skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took this as a reminder to finally set up Thunderbird for my work email.

After figuring out that gmail login will only work with cookies being enabled in the setting I am super happy to finally have a sane folder & filtering interface. I'll probably stick with google's UI for the agendas for now, but overall this is being really smooth.

Ironically, the search in thunderbird, while not perfect, is so much better than on gmail, where I often have trouble finding emails from half an hour ago, searching for the exact subject line.

EDIT: and spam filtering! It's amazing how many really important emails gmail flagged as spam for me. Like, mails coming from colleagues on the same custom domain, as replies to emails I sent them. I really don't get why people use google's products, honestly. At this point it's just pure monopoly I guess, and increasingly network effects since the big providers don't play well with smaller ones.
Well, if one sees a crime being committed against an elderly person, it is kind of an recognized social duty to intercede, though really there seems to be no good practical way of doing so in the case like this.

And some level of stupidity, either natural or appearing with age, qualifies people to lose their right to be stupid, ie. conservatorship. Unfortunately it is a very heavy legal process of a sledgehammer when i think in many cases it should be a surgeon knife.
It's a joke. They mean they have experience in dealing with shit Turks have to deal all the time having to live in a Turkish society. The implication is that the experience that is naturally gained just by being in such society is intangible and is worth something. TBH, the joke is narcissist and it sucks.
"Republicans failed to deliver abortion bans for 50 years. "

Indeed but pro-life voters voted for the GOP with their nose pinched, mostly aghast (their perspective) at the alternative (the Dems have long moved away from "safe, available and rare").

Anyway, gun control is far less popular than overturning Roe. At least until you slice "Roe" up (partial birth, first, second, third trimester). Gun control will have to happen through the administrative state
I agree that it would be nice to cache a command's output, so we can iterate processes on it. I'm a heavy user of Emacs, which is based around "buffers", so should naturally support such a workflow; yet in the decade I've been using it, such a workflow hasn't really occurred to me.

Emacs makes it easy to run commands, e.g. with M-&; the output goes into a buffer called `Async Shell Command`. Unfortunately, that buffer gets replaced each time we run a command. It's common to override this behaviour (as I do), so a new buffer gets spawned each time, which gets a bit closer to that workflow. Still, I've never really used this to chain commands together; this post has inspired me to try that a bit more :)
> But if the kids have already learned to speak another language, they will hate this approach.

The way to fix this is to find them things that only exist in that language and not in English. It could be other family members, friends, TV, music, time abroad, etc.

Kids, like adults, need motivation as the primary factor that determines success learning a language.
And you think there is a power vacuum there? Try build there and see for how long no-one bothers you.
Doubtful. PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 over DDR5 is a huge cost increase, a huge latency increase, and only a minor bandwidth increase (about double after accounting for protocol overhead.) At that point, you might as well widen your memory bus and use 2 DRAMs. The memory controller doesn't get much more complicated because both chips share a CA bus, and the DRAMs are cheaper. I don't work for a DRAM vendor, but I would imagine that the front end logic in the DRAM (the DDR controller inside the DRAM) uses way less than half the die area that a PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 EP would use.
> You really need this plumber right now? The plumber suddenly ignores you. They know they can let you work for it, you are the one in need.

Plumbers have an even better way of dealing with this. If you really, absolutely need them right now, they provide an emergency service - but you have to pay $250 extra. Turns out that $250 cost filters out most people who decide their dripping tap doesn't actually need following up after all. Plumbers often have a secretary / screener handle their incoming calls.

Maybe instead of repeated "follow up" emails, actually hiring someone and paying the consulting fee for their time is more likely to get through. Time is valuable, and most of these "follow up" emails are from people who do not respect or value your time. It's even part of default spam scripts: "Following Up On My Email From Last Week" is the subject line of a Chinese quadcopter spam email that went direct to my spam folder today.
You can land space shuttles anywhere with a good enough and long enough runway that's at the right angle. I think how many would be usable would depend on the mission, but with good pilots there would almost certainly be at least three.
I would've thought retention grants were based on a total dollar figure rather than share price. That's how its worked for me at my current employer (now 8 years)
What’s the general attitude towards the homeless in SF? Is there a real desire to solve the situation (ie provide facilities for day-to-day needs of the homeless, health care and rehabilitation for anyone who needs it, and a path to getting accommodation), or do people want the police to shoo them from wherever they happen to be every now and then?
This sort of thing has happened on English Wikipedia as well. Remember the Bicholim conflict?

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/wikipedia-bicholim-conflict...

Or the Amelia Bedelia hoax?

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/amelia-bedelia-wikipedia-ho...

More here:

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday...
Reindeer Have a Special Eye Color Just for Winter
Shouldn't a down-hill escalator be able to generate electricity?
50 Shades of Grey was Twilight fanfic with the 'serial numbers filed off'. I don't think Twilight itself has fanfic in its origin.
No hi-fi is an island entire of itself
My power is...MAXIMUMUS!
Why doesn't London Underground use either slowed or stopped escalators when there are no passengers?

I noticed in Berlin, escalators without people often run very slowly. They speed up as soon as someone steps on.

In Copenhagen, they stop. This is presumably more efficient, but it's easier to assume the escalator is broken, and a bit disorientating.
"Not all of those people consent to the gun's presence."

No, of course not. But most do.

Anyway, to my original post, a criminal entering a household has about an even chance to burgling an armed home. It varies regionally, so in Kennesaw the chance is nearly 100%, in Chicago it's nearly 0% (legally owned anyway).
The Great Silicon Valley Shakeout
Related - Alex Lochmann's LockDoc (EuroSys 2019) to document locking patterns and find locking-rule violations in the Linux kernel:
https://ess.cs.tu-dortmund.de/Staff/al/Publications/files/eu...

and its application to FreeBSD: https://dl.gi.de/bitstream/handle/20.500.12116/37389/Paper04...
At this point so many different people have reused "YOLOv{n}" that the lineage is broken. I don't know how or why it happened, but it continues to be a thing.
Wikipedia says a Pteranodon[0] might have weighed up to 200kg. I wonder if the different mix of gases in the atmosphere during the Cretaceous period made any difference to how much weight could be supported while flying.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon
"What constitutes hate speech to one segment of the population is righteous argumentation to another."

"All deeply controversial speech is by definition offensive to someone or some group. And while you might relish the thought of your obviously correct viewpoint holding sway and the silencing of their obvious lies, if they are in power, it’ll be you who is muzzled (or worse)."

"Free speech is not free. It comes with a cost, and that cost is allowing speech that is heinous, foul, false, repugnant, and immoral. It is a very steep and painful price to pay, but one far preferable to a lack of free speech, which may serve you and yours if you and yours are in charge, but most certainly won’t if others are."

"We must never insist that we maintain an air-tight monopoly on truth. We must always be open to being wrong. We must always be open to new evidence. New insights. New arguments. Silenced or condemned viewpoints may, sometimes, actually be correct. Suppressed speech may, sometimes, still hold a kernel of truth. And even when our enemies’ speech is irrefutably incorrect, it can still be useful, for simply by engaging with it, we can sharpen our own opinion, better defend truth in the face of challenges, muster even stronger evidence to bolster our position, and not grow lazy, knee-jerk, or dogmatic in our views."

"Free speech is the most fundamental right of a civilized society. In a sense, it is the right upon which all other rights depend, because free and unrestricted speech is the only way any society can hope to notice and correct its mistakes so that it can make moral progress. The moment we ban the expression of any idea, even if we do it with the best intentions in the world, we’ve set foot upon a fatally slippery slope. To do this is to say that there are policies that may no longer be questioned, aspects of society that may no longer be discussed – and down that path lie dogmatism, tyranny, and all the black and terrible evils that come with them. Once an idea is banned because it is too noxious, too radical, too subversive – and once people become used to this – then the line inevitably moves, and the next most radical idea becomes the new target. The only way to stop this process is to cut it off at the root – to declare that we will never countenance the banning of any idea, no matter how strongly we disagree with it."
https://codeberg.org/ (git hosting for free and open source software) uses Woodpecker for its CI. It works quite well.
I think you got this backwards. Firefox has 362 million users [0], while the uBlock Origin addon has 5,438,169 users [1], which is 1.5% of all users. If you use Firefox addons at all you're probably in a tiny minority of its users.

https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-firefox/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
> The exchange support for Evolution never worked well for me.

it has been working beautifully for me in the past 6-7 years

including calendar and contacts

> the manufacturer doesn't bother to write Linux support or sufficient documentation for

you mean documentation, like this?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/w...

Microsoft has many flaws, but not writing documentation it's not usually one of them.
The Francoist regime was generally much more oppressive towards internal opposition groups than modern Russia. And as fucked up as the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the number of civilian casualties there is unlikely to ever reach the number of people the Italians killed in Ethiopia (especially if we look at the proportion of total population). But I guess since they were the wrong skin color we can divide the number by 10 or so?
It's worth noting that sixthtone is a Chinese state-affiliated website. But the link to the community investigation on Chinese Wikipedia bears them out.
> that fact doesn’t seem to be popular.

No its because he question to concept of truth itself. Literally everybody knows history writing is manipulated for many reasons.

But in my observation, however in my view historiography is often far more complex then reflecting simply political desires.
> you can get a job that pays in the 85th-99th percentile

Being in 85th-99th is no longer attractive. Because of extreme level of taxation people who earn real money are not included in those statistics, as in they are not paid a salary.

In my country (UK) being in 85th-99th percentile, means you'll have okay-ish life. After years of saving you may be able to afford an old terraced house, second hand, couple of years old car. Oh and if you decide to have family and your spouse won't be working, then you are screwed.

These indicators are no longer what they used to be.
As the article itself says, "Ultimately Calhoun’s work functions like a Rorschach blot—people see what they want to see."

Even if mice and humans really were the same, the article also demonstrates that there are many different hypotheses that fit most of the observations, but all of them seem to be falsified by some of the observations.
Of course, however they are all framed as "LOL, look how stupid/naive politicians are" rather than "LOL look how stupid/naive our country was". "Chamberlain" is still used as a shorthand for a politician accepting a deal that no one believes will be upheld.
Why do you think that there isn’t any distinction between /w/ and /v/ in German? That’s simply not true …
>Now the "official" YOLO will release v6 and then what

I agree that it's disrespectful, although FYI the 'official' YOLO is done - the author, Joseph Redmon, has quit the field[1] because of the military and privacy concerns of CV.

1: https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280
Thank you. I guess that makes complete sense.

To me, giving your children a second language is an incredible gift. Setting the pathways in the brain that separate concepts from the written and spoken representation, the abstractions of different grammars, etc, is very valuable. And something that I have really valued as I grew older.

But I (superficially, of course) understand perhaps why you'd like curate their experience of something you took fairly extreme steps to escape. That might well be the greater gift.

Appreciate your perspective -- thanks for sharing.
Aftermath - The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster[1] is highly recommended and has a section on Zone Rouge.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Remnants-Landmines-Warfare-...
The obvious step would be not try to fly, would be improving hang gliders to be safer, catch better the wind currents or avoid obstacles proactively and have more autonomy. If the device suddenly fails, you still are in a hand glider.

Also engineering a motor that would flap like a colibri for hours without failing will be really hard and uncomfortable by the generated heat burning your back, but a motor that would flap here and there like a vulture for one or two minutes and then rest again would be much more easy to design and maintain. Would need also less weight of combustible.
The insane iteration speed and productivity that the JavaScript ecosystem enables for developers is often underestimated on HN. No-Bullshit package management which is enclosed in your working directory and won't interfere with your OS is just one example. It's really great as long as you vet your packages a bit. The fact that it also runs in the browser is really really great. It has enabled companies I worked at to quickly build tools and get non-technical staff use them in a simple way.
You started defining what a straw purchase was, your definition was completely wrong, and technothrasher explained your error.
> YMMV. I think today I probably would try to keep the database as vanilla as possible.

Sure, YMMV.

In any non trivial dataset a lot of fields are effectively computed. For example merged entries: in order to get correct and whole data, one needs to consult some merge mapping, which can be easy to forget and tricky to get right - you have more than one relational identifier. This is not strictly business logic, but rather data assembly logic.

Similarly, a value can easily be spread over multiple fields (and tables) and it is crucial from data integrity standpoint to always update them in tandem if applicable. Again, this is very easy to screw up in client code, because the hidden relationship can be non-obvious. On one hand this is business logic, on the other hand violating this implicit relationship will result in non-agreeing data. This occurs for example when data represents parallel states.

Effectively, stored code acts as some kind of gateway API stored concurrently with the data. Sure, some peculiarities can be implemented with functions and triggers, but IMO those are just different sides of the same coin. In the end really depends on the dataset and what it represents.

Database stored code is a tool. Used appropriately it solves problems, used inappropriately it causes problems. If I were to design a database today, I would too try and make do without stored code, but would not try to twist data model so that it fits the relational model of RDBMSes.
Would farting on a picture of the English monarch qualify as treason in 1798?
> Generally speaking genocides or ethnic cleaning is definitely not in Turkish culture

Go visit Batak or any other site of Ottoman atrocities and then try again. Brutal ethnic cleansing was very much an Ottoman thing throughout Ottoman history, and especially so in the last couple of centuries of decline. Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks, Armenians, etc. were brutally supressed and massacred many times.

> well, I'm not sure about this but, If I were Ataturk, I would probably build a secular Ottoman state like Ottoman v2

Honestly, in the post-WWI landscape, who would have wanted that? Peoples wanted their own nation state, nobody was interested in living in a multi-ethnic empire where they have no voice.

> they were the ones fought like a real men

At Gallipoli, and fought like real... What's a stupid aggressive animal doing stupid mistakes and getting itself killed in droves? That one. The Ottoman war effort was a(n almost) total failure. The sheer incompetence of the Ottoman high command and generals is only matched by other bright minds like von Hotzendorf.
There were pterosaurs much larger than humans.
> write a Dockerfile

I was sort-of agreeing with you until this point. In my experience "write a Dockerfile" usually means "run a bunch of fragile, non-deterministic nonsense, like `apt-get update && apt-get -y install`, `yum install`, `pip install`, `npm install`, etc.; often all at the same time!"

(AWS are a serial offender IMHO, e.g. their documentation recommends this sort of crap https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-create.h... https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-dat... etc.)
Really cool seeing so many others experience Meteor as their web dev "gateway" drug, and cool seeing that others also hit the same stumbling blocks as I did and (somewhat reluctantly) had to learn to distance from Meteor, almost as a crutch.

Thanksfully new tools like Supabase and Deta provide a somewhat similar developer experience to Meteor, but it hasn't been the same!
Thanks. This was very useful!
The way I see this is that the *BSDs simply don't have the staffing to do all the things, so they say a more explicit "no" more often.

And if you do fewer things, you can perfect those things.

Like look at the history of the big kernel lock in BSDs and Linux. Actually just look at SMP support. OpenBSD was actually very late to the SMP game, because they said "no" to these multiprocessor machines. It wasn't until consumer CPUs got multicore on a die that their hand was forced and it was no longer feasible to say "no".

Or Wayland (or really, any alternative to X). X is fundamentally broken for many reasons (security, screen tearing, input handling, …), but it seems that OpenBSD simply doesn't have the staffing to do this yet.

OpenBSD will say "no" to shitty drivers, or closed source drivers. You know what you get. That wifi card you want to use may just plain be a "no" from OpenBSD.

Do less, but do it right (or their opinion of "right").

Neither approach is right or wrong.
It might be interesting for rooftop solar where space is limited and installation costs make up a large part of the expense.
Mind is blown. I really had to check what was actually happening. The magic thing is that nothing is happening :-)
Wikipedia has an article on Magyaráb people.

They do not exist. First a Hungarian aristocrat was hoodwinked by some locals for money in Egypt in the 1930s, then a Hungarian student spending two semesters Cairo in the 1960s rewarmed the issue to prove his worth and successfully sold himself as an expert of all things Arabic in Hungary -- he never managed to get even a degree -- then finally in the nineties a far right weekly dug up the story for nationalistic purposes.

Finally an expedition was sent in 2006-2007 which have found with absolute surety these people do not exist. Their report is linked from wikipedia.

I tried to correct the article, I tried to delete the article, it was refused saying it's notorious enough to have an article on Wikipedia ... ... ... seriously?

Similarly, Hungarian prehistory on Wikipedia is completely outdated. Most of the "primary sources" it lists are completely unreliable, they were not even written with the intent of being reliable history wise (the The Annals of Fulda and The Annals of St-Bertin being remarkable exceptions). It notes "their reliability ... is suspect" ignoring Tamás Hölbling absolutely tearing them apart in 2010 in his two volume massive source criticism book. They are much closer to a comic book today than a historical book. It completely omits all the remarkable archaeogenetic findings since 2008. It completely ignores an absolutely groundbreaking symposium held in 1999 (they brought together researchers Indo-European and Uralic both archeological and linguistic, this was never done before), second edition can be found at https://www.sgr.fi/sust/SUST242.pdf . Overall, the Wikipedia article reflects the scientific consensus of the 1970s or so.

I tried to fix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Abdallah_Jayhani because Gayhani is incorrect, one spelling which could be used is Ğayhānī (eg https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/islm.1998.75....) it got reverted with "The other names in the lead are not supposed to have custom alphabets or whatever they're called." Whatever, eh? But hilariously enough, Wikipedia itself has an article on the romanization of Persian and you can check that article and see for yourself that "G" in itself is never used to transliterate a persian letter no matter which scheme you pick... but whatever!

I gave up on trying to fix Wikipedia.
It's actually not that bad to assume a crowd is a fluid. For example it allows you to deduce where the hotspots will be when there's a panic.
> The modern state of turkey otoh is the result of 3-5 genocides, not one.

Also the population exchanges, by 1923 over 10% of the Turkish population was Christian and most of them moved to Greece.

And if we’re talking about the USSR, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD seems awfully close to genocide

“In Leningrad, the NKVD reviewed local telephone books and arrested almost 7,000 citizens with Polish-sounding name with the vast majority of such nominal "suspects" were executed within 10 days of arrest”
> Lego was explicitly and deliberately pacifist in outlook

For my part, I remember (in addition to the SW kits) cavalry vs indians kits, full with sabers, rifles and pistol, which we often used with modern-day kits.
I'm amazed by how much burnout affects sleep for me.

I'm coming out of a very long period of deep burnout. My breaking point was getting to a point where my burnout caused insomnia, which caused a feedback loop with even more burnout and even more insomnia.

If I hadn't been on a visa I would have quit as soon as I started getting the first symptoms of serious insomnia, and I'd recommend anyone in the same situation who's able to quit to do it. Burnout becomes harder and harder to solve as it becomes worse.
Apparently frictional losses are too high.

This seems intuitively believable: I'm imagining an escalator disconnected from its motor and wondering whether a constant flow of people (stepping on, but not walking downhill) could keep it running at 1m/sec.
Download is blocked for that article.
You are missing my point. Society has been prioritizing profit for industrial conglomerates over long term health for everybody...