skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can start a science twitter, tweet every thought, every interesting fact you have found and you'll build a following and get your insights vetted, confirmed or refuted by the crowd. A very powerful way to increase your knowledge and accuracy.
WordPerfect.

Yes, technically it still exists in some form, but not really. The modern version shares little in common with the DOS port - apart from unicode incompatibility, and that's hardly desirable.

Corel have even acknowledged how good the DOS version was by attempting to have a "Classic Mode" with a similar interface. But the macro system is completely incompatible, and all the menus are different. It's a skin-deep facelift, nothing more.
> If the terminal can run programs connected to the internet, then the terminal has internet connectivity.

Is this true? This sounds wrong to me but I don't know the inner workings of terminals. The terminal just executes programs and handles pipes it seems. A terminal can be completely walled from the internet, and when you execute something from it, say, curl, then curl has it's own memory space and access layer outside the terminal, and just has it's stdio wired to the terminal.
Most marriages that are first marriages for both partners end in death. Doesn't sound like there's a lot of regret there. People want to stay married. Otherwise they wouldn't.
Tried it on my kid's gaming PC just now. Windows 10 complains about it not being 64 bit.

Runs fine in DOSBox. Left it open, he'll be so excited when he gets home from school!
We already have Firefox and few people use it compared to chrome. A third engine does not matter.
My reply will be short, but hopefully insightful:

Congratulations, you're curious and have an intellectual appetite!

Some people do sports, some people collect stamps, some do RPG, some... and some are curious of academic disciplines (to phrase it poorly).

There's a quote I don't remember the (french) author (and since I don't trust the Internet for this) but I very much like:

"Since we're not given the opportunity to choose the world we live in, the least we could do is try to understand it"

In french: "Puisqu'il ne nous est pas donné de choisir le monde dans lequel nous vivons, la moindre des choses est d'essayer de le comprendre".

On a personal note, discovering philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, among others, has changed my life.
Removing a book from children school libraries and the curriculum because they are not age appropriate is not banning books. The books are in print, in public libraries, commercial bookstores and available for purchase online. Not banned at all.
Ask any early 80s Sierra adventure game protagonist?
They have been trying to create or reinvent the database rather than using tried and true solutions. The analogue would be rolling your own cryptography.
Intel had several R&D facilities in Russia. At this point, any CS students/junior programmes are between a rock and a hard place - on one side, there are now much less work locally - many companies left the market, the rest of them are not recruiting as many Juniors/Interns as they did. Yandex, one of the biggest ones, freezed hiring altogether.

On the other side, they can't go work somewhere else. If you are not all that experienced, no foreign companies would be interested in sponsoring a visa for you. Some companies just stopped working with Russians: for instance, several days ago Google cancelled all summer internships for Russian citizens, and added rules to ban them from Google Summer of code.

I knew that their withdrawal from the market would eventually happen, but I really did hope that the R&D would stay open.
The idea of UFO's was created and funded by the U.S. during their X planes project to create misinformation to attempt to keep the project itself quiet from the soviets. At a certain point they didn't have to push the idea, people took it up freely and expanded it. The Pentagon is not going to do anything against its own interests. In this crazy timeline maybe they'll use it to demand more funding for secret projects.
Ukraine Is Winning the Information War

Jokes aside, this is important topic. Especially near the end - the world is not limited by only 3 major languages and Russians are very well aware of it. Not necessary Westerners, so be aware.
Ok, maybe I misunderstand what a "workflow" is. Since we are talking about replacing shell scripts with "workflows", I assumed that they are a kind of programming facility of about similar power as shell scripts. But that may be incorrect.

> You aren't the one porting Warp, but you are the one porting the shell script.

It sounds like your are saying somthing like "Warp scripts/workflows require almost no effort to port, compared to the shell scripts they replace". I was interested to learn how this can be the case. Perhaps my interpretation was wrong.
Yes and quite fast at it.
If visitors disable JavaScript, will the paywall still work?
I also highly recommend Buddy. It's the most intuitive build system I've found: every step in the pipeline is a container image and commands on top. Incredibly flexible and powerful but also easy to maintain.
It is for Mac and Windows, not for Linux. They also are using WebView/WebView2, so they aren't building an engine.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848133/duckduckgo-brow...
But how will marketing determine the effectiveness of their efforts if I don't "just add a single line of code" for every social media company to our website? </sarcasm>
“DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.”
Ok, we can’t stop reading right there.
On the average, no. I worked for one of those companies and stupidly assumed that most people wanted to leave after a couple of years and start their own companies. I was completely wrong about that. I believe most of them just want someone else to outline the job so that they can execute it well.

I on the other hand don’t mind risk and always valued an interesting, worthwhile job over security.
> We don’t have so much information that they have on their level.

I wish more people understood this. There is SO much more going on in this conflict than any layman can fathom. There’s deep context behind it spanning years, and the situation itself develops at a breakneck pace, yet everyone is suddenly an expert on the culture and history of the entire region and fully informed on what’s going on.
EU seeks input from specialists on digital Euro
I worked as a projectionist in an old theatre in my teens that used 35mm film and the analog sound stripe. This was early 2000s and was very dated for the time. Projectionist used to be a trade, but by this point they gave the job to kids with minimal training for minimum wage. I loved threading the film through the projector and across the room on pulleys to the platter that wound it back up, the clickity clack when you turned it on.

One neat thing I remember: we applied these little foil bits on the edge of the film to control the house lights. They were applied at either end to dim the lights when the movie started and bring them back up at the end.

I think I still have a Star Wars Ep. III trailer on 35mm kicking around.
> A week later, they suggested we go to lunch again. Again, I was tempted to cut off contact, but I asked some friends and again they all said I was insane and imagining things.

Anon should first cutoff contact with those creeps then he should cut off contact with his friends.
Another article along similar lines:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
One way to measure whether a team’s cumulative effect is positive is to have a long term holdout of users who never see their experiments. You can check for a statically significant difference between this holdout group and the group of users who see the features the team shipped.
Honest question: why would I want content metadata? As soon as I know the title of the media file, I’m golden.
Is there something super cool I’m missing out on without it?
Maybe I’m rare in having a well sorted media library?
I didn't get married til my early 60s. So far so good! I've seen so so many busted marriages "out there" that I did NOT rush it (obv).
Totally confused after reading the article multiple times here. What license did OngDB use?
I think it's absurd to put a Terminal behind a login and collect telemetry data. You don't need any of these to "develop a good product by listening to your users". It just makes your whole effort look like a scam.
Thanks for this reference, I found the timeline interesting, especially the initial report in 2021, then the one month sequence and timeframe in 2022.
Affinity Publisher can't handle footnotes. An enormous omission.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30915923
Installation is not the most complicated issue, component selection and integration is. AFAIK.
In the same market, maybe, but Samsung has U.S. versions of their products as do many other brands.
Make a big list of the things you are great at and love doing, and then look for combinations that nobody else is combining. Bam. Super hero.

My super power? Expert level customer service with a deep technical understanding of my profession. Usually somebody is one or the other, but I happen to have both. It's a rare combination, and people who succeed at that combination (and market it properly) can do quite well. That's not to say I'm making FAANG wages (I'm not) or that I have a big savings (I don't) but I love what I do and I'm good at it, and I am able to make a great impact at the startup I work for. That's good enough for me.
It really whips the llamas ass...
Most theaters moved to digital around 10 years ago and most of them got rid of their 35mm projectors (some kept one or two just in case)(I worked on the provider side of the migration to digital cinema at the time). In theory there should be an abundance of cheap 35mm projectors on the market, but maybe the demand wasn’t all that so most of the projectors were just tossed? I know some projectors were shipped to 3rd world countries as well.
VC exists because having an idea isn't enough. If you're one developer, working nights and weekends on your idea, the barrier to compete with you is low. If you get VC money, you can immediately put several fulltime developers on the project, and the barrier to compete with you is higher.

It's not a badge of honor, it's the only way to even enter the market.
Yep... there wasn't enough code or RAM to do anything fancy. If you had a spreadsheet of any real complexity (i.e. much more than a screen worth) it was not unusual to disable auto recalc as things got painful fast on a 1MHz 8-bit CPU.

None of this was really an issue for early adopters whose primary alternative was typically paper, pencil, a [pocket|desk] calculator and a whole lot of writing.
that thumbnail box appears at random and takes a couple seconds to be populated. Wikipedia has those but they only appear when you hover over some links. When they appear, they are already populated.. Man, that box keeps popping up for no reason..
Maybe you should become a policymaker :)
For more discussions and insights -> https://twitter.com/zachlloydtweets/status/15113778758150840...
Thx for this answer, it's quite convincing. I'll look at the trend in electrification instead of the trend of CO2 emission !
Get every help you can.

No, the side effects are not "really bad". Especially not for "most people". Your post says to me you are self-diagnosing and working of a warped set of information from who knows what kind of sources. Ask professionals to diagnose and treat you.
The problem is not 'bottom line' versus 'family', the problem is when the company is bullshitting you. When it expects you to treat them like 'family', but treat you as 'bottom line'.

If Netflix wants to fire half their engineering team every year, that's fine, as long as everyone walks into the arrangement with the mindset of a contractor, or a mercenary who's only there for the paycheque.
That's pushing the analogy past where it breaks and missing the point. Take someone who has only ever written C-like code. Hand them a Scheme, maybe Racket. You expect them to initially have difficulty regardless of the quality of documentation. It's a different way of thinking about and doing things and there's a lot of it to deal with.
> I generally hate this type of thing: retry mechanisms are a lazy band-aid that can mask real problems.

I disagree. Retry mechanisms is mandatory for any network request. You cannot expect a message to travel across the globe on a wire without ever failing.

I would say the opposite: you must have a retry mechanism for all requests performed by your application; unless it’s acceptable to pass on this failure to the client (who will retry the request).
mind discussing a bit more about how you started doing contract work? I'm very interested in this, but unsure how to make it into a reliable source of income
Show HN: Virtual Team Icebreakers for Slack
I’m probably just slow, but are they trying to say this is analogous to “the compiler is written in the language it compiles”?
As someone who has a recreational pilot license (sure, not jets, but still) you just reinforced the point of the previous comment rather than refute it for me.

Most pilot text books are absolutely horribly written, finding a good one takes significant effort. Reading just an ok book shines a light on how absolutely trash the majority of pilot text books are and that it is absolutely bad "documentation" that is partially to blame for it being difficult to learn.
/ppg
Did you ever test doing nothing? I assume it's been studied, but I can imagine ways for 10% to actually be noise or seasonal/weekly/whatever variations.
Agree - otherwise it can just justify procrastinating.

Edit: Someone else said it better here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30928437
I've never found a way that I like to integrate dealing with email into a to-do list. Reading emails is a perpetual need but it is damaging to focus and I often find that it saps my energy by reminding me of all the things that are not yet done. I've tried having fixed times of the day where I always deal with emails; adding "30 minutes of email" to my task list; reading them between each switch of tasks. None of these approaches really cracked it for me. I haven't read "Getting Things Done" - I wonder whether it has a solution.
Yes, Esketamine (what they're calling S-ketamine) can be a good one. Just be careful if there's any history of psychosis.

It nearly got me stabbed and had to be discontinued. It really can work on depression, though, in a way the other drugs just don't.

Makes me wonder how much the others are doing, honestly, though missing a dose causes misery. I truly wonder sometimes what just slowly getting off them all would do to her.
Now I'm thinking there must be some brainfuck-like language called foobar.
Presumably you trust the authors or you wouldn't be downloading it to begin with. The primary concern isn't "what if the authors are out to get me" it's "what if someone impersonates or compromises the authors".
This is what kokoon is focused on, and bose also makes sleep earbuds.

We're not in the sleep earbuds space, but at https://soundmind.co we're making an eeg headband with bone conduction sound to improve sleep performance via auditory stimulation.

Auditory stim doesn't help you fall asleep, so we let you listen to whatever you want as you fall asleep, when we detect you've fallen asleep, we stop whatever you were listening to, and switch on our stim.
Atlas strengthens its search for supersymmetry
Software Arts published an official technical specification of the DIF file format in 1983. [1] (to save a file in the DIF format, /S#S in VC)

It is certainly an interesting format, and Excel completely mangles the data (whether it was intentional is up for debate). For example, the value

1,0
"0.3"

represents the literal string 0.3 in VisiCalc (the 1,0 indicates that the next line is a string). Excel ignores the typing and tries to parse as a value, interpreting it as the number 0.3. Like with CSV, there's an awkward formula workaround for generating a file with the text "0.3":

1,0
"=""0.3"""

[1] https://atariwiki.org/wiki/attach/VisiCalc/DIF_Technical_Specification.pdf
What a remarkably unhealthy perspective. Yet engaged in communication here. My first thought was you must be American, but that could just as easily be quite a number of places and cultures across continents. In Israel personal boundaries are quite different and it's common to engage those around you in conversation. I wouldn't correlate mental stability with social norms--frankly I associate health with social engagement, so the opposite.
What happened to Slashdot? Around 2000, I was a regular reader. Then, I fell away, but I cannot remember why.
>> Russian budget receives the money in taxes paid by exporters

>That is incorrect. The oil and gas companies is owned by a few oligarchies with direct ties to Putin and the Russian government… …To a degree they operate just like a banana republic in this aspect.

This is just generic description of corruption, but you forgot to explain where I was wrong. Take, for example, Novatek - if you think its profits are funding the war, how do you think this cash reaches the army?
Most likely, however load/store alone doesn't make a RISC.
Why do you assume the voice was talking about the dead relative?
Thanks for putting this into words. I will still probably read too many of the treads.

Meanwhile, moving into the deep woods is not just for Bible-thumping gun-nuts anymore.
You need plex pass for hardware encoding? Wow that is a turdy way to get people to pay.
Yeah, You can even have a situation, where your work is invisible if done right and impacts thousands of people every day yet you barely have minimum wage, for example street cleaner.
FYI: Wiki says: <<Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993[2] when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet gateway service in March 1994, leading to a constant stream of new users. Hence, from the early Usenet point of view, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.>>

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
That said, whose life is really improved by those outsized returns from the last few percent?

Sure, the major shareholders might see their wealth increase noticeably, but anyone else (even small shareholders through option programmes) will generally not see a big effect.

Now, is that additional shareholder wealth really worth the years of engineer effort going into that?

Don't get me wrong: airbnb is an amazing service that has improved the lives of myself and other regular people.

I'm just arguing that maybe most of the benefit from society happened within the first couple of years plus maintenance and critical innovation as needed, and the rest is suboptimising for the benefit of the few.
Show HN: Bloben – Self-hosted web CalDAV calendar client
Hello all,

I have been working on a self hosted CalDAV calendar client Bloben https://github.com/nibdo/bloben-app

This is mostly an alternative to other web clients like great AgenDAV with some additional features I wanted to use like email invites, alarms, webcalendars, etc.

You can play with demo (limited to read access) here: https://demo.bloben.com/api/v1/users/login-demo?username=dem...

In the end it should provide separate clients also for CalDAV tasks and notes.

One thing I would maybe like to discuss more is adding encryption, which is obviously quite problematic when using standards like CalDAV. Initially I just added non-compatible fully encrypted calendars, but realised this might not be useful for many people using different clients.

Something halfway is adding an option to protect only some, say sensitive, events by encrypting fields like title, description or location. That way events will still be displayed via standard mobile apps and decrypted only in Bloben client (with link to open from description).

As part of this project I published also React calendar component https://github.com/nibdo/kalend

Thank you, if you are interested and feel free to ask me anything.
fix the title please

An apostrophe as a possessive marker in its is nonstandard:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/it%27s#Etymology_2
Debian still having trouble with merged /usr
> “The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.

Human *ingenuity* can get us out again.

Asking countries to limit their production is just not feasible.

It's very easy to describe what an ideal world "would" look like. I mean if there was no crime the world would be awesome, but we aren't going to kindly ask all human's to be better. That's what religion is for. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The UN would do better to invest in actual ingenuity, in efforts to make our species multiplanetary, better renewable energy sources, radically new city living ideas, whatever it is. Get people behind exciting ideas!

Ringing the bell and saying the world is going to end is just not going to achieve any meaningful result. Humanity has overcome incredible odds, mostly by ignoring those bell ringers. Nihilism is easy.
My friend is a poor methylator [0], which means she can't turn the provitamin food fortification folic acid into Vitamin B-9. The prescription drug Deplin is a form of Vitamin B-9 that is approved as an add-on therapy, for when 'antidepressants don't work'. AFAIK, people who are poor methylators say they do better when they avoid folic acid.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30334122

I have commented before about my efforts to help my friend get appropriate treatment. My latest filing, a petition for rehearing, has been distributed to the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States [1]. Hopefully they'll talk about it at their conference on April 14 2022.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30884187

Sometimes people benefit from the SSRIs' allepregnanolone boost [2].

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30550919
I think that was quite common in that era. I’m sure my (banned) 360 would still update from game discs. Not sure on the ps3 though.
If you don't want to answer the question you could've spent the time writing your comment instead on "any number of more useful endeavors."

But really, it's not irrelevant. It's a valid question that can be the motivation for "useful" questions as you might call them.
If you mean that I'm bored and want to kill time by having a conversation with a stranger, then you got me.
That's what Homebrew does
Well, he doesn't know. Most of Vinge's works were about getting close to the Singularity without crossing over, because he expected that technology and society would change massively and unpredictably at that time.

The point of introducing the fantasy element of the Zones of Thought was to allow Vinge to write a FTL space opera without having to deal with post-Singularity speculation.

When species transcended, they left the Beyond and went into the Transcend.
I love everything about GitHub Actions except that there’s no official tool to run them locally.
There was no VisiCalc program that was both original, and that ran on the IBM PC in 1981.
Took a long while until I found the right state of mind to finally understand what was causing those (rare) file corruptions. Once I figured that out, the rest was easy :-)
> Well, Nix is mainstream. Evidence of that is that you can just talk about it by name here on HN without explaining what it is.

I would say that HN is far from mainstream.