skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On most Linux distributions it is the home directory of the superuser (the one also named "root" in most instances).

The reason given for why it is in / instead of /home/ is so the root user has a home directory even when /home/ is a separate (but unmounted) partition or a NFS mount.
The idea of working in the office, all day, every day? No thanks, say workers
It's spelled "shibboleth". You could have googled it.
Generally, when I'm listening to podcasts or audiobooks, I don't have a screen in front of me to put CC on. Might just be me, but I can only follow one source of information at a time, so I don't like non-music audio while using the computer or reading.
Awesome. I was thinking of building something like this, but I'm glad someone's already done it for me! This is going on my homelab for sure.
Texts are more expensive than push notifications. I don't actually think they're more expensive.
We’re talking past each other. Every area has seen an increase in price, yes.

But not every area is very expensive.

The fact that a house in SF that costs $2m would go for $500k elsewhere is not a result of federal monetary policy, and it is not a result of construction costs. It is a result of supply and demand.
Very nice work. Though, is "homelab" meaningful jargon to people here? I definitely had to google that term.
> I sometimes get dreams of really interesting stories. The dream itself is like a movie

I have that too, surprisingly complex plots. I suspect it's because of what we consume - movies, culture, politics, etc.
Maybe from this article

https://beincrypto.com/terras-ust-de-pegging-a-brilliant-sor...
Correct. It seems to me that nobody has been trying to realize the vision from that whitepaper for like a decade.
Eventually? Sure, nothing is forever. But the replacement won't be by something older like p4 or hg. The real question is: has the replacement been written yet?
ZZT. It’s one of Tim Sweeney’s (Of Epic fame) early games.

It was my intro into true OO programming. You program literal objects to interact by message passing.

You should be able to pick it up all over the internet. It’s abandonware but has a pretty good community.
The problem here is that software years and silicon years are not equal but certain legal mandates believe them to be.
Actor should be also non-established someone.
It sounds like clear text is still supported, but new passwords are written as a SHA-1 hash of the password concatenated with user+database-specific strings (since 2010):

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/password.wiki

That’s an improvement, but I doubt it’s best practice.
FossilHub sounds a like social coding for old farts.
Just last year, there was also this publication: Sander Lestrade: Unzipping Zipf’s law

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

"In spite of decades of theorizing, the origins of Zipf’s law remain elusive. I propose that a Zipfian distribution straightforwardly follows from the interaction of syntax (word classes differing in class size) and semantics (words having to be sufficiently specific to be distinctive and sufficiently general to be reusable). These factors are independently motivated and well-established ingredients of a natural-language system. Using a computational model, it is shown that neither of these ingredients suffices to produce a Zipfian distribution on its own and that the results deviate from the Zipfian ideal only in the same way as natural language itself does."
I lol’d
"Notification Remover" Android app allows to automatically dismiss some notifications but not others, based on user-defined filters. I use it and it works really well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31636602

From app description:

"Notifications will be cleaned automatically based on your input. Select the package name of an app and enter the message text (regular expression) of the annoying notification and you'll never see it again."

It however lacks ability to export / import filters so they need to be created manually.

Also the app is not longer updated. I hope at some point somebody will create open-source clone of it with more features.
Mini web projects using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
I certainly remember the culture clash when AOL opened the Internet to "newbies," starting with Usenet and then everything else. I think part of it was just that being able to connect no longer made you part of a special club.

I was one of those newbies. When my spouse and I were living in different towns after grad school, AOL allowed us to communicate using local phone numbers in our respective locations, using a single account. Later on, they reconfigured their software so that it was running on top of a regular TCP/IP client, and you'd use it by logging in with the AOL software and then switching over to Netscape and an e-mail program that recognized AOL's protocol.

I ran my first side business from an AOL e-mail address.

AOL was the closest thing to "it just works" in the business for quite a while. Plus, their nationwide reach meant that you could access it anywhere without paying for long distance phone service. It took a few more years for the Internet to work that well for everybody.

I predicted to my friends that pretty soon everybody would have access to the Internet! Today we look back on the early Internet with nostalgia.

Eternal September... yeah, bring it on.
This assumes they don't do anything mefarious on first install.

m.uber.com
Reminds me of thread moderation in forums - merging threads and such to keep similar topics together when they spilled over. I really liked the carousel demo and how they tried to differentiate, would be a good challenge to explain what you wrote in a single panel.
When the newbie commits a multi gigabyte file in one commit, then doubles down by deleting that file in a follow up commit.
"Notification Remover" Android app allows to automatically dismiss some notifications but not others, based on user-defined filters. I use it and it works really well.

It is a solution for this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31632137

From app description:

"Notifications will be cleaned automatically based on your input. Select the package name of an app and enter the message text (regular expression) of the annoying notification and you'll never see it again."

It however lacks ability to export / import filters so they need to be created manually.

Also the app is not longer updated. I hope at some point somebody will create open-source clone of it with more features.
> I'm looking forward to the day that electric vehicle charging infrastructure starts charging time of day rates.

Many of the Tesla super chargers in the Bay Area and Central Coast have this feature.

That said, a few of them changed to 24-hour rates during the recent price increase.
If we're talking government funded car infrastructure... yeah I think a lot of that happened, and continues to, unfortunately.
Having read Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague in the 1990s, a pandemic was the most obvious prediction possible. Only timing is the hard part. We got rather lucky that our research on SARS-CoV-1 was available in advance, along with the new development of lipids for mRNA vaccines. Without that, 1% death rate was certainly possible with COVID, if not the 2.5% predicted in the article. Which is still much better than historical pandemics like plague and smallpox in the New World.

Though, uh, maybe all that research made pandemic possible in the first place. Anyway a miss by one order of magnitude on a virus that does exponential growth is really good but obvious prediction. Public policy should definitely plan to deal with outbreaks on this scale of death.
It was for a long time. At some point which I believe was 1994, AOL made a Winsock.DLL available, which could route TCP/IP packets over your AOLnet connection, and present itself as a standard winsock interface. This allowed any other Winsock program (Netscape, IE, Forte Agent, FTP, etc) to run while dialed into AOL.

Prior to that, no, you couldn't do that. Being dialed into AOL meant you were only connected to AOL. The email did have an internet gateway (since 1992), you could email people at other internet hosts, but you couldn't use regular internet software until that DLL came out.
> How has progress been stopped dead in its tracks by wokeism?

I think its hard to make the argument that technical progress has stopped, but to some extent the woke ideologues do introduce friction to technical progress.

Here’s one simple example: before wokeism took root in corporations, the ideal that most wanted to strive towards was something like a color-blind meritocracy. Today, the prevailing idea in hiring/promoting in many corporations isn’t “is this person the absolute best scientist/engineer/inventor that we can get” it’s “does this person have the right identity?”. It’s not hard to imagine that some technical progress is being left on the table by the focus on identity and not on merit.

> If anything one could make an argument that the current anti-vax/anti-science elements pervading society would fit the description should their views gain more traction.

Deciding whether to take a medication is not the domain of science: that’s a risk-management decision. The well of discourse has been poisoned by the repeated false claim that not finding enough benefit in a particular medication is anti-science. Science can’t and doesn’t command anybody to take any medication, it just gives you tools to understand the possible risks and benefits. People can reasonably disagree that the risks aren’t worth the benefits, even if you personally disagree.
I never remember my dreams, to the point that I am not convinced I actually have dreams. I sleep well, wake up refreshed most mornings, but have no recollection of having dreamt. Probably all the caffeine...
taxes?
I'm not sure, but I think this might be be regional. I worked as a chef doing fine dining for like two catered dinners, and it was actually the hardest physical labour I've ever done in a long time, but it was also immensely fun. My friend who got me into the job (He knows I like to cook) isn't a huge drug addict or alcoholic, might find him smoking a bit of weed but that's it. We live in a country with a vastly different drug culture to that of North America/Europe, though. Like 5-10$ bags of extremely pure cocaine and shit like that just has a way of keeping the locals off the harder stuff, and also a lack of a consumerist mindset. A paycheque that sucks in the occidental world goes waaaaaaaay longer out here (I only made like what 90$ a night doing this? That's like at least a month of groceries)

When I worked in a kitchen at a popular thai restaurant in North America when I was a kid, I walked into the mini fridge to grab some noodles and the manager was in there taking a bump of blow, I kinda just froze and then the guy yelled at me. Then I got yelled at more for not getting the noodles fast enough. Quit that job and got into IT as soon as I could.
I learned to lucid dream as a teenager - it was incredible for resolving internal conflict and doing emotional work (everything in a dream is a reflection of the mind). Since then I’ve used it to solve both rock climbing problems and software problems. The basis of lucid dreaming is dream recall and a healthy skepticism about the permanence or validity of “reality.” It sounds like a difficult skill to develop but anyone who tries makes surprisingly quick progress, with quick gains in dream recall.

For resources I recommend Andrew Holocek’s books (amazing, drawing upon Tibetan Buddhist techniques) plus the app I made for lucid dreaming shapedream.co (I’ll happily give anyone free access to its tools and guides - just write me).
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EVs have plenty of mechanical parts that are not brakes and wheels. It will need servicing, just of a different sort.
Ok, let's say he's 100% right. Now what? He's scared a bunch of people without even the smallest bit of a solution. What do we do? Grab a bunch of freeze dried food, get a rifle, find the nearest cave and wait. For what?

This is useless info. Well, maybe the start of an interesting dystrophic book or movie.
I loved SourceTree but abandoned it as soon as Atlassian made it impossible to use offline. I don't want an Atlassian or bitbucket or whatever the fuck account. Sublime Merge is pretty good IMO, but not good enough I'd want to pay for it.
where in the alps?
> the mashed-potato controversy

I don't know what that is but it seems like something I would very much like to learn more about.
The MTR was designed 100 years after the first subsurface lines in London; you'd expect them to have avoided at least some of the mistakes. Also, they don't have to worry about funding by holding a property development monopoly around their stations, amongst other factors.

Give them a train network that's almost as old as London's to run (example: Melbourne), and they are just as bad as any other operator.
It’s let’s me buy stuff in fiat cash only establishments.
There are very similar devices - track lubricators - used for decreasing friction (to prevent wheel wear) when a train goes around a curve:

https://www.llalco.com/en/industrial-sector/track-lubricator...
Another way to think about this is that people who are cost conscious cannot adjust their schedules to save money. They're forced to pay rates rates that aren't just daily average rates, they're averages weighted based on when customers without price signal incentives would like to use energy. If you want to help the old lady down the street, removing this cost signal has to be one of the most expensive ways possible.
It's a lot less dangerous than you'd think since you can salvage a lot of mistakes by digging into the reflog.
Practical?

Navigating the wave of AWS/Heroku etc replacements.

Fly.io, Netlify, etc
Computing is baked into the design of almost everything because it was so good at driving down component counts and increasing reliability. It's ironic that the very devices that drove this change are now themselves the failure point.

I worry that this collapse will find its way into machine tools, the basis of all industry. If inserts (cutting tools used for almost everything) were to suffer a similar shortage, a lot of well tuned industrial processes would have to go through all the pain of startup again, instead of just being able to crank out more of the same parts every 6 months when a few more were needed.

This is a very analogous situation we now find ourselves in, in the electronics world. You can't just use a new chip without going through all the teething pains, the months of frustration as you keep finding new corner cases. There are very good reasons for conservative views in the machining and electronics worlds. The accountants who outsourced everything tore down Chesterton's fence... and it turned out to be holding up the world.
Some notes:

1. While there is tension, the consequences of a hot conflict between such economically intertwined behemoths will make Russia/Ukraine conflict seem like knocking over wood blocks in the playground. Neither country is willing to gut their standard of living (at the moment).

2. If you interpret this as a dig at blockchain tech, it makes some sense. But there have absolutely been leaps and bounds made elsewhere. Renewables and medical treatments just to name a couple.

3. Pretty much unchanged since the Cold War, except much more openly hostile and desperate to keep its dwindling sphere of influence now.

5. Well, there is still 75+ years to go, so this may very well happen in a few decades.

6. Crime and terrorism? No. Corporate grift and hostility towards customers who can't defend themselves. Squeezing both workers and customers towards unrealistic short term goals. General diminishment of trust.

7. Fairly wrong, but the effects of microplastics could be just as negative

8. Fairly wrong again, shift to renewables is humming along.

9. COVID was controlled fairly well, despite massive media outcries about forced lockdowns and masks and whatever else.

10. Too vague to be a useful prediction.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0vBmiTr6o
I’ll add here that my mother also received a call from AOL.
So Ive been told.

And yet the Dr gives them out in exactly the same circumstances as I would if I could. Perhaps more liberally, since Im far more concerned about the consequences to my kids of destroying their gut flora.
Supabase
TBH if you cannot or don’t want to live on the east or west coast in the US, should you stay in the US? as a european i have asked myself this question many times. anywhere else in the US and you do not have the locality/availability of services as it exists in europe.
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That graph doesn’t really prove anything, though, because interest rates and housing prices are already correlated through economic growth: fed raises rates when economies are hot, and lowers them when they’re not. Also house prices go up when economies are hot, and don’t as much when they’re not.

The most recent lull in prices correlated with a lull in rates, which kind of goes against your overall point of higher rates pushing prices down because the cost of capital increases? But maybe I’m misunderstanding your point.
Black currant seed oil (contains GLA) in a capsule also helps me with allergies.
I know this forum is chock full of Tesla drivers, but cars are the ultimate blight on the planet. Electric cars aren't good for the environment, especially when supporting them with highways, charging stations, maintenance etc. I can't help but think what would happen if every public dollar spent on EV infrastructure was spent on reducing car dependence instead. Every dollar put towards cars is like technical debt but for infrastructure. It's immature.

$100M in buses and dense housing would be so much better. You'd think a state like Oregon would be able to figure this one out too.

I've always seen this as an opportunity to fix the problem that is cars.
Canada does this. Tim Hortons can't find workers so the government lets them recruit Filipinos as indentured servants.
The ribbon interface is more than just buttons on a toolbar. It adds discoverability to many features I didn’t even know existed and I’ve used Word since Office 95. I find the differing visual layout to be a lot easier to read than a lot of similarly sized buttons.

Any place where people work will end up having signs. I’ve seen Word (and Google docs) used to make simple text signs and more complex ones using clip art. What I don’t see is a lot of signs being made. Not nearly enough to justify learning Inkscape.
Ha! This is the fun thing about HN. Thank you for ox-hugo; it’s the only thing that’s worked for me at all to enable blogging even rarely (my habits are a total mess)
Obviously the mice are hyper intelligent beings tricking us into finding their immortality.
THS is very matured but Honda switches their hybrid technology a few times so not like Toyota.
go to a big city in france and walk around the wrong neighbourhood and experience the crime problems that have started to plague major european cities over the past 20 years.
This guy/gal is writing sensationalist propaganda. Spectacular collapses of systems are rare, which is why it's noteworthy when they happen. Rather, systems transform. Even his/her example of the Roman Empire wasn't a true collapse but rather a transformation: most of medieval Europe's institutions were continuation of Roman institutions.
The premise of the law is safety, or at least it was when it was enacted generations ago. It’s function is as a jobs program though.
I have a Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid. For my use case it is absolutely perfect. It gets about 30 miles of range on a charge which is more than enough for dropping the kids off at school and running errands around town. The battery charges just fine overnight from a regular 120V outlet so there’s no need to upgrade the power in the garage. And the occasional road trip is super easy.
I can’t figure out whether Medium is bad at providing navigation for long-running content, the author is bad at providing metadata to support whatever Medium can do with it, or I’m bad at finding the necessary UI bits, but it turns out the last several entries are also the author’s most recent posts, so you can see the full series here:

https://medium.com/@mario.arias.c
How did the researchers make sure that the participants were recalling the dreams they actually had? I understand the brain scan activity, but how could they tell that the actual subjective experience of the dreams was being accurately remembered?
Genuine question: is the use of “meterage” the common/standard way to refer to the total distance a car has traveled (as we would use “mileage” in the US)?
According to my Google Research Google Workspace has 19.2% marketshare and Office 365 65%.
I used to use org-mode for things like notes/documentation, but when I tried to incorporate it into anything collaborative it didn't go so great.

Support outside of emacs is limited, so when you don't get any of your fancy TODO features or inline code, etc, you may as well just use Markdown from the get go.
Another great coding game https://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/

I spent 2 hours beating all 20 levels in one sitting.
If we expect electric cars to replace all gas powered cars, finally every parking for apartment must have slow charger, isn't it? I think this is easier, cheaper, efficient, and useful way than having supercharger everywhere. Supercharger at highway must be encouraged for long trip.
What? The nuclear buildout in the US that started in the 1960s collapsed in the 1970s. The oil shock and energy crisis led to changes, like reduction in growth in electricity demand and widespread introduction of cogeneration (due to PURPA) that ruined the market for nuclear power plants here. It didn't help that the costs in that first buildout had been way over what was promised.
This was my experience too. Although it’s been 5+ years since I actively tried to lucid dream, I still have nearly the same level of dream recall and average 1-2 accidental lucid dreams per month.

The app looks wonderful! It might be the perfect excuse for me to get back into it. I’d love to maybe discuss some of your recommended reads—I’ll drop you a note.
I’ve always theorized that dreams, or at least the interpretation of them, are primarily emotional states that our minds attempt to backfill with logic or narrative structure upon awakening. Even when attempting to remember the details they seem to slip away and transmutate. However the general “sense” or feeling remains.
It’s an irregular verb.
We were lucky SARS-CoV-1 was not as contagious as SARS-CoV-2.
What if I want to install a bigger battery or take the motor out and put it in a boat?
There is no rush in analysis. I've had dreams that finally made sense years after the fact.
As a non-mathematician working in finance w access to illiquid alternative returns (VC $s), I had some smarter mathematician interns look at power laws in the 2000s. We could find them everywhere - but at the time we interpreted it as our inability to use the appropriate methods. If our methods were right, we didn’t have a way to explain how such findings were relevant. My interpretation then was that the finding of PLs was an indicator of randomness.
Ask HN: How do I re-learn modern Java?
Hi,

I have done Java almost 7 years ago. Meanwhile, I have been doing lot C++, Python and NodeJS. Now I have moved to a new company where we have decided to do Spring boot App and use Java 8+. It definitely has lot features.

It definitely feels like a new language to me and I need to get myself more familiar to new Java.

Can you suggest me books, courses or blogs I can look into.

Thanks,