skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False assertion. Does deciding to spend less on military on more on social services give these supposed predators the idea they can take you down when your military is still the largest in the world? Seems like we could probably divert a significant chunk before anyone thinks we're an easy target.
This is very nice, it reminds me a bit of aether.app which I think has been abandoned (though it's open source so anyone could fork it).

I think it would be very valuable if you could create subthreads on each thread. Right now you have a huge blank space besides the chat which just doesn't make much sense.

I love the design of the app, feels old school but very nice. It's also very fast. I couldn't find the source code though, is it a proprietary platform? I know it's not decentralised so that's a bit disappointing. But looks good!
I forget the name, but I interviewed at a medical technology company a while back. They said they failed over a data center every single day and left it offline for a while. They needed to make sure their redundancy was super reliable so they failed over daily to ensure they engineered everything super robustly.
hodl has been losing money hand over fist for a year.
I agree there should be a way to highlight top messages, and we've discussed it on the site a few times. Just haven't come up with the implementation yet!

My main goal was getting the core chat piece working solid before building stuff around it, but I appreciate the feedback and hear you!
Yeah that's fair! This is one of those times when coding is similar to writing and mostly personal aesthetics.
Roman Empire ended around 1450, so…
Holy epic strawman there, Batman. No of course not. I didn’t say that. Nobody else said that. I don’t agree with that. I don’t know anyone else who agrees with that. I’ve never heard anyone say that.
That's a very unspecific comment. Twitter could censor just about anything they want and be on the right side of the law lol.
Thank you for articulating this so well. I've also had a zero-tolerance ad policy for years now. My partner and I refer to ads as Brain-Pollution.
Putin's health seems quite iffy like he's seen a thyroid cancer doctor 35 times.
> Needs some sort of sorting or highlighting of 'upvoted/liked' messages.

Also known as an algorithmic "feed"?
There is nuance here that you might not be aware of. He just had higher loyalty to his state than the union, something that was common back then. For better or for worse, the United States became dramatically more centralized after the Civil War, both in terms of political power and in the public's consciousness. One way I've heard it expressed is that before the Civil War, people would say "The United States are..." but after the Civil War people say "The United States is..."

edit: also please refrain from telling people what to feel, it's rude and hinders the conversation
US Federal laws and CA law will be the same, 1st amendment trumps anything CA would try to do to curb speech.

Same with UN Treaties, it literally not possible for the US to enter into a treaty that violates the constitution, the US Constitution overrules all laws, treaties, agreements, state laws, everything.
I think we could pay more, but only if we could actually get better teachers. So many teachers are bad and not worth even what they get paid (personal experience from a nominally quite good school district). My concern with paying more before figuring out how to weed out bad ones is that it would just be a waste.
Well you can login to your bank and send any amount of money you please my way, they should have a support number. I can't promise any design coming out the other end though.
I can’t wrap my head around a little endian date.

If you want to write the date little endian then you should do the same with the year. So today’s little-endian date is 26-04-2220. Or maybe that is 62-40-2220? Or is it 62-40-2202?

ISO8601 is the only sane date format. Anything else is only favored for familiarity.
Yeah, that papyrus is bonkers. Imagine what still exists out there in the desert!
Didn't get to that point yet, so far their styling is fine for my needs. I have some experience with less but it's been a while.
https://richardheart.com/ Are you for real? You look like someone straight out of central casting for the next ponzi scheme docu-series on Netflix.
Funny, you could have phrased that "We were desperate because nothing was working and we were losing money and we didn't know what we were doing."

It looks like you have all the answers and "they" have no idea, but I don't see anything else than pure "us vs them" mentality and finger pointing on a company that you chose to join and accept money from.

Care to share what you would do if you were in charge ? At what level have you been able to implement some of the solution you have in mind ? What was the outcome ?
This idea sounds awesome to me. Also I love the website. It looks so beautiful but presents data in a really nice and simple way. I can't say this for many websites. They're either beautiful, or simple. :D

Anyway, great work, great idea.
Your description of the account holder :

> The owner of the account is a stalker attempting to extort his victim.

Extortion is a criminal offense and stalking can also be one, depending on its severity. So that means you're the one who brought crime into the discussion (with wrongful accusations, in my view).
Well, one does not preclude the other. If they did overhire intentionally I expect they wouldn't admit that or act in a way that might make lots of people suspect it. But sure, all that could be straightforwardly true too
It doesn’t bother you sometimes that some people starve while others hoard wealth that rivals the gdp of entire countries?

People going hungry, especially children, is a travesty.

What is your solution to it? We already have food stamps, welfare, fully subsidized healthcare, child tax credits, social security disability, free school breakfasts and lunches, Section 8 Housing, SNAP, WIC, CHIP, Medicaid, churches, charities, social security death benefit and so much more. People are still hungry.

Should we do more? The lesson of Africa says we shouldn’t. Decades of food aid to Africa did little more than make the continent dependent on food aid and drive all the farmers out of business because they couldn’t compete against free.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/americas/14iht-food...

And I haven’t even brought up lthat there simply aren’t enough billionaires to tax to make even a tiny difference in any of this. Even if you took literally their entire net worth, converted it to cash (which is literally impossible) and spent it on the poor it wouldn’t make any difference.
I no longer click through videos to check them out. Im in and then out for specific content because the ads just keep coming
To expand on the other reply, there are a couple more implicit loops. There's a loop over all of the command line arguments/files, then a loop for every line in each of those files, then there is kind of a loop over the whitespace delimited fields of each of those lines. The main thing that helped me understand AWK was that every block in a script is just a pattern/action pair. When I saw snippets like

... | awk '{print $2}'

I thought there was all this confusing syntax, but something like

awk '/pattern/ {print}'

was more clear to me. In the first case, the empty pattern matches every line of the input, and the action is simply to print the second field of each line. Patterns can vary in complexity from the empty pattern to long chains of logical operators and regular expressions, such as /pattern/ in the second example. The outer quotes are just to prevent the shell from eating your dollar signs or other special characters. In a standalone AWK script you can write it like

/pattern/ {
print
}

which also makes it look more like another language.

If you can get your hands on a copy of The AWK Programming Language, it's a pretty quick and pleasant read that helped everything make more sense to me. I do most of my data analysis for my research using AWK and really enjoy working with it.
The way that this script runs forever should scare you
Quite possibly the only time I've seen on HN where correcting someone's grammar is actually making a salient point in the discussion. Well done.
Yes, and it’s not just the high-performers who are being held back in American-style systems, but low-performers too, people who are either unsuited for or uninterested in academic work are forced to waste their time on something that doesn’t benefit them.
Tell HN: PayPal scam email sent to my MyFitnessPal email address
In 2018, MyFitnessPal had a data breach[1]. Just now, I got an email sent to me claiming to be a PayPal transaction with a giant Cancel the Payment button. I use Fastmail as an email provider with a unique email address for each account I sign up for. This scam email was sent to my MyFitnessPal email address. Of course, the scammers know I didn't authorize this [fake] transaction and really badly want me to click that gigantic Cancel button. Don't click it! Clicking it leads to a fake PayPal authentication screen where they will steal your credentials if you enter them.

Scam email: https://imgur.com/a/1hqQVyy

Fake PayPal authentication website: https://imgur.com/a/yqoiEXW

Oftentimes, data acquired from breaches is not used immediately. Sometimes it can take months or years for the data to be sold to criminals that then organize scams such as this one. I wanted to let HN know about this just in case anyone else has or had a MyFitnessPal account and criminals have decided to mass-email all the stolen email addresses.

[1] https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice.html
It's his rockets and his testicles^WTeslas on the roads. Pretty phallic, no?
Safari: Links that open in new tab = empty tab
Who says you have to practice?

In the context of coding I just craved it, never needed any discipline.

With music most seem to learn like the author just wanting to create something and learning along the way rather than "now it's time for my 2 hours of ableton practice"

With instruments I think the situation is pathological. We teach everybody to learn the exact same things, scales, patterns and chords in the exact same way, and then ask them to be original. But you can just take an instrument and start making random sounds, better and better over time because there's tight feedback loop linked with your music perception. And sure, you won't be able to play what others have played - but you will be able to express yourself in an unique way.

I think most of those who did spend 1000s of hours on specific thing, did not require any discipline to do these things. They just wanted to do them. Even if they sucked at it.
I feel like this is the kind of thing that leads to the extreme political divides we, hopefully, all hate.

It promotes the same clickbait ragebait mentality that ads do.
> "live conversation with strangers"... "general audience"

Sounds like "small talk". But who likes small talk so much they would use a service specifically for it?

I fear in lieu of a more compelling USP it will have a hard ceiling as "a small online friend group", which is fine, just not something that will grow beyond a profitless hobby project.
I know people generally consider "Roman history" to be around the time of Julius Caesar, but the empire itself spanned over 1000 years.
They now do have a remedial kind of class, "Math 1d", which is to be taken concurrently with Math 1a. I was placed into it after not trying very hard on my placement test, but they let me drop it when I told them I didn't need it.
Particular hairstyles, other types of fashion. Slang and other communication norms - waving or handshaking or hugging, laughing together.
He didn't buy Twitter to make money. He is buying power, and especially political power.

He is already the richest guy on Earth and will stay among the top 10 whatever happens. He has nothing to prove as an entrepreneur and CEO. Being richer has no meaning at some point. But power is something most can't get enough.

See Putin: he became the king of the oligarchs, e.g. the richest among them. Now he wants to make Russia great again, e.g. be considered as a giant in Russian History like Peter the Great and Stalin. I hope he will fail miserably for Putin's hubris is the only reason for his unjustifiable war on Ukraine.

Musk will soon be God in one of the main social network on Earth. One of the best spot to watch how the global opinion is evolving, detect which country is trying to mess with elections in another, analyze the communication strategy of the big brands, the political parties, activists etc.

We have an idea of how efficient Cambridge Analytica was at monitoring and influencing political opinions. But they had only a partial access to FB data. Musk will have all Twitter data, with access to current but also past interactions.

That's a huge leverage on political parties and even elected governments. By giving back his account to Trump when he runs again in 2024, or not, he can play a major role in the outcome - as it appears clearly to everyone.

Musk will negotiate that decision directly with the top level players in Washington. If there is a GOP primary, he could side with those loyal to the Constitution first or those loyal to Trump first.

Of course, SpaceX will gain plenty of NASA contracts and the new President will secure fund for huge spatial projects.

But that's only a secondary outcome. Power is something you can't have enough of. He doesn't care if he loses billions.

Musk is becoming the new Rupert Murdoch, who had a huge influence through his newspapers and tabloids in so many countries.
> The other problem with wishfully thinking that our logic and math might be a universal solution to understanding any posible thing is that we came up these tools to explain the way we experience the universe

I don't think this gets enough credit. Human intelligence and consciousness are things we know literally nothing about and have no tools to understand. But people act as if a turing complete language must be able to simulate intelligence, and somehow conciousness. The probably answer, looking back on science, is they we're wrong and have no idea what we're talking about.

As for the idea that it (intelligence or anything else) is impossible to understand, it seems as the author implies that there is a big difference between thinking of stuff and understanding it. If an alien or time traveler that understood consciousness came and explained it, we'd probably get it, and it would be taught to average people in schools. That seems to be man's big skill, we can learn stuff we'd be way too dumb to ever think up, and through our lived infinite monkeys simulation we end up coming up with some good stuff.
> Piątek (possibly means drinking day?)

The word means "the fifth day", from piąty (fifth) rather than pić (to drink).

Wtorek (Tuesday) comes from wtóry, meaning "second".

Środa (Wednesday) is from środa, meaning “middle”.

Sobota (Saturday) is from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (šabbāṯ), meaning the Sabbath.
Many might be missing work because of ritual uncleanliness (wife/daughter bleeding)
They seem to say that there is exactly one optical fiber going to exactly one device which is all of the connection of each of their datacenter.

Is that correct? That seems very single-point-of-failureish to me.
European date format doesn’t make sense either. It still doesn’t sort and the little-endian date is composed of big-endian year, month, and day.

Putting the day first isn’t actually a benefit because you still need the year and month for context.

Any favoritism of the EU format is the same as the US format. Just familiarity.

ISO8601 is the only way.
Cool, sounds good.

I'll say that it's unlikely we'll work on this unless a sponsor funds the development. The dynamic upstreams feature was funded by a sponsor requiring improved SRV support (we did have SRV support before v2.5.0, but it was rudimentary and insufficient for many usecases).

If someone needs this and can spend some time developing it, essentially it's just a module which implements this interface: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/c...
> Here's to hoping the Pandas alternatives for Golang become mature soon enough so we can ditch Python for good.

With python binding? Or pure Go? It seems impossible for data scientists to all switch to Go
I agree with you completely, though I wonder how much closer as a species we are to creating an animal like the tribble as opposed to growing lab grown meat efficiently?
People despise traitors because they pretend to be on one side while actually working for another. That's why Benedict Arnold is despised and Lee is not. Lee may turned against the Federal government, but he never pretended to be on a different side then he was.
The best thing about grandfather clocks is that they will always tell you the time. You may not like it, but it is a fact you must accept. Nobody appreciates father time, but he knows best.
But trial arms need to be balanced, so excluding sick patients would stick out like a sore thumb.

Of course you don’t allow patients to seek care elsewhere during a trial. If they went to their doctor and were prescribed some alternative therapy it would ruin all the data from that patient.
A lot of religious norms seem like things that made sense in context at the time, but not necessarily today. E.g. don't eat pork or shellfish, don't wear mixed fibers, don't get tattoos, cover your hair in public.
Enough Republicans have been banned from Twitter for a Republican-driven replacement service (that isn't the one that Trump is nominally backing) to become popular on the right. A broad array of Republican politicians and media personalities have been banned -- including at least one current member of congress -- and a huge array of political topics have had the official Democratic position enforced as the only allowed-to-be-posted opinion, again driving Republicans to alternative services.

If Musk follows through on his claimed intent to allow posters to post things that don't follow Democratic-party official narrative positions, and unbans the accounts of the hundreds of high-profile folks on the right who have been banned, that would represent a significant risk to the Democratic party's ability to narrative shape.
Tesla's model is to profit by lobbying for subsidies and ignoring laws.
While the original post borders on a cliche at this point, the criticism seems to be correct in this case. Equalising math outcomes by destroying math education for the gifted is akin to levelling wealth by destroying all the houses.
I bought third-party toner that came with a faulty chip, transplanted an original brother chip to it, and used the reset menu (open the printer to gain toner access, hold ← and X for 2 seconds, press ←, select which toner chip to reset as if it was full) and now it's working fine :)
It is. I've been approached by 3 companies (one of them is FAANG) last week and I don't live in Cali. Remote work is here to stay.
A kid at my son's school is named Judas.
Bah gawd it's Nietzsche with a steel shovel.
The founding fathers almost all believed slavery was wrong but they were born into a society where it was a core institution and it wasn't obvious how exactly to reform it.

Entitlement principles are why the West was the 1st place in the world to abolish slavery and then went about and abolished it throughout the world.
I really have all the wrong life-skills for the current moment.

I should have learned so many useful things instead of this programming crap.
That's great! Do you have a favourite? Do you store them or wear them? What's your daily driver?

To a much lesser extent (financially!) I was a bit of a sneakerhead. I still have unworn pairs but recently I've made a thing of wearing everything I own (because life is short!). But man, I horded! So curious about your collection though!
>"The attempt at an industry wide consensus building effort around what HTML should be failed (W3C), largely because it spent most of its political capital on implementation-independent academic dreams rather than incremental improvements."

Interesting. Can you elaborate on what some of those academic dreams are/were that derailed things? Did they end up in the spec or were they just bikeshedded to death?
> Why do you trust HN comments over research?

I don't, that's a misinterpretation of the meaning I intended.

I wrote

> > It is true that very little research has value. It is true that very little information is worth reading.

That's just the nature of research and information.

Most research isn't going to lead to anything, and that's ok because the stuff that does lead to something more than makes up for it.

I'm pretty sure that most of the stuff I read and most of the research that is done has mostly entertainment value. What do you remember that made a difference in your life that you read five years ago. I'm willing to bet it's a small percentage of the stuff you read.

> The researchers test their ideas in reality, in this case with over 300 people, and carefully analyze the results.

Did they though(carefully analyze their results)? They didn't share their dataset.
They didn't calculate one variance, or one p-value.

> The same researcher could post a HN comment in 30 seconds, with no basis, and for some reason some people would believe that more.

People tend to believe the last argument they hear(unless they think it is obvious bullshit). Perhaps post a counter argument.

Also, the parent of this context, had a rather strong basis.
Hilarious how you say companies have entirely captured the regulatory role of the FDA.

Then you say look at Vioxx, which went through a full phase 3 study.

And then say “but don’t worry, Covid vaccines were know are safe”.

You’re contradicting yourself.
I'm happy for people to try things, but please at least draw outlines around / highlights on the actionable UI elements. We're at a point now so far into flat UI extremism that opening a new application is like a giant guessing game to find out which parts of the UI you can click on and what they do.

(Even the HN page I am staring at right now has styled all the links to an indistinguisable gray / black that looks totally inactive.)
This is why I love this orange site.
Especially when the stock market is inflated as fuck (companies with nearly no YoY revenue are being evaluated at millions/billions of dollars).

We need heavy taxation on investment/vacation property. Exception being if you've built it yourself on unimproved land.
That's more a reflection of your mental state than anything relating to computers really. Kids today see ipads and nintendo switches the same way you saw old computers.
> and you should feel bad for making it.

That's not an appropriate argument for HN.
Wtorek probably means "the second day", and Środa means "middle". Piątek probably means "fifth".
> And many people are conservative in particular at the individual level for very good reasons, because they cannot afford to play high risk games.

I became wealthy (I don't consider myself rich, but just doin' okay) when I realized that I was so poor that I had nothing to lose, and everything to gain. I don't think the attitude of pessimism or optimism has anything to do with success... You have to be somewhat good at being optimistic about the right things and pessimistic about the right things... all at the right time. You have to see opportunity, navigate risk and most importantly... actually go for it. The go for it part is super hard because there is great uncertainty on the journey.
>be 1178 BC Egyptian working

>working my ass off on the pyramids every day

>no days off

>my wife has really bad period have to take off work

>goddammit.png

>boss gives me shit for missing work

>embarrassed I tell him reason I missed work

>he writes it down

>MRW 3200 years later people are judging me and my wife