skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people on HN, who I completely 100% disagree with and likely would not want to spend time with in any other setting ( and likely vice versa ). However, the best part of HN is that me being friends, or even like minded, is not mandatory for the purpose of this site ( edit: in fact, to an extent, being able to present a different or conventionally objectionable, perspective in a compelling way is more important than same value framework ).

In short, only you can answer that question.
Don't ever make a person show you who they really are, twice.

If you decide to move forward with this person, this is the type of behavior you are always going to have to look out for. You shouldn't allow yourself to every be surprised, nor should you leave any ambiguity with anything.

Then, ask yourself, "Is this the type of person I want to co-found a business with?"

Good luck.
Whoever wrote that is a mindfucker. Plain and simple. For it to be true you'd have to first believe it.
Maybe that’s the intangible the linked post is not addressing. What does friendship even mean to the people they tracked?

Being able to talk to people who are willing to spend time talking back is a basis for friendship, at least in my book.

Friendship doesn’t always have to be so serious.
Alibaba Cluster Trace Program
It's clearly not extraordinary, it's normal for ZFS. UFS2 on FreeBSD does is too, it also has snapshots, but isn't generally COW.

The first time you delete something bit and it doesn't show up in df right away, it might be surprising though. Or this case where automation deleted more than expected because the author wasn't aware of the need to wait.
I remember Encarta being darkmode in 98. Maybe some of the MSN stuff too. Even painted their own titlebars differently.
And if you wanted to attribute that sentiment to some aspect of his character and/or nationality?

I can perfectly well imagine saying out loud, in conversation or in a spoken presentation, something like "Being the mercurial Spaniard that he was, Picasso said 'After Altamira, all is decadence'".

I don't think there's anything wrong with the vocabulary choices here, but there is a kind of journalistic writing style which favors brevity, probably originally because you're writing to a column inch count, and it drives writers to try to convey those extra connotations in fewer words. An editor will look at my wordy sentence, tell me to get rid of the throatclearing and filler words and reduce it to "The mercurial Spaniard said..." - and they may well be right.
> Most everyone I know just sits on their phones, computers, or TVs a good portion of the day. All boredom is banished,

I see this a lot too, but I disagree with the conclusion. I think more people are bored today than have been before. (How many of you browse Netflix or YouTube, jumping platforms, thinking "there's nothing to watch") But we need to recognize that engagement does not mean a lack of boredom but rather addiction. As the article points out, people are substantially more risk adverse now.

While that may be good for things like less people doing heavy drinking and such, our lives are inherently risky. If you talk to people about why they have a hard time making friends you'll find that this risk adverse nature often pops up (not the only cause, but one of many). Same with dating. Any type of relationship is inherently risky. You WILL get hurt by some of them too, but that is the price to pay for the high rewards of successful relationships (which can form online).

So I am in agreement that there is a "why risk it" aspect of people, but not about boredom. I believe we are self isolating because that's what animals do, especially depressed ones. If our lives are comfortable enough there is little incentive to take any risks. So it sounds weird, but I think a major part of the issue is that our lives have become so well off that there is fewer incentives to push ourselves out of our comfort zones[0]. But we are human too and able to find challenges for ourselves and create discomfort when there is none. This is a double edged sword that is difficult to wield, but I think it is important that we learn it. It is how we better ourselves: putting ourselves in uncomfortable positions[1].

[0] I do think this also plays a role in the (global) rise in authoritarianism, but that is too much for this comment.

[1] Even doing things like learning to code, ride a bike, or learn an instrument requires putting ourselves in uncomfortable positions. Specifically because you're never good at something when you first start. But the challenge is supposed to make us stronger.
I understand that orthogonal and unrelated have different meanings. What I'm wondering is: Isn't "orthogonal" much more common on HN (18388 matches in search) than in other places?

I suspect that "orthogonal" is a word programmers fall in love with during some CS class and then overuse because it sounds sciency.
I think the article mentions that. That said, I would presume the Schedule 1 drugs are being approached with a conservative mindset. But they still mind have wider application once the med profession gets past the stigma. The point being, abandoning these new options should be given a fair chance even if there are intials findings like this one.
But you can also be motivated by a streak and do work you wouldn't have otherwise done.

Personally I find streaks are powerful motivators. If this were going to affect my work negatively it would probably be something like "not resting adequately."
It seems to me like a consequence of the ongoing unification of all software development related jobs.

In the ancient times, when you had separate roles for programmers, testers, system administrators, etc., all working in the waterfall environment, there was no need for a programmer to be on call. The programmers developed during their working hours. When the product was ready, it was tested by the testers. When it finally got to production, it was mostly bug-free. You had the system administrators on call, in case some server caught fire.

After the testers were mostly eliminated, bugs in production became more frequent. Continuous deployment into production requires continuous on-call duty. Devops means that the programmers are now also responsible for the failures of servers. Now the programmers are expected to also be agile in their free time.

(But of course, we are collectively all too smart and too proud to form a union. I guess we have to suffer the obvious consequences then.)
Force your browser to open https://github.com/USERNAME?tab=repositories instead of the homepage by default by altering autocomplete priority (in Chrome[1], in Firefox[2]).

[1]: https://superuser.com/a/1402013/1109910

[2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
Link to Canva: https://www.canva.com/

(For those who, like me, are encountering it for the first time)
For sure, it fits into it, apologies if I gave the impression it didn't.
Which societies are even still growing? I thought that even developing countries were falling off in birthrates. I assume the world in 2100 will be mostly Amish people and Israelis at this rate (and the oceans will be a couple meters higher too).
I am still waiting to see any company that goes into the advertising business ever deciding to stop at some point.
The mainstream commercialisation of tech may be tedious, but life on the tinkering fringes is about as exciting and engaging as ever.

There's a lot more noise to filter out, of course. Perhaps that falls under "careful what you wish for" - that is, as 80's/90's youngsters we all wished that the world was more tech and computer -centric. Well, we got our wish.
which you can then migrate to proper rust.

Which means you have to manually work on that awful code that comes out.
In the chart at [1], this step is represented by a magic wand.

(I wanted to give some examples, but https://c2rust.com/ seems to not be translating today.)

[1] https://c2rust.com/manual/
Natural gas is a fuel of the future
Technically, its only electrocution if she dies. Otherwise its an electroshock. The consent of your friends guardian to either the former, the latter, or both is not within my ability to say.
"Not feeling incredibly depressed."
Fly.io is weird about overages:

https://github.com/superfly/docs/issues/382
iTerm2 (a popular open source terminal emulator for Mac) supports this automatically for all TUI programs, by recognising the box characters. You select multi-line text inside the box and it behaves as if the box is a mini terminal.

I don't know which other terminal emulators have the same feature.
Self plug but in case you don't want to read the full paper here's a short 5 min video summary:

https://youtu.be/pwYRVnmnnQc
Ideally it should support easy recoloring to match any of the exciting Windows classic themes! Hotdog Stand support when?

Also, agree that Win2000's color scheme was the best looking iteration of the classic Windows look.
An old story in modern times. Duncan Mavin's pretty darn good book on Greensill
Perhaps pg favors git over mercurial.
Except now you have a population of over 8 billion people. Things stop working when you scale to that level.

So either we go back to the same total population we had thousands of year ago or we start thinking how we can be more efficient with our food.
I created a browser extension using this library!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xp-newtab/ncfmloga...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xp-newtab/
You can maintain a .ssh/config file with all the port that you used (and backup it) or use always the same custom port.

Anyway, it is useless but it can avoid all sort of bots trying out common login to your SSH server, that consumes resources (even if minimal) and fills your logs.
This is an unfair attack. Choosing "for anyone" instead of another phrase does indeed carry meaning. You're both finding more meaning than is justified. A little wobble in imprecision from martin led to a bigger one in systemvoltage, led to a bigger one in you.

(A better ending sentence from martin might've been "We don't want to incentivize 100-day streaks." But that has its own, orthogonal downsides--oh, GitHub's in the business of setting incentives? Uh oh... So all in all, I think I understand his choice of phrasing.)
I don’t understand how this comment actually responds to any of the issues the parent raises? I think they would have made a perfectly good comment if they hadn’t spelled out the issues with the non-GitHub system but they seem to have taken the time to address many of the things you write about in advance (unless they edited that part in after your comment).

Fwiw I also think you’re missing the point about the increased barrier to entry. I suppose one could make arguments from first principles about which platform has the higher barrier to entry but actual people don’t start from first principles – they are much more likely to be familiar with GitHub (I have weaker priors for eglot contributors but I still expect potential new contributors to be more familiar with GitHub).
Every time I'm stuck behind someone who inexplicably stopped in the middle of a walkway to answer their phone, I just imagine to myself that it's a book and think of how engrossing the plot must be for them to pull it out and read it at the worst possible time, and at least I'm a little more amused than annoyed.
Me either but I can see how it serves the purpose of a friend and for some people it could support increased isolation
But you find some of these deplorable people engaging (possibly even fun and interesting), right? Interesting how varied (imho, high) our standards are for another human being.

Fun and interesting is enough for me, we don’t need to be best friends. We can be some semblance of friends. Or is that asking for too much as well?

Anyways, I agree with you. The drop in friendships can’t be fucking tracked because everyone has their own idea of what it means.
I hear you, and don't disagree re: potentially questionable weekend commits, but also know from experience (and having read many books on productivity and motivation) that tracking behavior and using "don't break the streak" as a motivator can be effective.
> We young people have been detaching from the old ways of living without really building a new narrative.

George Hotz, are we living in a simulation (6 minutes)

https://youtu.be/_SpptYg_0Rs
There is even a tool[1] to draw images in commit history (so called gitifi).

It is possible because git allows to create and push commit with arbitrary date, using GIT_AUTHOR_DATE env variable or --date flag.

[1]: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
Windows 98 used a gradient for its title bar [1]:

https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_98?file=W98-2.png
I guess. But on the other hand I guess in the last decade of web dev just trying to stay afloat in the sea (or tire fire, depending on your perspective) of web dev frameworks and tooling is a full time job and career.

To some that’s probably also something that’s intellectually satisfying.
For Workers I've found that their docs are anything but thin. Extremely comprehensive and very helpful.
Myself and a friend bought a hoover for the flights to the U.S.

I've no memory of the application process being difficult and we even returned the hoover to the store and swapped it for the equivalent in Sega mega drive games without any issues.

I actually went out to the US separately as part of a student work America summer visa and my friend and another person used the voucher to meet me in Orlando. This was definitely late 1992 so very sure the quote about no flights being honoured initially aren't accurate.
The commit graph should at lest have a disclaimer of some kind. Plus I think the lines of code added/removed are a better indicator than number of commits. Perhaps with some heuristic to detect whether a lot of lines were being changed similarly, such as if code was changed by a wizard or from a find and replace.

A colleague once showed me a tool to produce back dated commits in bogus git repos so you can draw pictures on your commit graph. You should know that people are gaming the gamification.
We arn't friends - at best everyone here are strangers attending a conference where there are 4-5 competing views and barely concealed contempt.

That said, you f'ing matter and you deserve to be friends with people. You can do it too. Just get out, talk to people in the real world, whatever just do something different from what you are doing now.

I'm rooting for you man.
Lucky you. I get the equivalent of road rage... but on the sidewalk.
But many collective societies are also facing similar issues of loneliness and isolation. This isn't just a western problem. We also see this same problem all across Asia: India, Japan, China, Korea. Some of these countries even had a rise in isolation before the US. I don't think it is a individualism vs collectivism issue, though I'm not going to dismiss it from the equation. I think it is that humans have just gotten comfortable as our lives have all tremendously benefited. We have little day to day problems. The problems we face now are much more abstract and existential than before, which tend to not be as motivating for adopting risky behavior.
Lol wtf? Jesus christ, nevermind then.
> I think having an audience is at least an indication that you're succeeding at it.

If the goal is to get an audience, then having an audience is a success.

If the goal is primarily to crystallize your own understanding of things, write thoughts up in a coherent way, or something else which doesn't necessarily involve an audience, then you can have success without an audience.

> Otherwise you have a diary, not a blog.

If the blog is still there for people to see, it changes the kinds of things you write. I don't feel comfortable posting half-incomprehensible jumbled thoughts with partially worked examples, filled with mistakes on a blog, whereas I would feel comfortable writing that privately.

This does definitely depend on individual preferences and whether one can motivate themselves to write well without even the possibility of an audience. I can't.
Traditionally, the government would simply write laws making the bad things illegal.

"Vacuum cleaners may not upload any information about a person's home to any server or through any network, else fines and prison."
"Televisions and monitors may not, of their own volition, display advertisements, else fines and prison." Or at least very clear labeling rules.

I think that the underlying problem, as is often the case, is the Citizens United ruling. Fixing that doesn't solve everything; it doesn't solve disinformation challenges, but it does take care of a lot.
They are absent because quantifying over something is a model-theoretic notion (that is where the set is coming from), while programming language researchers often prefer type theory and follow a proof-theoretic approach.

Personally, I like proofs, but I think they go better with a model-theoretic approach :-)
Bill Gates discusses the state of tech in 1991 with BMUG [video]
I'm a bit disappointed by the XP version's use of bitmaps for certain elements; it's completely possible to achieve the XP look purely with box-shadow properties.
That's not middleware, is it? It's cool, but sits between what is discussed here and something like a FaaS. My understanding is that this post is about actually deploying middleware that runs during the serve of the static pages.
I've removed external fonts and scripts due to GDPR concerns. I'm not going to add this.
Ask HN: Is the world going to shit?
About a year ago I stumbled upon the degrowth concept and subsequently picked up the book "Degrowth: Less is More" by Jason Hickel. For those unfamiliar with the term: "an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to finite planetary boundaries".[1]

There's been some of HN posts mentioning degrowth in the past but they were heavily criticized[2][3]. I get some degrowthist literature might seem too apocalyptic, but they make some good points:

- Criticism of "decoupling": there's no way of our GDP keeps growing indefinitely while reducing our ecological footprint. In fact, despite all the advancements made in renewables during the past decades global CO2 emissions are at an all-time high.

- Very few people know how to build/grow anything end to end. Consumerism appears to be the only way to live in the West right now (with it, a shared feeling of powerlessness).

At the same time, I stumble upon articles from time to time that are indirectly aligned with the same ideas although from an entirely different perspective. These couple of HN posts come to mind:

- "The super-rich 'preppers' planning to save themselves" [4]

- "I, Pencil (1958)" [5]

- "CO2 emissions are being 'outsourced' by rich countries to rising economies"[6] (The Guardian, not HN)

I gotta admit, this has me pretty worried. However I also have hope (and with hope, it comes action). Questions that I'd like to get input on from the HN community:

1. Am I overly paranoid for believing this? (degrowth seems like our only way out)

2. Is believing technology will save us from climate collapse really that, a belief? Believing this would mean society should keep doing its thing for a tiny tiny chance of getting a free "get out of jail" card (i.e. decoupling is not a fable after all).

3. On the other hand, if we know it's a belief: why aren't our so-called leaders doing anything real about it (albeit at the cost of GDP), are they just trying to prevent widespread panic? I see how this might sound a bit "conspiranoic" but i can't just find better words for it...

4. Regardless of the answer to the question above on #2, why aren't people actively building resilient hyperlocal communities and actively ignore what brought us here in the first place? I.e. globalization and widespread consumerism

4.1. Low-tech, no-tech initiatives seem pretty plausible to me (provided we leave aside our current individualistic values as a society)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416815

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058894

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711413

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980

[6]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/19/co2-emissions-outsourced-rich-nations-rising-economies
Have any one seen accessible TUIs for blind users?
Point noted, yes it’s more a reinforcing feedback loop aka positive feedback loop. Although with more consideration it’s more of a system collapse than a feedback loop. I suppose one could credibility debate the terminology but “potayto” “potaato”.

I looked up “negative flywheel” and is corporate mba jargon, it seems to be an evolution of the business management term “flywheel effect” but for negative situations… except it’s more contrived because the business world already defined that as a “doom loop” which at least makes more intuitive sense.
I have certainly written code which consists of "while (free disk space is less than X) {, delete oldest log file}".

Such code would break on zfs.

Is there even a better way to achieve "I want all spare space to be filled with logfiles, but I never want to run out of space."?
https://www.menards.com/main/home.html BUT lesser known https://www.homedepotrebates11percent.com
Free Flux/InfluxDB query runners on Fly.io
I thinks it's fascinating how it evades significant study, attention, and curiosity.
Until they kill the SE I think luxury goods comparisons are silly. It’s not like flagship Android devices are cheap either.
This has been debated at length at the past, so I'll pass on that discussion.
It’s not about energy-demand – it’s about motivation circuitry (dominantly dopamine). Humans have a lot of “energy” to do a lot of different things irrespective of midday meals. The issue is motivation, flow states, feelings of reward, joy, cognition.

On this note, social media is a terrible rest as it makes the brain pump with endorphins, making it immediately more difficult to find motivation for anything with delayed dopaminergic effect.
Just speculating, but: dead EEPROM/SPI flash?
Look at russia and see a society that is trying to disable those behaviors
The UIs around the year 2001 were fantastically accessible. The recent obsession with flatness undid a lot of good practices.
Use https://sourcehut.org/ then. It is against such gamification elements and Drew has been quite vocal abut this issue.
Ridiculous. You are conflating usage of the term 'fair'.

Fair market value is a reference to what the market will bear, not what is or is not fair.
They have a turnkey plan b for the next CEO or if they have a bad quarter or two. You better believe they'll use it if they need to show growth.
> Electrolysed hydrogen for iron smelting and fertilizer making

Yes! Will be fascinating to watch the inventors & scientists in hydrogen & energy make this happen
I wish the browsers added this, and then allowed users to set their own settings.

That aside, has anyone used this and rigged up something to also preload above the fold images and CSS? Even if it had to be config'ed in a particular way it seems it woukd be worth the effort.
> I think true free marketers are about fair competition, and few would argue that legislation is necessary.

Exactly. Without legislation, the market is for sale.

> Allowing one company to benefit by illegal behaviour distorts the market and thus goes against the principles of free markets.

You've noticed the tautology at the heart of the ideology.
But those were the interventions removed so they could measure the impact.
I for one am glad these communication channels are open. Sheesh.