skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> That's an interesting point though. In Poland, you can own certain guns, right? A Polish friend of mine told me he owned various guns, including semi auto pistols.I know you can own these in other central European countries too, like the Czech Republic, Switzerland and probably others.

You are heavily underestimating how comparatively hard is to get any kind of gun here. Literally no one in my family and not one of my close friends and event my neighbors in my apartment block have access to ANY kind of gun.
Sure there is possibility if You have lots of time and money and if you are relatively stable person to get a gun (I used to know a guy who was a member of shooting club and thus was able to buy himself a gun), but this process has so many hoops that it is actively discouraging from obtaining one just because you fancy one (as an impulse buy). And thus I believe that it makes it a lot harder for unstable people to get hands on them when they got the impuls to do some damage (I believe that planning and persistence required to get gun here is antithesis to what makes those people go on killing spree).

>> So when you say "they do not find a way to get the guns", you're suggesting that the potential mass murderers are out there, looking for a way, but failing to get the guns. But clearly they should be succeeding occasionally, the legal way. And yet we don't see it. Why not?]

I think that's because they are a lot persistent that You believe them to be. Emotions and planning do not go together well. And there is also social element here - You have to be in a sport club and be vouched by others to get to the guns. This two things put together seems to eliminate almost all individuals that would otherwise blow out tunneling their anger through guns.
This is a great addition to the PlanetScale offerings. One of the scariest things with PS was "I have no clue how many rows are read/written" and usage-based plans are hard if you don't think in the terms they they charge in. It was just a metric I had never tracked or done much work on. That might be telling of myself and my DB management skillset (or lack there of).

So far my usage has been minuscule in comparison to the PS limits. That said, I had been hoping for better tools to identify "problem queries" early instead of just when the billing cycle comes up and so I'm happy to see work in that direction.

Just a random anecdote about PlanetScale:

A few weeks ago I realized their databases did not have the timezone database loaded into them and it wasn't something I could do myself. I needed this so I could do `CONVERT_TZ` to convert from UTC to the user's TZ (for report aggregation). I reached out to support and in about a week they had added it to their roadmap, shipped it, and turned on the new feature for my DBs. They have been a joy to work with so far and I encourage you give them a shot, especially if you are on Aurora Serverless (V1 or V2).
I agree with what you wrote, but I'm not sure why you would think that I'm missing anything.

I think many who post comments alluding to this nebulous capitalist ruling elite would say that education of lower classes is tainted by capitalist dogma and therefore would be invalid. Who writes the textbooks? Capitalist businesses seeking to make a profit. Who approves the textbooks? Oh the capitalist ruling elite. Etc.

The reason I am asking these questions is because I keep seeing drive-by comments about "capitalism" and "ruling elites", and I'm trying to understand what other countries out there have different ruling elites (or none) and what the call to action is. Some complain that the "people" aren't in charge and instead it is these capitalist masters/elites. Are there any countries where the people are actually in charge? What does that mean for the people to be in charge?

Or are people just trolling and trying to aggravate others with these types of comments?
Big assembled fan. Good for them!
Approximately nobody plays the koto even in Japan.
That's an interesting concept I had not considered. I also am not sure if "we" (collective) would roll it out that way. We have a track record of consuming resources in the easiest/cheapest way with minor consideration of the environment. I don't think we'd even view this as a worthy investment if all it did was help prevent the spread of deserts. We still can't even agree if climate change is real and what we should do about it.
They may use the protocol but it's not interoperable - you can't chat with someone on Zoom from WhatsApp; that's what people mean by "it failed".
> For true international users (not those of us just using it to display something pretty) it'll be harder to tell what language you are using because flags are easier to identify than gray text.

Indeed. That is a pain in the backside…
It's fascinating to use https://www.reveddit.com/ for any of the big subs when a 'controversial' topic is posted. I've seen threads where 30-50% of comments were removed (in the thousands) and even the mildest critiques and disagreements of the topic would be deleted by mods, often faster than they can be archived.

Some of the bigger subs have 100+ moderators so people don't realize the massive scale of moderation going on.

The idea that comments get deleted because they are 'bad faith', racist, or whatever is wildly incorrect. Moderators act like editors of their own pet newspapers where the comments are the content.
The article is a little disingenuous. DDG didn't do this in secret and no one "found out". They announced it...

Discussed at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515
I'd buy that book for sure.

1491 was eye opening for me in the same way that few books are. Others that come to mind:

Guns Germs and Steel

Godel Escher Bach
The day I saw this output, I never looked back.

mtr -t -c 3 -w duckduckgo.com
Start: 2022-05-26T18:29:55+0300
HOST: debian Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
...
...
...
6.|-- microsoft.mrs.franceix.net 0.0% 3 56.2 56.5 56.0 57.3 0.7
7.|-- ae22-0.ear01.mrs21.ntwk.msn.net 0.0% 3 56.3 56.8 56.3 57.0 0.4
8.|-- be-21-0.ibr02.mrs21.ntwk.msn.net 0.0% 3 78.4 78.4 78.3 78.5 0.1
9.|-- be-7-0.ibr02.gva20.ntwk.msn.net 0.0% 3 78.2 78.7 78.2 79.3 0.5
10.|-- be-4-0.ibr02.zrh20.ntwk.msn.net 0.0% 3 78.5 78.7 78.4 79.0 0.3
11.|-- be-6-0.ibr02.fra21.ntwk.msn.net 0.0% 3 159.7 158.0 136.6 177.7 20.6
12.|-- be-8-0.ibr02.ams30.ntwk.msn.net 0.0% 3 78.4 79.0 78.4 79.7 0.7
13.|-- ae126-0.icr04.ams30.ntwk.msn.net 0.0% 3 78.7 78.9 78.5 79.4 0.5
14.|-- ??? 100.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

If I wanted to use Bing, I would have done so in the first place!
I am just misremembering. I turned off the input icon because it's largely unnecessary. I don't really need the icon to know I'm in pinyin, or vice-versa.
While I like the thinking, it's not quite the same as an index returning some yield is far more likely to give returns indefinitely, whereas an app can become obsolete.
MOO1 was such a good game, and I haven't played anything else (aside from the remakes) as good.

I'd like some really good extensions to the basic model:

- endgame planets are kinda all the same. Specific resources to make them more interesting? Pick different ways of customizing the world?

- Civ resources get "revealed" on the map when a relevant tech needing them appears. This changes the balance of power / usefulness of cities/worlds. MOO2 had deep mining. MOO1 only kind of has this with techs that enable landing on previously uninhabitable worlds.

- a 3d map, and more varied navigation challenges than the binary is / is not in nebula. Black holes? subspace barriers?

- wormholes that appear/are discoverable would change the topology mid-game as well. Or parallel universes with different accessibilities. precursor stargates.

- kind of like how "builds" are done in rpgs, techs or culture can change the fundamental properties/abilities of your race.

- trade sucks in almost all 4x I've seen, yet it is a dominant concern in real life.

- visible worlds, brown dwarfs and other usable systems often aren't visible until you get close. Stars hidden by gas clouds, etc. Hidden outer worlds like nemesis.

- a little bit of surface customization, MOO2's/civ-style buildings is... ok, but a bit overdone and lends itself to "build everything on the big planets". Maybe terraforming sections of the planet in specific ways is better. Might be too much detail.

It would be fun to tinker with RoTP and 1oom when I get the chance.

Almost at Dwarf Fortress + space + no man's sky + 4x at this point.
Honestly, early on in our code auditing days, there were surprises - a lot of the more meta-lessons in here fomented in the last few years, looking back, and would NOT have been something I’d have thought early on.

On the other hand, regarding micro-services question: no, not even one surprised us positively. Now keep in mind, we didn’t audit absolutely massive FANG companies where mice services are probably necessary for org reasons(though a few unicorns/near-unicorns).
Arabic as well. Loads of examples of such languages, with huge numbers of speakers. I think this is a reasonable change (and always found the colored icon in the menu bar to be gaudy anyway).
Changed now from https://longreads.com/2022/05/04/crime-beyond-belief-kidnapp.... Thanks!
Agreed, same thing with basic stuff like color schemes. I just pick one that's auto installed by default with an IDE and stick with it. I'm tired of futzing and installing stuff to get things juuuuust right. Most IDEs come with great defaults.
> discovering what needs to be coded is 90% of the job,

But you still have to predict based on a two-sentence description in a JIRA ticket how many "story points" it's going to take with 95% accuracy a dozen times within the span of a single "sprint planning session" every two weeks.
There’s an easy way out: just make it a choice, like for the user menu.
I was the one offering alternative language here to not offend people with a specific definition of mental illness.

If you just want to argue the point I'm offering to concede, I'm happy to steal man it.

If you have you ever known someone that is mentally ill, you know that their illness does not preclude the ability to harm and make those around them suffer.

Many School shooters are capable of suffering themselves, and in fact their suffering often plays a large role in their motivations.

They can also suffer during a lifetime of incarceration or the anguish of being executed.

They often have major mental disabilities, like the inability to feel empathy.

There are a large number of neuropsychiatric disorders associated with persistent antisocial and criminal behavior, such as Psychopathy, Sadistic personality disorder, narcissism, depression, and paranoia. Are these not mental illnesses by your definition?

Nobody is claiming that the mentally ill are dangerous.
However, deadly mass shooters are often mentally ill.

For example, studies have found some indication of autistic spectrum disorder in ~30% of of school shooters[1]. This is but one neuropsychiatric disorder.

To ask the inverse question, Do you think that school shooters are mentally healthy?? If not, how would you fit their psychology and behavior into our scientific model of neuroscience?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00223980.2016.1...
Tiddlywiki is great but if youre looking for something more advanced then you might want to look at DokuWiki (very plugin centric) or Bookstack, my favourite these days which is a batteries included type of wiki.
From Model to Self-Taught Software Engineer
Now that's mixing up user and client.
There’s be two systems to maintain. But the flags aren’t that valuable, and they aren’t needed for any sort of backwards compatibility.
The point of search engines is to rank websites not simply to hold a giant index.

As such down-ranking disinformation seems completely appropriate, what exactly is your concern?
I think a problem with Wesley is he seems to have undeveloped social skills for his age (possibly due to a lack of peers his own age to interact with) but the lack of social skills doesn't seem to be intentional on the part of the writers, Wesley is just oddly written.

As someone who struggled with socializing in school I think Wesley was a poor role model.

As an adult rewatching it I don't care, I would just acknowledge how weird/ alien the human characters on the enterprise act.
A while back, I noticed DuckDuckGo stopped working when I blocked network access to Microsoft ASNs on my router. It turns out - DDG is hosted directly on Microsoft servers!
I haven’t used a second layout in some time, but thanks for a clear indication and gering rid of these stupid icons which never made any sense to me. And they were way harder to decode.
Have you become more fond of / optimistic about Go (compared to other options) since writing the piece, less so, or similar?
But still better than Python's.
Having played some of the soulsborne games before I much prefer being able to go away and explore something else if I hit a hard boss or area. It keeps the game much more enjoyable and not feel as "grindy". You do have a point about hitting some things earlier or later than you should, but usually under-leveled players are not going to make much progress in the tougher areas anyway...
yes though as sibling points out rejection can be bad for performance (hard to parallelize). I should have specified that the algorithm I suggested was sqrt-free and rejection-free (but does have a problem with distribution right near the edge of the circle)
I just have a bare metal server I rent from OVH and run everything there and just remote into it with VS codes pretty great remote feature. Works great unless I'm traveling. If I'm going to be on the road I'll just setup what I need locally just in case.
See also: http://sqlime.org

Which is another nice WASM-based browser SQLite user interface.
Sure - and I suppose the argument for removal is someone that needs to use "UK English" but doesn't want to see a UK flag in their menu bar ... but then why not make it a toggle?

Or I wonder if this has to do with the Taiwan flag or lack thereof.
> The rise of SaaS and PaaS isn’t just laziness.

My point is that none of the analogies are arguments for (or against) SaaS, or in this case "brand name" enterprise software.

Whenever any of these comically banal analogies are brought out to sell something, the intention always seems to be to suspend critical thinking.

There exists many legitimate arguments, for many things. They never begin with "why would anyone need a frying pan".
The low end Leaf costs much less, and I bought the Bolt for the greater range, which I don’t have now. The extended range Leaf is what is I’d buy today. As an owner of a Bolt I think I have a fairly well informed opinion.
WhatsApp switched to the Signal protocol several years ago.
SMTP was there early and with significant adoption - it's not inherent stability or quality of design. Early success and adoption tends to both entrench and freeze protocols despite their deficiencies. XMPP never got the sort of adoption to make it entrenched and its deficiencies were noted far earlier in its lifecycle. Moxie Marlinspike's piece on some of this is well worth reading:

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Earth’s orbital debris problem is worsening, and policy solutions are difficult
Are you sure it’s the absolute temperature of 60d that matters, or is the requirement that the sponge is hotter than the surrounding air?
Because it's not your kids, you are not getting sick, you still have a job, etc.

Worst of all, you can't do anything about either of those

It may not be the right approach, but if you are suffering because of everyone else you should reconsider your priorities
I'd argue many (most?) of these companies do not innovate or grow. What innovation has come out of Snap/TikTok/Twitter/{insert name here}?

They make one product, get ballooned up with endless cash (or used to) and then do nothing for years because they don't really need to do anything as long as money keeps flowing.

I'd argue many (most?) of these companies have so many employees not because they need all that manpower, but because the majority of management is engaged in empire building. As a department head/PM, more headcount = more power = more prestige = even more headcount = ...

I'd therefore argue that less than half the engineers are needed even if these companies wanted to grow. They only have so many employees because they had more cash than what they could put into actual innovation.

You can see this everywhere. Very smart PHDs get hired all over the place for very impressive salaries and the vast majority of them do absolutely useless busywork at best.
No.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mass-shootings-ar...:

> The investigators applied a mathematical model and found that shootings that resulted in at least four deaths launched a period of contagion, marked by a heightened likelihood of more bloodshed, lasting an average of 13 days....

> Previous studies have shown that suicide can be similarly contagious. In one recent example, researchers found a correlation between celebrity suicides, like that of Robin Williams, and an increase in suicidal thoughts in an online Reddit suicide watch group for people battling depression.

> “People are susceptible to information about these events, but the mechanism is less clear,” says Andres Gomez-Lievano, a co-author of the mass-shooting study, published in July in PLOS ONE. Where and when the news reports were published could have an effect on incidence, says Dan Romer, director of the Adolescent Communication Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved with the study. It is important to note, he says, that “suicides will trigger others, so it makes sense that people who want to commit suicide while killing others could be influenced in the same way.”

Unless you get the causes and triggers under control, the attacks will just happen with whatever tools are available (e.g. guns, bladed weapons, bombs, or fire).
> 330kb over the wire with brotli. Thats sizable, but definitely usable in a heavier web app.

My almost-most-used website (boardgamegeek.com) currently serves 500-odd kb of minified CSS and 2MB of minified JS. That is to say: in the context of modern websites, 300-800kb arguably rates as a mere pittance.
A Superior Alternative to LiFePO4 for Long-Lived Low Voltage Li-Ion Cells
I understand. And if anyone wants to use one of the sites that requires JavaScript within tor, then JS is needed within tor for them. Just because some random forum was developed to work without JS doesn't help if they want to use a site that wasn't developed to work without JS.
The energy has to go somewhere so they are using it for SOMETHING instead of just heating up a giant resistor and venting it into the air. This is because demand is so variable.

This is the equivalent of storing water from a river in a reservoir when you aren't watering your field. Sure, some of it evaporates but you aren't just letting it run into the ocean.
Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money
> Did you read the FA? They decided that, "Yeah nevermind: we're not going to call it Perl 7 ", until some future time where it may make sense to do so to somebody again - but maybe not, who knows? Backwards compatibility, everyone!

I admit I only skimmed it, I was busy at the time. But it's not too incorrect anyway: Perl 7 will be a direct descendant of Perl 5, whenever that happens.

> I'm not sure if I quite understand the Perl community problem of seemingly never, ever wanting to commit to something new. It's the metaphorical problem of not being able to get across the creek, because you imagine your feet glued to the stepping stone you're on.

I don't think there's a general "Perl community". I mean it's a thing that exists, but as I see it, it's a smaller and tighter group than the general set of people using Perl. There were lots of people that used Perl for whatever needs they had and were never regulars at conventions, Perlmonks and other places, and as a result had little influence and weren't up to date on what the core people were doing.

Many of those also had no interest in committing to such a thing. Eg, they were writing stuff for their day job, and had little interest in participating in the development of the language.
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On the one hand — it is a very simple application. On the other — it has compelling features in its toolset:

- Complete real-time collaboration;

- Personal notepad for your notes, studies, and mood boards;

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- Straightforward and intuitive interface;

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For a _startup_ game, this was surprisingly not focused on product. I chose the founder who has a large social media following, ended up building a nebulous product that had to deal with DMCA takedown notices?

Playing the game felt like it had a much more libertarian agenda than the 'Startup Agenda' that it's trying to promote though.
How about HN? We discuss management fairly often.
But others might miss the meaning if they only went with what you wrote.
Make actions have cost, and / or put cooldowns on orders. Still allow the ability to burst out a high APM for a short period of time, but design it so overdoing it is suicide.

Give the kids a fighting chance, ya know?
Two parts:

1. For dotfiles, YADM: https://yadm.io/
2. For everything else, like packages to install, I use an Ansible playbook.

Both sync via git.
Do you play jazz? I'm an engineer and I play the piano for fun. Just wondering if you have some "liberal arts" in you still :)
> never talk to the police. Ever. Under no circumstances. They are not your friend, they will not help you, they are looking for an easy way to wrap up the case. If the police are trying to talk to you then you are in their sights and they would much rather pin it all on you rather than do their actual jobs. Always ask for a lawyer and never think "Well if I just tell them X they will let me go".

There are exceptions to this rule, and I think one is when your girlfriend has just been kidnapped. Sure, in this case the police did absolutely nothing to actually help save the girlfriend, but the chance they might help seems worth the risk of being deemed a suspect.
To rekindle your hope, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)
> In 15 years of doing technical due diligence (200+ jobs) I have yet to come across a company where the tech was what eventually killed them.

Not my experience..

What does a “tech failure” look like? Do the servers catch fire? Is the web site down? Maybe people are unable to login to their stations?

Hi-tech business is “Tech”, so the failure of the business is in fact the tech failing. More specifically, the business was unable to direct the tech to solve real problems and solve them well enough.. New hires took too long to onboard.. Engineers were only superficially productive.. Communication between the stake holders and engineers was lacking.. etc.. etc..

Take note that in all scenarios above “work” is being done, “progress” is being made.. ceremonies are everywhere and success is seemingly around the corner.. Or is it?

It’s just very hard to see these issues, they are hidden under layers of meetings, firings, hiring, pivots, milestones with little progress in actual business value.