skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too bad. The older comics were more fun.
Bad UI is causing people to get scammed
You should build a page with web form for "official complaints" and after submitting provide information about them being redirected to some non existent complaints department. Venting honeypot ftw.
How dare those shareholders have opinions on how the company they own shares in conducts its business?!
When there is so little choice, it's essentially an Oligopoly.
What a ride. HN should shut down once a month on purpose on a random working day just to allow us to recalibrate our inner compass a bit.
Ask HN: IT admins, what IT tools would you like to see?
My passion is the IT space. So many tools are focused on employee engagement and experience, but not enough on the IT team.

I quit my job a few months ago and in a few months I'll have to find a new one. I’m interested in building a tool so I thought I'd see if anybody had any ideas for IT tools they wanted to see that I could potentially explore before getting a new job.
Twitter doesn't bother with minor issues, but there were some for sure.

This logs lesser ones: https://hn.hund.io/
Finish the tickets, but don't close the tickets ;)
What about basic business functionality, for example, a function to create a site URL, which can be quite complex, and which would be very time consuming and complex and a maintenance nightmare if implemented in multiple languages.

You could, of course, create this as a service. And then make possibly hundreds of calls to this service to generate a single web page.

Or, you can provide a library that does this, and the calls are cheap, reliable, and predictable.

Of course, if it is a service, the caller would locally the cache the information needed to make all the calls, do a batch call to the service, and then backfill in all the links. This then precludes generating and sending the page as you go, and creates the possibility for an explosion in complexity if a simple change in requirements that causes the arguments for the URL generation to be dependent on another service/library call.

Not everything should be a service call.
GitHub or it doesn't exist ;-)
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Just in case someone ever trains the likes of such a bot on HN content, think of it as a long, long shot.
People in other countries probably don't understand just how powerful - and depended upon - the big telecoms are here in Canada.

They have no presence outside the country - they are so bloated and inefficient they couldn't compete - but they are omnipresent here.

There are lots of people who depend on Rogers for home Internet, home phone, mobile phone, TV, and home security, not to mention business services that consumers also depend on, like the payment networks that are down.

Plus their media properties, which probably come in useful when the government starts to think about allowing more competition or decreasing the taxpayer money being funneled to them.
I checked in there a few months ago and regretted it. It's like while I'm now ten years older, it stayed the same age (well, those commenting).
>the failover server also failed

Those responsible for the sacking have also been sacked.
somehow I think they'll be able to see through that one
Staying with the inlaws that use Rogers' reseller for wired internet.

Using Fido for mobile internet access (also by Rogers).

Zero internet. It's wild to discover how reliant I am on the internet:

- Can't get around this city (no waze, gmaps).

- Can't figure out what's going on (AM radio is non stop commercials)

- Can't figure out where we might get some internet (maybe WeWork somewhere? How do you find one without internet)

This is just wild. Almost as critical as no water, or no power in the winter.
$50 for a Mac-only to-do app seems egregious.

todo.txt or todo.org is free and does the same thing.
I mean... if the demo-gods were behaving as usual, the outage would never have happened
> serverless db that is 90% cheaper

> building out domain knowledge

What about all the knowledge that is contained in applications, services and libraries that run on RDBMs?

I'm serious, one of the reasons I shy away from serverless is I want to put together components at a higher level than functions. But maybe I'm missing something?
Reverse-engineering the Apollo spacecraft's FM radio
I have several friends with small kids in Switzerland. Seen from inside, they say the system is not bad at all. They also lived in a country with 2 years of maternity leave and they preferred Switzerland overall.

While my small sample statistics contradicts you, for me it is good enough because I trust these sources (I know some of these people for over a decade).
Someone suggested lobste.rs, which I hadn't come across before.
It needs an invite though so read-only today for me.
I appreciated your post, it's good advice.
Plutonium isotopes in the North Western Pacific sediments found
Language is always brought in as a "pro" for microservices. I would call it a "con." Fragmentation across languages can be a big problem if your business logic is complicated; suddenly you have to link against code written in another language, or worse, rewrite it.
Another factoid in this vein: more than half of Canada's population lives South of the USA's Northern border.
Second that - I specifically use npp for getting heavy search/replace done over multiple files.

I need these options!
> this underlines the fragility of a "cashless society."

And a society that refuses to invest in robust infrastructure.
This reply is deeply offending to me.

Just kidding, but wouldnt it be a hilarious plot twist if I were?
Probably want to look into your history to see if you've been fantasizing about killing people in the past when you thought you weren't being watched, and to look up the groups you're in and see if they're related to the KKK or something.

You know, sensible stuff.
Congress to Investigate Data Brokers and Period Tracking Apps
In Toronto, here's a small and non-exhaustive list of affected services:

- Point of sale machines. Supermarkets are accepting only cash.

- ATMs. Several banks are incapable of dispensing cash.

- Public transit ticketing systems. The TTC is effectively running for free, today.

- Public bicycle rental stations.

- Public parking locations.

How long before the public realizes that we are not Rogers' customers, but its hostages?
That's not what he's saying at all. He's saying that the maintainer now has better commit messages, but there is still a need to go back and produce documentation for undocumented code with inscrutable commit messages. e.g. doing better now does not undo prior damage
I smugly commented "Dang" on one of the status updates on twitter and spent time with my girlfriend. Now HN is up again and I spend time consuming meta-content regarding the outage (such as this thread).

Have a great weekend everyone!
Is someone forcing you to buy a truck?

Like I said, wait a few years. Used to hear the same disparaging comments about digital cameras. Ten years later film cameras barely exist. Battery tech has moved a bit slower, but has made incredible strides in twenty. We're almost there, just a matter of time.
The timing of that update tweet is what gives pause for concern. If it were the same or similar thing as to what took down their network nationwide in April, it seems reasonable that they'd just say something like "Hey guys, sorry but the network is down due to <insert similar cause here>."

A lot of us are in IT and for a network of national importance in a "developed nation" to be taken offline so easily is worrisome.
I was going to say, isn't 90 percent(ish) of Google's revenue advertising and 80 percent(ish) of that search advertising? What is Google's business if not to sell ads?
You are overstimating HN way too much.
Show HN: I made a small Space Shooter
Thank you https://opengameart.org for your service. People like me who can't draw or compose music are in your debt.

The game, "Glitch and Rush" has been made in a few hours here and there.

I've been tinkering in GameDev for years, if not decades, but I never released anything. The goal here was simple:

- come up with a core mechanic
- implement a single level
- add some polishing
- RELEASE

I hope you'll enjoy it. BTW, my best time is 2min23s (yes, I'm bad at my own game, it's ok, I'm ok).
Reloaded https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus
Oh wow, scrolling up/down with 2 fingers on a trackpad makes the pages fly by horizontally insanely fast....

You'd have to be a replicant to read it.
It was down?
:cheers:
It looks like it only takes 10 minutes or to walk from one end where there's cars to the other. In contrast, going from the train station in Venice to the park on the opposite end takes close to an hour.

Part of why Venice is nice is because it feels big enough to really explore on foot. Having a much smaller town that has no cars is okay, but not quite the same experience.
As with every complex problem, nuclear is a flawed option, but one that offers small advantages for a limited timeframe. Gas and nuclear will not be discarded for years. Real world applications are rarely “either/or”, but more of a market with many goods served.

But, some facts for the pro nuke crowd here:

Soon, rivers will be to warm to cool down nuclear reactors. Unless you want to kill many things living in the water, but no one proposed this, yet.
And the rivers carry less and less water during summer.

The storage was never done for the full time scale necessary, so we might overlook problems. Scientific knowledge progresses, but also earths bodily nature has some surprises in stock. Like in Fukushima, where expectations/specification and real natural phenomena collided catastrophically.

Fusion and fission generate heat. While about 1 % as bad (source: minkorrekt podcast, german language only) as CO2 emissions, we still would need to compensate (even for having ideally cheap infinite fusion energy that would cause rebound effects of increased consumption) by for example using only short term tested carbon capture and storage on a global and permanent scale.

Another way to cool down earth is painting the ground brightly. Or having plants that are brighter to heat radiation than concrete and tar in urban settings. Gras required water but does an ok job. Solar power panels have the same albedo as gras, generate electricity and require water only once during construction. So at least this kind of renewable energy source, but also others, tend to have lower hidden costs and/or effects of placement in a global heating scenario.

Nowadays, wind power is so much cheaper than nuclear that that Germany imports power from denmark (with a high wind percentage) and exports it to France (where a high percentage is nuclear power).

BTW, I really like the investigation of how to harness fusion energy: the project to do this creates scientific progress and productional-and-measurement capabilities which are going hand in hand in increasing our knowledge and capabilities of gaining more knowledge with all of these tools. The Stellerator project (Wendelstein) has a great return in investment. But using this energy source could be counterproductive for a long time on this planet.
Install a uptime-kuma[1] at my home server... Then get a Telegram notification while hacker news is up again. Actually I self-host more service myself and it was use to monitor those services.

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
https://archive.ph/HvQvC
Lol this is a whole lotta faith based on nothing. Sorry bud Aussie laws gonna puck you here. Your Apple device can be backdoored curtosy of aus laws and apples not allowed to inform you it's happened. If you think lockdown mode gonna prevent this your 100% dreaming. Much lulz y'all should just put less data on your phone if your concerned with others knowing that data.
Still no internet at all? I have a suspicion that you found some…
Not S3 static site hosting + DynamoDB?
How do you configure your serverless environment? I set up my company with ECS a while ago, and in order to get the config into version control I had to put together a somewhat messy collection of bash scripts that use the AWS CLI to push up JSON config files. I couldn't find any standardized way to configure the whole environment: at least at the time, it wasn't possible to do everything in CloudFormation.

I haven't gotten into Kubernetes at all, but from what I've heard the bespoke-bash-scripts problem is largely solved in that world, so I've been toying with exploring it for our next project (still hosted on Fargate).
>which is ok but generally more crashy

So it is a fully accurate emulator. Why are you complaining?

(I'm still upset over my 7100av going pffft at day 3 of a 4-day Strata render.)
Thanks for your answer. Maybe many people are biased towards less risky professionals, which means having years of tenure at medium/large companies with a couple promotions sprinkled here and there. I don't think this is a good indicator, but I'm biased as well!
Run Emacs in the VM, one of the big advantages of Emacs/Vim is that they work in the terminal. Pair it with tmux and you have a nice remote setup.
I'm using a Roger's number in India currently.

Unfortunately, I've been using that number for most of my 2FA so essentially, I've been unable to access a lot of services because of this (ones where I didn't use Authy/Google Authenticator).

Lesson learnt: use a separate VoIP business phone number instead.
Rails costs 2-3x more $ than other servers because of its poor performance. I think this is a significant tradeoff to make, as well as trading developer familiarity with the hardest and most dangerous software to upgrade and refactor. Maybe for Gitlab, which is a relatively small and straightforward piece of software with limited surface area, the sting won't be quite as strong.
Took a nap. Read Your Local Epidemiologist and A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.
Yep: if you buy a pair disks together, there's a fair chance they'll both be from the same manufacturing batch, which correlates with disk defects.
I've been wanting to create something similar but for cryptocurrencies. A place with no scam/bullshit posts and only deeply technical discussions about the latest trends in zero-knowledge proofs, consensus protocols, scalability challenges, etc.

But I'm too lazy to write the application. I wish there was some SDK I could spin up, like PHPBB back in the days, to have something exactly like HN.
I don't know, "what we can learn from...", "deep insights from...", "the lost benefits of..."?
Having kids is quite easy. Most of my colleagues that don't have any kids got into this situation because they pursued careers (long live the corporations selling dreams about careers) and then at 40 years old they figured out they cannot have kids anymore, even with fertility treatments they now afford. The younger ones that are still age 25 to 30 strongly believe it is too early for having kids and they postpone that for another 10-15 years.
yeah, he had no need to harry the developer like that!
> But you can do that by accidentally pressing numpad 0 instead

This "feature" always trips me up. For those unaware, pressing 0 through 9 will jump the playhead to 0% through 90% of the timeline, respectively. I can understand wanting to immediately jump to the beginning of a video, but who is ever going to know that they want to jump to exactly the 40% of the timeline of a video? In some videos that might be 30 seconds in; in others, 30 minutes. Having 1 jump you to the 1:00 mark, 2 to 2:00, etc would make far more sense as the vast majority of videos are 9 minutes or shorter anyway - but either way, it won't stop me from accidentally jumping to some random point in the video by either me or my cat accidentally tapping a number key, and then me trying to figure out where in the hell I was at in the timeline before it happened so I can keep playing the vid from where I left off. The whole thing's an anti-feature.
They can beat nuclear right now -- you get more CO2 reduction per $ from adding renewables than you do from adding nuclear. And you get it sooner. Little or no storage is required. By the time storage becomes necessary, the economic environment (price as a function of time) on the grid will be so hostile to new nuclear that there will be no sense even trying to pretend nuclear makes sense.
why would you need to remember your own phone number. I talk to almost no one via my phone number. I can't think of a single friend I've needed to share a phone number with in ~10 years. Most of them I contact via FB Messenger, some via WhatsApp, others via Line, none of them do I call on via their phone number

Maybe phone numbers are just old crap best left in the past

Yes, I get we still use them for registering accounts but they suck IMO and need to be phased out. People move countries, numbers change or get stolen or get revoked.
Censored for promoting business now more than for posting triggering content
but what do you do if it gets it wrong?
A hundred years, I give it 10 tops.
Yep. Same. It says a lot about the quality of HN, I think. Also, I can't remember the last time it was down. For a while, I thought there must be something wrong with my internet connection or DNS config or something.
Right—it's not a subsidy, at least in the US, because much or all of the gas tax goes to road maintenance, so if you're not driving on public roads, you don't have to pay it.

Doesn't make sense to make e.g. farm tractors that rarely see a public road, pay for public road maintenance when fuel's purchased for them. Or trucks and other vehicles (some farms are really big and may include road-worthy vehicles that hardly drive on a public road more often that the tractors do).

If you're going to only drive on private land, you also don't need tags/plates for your car, at least around here. No registration. Just personal property tax and you're good to go.
The Canadian telecom space is dominated by 3 primary companies -- Telus, Bell, and Rogers. They form an effective oligopoly that is quite detrimental to the Canadian consumer.

In the ISP space, there is a bit more competition. Namely, Shaw provides additional coverage in some regions of the country. However, Rogers wants to buy Shaw. You can imagine how bad that will be for Canadians.

I do wonder what the Rogers outage is about. Ransomeware? State attack? Something stupid? If anything, it shows how we should not have critical infrastructure centralized. Competition between ISPs is important.
United States Life Expectancy Has Fallen Behind China
No it's not, there's a reason I joined the company and it's because I always liked and used the product. Not everyone is a hater.
You can't fool us, we know you're an F7.
There's this military historian perspective [1] on why chemical weapons aren't used by regular militaries becase they aren't actually that effective (compared to spending the same effort on making normal explosives). It is slightly different topic to terrorist attacks but I think it touched on that as well.

Be warned, the blog is a complete rabbit hole of "oh god why am I reading analysis of logistics of Lord of the Ring armies at 3 AM".

[1]: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
Perfect way to introduce malware into foreign networks: release modified pirated Cisco software for counterfeiters
Well, I sold almost everything I had before the move. It was an interesting experience. I had 4 bags that I could afford to bring along, and at least twice more of the amount of things that I wanted to keep.
> Debian 11 was released less than a year ago, in August 2021.

Keep in mind though that it was branched and package versions frozen ~6 months before that.

I like debian and use it on some things, but for a personal computer I always found it frustrating that the software was already half a year out of date on release day. Software getting released today wont be in Debian stable until 2023.
> It is a bit bizarre that on technology forum this is not go-to answer.

Automation is more likely to add rent-seeking to the status quo than improve conditions for society.
I'm not opposed to also having this, but imo it should be, like ctrl+shift+f or something.

That's how Android Studio works, for example. Ctrl+f brings up a find-replace subwindow at the top of the screen that works for that one file, but you can also do a "search across entire project" or "search across subdirectories" that comes up in a popup.
I can't blame them, I would have done the same. I assume their priorities are not aligned with pypi and have no incentive to jump through those hoops.
You are right. I apologize for unconsciously trying to divert the conversation.

Indeed, I now realize what you are saying is more people will get more material for their confirmation bias.
Hopefully this will contribute to a regulatory denial of Rogers' upcoming purchase of Shaw, if only to keep a competitor with its own separate infrastructure to minimize outages through consolidation.
Google might extract parts of its ads business into a separate Alphabet entity
Then what happens if you ask her why she is saying the stuff she says?
Absolutely. This doesn't seem like it would be any real change.
The Oldest Known Melody (Hurrian Hymn No.6 – C.1400 B.C.)
If they're not pedophiles or otherwise concerned with the sexuality of those children, sure. Why would it be otherwise?
Boeing CEO says planemaker could be forced to cancel 737 Max 10
Interesting. Last summer, I followed the instructions on https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Tiny-Mac-From-a-Raspb... to get a Pi-zero-based mac emulator up and running with Gryphel's Mini vMac (https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/index.html) - it looks incredibly cute on the 2.8 inch LCD. I notice since I built mine, they've now added SE and SE/30 variant front panel models too!

Anyone have any sense of the technical differences between this project and mini vMac?
Still didn't do much work :D
Oh, Lenovo is shipping laptops? The cancellation of the last three orders I attempted to place with them left me under the impression that they weren't shipping them anymore...
I go there on occasion. It's really sad to see how far it's fallen. It has all of the news stories that were posted elsewhere, just a day or so later. And none of the discussion. It's more like k5 right before it went blooey.
Collecting and selling user data is a business.
> - LCOE of solar and wind beats the pants off of nuclear and coal currently. If it isn't in Germany, well, that's a political and management issue.

LCOE isn't the only factor of relevance. That's partly how Germany got into its current situation, because LCOE doesn't account for intermittency.

To solve that you need a large interconnected grid and huge overcapacity of renewables (and even then you'll have some brown outs), or you need long-term grid storage, which still has limited options at this time. The LCOE of renewables is not so rosy after you include all of these considerations to achieve the same stable service as a nuclear plant. We might get there in 20 years, but we're not there yet.
The Linux battery issues appear to be fixed for the first gen models: https://community.frame.work/t/linux-battery-life-tuning/666...

"After setting these two items, on the lowest brightness idle you will see the CPU hit C8 states on the second tab of powertop and the overall usage be roughly 2.5W if you have a single DIMM. Without ASPM enabled, the power usage will be between 3-4W."

Hanging around the Framework forums https://community.frame.work/ made me feel a lot more comfortable w/ them and I put in a pre-order for a DIY barebones system. To me the price difference didn't seem too bad (I have my own 64GB DDR4-3200 and 2TB PCIe 4.0 M.2s already).

Even if there's a premium, it's a bit weird to argue against the lack of "differentiation" since not another laptop manufacturer offers a parts store like https://frame.work/marketplace or the ability/support to swap or build your own expansion cards.

https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards

https://community.frame.work/c/developer-program/85

Maybe it doesn't matter to you or others, but it's a heck of a unique differentiator IMO.