skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have sent a couple emails to MBC but it was in vain.
like any other normal word

But they're not normal words. They're expletives. If they have their own category, they're not "normal words."

iOS doesn't know a lot of the medical words I use for work, either. But I don't moan about it on social media.
Forward looking in the sense of the organization predicting well what will allow it to continue to thrive.
Landfills are a very effective solution for disposing of stuff when they can't otherwise be economically reused or recycled. As long as food waste stays out, landfills are quite inert. They should have clay lining to prevent waste seeping into the ecosystem.
Nobody cares about carbon footprint bro
Add contacts with curse words as their name.
Yeah, I saw that as well, and I was immediately struck by how reasonable and responsible that seemed.

Not ideal if you're a Linux distribution trying to figure out which fork to pick up, but ideal if you're an upstream maintainer trying to find someone responsible.
Connection reuse is good but when lambda env is killed, the connections become inactive and still lying around, the db connections aren't killed.

We are looking to build a serverless tool and trying to understand if the market ready enough to finally move.

Basically database compatibility with existing databases still seems like a big question :
- Dynamodb's single table design has it's learning curve & hardly any availability of full text search, and much more complex stuff.
- mongodb proxies are uncommon, and there is no pre build solution. ( even mongodb.com’s mongodb serverless and data api seems more like an incomplete products)
- Rds proxy only available for database on aws.

These are all concern, the existing app’s data in real world is sitting in databases on different cloud services be it mongodb, or sqls on GCP, Azure, DO or Aws. And without changing that database layer using serverless become really difficult and migration and change is difficult, nobody wants to do that if not must, so it feels dbs are not ready still in 2022. What’s your opinion on this?
Great advice here on dentist selection. But there’s also a takeaway if you ever want to buy a business. It’s way easier to find issues before you buy than after.

I don’t think this acquiring dentist asked some basic questions before buying.

“How much was your revenue last year?”

“$900k”

“How many patients did you see last year?”

“1000”

“ok that’s $900 avg per patient. You charge $50 per cleaning, twice a year…holy shit”
I used to use SSHFS to have access to remote files in the OS file browser. But I moved onto WebDAV (via lighttpd) because I like managing the auth outside of PAM and also OS file browsers (including Win/Mac) have good support for it
1000% - his channel is a treasure trove of random synthesizer, music and general retro tech.

A nice song he made about the folks who said he wouldn't be able to get the church organ up and running again - https://youtube.com/shorts/XGL3rskcQD0
You mount the remote file system as a volume and traverse it as part of the local file system. Super convenient for comparing contents of a local folder to a remote in the command line, using local tools on the remote FS, batch copying both ways, all that good stuff.

The hung file systems can be a buttpain, enough that I wrote a Bash script that calls `mount` to get the hung FS IDs and `umount` them with the results. After that easy peasy.
Thank you! I haven't seen this before, but it looks interesting.
There are other categories where they do recommend IKEA as the top option despite not getting a commission
LOL! I have worked for a large, well funded, private non-profit university with many millions in its endowment funds. They are probably one of the biggest cheapskates I've even worked for when it comes to IT spend. If it doesn't bring in grant money or student money, it is not supported. They'll spend millions on research computing, but balk at buying anything but the cheapest "ergonomic" chairs for the open plan offices that they cram IT staff into. (Professors and academic staff get offices, IT staff don't even get cubes.)

They might pay for uncensored video hosting and exposure an "edu only" site, but they wouldn't want the expense of hosting their own. The value add would be a content nexus for academic and "open university" lectures that could possibly be monetized by a per view/per topic fee from the users.
Their humidifier recommendations have similar problems. If you want a humidifier, I recommend checking out Technology Connections on YouTube.

For anything else, Consumer Reports. They don't accept advertising or commissions.
Q: But why the obsession with recognizing it automatically?

A: "500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute worldwide." https://www.oberlo.com/blog/youtube-statistics A bit of arithmetic gives 30000 days of video uploaded to YouTube per day. Manually reviewing all that content would require an army of people.
There is no automatic recurring payment, its 5€ per month, you can pay it in one go for a specific period, or monthly manually.
For the Brave for the Proud
Naps Can Jump-Start Your Creativity
TikTok is not really a direct competitor to Facebook. I'm trapped on Facebook because that is were a lot of my friends and family are, and FB Messenger is the only real way I have to talk to a lot of them. TikTok really only competes with a small part of Facebook's business (Instagram). Apple does not enjoy that kind of vendor lock-in.

The impetus to move to competitor when you are unhappy is also a lot stronger when staying with your current provider costs you money.
they refer to the IKEA purifier as using a “PM2.5 filter”

Take a European brand. Add some mysterious spec numbers to the name, and turn a milquetoast product into something cool or respectable.

My favorite: the "Merkur XR4Ti" which was basically a Ford Sierra hatchback (family car) with a vaguely sporty look and slightly higher performance engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkur_XR4Ti
I don't think FOSS protects you from political activism.

Here's what comes up on my (Fedora, obviously) machine when I run VIM with no filename specified:

VIM - Vi IMproved

version 8.2.5052
by Bram Moolenaar et al.
Modified by <bugzilla@redhat.com>
Vim is open source and freely distributable

Help poor children in Uganda!
type :help iccf<Enter> for information

type :q<Enter> to exit
type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help
type :help version8<Enter> for version info

According to their git history, VIM has carried uganda.txt since at least 2004.

No technical measures exist to stop you from removing this call for donations, but it's more work to patch it out then it is to just ignore it. This makes FOSS software a pretty good vehicle for political activism. Not just the fact that organizing a hostile fork to remove a message like this one is too much trouble and makes you look like a jerk, but also because political activism is a good way to motivate people to write and release software for free in the first place, making up for how difficult it is to really monetize FOSS software.
This reminds me of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470 which has quite on-point comments roasting D Curtis.
I wish sshfs worked for me and hope it gets attention for someone knowledgeable. The primary issue I had was when resuming my laptop is that it would freeze the system waiting to reconnect.
> surgery to avoid the risk of developing a cavity because I might not know how to brush teeth that I have had for 15 years and never had a cavity on

That's not because you don't know how to brush teeth, it's because it is physically hard to reach them. Sometimes even impossible, because part of tooth is hidden beneath gum.
Particle sizes visualized, note PM2.5 vs PM10

https://i.imgur.com/dU990L8.jpg
The huge disadvantage is many people dying because, in the long process of vetting a new chemical or drug, it was not available for use.
> London doesn't have as easy access to the EU financial system

London is the EU financial system (as much as it hates that)
It's raining. The reason you're not more well off is that due to cultural and technological progressions you are overall less valuable to other human beings in general than a smaller group of human beings 80 year ago. This is not a deliberate scheme to disenfranchise you or others. Trying to compare the modern economy with the economy of the late 1960's is childishly naive.
icloud and also fastmail do this for you
I have an archiving/notes/forum tool I’ve been working on to try to solve this, noticed this problem a long time ago. I’ve gone through a couple iterations I’ve just tested on myself, intend to release it for wider testing/feedback in the near future.

The goal is to make it as low friction as possible to share, link, and edit text snippets and raw files in a big graph. It’s similar to obsidian but I’m focusing more on mobile and creating something that allows for interrelated knowledge graphs.
Fine, here you go, with the line breaks

;; one sentence per line

(defun wrap-at-sentences ()

"Fills the current paragraph, but starts each sentence on a new line."

(interactive)

(save-excursion

;; Select the entire paragraph.

(mark-paragraph)

;; Move to the start of the paragraph.

(goto-char (region-beginning))

;; Record the location of the end of the paragraph.

(setq end-of-paragraph (region-end))

;; Wrap lines with 'hard' newlines (i.e., real line breaks).

(let ((use-hard-newlines 't))

;; Loop over each sentence in the paragraph.

(while (< (point) end-of-paragraph)

;; Determine the region spanned by the sentence.

(setq start-of-sentence (point))

(forward-sentence)

;; Wrap the sentence with hard newlines.

(fill-region start-of-sentence (point))

;; Delete the whitespace following the period, if any.

(while (char-equal (char-syntax (preceding-char)) ?\s)

(delete-char -1))

;; Insert a newline before the next sentence.

(insert "\n")))))

(global-set-key (kbd "M-j") 'wrap-at-sentences)
By what metric? Aren't they pretty deficient in nutrition? Like you'd need to eat several kilos to get 2000 calories.
This is the 3rd person from my teenage irc days who has gotten v& for something stupid. Paige was a bit unhinged so it's not surprising. Some day I'll dig up my old hard drive with chat logs for entertainment.
There might be better air purifiers, but the recommended Coway purifier is really good. I've had one for 5 years, still working as well as the day I bought it. I also have a 3x more expensive high-end Alen unit, but it's not nearly as effective or quiet as the simple Coway. The filters are way more expensive too.
This has been coming for a number of years now, but the maintainer was just active enough that nobody seemed to care about their wishes to hand over the software. Hopefully this will lead to someone actually taking over now.
The only real masked card I can think of would be a gift card paid for in cash. Tedious as it is, that seems like the only way to use a debit card privately, and I think some of those are rejected by online pay platforms.
There's no use for asbestos in residential without a safer substitute.
Since we talk about CLOS (and HyperSpec, which is based on the last draft before the standard), I assume that we talk about Common Lisp. All conforming Common Lisp implementations have CLOS. To name a few which are used:

free: ABCL, CLISP, CCL, CMUCL, ECL, SBCL;
commercial: AllegroCL, LispWorks. There are more.

I've made a diagram a few years back that shows the family with ancestors and sub-branches including these that are not complaint: https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/static/quarterly/img/vol4/all-hi...

Common Lisp strength is its standard; many programs developed on one implementation will work on another one. And standard includes CLOS.

As far as I know, scheme had a bit of problems with that the standard was too small, and there were numerous implementations of the same functionality that were different; the issue with fragmentation was also problematic in pre-common lisp times - that was one of reasons why there was a grant to create the standard - to unify numerous implementations.
Like generic drugs theres no money in practically free, recycled or dual use.
Just use cerr for debugging. It is not buffered so it always outuputs, even in unexpected crashes.
Used sshfs a lot at a previous workplace that had us do all development on a remote (very out of date) Debian box as there was no way of running the codebase locally. Don't even ask.

Great tool though, Sublime Text worked great alongside it and allowed me to be somewhat productive.
My middle school in 1998[1] still taught typing. The typing classroom was equipped with a couple dozen Selectrics. Their combined use summed to cacophonous chorus. There were a few Apple iMac G3s placed along the periphery that the best students could use. It was, in retrospect, a profoundly transitional era in typing.

1. CA, central valley
The business of "selling you things" as many and often as possible is a danger to the environment and future generations. There is 155 thousand tonnes per year of e-waste generated in the UK alone (source Gaurdian). The current situation is not sustainable. Apple are also masters of vendor lock-in, making it very difficult for people and businesses to leave the ecosystem.
Yeah, last thing I look forward to doing while on vacation is washing my own underwear in a bathroom sink. Just bring the extra pairs--they weigh nothing.
Serious question: why people obsess over Volkswagen? Other companies are even worst offenders. See chart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
Yeah, they don't take you seriously if you wonder why you might be getting spam at obvious@domain.com
Internet Archive – The Vintage Software Collection
A little further into the article, it explains why this doesn't make any difference.
High quality public infrastructure is a force multiplier IMO. It's hard to get and a long term investment. But the payoff is huge.

Another good example would be South Korea. The state invested massively in digital/communications/internet infrastructure fairly early on. The results speak for themselves.

Surely large infrastructure projects hinge on execution as well. You need solid processes and engineering competence. But it's generally something that is not solved though competition, but through collaboration and long-term thinking. In the "planting the trees for the next generation" kind of way.
I think that comic misses the point though. It mistakes "a thing that is in some superficial respects the same" for "a thing is in every externally observable respect the same".

So far as we know, consciousness does not exist as a physical thing. The behavior of a human is completely derivable, in principle, from natural law.

There is no physical test or manifestation of awareness.

So arguments about what can or can not be conscious have the same flavor as arguments aswhether there is or is not a God. It's unproveable!

Yet unlike God, most people do not deny the existence of consciousness, because of direct personal experience.

Consciousness is the "unproveable yet true" statement in the theoretical system that is the physical universe. Probably it haunts any physical system complex enough to host it.
"Fuck" is not a custom word. It was first attested in 772 AD.

It's no way to treat adults.
A (better?) alternative to sshfs is Syncthing, which works somewhat like a self-hosted Dropbox; it automatically synchronizes a subtree between computers. I've used it for years, with no problems at all. Maybe it won't handle concurrent edits to the same file well, but that's not something I do.

Meanwhile, the hung mount problem in sshfs can be more or less fixed by giving it the right mount options; perhaps something along the lines of https://github.com/Baughn/machine-config/blob/041e2151dffd8e... will be helpful. Unfortunately these aren't the default.
I was full stack 20 years ago and didn't even notice it. It was called being a senior sysadmin. Now if you were to ask me to code review someones js, come up with an EOL migration strategy for kubernetes clusters, optimize a solution
using openmp and write up infra in terraform I would call it a normal couple of days. Not much has changed - except I bitch more and take a longer time to do things.
This is a nice feature and paying for it is a perfectly sane thing to do if you need the utility. It's not exactly privacy, though.
Ask HN: Whitepapers behind a form – Good idea or Bad? Best options?
I've always been curious about the effectiveness of putting a company's technical and marketing whitepapers behind a form collecting name/email/phone no.

On one hand it makes sense, that the company collects information, leads, that their sales team can follow-up on.

On the other hand, there is a friction and I'm assuming several people drop off who may have otherwise just clicked on the link to get the whitepaper.

Additionally, and I don't have data, some people might be putting just fake info to download the material.

We see several examples of people posting direct links here on HN itself.

So, the question: has anyone done any research on what is an effective strategy? I believe there are a few options:

- Document behind a form

- Document behind a form, with a direct download link also provided to reduce friction

- Document link shared freely

- Document link shared freely, with an optional form if they'd like to be contacted out by the sales team.

- other?

Are there any good examples of best practices that companies have followed that people here on HN generally like?
OSSummit North America is going to be weird – and I can’t wait
We changed the URL from https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/commit/c91eb9a9a992f1a36c49..., which is hard to follow, to the project page which seems to say the same thing.
I don‘t think it‘s about work for most.

I think they are people with special social needs like meeting colleagues in the office. For smalltalk, eating together and exchanging weekend stories. All nightmares to me.
This is an actual and not news-of-the-day topical Liberal, "gotcha." America's wealth is in Her moms! Great comment. God bless Peggy Seeger & Family!
Ironically it seems he may have only read the beginning of the article and skimmed past the rest.
I wish it would but this is just not what I observe here, I have to flush explicitly to get things to show on the console
> PyGame is very basic- just a graphics library with some wrappers

I remember using it to interface with a game pad (xbox controller) too. The first two things I wrote in python were complete by small games (e.g. tetris clone with accurate rules, and an entry for Ludum Dare) and it had everything I needed.
Stop using predictive text, you get more screen to read and it's just always going to affect your speech somehow.
Maybe that it only works on Mac?
Ask HN: As a developer, what is cyber security?
I have been writing code and made products for a couple of centuries now. I am by no means a security guy and consider myself a novice in things that lie outside of the best practices, e.g: cross-site attacks, TLS everywhere, no password in configs, no clear text creds etc.

But what am I missing ?

What are the top 10 things you do when you want to feel safe, when developing products and code.

Do you lock the server into a vault and disconnect it from the power?

Please share

Every time I see
Everyone keeps saying group. I've never had trouble sending group texts. Both my kids have had their whole classes in a group text for a year. SMS is the one and only "open" messaging platform left so your experience will depend on if you're using iMessage or Samsung or VZ or whatever other ones are out there. But as far as I can tell they're all perfectly fine and nearly indistinguishable.
> grew to a community of over 300 million people

Was this while still under Google's control? Is one not able to count that low?
Right, but without free will you didn't choose those words and I have no choice how I react to them. It's all just playing out the way a plinko ball finds a route to the bottom.
The Rust part of this isn't that hard. cargo bundler already has a place where the .msi output generator is supposed to go. The reading of the cargo.toml file and the writing in .msi format is already written. It's just generating the Microsoft-specific content for the .msi file that's hard. That takes Microsoft platform expertise.
It’s the day that it was announced to have ended in Texas.

Slavery was still practiced in Kentucky and Delaware until the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
Yes. Especially since covid.

This was just the first link that came up, but there was state-level funding going back to 2021 at least for this in some places.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-covid-funding-could-...
Note that Ikea also sells a more powerful air filter called the Starkvind. This one is able to detect the air quality and automatically turn itself on.

It is sold either as a standalone device or integrated into a nightstand / small coffee table:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/starkvind-table-with-air-purifi...
I wasn't aware they did this. Any chance you have an example of this?
Conspiracy no. But I don't like where the world is headed. Investors are demanding ever more markup on products and services. Nobody is happy with a 10% markup anymore in electronics. There seems to be a constant flow of money to the ultra-rich away from the poorer people, and this is something that has been constantly going on for the last decades. Because the squeeze is finally starting to hit the mainstream of the richer countries. Even the US is starting to see instability from this.

I think part of this is the free market which only really works on "MORE". More turnover, more customers, more products YoY. If you make a loss or invest in something for the common good a company isn't just frowned upon, they are putting themselves at liability of due diligence lawsuits. Most of the societal and environmental problems we are seeing stem from this, in my opinion. We need to fix the system before it's too late, not pamper to it.

I don't think there is a dark "SPECTRE" style gathering going on at Davos, no. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. However I do see there is zero incentive to improving the status quo if it doesn't make some rich people much richer yet again. This is why I see the WEF as a 'bad' entity, for promoting such things which are clearly undesirable. It's a very one-sided image.

For me as a tinkerer and maker the idea of renting my stuff and not being allowed to improve or repair it, is absolutely unthinkable and something that must be fought tooth and nail.
"Works" is a bit optimistic.
I don't think your "let the markets handle it" solution will work (at least, it hasn't worked for the past 20 years, has it?). America screwed up. We let a duopoly control our technology, and there's no point in defending these powers like Apple, Facebook and Google who repeatedly attempt to undermine our sovereignty and privacy. As much as I'd love for everyone on this earth to use Nextcloud and Linux, we both know that's not a reasonable expectation.

Everyone knows it, there's bipartisan support behind Big Tech regulation right now in America. Regulation is inevitable, the real question is how long we have until the lobbying money runs out...
Wait, does it actually say "Pretzel" somewere, or did you both misspell it?

"przelewy" means "wire transfers" in Polish: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/przelew Nothing to do with pretzels. :)
Perhaps "leetcode isn't programming" is hyperbolic, and philosophically arguable, but what's 100% clear is leetcode uses a different skillset from real-world programming, and if you want to get better at one, doing the other won't help.