skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just let go of my 2.25% mortgage to move out to the boonies at 7%. It's painful but still makes sense given the cost of living difference between here and the insane Bay Area. I am admittedly gambling that rates will come back down to something at least in the middle within a few years, but who knows?
The Wiki article is something I wish I had time to edit. Yes, there was an attempt to ensure that the right sort of thing be printed, but it was also about making sure that no one else could print certain documents. You'd license a bible text to be able to regulate that it's the correct type of bible being printed, yes. You'd then see who else was printing bibles and shut them down. Okay, that's all correct, but there's more to its foundation than that. For example, in the UK, one individual had the sole right to profit off the last testaments of people to be hanged in Newgate Prison. In the 17th C, Parliament gave this power was to a preacher who in turn designated a specific printer. That power is what allowed the preacher (and the printer) to profit: no one could (legally) copy it. Regulating printers was the only way to ensure profit for an author and it was an attempt to guarantee conformity.
Watch sports for free?
> Of course, it never had power fail recovery (or battery backup)

There's a 9-volt style battery connector hiding inside the little kangaroo pouch underneath the old chumby that is capable of powering the device but it was never officially supported and a standard 9-volt battery would not power the device for long enough to be useful in any realistic capacity.

I do remember users hacking up their own battery packs with enough juice to keep it powered overnight but they tended to involve bulky external battery systems that kind of wrecked the overall vibe of the little leather ball.
Businesses are typically the ones hiring programmers (especially Ruby ones).

The smart programmers want to write libraries. This is actually a problem for businesses, because they often don't need libraries.
Dell XPS 13?
> A file whose commit history shows... it's part of the very first commit recorded in git history, in 1998 by matz, the original author of ruby.

So not necessarily written by Matz, but part of the body of work that eventually saw a `git init`, and early enough that much of the modern standard Ruby formatting was still emerging. Doesn't seem all that surprising to me in the context of when it was written.
I have posted this here before but I had the opportunity to live on Soviet/Russian icebreakers in the arctic for a period of time. Here's a small snippet of my photos, including of the control panels in the engine room and in the ship's bridge. Such an interesting perspective on utilitarianism:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CL6Rc4TE7ddZd4Xo7
We don't know what you would regard as viable.

I would still be using a 3GL flip-phone not a smartphone — but my USA service provider withdrew 3GL and forced an upgrade to 4GL VoLTE unsupported by the old flip-phone.

"standby time of 300 hours" https://www.cnet.com/reviews/kyocera-kona-review/

Maybe there's something here for you —

https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/feature-phones

Nokia 6300 4G supports WhatsApp.
Is there a way to pin a version of the tool with this? For me, the biggest problem with Nix is that version pinning is not easy, actually it is complex.
We'll need a twitter handle or something like it.
Is the complaint that he was hired or that his previous surveillance work was glorified as part of the hiring?
Org mode tables have a lot to polish though. I'd love to see word wrapping in org tables but the current solutions all leave a lot to be desired
Curious why people react negative to this simple description of the debate. Anyone want to enlighten me?
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This is the craziest thing about copyright law. Maybe it's fair that an author and his family should receive compensation for their work even after their deaths.

But Sunrise was released 95 years ago - the odds are that there is nobody alive who worked on this movie, nobody alive that even saw it in theaters. Why is it not publicly available? I doubt anyone is earning significant money off of an extremely old movie that caters to a niche audience - if the media is so old that it is both literally and aesthetically irrelevant in society, it's astounding that it wouldn't have been in the public domain already. It's a massive shame that Disney's corporate plots have been a detriment to other media that isn't generating huge profits. I only wish that "Steamboat Willie" going into the public domain will bring about some sort of copyright reform.
There’s this study from a few years ago: Increment in Dietary Potassium Predicts Weight Loss in the Treatment of the Metabolic Syndrome – https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/6/1256

(EDIT) Some additional articles:

* https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(1...

* https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

* https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...
Pinning is first-class with the new flake method. When you create a flake, a corresponding flake.lock is created, similar to lock files in other languages. There's even a dedicated command now to upgrade the dependencies declared in a flake.
It really is impressive! Like, sure - maybe many of us could learn these skills and are technically capable of doing something like this - but how many of us would have such a creative idea and then actually dedicate what must be hundreds if not thousands of hours to making it happen.
> how is displaying a calendar on the CLI going to help me

How is displaying "Hello world" on the CLI going to help me?
In line with this, something I feel like I’ve observed is that you can split people into those that like/need to hash things out with others and those that either don’t or aren’t good at it. It’s more than rubber-ducking. It’s collaborating on exploring a cognitive space (ideas, understanding, etc).

Personally, I’m one of these people, and I’ve struggled with how much others either don’t work this way, don’t want to or don’t know how. I think it’s powerful and that finding good collaborators at this way of thinking is a factor for general success.

Interesting to think about how AI can provide a general base level for this kind of thinking.
To my knowledge there isn't any one fediverse server that is being run to raise revenue. If there's any money involved it's usually for running the servers.
You can't call a bank robbery "performance art" and expect to get away with it. Squeegying isn't political expression.
1000 hours each? Really? So literally half a year of full-time 40 hour weeks saved by each of these on your list, vs the next best alternative?
I'm similar. Do you get low blood sugar easily? It seems like people who's bodily readily release insulin (maybe too much) have a hard time gaining weight. Explains why prediabetics gain weight?
I don’t know how to say this that isn’t going to come off judgmental, but I’ll try: thank you for trying to see past your role and understand the people who are affected whether you could have any impact or not. It’s more than most people do.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33704254
Heh, as soon as I saw the picture I realized I know that office building, having interviewed on the premises about 10 years ago.

It's in SoMa a few blocks from Oracle Park Giants Stadium.
If they have the tech to identify everyone individually they don't want going to their venue, then it's on them to notify everyone individually ahead of time. Otherwise, refund + expenses.
Had you heard of Donna Tartt before? I can relate though. As someone in his 40s who considers himself quite erudite on the history of electronic music, I could not believe I never heard of Yellow Magic Orchestra until several years ago. It's nice to know the past is so abundant with culture that there's something yet to be personally discovered.
But potassium salt is just not that risky. I bet Tylenol or Ibuprofen are riskier.

I doubt it. Potassium chloride is the active ingredient in lethal injections, too much and it will stop your heart.
Eh, most likely not. Having worked in the payment space, pornography has some of the highest rates of credit card fraud and charge backs. It's a nightmare for everyone involved.
No other country in the America’s has “of America” in its name. American is naturally easier to say than “from the US” and flows directly from the name.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with referring to yourself as American.

There’s something very wrong with trying to create a problem from it. Probably something uniquely…American.
Yup, this is a symptom of having too high expectations for yourself.

The skill needed to contribute on a mature codebase within the first year is being able to tune out anything that doesn't directly interface with small changes you are making, and trust that someone more experienced will notice during reviews if it accidentally does break something outside of that scope. And do that again and again. Ambition is a bad thing when starting on a mature codebase, do new stuff on the side if that isn't satisfying.
Ask HN: Is it possible to appeal a Facebook ban without logging into Facebook?
My partner's Facebook account was compromised. The attacker linked it to an Instagram account (it was previously not linked to one). They (presumably) used this account to spam, and Facebook disabled the Instagram account as well as her Facebook account.

To summarize, it seems that the account is now in a state where it cannot be accessed because it is disabled, and appealing the ban requires logging into the account first, which is impossible. I think it is possible that Facebook did not consider this flow, and there is no provided way to resolve it.

Attempting to log into the Facebook account explains that it's disabled because the linked Instagram violated the Instagram community guidelines, and a link to the Instagram help center is provided, but it can't be used without logging in.

I also found this Facebook form: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/260749603972907
However, attempting to use it results in the message: "Log into your Facebook account for more information about how to request a review."

I'm sorry for the noise if there is something I'm missing here. I would really appreciate any advice or assistance. She is a small business owner who relies on Facebook because that is how her clients wish to interact with small businesses, so obviously she is really in a frustrating position currently.
No, its not about solving a problem like piracy, its about creating so many hoops that no one can ever possibly follow, that you can then apply arbitrarily to anyone you want, so you can control their every action, or more likely bury anyone you don't like.

Its about imposing control without you noticing, the distraction is that its about trade (business).
If programming is automated but driving trucks still takes a human, someone will tell GPT-5 "Write a program that automates driving trucks". If that doesn't work, programming isn't automated. If it does, it doesn't matter that programming was the first of the jobs automated in the last 48 hours of the age of man.
IIRC the way calories are measured for food is pretty simplistic, and calories in, calories out isn't terribly accurate.

I can imagine it still helps a lot with weight loss, I myself lost ~20lbs a while back counting calories. But like a lot of diets that take some effort to maintain, seems like they probably aren't easy to keep up long term vs. generally eating more healthy and building habits around exercise.
That's ridiculous and antiquated. They need to redesign it so that you need to use a touchscreen menu system to operate the brakes and gear changes.
That's to be expected though: That's just the actual game code itself being executed! The code is not copied from the cartridge into RAM (that would just be a gigantic waste of RAM), the Gameboy directly executes it from the ROM in the cartridge.

So every single instruction being executed, you will see on that bus. And every instruction hopefully serves to either build up the current frame, or do game logic for later on.
"I actually dislike Musk"

You say that but your other opinions say otherwise. It's obvious to everyone, like a child lying and thinking the adults can't tell.
> Well, without pointing fingers:
- some of these don't have a Web UI at all - which I think is very important

Why?

> some of these don't have integrations with 3rd party services

Like?

> some of these are only compatible with JS

What do you mean only compatible with JS?

> some of these are just so complicated so you need at least a week to figure them out :)

You could say the same about anything. So you want users to just trust yours but have to figure everyone elses out? If they had to understand yours from a more fundamental perspective I'd imagine yours would take just as long.
Honestly, what the heck is the draw to these crypto projects?? A virtual egg that you have to buy with real money, then watch it "hatch"? Who seriously spends thousands of dollars on this stuff? I get entertainment, but good lord I can think of so many ways to blow thousands of dollars that will get you a lot more value for your money.
Just block the referrers that are not paidlink
Hello! When you add packages with Devbox add, we automatically pin your devbox.json to a specific commit in the Nix store. This ensures that any developer who uses your devbox.json will get the same packages that you do.

You can read more about how it works here:

https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/docs/guides/pinning_packages/
So security have received an alert on a person. They start rushing for that person. There would be a significant proportion of the population who would find that uncomfortable if not scary, who is to say how they will react. The person runs away, or does something that the guards think is threatening. The guard pulls a gun and shoots the person... All because they happened to be employed by a company that the venue has decided they don't like.
Yep. Definitely. Less confusion is a result of paid support.
Ask HN: Focus Hacks?
What books, prescriptions or habits have you developed to help you consistently focus on your most important work?
FLX – Visual Programming IDE App
Listen to this from about minute 35. The price may not go up again.
https://openargs.com/oa663-elon-dumps-42-million-more-shares...
Yes, I think I get that. But it is not easy to pin on different packages. For example if I want golang 1.18, node 12, I need to find the commit corresponding to those and add them. I mean it is possible but not as easy as it should be.
Seeing storks with their giant nests atop utility poles on the drive from Lisbon to Lagos was one of the most unique and memorable aspects of my recent trip to Portugal.
I've heard about the Bloom dating app through some of my friends and that there's a real matchmaker making matches. After reading this, I will definitely be giving Bloom a try and will need an extra hand with writing my profile...
The only thing Mozilla has deep experience in is creating a cult of people that believe they are still trying to do good.
For an impressive and beautiful version of the first Well-tempered Clavier prelude, check out Bobby McFerrin singing it while he has the crowd simultaneously sing Gonoud's Ave Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LcvpXmb74
Would it? If you tell me you poisoned my wine I wouldn’t give it a single thought. Or is there more to this analogy that you’ve neglected to mention?
I am not an expert but GunJS may be of interest for fast p2p sync.
Based on personal experience this depends on the ripeness of banana. As the banana ripens all the starch gets converted into sugar
Why our bad memory causes availability bias
Deep Work is not a concept that was popularized by that guy. If he popularized anything it was a new name for an existing concept.
Yeah, that's the right number, but the context is slightly incorrect. If in 2022 you claim a lowered capital gain based on a home renovation you did in 2001, then you need to save those 2001 receipts for seven years, i.e. until 2029. The date on the receipts doesn't matter; the seven-year clock starts ticking only when you involve them in a taxable event.
>We’re in real danger of cultural death with these rules restricting our expression.<

Isn't it sort of the opposite? Without these rules we'd be stuck drowning in an even larger and blander sea of retellings and reimaginings. The only time I see this considered noble or akin to staving off death is when the culture being preserved is already stagnating anyway.
We use it in production. It’s a corpse, all right. The only reason we haven’t gone Postgres is because our codebase is extremely extensive and dependent on MySQL/Maria.
I think Mozilla intends to develop mastodon further by first becoming a major player.

And I mean open source email server. Something like an alternative to an enhanced email server like ms exchange or even gmail.
That would add some amount of possible lag - generally running an emulator on a PC will introduce some frames of latency. This doesn't introduce any latency except for spectators, for whom it doesn't matter.
I would be very surprised if the Gameboy, like practically any 8 bit CPU of that era, had any dedicated instructions or hardware for RNG.

So it's a software RNG, and the user input is pretty much the only "random" thing coming in from outside. This is very common for games. It still is: Games like Civilization often let you specify the seed to initialize their software RNG with, so you or someone else can replay the exact same game.
Thank you all for your responses!

I realize I’m being a bit hyperbolic and it’s really hard to predict where things will be in a decade, but I’m pretty early in my career and am just concerned what my prospects will look like as this stuff evolves.

It feels like I’ve got two paths:

A) Keep learning and hope it’s enough to keep up

B) Quit now and focus on learning skills that are difficult to automate in order to get a head start on the transition away from dev work
Now he says he'll "just" run the software and server teams. And be owner, of course. That leaves not even the possibility that the new CEO will be anything but a figurehead, there to take the blame for whatever Musk decides.
Somewhat related "Ask HN: Solution for Distraction?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354194 where users mentioned books, software tools, techniques.
There was an open MR to add windows support for awhile but I think it fizzled out due to lack of OP interest.[1]
None of the maintainer staff use Windows, but a working PR that doesn’t cause any regressions would likely be accepted.

[1] https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd/pull/602
I've gotten plane tickets for less than $78. I think asking that much for what they're actually doing (checking your name against their terror watch list, then flipping a flag on your row in their database) is obscene. It should be free.

It's not free, because if it were free then everybody would apply for the lineskip privilege and it would cease to be a lineskip privilege because now everybody is in that line. So, like amusement parks selling lineskip passes, they price it high enough to discourage most people from buying it.
I don’t like sharing air with people who seek limit civil liberties of their fellow humans. So I would add you to the no fly list, and see no irony.
>If one of them made old, unfashionable music, they all must have

By what logic? Did all use the same forms, in he same manner?
> Monastic and bimodal modes are rather reserved for professions that can manage work without intensive communication with people, like writers, scientists, researchers, etc.

Many or most scientists are academics. Communication time dominates the job of a professor. Teaching, and the invisible job of running a university takes between 1/3 and 2/3 of a 40 hour week. Both of these are based around strict schedules, so the actual schedule in a non-sabbatical, non-buyout semester ends up journalistic or approaching rhythmic at best.

Thus the deep work slots are very precious. I did most of mine after dinner, or after kids' bed time. A professor I respect, well known for his reliable productivity, did a couple of hours of email at 2am for >20 years to create time in the work day for the real work.

Professor is a wonderful job, but making time to be a productive scientist is a constant struggle. This is why graduate students feel the science is delegated to them.
That’s two thirds Truss, in european units.
Boston is second most expensive city for rent. Recently overtook San Francisco.
Unfortunately not. I thought this thread was being overly-picky until I opened the link. This is awful.
>To reiterate, these people who you say should be driven "out of decent society" aren't even imposing that you shouldn't say these words. It's just for them.

So, in your opinion, if Neo-Nazis try to impose a speech code among those young people who they seek to indoctrinate into their "ethos", that is okay, as long as it is "just for them" and they don't try to impose it on society at large?

>And for this you want to encourage their banishment at a societal level?

Yes.

> You, as always, are free to do whatever you want. Say all the words on the list in a row if you want. No one will stop you.

Just like Neo-Nazis and self-appointed cultural hall-monitors at Stanford are free to do whatever they want. And the rest of us are free to drive these worthless people out of decent society because they have no place here and are detrimental to free and open discourse among decent, reasonable people.
Sorry wasn't my intentions
I've had an experience like this recently in Java. One of the most storied and heinous areas of Java development: so-called "web services." This is the whole SOAP+WSDL hell that did incalculable damage to the Java language and can be credited with the rise of REST as a sane alternative.

I had a system I needed to integrate into a workflow engine. I looked at the available interfaces and, noticing that the SOAP API was the most feature complete of the bunch, I figured I'd give it a try.

Guess what; no one is iterating on this stuff anymore. The standards specifications quit changing years ago so the targets aren't moving. The libraries are feature complete, solid and efficient and only infrequent bug fixes are appearing now. It works wonderfully.

So now you can grab a WSDL, stick on the resource path, add a code generation step to the build and it all "just works." The endless backflips and somersaults it took to get this stuff working back in the day have been evolved out of the stack and we're left with simple, type-safe RPC over HTTP, which is all most people ever really wanted.