skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few people would defend sysvinit, and few would argue against systemd as an init and rc system.

People complain against systemd as a tightly coupled collection of subsystems replacing previously very loosely coupled subsystems. Those subsystems have turned straight from bazaar to cathedral, so of course this will raise concerns.

The debate isn't systemd vs sysvinit, but s6 vs shepherd vs runit vs systemd, bazaar vs cathedral, and choice vs absence of choice.
Sorry I missed this. I think perhaps 30-40 years ago the cabbie would have had a point, but a weak one. If he was around back then he probably watched people and companies leaving the city.

The past 20 years have been the opposite though - suburban campuses relocating downtown, and at least on the North side of the city you saw a ton of urban renewal during that time. While Chicago saw net population loss, it saw a lot of growth elsewhere in the city.

You came across one of the more common "wives tale" tropes cabbies will tell you though. I've probably heard similar a dozen times over the years. You just nod and smile :)
You typically don't perform the work and take the money if you don't agree to it, or at the very least agree to future payments. If negotiations failed then it reverts back to the original offer.

At some point, contract or not, he agreed to take the money and do the work.
Croatia to join Schengen but Bulgaria, Romania bids rejected
Smith: " Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program."
I've noticed a lot of DIY kits for sale for what was once routine things, like making a gourmet dinner where all the ingredients come neatly packed in one box. No need to think beyond the actual assembly steps. It's sort of like satisfaction in a box. A whole market has sprung up to recreate the experience without the hassle.
If documenting was enough band saws would still just have warnings about fingers in their manuals instead of guard rails. "Weird functions" need to have big yellow warnings at the top of their doc with a link to fixed versions of the func
ABC News Special Brittney Griner Freed from Russian Prison
Nope. This is a step forward for privacy.
> The exhibition is actually a publicity campaign from language learning app Duolingo.
Unfortunately for HN, titles make very poor search targets, all the more so because they're often obscure or obscured.

Comments offer a much larger target. Algolia's other features (searching by site or submitter / comment author), as well as obscure stuff like vote counts (submissions only) can be quite helpful.

I mine my own comments frequently, and that's a key benefit of using HN.
In theory it's to reduce information for bad actors, but we know in practice it never really works this way.

Don't send people on a goose chase because you're obscuring details for "security."
They probably meant 5.6
Using mysql_ functions directly was very outdated and long deprecated when 7 was released. Any reasonably maintained code base had already been using mysqli or PDO for years.
Unlikely to be additional evidence. The author died - all original data lost.
Added a runtime for a dynamic language and code that can run on any platform the runtime supports—not just the one you compiled for and including through remote network delivery such as a web browser—and it's ONLY 3-4x slower!?

I don't think you fully appreciate just how mindbogglingly impressive it is that it's SO CLOSE to native speed!
Why not nginx with php-fpm?

That won't really solve having config files at different places though.
At peace? The fact that he wrote this long post shows that he is not at peace. And it's not like it was just a vent piece that he didn't expect to get attention, he posted a link to it on /r/minecraft.
> These units must perform a bit of magic, combining multiple RF signals relatively near each other on the FM band, into one roughly 300,000 kW FM signal at the end, output in a 9" coax line that gets switched into a tuned 8-bay antenna 1115 ft (340 m) above the earth.

300 thousand kilowatts? (300 MW?) No wonder they need such massive cooling.
You can disable that Xbox toolbar in some windows menu.
The person running their Mastodon account needs schooling. https://bladerunner.social/@stevelord/109478020652552209
2 thoughts:
- please, Dog, save this stock so i can retire on schedule
- QA for this tiled process will make or break it
Did you lapse around the time you got tinnitus?
It'd be neat to integrate ChatGPT into a "bridge builder simulator" type game, and have it generate post-mortem news reports like this one for the bridge failures.
I have an unfortunate theory that "fun" and "fulfillment" are tied significantly to variable reward. If it's consistent you wont find enjoyment from it.
Carrd.co is a one-man shop that's doing very well.
Some songs are more successful as covers, like Pulstar from Vangelis by Hypnosis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvyzI8g4NUc
Another example closer to this is The Witcher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski#Legal_disp...
This was the last paragraph before WIRED edited the article to add commentary from RAINN as the last paragraph:

>"Technology that detects CSAM before it is sent from a child’s device can prevent that child from being a victim of sextortion or other sexual abuse, and can help identify children who are currently being exploited,” says Erin Earp, interim vice president of public policy at the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN. “Additionally, because the minor is typically sending newly or recently created images, it is unlikely that such images would be detected by other technology, such as Photo DNA. While the vast majority of online CSAM is created by someone in the victim’s circle of trust, which may not be captured by the type of scanning mentioned, combatting the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children requires technology companies to innovate and create new tools. Scanning for CSAM before the material is sent by a child’s device is one of these such tools and can help limit the scope of the problem.”

Those quotes are a continuation of the statement from "The Company" ie Apple.
Ask HN: Have you checked if you have sleep apnea?
on a whim i posted my fitness tracker sleep stats online today and immediately got 4 people telling me i have sleep apnea. read more about it and realized I have all the symptoms. Apparently 30% of people do? especially overweight people.

looking into a CPAP machine now. can't believe I have gone so long with my base sleep assumption being "just get 8 hours bro". a lot of sleep science is probably overoptimized unreproduceable bunkum but i buy the sleep apnea thing.
What a coincidence, so does my pope!

My wife once made the mistake of wising somebody a happy asshole instead of a happy birthday.

Missing context, a hilarious YouTube video I can't find. The difference between year and asshole and potato and pope is an accent mark. Anos: asshole. Años: years.
Sadly, some people do. I am a regular whitewater kayaker, and I have had to help numerous people over the years that got a kayak (new or off craiglist or something) and drove out to the river and got in, with no research or training. They see pictures of people doing it, and think it looks like fun.
They end up swimming in the middle of the river with a boat full of water that they can't handle. In the spring especially, when the air can be quite warm, but the water may still be 20 degrees colder, they get hypothermic quickly.
> we are highly developed animals first, then rational minds second

I feel this. People I interact with all day everyday remotely I have trouble relating to.

Where I’ve made new friends recently we have gone out maybe once or twice, shared some personal opinions on life etc and quickly I feel an emotional connection to the point where I care about their well-being and want to support them.

It’s happened a few times like that in the last year, various gender identities and ages.
When I was using it, I had a novel's worth. Now I mostly forgot my rant

The projects I start today got the php replaced by typescript
I was fortunate to travel a lot in my teens - all over Europe and parts of Asia in the 80s.

I have perhaps a dozen photos of those trips, but I have lots of memories seared into my brain.

Today my phone "reminds" me of experiences I had by showing me some of the dozens of photos I took.

These are totally different experiences, and it's hard to say the more modern one is less satisfying. Perhaps over-satisfaction is a malady worth considering.
Complete transmission spectrum of Wasp-39B with a precise water constraint [pdf]
Running a $100M Software Business with Only Part-Time Employees
That's a not a CEO of multi-billion firm, that's a 10 years old that ate too many candies and is trippin on sugar rush.
As with many things, a good balance is usually the best choice. Closing the borders and becoming another North Korea won't bring prosperity. Having a brittle economy by striving the optimal production allocation in a non-uniform political landscape is also probably not a stable solution.
a friend introduced me to Gershon one afternoon at his midtown apartment where we enjoyed a conversation about audio synthesis ... I explained to him an ongoing software coding project where my code moves 3D objects in an imaginary volume of space which bounces ~molecules~ of air to propagate waves outward from this movement ... in the volume I introduced the notion of an ear to listen to these waves by counting the number of ~molecules~ moving inward minus number moving outward ... Gershon was comfortable imagining audio at this level of abstraction and felt such was a natural progression from his body of work ...
I didn't and don't have an opinion about it. Like everyone else here, I don't have enough information to reach a conclusion, let alone a high-confidence one.

The comment I linked to was a reminder that none of us have anywhere near enough information to evaluate this decision. We'd need at least some idea how frequently they expect to use it, the alternatives, the predicted benefits of a high-end venue, and so on.

A productive comment would ask questions ("I wonder how they estimated…", "I hope they share more information about…"), not try to turn relatively little information into an opinion.
assert() is still broken if it's disabled in php.ini.
it's not likely to be harmful but that it is sterile is a falsehood probably popularized by Fight Club
It's really cool. I have been following NeonDB for some time. You guys are doing amazing stuff. Just wanted to know how can it quickly create so many branches based on lsn and can run query on top of it? Is it postgres's inherent capability or NeonDB's magic work? I'm excited to know some technical stuff behind this. Please elaborate.
> In his laboratory work Heisenberg had to use a Fabry-Perot interferometer, a device for observing the interference of light waves, on which Wien had lectured extensively. But Heisenberg had no idea how to derive the resolving power of the interferometer nor, to Wien's surprise, could he derive the resolving power of such common instruments as the telescope and the microscope. When an angry Wien asked how a storage battery works, the candidate was still lost. Wien saw no reason to pass the young man, no matter how brilliant he was in other fields.

As a physicist, I feel like standards were much higher then! There's no way you would fail a student these days for not being able to derive something on the spot or know anything about a subject that isn't directly related to their PhD topic

Also a great illustration at points here of "imposter syndrome", or really that Heisenberg actually _was_ an imposter in certain senses. I understand it all too well. Being a physicist, or any kind of scientist, can be extremely emotional taxing and alienating

> When Heisenberg derived the uncertainty relations several years later, he used the resolving power of the microscope to derive the uncertainty relations-and he still had difficulty with it! And again, when Bohr pointed out the error, it led to emotional difficulties for Heisenberg.
> Every single project that has gone on to use annotations will be using the same @Inject

Except when they use @Autowired. (Ackshually aside, I do agree with the sentiment of your post. The standard library is arguably one of Java's greatest assets)
That is a great point. It’s also worth remembering that most stated beliefs have negligible impact on actions (e.g. my personal opinions about foreign policy). So it’s pretty rational for most people to just take the easy way out of echoing their tribe, and reserve their “weirdness points“[1] for a small percentage of situations that actually matter.

[1] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MH9suFZbxXCYsr5Z5/...
Pave the on-ramp to Java, but can we also string up lights?
Recently there was a great discussion about making intro Java easier. I agree, but the larger issue is this: How can Java be more engaging, relevant and rewarding?

In the early days of PC programming, so much was relevant and rewarding. The programming prompt was immediate, and writing code with basic math could be genuinely useful. Basic graphics could generate wonder. Without wrapping everything in a candy coating, can we have a modern version of this now?

Java today is distant from that experience. Getting started can be difficult, with downloads and setup. Java IDEs are remarkable, but people should not learn to fly in a 747. And, crucially, Java is hard to share on the platform that matters most: the web.

Even on the desktop, Java graphics and UI have become less relevant: Swing seems feature frozen and lacks modern features. JavaFX defied conventions and was sent away. Similarly, 3D Graphics support in Java is in a significant state of decay.

So while Java 20 and beyond offer power-user features, I propose a tool, framework and a Java syntax subset (J-REPL) just to bring back some fun for mere mortals:

SnapCode: https://reportmill.com/SnapCode

It is a labor of love and a barn-raising, so be gentle. But while I'm here, let me know if anyone has paying work that I could help with (preferably Java Client and/or graphics - jeff@reportmill).
Suggested viewing: Final Destination 5
> on a whim i posted my fitness tracker sleep stats online today and immediately got 4 people telling me i have sleep apnea

What in your sleep data gave it away?
Seems reasonable considering that the Russian government tried repeatedly to shut them down and the founder fled the country and got citizenship elsewhere. How sure are you thay they do have ties with the Russian government?
Well, playing it at 0.25x on YouTube, the main riff is the same/transposed with slight changes of timing!
What exactly can’t you block with iOS ad blocker that you can block with just 1Blocker’s “give json to safari” blocker

Did you personally vet the open source code? Did you compile it from scratch and install it on your phone or are you trusting it’s the same code?
As I have said elsewhere many times. You still have time to make it big with crypto or startups. If you engineer your way into high frequency trading you can also make a lot of money. If you can do this and FIRE you can become an early investor in the companies that will domanince the mutlipolar ai era in the years approaching the agi level. Do this correctly and you will eternally stand apart from the ubi pleb class that many of our less competent brethren no doubt will join.
Apparently, the reason the doors don't go all the way to the floor is to meet stipulations in the Americans with Disabilities Act which are to allow wheelchair users to turn[1].

[1] https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/62354/19042
Yes, that's exactly my point. There already is a standardized version, created by the author of the post itself.
The only thing more impressive than Doom being run on everything is how increasingly tiny the computer you need to do is.
He's there to help us protect our rights, right?

He's there to help us protect our rights... right...?

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/anakin-...
...as do the facilities on commercial airplanes.
The rest of the world also has no problem with bidets, here in the US we prefer smearing it around with paper like peanut butter until it’s good enough
Can you give an example of another language you can do this?

Note: PHP has Swoole, etc.
That's how I felt about it; it doesn't really feel like you're working towards this ending throughout the game, it's more an area to unlock and an objective to achieve. But it doesn't feel like the objective of the game; it doesn't feel like the game has an objective, and I don't feel like adding one finished the game. It's still a goal that players aspire to, e.g. speedrunners who can now apparently achieve it in <10 minutes with the right world seed.
Giving them money was the effective altruism, its in the name the whole time
Is speed of transaction the main limitation of financial services? I’m thinking of DeFi more along the line of accessing financial products like loans or investment opportunities not available to those in every country
There's a typo in the quote attribution; "Hacker's" should be "Hackers"

The Open Library page for the book in question, where you can borrow a digital copy to read, is https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7921693W/The_hacker_ethic
> I've seen this situation blamed on both OS packagers or language ecosystems, but now I just think the goals between the two just are fundamentally at odds.

I hate language-specific package managers. I can see their value to packagers (less work), but they end up arguing with the platform package manager.

It's like there's a load of CS graduates churning out lots of new, better languages; but what's really needed is just one better language. Similarly we have a score of new package managers, creating incompatibilities; so we add some more package managers, to paper over the incompatibilities.

I'm inclined to the view that perhaps there are too many coders in the world, creating compilers and package managers because they can't get a job doing something useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/nnxng/petition_lenna...
It’s totally impossible to google the solutions for Ubuntu because they’ve completely changed the way everything works, multiple times, so all the answers are wrong.
This is something we're very interested in at Double [0].

There's an abundance of consumption streams where, like what you described, you can watch something 10 different ways and get that instant gratification. But not much where you do things alongside others and create a sense of community, a sense of actually doing - something that is a core part of being human.

In my opinion, there's still a ways to go to make the web feel more human, and we're actually very hopeful for the future of it.

[0] https://doubleapp.xyz
Telegram has been my favorite messenger since I started using it. Fast, nice interface, great features, and wide adoption.
Yeah he is claiming people have it tattooed. Reading the story shows you one such image. A Google search also validates the claim.
> How close to 8 minutes is that in practice?

My wife has one, and loves it. It takes a little (but only a little) practice at first to, like, learn how to fold/unfold it, but eight minutes is a very realistic estimate.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists
> I think this insight is articulated well in PG's essay on the blub paradox.

From the essay: ".. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers".

Its funny that twenty years ago python could be at least "a bit frightening" versus its current lowest common denominator status :-). His argument is probably still valid in the same circumstances (a group of people aiming to solving a tough problem ab-initio and in isolation). But the intervening two decades have delivered a lot of learnings about the evolution and adoption of technology stacks in a connected world context. I am by far not qualified to summarize all the wonderful and bizarre things that have happened. I will just mention something that I believe is characteristic of that angle: Think about "json" and its emergence as the now ubiquitous data exchange format. It is arguably a regression in relation to e.g., xml or rdf yet its simplicity has enabled entirely new layers of complexity and the "API" era.

Having said that, its distinctly possible, certain even, that specific language characteristics will be selected for and shine in the near future. One elephant in the room is the end-of-the-road for easy CPU optimizations and the tough problem of speeding up computation across multi-core, GPU etc etc. Another elephant goes back to the json effect and the gross inefficiencies of semantic-lite approaches.
Why talking about this in hacker News?
The lives of working people were more disposable.
This quote from the article is enlightening and gives me hope that Apple is doing the right thing:

The FBI said it was “deeply concerned with the threat end-to-end and
user-only-access encryption pose,” according to a statement provided by
an agency spokeswoman. “This hinders our ability to protect the American
people from criminal acts ranging from cyberattacks and violence against
children to drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism,” the
statement said. The FBI and law enforcement agencies need “lawful access
by design,” it said.
How do I make my submission URL a link? Adding <> brackets doesn't seem to help.
Godot and C#: A Viable Unity Alternative
So a “cell phone” is a “general purpose computing device” but a console isn’t?
Live in freedom... the state of nature, so to say?
Not really.

You know what is satisfying? Watching a 10 minute video on how to replace my cars brakes and it taking me less than an hour to do it successfully the first time around. Or my dryer blowing cold air and finding a reason within minutes to have a part arrive at my home the next day.

It is both convenient and satisfying. I can focus more of my time and effort on my meaning as a human.
> Overall I couldn't recommend this to anyone without a strong CS background. It introduces far too many subtle bugs in code that are are almost impossible to review because the code it produces is so convincing that you go "hmm maybe it knows what it is talking about" but in the end you have no idea what you should trust.

As someone using chatgpt all week— 30ish hours so far- and copilot since I got access early one. This fits with my xp very well. It’s like a junior programmer. You need the know how to know if your junior programmer is doing it right.
Interested to see if they can successfully pivot to full SaaS. It seems like with the recent AWS announcement of CodeCatalyst and Github CodeSpaces (both of which are free with an additional easy to use paid model), Gitpod has been backed into a corner. I hope they do well, but the odds are stacked against them as the enterprise selling machines that are Amazon and Microsoft are incredibly difficult to fight as a startup. With Gitlab also apparently working on their version of CodeSpaces, it seems like maybe the best position for Gitpod is an acquisition (possibly by Atlassian).
What are we testing here?
Wood community vs the steel folks. Worse than emacs vs vim
Did you read the article? There's a picture of someone with one of the lines tattooed on their arm. Obviously people aren't putting whole poem on things
Well, yeah, but if you're a two person design agency, which builds WordPress sites on top of $popularTheme in a pair with $Pagebuilder... You don't care that much about controlling your hosting environment...

But I get your point. :-)