skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting (and sad) how the forums of yesteryear have essentially gone away entirely, with no good solutions popping up to replace them. I know they were/are incredibly prone to security issues, but they were good at one thing and one thing only: community.

I recall spending a crazy amount of time refreshing the index on a site called TradeGamesNow (and to a lesser degree CheapAssGamer) waiting for new posts/comments. Now every site on the web either has a Subreddit (too much tertiary noise), Discord (I'm terrified of making a post on the wrong server by accident), or (to a lesser degree) Slack (limited features, as noted in the article).

As to the Slack announcement: I get that guests staying in your house for free eat not-free food. That being said, I have to imagine that Slack could offer a non-real-time updating experience (no polling, disable calls/video/file hosting) to cut down on costs (my assumption is that the active nature of the service is the biggest expense) and make it feasible for a free or $5/mo for X users & unlimited guests.

(I'm aware that Discourse was Supposed To Be The Chosen One, but at $100/mo and no self-hosting option (that I can see), I don't think it's even considered much. But I could be wrong.)
Yeah, I don't know how to convince myself that it will ever be truly safe.

It isn't if it fails, it is when it fails.

Seems highly risky compared to simpler alternatives.
Some cancer patients respond well to a given chemotherapy while others don't. Some people get vaccinated and gain protection while others get sick. Some people smoke marijuana and get euphoria while others get paranoid, and others are unaffected. I guess those drugs are nonviable and pointless.

To someone suffering from clinical depression or an anxiety disorder, your cavalier suggestion to just take a four day vacation is laughable.

If people who spend their lives wrestling with difficult issues and you think you can just chime in with an obvious solution, it is a good clue that perhaps you don't fully understand the issues.
Similarly, English syntax errors - which are extremely common among non-native speakers - usually don’t prevent you from being understood, either.

E.g. “I wondered what did he do” will be understood perfectly by virtually 100% of English speakers, but will immediately mark you as a non-native speaker (the correct form is “I wondered what he did”).
The "create a restore point" part is handled by Microsoft VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) and it probably failed because of issues with the OS, not the software itself.
Have you solved the problem of intermittent power production by solar and wind energy and included the costs of it to the calculation? It seems to me that the solar and wind energy are causing problem in the energy market with their unreliable production and not paying the cost of solving this problem.
The main advantage that Slack has, especially for many people in non-technical roles, is the just-professional-enough user interface over the casual look of Discord.

I've been in Discord servers for volunteer work, and while it generally works pretty great, the system feels a lot more casual to users (e.g. with non-human profile pictures). On the other end of the spectrum, Microsoft Teams is almost too professional, and has an emotional association of being too corporate/formal for more pleasant use.

Discord is also tougher to create group conversations easily (you need to be Friends first). Though, if message history is really that important, it could be a worthwhile tradeoff.
You could have stopped after the word "discussion".
Why not make yet another XML standard for patents and generate PDFs from it?
Cool! Almost certainly fermented.
Thanks. I am asking because you can (and absolutely should) work on people accidentally ending up in an interaction they werent supposed to be in. Thats a problem you can work on, especially with your feedback about disclaimer fatigue. And having a look now the current order page is indeed quite the clusterfuck. When i ordered it was just one big red line right above order button,
Either way, its something that can be worked on cooperatively. Its in both parties interest that this doesnt happen.

What is a lot harder, and needs additional information about the motivation, is why somebody would consciously engage into this interaction and then demand it to be a different format. Because then it becomes a task of filtering out motivated people.
We do have sales tax. And plenty of other taxes. And lots of things that we refer to as “free” that are taxpayer funded.
If Zulip became an overnight success, five to seven years from now I see them making similar changes. Resources cost money and Slack achieved what it needed to in order to establish itself as the dominant company in the space.

If anything, this will allow for some meaningful competition
Preventing other people from shooting themselves in the foot is called management. Maybe that's how you can best contribute.
The Romans had hydraulic systems too.

That does not mean that innovations like the train and motors didn't transform society.
We have to consider the system as a whole. If the industry in question provides a clear social good, such as medicine or energy production, then there is a moral duty to snitch or perhaps confront the person and give them a chance to reform beforehand. If it's just some tech company, especially a FAANG, ratting them out just means helping elites and reinforcing systems of control for no benefit except to the elites themselves. Ethics guidelines are meaningless at best or a sick joke at worst when it comes to the vast majority of companies in the overall picture. Just another twisted, internalized abstraction in favor of the masters.
We could also just have a lucky sun. It hasn’t flared on us in a hundred years or so. Maybe other systems aren’t so lucky and they can’t use electricity like we can. Hell, the next time it does flare up, we will probably go back to a preindustrial society for a decade or so.
The limit on the temperature is as low as 26C or 79F. It's not like the river is boiling. Furthermore this heat dissipates downstream, it's not affecting the entire waterway. This heat has the potential to harm fish in a segment of a few rivers. By comparison, throttling carbon-free energy production has the certain impact of producing more greenhouse gases, which will contribute to global climate change. I seriously don't see how someone makes this kind of tradeoff - it's like the same mentality that held up a solar farm to relocate tortoises.
> we would not hesitate one second and wear our tightest tank top and trunks , get tanned and play the part.

speak for yourself bro. i'm not it.
I am a graphics researcher who has been following your blog posts on your GPU vector graphics engine. I've been benefitted by your posts and I think some of the vector graphics renderer designs you discussed in your blog are genuinely novel and worth publishing as academic papers if written and evaluated properly. Please consider submitting them to a graphics venue like SIGGRAPH, EGSR, High Performance Graphics, or Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques if you find free time to do it. It will greatly benefit the community. ; )

By the way: graphics community does recognize contribution on fast and robust polynomial solvers! See the very recent work from Yuksel http://www.cemyuksel.com/research/polynomials/
Just migrate to RocketChat?
Seriously. Did a physics bachelor's and taking a network science course in my master's right now. Also currently looking for a job, and it feels impossible to get people to take me, a generalist who can move up and down the problem stack with ease, seriously. I truly believe what Heinlein said; that specialization is for insects.
Just migrate to SMS?
It should however be noted that this does not work with end-to-end encryption and stores your conversations on those apps on their server.
If the window width is a fractional value between 999px and 1000px then the CSS is broken and the list of sections is overlayed with the content as you scroll.

Fractional window widths happen when you use Chrome's "zoom" feature.
There is absolutely a self hosting option with Discourse, and in fact they encourage it. [0] Here is their install guide [1]

[0] https://github.com/discourse/discourse

[1] https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTAL...
Exactly right. The whole “pay so they don’t track you” thing is a trope of maybe more than a decade ago. Now you pay to get the basic feature you need and you’ll get your data sold anyways.
> decades of treating women basically as second class citizens or worse with no outlet "created" this environment.

you mean like japan? what about US where women have unfair advantages?

so your solution is for those women to marry you right?

where do you get this idea that a culture "treats women like shit"? if anything telling women to whore themselves to rich men inject drugs and kill their fetuses seem to me like that definition if we are gonna play stereotypes.
Market forces heavily influenced by politics, so not "literally".
> Has the Go team hit on some GC algorithm that has escaped the notice of the entire compiler-creating world since 1995?

It's like the saying about recycling: "1. Reduce 2. Reuse 3. Recycle". Just like in real life, it's far better to never have to go to all the way down to #3. If you never generate garbage in the first place, you won't have to waste resources cleaning it up. So it's less about how good the actual Go GC is and more that the language itself greatly discourages wasting memory via aggressive stack allocation, value types, and an allocation-conscious culture.
There are conferences for products written in C.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 review:fast, flawed version of a great laptop
> What other alternatives are there?

1. Fantastic content. If you have that pretty much nothing else matters.

2. Hand-tuned CSS and HTML
Discord just isn't a good fit for B2B
IRC has always been free and you can search as much as you've logged...

One thing that a lot of people seem to have difficulty understanding is just how little space text takes up; someone typing at 120wpm continuously for 28h has only generated a little over 1MB of text. No doubt Slack is taking advantage of that lack of understanding to make people think the costs are greater.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

My wife has complained that open office will never print on Tuesdays!?!

Made my day.
I mean, where are we gonna go? Microsoft Teams? Damn thing is terrible.

I guess Discord can be a option.
I thought that Google was retiring AMP anyways?
No one has stopped studying strict types, they are alive and well
If that worked for C programmers on Unix who use GNU Make, that would be cool.

$(if $(filter foo.o,$(OBJS)),this,that)
Please stop using Slack/Discord for forum replacements. Forums can be indexed and found. Slack/Discord is like pissing in the wind. Here today, gone three hours from now.
Of course not, but I do expect to control the code I am asked to execute on the user's machine? How can you guarantee stability of something you don't have control over?
I request a citation that it was a major cause of Texas' power outage, because looking at this graph, there is a step-down in nuclear generation on Feb 15th from 5 to 4 gw, but that's smaller than the step-downs in natural gas (-15 gw), coal (-5 gw) and wind (-5 gw).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis#/media...
Right, but the point is that it shouldn't continue on to uninstall the apps if creating the restore point fails.
No need to use this, you can do the same with the Get-AppxPackage and Remove-AppxPackage commands in PowerShell.
I do and I love it! (except it stopped working on Safari and Firefox for some reason)
Funny, I was going to post something snarky b/c TFA was attractive and easy to read. Since the author works for Chicago Tribune I went to the site and... not at all bad, considering the commercial constraints legacy media is stuck with.
His style in unconventional to say the least, and you can straw man his talks in hundreds different ways, nitpicking the numerous weaknesses.

But, in my opinion, that would be missing the point.

The point is not on being rock-solid, I find this type of risky rants refreshing and thought provoking, and there are many good/interesting things there.
What? Why don't you just copy and paste links into a browser you control? I don't understand why you would want to interfere with the developer's code. If you choose to open a link in Facebook's app, why is it their fault if they track you?
The man at the center of the most notorious crypto case in history
Ask HN: Staff engineer with college grad skill level
I am a staff engineer at a very large company where tech is not the core product. Been here for ~6 months. I have been in software for ~20 years and I literally have the skills of a CS college grad (maybe). I do not have a bachelors degree. I could not tell you how tcp/ip works or create a linked list. I am very good at interviewing and a pretty good people / project leader. People like me and I look after the people that work for me, always looking to speak well of them to leadership. I have steadily attained higher job positions. I keep each job for a couple years before jumping to a new one for a raise. To say I have imposter syndrome is a massive understatement. I am also really burned out, unable to focus for more than 30 minutes at a time and have been like this for years. I have somehow reached this position far outside of my skillset and a pretty good salary (not faang). I find myself really liking this current company and would like to stay here. How do I make myself a better engineer at this stage of the game? Essentially I need 1 more promotion to director level and then I don't really have to worry about it, I can just do what I like which is manage people and projects. I am probably a couple years away from that. I never liked tech, I just kind of stumbled into it and stayed there because it pays well. I have managed to keep up with most of my work by working 60 - 70 hours a week a lot of the time and now I am fried. What should I do?
Eh, you're right if you treat it as just clipping "morphological". But it doesn't sound like it to most people, they think "English and Japanese are in the same category of lacking a future tense" in some non-extremely-limited way. When really English is far closer to a language with morphological future tense than it is to Japanese.

Here's what I mean:

1. Go to this link: http://erg.delph-in.net/logon .

2. Type in "I will go to the store" and check "mrs" in the output list.

3. Click "Analyze"

4. In the MRS (right pane), under "go_v_1", hover over the "e3" of the "ARG0 e3" line.

5. You'll see "TENSE fut" in the feature box.

That's the result of a symbolic, machine grammar, not a machine-learning system. A rules-based system was able to determine that the verb is future tense (based on a syntactic rule that unifies in the future tense based on the presence of the auxiliary).

If aliens came by and zapped every English speaker's brain so that we all started using "I gowill to the store and buywill some fruits" instead of an auxiliary, that would be a simple adjustment to that grammar (delete the old syntax rule, add a will-lex rule to strip the suffix and apply the same feature to the verb).

If, then, another set of aliens came and zapped our brains again, deleting all memory of the concept of "will X" from our heads, that would be different. In the presence of the sentence "I go to the store tomorrow" or "I write code next year", there's no way for any symbolic grammar to handle all the possible ways you can contextually refer to the future. That's solely the domain of ML systems (and all their faults), at least as far as I know.

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By analogy, the way people talk about English future tense is like if people said "Python doesn't have closures with more than one statement", and when questioned "Well inline function definitions in Python have closure", they responded "Well of course I meant 'Python doesn't have expression closures with more than one statement'". Like sure, it's true and even a valid clipping to make in a certain context, but as it spreads as a meme people who don't know the context get the wrong idea.
The US has all of those things for nuclear submarines.
Salesforce strikes again
Typically decommissioning costs are collected throughout the lifetime of operation, and to my knowledge these costs do not significantly raise the operating expenses. But I'm not familiar in detail with many examples, so if I'm wrong on the general trend, I would like to know!
Good. Slack history isn't documentation. Long term data retention seems bad anyway.
I think the key is, nobody wants to be preached to. You need the game to naturally involve the skills you are trying to teach.
Not everyone is comfortable nor necessarily want to use command line tools for a simple process like that
Required co-quote:

"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda.… You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.…

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
Why not just build on the already standardized XMPP protocol?
Random off-topic question: do people in your group (Swedish speakers from Finland) culturally identify more closely with Swedes from Sweden, or with (the rest of) Finnish people? I’ve always been curious about this.
Part of me wants to write a point by point rebuttal of this, but I’m not sure it would be useful. There are many, many assumptions in this work that would have to be teased apart before the good ideas here could be discussed on their own.

I’ll limit myself to a comment about his comment regarding the end of the Soviet Union, quoting from a long essay I wrote last year, comparing the crisis in the Soviet Union to the global crisis:

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If you think two things are completely separate, and yet they change at the same time and in the same way, then you need stop and ask yourself why were you so confident that they were completely separate?

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/the-struggle-to-save-the-so...
Elo doesn't measure absolute but relative strength. It is not relevant whether the top players get better, what matters is their winrates against each other.

The fact that chess has evolved is irrelevant because it applies to all players from carlsen to beginners everyone has the same tools.
False. Killer whales have bitten surfers and generally attacked humans plenty, it’s just that in the wild there hasn’t been any (recorded) fatality. And you can anthropomorphize dolphins all you want but there’s no way to know what an animal’s intentions or understanding are.
so says a pseudoscientist.
Community is good, but you can get that within a chat server, and there's something else massive that we've lost: searchability. Slack and Discord each have competent internal searches, after you've joined a particular server, but they're utter black boxes to the outer world.

I can point to several niches (mostly gaming, by inclination) where there is virtually no conversation outside of a Discord. Unless you find the appropriate server, you have no peers to share with, learn from. Even if you do find that server, you start running into structural problems for information sharing: Discord's only mechanisms for permanent content are a scrollable list of pinned messages, or admin-only archive channels. If you want to share a durable reference? I can't tell you how many times I've seen cobbled-together solutions, endless pins of shared Google Docs or imgur albums. RIP, wikis.
I feel like this is largely a product of USA's society and maybe Europe; but here in Argentina I think it's absolutely the norm to try and fix things multiple times before giving up and buying something new; and many things are now not that expensive anymore, it's just in the culture.

Just to be clear you don't always fix them yourself; it's more common to pay someone who knows what they're doing.
This is the most random funnest thing i've done in days. I tried to inception it by pasting the hyperbeam link into the VC, didn't work though heh.
this "article" was not written by Jonathan Blow. the "pee jug" is a prop in the FMV secret ending of The Witness like you said. the tweet with the "pee jug" photo seems to have been made kind of off-handedly as a joke, given that nobody would know about the FMV secret ending of the game at release. (the joke being that he really did pee in a jug during development of the game.)

none of this has to do with the "article"'s author making offhandedly controversial to the point of being offensive assertions about the history of the Jewish people.
http://discord.com
> It is kind of typical of the condition.

It can be, but it’s not exclusive to it.

It’s good that you’ve identified cues that helps you check in on your own well-being, and it’s good that you have concern for others and want to help them, but please be mindful not to inadvertently shit on someone else’s sundae in the process.

Seeing your life in spiritual terms and identifying yourself with a purpose is a common and healing experience, especially during transformative points in one’s life — like coming out of a depression, finding love, overcoming adversity, or even reading a book or exploring a new faith that resonates strongly.

For some people, those feelings can get out of control and it’s good for people who face that pattern to be aware of what may be warning signs for them, but the same behavior is often a normal and healthy experience for others. Without other signs of concern, it might be kinder let others be than to suggest they question their own recovery.
> I refuse to do things that many don't even give a second thought - such as, do I really need to implement the Into<T> trait and use x.into() to do a conversion? Isn't it better if I just write the function that I'm using explicitly?

You crazy bastard. I can see you're not going to get promoted by power-hungry bosses anytime soon! Seriously, I love C. As a webapps guy I picked up Go for my latest projects and have loved it. Feels like the C compilers of yore, that ran fast and had straightforward semantics, even in the tooling.
Makes sense. That must have been the "loss of control over user experience" that publishers complained about.
Also, webviews aren't just used for browsing. More often they are used for embedded UI. I don't see how an ad blocker could feasibly tell the difference between a legitimate UI script and an ad within the context of a webview; to the extent it can, it's simply creating threat space which defeats the entire purpose of the tool in the first place.

A webview can't, and in my personal view, shouldn't, be under the control of the user. It's a tool for the developer. If you want to be safe in navigating to your links, you should paste it into a program you trust.
"Grok" is not seen very much on the Internet outside of hacker/sci-fi fan circles. And it feels like using it in SF circles is very much marking you as An Old - it comes from Heinlein's "Stranger In A Strange Land", which is not a book that has aged well.
Just host your own IRC server and migrate to IRC? /s
perseverer bias i'd say inspite of external circumstances.
Got a citation for your claim about the U supply? And there are reactor designs that burn much more of the U in the fuel...