skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Downside of a belt is that you have a much longer way around your body, which means longer wires, and perhaps an easier chance of breaking something. A belt also implies pants that can accept a belt, which probably wouldn't work for a lot of people, at least not every day with every type/style/color of clothing.

The anklet is reasonably unobtrusive, and unless you are wearing form-fitting pants, you can keep it under your pants leg to keep it out of sight. Even if you're wearing tighter pants, shorts, or a skirt, and you don't mind the under-house-arrest tracker vibe, it's still wearable, and might make for a fun conversation topic.

Agreed that the belt is better from the standpoint of what the device is for, but I think the anklet is a bit more practical. I know I would definitely wear it more often (more or less all the time), but I could not say the same about a belt.
I was part of this, it was a fun project. I have a final pull request that never made it though, and that's too bad as it addressed some hardcoding issues and added a few helpful commands: https://github.com/p8952/bocker/pull/23

Revisiting the project, it looks like more people tried submitting PRs for the following couple years. Funny, for a project that was definitely an exercise in "do X in 100 lines of code"
> Logs should only be used by human operators

I suspect that you will find a lot of resistance to the idea. At least I have. Machines should be consuming metrics, not logs, unless there aren't any alternatives. That statement never seems to be controversial, but people... just don't do it, for whatever reason.

Also, the author seems to want to do a poor man's version of distributed tracing.
I use ripgrep everywhere, not only in my own repositories, so the first approach won't work for me. The second one, on the other hand, sounds like a really good idea, going to look into it, thanks.

And of course, thanks for this wonderful tool!
In a sport of orienteering (quite popular in Scandinavia and Switzerland) having perfect sense of the North as opposed to checking it with compass would offer a competitive advantage.

I wonder if anyone tried to develop that.
The bit I found most interesting was actually:

https://github.com/madler/pigz/blob/master/try.h

https://github.com/madler/pigz/blob/master/try.c

which implements try/catch for C99.
You’re not countering the implicit argument that Germany won’t have a problem with earthquakes ruining their nuclear powerplants.

Germany is also a “well-run country” if you want to run with the old anti-Soviet argument.
Old school RuneScape is an mmorpg where each game update goes to a vote, and if it doesn’t get 75% approval the updates are not worked on by devs and don’t get released. The community feels a strong ownership and connection over the game. So much so that when the development company (Jagex) makes a wrong decision, it’s common for users to “riot” in game. They go to a specific world, at a specific town, place down specific items, and chant.

While not rioting in real life, it feels familiar.

Wiki article about an example with a video. Occurred prior to the voting system, but still occurs even 15 years later https://runescape.wiki/w/Pay_to_PK_Riot
Yeah, people put in stupid low bids on OpenSea all the time with the hopes that someone will just accept it. It doesn't cost anything (outside of the gas to wrap the ETH or whatever) for them to place the bid, they just have to have it available. They can even use the same money to place bids on a bunch of NFTs, and only pay for the first one that accepts.

One way people try to scam bids on OpenSea is they make a bit that seems super high if it was in the default currency, but use a different currency, and the currency symbol is a tiny icon, so they hope people will accept it without thinking about it and they get it for a deal. I know several people that thought they were selling their NFT for like 20 Eth (or $26,000 USD at today's prices, even higher back then), and really the bid was for 20 USD coin, or $20.

So some rando placing a bid on OpenSea doesn't mean much. I'm sure there are people who would pay more than that for this NFT, but aren't bothering to take the time to place a serious bid. Not $2.9 million though, and definitely not $48 million.

If the owner arranged to have this sold through Sotheby's or something, he could potentially get $100,000+ (I'm guessing, I have no idea, just judging by their other auctions). Just a random bid on OpenSea though, $1000 is probably the best they're likely going to see for it, especially in the midst of the NFT (possibly now permanent) bear market.
I guess a lot of people must want humanoid robots, but they’re mostly in the uncanny valley for me, and the more realistic they are, the more uncomfortable I’d be.

If I had a robotic assistant at home or in the workplace, I’d want something WALL-E like. Emotive lights or even an 8-bit display with expressions is fine. But no hair or anything completely unrelated to function, please.
Nanobots are even dumber. They're magic.

The problem with von Neumann probes isn't the proverbial 3d printer. It's the filament. You have to build an entire supply chain for every individual component from first principles. That's why I asked how do you even make a single paper clip in Greenland. That's literally just a stainless steel wire. That's trivial compared to making an excavator, let alone an interstellar spacecraft.

Think about it. Mineral deposits aren't uniformly distributed. You're going to need to combine elements from thousands of kilometers away, and that's assuming their reachable from the surface with relative ease.

The only plausible way to build a "replicator" is actually to send entire premade factories, harvesters, and transports to a planet in a giant cooperative swarm, along with literally tons of preprocessed materials for repairs until you get a self sustaining supply chain running. And that implicitly assumes that all the requisite materials are even available. Land on a planet without plate tectonics, and your heavier elements may forever be locked under tens of kilometers of solid rock, or even better 60 kilometers of solid ice, liquid water, and rock. (Good luck with your Europan gold mine!)

Oh yeah, and it all of it has to work after a million years in hibernation.
Of course - our dear IE was crowd's favorite:

https://www.theregister.com/2010/02/02/internet_explorer_6_p...
Still waiting for a laundry folding robot/machine
Pretty similar to that, we used pigz and netcat to bring up new MySQL read replicas in a chain at line speeds.

I recall learning the technique from Tumblr's eng blog.

https://engineering.tumblr.com/post/7658008285/efficiently-c...
Would this install the binaries of the dependency to your $PATH? I would expect that only the top-level package would be "installed" that way.
Yes. You're right. I meant those as hypothetical questions to the person saying "they signed a contract". That excuse has been used to excuse a lot. I hoped that thinking about what is and insert excitable because of a contract might change some minds.

Legally speaking it is as you say, but I was asking from a moral perspective.
> do not have words for "left" and "right" and instead use cardinal terms for everything. Speakers of such languages presumably then must know their orientation at all times.

Huh, interesting. Do you know if they actually do know their orientation at all times, or is it just that "west" is always "left" and "east" is always "right", regardless of absolute orientation?
IIRC it came up in a couple lawsuits with his insurance company a while back.
Why use tar | pigz -0 when you can just use tar?
Let's not get too creative now!

Office Space: What if - and believe me this is a hypothetical - but what if you were able to translate the audit. Would that do anything for you?
No clue. All I know is that if we don't censor fake news people will believe it, no matter how much evidence to the contrary they are shown. Maybe we just have to accept that.
Maybe I’m missing something, but why send the tar generated stream through a non-compressing compressor when you could just send the tar directly?
It seems to be about misgendering on HN?

I never understood why it's such a big deal. When people guess wrong about my gender, ethnicity, preferred spoken language, etc, I correct them.

I guess if they were to argue with me about the correction and insist their guess was right, that would get old fast and I'd be as frustrated as foone.
Are American Airlines workers unionized? I wonder if they could collaborate with their union and get additional protections to workers' ability to access this data portably.
from the readme
"Cat9 is a user shell script for LASH"

Which would make it "cat-o-nine-tails" I am afraid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_o%27_nine_tails

Note;
I hope this is an incorrect interpretation as it is in very poor taste.
most of the people who ended up aligning with that
movement did have good intentions. They were reasoning
that in the long term, nuclear power would bring great
misery to humanity. Long term thinking is good, right?

The problem is that those with good intentions didn't think very hard about the issue.

Even the occasional Fukushima or Chernobyl is preferable to the irreversible fossil fuel-induced hell we're about to experience, with potentially billions of people displaced and so forth. It's especially galling since protecting the planet was their entire raison d'etre.

And there were certainly who opposed nuclear power with evil intentions, specifically the fossil fuel industry.

I'm not sure which one is worse. At least the fossil fuel industry never claimed to be noble.
Nowhere else do people mention the continent as much as Europe. And, for the life of me, I don't know why this is!? And it always seems to mean "we respect your data". Let the product speak for itself, I'm not switching from something that works well to something that works okay, but respects my privacy a bit more.
But why Covid? There are a bunch of viruses that are better that they've probably already weaponized. Weaponizing Covid is like using a balloon for an artillery round.
Sure, but I don't believe you run into a lot of actually evil villains in politics that only do what they do because they want to see suffering and want their action to scale instead of ripping the wings from a butterfly one by one. Stalin or Mao didn't just enjoy seeing peasants starve, they believed that sacrificing a million here and there is the price to pay for the communist utopia they thought they were building.
I don't see the difference either*. I would also appreciate you elaborating.

* The parts describing the grid look the same to me, and the percent of experts came from you, when you said 0% of experts agreed with their skepticism.
Transcriptomic diversity of cell types across the adult human brain
> But I have now included a VN-decorrelator

Yeah, but Von-Neuman decorrelators have one major drawback: their throughput is unpredictable.
> It addresses many of these issues, not by doing anything special* with eBPF, but just by being an LSM: it's mandatory access control, the security hooks are on the path for new system calls and it's hard to get rid of if you're an attacker.

Was there meant to be a footnote following "special*"?
But isn't it scary that political decisions about energy are made on reactionary terms rather than engineering terms? An engineer would not have said "we have to stop nuclear power," because of accidents, they would have studied those accidents and developed methods to mitigate them. This is why airlines are safe, because of past accidents that were deeply tragic and catastrophic but often went on to stymie some shortcoming of aircraft that wasn't apparent in modelling and testing that had been done at that point. If we reacted to aircraft disasters how the German government reacted to nuclear energy disasters that didn't even happen within their own borders, we'd be back to using clipper ships to cross the Atlantic in three weeks. This is regressive thinking that hurts our species overall, not progressive thinking that leads to technological improvements and benefits for our species.
Nope, you do it by exploiting the less fortunate. Kayne is now among the less fortunate who suffer from untreated mental health issues.

(The aforementioned mental health issues do not excuse antisemitism or other anti-social behaviors.)
>GH could set up a similar program for OSS.

What a nightmare.

I'd say that constant code copying is massively pervasive, with no regard to licensing, always has been, and that's not really a bad thing, and attempts to stop it are going to be far more harmful than helpful.
If you do structured binary logging, then it is better than doing unstructured/text logging and metrics separately. With structured binary logs you can extract whatever metrics you want to your hearts content and you have the freedom to turn metrics processing on/off as needed.
Even after learning how to use hooks the concept never fully clicked. The concept of functional components (smart components and dumb components) clicked for me right away and I've always preferred this approach. I guess the React team just traded one set of problems for another. In the end, when ever I've worked on a team of 3 or more, the code has never resulted as clean as I'd like (regardless of the approach). Adhering to to the architecture and design philosophy of the choosen approach (hooks vs functional components, etc) is more important as either can become unmanageable.
Forward looking guidance
And before you made that transaction, everything was the same as afterwards. Except the trade in ownership. So what is your point?
"decently fast" is a significant understatement. It is likely the fastest similar tool. (`git grep` may win due to not listing the directory tree and packed files and GNU grep is very fast if you don't use Unicode, but other than that ripgrep wins).
For example a Programmable MMU was an optional add on for the Macintosh II (which wasn’t a z80 but serves to illustrate the time when they began to become available to home computers)
Another example: parking.

There are numerous streets that dont have meters now and just a sign to "pay on this parking app"
> The "only if you have time" part is what I disagree with. If we're doing TDD then I don't see how you can avoid writing unit tests, or even deprioritize them.

Perhaps the author doesn't recommend TDD? They don't suggest anywhere that they do. It seems to me that the industry these days sees TDD as a tool for occasional use, not the dogma once proposed.
I haven't used a device like this, but I don't think this is exaggeration. It is well known in linguistics that speakers of languages that use absolute directions are better at determining where north is. People that use the chime feature on their watches to indicate every hour also tend to have a better sense of time. It is also a successful tool for people trying to lucid dream (the "reality checks" are similar in behavior). We also know that one can become better at spatial directions through practice, which is why it is "common" advice to drive around when moving to a new city without a GPS (until necessary). It helps build that mental map in your head (which often generalizes) and tells your brain to pay attention to other correlating features (e.g. I wouldn't be surprised if this North Paw experiment gave users better sense of time with respect to the sun).

It should be no surprise that as one becomes accustomed to one's own environment and the way they navigate it.

Though I think the cooler question is if we can build a phone/smart-watch app that can do this. Is there a way to vibrate the watch in a northernly direction or something like vibrating when the user turns north (deceptively tricky).
I remember when the Apple Watch was first released, this is how I thought directions were going to be implemented. I was so disappointed when it turned out this wasn't the case.
You can build infrastructure and a telescope.
This brings back fond memories of my A1000 with Workbench 1.3.

It's still amazing what this machine was capable of given it's very limited resources back in the day.

Anybody remember Fred Fish shareware/public domain? I hung out at a local computer store and copied dozens of floppies in the heydays of the Amiga.
Probably a lot more radioactive pollution as well
Arduino fw: https://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/northpaw-downloads...
There are 38,000 1mx2m perforated aluminum panels out there. I would pay a nice premium for them as a wall covering. Maybe not $50m/38000, but a good chunk of that. Having a section of the iconic telescope would be worth it. Now, are there thousands of people like me to make it work at scale?
Sure, except in this case foone has explained exactly why they dislike their stuff showing up on HN.
Let's say a metric ton of coal has around 1 kBq and around 10000 PBq were released at Chernobyl.

That would mean around 10 quadrillion tons of coal would need to get burned to emit the same amount of radiation. China is currently burning 4 trillion tons of coal per year, which is a 2500th part of it.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20005612/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Release_and...
I ride a bike with a Garmin radar detector that tells me when a car is behind me. Adding a vibration motor to it would be neat.
1-Wire
Doesn't make it good either though. A lot of "modern" art was artists claiming that traditional lenses and standards held too much authority and fuck off. We're going to do draw squares and they're going to be cool. Challenging "what does it mean to be good". Cool.

A lot of "post modern" art is this idea that it doesn't matter what you think, fuck you, I made this thing and it may even feel purposefully bad, and if I say it's good, it's a valid perspective. Which is really just kind of a post truth drain on society if you ask me; and is a really toxic thing when it's driven by tribalism and mass media to claim "this is good because a lot of people are saying it's good".

High end fashion is not very approachable to most people. A lot of it is just speaking back and forth within a very insular community. Most of it is absurd from the get go. Good art should be evocative of something.

FWIW, Kanye's fashion to me seems like it wants me to call it bad. Dreary. Unattractive. Poor, but.. in a way that seems like its asking for victimization rather than express something about poverty.

And for that I think it's actually bad.
I did that too, on a ZX80 back. Well after a week of doing it using a book and caclulating relative jumps (the backawards ones were worse) by hand I thought "there has to be a better way" and wrote my own assembler in BASIC (but I didn't know it was called an assembler at the time)
> BUT ALSO the care and feeding of Kubernetes clusters themselves is a significant time investment

AWS and GCP will do this for you for a small markup
And new reactor designs are meltdown proof, so what's the problem exactly?
This is different though. Never had this person's contact, we just mentioned his name in a chat a couple times cause we were talking about stuff from when we were kids.
The same goes for Kroger/Albertons, and Walmart's footprint is broader than Kroger and Albertsons combined.

FWIW, I live in Seattle, one of the few areas of the US where your comment applies (Kroger and Albertsons nearby, but not Walmart). I could probably get to 20 of these companies' stores (QFC, Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons) faster than the nearest Walmart. The merger doesn't faze me because we also have Costco, Amazon Fresh, Trader Joe's, PCC, Met Market, and a smattering of independent grocers and co-ops.
I like to think I'm a pretty good architect - my team respects me, I solve a lot of problems that they feel like they can't, I read lists like this and if I don't follow all the advice, at least most of the advice isn't surprising.

But there's one thing that at this point makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills because it seems like I disagree with just about everyone. I think unit tests should be first priority, ahead of integration tests and selenium-ish tests (whether you call them frontend tests, functional tests, whatever)

I have experience with all three approaches, but slowly moving from backend to full-stack and frontend, I'm struck by how many people - it almost seems a consensus at this point - argue that integration tests should be your first line of defense. I've long since given up the battle on this; I'm not directly on the frontend teams, so I can't seagull my way in there and contradict the lead.

But I think the point that gets lost on people is that the value of unit tests isn't chiefly the output of running the test suite. It's that the process of writing good unit tests forces you to write well-structured code. Code that is well-structured enough that it actually minimizes your need for integration and selenium-ish tests. But I feel like in the industry (not just my employer), I'm surrounded by people who are comfortable with writing integration tests and calling it good, even with spaghetti-code implementations underneath.

I've always suspected that the ideal testing setup would be mostly unit tests, integration tests only to fill those gaps, and selenium-ish tests (hopefully rare!) only to fill in the final remaining gaps. But I think the system dynamics are set up such that unit tests are rare (due to wanting to finish the Jira story when the feature starts to work), integration tests are frequent since you can happy-path across a large surface area, and large expensive suites of selenium-ish tests are written by a completely different department since you can write them without having to understand the codebase. It just seems like a recipe for poor overall quality and a lot of wasted work/time/money.

But I'm clearly in the minority. Maybe I'm missing something basic that I've somehow never learned in my long career.
this month a bunch of people closed their paypal accounts in response to a planned policy change that claimed the power to take $2500 from accounts that published misinformation. paypal claimed it was a mistake

https://twitter.com/hashtag/BankruptPaypal

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/10/10/how-to-delete...

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/xzdu8x/whats_...
Yeah. I don't know the details and I very rarely see them in stores. But there's some sort of system that, as parent says, basically immediately locks the funds so (as I understand it), there's no risk to the store.

I assume things like car dealerships use the system as well. When I bought a car recently I just gave them a personal check which they were fine with. In the past I had to go to my bank and get a cashier's check.

You don't even generally see signs about returned check fees these days.

They're not super-common in general for most use cases but they're still the most straightforward way to make personal payments (other than in-person cash payments) without going through some process that's more involved than giving someone a piece of paper.
> dulling your audial sensitivity to the area around you

Many headphones have a feature where they pass-thru the external audio, so perhaps you could use that with this as an audio overlay.
Probably this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

Shahed 136 drone. Speed 115 mph. Range up to 2500km.

Here's video of one being shot down with small arms https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/15819595941122621...
Whoa, this is really cool!

> For ships, you get an idea for what direction the bow and stern are moving

I wouldn't've thought of this, but of course that's critical to know on a ship. And it's certainly something outside of standard human experience, since we're small enough in that dimension to not have to worry about the difference in movement between our front and rear sides. The fact that you were able to gain an intuitive feel for this highlights how adaptable the human brain is.