skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes question how such items come to be posted on HN as many of the non-tech posts here I share great interest in and this topic is no exception.

I live next to one of these abandoned railroads, one of the earliest in the country actually, which Daniel Boone wrote about riding along with many U.S. Presidents as well as Kings and Queens of foreign countries. The items I have recovered from surface hunting and metal detecting this area have been eye opening from many aspects. The U.S. National Archives has the blueprints of the design for this railroad I live next to digitized and available online and many years ago I studied it out of curiosity for the value of understanding the history of my area. What I could not have known at that time of studying was that a few weeks later I would discover pieces from the construction that matched the U.S. National Archive designs to a T - I was stunned. I have also since come to learn these pieces are in great demand from avid railroad collectors but I just do it for the lulz and not the money. Through my 10 years of researching and exploring historical information in my area I would share with everyone that if you live near a historical location and have interest in the past do your research first.

As a serial entrepreneur my point for the HN community is that opportunity is everywhere and in studying history one can discover exactly where to look for such opportunity. This logic applies to nearly everything.
And the name of the book: "Bad Trade"
What? Barclays is one of the largest financial institutions in the world with $1.9tn in assets.

I think we're in agreement that this Twitter thing isn't worth the attention, but we are far from agreeing that large financial institutions are inherently competent because they're large.
Brave was started by one of the Founders of Mozilla.
Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019)
That's exactly my concern too - right now China's response looks great on the world stage... but the pandemic isn't over yet and China rolled out an extremely ineffective vaccine that leaves their population quite vulnerable.

If this disaster spreads to other Chinese metropolitan areas it would be devastating.
> If there was no possible way to avert it, how did China avert the vast majority of equivalent deaths?

By being ready to lock people in their homes and preventing them to even go buy groceries.

Are you proposing that western countries should/could do this?

We could also ban all sugar/sweeteners, alcohol, driving and sitting still for more than 6 hours a day; this would also save a lot of lives.

You can tune a Paperclip Optimizer to any single good metric, it does not mean that it is a good idea.
yes even though they were the victims. that would be unwarranted
Anyone can look up The Great Leap Forward and official coverup of ZhengZhou flood death this year to know that CCP covering up death is NOT a conspiracy theory.
Did he ever reply?
Community colleges should really be filling this role not for-profit vultures preying on the poor and the desperate. Can't community colleges create an accelerated 1 semester boot-camp equivalent?

Does the $30K income sharing agreement mean that she has to pay $30K to the school once she starts working? And if that's after tax, then doesn't it mean she'll have to make around $50K to have $30K in after-tax income to pay back the school?
This is why Twitter needs to go private. The current management has no idea how to run a public square without falling back to an authoritarian censorship regime.

EDIT: Arguably, much of what I am suggesting can be automated cheaply.
$AMC and $GME
A few points:

1. I'm surprised Bloom doesn't have an arbitration clause.

2. Bloom doesn't say what percentage of privates[a] get a job afterwards. I can't imagine any lawyer would put a guarantee in the contract.

3. Bloom fully refunds the tuition if you don't get a coder job in 365 days. Getting that education for free is a good deal, even if all you get is web dev code monkey 101. If you have 2 neurons to rub together you can extend that into learning other areas of programming. Although admittedly that's hard for a single mom, it's not Bloom's fault she's in that situation.

4. Were coder bootcamps so successful that the labor market is now well and truly saturated with juniors?

My estimation of the story is that the litigant is salty she didn't read the fine print and probably just isn't very talented. Learning how to program computers isn't an economic panacea, and it's hard. I got a CS degree and struggled to get a decent jobs for years. Maybe we'll see CS graduates sueing their universities if this litigation provails.

[a] Somehow graduate seems inappropriate terminology for a boot camp.
It seems a bit few to expect a website to show us which repository are we going to delete on the delete page, instead of hiding it (or not showing). Datas, charts, content, every info that it could gather, and it may matter. Name is not enough.

Also I believe that asking us every day the ridiculously braindead act, to copy a text from here to there is more harmful than it helps, it just sets people to autopilot mode. Although I don't have any measures.
Afaik those numbers are for covid classic. For Omicron et al, I don't think the mRNA vaccines do anything except "prevent severe infection". They dont stop catching or transmitting it. No idea how the chinese and other vaccines fare against the new variants.
I want those people to feel those things too, but definitely not at the expense of Musk demonstrating petty hypocrisy and breaking his word. It would be enough anguish for them if they could no longer gang up and silence people, and they knew Twitter would no longer help them do it.

Being the way they are, though, I bet they would find another way.
If you're making that argument, you could easily turn it around: make or cmake do care where your pacakges are; they by default only build things on your local drive.

The point is: all options are available for all systems, so suggesting any workflow doesn't work with any of these is just incorrect.
no coffeine and other stimulants, doing nothing, fish instead of meat, adhd add autism(yep) music on youtube, burn incense, timetagger, minutes yoga, doing nothing, do not overeat, again do nothing, brilliant, khan academy, read one big non fuction book end to end, fast walk or slow run, no video games, no shows, no orange web site, write something with old school ink on old scholl paper each day, drink water with lemon through tube all day long, do yoga before sleep, if you want to sleep do yoga before, buy smart watches with esim, make watches tell you good quality of sleep
I was careless in my phrasing. What I should have said was that only a fraction of the males in a generation are necessary for fathering the next generation, and that all the other males can be diverted to other tasks or simply left to fend for themselves.
Well (1) you can be sure Musk is paying lawyers $$$ to make sure he doesn't deeply fuck up on any securities rules given his contentious relationship with the SEC [though fairly that might be de minimus to him] (2) there is an opportunity cost to putting money so much money in twitter just for laughs [he could be doing other things] and (3) there is risk that the twitter stock could fall out from under him. (3) is really only a cost relative to having the money in a diversified portfolio - but it is a real cost nonetheless.
heh. I use `chronic` all the time, `ifdata` in some scripts that predate Linux switching to `ip`. I occasionally use `sponge` for things but it's almost always an alternative to doing something correctly :-)

Looking at the other comments, I suspect one of the difficulties in finding a new maintainer will be that lots of people use 2 or 3 commands from it, but nobody uses the same 2 or 3, and actually caring about all of them is a big stretch...
Have you written about how you did this anywhere, or do you not want to tip off "the other side"?
Considering no one can do that in reasonable time, yes it is obvious sarcasm.
I think they meant "why?" as in "what reason do they have?", rather than "do there exist people who think that?". I don't really care what tool was used to generate my assembly, and the kind of Rust that will be written in a kernel context[0] will - I guarantee you - produce virtually identical assembly to C.

[0] i.e. no standard library ('no_std'), no unwinding panics, no dynamically sized types, &c.
Any time we humans have tried decentralized control, we've found a way to turn it back into centralized control.

Hell, just look at the universe. What started as a random distribution of gas still found ways to condense into literally an infinitely dense point.

Any minor power imbalance in a decentralized system will be exploited and provide the cumulative advantage over time to turn it back into a centralized system.
I also wrote an alternative solution (not a public repo), but I found that relying on site maps and other link lists generally gave unsatisfactory results. Instead, my solution navigated as a user and actually used next chapter links. While that slowed it down (+ 10 seconds between requests to be polite), it could handle very large books, with the largest I used being 700+ chapters at the time (5000 pages).
You can get pretty far if you don't have much in the way of concurrent writes. Concurrent writes can be safe mind you, but that safety comes from locks that are polled against at increasingly long intervals (at least in my experience backing Django with SQLite). If you have one thread making many short writes over a long period, another thread will check to see if it can acquire a lock at 1 second, 2 seconds, 5 seconds, etc and if it doesn't time that check exactly perfectly you'll keep polling until your timeout. That is, out of the box you don't have a fair queue for the write lock. That kind of access pattern doesn't describe all apps of course! And in WAL mode your reads won't be blocked by these long sequences of writes.
heads vs Heads, it would seem. The names are too close for comfort, given their purposes.
When I work on a side project, I pull out the Ethernet cable of my computer from the switch. Unfortunately, I can't do that in dayjob thanks to the tyranny of Slack.

When something doesn't involve a computer, I don't have the slightest problem staying focused. So when part of my job requires doing some maths on a piece of paper/window/whatever, when I want to read a book, when I engage in a hobby etc., I don't need to try hard to focus. It's only those bloody computers.
Basically whether it’s rational to dump his stake in Twitter to you or me doesn’t matter. He Carries enough influence that investors will spook and it may trigger a sell off. It’s possible Dorsey knew this was coming and parag is enjoying the leftovers
Where does the concealment come in?
Usenet isn’t social media though? There’s no social aspect to it. No friend feeds, like buttons, etc. So there’s no amplifying effect.
Yes, I’ll make that leap of faith. Let’s keep going in that direction.
I've used the Kuru Toga for years. The mechanism is so good that I don't see the argument for any other pencil. Which is actually a shame, as I can't get excited for other pencils anymore.

During my school years we had all kinds of discussions and comparisons for best pencils, best pens, best erasers.
Oh wow I had no idea the Woke Leftists ran the banks and private equity firms. Wild.
> I never said it's about money.

> Elon has seen the same balance sheet and he thinks the true value of the company is higher than what it is now as well.

Also I'm pretty sure a narcissist is exactly the sort of person to genuinely think he is saving democracy by buying a website.

Do you know him personally? Are you a trained psychiatrist? Narcissistic personality disorder can be a serious affliction, tell him I hope he gets the help he needs and that I wish him the best.

I personally just want to know what will happen to the stock.
100%. Any functionality NFTs offer already has a less technical solution. NFTs seem to be an overpriced solution searching for a problem to avoid taking a hit in market value when everyone who bought it starts trying to offload.
My first unix machine in the late 90s was an old sparcststion found in the recycling.

Ironically I uninstalled solaris almost immediately and ran Slackware on it instead.
>China's elderly are even worse anti-vaxxers than we are

And that's within the scope of their rights, as stated in documents like UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
My impression is that Russia is more concerned with not making Ukraine look good than with making themselves look good.
The accounts of being waterboarded resemble my experience with a panic attack.

And then there are the panic attacks caused by thinking you may have another panic attack coming on.
Eventual inconsistency is actually the resilient system.
If people weren't so resistant to government policy we might have seen something close to zero covid rolled out in the US and, instead of the US being the locus of disease for a number of years, we might have actually ended this pandemic with a decisive but painful quarantine - instead we'll continue in this state of psuedo quarantine for who knows how many years... how we comport ourselves today might just be the new social standard.

China's decision to continue on the zero-covid route seems extremely unwise once it was clear that breakouts were happening across the globe and containment was no longer an option - but initially pursuing containment was an extremely wise policy.
Hot take: All of the information in boot camps is available online for free, and people who aren't willing to search for it and self-learn have a harder time breaking into the industry. Any programming job requires solving new problems everyday. People who require spoon-feeding and hand-holding have a steep hill to climb.
I love how we have to preface our approval of something foreign with "now I'm not a Nazi, but...'
This makes me want to write Python extensions using Nim using Spry - http://sprylang.se
Whether or not global lockdowns would have worked, I prefer a world in which you can get covid to one in which the government can confine you to your house. You're welcome to move to China if you prefer the latter approach - or just confine yourself to your house yourself...
I strongly disagree, not necessarily with everything (e.g. I don't have access to the raw data from the DK experiment, don't know how well they performed all the analysis leading to the plot). But the plot itself is not inherently deceptive, and, unlike implied in the article, is not equivalent to "just comparing x to x". The plot essentially shows the actual performance vs. self-assessment of performance, compared to what we would expect if there were perfect correlation.
Democratically elected guy killed a hundred of protesters with snipers, and fled the country for the fear of retribution by his own security forces. Yet you call it a coup.

I don’t see how changes to Constitution which limit the power of President could be related to whether or not Ukraine could be neutral.
Open sourcing still won't solve the issue right .
What they open souce needn't be exactly the same they run on their servers
Analyst isn't very interesting. I spent three jobs to land on a more technical position. Analyst usually just use Excel, SQL and maybe a bit of scripting and dashboarding and usually it's on the lowest position of the food chain.

Data scientist could be interesting if you are interested in mathematical modeling.
Tender offers can be hostile - a "hostile tender offer" is an offer directly to shareholders to buy shares at a certain price, without getting the blessing of the board.
The DNC primaries started in early 2016, so they're definitely misremembering part of the timeline. If we go by "primaries" and not "2015", then they probably are remembering CTR - it lines up almost exactly to when they started.

And yeah, it's probably not them but it definitely feels like something is still going on. In the Chicago subreddit, for example, on anything that touches a politically-charged topic, the comments and votes will be exactly opposite what they might be on a different day.
My two cents on this is that if you do something enough that one of these tools is a good tool for it, it’ll quickly become a habit to use the tool. And if there’s a rare case where one of these tools would have been useful but you forgot it existed, you’re probably not wasting too much time using a hackier solution.

That being said, I’ve been meaning to add a Linux and Mac install.sh script to my dotfiles repo for installing all my CLI tools, and that could probably serve as a good reminder of all the tools you’ve come across over the years that might provide some value.
Well, the US does top the world in obesity and other comorbidities that increase frailty.

I'm pretty confident in stating that the average Chinese has overall better immune system function. On a related note I've just learned that one of the reasons they are more affected by the lockdowns is that the culture much prefers fresh food.

And no, there was no way most or any Western nations could have managed lockdowns of the sort that would have the necessary impact (of which I'm highly doubtful), for numerous reasons. The consequences of the so called "soft" approach on lockdowns are and are going to be massive anyway. And probably for naught.
I've written similar scripts to do this, but lncrawl replaced most of them https://github.com/dipu-bd/lightnovel-crawler/
> Oracle didn't kill it.

What is Solaris without SPARC? A somewhat slower and not-very-compatible OS for apps that are perfectly content with an x86?

Oracle killed it by stopping development of new SPARC systems. Linux is a much better fit for x86 boxes than Solaris ever was. Solaris for x86 was not a revenue driver or should never be considered that, but a gateway drug to SPARC workstations and servers. Java was the same - a programming environment where you could develop on Windows and deploy on Solaris. Unfortunately, for them, you could deploy to Linux as easily.

> This was just as obvious then as it is now. It is just that Solaris fans refused to see it.

Sun was having trouble funding their chip development operation because they tried to be an everything company.
Great Translation Movement
This is the standard line from 50-cents (五毛). US and CCP counts deaths differently. One needs only to compare flu statistics to know they are not comparable.

US counts anyone with virus at the time of death while CCP releases no data and on rare occasion they publish statistics, the numbers are several orders of magnitude lower than US numbers.
If you're using awk anyway:

awk 'BEGIN{system("rm myfile.txt")}{do_stuff()}' <myfile.txt | sort -u | column --table > myfile.txt

In general though:

<foo { rm -f foo && wc >foo }
Well for starters 99.9% of Facebook users don’t use a VPN.
Russia Descended into Authoritarianism
*search engine
Many calamities are unevenly distributed, so I would suppose Covid and lockdowns are just the same. (Even natural disasters- some homes are flooded, some homes are not…) the problem is in aggregate how much loss and suffering is acceptable. Especially in a case like this, arguably man made.
That’s fair, and I hope we see crates being more considerate over what deps they pull in (or people making alternatives with minimal dependencies).
And inchoate crimes don't require the person to do as you commanded them. Just the statement above would probably be enough to charge someone. And even if the crime you are encouraging someone to commit is impossible (for instance, asking Musk to buy 110% of Twitter through you), it is *still* a crime for you to have asked him.
I used them nearly exclusively and recommended them to all my friends. Once they started censoring content for political reasons (Ukraine), that ended instantly.
Since you asked nicely:

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Most of them are puzzles found in the following iOS apps:

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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/100-logic-games-more-puzzles/i...
> Oracle is taking steps to stop considering this as a product.

And even then, they refuse to license it under CDDL.
My point is that building code coming from my local drive is much less problematic than automatically downloading the code from some random website.

And I never said any workflow doesn't work with Cargo. I said I wished it didn't download code (by default) and that it didn't care how code ended up on my drive, that it just worked like a normal build system. That you can use Cargo in that way doesn't help.
In fact I have mostly confined myself to my house. I can work remotely and we have an income sufficient to rely on instacart and delivery for food. We go out for walks in the neighborhood but we avoid going in stores or restaurants except on rare occasions. We've taken one vacation (during the lull before omicron became a thing) and we'll try and take another vacation this summer but, otherwise, we're trying our best to contribute to keeping everyone around us, our friends and relatives, safe. That doesn't mean I don't want it to end though.

I don't think your comments about moving to China are at all productive to the dialog though.
China and the USA are vastly different countries, in almost every single way that modern states can be different. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Wikipedia says "clipboard" was coined by Larry Tesler (in the 70's?)
The basic POSIX interface works, but it's hardly optimal. It has a lot of weird built-in assumptions that we're just so used to working around that it's hard to imagine it being any other way.

As an example: why can a process only have one current working directory? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a process maintain pointers to two or more locations in the filesystem at once? Wouldn't it make software more modular if a library could "chdir" into some directory without worrying about breaking the application that depends on it? The filesystem APIs could be extended with a "CWD" handle argument that can be passed around sort of like a file descriptor instead of having one implicit CWD for the whole process.

The same could be done with UIDs. Why not have processes that can use multiple UIDs? Again, you could have UID parameters to API functions that require authorization.

POSIX is pretty good by the standards of 80's computers, but in a lot of ways it's showing its age. We can do better. But it's kind of depressing that OS interface design is treated as a solved problem, and so those interfaces stagnate.
Vectorflow: Minimalist neural network library faster than TensorFlow in D
Do you think engineers are fundamentally/inherently "trustworthy or genuinely civic-minded"? If not, how does this concern browserman's point?