skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it does seem kind of shitty that as a community we seem to have decided that once a company has hosted some content that they should be required to host it forever at their own expense.

This is a really great insight that I hadn't thought of. Sure, if they, from the start, had promised to do so, that would be one thing. But users of free plans are essentially freeloading (sure, there are useful network effects of having free users on the platform), and it's a bit entitled to expect that free services are free in perpetuity (especially from a company that isn't profitable), even for projects that might be abandoned.
I would be more interested in Qatar and other UAE countries than the Saudis. Under MBS they have been slashing citizens' benefits and tightening purse strings. Previously the oil rich Arabic countries were the closest we had to UBI (Universal Basic Income).
A sausage slice masking as a star tricks the internet
Has anyone been able to locate the actual nutritional information in a serving size of this stuff? Actual carb, protein, and fat calorie counts, sugars, significant vitamins, etc?
> Can I go to Ebay with my newly created "Fokemon" cards. Sell them to myself for pennies on the dollar in bulk.

It might take a little effort with shell companies, but yes. A long as it's clear they're not Jokemon cards.
That sounds sweet! But I guess DigitalOcean doesn't support it? I'm getting "error: ephemeral containers are disabled for this cluster (error from server: "the server could not find the requested resource")."
Jekyll is old and boring as hell so the plugin ecosystem rules. I picked up eleventy in order to be able to prototype stuff on Glitch.
> You know evolution is made of dying, right?

Not true in the slightest; evolution is solely driven by differential reproduction rates. You'll see evolutionary dynamics even if every organism you study is immortal and invulnerable.

Dying is just one of many things that affect your ability to reproduce.
The 101 in the peninsula area has the opposite problem: people seem to be scared to get even close to the posted speed limit. You can see the front line of a bunch of cars all blocking everyone behind them regularly for no apparent reason. Other than stupidity and incompetence that is.
Can someone explain to me Winamp's fandom? Is it just nostalgia (which I understand and also feel), or is there something else genuinely better about it? My naive expectation is that a sound player that hasn't had an update in 20 years probably isn't the best in any dimension.
Does anyone where have personal experience with this? Sounds like a fascinating subject.
Super embarrassing.

At least the random couple with low income that lucked into a house 40 years ago is semi sympathetic. They don't travel the world and may not be able to move somewhere else as nice after selling (especially with prop 13 tax lock ins)

But Marc can live anywhere and travel anywhere.
Discipline is what you have to use when you don't have a habit. Once you have built the habit to do the thing, discipline doesn't enter the picture. It's the default. You don't buy candy because buying candy is not a thing you do. You go running because it's 9 am on a Monday and that's what you do every Monday at 9 am.
Now they just have to solve the problem of the first results page being 100% e-commerce sites.
No problem, your comment made my day!
I love the idea of a more http-native protocol, and I think ya'll are doing saintly work, and I hope observability tools close remaining gaps fast.

I still think we're a little short on candor though. Streams are a bitch in grpc. I have a very very hard time believing plain-old http observability is going to be good enough to help me make sense of multiple cross-directional streams stemming from a single request. gRPC just has a lot to it. Being more plain http-centric is applause worthy. But grpc has too much going on for plain http support to be enough, when it comes to really pleasant observability & tooling.

I dont want to discourage but I dont see how we could expect tl have near as good an experience as what great real grpc tooling supports. I love these workarounds to browser enable, but they have real tradeoffs & sacrifices. That alas the browser hss forced us all into by it's utter lack of giving a shit, caring, doing anything good with making http useful to us.
One of my favorites, too. Interestingly enough he is Jordan Peterson’s brother in law.
There have been changes in watermelons but that watermelon in the painting is in part an example of starring, which happens today: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-renaissance-p...
I'm ambivalent. I think the SEC has done a passable job, all things considered. They have acted slowly but surely, without impulsivity, taking the time to understand the technology while applying a nuanced eye to the evolution and growing sophistication of this shady ecosystem over the years. The SEC has gradually tightened the screws on the grift while not stifling the ecosystem that allows the credulous true believer to pay for their webhosting with bitcoin. Today with the benefits of hindsight from living in a world with billions of dollars in stolen funds, ICO mania, NFT mania, celebrity pump & dumps, a ransomware explosion etc etc, it's easy to say "you should have prevented this", but like with any new technology, the government is gradually catching up. In many ways, the government is much farther behind with respect to other internet technologies, like social media for instance...
> Anything that might damage profits, impact billionaires, or hurt shareholders of our best gigantic businesses isn't something we should consider.

You’re unfairly omitting how fossil fuels have lifted billions out of poverty. Stopping climate change also lowers standards of living.
No doubt that human activity changes things like the climate and the sea.

But life finds a way. (Always).
TikTok Is Reportedly an 'Essential' App for Some Samsung Installs
There's a "Typo-tolerance" option [0] HN exposes in the search settings [1]. If you disable that, then those results no longer show up.

[0] https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/optimize...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/settings
I was a DDG user for the past year, and I consistently found myself falling back to the big G due to poor result quality.

I recently started paying for Kagi[1] and I’ve been very pleased with the results. I haven’t felt the need to use a different search engine since switching. (No affiliation; just a happy customer)

[1]: https://kagi.com/
The rise in traffic deaths predate the pandemic. I do think that to some degree less traffic does encourage more dangerous driving, but I suspect it's not the whole (or even main) cause.

I suspect a large part of this is the change in the kind of cars that are on the road. Trucks and SUVs predominate in the US now, and sedans are a rare sight these days. More mass = more deadly. Also importantly trucks and SUVs nowadays are obsessed with an "aggressive stance" - i.e., tall hoods which increases impact injuries to pedestrians, and also reduce cockpit visibility.

This has been known to road safety activists for years, but the mainstream media is just starting to catch on. See for example this SUV that has a full 16-foot blind spot in front of the car: https://twitter.com/PickledEntropy/status/155387204384156876...

tl;dr: American car purchases have trended towards heavier cars with deadlier geometry and worse driver visibility, which IMO is a huge contributor to these stats.

[edit] For some additional color, in 2014 SUV sales overtook sedan sales for the first time [1] and by 2019 SUVs were out-selling sedans by 2:1. [2]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-suvs-c...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/business/suv-sales-best-s....

Also, to fully drive home the "deadlier geometry" side of things, see the difference here between a 1994 Toyota Tacoma [3], curb weight 3100 lbs, and a 2022 Toyota Tacoma [4], curb weight 4500 lbs:

[3] https://images.app.goo.gl/rjU2pu3g7Wqv9o6P9

[4] https://images.app.goo.gl/TcKRSYybd1f1NzkR8

The frontend height difference, as well as the sheer mass difference, is stupendous. This is what's causing people to die en masse on roads.
Growing up, I would visit my grandma, who had free dialup internet because she was a school teacher (this was early 90s), and would print out the help docs for qbasic so I could bring them home to use on my non-internet connected computer.

I managed to build a breakout style game a few other things I can’t remember.

This lead to me learning html and then unlocked my whole career basically.
33,4°C in Paris the 25 of june 1976

Around the 25 of june 2022 near Bordeaux at 23:30 (you read it well, 11:30pm), it was 36°C.

The closest Ive experienced was in Las Vegas Nevada, which is in the middle of what qualifies as a desert.
To save you a click:

"The latest Ookla Speedtest Intelligence report, released in late July, named Cox Communications as the fastest fixed broadband provider among top US internet service providers during the second quarter of 2022"
Spent uncountable hours on Pete's site over the years. Really great place.
But the African American community is adopting veganism/vegetarianism faster than the general population of the US:

"According to a Pew Research Center survey, 8% of African Americans identify as vegan or vegetarian compared to just 3% of the general population."

https://bit.ly/3p2aj8x
Honestly, I think that speaks to the massively huge gap in this space. There's no technical reason we couldn't have a Hypercard-esque development platform that e.g. any professor of any discipline could use to make an app. (I'm in higher-ed, that's where my brain wen)
In 1999 I worked in a national chain of computer stores to fund myself through my computer science degree.

One year I sent a “Happy Christmas” message to all stores on our internal Lotus Notes email system with a hyperlink in the email.

The link would, when clicked, load GORILLA.BAS into Qbasic and run it. The idea was, in my teenage mind, a little Easter Egg to cheer people up around the festive season. Unreal to think that you could just link and run an executable from an email back then!

An hour later I get a frantic call from group IT - I’d forgotten there’s no “exit” button - we now had 100s of stores where all the computers were playing Gorilla, and nobody knew the keyboard shortcut to quit the game.

I think the IT guys had to call every single store that day and tell them how to get out of Gorilla. For whatever reason, I wasn’t fired.
GitHub Events Are Booming! Are Bots the Reason?
Yeah I think the balance of probability still suggests that it wasn't a great joke even then.
If you are proud of your strengths you're compared to a violent conqueror. If you complain about unfair treatment or representation you're called fragile.

Nothing but heads-I-win-tails-you-lose bad faith arguments.
>Licensing to drive seems like a scam

How so? Don't you want to see some competency exhibited by people before they drive[1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP93pqtdQ
Outside the US, "accidental US Persons" may not be able to have a bank account. These are people who are not US citizens and have no real ties to the US, but are nevertheless considered to be US Persons by the US, which means they are required to file taxes. The US has no way to enforce that directly of course, but it can require banks who want to do business with the US (which is every bank in the world) to report on these people and deny them an account if they don't jump through the right hoops.

This has lead to a class of people who are unable to have a bank account, in countries where almost everybody else does have a bank account.
> Any OS vendor that tries to trick or harangue you into signing into/up for cloud services and telemetry before you even log into your device for the first time is absolutely not privacy-oriented.

This is a needlessly binary take. When most people hear privacy, they really just want to stop seeing creepy personalized ads courtesy of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The "Apple" solution is not one of 'complete' privacy, but one where the user knows exactly who and what is using their data, assuming you completely buy into their ecosystem (including iCloud+).
I've noticed that truck drivers frequently stay in passing lanes while not passing.

I think it's a recent phenomenon, though I can't think of a reason for the change.
I tried a similar approach but it resulted in me being spammed way more frequently. I assume pressing 1 flags your number as "likely to respond" and the database is then sold to other scammers. Also, collecting numbers doesn't work because all the spam calls I receive are from spoofed mobile numbers which change each time. The craigslist trick just punishes some unsuspecting person, not the scammer.
My aunt used to the tell the second as:

Two elephants are sitting in a tub. The one elephant says to the other, "Pass the soap." The other elephant says, "No soap. Just radio." Get it?

And then her and my mom would laugh, and wait for me to do the same. The joke being that anyone not in on it who laughs is faking. The joke is on them.

'Twas my fav joke.
Windows HEVC video codec from Microsoft costs $0.99
That’s the number that matters. When you have more people on the road or more miles driven, declining to incorporate some notion of exposure is just fraud.

That is why anti-motorist activists like the big number. It distorts reality in their favor.

Look at the past few decades of fatalities per 100 million miles traveled, and you’ll see phenomenal safety improvements.
A quick check suggests that offline credit card payments can "expire" if the network doesn't come back online within 24-72 hours, leaving the merchant with a loss. Not terribly reassuring.
Indeed. The fact that they're also limiting free organizations to 5 members (counting members of sub-groups)[1], which feels truly arbitrary, seems to agree.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier...
I'm not sure what you mean, what else does it control and what are its other inputs?
What Is Going on with Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO Max?
This is the most HN response in the thread.
For what its worth, a few hours ago I witnessed an elderly driver on their cellphone, driving about 5 miles per hour in a 30, followed by a line of cars and constantly blaring horns. Gen Z isn't the only age group using tiktok, and definitely not the only age group that drives distracted / inconsiderately / obliviously.
Search is a really hard problem.

And as the web scales, it's an increasingly expensive problem. (Servers, storage, bandwidth, etc.)

I'd wager that it's easier to launch the next SpaceX than to launch the next Google.
> Putting users first by crippling competing web browsers on iOS?

I can happily re-enable the privacy-destroying qualities of web browsing by using Chrome on iOS, thank you very much.
Just plain wrong.

The postulates of Quantum Mechanics dictate that physical objects must be fundamentally spread out in the form of wave functions.

Even a senior undergraduate knows that QM is not resolved with GR. To quote a QM postulate like this as an argument against point-like objects in reality reveals more about your level of education in physics than anything else.

At a certain point of abstraction, theoretical physics almost never has any direct correlation with empirical reality.

Solutions to simplistic kinds of mathematics come in the form of idealizations called "points". But physical reality is fundamentally spatial...

Just so wrong... Empirical reality, as you like to say, specifically in collider physics, tells us that fundamental particles are point-like as far down as we can see.

I don't claim to have all the answers, but you are just being obtuse and passing by with a layman's philosophy and masking your lack of knowledge with stiff sentences.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's not true.
XML is inefficient to read and write by both computers and humans; might as well use JSON as your serialization format, it's at least more human readable.
A well regulated and trusted financial sector is the foundation of a strong market economy.

People should be free to make their own mistakes. But companies should be forced to disclose relevant and honest information.

I'm not necessarily convinced by the criticism of stablecoins specifically. But regulation of honesty and risk disclosure in the financial sector as a principle is something that has strong support.
> as a community we seem to have decided that once a company has hosted some content that they should be required to host it forever at their own expense.

We need something like public (book) libraries for code. Or a Library of Congress. FOSS has become critical infrastructure and we need to act like it. Done well, this could also help foster people learning to code. Sure there will be some political issues with it around funding and what code we should or shouldn't host, but the benefits would outweigh the drawbacks I think. I've seen tax money go to worse things, at least.
Sarup touched upon this a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344751.

Summary: All the logos listed are genuine (i.e. engineers from those companies have signed up and used CodeCrafters). In most cases we've also spoken to these users either over Zoom or in-person.
Ask HN: How concerned should individuals be about monkeypox and what can we do?
As an individual how concerned should we be, and how can we prep/prevent?
> Does anyone actually believe this? What religion's pitch is "just trust me bro"?

Yes they do. Not really -- the pitch is more than that. Personally I believe the standard is we need _some_ evidence (not necessarily to the level of scientific journals) to claim something exists. If there's no evidence, it's as good as not existing.

The evidence for Christianity is more like this:

The historical contexts in which the NT & OT Characters existed (including Jesus) did not have a scientific world view, but they did have a story telling tradition which handed down stories as the closest thing to "fact" in the time period.

We have a collection of copies of documents written by some people about a guy[1].

Then when it comes to is the content of the documents true, that's more where people are leaning on your own experience (contemporarily), or shared collective experience (moreso in the past). It seems to be true enough that many people find value, and experience something they believe they otherwise would not experience when interacting with their religion/faith. One can dismiss it as the placebo effect, but I'm not sure that's entirely fair to be so ready to dismiss so many people's experiences when we also see so many other fields which rely heavily on subjective experience (such some medications, marketing/advertising, arts etc) ...

[1]: https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/node/1754
The big question is does it work with Pycharm?
yeah, four 10s is not possible.

i was hoping folks at my work would just 'get it' and make sure nothing was scheduled to be done, or actually done, on Fridays.

i'm trying to step lightly for various reasons.

not really working so far.
But that's the point: people will not be able to buy a loaf of bread if they don't meet with the system's approval.

Look, I switched to completely contactless payment through my phone since Covid, and it's so convenient I'm not going back. And it's hard for me to imagine people who don't have access to a bank account or smartphone, but those people do exist, and they may eventually become unable to buy a loaf of bread, and that's a problem.
> EBay isn't a payment provider. You can get leverage from PayPal or a credit card company.

Which is why PayPal and credit providers are regulated...
and here I was wondering when people would build a scheduled pipeline job to commit to a repo every month to keep it active, costing them even more money.
That's revenue.

They're spending more money than they're making.
That’s good. Traffic enforcement doesn’t work like people think it does. It doesn’t always have a protective effect. When it does, the effect fades rapidly as time and distance increases from the enforcement. Getting rid of traffic enforcement allows more productive uses of law enforcement.

What makes roads safer is better engineering, better technology, and education.

I did my dissertation on this. I was surprised at the amount of tautological reasoning when I reviewed literature: traffic enforcement good because traffic enforcement, or speeding bad because speeding.

No, something’s bad when it causes harm, and something’s good when it has a net benefit, and the published traffic-safety research focused on laws and enforcement is too often shoddy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/the-rise-of-ba...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/05/the-low-desire...
One peer has no reason to believe that the other is using compatible generated code. I can encode AreCatsCuteRequest and you can decode NukeRussiaRequest. There is no safety in it, anywhere. Confusion about with whom you are communicating has caused real, notorious outages, even at Google.
> None of this is hard to do. It just requires someone to get started.

I'm not an expert in this area but that seems very optimistic. Creating an algorithm that gives better quality results than google for certain kinds of queries probably isn't too difficult. But scaling it up to indexing the entire web, continuously, would require a LOT of resources.
Exactly right about the seeing the data and rerunning calculations.

The programmers who look down their nose at Excel are doing the exact same thing in Jupyter Notebooks and in their REPLs.

>I can see the state of any given variable at any time
>I can rerun the same function on different inputs, or different functions on the same inputs
>All without having to restart my program!

Remind you of anything?

Anybody who does print(df.head()) is pining for Excel…
This longpost outlines many reasons I want to indefinitely put off visiting my hometown.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention... says "Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year", so perhaps it's from looking at cost centers more then just the company wide costs.
On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in Git: A Git choose-your-own-adventure
I seem to recall GitHub making some similar changes just prior to being acquired. Perhaps they are trying to make their books look good for suitors?
Now, if only they could solve the problem where the text they index does not match the text my browser displays.

I've seen a few searches recently (on DDG) where the indexed text is apparently hidden behind an authentication wall.

Google's cached page feature used to fix those sorts of shenanigans.
Sigh, I guess I should’ve clarified I meant “who cares whether or not there’s an elevator pitch, this is just something that someone thought we all needed and would be cool to build”.

FWIW I think it is cool and much needed.
It's so unintuitive to use for personal calls that I don't think I could ever convince one of my friends or relatives to use it. Having to create a meeting, send the link to someone, then hope they read it while I join the meeting and wait for them is so much more akward than just pressing a video call button like every other app does it.
Imagine being worth multiple billions of dollars and complaining about your property value being decreased by someone building townhouses in your zip code. Just last fall they spent nearly $200 million on an estate in Malibu.

Just the most detestable people.
Visa and Mastercard were pressured into cutting of Pornhub ads literally yesterday.

There needs to be a statuary right to be serviced by the banking system. This is in addition to escape valves such as cash and crypto.
This transmits the device serial number both times, linking the accounts together for Apple, FBI, DHS, ICE, CIA, et al.

(A reminder that Apple turns over user data to the US federal government WITHOUT A WARRANT over thirty thousand times per year per their own transparency report.)