skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an administrator of a few small online forums, I've tried hard to minimize the burden of running the forums. Running even a single small online forum can take a considerable amount of time.

The forum software is best kept as standard as possible, aside from perhaps simple things like custom themes. Addons and modifications could go unmaintained, have security issues, or not be rewritten when the forum software deprecates features the addon/modification relies on. These addons become additional pieces to maintain. Keeping up with forum security updates alone can be irritating. The security updates rarely come at convenient times. I always have something else I'd rather be doing.

For example, recently someone requested that I install an addon so their Discord server could automatically be notified when someone posts. I looked at the addon, saw that it already was dropped by the original maintainer before being picked up by someone else. Installing it looked convoluted. I told the Discord administrator to use the built-in Atom feed with the right Discord bot, and recommended a particular bot. They now have the feed on their Discord server working. No changes to the forum were needed, which kept the burden on me to a minimum.

And when a forum is dead and basically an archive, the forum software can have issues (incompatibility with later standards, slowness, security problems if the software can not be updated). So making a long-term archive seems prudent. Some people seem to want the archive to be particularly fancy. I once had someone ask me to make an archive of a forum I'm an administrator on. They wanted it to be a "modern" React app with a powerful internal search feature, etc. As I recall, I said that I'm not going to develop that and prefer simple static HTML. No maintenance needed. Want to search? Try Google's site: operator. (In response to this request, I downloaded the entire forum with wget, which took a while and required some iteration to get the settings right as there were many duplicate and unnecessary pages saved. I haven't uploaded the archive yet as I need to fix some broken links and the forum isn't entirely dead yet.)

Given all of this, I can understand why someone would choose to make a subreddit over running a forum on their own server.
This is extremely similar to my DevOps role. Company about 250 ppl, 4 DevOps engineers.

As a ex-product lead (full stack dev) and head of engineering, the “we developers want only to code” winds me up so much.

Just because your code worked once and now another dev has (badly) applied a framework upgrade, doesn’t mean it’s DevOps’ job to find out “why the build is broken” and fix the incompatibility between your old code and the new framework.
Nice story!

One small point about the binary-counter process is that you cannot stuff an arbitrary number of nibbles back into the box - the smallest counter-example being three. On the other hand, you can always increase the number of them by one through selecting one and feeding it (and for the same reason, you cannot assume there are an even or power-of-two number of them to start with.)
> What about raising passenger fees and use that money to hire back experienced staff at a premium?

They did the first part. The second part hurts profits. /s

TBH "the suckers" found a better job and maybe better job security.
As i customer, after Lufhansa took milions from the german government i expected that the quality remains at least the same.
"Hack the planet!"
Still waiting for the incremental reading app like the one in supermemo 18...
I'm more than willing to pay for it!
Ah yes, the ol' free speech absolutism. You can't deal in absolutes when trying to solve complicated problems, never mind that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, or that free speech is meant to protect you from government censorship.

Not everyone deserves a voice, but even if you do we don't have to listen. We don't have to tolerate intolerance either, we are perfectly free to not tolerate it, in fact we must.

If you are curious who decides about who deserves a voice and who don't this is something they teach in high school, though not everyone receives civic education unfortunately.
For people who want Git's data model but a better CLI, check out https://github.com/martinvonz/jj. It's a more Mercurial-like CLI but you can use it with existing Git repos. It also includes undo functionality, anonymous branches and other nice features.
> It takes you years to get twice as effective at reading

Evidence? What's the evidence this is a linear growth process? How many years? At what age? What populations? There is no rigor here at all.
Uh… we buy bags full of dried mangos from Costco all the time. You can definitely dry mangos.
“Where is Ja-rule?”
If anything seems to "defy" science, it is really just that it concurs with it or hasn't yet been scrutinized by it. Those examples are also the few that survive to the current day - much like "all the music in the 70s was good." No it wasn't, most of it was terrible, and thus no one bothers to remember it.

And re: Western values, there is indeed some circumstantial entanglement with science, but they're not one and the same. If humanity got wiped out tomorrow, the next intelligent cultures to evolve after us would discover science again. They would not discover any of our religions, customs, or values.

It's very worthwhile to recognize these facts, and it has nothing to do with hubris or humility. Science is discovery, not a personal trait or belief system.
I’d tell you that you should read a book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People” so that you could make your important point in a way that would possibly be received, rather than with an arrogant sarcasm that has the opposite effect.
This seems like what a spaced repetition app does, is there a difference?

For example lots of people use Save All for this exact reason https://saveall.ai/
Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages
This seems like a good candidate to use the web audio API to make these playable in a browser.
I guess it's this: https://tonomus.neom.com/en-us

"Smart is digital. Cognitive is digital humanism."

who wrote this tripe? XD
It wont 'just' be age, it will be hard verified identities vs. vague fingerprints dependent on the user playing ball with their browser software and not using VPNs. Otherwise how would they actually know the user's age?
Seems like a good thing for managers to understand as well, because different employees handle it differently.

Some employees hide their stress and do everything until they break down. Some employees don't stress, still do everything, but do a rushed and shitty job of it. Some employees do what they can and silently drop everything else on the floor.

Managers tend to think that if they're chill and don't pressure people, then the people under them won't have the freak out stress breakdowns. Then they're surprised. Like, where did that come from? Everybody else is fine. Managers think the whole team will follow their vibe and their example, but that's not how people work. This is especially easy to miss with remote work. You can have two people on the same team, one calmly working exactly forty hour weeks, fully aware that things are going to shit, and the other working 80 hour weeks and laying awake at night worrying that they're going to be fired. Managers have to be aware of that and proactively find out how people are handling the workload.

For my part, I do my best to understand what I should let die. Wiki pages (or Notion docs)? Give me a break. Nobody reads them. Ten months from now somebody is going to need that info, and I (or whoever has the up-to-date info) will write it up for them and even give them a personal walk-through, in a fraction of the time it would have taken to maintain those docs through the months when nobody was reading them. Obviously there are exceptions to this rule, but it works for 95% of the docs I've ever been asked to maintain, and the exceptions are things that obviously should not be in a wiki or Notion (release notes, dashboard-y type stuff that you can get from a database query, etc.)

And I consistently let my manager know what parts of my "job" aren't getting done. I used to be afraid of telling them, but they understand, and they're grateful that I keep them in the loop, so they're aware and so they can correct me when they don't agree with my decisions. Not just the best managers are cool with this, but even the not-so-great managers. I've only had maybe one manager who was so shitty he couldn't deal with it. Everybody is happy that they're hearing it now and not getting taken by surprise later. It serves as a reminder for them, too, because they're fallible and often forget that certain things don't happen unless somebody has time to do them. They're also often unaware of the productivity cost of missing helper scripts, minor build and CI issues, and things like that, and if they're reminded they sometimes know of a person who needs a task and is good at figuring that stuff out.

And you know what's funny? This is the one part of the job that super arrogant rock star programmers are actually good at. They love to tell you about the stuff they don't have time for because of the super important work they're doing. So, in this one case, act like a rock star and tell your manager exactly what stuff you ignored this week because it didn't seem important enough to be worth your time.
thanks lol
I took this class during undergrad! It was really enlightening as a web developer to actually...write the server
> This is a very simplistic view of the tensions in the region

That is a very simplistic, and correct view of how the US manipulates such tensions.

There are many of us international HNers, whose countries suffered multiple US backed coups or color revolutions, and even worse, whose grassroots popular movements were co-opted and subverted by the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union...

So much that even the 'people's movement', Solidarity in Poland, that was the 'trade union' movement that overthrow their government, was CIA funded and organized. The same thing has been a staple of daily life in Middle East since 1960s, when CIA decided to fund and use Islamist groups.
Wrapping a Serverless ClickHouse Pt.1
Ask HN: How do remote first businesses maintain cultural cohesion?
I recently switched to a company that is largely remote first. This is after spending >5 years at a company that was deeply invested in vibrant in person culture.

I learned a few key things and I'm looking to apply them in the new job. First a strong culture is built, it doesn't just happen without intention. Second, people need a way to connect with each other emotionally and talk about non work things. Third, people need common activities to keep them engaged and talking until they've built friendships.

I suspect most of these will translate to a remote-first company. However, the challenge will be getting people to really connect. I've tried VR and zoom based team building events but those aren't great at building new relationships, instead they help maintain existing relationships.

Does anyone know of a company that is doing this well? I'd rather not have to re-invent the wheel if there's good prior art here.
thanks will check that out
Show HN: Just a website to wish someone happy birthday
Found something like it on GitHub which was made for a particular person. Felt like creating a custom one which anyone can use. Hence made this :)
You can indeed freeze the pulp, that's what one of bigger places that sells pawpaws does:

https://integrationacres.com

The product page also supplies an additional hint why the fruit hasn't been commercialized: cooking with it can sometimes make people sick.
> Honestly, one kid was actually manageable; two sort of hit the breaking point (it didn’t help that my work went to hell at the same time), but then we had twins and life now feels basically untenable with both of us working.

We have 3 kids, 3 years and under. Our twins are 3 and we have a 1 year old. I'm a Staff Software Engineer and my wife is a Senior Software Engineer II.

I feel like I'm perpetually treading water. There is a tug of war happening between my personal life and my professional life and it's frankly obscene. The professional life will lose if push comes to shove, and that will actively damage my employer, but my management team doesn't seem to give a shit.

I've become very Peter from Office Space about it all: I just don't care. When I feel my work-anxiety levels rising, I let it all out with a heavy sigh and stop caring. Work is work. I get my work done, but I prioritize higher quality and bug-free as much as possible. If work doesn't like this (and they don't, they really just want me to blast through my tasks -- despite the fact that some of them are extremely ambiguous at my level, things like digging through code no one has touched in 8 years to sort out performance problems; "So, you'll have that done by Thursday, right?") then that's their problem to deal with.
Very interesting, how would i learn about something like that? Is there a resource you'd recommend?
> You don't get a timestamp from nowhere without knowing the kind of time it references: local or UTC or fixed to anything like client time.

Imagine you have a software which deals with CSV files sent by clients. Clients are international corporations. What's the timezone the datetimes in the CSV files belongs to?
I've been using a 40 inch 4k Iiyama monitor for 6 or 7 years, and it's been great as a TV. I've told the TV license people that I don't have a TV, and they leave me alone. Well worth the cost upfront, as I haven't had to pay a stupid licence fee for years.
Kaisers / HMOs are not that unique in having annual blood work of standard items. I think they have to do it by law at some level, with PPO insurance 'preventive' stuff like that is usually much cheaper or 'free'.
>weird way to phrase that headline

It's Economist / western MSM evading the fact that Taiwan also plays huge part in criminal syndicate human trafficking schemes for telco scams targetting PRC&TW (but particularly PRC) nationals. It's one of the few criminal issues with formal joint PRC/TW coordination. I remember a few years ago they arrested ~8,000 such telco scammers from around the world (ASEAN/Pacific Islands/African) and 60% were TWnese. Maybe "Ethnically" Chinese gangs, but that has it's own layer of insinuations/omissions.

As for rest of your analysis, that's just the cost of rapid development. Same story in Laos and Vietnam, and PRC herself during hayday. As for with resource exploitation and military cooperation. Countries with less $2000 and shit prospects has few options for growth, and TBH the fact that Cambodia's per capita GDP is less than landlocked Laos is startling.
A tale as old as time itself. I feel like this sort of headline might garner actual shock maybe ten years ago. It's funny how nowadays my reaction is more akin to a car alarm going off down the street.
Yeah. There is software that organises the reminders for you aswell e.g. my company Save All does this https://saveall.ai/
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> I'm not familiar with what happened there, but at least to me these domain names are definitely not "clearly sarcastic".

Have you taken a look at the website? [1] You should be able to detect that the site is satire within a few seconds.

Of course, we could dig up the whole “what is satire, what is x-ism” controversy up again, like after the Charlie Hebdo shooting. But I do believe that it's a joke, especially when looking at the context (what most people apparently don't do).

And before labelling someone as a fascist, that's undoubtedly the thing that you should do first: look at the context.

[1] https://cock.li/
I am not the best in keeping up with the Socialist movement.

But this video explains it well, people would still work, just not for a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9CFP_58mBc
Five Centuries of Copying, Illustrating and Reading Amir Khusraw’s Poetry
The Hypotheticals are far removed from the majority of the plot. While it is in the background, with some philosophical waxing about their nature, I do not think that is fair to characterize it is as a Von Neumann probe story. To a fairly similar effect, the novel could have been catalyzed by a wizard casting a magical spell.

(spoilers)

Granted it is a sci-fi novel, but I did not care for how humanity's probes are able to spread across the galaxy for generations before ultimately being absorbed by the already established super entity. Said super entity which has been already been manipulating Earth for billions of years. Somehow, humanity's first generation probe is able to slip under the radar of the ancient, highly evolved, intelligence?
Yes, wind runs 24/7/365. And cars have their own storage, so that's solved for cars at least.

Let's say in the middle of the desert… Well, if there are no people there, then perhaps there is no need for power.

And if there are people, they can choose to live a primitive lifestyle, or they can buy batteries and solar panels and wind generators, or (shocker) they can continue to use petroleum products for energy, that is also an option even if the world switches to renewable energy.
There are a few nice exceptions. They built a small viking village for a childrens movie at a bavarian lake, and after the filming it was kept as a tourist attraction.
>Take a weekend off and calculate how much 'fees' you would have to pay for 'private defense services', infrastructure, judiciary, police and all the other things if they were made private.

This assumes alot of things, like that I reject all forms of taxation which I dont just income based. You know this because you already replied to a comment where I layout my preferred public finance model which you also ignored in that comment in favor of a semantic logical fallacy debate. so i question if you actually want to have an honest conversation

Also it assumes that the cost to private those services would be the exact same under a more private / direct model then our current system (for which my point of view would the the US model). I find that highly suspect and the few times were we have direct attempts at it has proven the current US model has inherent fraud, corruption, and waste that often raises the cost of providing these services by 2x or more.

>What religious delirium.

That is a bit of projection there. Like an adherent to a theocratic religion proclaiming Atheism is a religion. If anything Statism is more akin to a religion than being anti-state or libertarian.

Individualism is about the rejection of a "higher power", in your case this higher power is "the state" having replaced a god or gods

>ll the things that make you live in a modern society instead of living in the former late feudal society

False dilemma fallacy, as if the only option is a extreme over bearing high taxation state or feudalism...

> force that provides this modern society that you live in

Modern society was build by voluntary exchange of free individuals, not government.

> all the rights and freedoms that you have

neither rights nor freedom is provided by government, the entire US model of government is build on the fact that freedoms and rights need to be protected FROM government, the US Constitution is document to ensure government does not infringe upon the people as our founder knew that a government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Government is to be subservient to the people, not a master of them. At all times the people need to be suspect of government power, and keep very tight control upon it.
Well, if that's not hard data!
I solemnly swear I read the entire article. I still don't really comprehend why the film ends with the phrase "mother will be pleased".
I find it ironic that the site reporting this is practically unreadable on Safari due to all the ad banner noise. I took this opportunity to try Brave on iOS and it clears out most of the noise. If it gets rid of the consent banners too that would make the internet much less frustrating to peruse.
You should start a Substack to combat all that misinformation. Facts are facts and people will recognize truth, right?
Reminder that nuclear MAD is not just about destroying your adversaries but entire alliance network that could help your adversary recover.
That does not answer the question regarding interacting with customers.
The closest and easiest is to buy the digital download or Bluray, then get a rip from a pirate site. You've already bought the content, you just want to choose how to view it.

I, like you, also have an LG OLED, and I use RARBG. I outlined my setup in a previous comment:

I'm using rarbg as my main source which has magnet links that qBittorrent detects on click. I use mpv with Anime4k for animated content or an Nvidia Image Scaling glsl filter which is a decent upscaler/sharpener. I also use SVP for frame interpolation with an RTX 3080 which supports optical flow, and I assume it'll be even better in the RTX 40 series given their DLSS 3's frame interpolation exclusivity. It all looks incredible on my LG OLED TV/monitorm with 4k HDR 10 bit support.
Some of the worst offenders are mainstream news sites.

They know that most of their website readers haven't paid; I'm sure there are managers who want to extract money from those web visitors. But monetizing web-visitors promises diminishing returns - the harder you try to force visitors to cough up, the more they'll stay away from your site.

If I see an interesting-looking link from washpo, for example, I'll usually walk by, and find the story elsewhere, rather than paste it into archive.ph. I'm simply not going to subscribe to every site that asks me to; I visit about 30 sites a day. I'm a pensioner, and I'd go broke.

I understand the "cookies and javascript were a mistake" posture; mostly they're useless to me. There is a handful of sites that are useful, but are completely dependent on Javascript. And anywhere that you have to login to, you need something equivalent to cookies (like, my bank).

I block ads because - well, I don't consume food that I picked up off the footway. They run scripts in iFrames, they auto-run videos, they try to set cookies, I don't know what they do. I don't know where the site sourced its ads. Perhaps they want to use my computing equipment to mine bitcoin for them, or try to actually take over my network.

Ad-blockers work fine (unless they have a pay-to-play whitelist). Cookie management is more problematic, because (a) the variety of different kinds of cookies, (b) the fact that most users don't really understand the different ways cookies are used, and (c) the lack of clarity and granularity in cookie controls. Users can't exercise informed consent unless they can understand the information.
there is a download link in the fine-tune page
Yup Automation is going to push humans out of Capitalism to the point it where Capitalism ends it self.