skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who was near a tree during the eclipse saw that, too. The effect was very clear in spots of light passing through leaves. Definitely weird to see.
> my personal theory is that people don’t care

Apathy and exhaustion are extremely difficult to tell apart. It is also possible that many people, especially in the medical sector are burnt out.
I have helped a few friends kick start their kids love of cooking by sharing some free meal coupons from Blue Apron. It's a great way to ease someone into cooking who has zero experience since they provide recipes with easy to follow directions and provide the exact quantity of ingredients needed which keeps waste down. It really helps break down the intimidation barriers and get people *started* on cooking on their own. I stay with it for the convenience, but most of them have since moved on and now do their own recipe planning and shopping; but they probably wouldn't be where they are if they hadn't at least started.

As a single person the biggest thing I like about services like Blue Apron: I can have a wide variety of fresh ingredients but without the waste of buying things like family sized bundles of herbs where I end up throwing half or more out before I can use them all.
I currently pay less per month to Hetzner for a rented dedicated server (from the second hand "server auction" section) than I would pay in electricity alone if I ran the thing in my home. Yeah, electricity is quite expensive now in Germany and Europe. ^^
Is this really a dismissal? You say "it is like asking what is P(A|A)" but that is just another notation for the logical proposition A.

Saying something is like someone asking questions about logical propositions generally isn't considered bad form: logic actually has more to recommend it than probability theory - logic is when probability theory suggests certainty and probability theory is what you get due to logic applied to hidden information. Logic is therefore always more certain and stable than probabilistic claims: it is what you have when certainty exists.

I don't find the statement which translates to it being like reasoning perfectly to be particularly strong as a dismissal. It doesn't even seem to merit the rank of disagreement - the article does go into discussion of logical propositions and has it very near the fundamentals. So saying it is like it is effectively just a repetition of what the article states, but using different words.

You appear to me to be stating premises within the text and implying that the existence of logical reasoning means you disagree, but that doesn't quite make sense to me. To dismiss the argument would require that you first disagree with it at least once, which you haven't done, and probably ought to have a stronger foundation that the rejection of logical relationships. After all, if you reject those, then you've also rejected probability theory - with it your reject observation, which is related to both logic and probability via sampling. The rejection on the basis of being like logic has corollaries of claiming to be both blind and incapable of coherent reasoning. This isn't a very strong basis for dismissal.
Regulation can be defined to exempt certain aspects of app making. It's not just an on/off switch.

That being said, even an open source developer can potentially conduct info gathering and/or do serious damage to any consumer that installs their app, so in many cases, there would be no offense cited if there isn't malintent or negligence involved.

We're far past the point where regulation should have been in place. A serious example should be set to create a proper message about this type of activity by private companies and individuals. It is really not necessary for private companies to gather this personal info on individuals for any app. It should be in everyone's best interest to end this espionage-for-profit activity, even if it devastates the opportunistic industry that activity created.
Undoubtedly the technology is unharmed by the ego that wills it to be.

So, yes, I care. The implication is I should not, but why not?

The devaluation of care is rotting society. No matter how shiny it may get.
Yes, Muse is exactly designed for this style of working/thinking.
Coulda woulda shoulda Gouda
>These are complaints that the public are making to the police. There is a relevant law about malicious comms, so the police are obliged to open a case.

>Give me a break. Members of the public are taxed to provide a police service. If they feel like they're a victim of malicious communications, they're allowed to go to the police. Nothing to do with being "content to police non-crime" or being "woke".

And you act as though that's a good thing?

100k people going through the work of reporting what is likely mostly unfunny boomer memes and thinly veiled trolling is a much stronger indictment of the current state of affairs than 100k instances of bored cops going looking for violations of some broad law from the comfort of their desks.
Eggcorn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

In linguistics, an eggcorn is an alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements,[1] creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context.
In that sense though, it's not much different from an RSS client reporting back to a synchronization server which articles you've read and which you haven't. It would be great to turn it off without resorting to "airplane mode", but it's also been a nice feature which allows me to squeeze in a little bit of reading from my phone when I don't have an e-reader on my person.
Don't bother with the sock-puppet users fellow traveler, as they are unlikely interested in learning anything that isn't immediately obvious. =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Qq31ucGy0
Could it have been built for military but then taken over and given a fresh coat of paint (or mosaics, as the case may be) by the new civilian tenant?
> rather than be allowed

This seems like a particularly uncharitable interpretation from the context of the post.
The reason is pretty simple. I want to carry around a tablet. I can't fit a tablet in my pocket, but I can fit a folding tablet in my pocket. Thus, I will use a folding tablet, such as a Samsung or Oppo or Vivo Fold.
According the the person who reported a crime, it was...and that person has the right to be taken seriously
That's an interesting history lesson! I always assumed hidden dotfiles was a conscious design decision.
That's a good question. My job is in web development where some analytical creativity is needed. I also like to draw and paint in my free time. Both activities feel similar in that I can get into that "flow" state in each one, but I don't know how much of the sources of creativity is common to both.
Also in the guidelines you quote:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

So perhaps don't cherry-pick which guidelines should be followed? Please just flag the article and move on; no need to comment.

Also:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

Your post is better served as an email.
In our combined scenario a carpenter can sell to anybody as long as they sell to everybody at the same price for the same type of buyers (retail/wholesale).

The solution is to mandate non discriminatory licensing, everything else you suggested is a workaround to avoid that step.
List of Keys to the City in the United States
If you don't buy bitcoin right now you're a sucker, look at all these people making money. Oh yeah, it also has some business justifications that totally make sense, trust us, this isn't vaporware... look, see, all these people are using it to buy drugs! /s
So ad hominem attack in its textbook form.

"Let's not discuss a specific action and its implications on the society. Let's instead talk how bad the person is because he retweeted a post that was created by another person that expresses the views that some people decided nobody should dare to express."

No, separation of actions from identities is a cornerstone of a civilized society. Otherwise, we quickly descend into witch burning and lynching by the mob.
Pennies is still to high. It needs to be fractional.
I don't agree with being harassed by the police over something that's literally not a crime.

But I'm not sure why GBNews would be grifting with it. Conservatives have been in power in the UK for 12 years now and they've done nothing about it.
The ratio is tricky. We don't really need vehicles to potentially carry more people -- we need folks to buy smaller vehicles.

If we try to penalize people for buying a two-seater truck, they'll just buy an even bigger extended cab with more seats. This is pretty much the exact kind of metric game the article cites as causing these giant trucks in the first place -- companies were penalized for building small fuel-inefficient trucks, so they just built big fuel-inefficient trucks that weren't penalized as much.
Just pirate your books if you’re so concerned.
Upgrade Your Desktop
With nuclear being 6.3 percent and the rest of this half of the circle being coal and a bit of gas.
Picking ideologies is the only way you can define something as nebulously described as "grossly offensive or indecent". For example, I find material that claims to care about climate change while attacking nuclear power to be grossly offensive. Someone else might find a selfie of a woman in a bikini or at a topless beach to be indecent.

Tell the complainant, sorry, you feel like you're a victim of crime

Do people in the UK really wake up every day knowing that hurting someone's feelings is a crime and they're just ok with that? Of course society could not function if that were the case in practice. In practice, whose feelings matter is entirely political.
Yes and Yes to both your questions. Well.. except for HN of course but even here I sometimes 'rage quit' (which is a good thing obviously).

My reasons for quiting Facebook etc were two fold - firstly it was a constant stream of chatter and noise (and yes, I was selective/restrictive aka 'family and friends only' but even with that there would be a constant herfuffle or mini-drama that left my phone pinging and ponging. Who-da-fugg-needs-that right?

Secondly ... My mental health improved and my resting heart rate dropped. Whooda-Thunk-It?
Which word would you have used?
I don't understand how skipping an entry by comparing it with strcmp(name, ".") == 0 turned into name[0] == '.'

Is it what really happened (lots of programmers, by mistake, wrote a comparison function which is just plain wrong), or Rob Pike is conjecturing?
That is annoying but easily fixed with xdg-user-dirs-update eg:

xdg-user-dirs-update --set MUSIC ~/.xdg-user-dir/music
Putin's starting to get on my nerves.
Yes... Bret Weinstein "voluntarily" resigned his position at Evergreen... after being hunted by a mob with baseball bats.

Nikole Hanna-Jones--author of the egregiously historically inaccurate 1619 project and an "academic" with no PhD, no academic publications, no teaching experience--was offered a non-tenure 5-year contract at UNC. Then when UNC eventually buckled under woke pressure and offered the 5-year contract with tenure, Jones rejected UNC and accepted a tenured position at Howard instead.

Very comparable situation.
I think Wordpress is a great example. I recently tried making a simple website using Wordpress's visual layout editor, and it was absolute hell. The process consists of fighting with unlabeled icons, convoluted UI state that is controlled by mouse movements apparently, shit jumping around all over the place when you add/remove stuff, and a ton of other terrible UX decisions. It felt like I was trying to perform a satanic ritual with my mouse.

I'm not a front end guy, but I was able to write exactly what I wanted directly in HTML/CSS in around 2-3 hours. That's for a static site with responsive layout and like 3 pages.

Could someone who is actually in expert in Wordpress's editor do this in less than 3 hours? No doubt. But at the end of the day, all it cost me to build a vastly superior solution was a few hours (and again, I'm not an expert at frontend stuff at all, so that was not as fast as it could be done). Instead of having to host a bloated Wordpress site now, I just need to serve a few static HTML/CSS files, which can be done for free nowadays with a lot of providers.

So the no code solution is more expensive to operate, and less efficient/performant. But at the same time, it doesn't require an expensive developer (even if an actual front-end dev would only need 1 billable hour at most)
"No, they are terrorists who want a civil war" is not the comeback you think it is. The people who think like that should be on watchlists and the registries that prevent them from buying guns.
Why would you need a phone app? You can just email them to special Amazon email address and they'll be converted and uploaded to Kindle.

PS: Yeah that wouldn't work for books with DRM. So might be its the problem.
"Let’s say you want to make a $100 payment to a merchant. Using your credit card would cost the merchant $3, which is then passed along to you via hidden costs. "

You also get 1-3 credit card points, which for you is extra money that you wouldn't get if you were to pay for this with Bitcoin or, for that matter, cash.

Also if the merchant screws you and sends you the wrong or a broken item, you can dispute the charge and real humans from American Express or Chase will spend their valuable time to help you resolve the dispute.

And, of course, if someone makes an outright fraudulent transaction with your card then the CC company will return your funds no questions asked. With bitcoin, your funds are lost for ever whether it was a mistake or a fraud.

These services are necessary (to build trust or for regulation reasons). If that was not the case we'd have seen a lot more real world adoption of crypto by now.
> Yes, maybe it would make for a less repressive society, but you would be opening ways for any sort of expression, not only those that don't bother you directly but also those that do.

Yep, I get all kinds of really mean things said to me. Sometimes I even get upset by them.

I don't feel a need to arrest and jail the people saying those mean things.
Funnily enough the phrase beyond the pale is, perhaps apocryphally, said to originate from Ireland. The pale was an area around Dublin under the control of the English in the Middle Ages. Only “barbarian Irish” lived outside, beyond the area. I’m from the part outside ;)
And Rainbo hasn't given us a reason to buy sliced bread.
Some things are just obvious and, to those who refuse to use their own cognitive faculties, Samsung owes nothing.
The producer is not on the hook for manufacturing demand.
> the meeting itself should be a point of collaboration

A meeting of the executive team is a point of decision, not of collaboration. Individual contributors make meetings for collaborating, middle managers make them mostly for problem discovery, high management make them for decision communication (not decision making).
I believe some landfills burn off the methane? I wonder how effective that is.
> we lost. It's over. I don't know how we'll ever get it back.

Nope. We're here. You and me. You wrote a thoughtful comment, and now we're having a conversation about it. We, two people who have never met (so far as I know). This right here is about what we had when we said "The web was wonderful. The internet was so full of promise."

Now, true, much of the web turned into ads/corporate/shill/propaganda. And it takes dang being superhuman to keep this place from being overrun. So the larger battle may be lost.

But I think The Cluetrain Manifesto still had (and has) a fairly good point. We want the human voice on the internet, even if the corporations give us corporate-speak. (We want it even more now, with Covid having reduced the amount of in-person interaction.) We want the human touch. Corporations found that they could extract more money from us by other approaches, but we humans still want human interaction. And, I think, that's part of the charm of HN. It's mostly human talk rather than talking points or corporate-speak. (That's part of why people just repeating talking points feels so jarring here - it's out of place.)

So I think there are still pockets of what made the web so wonderful back in the day. It's not the majority any more, but there is still a fair amount of it around, if you look for it.
I think I've read the same article, and also wish I had the reference-I do remember that there were no or few registers, and reads were from memory almost all the time..

Also-does anyone know of a an actual system that shipped with a 432? Like, manufacturer and model #?
Even with all cryptocurrencies prices roller coaster and continuous scams they are 100x times better still than traditional banks - less paperwork, everything automated as much as possible, often even faster. No COBOL and online clients from 1990.
I fully agree with this.

I brought this example up because clearly there is a problem here. But, no one is wrong, and shutting down the conversation as "you just can't admit when you are wrong" is not productive for anyone (since no one is wrong). Maybe the conversation will go nowhere, and because I might be completely oblivious to that fact (I try to be, but it's a lot of work), it helps if the manager, whose job it is to facilitate communication, becomes aware of what is going on, and says "I know you are trying to establish context, but it sounds like you are just echoing my questions back at me. I actually want a list of reasons why YOU think it is a good or bad idea. I won't mind if you assume things; we can clarify that later". I have absolutely no problem being interrupted that way; that makes a lot of sense and helps everybody. Once I know people won't mind me riffing without making absolutely sure we are talking about the same thing, I can go with that just fine.

This assumes good faith and open-mindedness on both sides. Assuming I am being arrogant, dismissive, know-it-all, won't back off, can't admit I am wrong, when I am trying not to, helps nobody.
(Non-combative) do you have a non-partisan source? - I ask because I’ve seen that and other similar statements (“The LGB Alliance is an astroturfed organisation”) on Twitter, and wonder if they’re objectively true or exaggerations / distortions from opposing activists?
> ... Arcane Research estimated that in Q1 22, Lightning facilitated $20–30M in monthly payments. That’s a 4x YoY increase, but a far cry from the $866B Visa facilitates each month.

It's worth noting the scorn and hate once thrown on this idea as a scaling method for Bitcoin back in 2014-2018. Part of the problem was that the protocol needed to be upgraded for certain things to work well. Part of the problem was that the underlying concept, although simple, is very technically deep. (Many people still don't realize that Bitcoin does "smart contracts" and always has). Part of the problem was that the "obvious" solution from the perspective of beginners -just make bigger blocks - seemed so natural while Lightning seemed so alien.

Edit: why is this post now flagged?
Did they ever figure out their scaling issues? Every time I ask about the basics of how routing is supposed to work, shills send me to 100-page incomprehensible documents instead of giving a clear answer.

Particular questions I have

1) how does a node know the connectivity of the (whole or most of) network? What about a brand new node?

2) do nodes just constantly announce themselves?

3) does it still rely on hub-and-spokes model? (aka centralized)
Except for Libc. I compiled a rust program on Ubuntu 20.04 and tried to run it on Ubuntu 18.04, and bam.... a piano fell on my head! Consequences.
>Can't think of any downsides to a standard phone really.

I think durability and price are the 2 biggest downsides people will face with a folding phone. A third might be software support, but I don't know if the situation has improved over time?
For nim, you could use something like nimcr (https://nimble.directory/pkg/nimcr). You put a shebang in your script `#!/usr/bin/env nimcr` and then call it like a normal script.

eg:

$ code script.nim

#!/usr/bin/env nimcr
echo "hello world"

$ ./script.nim
hello world

edit:

There's also the possibility of using nimscript, using nim e. It works similarly but you'd change the shebang line to something like

#!/usr/bin/env nim e --hints:off
Ask HN: Data Migration Apps / Frameworks?
We have a small SaaS product (4 developers on the team) with many competitors in the space, including a variety of homegrown solutions. Our industry has existed for many decades, and so many of our new customers have records dating back tens of years or more. In our industry, it's vital the historic records be migrated to any new software solution, and so we are in a position of needing to migrate data for almost every new client that we onboard. And because these new clients are currently using a variety of competitor software products, or their own in-house system of Excel sheets and TXT files, we end up hand-migrating everyone, which is both error prone and time consuming.

We have an in-house system to help eliminate errors in the migrations, but it is still EXTREMELY time consuming to build the migration scripts and vet the data, and we still end up with errored data from time to time.

What I'm hoping to find is some program (Free, Paid, whatever) or framework (Any language is fine) that can help with the migration process. Ideally this is a program that we can point at a data source (Even if we first have to hand move things into a proper database engine) and then write queries or transformations to get that data into our required format. Even better if the utility can keep track of data that we didn't move and show us what tables/columns were not moved so that we can audit the migrations in order to verify that all required data is being moved.

With all of the SaaS products in the world, I'd be surprised if nothing exists in this space, but so far in my lunch break googling I've come up empty.
That's not what I said. The overstepping should be dealt with, decisively. But that doesn't excuse the fact that The Mirror is a deplorable rag and absolutely does not belong on HN, considering how paltry their journalistic standards are.
What Makes Redpanda Fast
It's fine, it's Sid (he's a good guy).