skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly only hit the threads or ask pages - I'll skim the first 5-10 entries under "new", but unless it really hits my interest based on the title, there's just too much floating by to think/worry about

I hate the main page and how bleeding difficult it is for content to arrive there (same thing with Reddit - the default main page bloddy sucks, read /new, or nothing at all)
There's a great quote by a character in last week's episode of "For all Mankind" that pretty much summarizes my career in a nutshell. No matter my age I plan on living my life by it.

> “These are engineering problems, and we are engineers. Shall we begin?”
I'm a happy user of Kitchenful and it has definitely saved me a lot of time when meal-planning. The recipes are tasty too.

I signed up just when they were still in the "e-mailing every client personally phase", and it's been a joy to talk to Christian and see their product improve.
>They wouldn't build any new links - instead they would turn on and off EV charging stations to make sure everyone's car still gets charged reasonably quickly, and we get far more power delivered through the existing electricity grid.

ah yes, the "smart" grid where smarts are used to cut my power instead of delivering what I pay for.
That’s not a legal argument for liability. As a private company they’re perfectly free to pick who they do and don’t do business with. They just can’t do business with criminals engaged in criminality.

The only real issue is wether they knew that Pornhub had child porn.

Now if Visa said it’s technically impossible to ban someone, Gab could be used to prove that it is
Ask HN: Hetzner banned me with no explanation. What can I do?
I have been using a 16 vcpu 32GB RAM 50Euro/month hetzner cloud instance as a remote development server for about 3 weeks now. Have not run anything else on the server, just a vscode server and my code.

This morning I received a notice that all my services with Hetzner have been locked with no explanation and no direction for contacting a human. Below is the full email I received.

What can I do?

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Dear Mr ______

Unfortunately we have had to lock all services you have with us due to violations of our Terms and Conditions (https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/agb/) and/or System Policies (https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/system-policies/).

We will not be accepting any more orders from you, and your account will be cancelled to the next possible cancellation date, as per our Terms and Conditions.

This decision is final and cannot be appealed.

Kind regards

Your Hetzner Online Team
> which country do you think enjoys more autonomy, the U.S. or North Korea?

The US practiced plenty of protectionism to nurture its economy. And looking beyond the global exception of North Korea for a moment, China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, and indeed every advanced economy, did the same. Of course protectionism and self-reliance can be taken to a harmful extreme, but so can the opposite. Yet economists only warn about one, not both.
This is beautiful! GeoCities represented the amazing creativity of the early web. I miss it :(

If anyone would like to create a GeoCities-inspired site of their own using a no-code builder, we got you: https://clovercities.com.
>But yes it would be a bad idea to teach students C and send them out into the world with the idea that writing C is how you're supposed to do it.

So your student have to tell Linus:

Sorry cant help you with your kernel that's not how you're supposed to do it, please learn Rust and rewrite your kernel RN! I don't know in what wannabe rainbow world you live.

BTW Students can think for themself, they honestly DONT believe you if you tell them unix or c nor rust are flawless, teaching something does not mean it's perfect but one way to do it.
NYC still does nighttime spraying: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/west-nile...
Using a Hetzner Storage Box as a restic back end for backups
Yes, but when you have a set of goods to proportion out and you are complete, then there is a zero. So it may be quite common. The Egyptians indicated a concept like zero with the NFR sign, for perfect. That’s the one with a circle and a cross on top.

But, no decimal placeholder system, like described in the article.

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_e...
I'm 66, nearly 67, and my main problem is that I'm widely regarded as being a bit too avant garde.
It sounds like you can't imagine something fundamentally different to Unix. Not everything is built on Unix.

I would suggest looking up how Fuchsia works for example.
‘Friending Bias’ study: how lower-income children rise up the economic ladder
Don’t agree with some of the statements of the author. Delivery times have gone up? I’ve had quite the opposite experience. I’m frequently getting same day shipping. And this is in the midst of unprecedented logistics challenges.
I used to use OneTab and it was fantastic. My new workplace won’t allow us to use it so every few days I’ll have to go through all my tabs. It’s so annoying and time consuming. Last time I was up to 513 tabs and it took me at least an hour. Once I get past a certain point I can’t find my old tabs and start opening duplicates so the problem gets worse.
Doonesbury was never funny.
I always assumed that any stores using these had them networked together.

So the argument being that they don't have to pay someone to go around and update it and instead can just do it centrally?

I think the Amazon stores do this, and I would assume that if anyone Amazon would set that up properly.

I also thought I saw somewhere the idea that the displays let them tinker with the price more often instead of on a weekly basis when the flyers come out.
This gives more ground to VISA et al. to not want to touch anything sex-related with a ten-foot pole. The big losers here are the legit sex workers who are already having trouble receiving payment for their product.
Memory Management in Rust
That sounds very cool! Did you share this list by any chance? I'm interested to stock up on some "efficient" products for the times that I'm not meal-planning but want to quickly whip something together.
I don't see them on here yet, so I'll throw these three in (they're all self-hosted, which might be a deal breaker for you):

The closest to what you're asking for that I'm aware of is probably Grocy: https://grocy.info/

Personally, I find that "keeping track of what you have" introduces a LOT of micro-management. Too much for me to enjoy, so while I used Grocy productively for a while, I eventually ditched it.

On the simpler side - There's Mealie (https://hay-kot.github.io/mealie/) and Tandoor (https://tandoor.dev/)

They both manage to import recipes fine, and do meal planning fairly well. Tandoor is a little closer to Grocy in that it's smart enough to group ingredients for your shopping list (mealie will generate duplicate entries for the same item if used in two different recipes), but otherwise they're fairly similar.
I think there is some truth about Tate's comment on some adolescent/young adult male from middle-class families (i'd add: without cultural capital, and remove the color denominator as in my country, social class seems to have way more incidence).

Nobody really care about them, or empathize with them, to the extent than before a debate i had with someone with opposing views on a lot of things, i myself was thinking about coinbros, guys in the hustler University or scammed into giving money to fake Elon musk something like: they have money to spent, they will loose some and get help from their parent at some time.

But in fact, they aren't really middle class. Some of them are and will get support, some think they are and will get burned hard (or have their parent and close families suffer). They are targeted by the same scams the 70s-90s housewives were: they have holes in their education, a strong external belief system, are an easy demographic to target and just got access to money and don't know what to do to get more. So instead of madoff-like scams, MLMs with beauty products and other "housewivy" stuff, and revolving credits "get money now to make money later" its now crypto and Get Rich quick schemes sold for 50 dollars a month. Basically the same scams, just a different audience.

But while it is easy to get empathy for housewives who just got the right to have their own bank account, drive alone (my grandmother had fun anecdata about this, my grandfather was 20 year ahead of time) and go to a movie unsupervised, it is a bit harder to have some empathy for the new target of those. Because they are somehow like me, only with a bit more money at birth, in a more centralized place, and the fundamental attribution error is hard to get rid of as it stroke my ego, when it was mostly luck and amazing parenting (and having great parents is luck too when i think about it).
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This new religion the west has discovered is fascinating.
Not sure if everyone would think this is ideal, but you could potentially answer support enquiries with an alias that helps you get into a character mode.
I’m interested by this response as this is exactly the sort of CS response that makes me seethe - it doesn’t resolve the issue and holds out false hope. Have you seen it used effectively? Are you using shorthand here and there is more to the interaction? It’s a genuine question, not intending to provoke. There’s a particular tool I use where the support team’s typical response to anything non-standard is along the lines of “hey, great that you’d be interested in this feature! It’s not something we are planning to build! why not add it to our suggestions board though - the more people who vote on it the more chance we might consider this in the future!” and of course nothing on the suggestions board is ever implemented.

I’d much rather a company says “sorry, your use case is an edge case and not something we support; you could try doing X or Y but what you’re attempting is outside our typical use and not on our roadmap. While we’d love to keep you as a customer I’m not going to make false promises. You might be better off with a tool that specifically enables what you are attempting - or continue using us in the knowledge that this is not possible. Sorry we can’t be more help.”
This feature absolutely must be called a fork!
Java and C are neither simpler nor easier than Python where the rubber meets the road: making the computer do something you want it to do. Not even close. Java requires a fair amount of arcana just to get started (relative to python) and C is a simple language which pushes all the complexity onto the programmer. Java, like python, has some really deep rabbit holes when you dig into internals, and C has so much complexity in the necessary tooling.

I think Go is possibly simpler than Python. The syntax is smaller, no method overriding, and does not really have internals to the same depth as a VM language.
When I was just a coder at a fortune 500 company, I was voluntold to be on a "Morale Committee". Not much came of it (one meeting with about 20 of us, they had an ice cream social, because people like ice cream and the work environment was very siloed people weren't interacting). It didn't do much, but employees took notice that management realized morale was low. The round of layoffs that came soon after overshadowed that however.
I TIL - firecracker, thank you for that! :)
Great article and project, i didn't understand the idea of using RabbitMQ and fetching for new events in a loop. I am not an architect, but i was thinking that real-time databases, are used for those purposes?

About the containers - if you are not running them in privileged mode, you should be pretty secured, especially by limiting what kind of binaries the containers have.
The twist of Blindsight is that a fundamental assumption about the nature of intelligence is false. The book takes a very long time setting this up and then it hammers it into both the reader and the protagonist. It seems to be saying, "Hey this is a big deal and you're not going to accept it, so I'm going to shovel it down your throat with a snow plow."

In Echopraxia they have the same idea, but it's trivialized in a blink and you miss it throwaway line and accepted as fact by everyone. I get that the author didn't want to just retread the same ground over and over. However, I feel it's a mistake to trivialize something that a bunch of post human super savants were surprised by.
This piece is a pretty good (though a bit all over the place) survey of the history of surgery. My main nitpick is that it's a bit Western-centric in terms of its narrative. William Harvey was predated by ~400 years by Ibn al-Nafis (though I think Harvey's discovery was based on independent work, though I may be wrong since I haven't checked any primary sources on this), who also discovered Galen's mistake. Al-Zahrawi also had an early (10th century) treatise of surgery and surgical instruments [^1]. And the famous al-Razi (Rhazes) also had a treatise on urological procedures (as well depicting the devices for performing some of them)[^2]. It's not as if they were unknown in Europe either, Vesalius published a translation of Rhazes.

[^1]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26038/26038-h/26038-h.htm

[^2]: https://muslimheritage.com/paediatric-urology-1000-years-ago...
I tried that, and spoke to them on phone for 20 mins. Their site says that if I buy without a GSTIN, they will reach out to get some business proof -

"Please note that if you’ve selected ‘No’ option to GSTIN, then our Order Processing team will reach out to you via email for other valid business documents (e.g. Income Tax Return copy, business utility bill or other valid business registration document) to complete the purchase post payment confirmation."
Wow just realized Firefox has this feature built-in but not enabled by default! Just needed to turn on "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order".
But, then mankind created countertops and things to push off of counter tops. Then they returned to wreak havoc.

Additionally, they got hungry.
It sure would suck if companies were pressured to be socially responsible.
> "chaotic" is what I'd call it. Something about the presentation and the way they try so hard to focus on the UI/UX being "electric" and fast-paced means that there's an onslaught of motions on the screen for what's not generally amazing racing to begin with.

I occasionally watch highlights of FE from time to time [0] to see how the spectacle side of thing have developed, and whether it's stuff like fan boost or attack zone it all makes it feel like a video game from the 90s. Kind of like F-Zero, to be honest.

I think the technology development in EV and battery tech alone is worth it, and more OEMs should invest if only to retain brand awareness rather than a TV or Internet ad that no one will ever watch, but I agree the racing is... mediocre. I don't think it's just because it's mainly F1 'flunkies' but it's more than the racing itself hasn't really found what it wants to be and is really trying to appeal to those whose only racing exposure is from video games rather than club or grass roots racing as it was for the last century. They're approaching an E-sports business model within motorsports, which is odd but lucrative if they can crack the nut.

By contrast Moto-E is actually an incredibly fun watch; the races are much shorter than the ICE but doesn't have any non-sense so as a result riders can just go flat out with out holding anything back which results in a Super Pole race using bikes with full torque at 0 RPM and it's very close [1]. nd has an entirely separate E-sports division which ultimately makes DORNA have sold out races, COVID notwithstanding, and more viewers than ever.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4beCE_OI7k

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytbSDFgG8CI
Looking through the list of authors:

Florida Atlantic University

Amazon

IBM Research

Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, more Microsoft

LinkedIn

Lousiana Tech University

Texas Instruments

yikes... these are who we already rely on every day to keep our data, our services, and our softwares safe and secure.
Strong labor numbers means wages would be increasing. Perhaps not for all income deciles, but at least the bottom ones (which is a good thing in my opinion since it helps close the income/wealth gap).

What would be an issue is the labor participation rate decreasing, which it is, but it may be unavoidable due to things like aging demographics. That means fewer workers supporting non workers, and hence less supply of labor to be distributed amongst everyone (assuming it is not offset by gains in automation).

I think this will be the government’s real problem, as there is no quick fix other than opening the immigration doors.
I'm not sure what's going on with this comment so let me make three observations:

The speed (latency) of the EM spectrum is the effective celerity of the medium: this doesn't differ in the air between microwave and shortwave in any meaningful way.

The speed (throughput) achievable on a given frequency is limited by the period of that frequence, high wavelengths can modulate more signal. Microwaves are higher frequency than radio by definition, so they have a higher throughput.

Neutrinos don't exceed the speed of light, and make a very bad medium of transmission given the near-complete lack of interaction with baryonic matter.
> As several of these statements blatantly contradict one another, I went back to the data and ran the same sanity check that I did with Facebook above. In other words, what if Google is using the hiring freeze as a smoke screen and only continuing with the strongest candidates, while keeping the rest on the bench?

An actual hiring freeze sends a very strong negative signal to employees and investors. To employees it says "the ship is sinking." Layoffs are right around the corner and that is absolute poison to morale. To investors it says "technical or not, we've hit a recession." Brace yourselves for impact. Google and Facebook are both advertising companies, so they are tightly coupled to the business cycle. When business spending starts to falter, they'll feel it first. And they have.

So it's not surprising that the companies themselves are far from clear about this, sending mixed messages. I expect them to continue to do so for as long as they possibly can.

The bubble has inflated so far for so long, I get the sense that even among cynical young employees and "investors" there's a sense of permanence in the positions of both companies. The thing is, those with fewer than 10 years experience have never seen the ferocity of the other side of the business cycle. When it turns, that mofo turns. Those in top management positions have seen it, and they're going to do everything in their ability to deny and evade it.
My so uses Mealime
As long as Ukraine has plenty of anti ship capabilities I don't see Russia even blinking towards Odessa cause they know any ship with in range will be sunk and they don't want that.
List of Products Made from the Peanut by Dr. George Washington Carver
One thing I found frustrating when I went on my own journey trying to find a platform like this for my partner and I a year ago was that NONE of these apps (Paprika included) worked with MicroG installed on my Android phone. If anyone has news regarding this having changed I would be ecstatic.
Well, now you know the answer is almost nobody :).

Xilinx and Altera have been promising efficient high level C++/openCL/CUDA -> FPGA compilation for decades now and almost everybody I know has been burnt by it at work, so thanks for confirming my bias, I'll avoid OneAPI too for the present. Guess VHDL and Verilog and the old standard tooling will live for another 10 years.

Everything is always amazing for the first 80% but the last 20% is impossible to fix and you end up not saving any dev time at all.
Advertisers are usually the customers and they are listened to very well at most of these places.
Slavery was also historically legal but isn't any longer. I don't get what interracial marriage being illegal once upon a time has to do with anything.
Dilbert, sadly, has gone full cuckoo.

(That's to say, Scott Addams, the comic's author, went deep into la-la-land, and never came back).
>"Ageism is a thing in tech"

Strongly disagree.

I happen to be in the same general category as the author (older actually), and I've never experienced that.

Quite the contrary as a matter of fact: the grey beard factor often gives you an authority that's very often not deserved and can be annoying in meetings were free flow of information (as much as that ever exists) is important.
I don’t have a direct answer, but from the perspective of someone who does sometimes reach out to support, the most frustrating thing is when a company has low hanging fruit of things it could have done to prevent my support call:

- Fix phone menus so they actually cover my normal, everyday case. Like if I want to report that your service is being used to conduct phishing, don’t make me have an account to do so (looking at you, Microsoft).

- Fix broken links so I can find information.

- Add entries to an FAQ. Have an FAQ. Make it easy to find.

- Fix chatbots so they can cover my question. If you can’t, then have them escalate to a human who is empowered to file tickets that get acted on.

- Don’t lie on your website. “Our chatbot can help you solve the most common problems.” No it fucking can’t.

- Don’t have circular “contact us” flows that ask the user to categorize their issue into an incomplete list of categories which do not cover the user’s case, while never actually allowing the user to “contact us.”

- Try your own services. If you have a phone number on your website, call the number and verify that it actually works. Same with every link on every page of your website. Sign up for email and see if you actually receive email. Don’t assume you will. Do a password reset and see if it works. If there’s a shopping flow, try to buy something. Try to cancel service.

- Don’t overlook the power of clear, crisp writing to help people help themselves. And don’t underestimate the extent to which unclear, ambiguous, confusing writing, or even just imprecise terminology, will be a drag on everyone, both external and internal.

- Make shit work.

I suspect doing these things will have huge bang for the buck toward addressing the issue. If even big companies (Microsoft, Google) can’t get this right, a small company doing better at it will be appreciated.
Looks great, going to try it.

I wish, however, I didn't have to use Google for auth.