skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really want to like Quanta, but every time I read an article, I feel like they just barely didn't "dumb it down" enough for someone who doesn't have any prior knowledge in the field and I have more questions than answers.

The first paragraph for example just kinda explained what the goal is and why. They are trying to find situations where the "equations will no longer have solutions" so they "have reason to wonder just how universally dependable they are as models of fluid behavior.". I understand they haven't found one yet, so why are they searching for them in the first place? How do they know there are some? Aren't nearly all physics equations just approximations which "break down" at some point?
Headphones and Audible for me. One hour a day keeps me focused and energetic.
ifdata is not meant for interactive use.
Unicorn or Chameleon? Two strategies for exporting customizable React components
Oh yeah.. Solaris! Almost forgot about you.
But I kind of think this whole discussion is beside the point. Nobody cares about testing positive anyway. What we should care about is how many people are hospitalized, dying, or experiencing long-term disability as a result of Covid infection. And I think the data are pretty clearly in favor of vaccination on that front.
More than likely: nothing. The biggest effect would be the loss of power generation capacity for Ukraine.

Russian using nukes would more than likely cause quite a stir in NATO, EU, and would likely give the rest of the world all the political ammo it needs to get India, Brazil, China, et all to sever ties.

These things are enormously complicated. It's hard to look at the effects in a vacuum geopolitically and economically.
I also could hear CRT when on (probably high voltage PSU) as a kid. Recently, I thought my tinnitus got worse until I found that one of my smart power supplies started making high pitch sound (ceramic capacitors in power supplies cause it).
https://presearch.org
> When bad people rise to power, they often do so vilifying one or more other groups.

No. When times get tough, everyone is naturally drawn to their own. Visit any prison.

> The odds are not in our favor, collectively, we will be tricked as well.

Nobody is tricked. The person who appeals to the masses' self-interest will become leader.
> The market has been so weird recently that stock splits - which according to previous theoretical belief do not create shareholder value - have in fact increased the share price for extended periods

You're right that theoretically, they shouldn't create value, but I think even back to the 80s and 90s it's been shown that companies that go through a split tend to out perform the market for years after the split. The main reason isn't that the split creates value, but rather that companies who go though a stock split are usually successful and already on a trajectory to beat the market, split or not.
Serious Question: How is the DDG search structured? Is it a cosmetic skin over Bing, or is it aggregating from other sites like Yahoo, ecosia etc additionally?

If it is just Bing under the hood, how does it exist as business entity. I am sure MS will take some action to consolidate their search share rather than seeing splintered.
>I don't think it's a good idea to rely on any of these being present. If you write a shell script to share and expect them to be there, you aren't being friendly to others, but for interactive command line use, I'm happy to adopt new tools.

Isn't that a shame though? Where does it say in the UNIX philosophy that the canon should be closed?
I wrote something similar: https://github.com/maoserr/epublifier

It's more geared towards longer web novels with 50+ chapters (I've used it on novels with 500 chapters before). Instead of opening each page as a tab, it fetches chapters from a Table of Contents page.

It was written for jnovel/cnovel/knovel site, but it can handle any generic page that has a list of links.
I've been using Kagi (https://kagi.com) for a few months and it's been great. It's free while in beta but will be funded by subscription fees afterward.

The killer feature for me is the ability to up-rank and down-rank sites in my personal results, which has been really helpful for curating my tech-related searches. It allows me to quickly find high-quality docs and eliminate the garbage.
I second all of this. I've had a B&N Nook, Kindles from basic ones in 2010 through to the 2019 Oasis and for the last 18 months I've had a Boox Note 2. I have no regrets. My use cases other than recreational reading for 30-60 minutes a day is academic research and/or whitepaper reviewing.

I run the Kindle app on it, as well as an Adobe reader and the main reader is great for anything without DRM. I use an Android App (Autosync) to sync instead of the built in sync client. My ebook folder in NextCloud is in sync on the Boox and my laptop, both ways so annotated PDFs come straight back to my PC.

I read a lot of PDFs of A4/Letter pages so the larger size screen is a godsend. I can't imagine going back to a smaller device now.
They come with good manpages if you install them. I don't disagree that a little more detail on the linked web page might help people decide whether or not to install, but in keeping with how these are well-behaved oldschool-style Unix commands, they also come with man pages, which is more than I can say for most command line tools people make today (the ones that assume you have Unicode glyphs and color terminals [and don't check if they're being piped or offer --no-color] and don't accept -h/--help and countless other things that kids these days have eschewed).
I outright laughed that its juxtaposed with sponge.
To be clear, they haven’t actually rejected the offer yet, they’ve simply limited the ability of Musk to acquire a majority stake in the case that they reject.
Google pushed the envelope on how silly the name for a major company can be, but DuckDuckGo is unlikely to ever hit mass market success with that name. (Or, more importantly, the current implementation.)
Elon's offer is at the same time an hostile offer, and conditional on obtaining financing from banks. This is never heard of in the history of hostile acquisitions, and is a BIG risk for the board to entertain any attempt by anyone to buy Twitter before they know what their loan percentages are.
You can read "Barbarians at the Gate" for some 1980s history of corporate raiding. Back then, it was pure greed and ego. So unlike today [smile emoji].

The "poison pill" defense is very old. I'm not going to defend or attack it; it is what it is.

I WILL observe that, once a stock is "in play" it usually gets acquired, or at least gets a bunch of new board members.
Ha… I’d love a plan that covered an annual checkup. Never seen one of those as an option.
Sure, good point -- but I'd guess that there's something like; the earlier the marriage fails, the more likely it's a "correctable behavior or habit" thing, as opposed to something like fundamental like "someone was getting their own identity wrong," or "deeply dramatic external change in circumstances?"
A lot of the fun of electric cars is that the components aren't closely coupled so you can make something that is "bad" in some respects but accept some higher cost or reduced performance in certain areas (esp. range)

Contrast that to ICE cars which are the most locked-down "big government" technology you can imagine because of the tough requirements for emission controls. Even companies like Nissan, Renault, Chrysler and others merged because even automakers at that scale can't afford to keep up with changing requirements for ICEs.
My favourite application for simple graphics editing is Acorn. I feel like it’s the spiritual successor to PSP. It’s really really nice.

https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

(PSP itself is still around, but it has turned to sh*t unfortunately.)
"related to" is doing a lot of work there. Browsers are "related to" the web, but surely you don't think Mozilla, if hiring for someone to work on the CSS layout engine or something for Firefox in c++ or rust, would advertise for a "web developer". It's just not the same job in any way.
This begs the age-old question - whose content is less valuable: the person who posts the substanceless comment or the person who replies to it with an equally substanceless comment pointing out that it's a substanceless comment? Ethicists may never come to a consensus (at least not until they can agree on who's worse between the person who ccs a huge number of people who should be bcced or the person who replies all saying that they should have bcced everyone and asking everyone not to reply all).
The one destroying the republic was gone, but the destruction remained.
The boards mandate is one of fiduciary duty. Bluntly, that is not a mandate to maximize shareholder value, especially in the short term.

They do not have an offer that will maximize shareholder value - they have an offer that will increase it.

Words have meaning and concepts have definitions. They are not arbitrary of flexible for the sake of making the argument you want.

The BOD's responsibility is to the company, a public company's responsibility is to the shareholders - this difference matters.

Cornell's legal information institute provides a nice and cited set of definitions (albeit in legalese) - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fiduciary_duty
Weird, the email in my profile should work. But thanks for the tip, I'll fix the link rot
More likely lack of training, discipline and morale.

The Russian armed forces are still prone to inter branch fighting and intra branch infighting between officers.

Basically they still operate like the military of some el presidente banana republic.

And currently there is no larger than life actually competent field marshal Zhukov like leadership to make all of them fall in line.
He could use the infamous antidote clause.
>it wasn't an issue of enforceability
Been there done that. Good advice.

In my case I could recreate the original file but it took 90 minutes to scrape the remote API to do it again...
I have no idea what the actual number is, but that sounds low. The average HNer probably hits three digits every day easily.
Yep. What's wrong with XML?
"Empirical evidence of adverse selection is mixed. Several studies investigating correlations between risk and insurance purchase have failed to show the predicted positive correlation for life insurance, auto insurance, and health insurance. On the other hand, "positive" test results for adverse selection have been reported in health insurance, long-term care insurance, and annuity markets."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
I used Python subprocess module for this.

… good luck, is my best advice. It’s not straightforward to handle edge cases.
Any "fact of reality", besides direct experience and word of mouth, is learned through the media. Thinking for yourself won't help - garbage in, garbage out holds for human thought as well.
I think it's more that they can't imagine controlling a public speech platform without censoring it to their advantage, so they can't imagine anyone else would not immediately do the same -- to them.
No, but only because you chose North Korea.
Huh? Btrfs is copy on write and it's definitely being used.
here's a little wrapper around i made around "find" which i always have to install on every new box i manage ....

https://github.com/figital/fstring

(just shows you more useful details about what is found)
A retro styled computer built to be a terminal for a homebrew Z80 (RC2014)
The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown
They aggregate from "over 400 sources" and run their own crawler: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
How are poison pills legal? If the board can make arbitrary rules can’t they just zero out Musks or anyone else’s shares right now?

Or say “Anyone with the last name of Musk now owns type D share with 1/100th ownership value”.

Poison pills seems pretty close to doing just that.
The Syllabus
Having worked on Google's indexing system, I can't imagine how much it would cost to write all of the crawling and indexing code from scratch, and then run it on over the visible web. You need to bootstrap somehow form an existing index if you want to get anywhere in any reasonable time.

If there's a market for alternative search engines out there, AWS is already serving so much of the web that Amazon should really provide crawling and basic indexing (for a fee, of course) so it's done once for everyone, with Amazon Lambda processing to allow search engines to customize their indexing. I'm not sure if it would make them much money, but it makes more sense to start up a search engine on AWS using Amazon's crawl and basic indexing vs. using a search engine competitor's crawl and indexing.
GitHub starts suspending Russian accounts, including some individual developers
It would be simple for them to say 'this is not a serious offer' no matter the premium that is a good faith way of rejecting it.

I could offer them $150 a share tomorrow, contingent on financing and would get laughed out of the room.
It is irrelevant.
Get someone who is good at it to work on it. They get 1/3rd of your profits.
Classic example:

>The V-tail design gained a reputation as the "forked-tail doctor killer",[16] due to crashes by overconfident wealthy amateur pilots,[17] fatal accidents, and inflight breakups.[18] "Doctor killer" has sometimes been used to describe the conventional-tailed version, as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Bonanza
I've started hearing ads for DuckDuckGo on NPR, of all places. Could be completely coincidental, but I find the timing suspicious.

Do you think they're gearing up for an IPO?
Good luck retrofitting your extra fusing system into thousands and thousands of RPG-7s.
Some of this looks useful, but a non exhaustive critique - from non expert - of some of the rest:

> chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails

Isn't that just `command >/dev/null`?

> ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output

`ip link show <if>`?

> isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8

`file` for files. For stdin, when is it not utf8 - unless you've got some weird system configuration?

> lckdo: execute a program with a lock held

`flock`?
I think it's fine if you're on a dev team that decides to include these tools in its shared toolkit, but none of these rise to the level that I think warrants them being a dependency for a broadly-distributed shell script. There are slightly-less-terse alternatives for most of the functionality that only rely on core utilities. I don't think it's being a good citizen to say "go install moreutils and its dozen components because I wanted to use sponge instead of >output.txt".
Virtually no one actually likes risk (pathological gamblers are an exception, but they are understandably rare in the white-collar world). By "risk" I don't mean variance (or, equivalently, standard deviation) and I don't mean small bets with limited consequences. I'm talking about real risks that threaten one's career, reputation, and livelihood. No one fucking wants those; most people in business would end a human life (though few would admit it) to remove one from their existence.

So, here's why "risk" is so weird and problematic. VCs will take numerical risks (standard deviation) because it is their job, just as some traders will gamble $10M on a 51/49 trade and not feel terribly bad if it goes against them. Almost no one is willing to take a real life-altering risk... and, to be honest, I don't blame them. This is especially true of employees, who are incentivized to be as risk averse as possible: if things go bad, they get fired; if things go well, their bosses profit.

It would be better if we could just admit this and accept it and basically agree that no one should be expected, as a matter of daily living, to put their well-being at risk. Income is a utility; you don't want it turned off. Furthermore, when people are in precarious circumstances, society ought to do what it can to fix that.

Thing is, the rich profit by our culture's lionization of "risk takers", while ignoring the fact that most of the people who hit it big took no real risks to get there. Sure, they could have lost $10,000 of their millionaire daddy's money, or had to call "weird Uncle John" to ask for a VP-level position in a consulting firm, but they weren't taking the real risks that most of us have to take in daily life and get a lot less for. This nonsense prevents us from agreeing that, most often, true risk is a pretty bad thing that we have good reasons not to want in our lives.
I suspect that if you knew about the scheme, and executed trades as a result of that knowledge, you would probably run afoul of this?:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1348
Depends on your editor i suppose, but vipe checks the exit code of it [1]. In vim you can exit with an error using :cq

[1]: https://github.com/pgdr/moreutils/blob/f4a811d0a1fafb3d7b0e7...
You're right. I start experiencing a shadow ban, emailed HN, and they confirmed that my comments are low-quality, so, they've limited my account. They asked me to promise I will not get involved in flaming, pointed a bunch of "high-quality" comments I've made in the past, and they've said they will restore my unrestricted status if I promise to behave. Meanwhile, they encourage throwaway accounts!
Indeed, what happens when Elon starts his own platform instead and uses some of the ~$40 billion he'd otherwise buy Twitter with instead on paying top users of Twitter to exclusively use his platform instead?
You gave a very clear example of a breach. To add to your point, Elon's offer is both conditional on financing and too low, so we will implement a poison pill would never be seen as a breach.
I don't think it's possible to make a broad statement like that about psychedelics. You'll always just hear one take from a person with their experience and the experience of the people they might have tried it with or even guided, but the spectrum of experiences is too vast to qualify and quantify it without the actual research.

My personal standpoint is fairly different from yours because my anxiety is permanent and a measure of the "agitation" of my existence, to which death is almost a relief really. From that standpoint I've never quite had to confront much of anything about mortality or death. In fact I've almost always felt more alive during trips, at peace with whatever flowing model of the self and existence experienced in the moment. Psychedelic effects can make our senses feel more 'salient' too (for me musical experiences can be very profound), which I've used to contemplate extremes (like noise-cancellation silence after a roaring musical piece).

The main regularly noticeable thing I experience after just about every trip (of various kinds of psychedelics) is severe depression being alleviated for anywhere between a couple days to a few weeks.

Ultimately though, most of what I would say is just likely to be whatever personal theory I've built up this unique stream of experiences. That's why we really need people to get in there and do the difficult work.

edit: also the "some drug" in question is most likely DMT, and I've had extensive experiences with it (on its own or not) and absolutely appreciate that others would have religious experiences, near-death experiences, etc.. but I don't think anybody with any experience of DMT that goes beyond a one-shot would testify to the reliability of trips of such nature. It can be a very volatile experience, as well as being much less predictable from person to person than the more mild stuff like low doses of mushrooms etc. Again, science might eventually come to the rescue :)
Him liquidating his position could crash the stock.
I agree with you, the downvotes are unnecessary, it was actually a good question.

tee actually does sorta work for this sometimes, but it’s not guaranteed to wait until EOF. For example I tested with a 10 line file where I ran `sort -u file.txt | tee file.txt` and it worked fine. But I then tried a large json file `jq . large.json | tee large.json` and the file was truncated before jq finished reading it.
I'm pretty sure a majority of shares of Twitter care about making the most money ahead of everything else.

But just offering a 50% premium might not be enough. They'll need to pay taxes on the realized gains and they'll need to find other places to put their money.
The shell can't detect that unless the file is also used as input via `<`. So it couldn't do that in HellsMaddy's example, since the filename is given as an arg to awk instead of being connected to its stdin.
Oh my that's so cute... not everything runs on a home router. lmao
North Korea is under heavy sanctions and is thus a poor choice.

But if France put a bid on twitter, they would be forced to entertain the offer.
6B showings of ad-loaded webpage does not mean 6B successful results shown. And my claim is that most of successful google searches is just a wrong choice of a search engine.
> the first rigorous experiment to find that health coverage leads to fewer deaths, a claim that politicians and economists have fiercely debated in recent years

Living in Europe I must have missed this debate. Is it not self-evidently true? What are the arguments against it?
I don’t really know what to do with Twitter. I think it could be interesting to regulate social media networks such that they are required to speak some open protocol. Twitter is thus just one portal/view into an underlying network, and they can moderate it how they like but you could also switch to some other portal while continuing to interact with your Twitter contacts. Basically Twitter doesn’t own your content or your connections; you can take that with you if you leave Twitter. But that’s pretty radical; I don’t necessarily advocate it.
But what if Sisyphus is happy though?
Macbook Air requires you to get a DisplayLink hub to support multiple monitors.

Macbook Pro eliminated this limitation, but it almost feels like it's using the same technology, as it often loses window locations.

Early on software support was limited, but for many apps, that's been resolved. (Even "unsupported" apps can still run, though I typically don't jump through many hoops, especially when I run into Docker images that don't support ARM)
I was also at university in 98/99 going to job fairs and I was totally sold on the Sun/Solaris/Java future, so I was very excited to see the Sun booth and try to get an interview. But, of all the companies there, they were the least enthusiastic and the least informative. I went to the event sure I wanted to work at Sun and left the event evaluating my other options. Seeing how it turned out in the years that followed, I'm glad I changed my mind!

(Still used a Sun workstation for the next five years at my first job, though.)
I'm toying a bit with nim these days, and I find it quite pleasant. it is a pity that it did not find the same success as go or rust
>It depends on what the interests of the shareholders actually is. Monetary only, or are there other considerations they care about?

Is a board allowed to consider anything but?
Not gonna lie, I think the jvm integration is a big win for clojure as a language. The fact that you can pull in and interop with established jvm tools and libraries makes using a niche language like clojure a possibility for professional development.

C libraries are wonderful tools when you need a low-level library to run hot, but if you need, I don't know, a database adapter or a queueing library and you don't want to write one, I'd much prefer pulling something out of maven than trying to integrate a C library. There's just a lot of infrastructure the jvm gives you pretty easily.

If you're just messing around with fun side projects, there's nothing wrong with using something you enjoy for no other reason than your own personal enjoyment.
Minor point: Proprietary UNIX OSs aren't artifacts of the seventies. OSs like AIX and Solaris live on. A former employer sells enterprise software for both of those environments to this day. Banks, especially, seem to love AIX in my experience.