skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I own a campervan and have driven all up and down the west coast. The one single time I had something weird happen, it was in the middle of nowhere in a forest in Oregon. Parked on the side of the dirt road in a little side road off the main road. Was sound asleep when I heard a banging on the door. Must have been 3am or something... I got up and peered out the window covers and saw a guy standing there yelling at me to open the door. It was freezing cold out and he was wearing not much clothes for how cold it was. He looked like he had been sleeping in the forest for quite some time (dirty, long hair, beard). I yelled back at him no way that I was going to open the door and he yelled something back at me and stormed off. Didn't hear anything from him again. Grabbed a knife to keep it close and went back to bed. That was one freaky weird experience. I thought about driving off, but didn't want to try to find another place to park in the middle of the night and it seemed like he was gone so I just let it go.
> Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits.

Ick.

I'm sympathetic to piracy, but the moment people start to make money off of pirated works it starts to feel much more wrong.
People... do that? Have unneeded surgery just for curiosity's sake? There are far easier, cheaper and safer ways to entertain oneself.
Hot-take: Are social media platforms all fundamentally just fad services that burn out due to bad design decision accumulation and/or unsustainable business models?

Friendster. AIM. Match. MySpace. Facebook. Tumblr. Flickr. Tinder. Twitter? TikTok? All dying or dead.

Elon is going to break Twitter. Will the US gov ban TikTok? What will come after?

Only exception I can imagine is Reddit, although it may just be slower given that it’s more of a forum than social media. It has its own myriad of technical problems that bog it down.
It’s nonsense to argue Bitcoin or Ethereum aren’t subject to inflation when their price in dollars has been, at best, flat, while the latter experiences record inflation.
Anyone play the Assassins' Creed game where your base of operations in the game was a train car that continuously moved around the game world while you were on (or off) it? I thought that was a really neat mechanic
No, you’re not going to be able to afford gene therapy on a 1920’s income
Binary Packet Parsing
Its okay to quit without notice... It's polite to give 2 weeks, but I wouldn't consider anyone a bad person for not doing so.

> To me the world is a better place when an employment relationship is not purely contractual, on both sides...

Do you think that should not be the case? And people should be obligated to stay after putting in their resignation?
A skin condition called Epidermalisis Bullosa, aka the Butterfly Children or cotton wool kids. I was lucky, though, I have an even rarer form of the already very rare condition that made mine localized and only present after initial trauma, so I have many very deeply scarred areas from repeated trauma but otherwise normal skin. All the people I knew from my support group as a child are dead, died in their teens or twenties. That is how severe the other version of this condition is. As I have gotten older I have gotten more resilient essentially, you really can't pick that I have anything wrong unless you see the scars. I lead a very normal life now.
More like Russian Army knife.
"If you do that to your library book the library will probably make you purchase a new one."

Sure thing, which is why I would not do this with libary or borrowed books in general, but rather buy it cheap second hand, before I take them to the beach with me.

"Treating other people's possesions that you are borrowing with respect is just common courtsey."

Sure thing. I was refering to the general habit of rough use of books, not that it is nice or acceptable to treat borrowed things badly.
The only thing that deal was contingent on was his financing, and the contingency that would trigger if he failed to come up with it was him owing Twitter a billion dollars.
Yes, that's the thesis of the article.

> With Musk’s regime adding a new source of daily drama, the obsessive navel-gazing seems unlikely to abate. Twitter will still be the “hellsite” that users love to hate.
Can’t wait for the future presentation:

“How Robb Oat uses Robb Oat to build Robb Oat”
Low salaries, super expensive and poorly built housing, are just some of the complaints I’ve heard.

I mean there is a reason why so many Kiwi’s go work in Australia.
IIRC - Shuttle autoland capability was vetoed by the Astronaut Office. There was some capability within the guidance software for it, but it was never demonstrated (some early Shuttle flights got close to demonstrating it though).
This pricing is very reasonable, you can tell they want your SaaS to grow with them. I'm going to find an excuse to give this a shot, if anything just to see if the experience matches the presentation, because they nailed it.
Joni Mitchell!
NZ citizen here - zero Covid isn't plausible without regular lockdowns, for when Covid inevitably escapes quarantine.

We tried for zero Covid and failed.
>Only exception I can imagine is Reddit, although it may just be slower given that it’s more of a forum than social media. It has its own myriad of technical problems that bog it down.

Reddit has banned everyone interesting that used to post there. Now it's just repost bots replaying to repost bots.
Haha, true, the last time I got this title it was when they decided to align titles based on salary.
The difference is we had the library debate back in the 1800s, which is so long ago that people have forgotten it was once as controversial to publishers as ebooks are now.
Trump's DoJ went on a fishing expedition for Chinese professors who supposedly had the PRC. This resulted in MIT Professor Gang Chen being indicted for espionage, only to have his case dropped due to lack of credible evidence a year later.
I really love watermarking as a solution for DRM-Free media!

Watermarks can of course be stripped, but so can DRM--the goal is just to add an extra barrier, which watermarks do without inconveniencing legitimate customers. I actually kind of feel it adds value--it gives my purchase an authenticity a pirated copy wouldn't have.
LOL. At least there's some market for yachts. More "greater fools" to take it off your hands.

A railroad car -- now that has a more limited appeal.
I enrolled in Swedish Hospital's Pain Services in Nov 2021. Four weeks, 3 days a week, 8 hours a day. Got a brain dump of all the latest science as well as tutoring on pain mgmt skills.

It helped, reducing my daily perceived pain from 8 or 9 down to 6 or 7 (with occasional spikes). And I continue to improve (very slowly).

Disregard their web site. The team doesn't control their own web presence. Typical, right?

Their actual program is far more involved and innovative than what is shown.

I've been coping with chronic pain my entire adult life. I thought I had a pretty good handle on the latest science and techniques. I was surprised by how much new stuff I learned.

https://www.swedish.org/services/pain-services
Ask HN: How to deal with being overqualified for a new job?
I accepted a job for a company that is safe from the recession and unlikely to be laid off. The problem is that I am overqualified. I don’t think I will be able to find another job given this economy and would not want to risk it with another company. How should I deal with the nagging feeling I am wasting time for a guaranteed salary?
I wonder what this spells for remote work?

If it’s a buyer’s market then employers can say “work in the office” - take it or leave it.
Thanks for the link.

Why is that particularly relevant to typesetting a Bible?
> but with more grace

> Grace - courteous goodwill.

I think we are saying the same thing. Goodwill can only be built with actions and that would be similar to what Stripe did in their layoffs. The lack of goodwill would result in what you are saying.
Tesla historically has not been profitable until recently and they are getting help from carbon credits.
>systemd (Lennart Poettering)

I see they are still going strong on the embrace, extend extinguish strategy.
Sasha Levin works at Google https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-levin-9861662
What's interesting is this is almost the opposite of April, 2020. Rather than low-wage service sector workers getting laid off, it's high-wage tech workers.
ok, so don't bypass publishers for existing works, but set it up in a way so that authors can publish books in this library themselves if they so desire (and pay for editing, marketing, etc. themselves).
Ask HN: Cheapest Video Hosting?
I’d like to let Screegle users upload their video screencasts online for a quick one link share option.
Any recommendation? I looked at BackBlaze and it seems cheap and was able to upload files from my macOS app in Swift.

Are there other services besides the usual suspects?
That’s exactly what the article is saying.
yes and no. Some social media sites are still around after a long time but I think a big perk of these apps is having an 'in crowd' that produces content. Once the site is too popular it attracts people who are no longer in the in crowd and people move on.

What does this have to do with the post though?
And many times more likely to die in a road accident than either.

Edit: apparently this comment, or something immediately before, was so objectionable that I got a temp ban. God knows what is going on with that.
It's nice but I think D2 is nicer.

I'm waiting for D2 to be open sourced and going that more tools will adopt it then, like mermaid and diagram.
I don't see how anyone besides this one, random, survivor-biased Twitter dude will have any luck with throwing a message-in-a-bottle doc out there. No one will ever read it. They'd have better luck posting flyers at bus stops and near Whole Foods.

There's a balance between being organized and tilting at windmills seeking a love "algorithm".

Get your sh*t together and it will come. Or be hot and have fun.

In bragging-disclaimer: I live in a major metro (with a respected university) where there's an infinite supply of women and no real need for a dating app. I don't understand hookup apps as they feel gross and Brave New World to me while dating apps feel loser-ish for people who can't socialize but are desperate.
I don’t see them shutting down all the long haul routes in the next decade or two. They would have to keep servicing the segments with shorter routes, which probably means they’d have to invest in some infrastructure, and I don’t see them getting the funding for that anytime soon. And even if that happens, they would probably save a couple of long haul routes for historic or cultural reasons. And given how popular the Empire Builder is, and how sparsely populated areas it goes through—meaning it is harder to justify the infrastructure that enables shorter routes—the Empire Builder will probably be the last long haul route to go.

I think the Empire Builder will still be there in 2040, even if it will only be a weekly run, mostly for tourists.
The mental gymnastics happening in this thread to justify pirating books is pretty disappointing.

Especially on HN, where I think a lot of our livelihoods depend on writing and charging for closed source code that can technically be infinitely distributed.

How many of us would be happy to open source all our code, provide easy ways for people to download and deploy, and then leave a PayPal link in the footer asking for donations? Why should authors be any different?
It's an ad for some company that tracks glacier movement, but honestly it's not too bad. If the prerequisite for sponsored content is that you have to prove yourself by mounting an expedition, I'm OK with that.
I made a related comment about HN mental gymnastics about Musk and his achievements here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33462201

It's just mind boggling to me that otherwise rational and intelligent people can discount reality in this way.
>Imagine if the people who work at those companies aren't your enemy. But instead are potential customers and potential collaborators, who see value in your work and want it to succeed.

Yes, but we'd have to imagine it isn't microsoft doing it.

You'd think people would learn the dozenth time it happens, but no, here we are again with copilot and VS Studio Code.
His cartoons are great.

https://twittoons.com
Freedom of speech is tough, huh? And in the USA it doesn't protect against promoting threats of violence. Seeing as the N word is probably considered the most hateful word in the English language, I can see it being understandably considered violent in many cases.
This is seemingly another disease that seems to be influenced by sugar intake (due to the association with diabetes) and inflammatory processes of the body going haywire.
Doesn't rust feel a bit too heavy weight?
It feels like the language packs too much firepower, can there be downsides to that?
C long life seems to be, in part, because of its simplicity.
The coalition supporting SLS in Congress is much broader than just Senator Shelby, though he's definitely one of the biggest proponents - an old school Senator purely motivated bringing home the money to his state. There are plenty of SLS advocates in both the Senate and House - SLS is not going anywhere just yet.
That's wonderful they emphasize that so strongly. I hope the rest of the culture is as healthy. If so, it sounds like a lovely place to work.
Lindows!!! Anyone remember that catchy song "Lindows Rocks" from the 2000s?
Just wanted to say that it's great to have you posting your thoughts/experience on this topic. I've run a forum for almost 19 years as a near-lone moderator and so have a lot of thoughts, experience and interest in the topic. It's been frustrating when Yishan's posted (IMO, solid) thoughts on social networks and moderation and the bulk of HN's discussion can be too simple to be useful ("Reddit is trash", etc).

I particularly liked his tweet about how site/network owners just wish everyone would be friendly and have great discussions.
> (unless we are talking about historical books)

You should not touch historical books with gloves. It is generally correct to use your bare hands. The reason why you would wear gloves while handling a book is to protect you, perhaps because the book has been contaminated with hazardous chemicals or something.

Anyway.

It is also my experience that some people completely destroy their books. I don't know how it happens. I don't think of myself as careful with books. I shove them in backpacks, insert random objects to remember my place, take them outdoors, etc. Yet somehow, the books look much the same afterwards.

Part of this is just knowing how to pack books to avoid damaging them. Simple stuff like putting the spine down. If I'm going outside in the rain, keep the book out of the water. If I'm shoving something in my backpack and there's already a book inside, just check to make sure I'm not shoving something directly into the book.
I found Migadu through a HN post like this and can't recommend them enough. It feels like having my own mail server without the headaches. The pricing model works for me and I find the control panel really well laid out. I don't think I could return to an email provider that leases emails at my own domain back to me.
Yes. The tooling required is more expensive, but the engineering going into both is more mature and simpler.
I specifically said NT APIs to differentiate from the Windows APIs. And my "just like WINE" comment was more to differentiate what they were doing with WSL1 from WSL2. My use of "just like" is too strong there.

And I also don't think any of the problems were insurmountable. I'm still disappointed that they gave up on WSL1. (At least partially because I thought the whole Windows Subsystem concept was neat design)
I just saw an article about how he averaged $1 MM a week in profit on his videos last year. He's probably not a billion-dollar brand yet, but he's probably at more than half way there.
China’s central bank struggles to force tech firms to share user data with state
So there are a couple of things this got me thinking (yes short answer is capitalism but...). Parag is being lauded for not getting bullied by Musk, Standing up to him, pushing through an overpriced acquisition and enriching share holders.

1. Did he really not know layoffs of this magnitude were coming? Doubt it.

2. If he did and thinks that was the right thing for Twitter (for innovation instead of just cutting costs) why did he not do it himself (instead of selling it to you-know-who)?

3. Looks this whole sale was a way to wash your hands of the guilt of actually of having to do the layoff yourself!

This almost feels like a conqueror putting every other captive to death as part of the victory ceremony! I mean are layoffs so normalized that we not only accept them but also have to cheer for them even as victims by thanking with a LinkedIn post?
> I don't think arguing morals makes sense because of how subjective one's morals are

[not related to OP] I have a similar feeling every time someone moralizes in any discussion: we could argue about morality, but we need to start with a common moral framework and define what "good" and "bad" are first. Everyone assumes these are generally agreed upon but the devil is in the details when discussing something like the OP.
If you're hiring chefs and stuff for your train car, buying a high end motorcoach and hiring a driver seems superior and more affordable in basically every other way.
Have you ever seen either of those be remotely well correlated with actual job performance?
>I regularly lend e-books from my city's public library...

No. You 'borrow'. The library 'lends'
> They didn't abandon zero-COVID for another 5 months (Oct 21) when they finally admitted the data showed it didn't work.

This doesn't sound right to me. I live in Australia, and we adopted a very similar policy. Lock down migration until a large percentage of the population was vaccinated. When the vaccine was rolled out, the restrictions eased. It wasn't because "the data showed it didn't work".

And fwiw "lockdown" for the most part meant restrictions on international travel. Most residents got to lead very regular lives for theozt part.
Can someone give a one or three sentence pitch for Hanko (and Passage) for an interested company?
1. Ban all porn. There are reliable services that can quickly weed it out. This will legitimize the site and eliminate CSAM.

2. Only allow media to be posted by paying verified accounts. Everyone else gets text only.

3. Do not be afraid to block entire countries if some politicians flex. Politicians need Twitter to reach their supporters. They will fold.

4. Do not have local employees outside of the US to avoid them being arrested over some BS.

5. Live-streaming only available to paid users and can be linked to a person if needed.

Essentially: free speech for all but full features available only to those who don’t mind losing anonymity (at least to Twitter, not necessarily the public.)
That clip resonates strongly with me. I’ve seen exactly the good and bad scenarios he describes there in orgs for the reasons outlined.

I think that’s why Apple created so many iconic products under Jobs. You hear stories of Steve using the product and seeing a minor flaw and just flying off the handle that it’s not good enough, for the type of bug you know would have been a “priority 2 - won’t fix” in most large orgs on a product the CEO will never even use.

A “big hammer” who cares about the product can make a huge difference.
Mass Layoffs to Hit Twitter on Friday, Employees Told in Email
z-lib.org is responsible for me buying more books in the past couple years than I’ve ever bought.

It essentially acted like an in-person bookstore for me that allowed me to browse a book to determine whether it was worth buying.

Before z-lib, I generally tended toward avoiding wasting money. I guess I’m back to that again.

(I like paper copies of tech books and Kindle copies of novels so I can sync reading and highlights between devices)
No mention of zfs, btrfs, xfs, lvm, or fde volumes from the makers of excessive-complexity cancers of systemd and pulseaudio.
What are these administrative processes and can they be automated? I am sure someone has the list and details but it would be good to open source them.
One of the main reasons I don't even want to touch Clojure is because I don't want to be trying to figure out Java stacktraces when things go wrong.
"MS Linux: Shipping in November 2003!"

https://web.archive.org/web/20050204084517/http://www.mslinu...

;)
Doctors if baffled by a condition will want to do a surgery eventually, because they want to literally “see” what’s going on. When they did that to my sister they discovers that her arteries were fine but capillaries had died off and the muscle was dead, so cutting into it caused a new cascade of issues.

Diabetes can be awful. She did not survive long after that.
Unless you used the car routinely, a hackier solution would be just to buy out a block of rooms in the sleeper car.

Amtrak.com suggests rooms from Seattle to LA are ~$700 each. https://www.craigmashburn.com/amtrakcardiagrams.html says a Superliner sleeper car has 20 rooms. So you could rent out an entire car for about $14,000. Complementary meals included!
It's obviously not exactly the same as stealing, since you are only denying the person one very specific use of their "property" (which only recently has been artificially made property, through copyright laws). That specific use you are denying them is not the right of sale even, but the right of a monopoly on distribution. Of course, if it starts materially affecting the person's capacity to live a reasonable lifestyle, then it becomes a different moral issue, and there is still a moral judgment to be made regardless, but that is not the same thing at all as conflating unauthorized copying, which widens possession in a way that could potentially have averse effects, and the absolute of theft, which changes it in a zero sum way, and necessarily has averse effects.

As one example, I know a guy who pays for online streaming subscriptions, but still pirates to not be forced through a crappy experience because people are attempting to extract the last penny and get as rich as possible through spying and ads, tiers of resolution, device restrictions, etc. I see no reason why there is any moral issue with bypassing their chosen distribution monopoly, especially because they are not starving. I strongly disagree with the tenet that extreme capitalistic gain is a right, and thus cannot consider intellectual property rights as such an absolute. Now, if one is to download something that someone earning a modest living made, and which has a real material impact on them providing for a reasonably comfortable life for themselves and their family, personally I consider that a problem, but that is quite rare (not least of all because smaller content producers are usually being exploited and making very little from distribution). It's not the likely case even with just a modicum of awareness in what and when you decide to download something.
If only charities were effective in their use of resources.
Copyright already worries about this sort of thing a great deal, and it's actually a lot more well thought-out than your average hacker is aware of. There are no hard and fast rules; but generally... the thing being sued over has to be creative enough to be copyrightable in the first place. Small snippets do not qualify for copyright protection alone.