skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aliasing "rm" to "rm -i" in either .bashrc or .zshrc

Or, alternatively, don't. People with that alias learning to add -f to every rm invocation are also a large source of problems.

Rm should really do something more sensible on the -i switch, like displaying a summary or the files and asking for confirmation only once. Personally, I like to run "find -name file" and once I'm ok with it, I circle the command back and add -delete to it. It is much more usable.
Left that out for brevity, but good point. I suppose I'm trying to highlight that you could categorize a lot of things as essential (see the last two years.)
Kottke.org
Dramatic valuation drop at Apple?

How much research goes into an article that leads with that.
My regular go-to for getting a feeling for the value of old GBP and USD prices is measuringworth.com, which gives a range of values based on not just the regular consumer price index-based inflation, but also some additional indices, like the evolution of wages and GDP. As measured by the latter two, the cost of the Titanic might have been rather more like somewhere between 600 to 1,500 million pounds:

https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativ...

(Edit: Somewhat funnily, it seems one of the help pages on measuringworth.com actually uses the example of the Titanic: https://www.measuringworth.com/tutorial4.php)
Never, it's not surface germ. There were zero cases of surface transmission last time I looked.
> That's not possible; so probably the idea that there should be a threshold is wrong. Either every private service is a common carrier; or none is.

The whole point of the sorites paradox is that this isn't the case. It is possible to make a distinction between two different classes of things even if the boundary can't be specified with infinite precision.
I’m also not in that age group (I’m late 30s) but I’ve been watching TV and movies with closed captioning enabled since I was a kid and have found that it helps my comprehension of what’s going on with plot lines, etc, immensely. Maybe I’m just a stronger reader than listener, but I’m at the point where I vastly prefer to watch movies at home rather than at a theater because I can have CC on by default.

I’ve also always had CC on for my kid and they’re an excellent reader. I don’t have any concrete evidence for it but part of me thinks their strong reading skills are partly due to that.
Doh, you're absolutely correct.
It's infuriating how the writer seems to find DOS and a 1972 system to be of equivalent vintage.
I was around for the last one in Sydney. Anecdotally, this seems like the worst floods. But that could also be because we’ve had 3 major events in a row: massive forest fires, pandemic, multiple bad floods.
Not by choice, at least not reasonable choice.

I can find another job corporation must have its relationship with the government. Basically choice
I believe that's defined as a "living wage" and I think companies should be required to provide that, too.
Your skepticism is reasonable. It does sound like an extraordinary claim.

The relationship between migraine and weather is a studied phenomenon. I admit that I don’t personally understand the research on this topic, but I trust my neurologist.

I do know that the proxy data for weather changes is barometric pressure, so it’s often specified in that way: “changes in the barometric pressure cause migraines for some people”. However I find the concept easier to explain to people with the phrase “changes in weather” because, in my experience, most folks don’t really know the relationship between the barometer and the weather.

The Mayo has a layman’s discussion on the topic of weather and migraine:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/migraine-head...

EDIT: I forgot to mention. I “know” about the correlation because I’ve done hundreds of days of migraine journaling over the years and used that to find probable triggers. Unfortunately, that’s essentially the state-of-the-art in the field. :-/
Could you please stop rewriting article titles in baity, editorialized ways? As commenters have pointed out, the way you editorialized this one has essentially ruined the thread. Worse, you've been doing it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880519).

We take submission privileges away from accounts that do this. It's against the site guidelines, which ask you to "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

I don't want to take submission privileges away from your account, because you've also been posting some good submissions. But we need you to fix this!

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

If you need to paraphrase an article title because it's too long to fit HN's 80 char limit, please do so in a neutral and undistorted way, not in a cherry-picking way as you did here.
It was a bit more than "could have reached Polynesia."

As your Wikipedia link points out:

> Heyerdahl's hypothesis was part of early Eurocentric hyperdiffusionism and the westerner disbelief that (non-white) "stone-age" peoples with "no math" could colonize islands separated by vast distances of ocean water, even against prevailing winds and currents. He rejected the highly skilled voyaging and navigating traditions of the Austronesian peoples and instead argued that Polynesia was settled from boats following the wind and currents for navigation from South America.

As a sort of mirror image of Kon-Tiki, the 1976 Hōkūleʻa trip from Hawaii to Tahiti - using traditional non-instrument wayfinding methods from one of the last Polynesian master navigators, Mau Piailug - conclusively demonstrated that viewpoint wrong.
This is cruft. Without auto it wouldn't be parsed as a function declaration
>which will “employ” the driver. Same economic effect, but just with extra friction and cost for people who in general don’t have a lot of money to spare

...and all the rights that come with being an employee, for all that they're not so great in the US.
One issue with copilot is that debugging broken code is far harder than writing it in the first place. We've seen similar transitions before though. When good optimizing compilers started appearing you had plenty of programmers like Mel [1] that said 'there's no art in it, a compiler couldn't do the kind of optimizations I do'. And yeah, it's true, but compilers got good enough that 99% of people stopped caring and hardcore optimization became a niche skill few people have. What does the industry look like when all that most programmers know is debugging generated code and what kinds of tools need to exist to support that?

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
Apple TV has a "reduce loud sounds" setting that basically does this
Ok let’s go down the list. Ghost of Kyiv, likely fake but harmless propaganda. Snake island martyrs, you mean the go fuck your self thing ? It does have been said on radio, but then it turned out the guys were still alive. Not sure if it’s propaganda or the guys having no way to communicate that they were still alive. In any case, harmless propaganda. Azovstal heroes evacuating, well they did fight heroically, I’m not sure what’s fake about their evacuation, the last of them have been captured. Mariupol hospital I don’t what it is about, Krakatorsk bomb, you mean the train station ? It’s real, you can see the photos and it’s pure war crime. Innocent civilians trying to escape… Putin having cancer has always been rumors, no official statements, and it could be true, cancer doesn’t mean instant death. Ukraine bombing their own pows and nuclear plant, is that Ukraine propaganda?? I’m confused. Old man shooting a plan with a rifle? Never heard of that one, probably not official statement, and still harmless propaganda.

Ok now Russia’s turn. Ukraine being full of nazis, official statements, very harmful. Bio labs??? Official statements, 100% fake. Ukraine being a threat to Russia, official statements, 100% fake. Ukraine most corrupt nation on earth, well it’s military seems much more functional than Russia’s, not sure who’s the most corrupt in the end… Denial of torture and mass graves, etc…

All in all, seems to me that Ukrainian propaganda is culprit of wishful thinking, whereas Russian propaganda is just a disgusting pile of lies and hate.
Metafilter is the only community that I've seen that had "agree with the hivemind" as an explicit rule!
I don't know whether it still operates this way, but for a very long time it ran with a "read the room" rule, which meant that disagreeing with the others in a thread was a mute/banworthy offense. So of course a site monoculture would develop under those circumstances...
"Hey Twitter, please block this crap" is users trying to block what they don't want to see.

Blocking unpopular content doesn't become a political act just because one side produces more of it than the other.
Heehee
noted! will whip up a desktop view soon. we love our PCs too, but we're less experienced at front-end development which is why we did mobile first and classified the product as "pre-alpha"! Appreciate the feedback though.
The s-curve has two important parameters, but looking at any amount of history before the first inflection you can only ever deduce one of them.

So, how exactly to you intent to fit the renewables (that are pre-inflection) production curves into it?
Seems relevant and not just for emacs : https://github.com/rushsteve1/trash-d
I have been using it after for some time after it was posted to HN. It's a great tool. There's a .deb in the releases page.
Nostalgia takes no prisoners.
I meant it's false in that it implies there are no other possible solutions that could alleviate this problem.

But if it's not false, and it truly is their least bad option they are choosing over destitution, I would think that's a strong argument for it being "taking advantage". I guess I don't follow the logic of, essentially, "yes I admit this is a terrible job, but your alternative is nothing / starvation, so I'm not taking advantage!"
> This says an admin was accused of editing posts, it doesn't provide proof. It then says users down voted him not employees of reddit.

SubredditDrama is a meta-subreddit. They linked to the post by Spez where he admitted to editing the comment — unfortunately, it's no longer available due to Reddit banning r/the_donald, but you can find numerous news articles that include his original comment. E.g., https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-38088712

> Also subbit reddit admins aren't employees , I believe most people can create a subreddit and be an admin

In Reddit terminology those are moderators. Administrators are site-wide and employed by Reddit.
Most new languages use postfix types. I grew up using C and C++, but now that I've learned and use Python with types and Typescript, I'm used to and prefer postfix syntax
> It took a week for the team, under Cuyaubère’s guidance, to collect all the glass fragments on the museum’s floor. With the training that they received from Cuyaubère, the team gained a know-how that they previously lacked: being able to see the difference between the ancient glass and the modern glass of the gallery’s shelves and display cases.

Why not grab everything? I understand that a classification is important for the reconstruction, but why not just grab all the other pieces of glass anyway?
I assume you are located in a country with poor to no worker protection laws or you would not be asking such a question.

In most European countries workers have protections which include paid sick leave, worker comp, social security payments, pension payments, maternity leave, etc. etc. All these are required by law to be provided partially or fully by the employers.

Uber does not pay any of those. They expect you to be self-employed and pay for all these things yourself yet dictate the price which makes it impossible to live. If you were truly self-employed you would not take the project at that price.
If you can read French, this guy https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Jancovici has published a lot of vulgarization on the topic - with numbers.

If my memory of reading one of his books serves, fracking now costs 50% of the energy it produces (in addition to non-energy environmental impact, which is pretty large), up from ~10% for the easy oil we had ~50 years ago. Current-tech solar panels are in the same order of magnitude (again, not counting non-energy environmental impact). Nuclear energy has the highest yield. I seem to remember that coal is the worst, unless it's burnt at the point of extraction.
Good stories resonate with diverse audiences because they are an archetype of what makes us human.
> Why shouldn't online businesses be able to reject some of their customers?

If they were advertising it as "a website for everyone except these opinions: ...", your point would have been valid. That's why.
The uninsured people hold off on getting care for so long that by the time they can finally get care, it's ER time, converting a $20 visit and some antibiotics to a $100k case of amputation, or whatever.
We're starting new projects today, in 2022. (We do Signal Processing code for the Position, Navigation, and Time industry.)

It's all C and C++, and Python if we need a scripting front-end. (Prototypes are done in matlab). "Rust" doesn't even exist in our universe. I don't think the people on HN are really in touch with how real people program in the real world.

And on few the occasions when we have to do a complex desktop GUI app, we'll use C# or F#. We can get cross-platform Windows/Linux easily this way.
My Lyft app keeps trying to get me to complete my profile with a pic saying that it will help improve the experience. Generous me thinks it helps the driver find me when trying to pick me up. Less generous me says the drivers can quickly see my pic and decide to accept the ride or not. I have no idea how the driver app works, so I may or may not be full of it.
You have to use it for lambdas, so using it everywhere makes some code more consistent and readable
This reminds me of myself back in the 90’s when I learned the hard way that I should probably create an alias called “rm” where it just moves the files/directories to a “trash” directory where I could purge things later.
> - Don't forget to send reminder messages to everyone who RSVP'd leading up to your event. I like sending my reminder messages 1 week prior, 4 days before, and then on the morning of.

I'd perceive that as too many. Leave out the one 4 days before and it'd be fine IMO.
U.S. antitrust officials ask to join arguments in Apple appeal
This is the second time in this thread[1] that someone has tried to talk Citizens United down into some sort of scrappy outfit, when it was anything but.

I am also not convinced that use of a personal bank account was a significant problem here, unless you mean in the sense that the FEC (rightfully) prohibits excessive individual contributions.

Assuming it was, however: it stands to reason that everyone (including myself!) would be content with a legal structure where N people can pool their money into a publicly auditable political contributions account. I would happily support a law that makes that easier! But that wasn't the intended goal with CU -- the goal there was to channel extraordinary donations from a very small handful of individuals in a manner not accountable to the public.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880236
I imagine theey also don’t want to have to deal with these super apps eating up significant resources on their devices, and even ultimately, having to make their devices serviceable (both technically and ideologically ) to one or a few pf these super apps.
I use fugitive, a Git interface that operates from within [n]vim. There are many advantages to using Git from within an editor, especially as so many Git operations land you in an editor in any case; this way, you stay in your editor context, so, for example, you get completions from your other windows when composing your commit messages.
Puah, incredible! :D
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. this is exactly what's happening in ISO C++ and Herb should be well aware of its problems since lots of his good proposals failed to proceed many times thanks to WG21 rife with all the bureaucracies and nitpicking. This kind of skunk works needs to be fully driven by a competent individual or small group until it's finally able to demonstrate a good value proposition and build trusts by the project itself.
Reddit banned /r/TheDonald, which would have certainly run afoul of this law. You may respond that there were policy based reasons for doing so (brigading, harassment, etc.) and you'd be right. But that's true of moderation decisions made by Facebook and Twitter too, or at least they would say so. In fact that ban was far more egregious than any of the moderation decisions that are being targeted by this law at the big platforms.
>The term “conservative” means nothing if you apply it to a court which has overturned years of legal norm across various areas of law.

your definition of conservative seems to be "obeys Newton's second law", or going further, "synonymous with hysteresis": "resists change, but thereupon resists changing back"?

that's just not how people use the term.
The film is based on a novel written by the son of Italian immigrants.
> It could be argued that it starts to get closer to an endorsement of certain content

But we know that isn't actually the case. The algorithms are designed to drive engagement, what they show you is a function of your behavior on the site, it's not an "endorsement" by the site creators, they're finely tuned machine learning systems optimized for ad dollars - that's it.

Once again, this is just another example of how the ad model incentivizes pernicious behavior. If these sites were under a subscription model they'd be happy to offer you the option to sort your feed with a purely chronological algorithm because they'd still be getting paid regardless of your engagement behavior.
Most racing car/pilots are also not tall so that they can fit in their respective cockpits.
Absolutely NOT.

Or you need to stop calling biology, geology and other majors forms of science or STEM if you eliminate calculus.
If they’re still running the billing code I worked on back in the day, it’ll just charge all the cards
Where's the new SV, or do you mean there's been something of a global diaspora?
"Real employees" have not historically done these jobs. Your assertion is simply not true.
In which case I am saying that that seems dangerous for them to be doing under this law, but that the concept of a spam filter isn't fundamentally broken and so people--such as the person I am responding to--who seem concerned that they won't be able to filter spam going forward are off-base, as I would think the spam filter need only be configurable (and, certainly, it would not prevent a third-party spam filter from existing).
Looks great and fast! Nice work! I'm wondering if the missing features for 1.0 will keep it fast. (The first thing I wanted to do is search the log and see the graph :-). Does not look like it.
Thank you for referring to the Lightbend license FAQ. These use grants under the BSL are very limited - here the additional use grant for the Play Framework:

"If you develop an application using a version of Play Framework that utilizes binary versions of akka-streams and its dependencies, you may use such binary versions of akka-streams and its dependencies in the development of your application only as they are incorporated into Play Framework and solely to implement the functionality provided by Play Framework; provided that, they are only used in the following way: Connecting to a Play Framework websocket and/or Play Framework request/response bodies for server and play-ws client."

This won't really work because many projects based on the Play Framework use more Akka features than those granted.
It's worth reinventing the wheel for the purpose of learning those low-level bits, if that's something you want to learn. For example, I feel like every week I see a new NES or Gameboy emulator posted on /r/rust

The nice thing about well-solved problems in libraries is that you don't have to learn how to write those things if you don't want to
if I had to guess, easily treatable illnesses where the early warning signs were not taken care of - or even the medium warning signs weren't taken care of, when it was treatable, correlated with "why didn't you go to the hospital?" and "couldn't afford it"

If I had to guess. I haven't looked, though, of course.
Google is basically stuck in the C++17 world, so I wouldn't expect Carbon to move forward if they end up investing heavily in it.

In particular Google hasn't even started to adopt C++ coroutines, threading, ranges, or modules (they have their own module implementation which is actually better in most ways, but different)
Right, which is a very bad place to be -- it takes the already-low standard for politicking and campaigning and lowers it further. Why make yourself accountable to your constituents when you can keep your base inflamed with an infinite supply of PAC-funded rage clips?
As another person who has also completed graduate school, I cannot say that higher education is a well-oiled indoctrination machine. What do we do now?
My heart still aches about the loss of Mr. Pratchett. Of all authors, he is one of the few with such a lengthy catalogue of which I've not only read every one, but all of them multiple times. He was truly a once in a generation writer.
Why did you not take that offer?
Why should they be on the hook for it? Shouldn't the per mile/minute rate that they pay the driver already theoretically covers it.
Sinkhole Opens on Tel Aviv Highway, Paralyses Most of Country
What if your team is the only ones that consume the micro service? Doesn’t make sense to me to split it. It’s also way easier to take stuff out of monorepos than put them in IMO.
Multiverse, Not Metaverse
Literally can't read the words, background and text both very dark - Chrome on Android.
Sure, but they don't think that american health care is good. They think the solution is for the government to be less involved in healthcare, or at least make it more competitive.
I think this completely glosses over the uncomfortable fact that uber is a billion dollar VC backed company that operates by:

1) Targeting a market with established taxi companies offering a legally regulated service requiring background checks, insurance, and driving/car safety standards.
2) Illegally setting up an unregulated competing taxi service which relies on the local police/elite being unable/unwilling(bribed) to enforce the existing taxi regulations in light of the size and effort uber puts into its racket. In the process it hires up anyone willing to do it, regardless of if their car is safe, they are actually a good driver or not, meet the insurance requirements of a taxi driver, and so on.
3) Pushing taxi drivers out of work because they can't compete with the obviously cheaper illegal competitor.
4) Hiring many of these now unemployed taxi drivers up as gig workers and paying them far less than they got before for doing a legal job.

This is their model and it is outright exploitative. It is literally just using money to wantonly break the law and rig a market. It is also pretty much what Airbnb and a lot of other silicon valley firms have been up to in recent years, since they obviously ran out of actual innovation to sell.
> It also has been benefiting from globalization which is now going in reverse.

You mean countries applying tariffs to things? Or are you talking about the Russian aggression? Or is it about that speculation that reduced spending on the US navy will make other countries helpless against naval crime?

Because the first two seem to have had no effect at all on solar panels production, and the third is a huge attention seeking non-sequitur.