skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mindblowing synchronicity. I thought this article was one I had read this weekend for a second but checked the post date and saw it wasn't available yesterday.

I'm working on trying to write a static site generator for my own personal site/blog in C++, been tinkering for a couple months. It started as a passion project in tribute to my dog that passed. GatsbyJS wasn't working (again) which is what my current site is built with, so I just said screw it, I'll write my own. Chose C to begin with and quickly gave up. Decided to switch to C++ because its what I'm supposed to be learning for work.

I named it bluesky, after my dog that passed, Sky Blue. https://github.com/mas-4/bluesky

Templating is a lot harder than I had initially thought. I wanted the templating system to be as bare bones as possible, similar to another static site generator I rather like, sergey[0]. Most of these articles I found ([1], [2]) about writing your own SSG don't go into templating much, they just use an off the shelf library. Inja[3] is available for C++ but, like I said, I want something really bare bones, like if you were designing html now, you'd obviously include html-includes and html-templates. I finally got it working for includes and templates, now I have to add the markdown support, and then I plan on migrating my personal site to using it.

[0]: https://sergey.cool/
[1]: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/stack-custom-made-s...
[2]: https://blog.hamaluik.ca/posts/build-your-own-static-site-ge...
[3]: https://github.com/pantor/inja

edit: a link
Scientists, Not Doing Science
Anytime I need to use the browser on my phone, I'm shocked how bad and unusable the web is. I move back to my laptop with an ad blocker if I want to do anything other than a quick Google search. A few mainstream sites like Google and YouTube are alright, even if the ads are annoying, but most sites are just downright hostile to be on.
Would love to find a well built high performance non gaming AMD 6x00H laptop. Bonus points if it’s really quiet and has good cooling so it will run without throttling (much). Weight, screen, keyboard and battery life not an issue I won’t unplug it or carry it around more than a few times per year (don’t ask, but yes it has to be a laptop).

All I can find is plasticky gaming rigs that some times don’t even have the pro/on-site support options, or lack option to not choose gaming GPUs.
It may seem pedantic, but it's an important difference: that's _not_ what the original definition was. Instead, it was a cross-functional team of developers and operators being responsible for a whole system.
> Just having the numbers ain't enough even to put money into an account.

Not sure what you mean by that - having the numbers would seem to be the only thing needed to add money into an account.
This idea can be easily reversed:

It's a deeper level of indoctrination. When these things are covertly inserted in an innocuous sounding show, not only will you start thinking about them, you will subconsiously think of them in a tolerant light.

China has its own culture and mores, why should it allow that kind of soft projection of Western power.
There was a proposal to just pump seawater inland to the center of Antarctica. That would consume a monumental amount of energy, of course, but is technologically feasible.
This is why you should only be using SSH keys instead of a user/pw.
NextDNS, which I've been using for over 2 years now, might help in your endeavor. In addition to its stock lists of lookup rules, you are allowed to customize your own blacklists/whitelists.
Visiting this place was totes fun. We played around inside. Very cosy. I remember wondering how safe it would have been to actually cook with fire inside. Don't recall what I concluded.

Interestingly, I think there were armed guards around for some reason.
Gevent for the Working Python Developer
I'm not sure what aspects of the current Chinese government/communist party would be called "left". For instance, they don't seem especially interested in prioritizing any kind of equality of distribution of resources or power (I'm not sure if they even pretend they are, at least in a way that even any 'true believers' believe? I'd be curious for a read from someone in China though); or with providing any real level of 'social safety net'. I think they do both of these things actually less than the USA does, at present. I think any theory that tries to mostly put things into a dimension of "left" and "right" which calls the current Chinese regime or party "left" is probably not a great theory.
You don't understand the point, GC is one way of managing memory, it is not the panacea

Some helpful reading, from people actually working on solving hard problems

https://twitter.com/FilmicWorlds/status/1562090212225716224

> only GC haters think otherwise.

only GC lovers think like that

that's not a good argument
Packfiles give me PTSD. They are so notoriously hard to maintain on the large scale server side.

I really wish git wasn't using them.
It's kind of ironic and uncool that DocPad's website is made using GitBook.
The evolution of mucus: How did we get all this slime?
I'm just holding out for buttons that look like you can click them. Bring back Windows 95
is there a chance of forming some kind of a community fail2ban blocklist? I guess trusting the contributors and admins is the hard part here and that’s why spam lists are a double edged sword?
Huh, I've had Twitter repeatedly prompt me to log in, fail to load tweets and misbehave in all kinds of other ways.

However, even if Twitter didn't have a history of such problems, having to click an extra link is annoying to the majority of users, which is part of why the HN Guidelines say to always link to the original source:

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fuck the cryptocurrency bullshit, hash "mining" is no basis for an economic model.
Annnnd my "bitter, cynical, grumpy HN type" radar just bust a cog :-)
I replied to two different comments or at least thats what I thought I was doing.
A core cultural competency of programmers is to be willing to just go look things up.

My opinion is that HN is losing this rapidly.
game development and graphics [1]

[1] https://pikuma.com/courses
You could masterfully copy the Van Gogh stroke for stroke, but without the understanding behind the composition, intent, and meaning behind the work, I’d argue you learned nothing. Except for how to copy.

The student/teacher interaction is where you learn. Even if you want to only paint in Van Gogh’s style, the back and forth with the teacher is where you actually learn how to apply that style to new works. To explore the meaning behind the stars, etc.

(You could get there solo, but you’d still need to go through the criticism/questioning phase somehow, which is probably best done with an IRL teacher).
Ask HN: Hiring a Career/Executive Coach
I just transitioned from running a startup to a big Fortune 500. I am now thinking of how to move further up in my career as an executive.

The challenge is that as a founder, I had a broad set of challenges and responsibilities that I had to learn on the go. I had a lot of flexibility in making decisions and just making things work.

Now in corporate world I am finding it challenging to fit in. A lot of conversations during meetings with SVP/VP level is just too high level (?) and abstract for me.

So thinking of hiring a career/executive coach to help me rewire my brain.

Any ideas on where to start from?
Surface area of the oceans is 361e6 km², let’s say each of 7e9 people using 200 liters of water daily (obviously way more in the developed world but a lot of the world still living in huts), 1e8 dm² in km² (since liters are dm³) you have

(7e9 * 200) / (361e6 * 1e8) = 0.00003878116 decimeters of sealevel/day = basically imperceptible
Short of having an army of testers whose job it is to continually retest the same UX sequences with every release, how is that possible? Rapid release to me implies releasing changes faster than they could possibly be manually tested. And automated tests are going to do a rotten job of detecting most UX regressions.
> Anyone with your routing number and account number, 2 numbers printed on every check, can ask your bank for all of your money

Mostly because this is not true. Anyone can’t do it. It’s relatively easy to get permission to get deposit access. Getting withdrawal access is not especially easy. And it’s capped at an amount relative to your credit rating.

And the people who do have withdrawal access need to have a good business reason to do withdrawal, and don’t want to lose their access.
Yes: https://www.wideopencountry.com/free-land-in-the-us/amp/
If you go to the disclosures statement at the bottom of the article, you'll learn that one of the authors on this paper—Gaetan Chevalier (a cell biology prof at UC Irvine)—has a financial interest in promoting grounding. His contributions make up a notable percentage of the published literature on grounding, maybe 10-20%? There are not many publications on the topic, since I assume there is a relatively weak level of financial incentive, and it reeks of pseudoscience.

After some digging I have found papers of higher scientific veracity pointing to grounding being useful in reducing inflammation and potentially improving sleep quality. I remember seeing a meta-review come out in 2018-2020 which concluded that there is a warm-level of evidence pointing to a health-promoting effect of grounding on the human body. Some of the papers that met the inclusion criteria I think were assessed to have low quality of evidence, though.

I don't have a strong enough background in science to know who's right here, but I do have sleep problems so I try to do everything I can to improve it. So I do ground my bed and the space near my keyboard so that I spend a decent amount of the day grounded; and I also consider it to be a completely effortless proposition with possibly a positive contribution to my health. Or, in the worst-case scenario, there's no benefit and I wasted maybe $10 on the copper wiring that I used to DIY it together. If I were a betting man my guess is that I will eventually throw this setup away when the science ends up being properly debunked; but I'm open to potentially investing more when the evidence becomes stronger.
That percentage will depend heavily on the show. The Big Bang Theory is fairly innocuous. Imagine trying to censor dramas like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, or House of Cards to remove all of the depictions of sex, drugs, or political commentary.
I have two types of floor in my house: one conducts electricity relatively well, the other - not so much (wood). I walk barefoot most of the time when I'm inside in the summer. No difference at all except that wood feels warmer and therefore cosier, that's all.
I always use trails, along with the largest pointer I can set and inverted coloration. It makes it a lot easier for me to always find the mouse at a glance when I move it slightly. I didn't always do so in the past, but the move to 4k clinched it.

Windows has a bug(?) with inverted colors combined with trails, though, where sometimes the cursor double-inverts when it's at rest. I consider this sort of a feature, though, since I don't care where it is if I'm not actively using it.
Avatar is one of the biggest grossing movies of all time with a plot critical of the military and imperialism.
You have 30 days after you receive your statement from the bank to challenge any transactions.

Always check your bank statements.
> The key thing that most people in tech don't appear to grok very easily is that the overwhelming majority of web services like search engines, social media, ad-driven news websites, etc are all things that users place practically zero value on. People accept ads because they're a way of paying for things without really thinking about it. If you start asking users for actual money they suddenly decide that all these services represent no value and they'll live without them.

Imagine a world where the only content that survives is the one that people value enough to pay for.

What a wonderful catastrophic disruptive event that would be. Imagine no more SEO spam which are essentially devoid of information. These which are already so plentiful and sophisticated that they are threatening the core value of online search. No more vacuous blogspam, low-quality trash "newspapers" that only survive because they trick people into giving them a few morsels of attention.

Imagine a human-curated web.
Indeed. It seems to have had the effect of removing pieces of reality.

I had a conversation once with a Chinese national, about an article about LGBTQ+ people in China.

"There's no Gay people in China"

(me, points at a picture of 2 young Chinese men in the article)

"They're from Hong Kong. There's no Gay people in China."

OK then!

(This was quite a while back, I suspect the same conversation today would play out differently, since the popular opinion is that HK is in fact part of China)
> a bank account that is strongly tied to your identity

Correction: strongly tied to some identity. For online banks, for example, there's not much they can do to check if it's not a stolen identity. You'd need a lot of data - SSN, addresses, driver's license, etc. - but it's not out of the question to obtain such data from dark markets. Of course, withdrawal still be a problem, and this identity package will likely be burned once the first fraud notice will happen, so it may not be worth it to waste it this way.
xeyes was another wayland casualty sadly. I hope someone figures out a way to build wayland_eyes
On X11, the cursor is only a mouse when you move it over the cat. Otherwise the cat chases your normal cursor.
We need some of that right now though
Familiar with the band, but not examples of this. Can you recommend any tracks that demonstrate?
I don't believe eChecks and ACH are the same - eChecks are associated with a check number but this isn't the case for the many ACH transactions I have seen. Additionally, every eCheck I've encountered also had a required consent question ("Do you authorize us to...") whereas this isn't the case for ACH transactions.
> The argument would be that you can find critical views of the military - just not in a blockbuster movie.

You can, in fact, have critical views of the military in blockbuster movies in the US. But not if you want to use US military bases and aircraft and ships as sets for those movies, or to get support of the US military in making the movie. Depending on the particular movie, this could be a make-or-break deal for them (Top Gun, for instance, would be pretty shitty with stock footage of US aircraft carriers and aircraft instead of actual footage staged for the movie).
I don't think most people can do hard core technical work for 8+ hours daily.

There was a 2014 HN thread "Ask HN: How many hours can you productively program a day?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131116
There's something ironic about that.

A bot tries to mass ssh login on entire subnets.

A bot on one machine blocks the first bot and notified their hosting provider.

A bot on the hosting provider responds with a web form for reporting abuse.

A bot tries to fill out the web form, but is hit with a captcha.
It does get abused. With counterfeit checks.

You may have come across the sort of scam where someone wants to "buy" something you're selling. But they send you a much larger check. "Please send us the extra/surplus", they say. Or, "the rest is for shipping, send that to X, they'll pick up the item". Then when the check works its way through the system, is found to be fraudulent, the transaction gets reversed.

https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/august2019.html

Wiring money is something outside the norm in the US banking system. I think if it were more common, then ACH fraud would be far more common.

Anecdote: When I wanted to wire money (overseas), the hassle at my bank was plenty. Every piece of paper had in huge letters "this could be fraud! Once this transaction happens, the money is gone! Forever!" (slight exaggeration).
Massive paywall
Clamp a meter around the lead wire.
> Instead you would have shortages.

This assumes an increase in spending rather than saving and/or paying down debt(s).
About 15 years ago a company kept taking money out of my checking account via ACH every two weeks. It was a large, well-known company, but I had never done business with them. I contacted them and the only answer I could get was "well, if we have your information, you must have authorized it, so I can't help you. Besides, you don't have an account with us, so I can't stop it."

dafuq?

So I went to my local bank branch during lunch and explained the situation. The bank manager told me that she could stop it immediately, and reverse all the transactions to date, but since it was recurring, the only way she could block future transactions (outside a 6-month window) would be to close my account and open another one.

We agreed to do that.

Literally as she was going through the process, another of these phantom debits showed up.
Got all my money back, had to change checking account #'s and never found out how it happened. I can only assume that the next time PayChex tried to debit my account and it bounced, they figured out their mistake.

But hey, thanks for the absolutely useless customer support! I guess it only works if you're actually a customer.
Is the author around?

The visualization below "So the question has to be asked: what kind of content has been removed, and why?"

Is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Could you share how this was made?
> The recreations are absurdly Western sounding… white-washing and disingenuous

From the article—

“University of California emeritus professor of Assyriology Anne Kilmer spent 15 years researching the tablet, before transcribing it into modern musical notation in 1972.”

I’m sure Professor Kilmer, who has spent her entire career studying these civilizations and resurrecting some small piece of their history and culture for our modern generations to enjoy and appreciate before they disappear forever, would be thrilled to hear you summarize her decades of work as “white washing”.

The music is published and open source - anyone can go and play it! Publish their own interpretation! They already seem to range from authentic recreations of traditional instruments to a modern guitar.

Congratulations to Dr. Kilmer on her incredible work.
Many such usecases can be achieved by setting a non-personalized cookie, for which you need neither consent nor a popup. You can put a cookie like "has_visited=yes" or "ABtest=B".

If you want to track unique users, well, you're not supposed to unless the users opt in (not avoid opting out!), and you have to accept that at least a part won't - the society and law has decided such desires are not legitimate unless the data subjects themselves want that.
I already said I loved Snow Crash. What more do you want? As I said in another comment, my emotions are based on years of being condescended to about this book. The book is like a Sacred Cow and I regret breaking my moratorium on commenting on it.
The only brute force solution to reducing sea level rise that might be reasonable is to pump sea water into a dammed desert basin, e.g. Sahara or Australia.

The mass of water you would have to displace to handle what's melting off Greenland and Antarctica on top of thermal expansion of the oceans due to hotter water[0] would make this the biggest mega project humanity has ever attempted, by several orders of magnitude.

From a purely economic and technical perspective, it probably makes drastically more sense to just gradually abandon parts of our coastal cities as they submerge and retreat inland.

[0] - https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/global-sea...
> Medicare and education are strongly impacted by Baumol's cost disease.

I disagree. Healthcare isn't necessarily labor intensive. New technologies should make care cheaper. If anything labor efficiencies have made the actual labor required of medical care a lot less. Doctors used to make house calls and spend more time with you. Now you go into a doctor's office, wait up to an hour sometimes, sit in a room, have some lower paid aids take your vitals, get your information, etc and you end up seeing the doctor for 15 min. Doctors see about 20 patients a day and spend normally 15 minutes per patient. Compare that to 50 years ago and you can bet that there have been "labor efficiencies" since that time. That doesn't even account for tele-medicine for routine stuff like getting ear drops for a sick child.

As for education, teachers aren't paid a lot, all the new costs are administration. Education expenses did not grow proportionally to educator's salaries, but far exceeded them, so your theory doesn't hold up.

https://www.excel-medical.com/a-typical-primary-care-physici...
A valid question, I think. There _is_ censorship in America, mostly related to sex and nudity (for some reason, Americans are way more sensitive to this compared to Europeans). Or, say, smoking.
Is the Delta-Heavy human rated? Can the Orion Capsule fly on it?
Because the people of China didn't choose this: their oppressive and authoritarian government did it for them.
My comment was about Hamasaki being a liar and online harasser and doesn’t have anything to do with policy positions.
I appreciate that the Hacker News title is “90s” correcting the author’s typo of “90's” (though more pedantically I suppose “’90s” could be preferred)
Right. Censorship is accomplished economically. The government doesn't ban content; it simply is the only legal owner of military hardware in the country, and will allow near-unlimited use of that hardware for content that promotes the military; that hardware is entirely unavailable for content critical of the military.

Is this better than explicit censorship? That's more of an open question.
> A "private cloud" doesn't help if congress decides that comcast should also be allowed to MITM your SSL connection to scan every image you donwload.

Not to be overly pedantic, but I don't think this is true on a technical level? Any "private cloud" worth its salt would presumably use its own E2E encryption, with keys known only to the owner.

The government could force the private cloud vendor to build a back door, but that's kicking things up a notch. The vendor could also decide to build a back door on their own, I suppose... which is another reason people in this market tend to want open source.
FSFs reasoning:

1. it's proprietary

2. copilot is for-profit

3. GitHub's Contract with ICE

4. their entire hosting site is, itself, proprietary and/or trade-secret software

5. GitHub does not even offer any self-hosting FOSS option.

6. GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally.

7. GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.

---

Thoughts regarding those

1. i'm not a religious zealot. I'm not opposed to people making proprietary software. I'm not opposed to using proprietary software.

2. see my comment on 1. Also, even if you disagree with the license violation bs that it does, not using github won't stop it. If everyone abandon's github, a) GitLab will fill in the gap b) CoPilot or its successor will just start trawling every public git repo it can find instead of just the ones on GitHub. This will happen eventually anyway so any argument against CoPilot is unaffected (long term) by abandoning github.

3. Valid. Honestly, i thought they'd abandoned that.

4. same as 1

5. duh, because 1

6. uh... say what? They couldn't exist without it.

7. And have since changed their tune and fully embraced it.
> to subvert the government's artificial constraint on the free market

No government constraint/restriction was mentioned in the hypothetical scenario I constructed.