installed apps and their versions shouldn't affect system components.
No that honor goes to Anthony Noto and the money Jack and the board gave him to do exactly NOTHING.
>Their hardware shows a craftsmanship and quality

I bet Louis Rossman would disagree

https://m.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
>> you could be joyful but think your life is worthless
> I find this hard to believe.

Albert Camus developed the philosophy of Absurdism around a very similar idea. A gross oversimplification is that in the grand scheme of things, logically and objectively our lives have no meaning, but our brains are wired to need meaning. The solution is to create that meaning for ourselves even while acknowledging that meaning is a delusion.
I also noticed my needs for sleep went up
> attempting to minimize deaths from infections at almost any cost - something that we never did, and still do not do, with any other disease.

So first off no, not "at almost any cost." The largest, most effective mitigations were never on the table: wind down the entire global economy into "safe mode" and focus only on life-making activities; send all workers home except the truly necessary. Instead we sent home office workers while labeling as essential the food, delivery, and retail workers we forced to continue to serve them.

Second, "we never did, and still do not do, with any other disease" well we fucking should. Every single preventable death is a tragedy of cosmic magnitude, and much disruption is justified in avoiding even one.
I would happily upgrade, but MS has decided that none of the systems I own will support it.
Here you go:

> Omicron absolutely crushed U.S. hospitals -- with some having to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures.

ERs are overwhelmed as omicron continues to flood them with patients: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/13/1072902...

Why omicron is crushing hospitals — even though cases are often milder than delta: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/29/1075871...

> Many U.S. hospitals had to put off essential procedures and ran out of practically _everything_ (syringes, saline products, blood, etc.) during the last wave.

Americans get sicker as omicron stalls everything from heart surgeries to cancer care: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/04/1078029...

US hospitals struggle as Omicron Covid surge delays other treatments: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/us-hospitals-o...
Crypto wallets are actually an effective way to manage identity.

1. Easy to setup on various tech helping unbanked as well.
2. To use it for payouts / fiat KYC and AML needs to be performed.
3. Tied to a person similar to a phone / email but not to a specific device.
> I feel like I've had a lobotomy

I have been feeling like this for years. But I do know there was a time where I didn‘t feel like that. I wonder if anxiety, an unknown past (viral?) illness, past medication (Isotretinoin, SSRI?) or something else is at fault.