skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usenet still exists and the store and forward transport mechanism (nntp) and its flooding concept would be fine to transport todays "tweets" or "toots" …

I managed one of the top 100 nodes in the nineties. Two reasons made end users prefer other systems: interactive editing (wysiwyg) as in forum software transfering onto web sites and pictures.

Usenet readers to offer both features could have been developed. And running private leaf nodes (as a number of people did) would have been possible. Instead people moved to other platforms and reinvented many wheels, not always in a better version.

Archiving Usenet articles is and was easy. A forum on the other hand is a tiny walled garden and if the people running it quit, the content is lost.

For adventurous people: its still possible to get a Usenet connection, e.g. for a small fee at http://news.individual.de/ (intro page in German, but Google or Deepl will translate it for you ;-) … disclaimer: I'm just a customer myself there.
Well if there is some unexpected coup we will know why but Ghana might be too small for anyone to care.
I haven't had much luck cooking just rice in a pressure cooker, but I make a mushroom risotto that everyone seems to go crazy for. No idea if it would be scoffed at by Tom Colicchio or not, but it only takes about 10 minutes before I'm bringing it up to pressure, and it is ready 20 minutes later without much work:

Saute 1-1.5lbs sliced mushrooms + 1-2 onions w/ 4 tbsp butter until soft, add 2 tbsp chopped herbs(thyme, oregano, something like that). Add 2 cups arborio rice + 2 cups veggie or chicken stock, pressure cook for 6 minutes, quick release, stir in 1 cup peas, big handful of spinach, a boatload of shredded parm, and serve with even more parm shredded on top.
Maybe decoding Herculaneum scrolls? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri#Virtual_unr...
I did not mean to imply it was a Lisp. It was designed to solve the same problems as lisp, i.e. symbolic manipulation; and was used to rewrite code originally written in Lisp.
The article says prosecutors don't go after these thefts but I'd think the issue is with the cops and the number of arrests. After the BLM protests of 2020 (George Floyd) cops basically went hands off on these so called minor crimes, and so I'd imagine many of them don't even make it to prosecutors. We'd need a graph of incidents and arrests for years prior to 2020 (or months in early vs late 2020) to see the change.
everyone opines about lovely rust error messages are. but in there is 'you really need to add lifetime annotations'. advice, which is followed, will result in days of mad refactoring, only to discover that was a _really bad plan_.

pure evil
FirefoxOS (now kaiOS) exists. It is only on low end phones cause consumers want iPhones (or being unable to afford it, android)
I feel like I should be happy about this because in my opinion, my account was wrongly banned for involving the line "Russians sending their children to die in Ukraine." (I meant, stand by, and intended this to be political about soldiers being sent to die, but Twitter decided that I was fomenting violence against minors).

But I guess I'm not really excited to join whatever Twitter is becoming. I feel like I'm being let back into the building alongside a lot of unsavoury types...
This is great advice. I’ve also been struggling with “letting go” when things don’t go my way. People need to find a way to be at peace, whilst simultaneously striving for improvement.
Ask HN: Where to find or buy webapp sound effects
I'm working on a webapp that I'd like to get sound effects for and not sure on the best approach. There seem to be a lot of freely available sound effects to be found on freesound.org or zapsplat, but there a thousands to look through and there's a lot of variation in quality.

I'd be willing to pay as well if I found something that was fitting enough for my use case.

Does anyone here have experience finding or buying sound effects and can recommend a website for it?
Well, the only company mentioned by name is eBay, which was used as a fence for 300k in stolen goods by a single couple.

So you could maybe make a case that Amazon makes it easier for retail theft, but you also have to seemingly ban all online retailing, which seems rather anticompetitive.
having same problem here. could this be a good time to consider aws?..
No, they correctly identify it as learned helplessness which is a real behaviour common to many animals including humans. If you experience repeated misery, set backs, abuse, discrimination, and even just bad luck it conditions you to believe that no matter what you do you will always fall victim to the worst outcome so you just give up and stay where you are and endure it the best you can. That is not saying that the reason people are poor is due to that conditioning, it’s saying that they were conditioned to act that way because they were poor and now even if you provide them a way out they are so beaten down and demoralized that they will just stay where they are and not even try. It’s almost impossible for people who have not experienced that level of abuse to imagine what this feels like or follow the reasoning behind it.
The term "embodied experience" rears its ugly head in Gary's banter (arguments). I personally tend to suspect that the whole notion of "embodied cognition" is key to sentience, which, in my view, means that it cannot be simply glossed over. In a recursive sense, "what is sentience?" waltzes down the turtles staircase to "what is embodied cognition?" which, as you might expect, opens the doorway to further descent towards the "grounded turtle" - whatever that might be.
People: just text
your friends. Social media is an entertainment venue, not real connection
"A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From
N-Methylamphetamine"

https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3/Pse...
Is it you? Considering that the pattern repeats, the answer is probably "yes". You're having a hard time transitioning from being The New Hotness to Just Another Worker. Your ego gets bruised, you make a bigger deal about your opinion than it warrants, and you burn a bridge or two.

You're not doing it on purpose, but the fact that you're asking about it shows humility, which is a good thing. Always be in a position of service for people. Try to be less ego driven, and more service driven.

And don't give up!
But people are moving in quantity, because tools like this enable the network effect to follow them to the new place(s). So no, this is not pointless.
Because they effectively pay 85% tax on the income already. Look up the Crown Estate. The UK government taking it over would result in it being sold off at bargain basement prices to fund a voter winning 5 min fix and there'd be nothing to show for it in 50 years.
There's nothing wrong with that want. But you're not following the logic—the current asymmetry favors flowing from one direction than the other.

Imagine 4 years from now the people want to get back. It is incredibly hard to do that.

And also you're not understanding the p-hacking analogy here. Imagine there's a truth, objective fraction of people wanting independence (which is not true, that's why above we talk about that may change at later time), assuming that p = 0.49. If a vote can probe this true value with no error, there's no problem in making it a habit to vote even annually. But since voting itself has error-bar (we still assume the true p is time-independent so far, but the errors come from randomness such as if you can make it to the voting center), if you keep voting, once upon a time you're going to get 51%. So P(leave | keep voting N times until leave) -> 1 almost surely.

That's logically why you shouldn't allow such kind of vote appears too often. And whenever it happens, make sure the campaigns are really educating people to do the best decision, not spreading misinformation.

The point about the asymmetry is another matter, imagine after you leave, you can keep voting too, P(join | keep voting N times until join) -> 1 almost surely again. But P(leave) average over time (say hundreds of years) will give you back 49%. (Now we have another matter, say if 30% of the population want to leave, do we really want 30% of the time the countries are split? Instability is not good here.)
wow thanks for sharing this! super convenient to hit “follow all” and suddenly have 80 people to follow!
One thing that has dramatically simplified my entire cooking/eating/kitchen routine has been switching to only eating beef. I just eat exactly the same thing, a steak, for every meal. I never have to go grocery shopping (I have a freezer with scores of steaks), I never have to chop vegetables, I never have to clean up more than the one cast iron pan that I seared the steak in. And since steak is so satiating I only eat twice a day. The time and money savings have been absolutely extraordinary, but even they pale in comparison to the benefits to my health since I've begun this diet. I feel alive again. It is so fantastic when you stick to only eating the most nutrient-dense food on Earth.
> impact of peace on global prosperity

I know of a certain country that loves war against small states and interfering with regional conflicts thereby disrupting peace.
Definitely just a thought exercise. In no universe would a hiring manager ever ask this.

"Why did you sacrifice other things in your life to work at a large tech company, operating at scale, for a high salary?"

Edit: Absolutely laughable that you think this will be detrimental to people's careers. Your other comments on this topic are frankly unhinged. If you are indeed a hiring manager planning on factoring this in to your criteria, please know this will be a massive red flag to productive engineers.
They would have to change all their addresses, but the advertise account change thing might be enough depending on need
Mark V Shany was interesting but also.. wierd
It's a vaccine because it doesn't work on the cancer directly but rather teaches your immune system to attack the cancer.
Uhh ok
I have spent 4 years in this role, we have built the same system 3 times and only first and second versions are successful. (Generates most of the revenue for our PA) the last product was not engineering driven but product management driven and failed. We are launching a 4th product with new product management and engineering and everything looked promising, everybody was very excited as we will put in practice all the learnings and failures, then suddenly new eng manager comes with 0 background and makes decisions that will set us back again 4 years. I'm going to leave because is hard to stay in a company where the experts are not listened. I guess some new manager come and want to shake the boat making the decisions just because or plans just because...this is normal. I have learn to live with this pattern
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709138
Is a fallout over testing automation really so severe that you have to quit your job? It should be possible to disagree without burning bridges.
Wow awesome, thanks a lot. I was second guessing my understanding of MITM DNS attack knowledge
It sucks and it's worse when that happens even before landing into a job. What if you think React should be ended already, it's a clear lose engineering wise. Yet industry can't get of out "hiring reasons", so the CTO's decision is already bad for me before any further conflict.
Has the number of cops shooting people actually decreased?
Considering that they've never even looked for a bicycle, which is many times more expensive than a stick of deodorant, I'm seriously doubtful that they've ever have been hands on for these thefts.
Laws are just words unless they are enforced.
You hijacked this to talk about the carnivore diet?
> I’m hoping the UK joins the United States. We’ve already started to merge our military industrial base and have a long, shared history. Maybe they would receive preference for US LNG/coal shipments too as a result.

This is unrealistic bordering absurd, you just came out of Brexit sold under the pretense of increased freedom and sovereignty. The UK didn't even like the special deal it had with the EU, unique concessions that no other country in the Union would get because the Union acknowledged that the UK was worthy enough to be in with those rather than out without them.

It'd be ludicrous to believe that coming from this sentiment the population would agree in joining the US, losing most of its sovereignty to become a 51st State under control of the USA Federal Government, like extremely ludicrous. The cherry on top would be the humiliation to the UK's nationalists in becoming a vassal of a former colony, I don't see this having any chance whatsoever to happen, not now, not in the next 50 years.

I gotta ask, what fosters this hope of yours? I haven't seen a Brit so deluded in wishful thinking as this take, it's a bit baffling, sorry to say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Manhattan is getting the law enforcement it demanded.
cool, great to see more and more of these coming up!

you can also check out our demo for Stable Diffusion v2. it's free to use, with no email sign-in required and no credit system.

https://app.baseten.co/apps/VBlnMVP/operator_views/nBrd8zP
Concurrency, Parallelism, I/O Scheduling, Thread Pooling, and Work-Stealing
C was orignally a macros for assembly setup.
A little over ten years ago they sold fewer cars than Rolls Royce. Today they sell more cars than Volvo, and they are profitable. That's objectively successful.

That they were arguably the main reason why every other carmaker is transitioning to electric cars is subjectively (to me) a far greater success. The transition is past the point of no return even if Tesla were to disappear tomorrow,
Brave Browser with speed reader
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If he meant a phone OS that only works with internet, that is a big no. XBox has already jumped the shark with this and other OS's like Microsoft Windows are slowly warming up the frogs in this direction.

If he needs a reason then require him to first get all his vehicles modified to iPXE boot. No internet, no go.
I have a similar-ish pattern. I'm in my fifth company now. Shortest tenure: 2 years, longest: 4 years and 11 months. But average is close to 4 years.

Here's my analysis of my own behavior:

- First few months, imposter syndrome. I feel everyone else is smarter than me, the struggle keeps me going. I wake up with a purpose.

- The next few months, I crack the work culture, the codebase and it gives me a sense of victory and the 'kudos's and the 'good job's keeps me going.

- The next few years, I stagnate - Maybe due to burnout, fatigue. Maybe now I get to know I can't be replaced that easily, I slack. But I'll feel that I can always get back to being insecure (a good stress?) if I want to.

- Then at some point, I get bored beyond redemption. If it is not boredom, it will be FOMO.

- There will be a promise of uplevel if I stay a few more years, but I always never want to.

- I quit and find a new job at the same level. Maybe subconsiously I don't want to take a leadership role and chicken out?

Will Larson's blog post called 'A forty-year career' is worth a read.
The main ways that XTDB has been useful to me personally are:

- Immutability, which makes it fit well with the functional programming style used in Clojure. You can create a database connection object that represents a snapshot of the database at a specific point in time (usually the current time), and queries made via that object will ignore any transactions that occurred later. So you can effectively pass the entire DB around as an argument and your functions stay pure. (That also makes it easy to inspect historical snapshots, similar to looking through old git commits--I don't do it often, but it's very nice to have when you need it.)[1]

- Datalog instead of SQL. I find Datalog queries to often be more compact than the equivalent SQL, especially thanks to the implicit joins--you can query for things from multiple "tables" without having to type up a bunch of JOIN expressions. And there are various other handy doodads like pull expressions[2].

- Clojure ergonomics. You can store Clojure maps as XTDB documents as-is without needing to write code to translate them to records.

[1] XTDB's bitemporality also has some benefits over e.g. Datomic (https://www.datomic.com/, another immutable, Clojurey database), though I haven't needed to use it yet--Datomic's "monotemporality" would be sufficient for my current needs.

[2] https://docs.xtdb.com/language-reference/datalog-queries/#pu...
It's the carcinisation of the modern corporation.
I do manage software engineers, focusing on HPC (image processing primarily), and one thing I consistently see from people who work with 'classic' web tech is underestimating what modern hardware can do.

This isn't 2005 anymore, we have multiple parallel 40gb LAN, 64 cores per socket and 2MB of L2(!!!) cache per core, and a full terabyte of RAM (!!!) per server. If you program with anything that makes cache-aware data structures and can avoid pointer chasing, your throughput will be astounding and latency will be sub-millisecond. How else do you think WhatsApp managed 300M clients connected per server without having just the in-flight messages overflowing memory, on top of all the TCP connection state?

Things only get slow when scripting languages, serialisation, network calls and neural networks get involved. (AKA "I don't care if you want docker, a function call is 10000x faster than getting a response over gRPC and putting that in the hot loop will increase our hardware requirements by 20x.")

The more distributed your architecture the more network overhead you introduce and the more machines you need. Running the WhatsApp way with less, higher performance servers simply scales better. Just from the hardware improvements since 2013 there was no reason for WhatsApp to change their architecture as they grew.

And if you think rolling out a new protocol while maintaining backwards compatibility is hard and somehow adding more people will help, I have a team of engineers from Accenture to sell you. I did this straight out of university, to thousands of remote devices, over 2G networks, with many of the devices being offline for months in between connections. You just need a solid architecture, competent people and (I can't stress this enough) excellent testing, both automated and manual. And the team that did this was 6 engineers, and this wasn't their only responsibility.
>> Effective vaccines are likely to be combined with other immunostimulatory approaches including adoptive T cell therapies and to be deployed in postsurgical adjuvant settings to prevent relapses.

Mostly post-surgical, but I wouldn't be surprised if eventually used for metastatic as well. Good luck to all involved.
I didn’t get as far as looking into the mastodon API for clients but that makes perfect sense, I just assumed it was an overlay on the more general API.

Mostly I was thinking how one could implement something in the most efficient way and graph databases/graphQL were literally designed for this stuff.
Does it generate images though? I gave it a prompt around an hour ago and it's still just spinning.
The article claims that the BLM protests made little difference, and include a graph of various states comparing the amount of shoplifting with the amount of prosecution. Generally there doesn’t seem to be a correlation between states with large BLM protests and reduced prosecution.

For example, Oregon had huge protests and weak government responses, and yet prosecutes large amounts of shoplifting.

Blaming this on the response to BLM seems intuitive, but I have yet to see data that supports it.
Naturally it's an exaggeration, but it really depends on how careful you are, quality of the cable, and quality of the port. Laptops, especially, I've found absolutely eat the tabs since you move them around and often have collapsible ports.
One with limited spending power appears to be the gist, to everyone but the Supreme Court
good trick, but it really highlights how thin the article is.
Worked great and added a few dozen people from Twitter. Encouraging to see people moving over.
That’s too bad, I have never used them
The "non-violent communication" style feels so unnatural though. When people talk to me using it, I feel uneasy and suspicious.
a phone only needs one app: a browser.
Windows post GUI on top of dos, was based on ported OS concept of vax/vms micocode. so dos & 'MS windows' each became a 'dsl' vm.
Denser cities use less water.. Biggest consumer of water is agriculture. There are natural places to increase density as traffic increases. So think of a main road, along that main road and some of the nearer side streets can be densified. You see a lot of this along El Camino for example in the Bay area.

Take a bunch of these 1950s and earlier small 2bdrm houses and build multifamily housing.
> I want to see the studies presented on social media: "We gave 30,000 people this drug and you won't believe what happened!"

We've had two years of that... get vaccinated and you won't get it, also get vaccinated and you won't get your grandparents ill!

Somehow all the censoring was done on people who didn't believe these claims.
tongue-in-cheek how else does DOJ get him to a location to arrest him in the easiest way possible?
I got a bunch of AmazonBasics cables last Christmas, but this year they don't seem to be available anymore. Don't know what the point of Amazon is in my local economy if they don't have those products anymore, since there's at least some market economics alive here.
I have a similar story with chemistry. I’d also like to get back into the sciences, but I’m not sure how relevant programmers are.
> I was surprised when I heard that US spied on phone calls of the European leaders such as Merkle.

I wasn't sure who to be more embarrassed for. Doing it to such a significant ally is shameful, having it done to you by an ally possibly worse.
no, avoiding minor crimes has no bearing on whether the cops “feared for their lives” during the times they did show up
SML/OCaml has built-in cons lists and is great for symbolic manipulation. Everything is an expression and there's too many parens.
I don't think so. Well... Many documentaries from American production has editing difficult to watch abroad.
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Spot on. It also took me a change for the worse to appreciate having a normal job
I understand this entirely.

I usually stay around 3 to 3 1/2 years. Not the worst tenure but not the best.

I now prioritize positive feelings, emotions and energy above all.

My goal in all meetings and all interactions is to keep positive emotions high.

What took me a long time to learn as an analytical and technical minded person is that there is a way to be optimistic and positive without being fake or insincere.

I have learned to try to set a positive tone first thing on every call by saying something optimistic and positive.

I also now motivate, encourage and bump people up (often, in a semi joking way).

I spent my career running over people in my way like a freight train. Now i emphasize on making sure the atmosphere is right.

When I was an engineer I felt that logic was the only thing that mattered. In fact( my experience, is that logical discussions and arguments are actually energy draining and viewed as negative by most people.

You could be completely correct on some point, on anything, but if the temperature of the conversation is not jovial or convivial it will be perceived as negativity and that association will stick to you.

Look how Bill Clinton and Warren Buffet enter most conversations. They always keep things light.

If you are a dry, logical, analytical robot - People will find a way to hate you eventually.
That's less attrition than I would expect from retirement alone (falsely assuming age was equally distributed)
90%+ doesn't seem plausible
Agree. The luxury finishings are in fact quite cheap.