skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

That's too bad, really. If your instance admin blocks you because of some spat, the functioning of the migration mechanism seems to be depending on his goodwill, right?

With email, no old mail provider can stop me from being reachable under my mail address in the future.
Same for Count of Monte Cristo and some of his other works. Also Don Quixote if I recall correctly. I actually read them one to two chapters a week to stay on a similar to original schedule.
That is extremely flawed logic. It is logically equivalent to "We know there are counterfeit dollars, therefore there cannot be real ones."

Sure, there are phonies. Therefore it is impossible to believe that anyone is genuine? No.
I see several argue that if you are poor at leetcode then you cannot be a serious algorist. Can you explain why that argument is wrong?
I want to learn more about elucidating a dopamine reaction.
I don't actually begrudge Apple's cut. I do strongly resent its failure to provide a useful way to find apps that I might want but don't know about. If new app stores solve this issue, then I'm all for them.
Another depending on your jurisdiction is the court process in your area.

In the U.K. we have the Money claim online service, to start proceedings against a company or person who owe money. There is a nominal fee starting at £30 and if companies don’t respond the court will de facto rule in your favour.
The double standard is that Musk explicitly said he wouldn't do the things he's doing now. You're upset at straw men you made up and not the concrete hypocrisy in front of you.
To further my question:

I have a c/c I use for Google. Said card # is stolen, and used to buy Google services (under a different ID). I call the bank, they cancel the card and refund the amounts charged to Google for the unknown services.

What is the chance of Google cancelling my other account, since it was on the same card?
Paying people to stay home and play on social media led to the mass explosion of conspiracy theories at the beginning of covid. Ultimately, unemployment and covid checks go a long way toward explaining the January 6th insurrection. Which is just to say that giving a free ride and narcotic forms of entertainment to the masses isn't necessarily the safety valve for "the rich" that it's made out to be.

Work gives people dignity. And idle hands are the devil's plaything. Put that together and UBI would be a disaster. Also, it's not "the rich class" who decides whether or not to bestow such a lifestyle on the masses... that in itself is a conspiratorial line of thought. Right down that road is the thought "hey, this UBI isn't enough!"

Jobs disappear. Other jobs replace them. Often, jobs are not fun, and often they feel meaningless, but working is still much more dignified than not working. Raising generations who've never worked and simply take their UBI and breed - what would even be the point of educating such people? Eventually they'd just be totally disposable and, no doubt, be disposed of.
You are leaving an important part out. They were sharing private information regarding his private jet location. He was also stalked a few days ago based on this leaked information.

Non-left leaning journalists and politicians have been permabanned for much less and many, for no reason at all (as per the leaks).

It's disingenuous to suddenly care about 'free speech' from the same group that has been colluding with the government for the past 5+ years to silence all political opposition and anyone they didn't like.
I'm sure there's much buyer's remorse out there, that people will learn from this experience, and be better judges of character in the future. Absolutely sure of it.
My naive solution is to actually double down. The site is "toxic", the community (and the grandchildren of those working on site) are entirely dependant upon the plant. Build more plants on site - you have the waste, but also the knowledge and the one community that is happy to have it in their back yard.

As toxic as the waste in the pools out back is the last 20 years of will they wont they attitude towards not just further nuclear builds but hand wringing over paying to cleanup the experiments of the past which is where much of the waste comes from.
I feel that Terrence Tao doesn't get much recognition outside of maths circles but he's one of those people who just seem to be in a totally different league. Maybe it's just that maths doesn't capture the public's imagination as it's incomprehensible to people not involved with the field.
sorry for geeking out here but the high speed video capture is typically 1000 frames per second, requires LOTS of light exposure. After working in this world for 1000's of tests time becomes very slow meaning one can change dynamic loads in very short time ranges (decreasing loads to the ATDs i.e. test dummies) we call that shaving the peak blah blab blah ..... fun stuff!!!!
Now I'm just waiting for the Matrix app that I don't hate.

And for that matter, the SMTP app that I don't hate.
Don’t worry, you can traffic billions of ads a month & they still won’t care. Madness. Everything is automated.
Very good point about Google Pay. I never thought of that but you're right. If some vendor's misbehaviour ends up cascading in my losing access tp my Google account this would be catastrophic.
Thanks a lot. Removing it now.
I'm in the same boat as you, only youtube left, I moved all services away from google and I'm working actively to move us away from Google Cloud, funny, I think I started using google around 2001 and now I want to stop using it because of all these incidents. Also their OSS sucks, they won't take any PRs from externals.
When tiktok sale to $MSFT?
Agreed.

Steam froze my account to punish a PayPal dispute, the amount they would not refund was ~£2. Their refusal was contrary to UK law.

Small story about Steam. They sold me a broken game, in UK one can return broken things according to the Consumer Rights Act, specifically including digital goods. Steam said, at length, they would not refund me: the game would crash (losing some settings) after ~30 minutes, I spent more than 2h of playtime trying to fix it [it's a 50h+ game, I'd have accepted an 8p reduction in my refund!].

I complained to PayPal. PayPal decided in my favour -- ie in keeping with UK law. Steam didn't dispute PayPal's findings but instead froze my Steam account (and I assume paid PayPal the money back). PayPal made me whole, financially.

My Steam account was blocked for a month or so. Ongoing they "punish" me by making it hard for me to give them money -- which is good for me, but my kids are not keen!

WhyTF would I complain over a few £. It's the principle, clearly.

It was very interesting to me to see how a big company can ignore the law in this way. But also spend what must amount to quite a bit of customer service time just to avoid a minimal refund.

All I wanted was a refund for a game Steam sold, that was broken and wouldn't be fixed. I did cursory searching for bugs before buying, but hadn't found this particular one before my purchase.

You know what I did with the refund money, bought the next game in the same series, because it was only the bug that I didn't like, and I paid more money for it than the game they wouldn't refund ... mad, eh!
Sure, did I say what I want anywhere?

Do you think that a ruling that went 7-2 and 8-1 in the past being reviewed for a third time for some reason that happens to go 6-3 along party lines makes sense in any light besides corruption and "legislating from the bench"? Please discuss.
Totally disagree!

The structure is clunky, but the payoff at the end is actually really good! Also the dumbness of the name is funny enough to work in the right context. With a little bit of editing this would make a great piece of flash sci-fi on something like nanoism.

https://twitter.com/nanoism
> The Pelosi attacker got motivated by DECADES of Republican hate propaganda. Not responsible journalism speaking truth to power.

Do you have a citations for this? His son seems to disagree with your depiction of DePePe's political affiliation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11537665/Son-Paul-P...

> responsible journalism

We haven't seen that in at least a decade.
Benefits over (say) self-hosted Gitlab include:

1) Very, very operationally-simple deployments are available. It can run with just SQLite, no external services (e.g. database daemons, queuing systems, all the other stuff that GitLab likes to have) whatsoever.

2) It looks and feels more like Github, which is nice if you prefer that UI.

3) The site's far lighter-weight and snappier than GL, when you're using it.

4) You can (probably—workloads vary) serve 1-100 users with the dumbest possible deployment, running on a potato. It's far more resource-efficient than GL—which, it's not hard to be more resource efficient than GL, since it's an absolute beast, but Gitea comes in way under it.

Downsides:

1) Missing some stuff GL offers (like integrated CI)

2) Lacks some features that make serving at enormous scales (of the sort you almost certainly won't hit unless providing a Github/Gitlab-like service to the world) impractical.

3) Fewer just-works 3rd party integrations, especially commercial ones.
In my mind a conservative is anyone who would side with G.K. Chesterton concerning his fence, and a progressive is anyone who would side with his neighbor.
You seem smart. How do I follow you?
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That doesn't really mesh with the actual bans that happened though which were all related to sharing the ElonJet account.
Density, in and of itself, is consistently correlated with lower per capita carbon footprint, lower water usage, lower vehicle miles traveled, etc.

You can have development that is sustainable and doesn’t pave over what few habitats we have left.

And the Bay Area hardly needs to be Hong Kong to accommodate more people; San Jose, for example, has a density a quarter of that of Queens, NY, a borough associated with large parks, streets with trees and early-20th century housing. If San Jose could accommodate 3M more people that would easily solve a good chunk of the housing crisis, and you could spread that 3M across all nine counties of the Bay instead of just one city.
You forgot to multiply by the millions of disks they presumably go through every year.
for d in diseases:
d.r += weworkpremium
you can see screenies on the app stores: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bwi.messeng... etc
> VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering

LOL. Do you work for MS? This is a bit thick, even for hyperbole. Personally I find IntelliJ to be superior to VS Code.
Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work?
I was born in the late 90s so by the time I got involved in technology, my introduction to Unix and Unix-flavored systems was limited to Linux and MacOS. However, I've read about the history of Unix at Bell Labs, the BSD systems derived from research Unix, and the eventual commercial releases of Unix System V from AT&T themselves. I also see that HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris are apparently still maintained and get releases, which suggests that they are still being used in production in some places.

I'm curious if anyone here currently works (or has very recently worked) somewhere where proprietary Unix is still used for production. If so, can you tell me what they're used for and why those deployments haven't been moved to an appropriate Linux distribution?

Not suggesting Linux is necessarily better for all use cases, just wondering what keeps these small number of entities clinging to closed-source Unix with presumably pricey license costs.
From the last 90 submissions there seem to be >5% about Elon / Twitter. Why is everybody submissing stuff about that? Why the huge media coverage overall?

Twitter was atrocious to use even before it was bought by Elon Musk. Without e.g. Nitter it was (and still is) even unusable to anybody not signed up and signed in.
Lots of cities missing from this, many exist but lack any data

Not sure how helpful this is when huge swathes of the population aren’t represented here
> or being a real life Tony Stark

This may have been true a couple years ago, but with the constant delays of the Cybertruck, not to mention the constant lies about FSD [0] have taken down that facade.

[0] In the mid 2010's, I used to be generous about Musk's FSD claims, thinking he just really doesn't understand how hard it is. After a couple years of that, I thought "Eh, he's just trying to drum up investors, no different then any other company being aggressive about timeline claims". But at this point, it's straight-up lies. We're still years away from FSD being usable in city streets, and there's no way Elon doesn't know this, but he still spouts the same bullshit. At this point, his FSD claims are fraud, as far as I'm concerned.
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Dang and co. You can read his comment history for explanations if you're curious, using https://hn.algolia.com/ to search.

It's not nefarious as is implied here, but it's not totally "organic".
> It also overlooks that people who only buy ONE vehicle are best off buying a truck or largish SUV so it can do "all they ever need" - to have a small car you kind of really need to have a second vehicle that's larger, or it gets quite annoying.

Logically, it appears to be a trade-off between money and convenience. The money argument is trivial as the total cost of ownership is basic math. The convenience argument is less obvious to me as it's very inexpensive to have Lowe's/Home Depot ship to home and hiring someone to haul a couch once a year is also much less than the cost to own a truck versus a car.

There is also the moral argument if you care about such things as climate change and being a role model for others in your community; and whether or not your need to own a truck/SUV outweighs those considerations in your own mind.

The one argument that does make logical sense to me is the one around safety. Outside of that I agree with the other commenter and would suggest that for the majority of truck owners, it's mostly cosplay.
Why does Elon get special protections that we mere mortals don't? Journalists are a protected class much like owners of Twitter.
> Easy to use, compact and never expires!

> Our technology will clean your lenses 500 times!

I know that you're supposed to get the dust off first, and I wash my glasses daily with dish soap, but I want to be able to use any clean paper tissue or cloth to clean my glasses, without having to worry about having an emergency lens cloth on my at all times.
I'm going to sidestep the misapplication of logical fallacy and just state the obvious:

1) You probably don't know what else he does or doesn't do with his free time beyond his tweets

2) Twitter is a form of marketing and always has been
The scale of your operation and license subscriptions matters for the level of support you receive, naturally.

Big Microsoft shops, like state governments routinely have Microsoft staff fly out and work closely to bring new services online, etc. You cannot expect that level of service if you're just paying for a single database instance, of course.

IBM's support is also legendary - you will get a person on the phone at 3am, and even have a service technician onsite in the morning if needed. Personal experience with this one - they'll fly someone in from out of state to replace a hard drive if it means meeting their service levels.
The most recent instance I experienced was the GrapheneOS rooms which suddenly just stopped working.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/109510405342409074
This chart isn’t absolute death: it’s the ratio of two causes of death.

You’re not seeing countries go into negative excess in 2021 and 2022 — you’re seeing non-COVID excess surge.

I was expecting during the omicron wave that we had more than two COVID deaths compared to non-COVID excess deaths — and that more broadly, we’d see more COVID than other excess death

What we see instead is that during the height of omicron, 33% of the excess death was non-COVID — and that for most of 2021 and 2022, 66% of the excess death was non-COVID.

What has been killing as many people as a global pandemic? — and if there’s so many non-COVID excess deaths, did our policies help?
Yeah my bad. Seems I wasn't thinking when I was writing this - that word just popped up.
A frozen account is not a ban, try again.
>I read something about it having a slower release process and noticed I didn't have the same ups and downs throughout the day. There wasn't a sugar crash.

Hey, thanks for putting out your anecdote. In the absence of good mainstream science, anecdotes end up being an important source of 'data' for me.
The reason battery prices are down 97% since 1990 is because of better battery chemistries coming along.

Currently there's a few more in the pipeline (including silicon) that lead market forecasters to predict the long-term (think 2030) trend will continue.

The downhill road of pricing has had some bumps but it's very assuredly, extremely downhill
I've been doing advent of code in Lean this year. It's been fun, but yeah the documentation is still a WIP. I've been searching the lean code base (I leave it in a separate editor window) and Zulip to figure out how to do stuff.

The editor support is quite interesting, and the live updates of #eval statements have helped. I look forward to finding time to do a deeper dive into the language.
I started making a game last year (https://github.com/sdwr/UNDERLOD), and by now wish I had been half as ambitious. It's kinda nice to be getting fed up with it though, means it's not as precious anymore.
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I am not a lawyer, but this is one of those things that sounds like a case for FTC. If it happened to me, I would be officially sending complaints to every single regulatory agency Google could fall under. The post does not state where customer was based, but depending on state state attorney general may get interested. It actually sounds like something that:

a) public will understand and support
b) help with re-election prospects
Can you explain why Joe Biden is far left? I’m curious.
Honestly thought they were already bankrupt
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Stated ambitions and real motives are two different things. In hindsight it's looking like we fell for a hollow sales pitch.

The odds of Musk himself physically departing the Earth forever (or even at all) on a mission to Mars are approximately zero.

A true Mars-bound space farer wouldn't fritter about with all this Twitter and political nonsense, they'd stick to The Mission. Twitter becomes 100% irrelevant noise if you don't plan to stay on Earth.
> One of my relatives tried that and actually found out that her blood glucose levels had actually worsened

That does not seem surprising to me. Honey has a worse glucose/fructose ratio than table sugar.
The HN Algorithm, Dang, PG, and the HN users.
Plastic or glass lenses? Any special coatings? Do you remember the manufacturer?
I'm typing this message from a WeWork, so yes. But past and current performance is not a guarantee of future performance :-)
This seems like a weird play to me, but it seems to have worked? He apparently sold out. But I do see even a lot of conservatives (and not the "Never Trump" kind) groaning at this.
I've recommended his book a lot but I also find the writing itself to be poor. He's very much trying to write like its some (specifically Taoist) mystic text but it comes off as quite cheesy.
This sounds to me like there might be some A/B testing going on.
Designing a Scalable Webhook Architecture
It would have better people. Less greedy (no spammers), more open-minded (no zealots), nicer (no trolls), more accepting (no bans/deplatforming).

The problem with the internet isn't the internet. It's the humans. You can't fix that by fixing the technology.
The Rural Electrification Model is the way to go, introduced during the FDR New Deal era. It consisted of municipal-scale networks (also applicable to fiber optic networks).

https://www.investopedia.com/rural-electrification-act-51191...

> "At first, the plan was to give these loans to companies in order to help them build electricity infrastructure in rural areas—a plan that proved too costly. So instead, lawmakers chose a type of organization well known to farmers: the cooperative, or co-op. The idea was that if farmers could organize themselves into co-ops, the REA could distribute loans to them at very low interest rates—between 2% and 3%, depending on their state—to build electricity infrastructure."

Note that a key reason for its success was that they didn't use anything like a modern federal contracting program, i.e. paying private companies, but instead worked directly with rural co-ops (just extend that to towns and cities).

Of course, this would mean taking over the transmission infrastructure from the investor-owned utilities in California.
Because of stories like this, I use my primary google account just for gmail, which is for official communication and identity only basically. I would not set my credit card there, neither I use it for GCP nor Android.
Ask HN: How to Move Out of Gmail?
That a business uses a registered agent and PO Box is hardly surprising. My company shares the same address as Google! Maybe the rest of the argument has weight, but focusing on this really kills the author’s credibility to me.
"Good writing is often concise" is flawed logic when relating to long books, except for myopic planners.
Upfront - I'm not a Trumpet, not American and not even right wing by your standards.

Does the video announcing this mess seem really weird to anyone else?

If i didn't know better i'd say the video was made under duress, at the very least to unwillingly fulfil an obligation.
I see, that's actually really cool. Thank you for the links. Will definitely tune into the discord sometime.
I think the frustration that people feel is that they decide to sell at X price, but it doesn't actually sell at X price even though X price was, in fact, a listed price on point of time that the sell order was executed.

For instance, lets say I bought a bunch of stock in ACME for 10 dollars a share on say, Wednesday. Lets then, take for example, I notice there was a huge spike on Monday at 12 PM and suddenly, its 15 dollars a share for say, a few minutes, before going back down to 10, so I execute (or, perhaps smartly, have some automation on the account that auto-executes the sale if its at or above N price). Reasonably, I'd expect to get my 15 dollars a share because I sold within the correct window (you can see the timestamp!).

And yet, this isn't what happens. I remember, quite distinctly, being bitten due to the delay in settlements, where in fact, you end up right back in the 10 dollar a share sale because of the delay. This is why real time access for everyone matters, IMO, because in any other market, you get to buy or sell at the time of point agreed price, right?

Why should stocks be different? Why should only huge institutions be able to execute on point in time pricing?

Disclaimer: Its entirely possible that I'm missing something, but when I raised an issue with the broker (This was in the early 2010s, but I can't remember whom, exactly, I worked with) they pretty much made it clear it was because retail trades were cleared "in bulk" at the "agreed price" not the point in time price the sale was executed, if I recall correctly.
This is the first I've heard about leaks of private information. Do you mean something like it's interior configuration or what food is onboard?