skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these things can be done with higher-order functions too.

I think that if Java had had lambdas earlier, Spring and other such frameworks might look very different. You can see that already, Spring is adding (experimental?) support for more declarative styles of configuration instead of the rather slow and hard-to-debug reflection magic: https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu
I have never seen anyone get converted by bad faith arguments, but I have seen people get converted by good faith arguments. So it seems good faith arguments are inherently much stronger, while bad faith arguments are useless except for frustrating the other side.
Very true, will be interesting to see what happens when the tools needed to game this system are those that start the conversation about mental health from a young age
Yeah or a link to buy it.
It gives us (me included) a sense of control of our mountain of todos, ideas, thoughts. In reality, the sense of control is imaginary. I have never really can control these things.
It's no secret that Telegram can store messages in "Saved Messages". But convenience quickly disappears with the increase in stored data, it becomes increasingly difficult to find something in a huge shared heap. I tried to place hashtags in messages, but laziness quickly won out, to create personal private channels (as Telegram itself advises), but it was still inconvenient to use them, they were mixed up every time, which made it very difficult to find the right one, even if you move them to a separate folder.

As a result, I decided to create my own application, which is almost a full-fledged Telegram client. "Almost", because it displays only the personal chat "Saved Messages" and personal private channels, ordered by categories and groups. In my application, both chat and channels are called "folders" for similarity to a regular storage.

You can create any custom folder with any category, a personal archived private channel will be created in the official client.

You can store notes (with formatting), links, checklists, photos, videos and any other documents in folders. All files are stored in their original quality without any compression. Photos and videos can be viewed directly in the app or downloaded to your device.

The service is a progressive web application (PWA) that can be used both in the browser and installed on any device from the browser and used as a native one (light and dark themes are supported).

The application communicates directly with Telegram servers, your information is not stored anywhere else and is not transmitted anywhere. Vercel is used from third-party services, it takes the code from GitHub and distributes the collected scripts and styles to users.Anyone can check the sources on GitHub.
What it was "more about" is irrelevant the point is there was plenty of SaaS, and plenty of options to host them without owning servers. Many of us here we're around and running internet companies at the time.
At the time of posting, I didn't use any version, but I use APKMirror on a regular basis. I currently have the Swype+Dragon Trial on my telephone to try it out, though.
For the history minded, this was one of the proto-hacker’s target for speed and language learning. Coupled with a super Star Trek game in basic. Man, good times.
I do wonder who pays to have all these comments put on hacker news. This happens a lot on Russia-related threads as well. Or is it just some nationality who learned incorrect history. On the Russia-related threads I would've put it to people from India as there's a big tech group there and they speak English and their country is cozy with Russia, but they wouldn't be defending China.
Funnily enough, find(1), one of the oldest Unix tools to still be somewhat actively used, had those from the very beginning. Although, arguably, find(1) can be considered an interpreter of a language of its own, like sed(1) and awk(1), as opposed to a utility that accepts flags.

See the Unix v5 man page source: https://github.com/aap/unixman/blob/master/v5man/man1/find.1. (If anyone has a link where those are rendered, please let me know.)
Some headaches can easily be mistaken for neck muscle pain from sleeping in an awkward position.
For home computers like c64 and amiga that'll be enough though. They were TV based. I didn't realise this was that expensive. Probably will go for a Chinese option then as they're only 20 bucks.
"phenomenon" is what I would use to describe China's historical actions, not America's.
What was unique about GOV.UK is that it wasn’t done by a consultancy.

They managed to build an in-house, central resource (GDS/Government Digital Service) and pioneered a lot of public service design practices which are the template for USDS and others.

However, my understanding is that the GDS team is greatly diminished these days and the consultants are back across separate government departments again.
Since it seems like it’s Windows converts that can’t find it, maybe Apple could buy some of those Windows File Explorer ads Microsoft is experimenting with and explain the functionality.
What Is a Monoid in Haskell?
I suppose that I have always found his designs very beautiful. (I also happen to enjoy the aesthetics of (good) brutalist architecture).
Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?
I grew up a millennial tech geek, spending my days lurking on Tom's Hardware, playing and modding video games, tinkering with code and watching Star Trek. Wherever I looked at the world's problems, more technology seemed to be the answer.

Nowadays I'm a software dev and tech entrepreneur. At best, technology bores me. At worst, it terrifies me. Today's startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable. Gadgets are a snoozfest. Programming languages and frameworks seem to be running in circles.

We seem to be experiencing diminishing returns on tech for the past few years. More tech is no longer necessarily better. Is this just a phase before the next big industrial revolution?

When did this start, and when is the drought going to be over?
Banks were lending seven times annual earnings as of 2021. I have not seen updated numbers, but four times earnings is likely on the lower end of the average loan to income ratio.
If it feels like a headache... isn't it a headache?

By which I mean, shouldn't that be "some headaches can easily not be realised to be caused by...", or is there gatekeeping needed in what is or isn't a 'headache'?
The official postcode format insists on the space between the outward and inward.

I'm not sure why. The Inward code is always Number-Letter-Letter. The outward code can be variable length and format. The space is certainly beneficial for visually parsing, but why W11AA isn't valid when W1 1AA is valid is confusing.
>$ footool --help

Unrecognized bar "--help", aborting!

Use: "footool help" to display usage information

>$ man footool

No manual entry for footool
I'm an adult and, like you, very likely to have it. Struggling to get tested. My GP says the services are too full. I've been advised by an ADHD charity that I can approach a private clinic [1] and then bill it to my GP, but my GP has said categorically that I can't do that. I've been told she's wrong. But still - all of this faff isn't ideal for an ADHDer so I'm struggling to push ahead with the diagnosis that I would really find helpful in my life.

I would advise printing out and going through the ADHD screener [2], taking it to your GP, and be prepared for them to not take it seriously so push back and insist. Good luck, friend!

[1] Specifically https://www.adhd-360.com

[2] https://adhduk.co.uk/adult-adhd-screening-survey/
It doesn't even support 13w3, so "old computers" doesn't include a lot of Unix workstations.
Yes, they switched the behaviour shortly after they added the full screen mode merging it with a separate full screen icon they had introduced. The old behaviour is retained by option clicking the green button. It's annoying and I wish they kept it as was.
Also in the early 1900’s it was still legal in some states to use child labor. That was only 3-4 generations ago.
Hi Ivan,

I know you appreciate the issue to its fullest like no one else!
Cheers
Which countries offer gender-neutral passports?
Enumerating types might be cool for semantic web, but what I'd love as a dev is a system for enumerating valid characters, so I can put digits and dashes, or only Latin letters, and the device figures out the best keyboard to use
> The western propaganda assumes that Putin had one success scenario

I mean Putin pretty much said as much, in his own words.

> The land bridge to crimea is almost in the bag. That's one milestone that holds incredible strategic value to Moscow in and of itself. It controls the sea of azov now and has entrenched its previously precarious strategic position on the black sea (site of its only warm water port).

I broadly agree, but the cost of kyiv "feint" has been astronomical.

Had Putin just pushed from crimea, he could have taken Donbas and Luhansk without anywhere near as much loss, or international condemnation. I mean he could have been done by now. (no extended supply lines...)

Don't get me wrong, Putin is just going to continue to grind eastern Ukraine, because he can. but, I suggest anything less than complete control is admission that the "Nazis" are better.
There’s a special place in hell for people who enforce space/no space in a postcode
The reason it took 4 months is because I don't think classic RDS can upgrade databases online. You'll either need to failover or have a few minutes of downtime. This is no different to on-prem.

Aurora might be a different situation, not sure.
It’s not only hubris but also dehumanizing. It’s just so detached from how people want to live and in many cases amplified social problems and dysfunction.
I think it’s normal to ask questions: if nothing has ever happened to the US for similar abuses, why should something happen to any other countries?
What features does if offer that we can’t do today with TLS?
https://archive.ph/1hbsY
Ask HN: How important is ontology engineering today?
> The most expensive part is the electricity.

No, the most expensive part is the persons time for managing it. I can rent a monstrous Dedicated Server for $400/month from OVH, but even with a UK salary, if I have to spend more than 1 day a month on it in any shape or form (and that includes the initial setup), it's cheaper to use "the cloud" or some form of a managed service.
I hadn't heard about steelmanning [0], and it was definitely a pleasant thing to learn about.

> A steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the opposite of a straw man argument. The idea is to help one's opponent to construct the strongest form of their argument. This may involve removing flawed assumptions that could be easily refuted, for example, so that one produces the best argument for the "core" of one's opponent's position. It has been advocated as a more productive strategy in political dialog that promotes real understanding and compromise instead of fueling partisanship by discussing only the weakest arguments of the opposition.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning
Alright. It is a township then. I refuse to go by the collective will. What happens next if violence is not an option and private property is respected?
Those most likely to have strong disagreements mostly consist of politically engaged liberals at 6-8% of the population and politically engaged conservatives at 6-8% of the population. Because of this a more accurate representation of what is going on is that persons A and B disagree strongly with persons C and D and persons E through Z really wish that persons A through D would find some middle ground that all can live with even if they harbor objections. In this larger context it may make sense to call out bad faith communication and engage in good faith communication for the benefit of the larger population who get dragged into political conflicts.
The Austria/Italy segment seems impressive but straightforward. A rail connection between Sweden and Finland looks like the big challenge.
I put the change somewhere in the 70s, when NASA made space travel boring. It wasn't all their faults, they had lots of help.
Oh cool, so its more than /just/ graphics code, theres a whole load of stuff that they would need to implement?

I can see why they would want that to be their own - make the pi 100% open - but sounds like a mammoth task! (especially if its only 1 guy doing it?)
Many details are not that difficult to cross-check. Similar stories (typically involving mixed part-Uyghur families torn apart by Chinese government) are abound on social media. BBC, others reported extensively on other victims as well as relevant findings from satellite imagery etc. From my understanding this is less about uncovering some categorically new information, but more about someone able to testify in court on what everyone sort of knew already.
Lets hope this

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-kill...

and

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-a...

will be prosecuted in parallel to Russian atrocities.
Why sqlite? just dump on a folder and use "ripgrep", obsidian, vscode.
I meant to describe what I do and why, sorry if I offended you by unsolicited wrong advice. And as others say, nothing changed during that time - the import function is/was always there but it's still hidden somewhere.
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But they won't spend any significant amount of money to keep valued employees, which of course makes said employees look elsewhere.

Isn't it rather the other way round: you should be very careful to invest too much money into employees who are willing to quit?
Hey! I'm 50 actually :-) I'll keep doing the stuff nonetheless! Cheers
I have started noticing regression after regression in almost all devices I use, mostly due to all the "reinvention" going on.

In Monterey they made it easier to use multiple audio outputs. The new UI removes scrolling over the speaker icon to change volume.

After updating to Monterey some of my keyboards don't have a command key. They worked until I updated. Now I get weird issues. But only on the non-US-ansi layouts (I'm Swedish).

Similar things:

Firefox on android started opening things from the most visited list in new tabs. I press the address bar and press one of my 8 most visited sites (which account for 95% of my sites) and they open in a new tab. This changed from one version to another, and now I regularly have 40 tabs, some I want to keep.

Google decided that the volume up button on 3.5mm headphones should start the assistant. So suddenly none of my headphones work as they should.

I notice things like this all the time. Especially the last one kills me. Who, who?!!, thought this was a good idea. Every update on os X and my smartphone brings something that makes me feel like I am fed a turd. I don't use Windows, but I suspect it is the same thing there.
The project creates quite a bit of dug-out material, so much that you can get paid quite a lot if you can take a few hundred thousand m³.

I know a farmer that used this to fill up a small, steep valley with nothing much in there, and then create a field on-top they can use for herding animals, growing hay while being relatively easy to access (a good chunk of farms in South Tyrol are quite steep to begin with). With the money they get from taking over excavation material they can not only pay the work for creating that field, but even turn a small net-even.

Communes, Province and the State do not easily allow such things though, IIRC helping geological safety (think mud slide, avalanche avoidance) there was a key point of accepting the project (but I got no hard source on that, sorry).
Partly it's just growing up and having a tech job. You've got less time to play with tech, and learning itself becomes less interesting because you already know most of it.

When it comes to business, a lot of verticals have been monopolized and tech has shifted from making tools that users pay for to weapons of mass distraction where the objective is "growth and engagement".
Absolutely. This is an excellent point. I’m sure it’s no accident either.

And it only got worse during the pandemic when the Gov purposefully tried to conflate their word with the law, using gov.uk to do so.
fantastic idea, excited to see it in practice now!
Please, answer the simple question. I refuse to go by the collective will and there could be no violence involved. What happens next?

I cannot believe that you went on insulting large groups of people while being unable to answer a simple 6 words question.

P.S. I speak relatively fluent Latin, so the etymology play made me chuckle a bit.
Yea, maybe its a way to get around their legal requirements - "here are the ingredients, but you need to figure out the recipe kinda thing"
There's a fundamental conflict of interest between workers and managers, and given that managers have all the power, they usually win. Workers want control in the form of autonomy, managers want control in the form of bureaucracy. A good manager, in my mind, devolves as much control as they can down to the workers while maintaining enough bureaucratic control to satisfy those above them.

Of course, that only applies to the traditional hierarchical organisation - there are much more worker-friendly organisational structures organised around autonomy for the individual and democracy for the collective, like the VSM [1] and cooperatives [2]. Of course, we don't see them very often because people usually found companies to control for themselves.

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

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
In the US I think airlines are really in the business of selling air miles and credit cards.
Twitter Grapples with an Elon Musk Problem
Very similar to the situation with the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Switzerland managed to build the longest railway tunnel in the world within 17 years, and we will barely manage to build a few kilometers of supporting infrastructure in the Rhine valley, which is mostly flat and rural, until 2035 [1]. It's embarrassing, really.

[1] https://bauprojekte.deutschebahn.com/p/karlsruhe-basel
Whats the current consensus on Brave? Last time I tried it, it seemed to be an alright alternative to Chrome, but remember it wasn't entirely well liked on HN for whatever reason.
This is not true. It typically takes 10 years to develop new prescription drugs and fully complete regulatory approval.

Private companies are perfectly positioned to accomplish such tasks, because they are not beholden to re-election timelines or shifting voter demands.

Also, the efficiency for such a project’s necessary capital allocation can be adequately determined in the private sector by a profit analysis.
That's true for the mathematical definition of number, but not for the commonly used definition of number as "a numeral or combination of numerals or other symbols used to identify or designate" (4b at [0]). A common example would be a document number, which may often be alphanumeric.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/number
The 1099 vs W2 issue is a huge problem with mortgages. I used to have my own company, and I was paid 1099 for consulting. I’ve had the business for five years and it was profitable. however the Bank would not give me a conventional loan, so I changed things around and made myself my own W-2 employee.

Started issuing myself paychecks and taking taxes out, and three months later I went back to another bank and they were happy to give me a 30 year fixed conventional.
I've spent a lot of time with Amazon's Architects who have given us a huge amount of advice on how we could reduce our costs. Maybe we've gotten lucky with our contact, but their approach for keeping us on AWS seems to be "provide enough value on top of AWS that the extra pricing doesn't really matter" mostly in the form of handing us architecture templates for common workflows that we've never set up.
Have you considered that people are tired of being preached to about their morality and character, by celebrities and priestlike figures like John Oliver? Or by randos on the Internet, like you’re doing right now?
noise pollution, same as regular pollution... it's an indicator of activity but not healthy for you
I've been working from home for almost a decade, two thirds of my career to date. Prior to that I was in either open bullpen-style offices (everyone in a room facing out) or sharing an office with two or three other people. I will never* sign up for an in-office job again.

* unless, you know, I need to feed my family or whatever
According to Dennis Ritchie, find(1) was developed by a different group at Bell Labs which explains the difference in style. “…We were somewhat put off by the syntax of their things. However, they were clearly quite useful, and they were accepted.”

http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/find-history
When computers stopped being computers, tech, cutting edge; and simply became part of the landscape. Now they're part of everything and everyday life. But being a programmer can still be cool.
With the hindsight of history I find Le Corbusier vastly overrated. It just seems that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and that was certainly true in that era.

I can appreciate that it was "hey, here's a new material, and new techniques, let's see what we can do", but it all went a bit to far with Brutalism.

To be honest, we're back at that point again over the last couple of decades with office buildings that are largely glass exteriors where the current glut of architects are putting "frilly bits" on the buildings to make them a bit less bland, but at the same time making them look very much "of the moment".

As for current homes, in the UK, at least, the architecture has never been blander. Boring boxes with 2 car spaces and a bit of grass out the back. In terms of the article, I don't see how modern homes can be given much extra character by the owners versus those designed by Corbusier mentioned in the article. If anything modern house architecture is at a worse, lower point than in previous years.
Oh dude, I'm all ears. What else do you think we (germans) think? I'm genuinely interested.
Pretty useless and subjectively biased list.
The blog is great, I can absolutely relate to that.
Yeah, for on-prem scientific work, heavy CPU usage, probably bursty, no need for all the fancy things, security etc. - this is a pretty straight forward case for on-prem use.

Or not even on-prem, just renting some physical boxes from some place where they're only going to have a basic markup.

You have to wait a week to get few more boxes but that's not a big deal.

This is the kind of thing I'd imagine a corp would start doing pretty early, because the 'flexibility' of IaaS just isn't worth the cost.
On the contrary, it is exclusively for export.
Good find!

The "Diesel tax levels" charts (p28, p81) show the UK charges the same (0.7€/L) for both road and rail use, and most EU countries charge a tax, although more than half have less tax for rail than road use.

Electricity is taxed in a few countries.
I cofounded an ISP in '95. There were plenty of alternatives offered by ISPs like mine. People often chose to host themselves when they had the skills, sure.
> The Chiat-Day office redesign has become a notorious cautionary tale, warning what happens when style is put ahead of substance and hot-desking goes too far

I had never heard about this "cautionary tale", so I dug around a bit and found this Wired article [1] plus some pictures of the tiny lockers for the "dog pictures, or whatever" in this other article [2]. I'm not sure I would take it as the final nail in the coffin for the open-office concept, seeing as some of the problems are no longer relevant (such as not enough mobile phones for everyone), but it's an interesting article nonetheless.

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/02/chiat-3/

[2] https://workplaceinsight.net/a-just-in-time-lesson-about-off...
You might be right! Either way, I sure hope they learn something, and better that they do something!
I definitely fell prey to this. I thought $11bn was far too cheap to build a tunnel that long.