skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have observed an awful lot of Eternal September effect in these debates. I suspect it might be easy for people who have been living on the Internet for a long time to miss the ways in which their intuitions don't mesh with somebody new to the space. Leads to a lot of two ships passing in the night debate.

I don't disagree with your point, there's quite a bit of knowledge around building communities and moderation that's been around and honed for at least a generation. And we should take that knowledge and build on and around it.

That said, folks have been going on about "Eternal September" for decades. Granted, people are born all the time, but they've grown up in the age of the Internet.

As such, it seems to me that at some point (if not now, when?) we need to get away from that particular excuse.

Anyone born before the Internet (myself included) has had a long time to figure things out, and anyone born in the Internet's wake is immersed in it from a fairly young age.

So why do we continue to use "Eternal September" as a foil?

It's entirely possible I'm missing something important, and if I am, please do enlighten me. Thanks!
And it's cool, but it's extremely basic, a bit bulky and ugly, and has all the drawbacks of E-Paper.

Can you elaborate a bit about the e-paper part? I always believed that watches were the perfect place for e-paper. Low power, durable, always-on, wide viewing angle, no need to constant refresh.

I thought the smaller the display, the better suited it was for e-paper.
Book Review: “Status and Culture”, by W. David Marx
Agree with decode time being more important. There we still can improve.

We have ideas how to make it faster than WebP lossless, but haven't engaged with that yet -- the lossless decoding is already fast enough not to be a blocker.

Also, given how efficient and quality-sure the lossy is, it will become tempting to migrate many of the PNG/GIF/WebP lossless cases to JPEG XL lossy further reducing the priority in JPEG XL lossless. This can be a 4x-5x savings whereas a better lossless is only 10-40 % savings in density.
It’s a really interesting product. Even those who make a living by “image search” in the past, Adobe Stock, Pinterest, Shutter Stock, GettyImage… If they can find creative and good business models, it will probably be a great business… Makes me think
Kosmos-2558: Russia's orbiting satellite killer that could trigger Article 5
Kosmos-2558 can deploy a small, manoeuvrable subsatellite, armed with a projectile, that could catch USA-326, a US intelligence probe in the same orbit and shoot it down –– with possibly catastrophic consequences in space and below.
> Burning Man census reveals the average burner has a household income of up to $100,000 and will spend nearly $2,500.

So more like "Earning Man"?
Does it have a branch where you hack your own utility function and gain +infinity utility?
I’ve done it but not as long
cperciva whom you link have worked quite a bit on EC2 support for FreeBSD, a lot of it documented on their blog [0] and supported by Patreons at [1].

But yeah it would be nice if there was someone who could work on it full time

[0]: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-03-29-FreeBSD-EC2-repo...

[1]: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva
Modernizing Fedora's C Code
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/406
Translate Between JSON and EDI
One problem with the smartwatch market is that it's hard to know what "comparable" means to any given person.

I've found an Amazfit Bip to be a totally satisfactory replacement for my Pebble Time, but it doesn't cover every single usecase. It does have a battery life measured in weeks though (usually 3-4 for me, less if I use the GPS to track a bunch of exercise), which is a pretty nice selling point.
Just heard even for first time: "disposable Bic"

so if don't mind, any elaborated BG / context on it?
That's a really interesting idea.

Can you recommend any good references for bitemporality in graph dbs?
These things seem to be fine when it's 5-6 tweets in a coherent thread. There's even that guy who regularly multi-thousand-word threads that are almost always a good read.

This thread in particular is really bad.
Ask HN: Best tool for de-duplication of local files?
I’m currently in the predicament of helping a friend restore recovered photos and videos from multiple backup dumps, from multiple cloud providers, from multiple time periods.

There is quite a bit of overlap and many instances exist of the same file having been backed up in different places.

As it stands I’ve collated the dumps into local folders on a fairly fast NVME drive and I’m trying to think of the best way to merge 3-4 local folder trees representing the cloud dumps into a single output folder that will skip binary duplicates by hash.

Ideally I’d also be able to detect duplicates where some files have been compressed (so will not match on hash), but I have a feeling that’s a really optimistic goal for any kind of automation.

Can anyone help with a suggestion?
Human rights?

That's kind of a tenuous link at best. You could make the case that buying more increases the opportunities for those at the bottom.

I'm not even necessarily making a factual statement here, but personally I don't feel that there's anything to reconcile.
>> something formatted with pipes, quotes and spaces would be better

How well would this format handle deeply nested structures? It seems like it would require a lot of space characters compared to nesting open and close characters: {} or () or []

How would escaping pipes, quotes, and spaces work to represent those character literals?

There are already numerous structured text formats: JSON, XML, S-expressions, YAML, TOML, EDN, and many more. Wouldn't this be yet another format? (https://xkcd.com/927/)
Stripes Layoff 14% of the Workforce
> Java forces OOP and it's verbosity is worse than COBOL.

Java doesn't force OOP in any meaningful way. I mean it does, in that you need to wrap all code in a class, but that's a non-issue (one line of code at the top and a closing bracket). You can write Java code where all functions are static and do nothing is object-oriented, when that's the best match for your needs.

On verbosity, you can latch on to the ConstructorAccessorMapFieldGetterFactorySingleton nonsense if you want but that's on you. Nothing in the Java language forces that on anyone. Having been writing Java code since 1996 I've never written such code.
Withings is great if you're looking for "health" watch but not really good as fitness tracker.

For years, I used my steel HR (got a weird one branded Nokia because they had purchased Withings only to resell Withings to the founder a year later), loved the sleep tracking, health report etc... But the activity tracking wasn't the best, especially running.

However the battery's life is out of this world. I loved the mix between tech and good old watch.
I’m sure they don’t know but for 40M people TripleA means this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Anticommunist_Allian...
...After seeing this, I no longer care if JXL lives or dies.
Which NIC and driver combinations support kTLS offloading to the NIC?

How did you deal with the hardware/firmware limitations on the number of offloadable TLS sessions?
After over a decade of me griping at them to get it done.

They're late to the game and adjusted color range and adjustable color temp lighting has been done for over half a decade.

And Cree doesnt even manufacture their own stuff. You cant guarantee quality control, as I recently learned with their XHP35 series. Different color temps come from different manufacturers and the difference in quality of the top cover is drastic. One set, just touching the top cover causes the silicone to shear away, the other, you can rub and bump, nothing happens to the silicone.

I'm not exactly impressed, here.
I wanted to try it, but until the download link it never mentions it's windows only. So any plans on releasing a Mac version?
Yet. With so many sattelites, somebody is going to get sloppy. We already had instances, were people hacked "dead" sattelites. All thats needed is a crash, not something designed to be damaged. Space is the soft underbelly of the soft underbelly that is civilized society.
Society is designed to create a groupthink.

Nobody (or close) likes out-of-group think.
I’m doubtful the majority agree with you on that!
there was a pretty widespread sentiment that younger people didn’t want watches because why would they?

I remember this, too.

But good companies plan for the future, not the past. And all of those young people get older. That's one of the few certainties of life.

So what Apple did (intentionally or unintentionally) is create a market, and then let its customers mature into it.

Financial institutions do this all the time.
You don't have to be a high earner to make it work, just a remote job and the desire to do it. I meet lot's of people who definitely aren't high earners but are living this life by choice.
It has more buttons than an Apple Watch and is a lot simpler with less functionality, which for many is a draw.

I had two Pebbles and was very sad when it shut down - my Pebble devices are no longer functioning but I've been using an Apple Watch for maybe 6 years now and am very happy with it. Sometimes I miss the battery life, but I never feel like it's a restriction and the UI on the Apple Watch is really very good.
Yep! In the thread he describes how he is not enough.
"and slowly eating up the savings of those who saved with inflation"

Do people really sit on cash as it's being devalued by inflation anymore? I thought savings of all types were at historical lows since the 90's where nobody saves, has debt (e.g. mortgage & credit cards), or invests in the stock market in some form - which has become incredibly easy to do over the last 2 decades.
Elon Musk's State-by-State Approval Rating
As once famously said by Mark Twain: "I didn't have time to write a short Twitter thread, so I wrote a long one instead."
Bigger demand for higher-level housing creates price pressure on all levels.
Maybe it's because Chrome does not have a huge memory leak that brings down your system after a few days of uptime.

I use Firefox because Chrome's updater kept trying to sneak past my firewall and one day it succeeded. As soon as it did, I switched. **No.**

I don't like Firefox because of all its issues (including the memory leak), but at least it supports trackpad gestures and overscroll and all that good stuff that Chrome doesn't. And it doesn't keep trying to backdoor my computer using a stupid hard-to-disable updater. One single JSON file and it obeys for good.
> Everyone believes this.

Based on the replies I get here and elsewhere (I beat this drum a lot since I think many people have such in accurate perceptions), many people still think that grades and scores are the primary determining factor in elite school admissions, apparently with a dose of racism thrown in to hold down groups who are good at grades and scores.

I get very few people who really embrace the idea of “the hook” (link below) and try to learn more about it. I’m imagining because it’s hard and not concrete — that is, there is no formula to create a good hook and there are few litmus tests to know if your hook is good enough.

https://www.hispanicoutlook.com/articles/15-tips-minority-st...

> You think Asians are in some way on average inferior in a way that’s obvious to admissions staff but not to alumni interviewers.

Yes, I trust the staff to have a better idea of where all applicants (including Asians) fit into the total applicant pool versus the alumni interviewers.

If I had to take a guess, I’m guessing that bias in personal score (for all people, not just Asians) impacted fewer than 20 applicants at Harvard last year. Maybe fewer than 10. There are strong efforts to combat rater bias in the process.

One of the Supreme Court justices asked why that score was used if it mattered so little. The short answer is that really strong scores probably got straight admitted, really weak scores got straight denied, and the marginal candidates are selected based on a number of variables (so this score would be just one of those).

Said another way, finding bias that is going to make a few percent of failing applicants have a slightly better failing score is something that should be looked into (mainly to see if it impacts marginal candidates), but it’s not going to change the admission status of those candidates. In Harvard terms, if the personality score is in a very low category, bumping it up one notch doesn’t make any difference. Any time spent on fine tuning one failing rating in a failing application is inefficiently used time, and these folks are on a clock.
Things you can do with SPyQL CLI that you can't with clickhouse local (AFAIK, top of my mind, not exhaustive):

- use python code in your queries

- import python libs (just install them with pip/conda)

- write your one UDFs in Python

- run OS commands from within the query (using os.system)

- have guaranty of row order (like in grep, sed, etc)

And there is more, please take a look at:
https://spyql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/distinctive.html
Exactly this. You quickly find that you want to be “nondescript” as much as possible, and a van works great where a truck/trailer wouldn’t - unless you want to be stuck with campgrounds and Walmart parking lots.
GitHub converts encrypted/unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord encrypted ones
Meta backs out of plan to occupy new Austin office
Definitely - I’m not saying it’s perfect, just that it’s not as simple as portrayed in the comment I replied to. It’s just part of human nature that challenging the status quo is harder than stroking it: nobody changes the world by saying “<local sports team> is the best” but it’s easy to warm a crowd up that way, too.
Hi latexr,
it was a beautiful poem!
Yeah you're right, the coin flipping is more of a fun thing to do!
I completely agree with you, but that's the way The Orange Website works. As a lowly user there is nothing we can do about it.
Here's a moderation idea: treat people as grownups and allow everything (everything permitted by the law, that is).

Just let individuals ban whoever they want from THEIR view.

If you want to be super-fancy, you could then see if some account X is banned by many of individual users from appearing on their feed, and give individuals an option to have those automatically banned from their own feeds after some threshold percentage.

So, if X is a jerk/spammer and individual many discussion group users have banned them (from their own view), give users the option to automagically have X banned from their own feed too once they hit say 10% of other members banning them.

This off-loads bannin a little, and as long as individual users have the option to check which those "auto-banned" are and e.g. except them from being auto-banned for them, it still maintains freedom.

In HN with showdead etc, I've never seen any "dead" comments that I couldn't just have as regular comments and just ignore on my own...
I've used texmacs (unrelated to TeX despite the name) with good success.

Never went particularly deep into it though.
I have used adnauseum every now and then for a lame attempt at poisoning my profile. I wonder anyone at HN has other ideas to go about and poke fun at this data machine that tries to profile us all?
How an Atomic Clock Works, Round 2: Zeeman Alignment
This really was an outstanding read and take on Elon, Twitter, and what's coming up.

But it literally could not have been posted in a worse medium for communicating this message. I felt like I had to pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time reading through all this, and to share it succinctly with colleagues resulted in me spending a good 15 minutes cutting and pasting the content.

I've never understood people posting entire blog type posts to.... Twitter.
For me, the competition there is pretty simple. The browser shouldn't crash.

Until now I used firefox on my home ubuntu box (intel nuc). Yesterday it started crashing, and crashed about 15 times. I downloaded chromium and it didn't yet crash.

Now, I'll probably move to it for home computer browsing, too. Even when I don't agree with their decision on not enabling JPEG XL by default. If there is a browser that has it on by default, then I naturally switch to that instead :-) -- but I'm not aware of such. Perhaps Brave?
Not your bucket, not your data.

A half-yearly 2018 report by a cybersecurity firm CheckPoint stated that cloud buckets are one of the most attractive targets for the threat actors.

https://cyware.com/news/cloud-storage-data-breaches-why-are-...
Say no to things you can't do.

Lock down notifications on all devices.
Allow only the most important people and messages (calendar alarms, reminders) to come through. Vibrate only. No red indicators in app icons.

I have productivity rituals that take a few minutes a day:
Read your todo list in the morning. Keep a running plaintext work log (I use Logseq). Do a quick review and make tomorrow's todo list at the end of each day.

The two weeks leading up to New Year I will clean up all of my files, reflect, and get ready for the new year's life and work.

Easter is a time of renewal for me. I look at all my accumulated bad habits from winter and rally the self-discipline to start again. The weather is usually in my favor and warm sunny days reinforce my discipline. All the New Years Resolutioners have given up by now, so the resources are more available.

Give sincere compliments. Society is quick to rage and shame, and miserly in recognizing goodness. Everyone has something cool about them, find it and recognize it. It's about them, not you.
What a ridiculous false equivalence to make.
To be honest, I would not disagree with that. Very 'the only winning move is not to play'.
It depends on when we get PCIe Gen5 NICs and servers with DDR5 :)
> In my opinion, something formatted with pipes, quotes and spaces would be better:

Just pipe it into a JSON-to-YAML script like this:

#! /usr/bin/python3
from ruamel import yaml
import json, sys, io
print(yaml.dump(json.load(sys.stdin)))
I'm using the Javascript random function. for this project true randomness wasn't a thing that I wanted to do, it's just a fun project to use when you're with your friends.
For Linux, there is a documentation at kernel.org: https://docs.kernel.org/networking/tls.html
Not sure why you are getting downvoted since you are spot on.
Media patterns–A collection of common patterns for working with media on the Web
Great points.

Static binary analysis looks for the version string but doesn’t currently do deeper analysis of reversed code to see if it’s patched. Could go either way.

And determining if the code is triggered and exploitable is quite challenging. Dynamic analysis can help here, provided you have the coverage.

More generally tho, istm that there will be instances when the version is unpatched and there is some exploitable vector (even if it’s just crashing the app). My hope is to raise awareness for developers (and security) about 1) transitive dependencies and 2) some really old OpenSSL versions in very popular mobile apps. I don’t believe most folks think about this and awareness can lead to shipping safer apps.
The "closest" I found that filled the void Pebble left are these hybrid watches like the ScanWatch I mentioned. All fully digital ones just go overboard with features, I find them too gimmicky and they come with an awful battery life. I don't want another smartphone on my wrist that I need to charge every night...

I miss the simplicity, yet the huge amount possibilities (via their store and SDK) and watch faces the Pebble had. They still managed to keep the device distraction free along with a good battery life. I'm all ears for any good Pebble-like smartwatch if anyone knows one.
I think that you should look into the history of talk radio, or maybe just radio in general. Then maybe a history of American journalism, from Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune back to the the party newspapers set up in the first years of the republic.
Oh yeah, the Philly is strong and distinct.

My accent isn’t Deep South thick, but it’s there. I’ve embraced my use of “ain’t”, “y’all”, “fixin to”, and “whatnot”. When poked fun at, I generally respond with a “bless your heart”. Which people misunderstand as politeness.
Maybe try opening the PDF instead of the PNG, the PNG images of text look off to me as well but the font rendering in the PDF looks fine.
The article is typical vomitus from today's partisan infants masquerading as journalists.

To think that Musk can do any worse than a gaggle of self-important c-suites with nanny complexes is laughable. Twitter has been hemorrhaging money. The company was poorly managed and only posted profits for 2 out of the last 10 years losing billions of dollars. They are way over-staffed, infected with ideology, and toxic to the point of contempt for all who do not share their world-view. That's unhealthy, and in the context of a free & open platform, a terminal trajectory.

Obviously the acquisition is a risky play, but that's the point. No risk. No reward. And risk-taking is not out of character for Musk, or any entrepreneur like him.

It is also Musk's money and all the risk is on him. Who cares what he does with it? ...unless you were happy with the level of censorship and control (power) that the self-important c-suite activists spun up, then I can understand why the author is so frazzled.

The author's fourth paragraph is telling and reveals much about his state of mind. It is long on assumption, seen through a dirty lens of unconscious incompetence.

I may bookmark the article, because should Musk succeed, which is likely given his unique brand of leadership, it will be the "funniest thing that’s ever happened."

And if Musk fails, and twitter is forced to shutdown, then the world sheds one of the most contentious online cesspools to have ever existed.
You tell yourself you're allowing someone else to enjoy (nth-)last years X and Y at a lower price point, being subsidised by your use first.

Everyone can reconcile almost anything, practically humanity's superpower. It's rare the person that fails to - on any issue. I think we all do it all the time for most issues.
I have ADHD-I and I'm feeling almost exactly the same way, right up to a falling out with a company I had significant ownership in/was part of the founding team.

How are your daily routines? Are you taking breaks and pursuing the things you actually enjoy doing? Have you thought much about the kind of experiences that have brought you the most joy/satisfaction in life (both at work and outside of work)?

Maybe watch this video and see if it resonates with you. It's a talk by Dr. Russell Barkley on ADHD and it's what made me finally schedule a full analysis (after literally decades of putting it off).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpB-B8BXk0

If you'd like to talk I'm here to listen.
> I think letting people do this is awesome. I think standardizing on it would be a huge mistake.

There is a hidden issue with not standardizing. Most people either don't care about local vs container (matching prod) development OR are terrible not equipped to make an informed choice. Thus, as a devops, I have to support both methods. This is a huge drain on my resources, especially since devopsing is just part of what I need to do.

The root cause of this is the myth that all software engineers will understand source control, will understand databases, will understand how systems interact with each other and on top of it, will understand the business so they can actually do the work required. This is how you end up with "it works on my machine". This is how you end up with "but it works in repl, therefore your prod environment is broken".

Standardizing doesn't mean this is the only way of doing things. It means, this is the standard way of doing things and if you get stuck, you get support. It means this is the way we consider to be most efficient of doing this stuff. You are still free to do things your way if you chose to, but if you get stuck, it's on you to get unstuck.