skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sorry, but your opinion doesn't count"

Why does yours?

" Mabye based on tuned "died with antibodies" gov stats and when comparing to this single issue."

Prove it

"There's been more than enough deaths"
Prove it

"from fake vaccine to initiate lawsuits against Big Pharma "

Starting and a lawsuit doesn't require evidence nor is it a sign of guilt.

"Big Gov. Florida has started investigating"

Starting an investigation doesn't is prove anything especially when the vaccine is political and Ron Desantis is a Republican.

"other states are sure to follow in '23."

Based on what?

"The issue of blod clots has been known for many months and governments continued"

Risk compared to dangers of Covid

"to force fake "vaccines" on employees and even contractors."

I thought the issue was the blood clots but now you are stating without evidence the vaccine is fake. Come on.

Finally, I can't believe that people like you have finally seeped into Hackernews, a community I normally consider being populated by more logical and educated people compared to the general population.
The original documenation for TBL's WorldWideWeb browser and editor:

> The "WorldWideWeb" application for the NeXT is a prototype Hypertext browser/editor. It allows direct access to Hypertext servers, files and news.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/NeXT/WorldWideWeb.html

> The team created so called "passive browsers" which do not have the ability to edit because it was hard to port this feature from the NeXT system to other operating systems. Porting to the X Window System was not possible as nobody on the team had experience with the X Window System.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

Edit: Ooh, I found a screenshot of the HyperMedia Browser/Editor version 0.13.

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/browsers.evolt.org/browse...
> should

Completely agree

> only

Fine, but can substitute "git" as appropriate

> discard any local files or changes

Ok for when deployment is completely and always automated, but for that _one special case_ maybe keep a copy of the old that you can revert to until you're _really_ sure of no unwanted effects. In the meantime, find out how & why that local change got made and what can be done to automate it next time
> People say "paradox of tolerance" when I bring this up but I don't understand the purpose. Yes, And?

It has a name and using that name allows for more succinct communication. It's also a way for those who are unfamiliar with the paradox of tolerance to realize it's a thing so they can look further into it if they so choose.

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For the rest, it's just a lot of rationalization for why you think you should be able to prevent people from saying things. And you try to hang it on the paradox of tolerance as a justification.

But it's not really, the lesson from the paradox of tolerance isn't that the tolerant must become absolutely intolerant to protect themselves, it's that they cannot be absolutely tolerant.

The line where intolerance needs to kick in for protection shouldn't be "someone said a thing", but should instead be "someone did a thing". Those like yourself who try to use the paradox of tolerance to rationalize your views are treating tolerance/intolerance as a binary rather than a spectrum.

And finally,

I'm a minority myself and have been called racial epithets. I remember the KKK coming into a nearby town and holding a rally back in the 90's. People were pissed off, but even then I defended their right to have the rally. My recommendation to everyone was just don't go. Imagine if they held a KKK rally and no one showed up, how hilarious would that be?

I would be no more ok with minorities attacking KKK members than I would be with KKK members attacking minorities. There's an equilibrium and fairness there that doesn't exist with words. If it's not ok for KKK members to tell a black person they're inferior, is it not ok for a black person to tell a KKK member they're inferior?

This obviously won't convince you as you're not thinking rationally, but that doesn't make the above any less true.
I use either an electric engine/cabin heater or a fuel burning heater. Of course you need to get the heat from something before the engine is started. Because the engine is what I want to heat before starting it.

On my current car it’s the latter (fuel heater). Often comes with the cold weather package package on new cars at least European ones. Those packs usually add some of heated steering wheel, heated rear seats, fuel engine/cabin heater, retractable headlight washers etc.
Dumb question, but can't they condense the water and collect it somewhere?
You can launch Zoom with a flag to make your desktop environment appear to be GNOME and it'll work.
I use this, running in a docker container on my home NAS, accessible via my ZeroTier. Recommended!!
That's a slightly different thing with mobile cells with CDMA style techniques reducing in range when they're busy. Called cell breathing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_breathing_(telephony)

This is because CDMA is basically a cacaphony of stations screaming for attention and as a cell gets busier the furthest stations (phones) won't make it through the noise.

GSM was a lot better at this with its fixed timeslots, however as a result it had much more flexible capacity limits. From 3G onwards all standards are based on CDMA (not just for technical reasons, also because of Qualcomm's lobby who are the ones that own many CDMA patents).
It is not a criticism that is so far off.

You could take out the "probably" and replace with "maybe" - just have a look at this very page of comments and it shouldn't take you long to find wildly inaccurate statements or anecdotal -> conclusion type theories.
Brilliant answer. This echos what I tell people about what you do after the senior level role. Senior means you’re leading usually one service or a small cluster of services with very few engineers involved. It’s largely a technical problem from junior to senior. After senior, you’re primary goal is addressing the human problems in the system.
Just as a fun aside, I was perusing some of my most ancient HN threads and came across this obfuscated monster which I totally forgot about. Pastebin links inside are still active ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3432800
For the next year sit in cash or pick up stocks that pay good dividents and are poised to grow after the crisis passes (e.g. banking or telecom). 8-10% is achievable. The goal is to offset the inflation while things stabilize. Afterwards look at conventional long-term investment options.
I would be shocked if they write more Zig than Rust. Likewise if they find more references and docs in Zig. A lot of zig code in the wild doesn’t even compile any more.
I saw meteorologists publicly shame rogue APs by name. This implies they do have means (directional antenna) to probe the source of interference and get information such as AP name, MAC address and distance.

https://www.shmu.sk/sk/?page=2037
IMO you just should buy a house with low monthly fees. The prices are hopefully going down in most places during the next year which should provide plenty of opportunities. Then, if you like, just buy up some ETFs or otherwise diversified assets in industries you think will succeed. With relatively small amounts of money you just want to buy something simple and robust, don't get too creative.
Ohhhh, right… thank you :)
Timecrimes ... a spanish movie, its superb ... they executed the time loop concept really well.

If you want a non-serious fun movie "Summer Time Machine blues", a japanese movie is also a pretty good watch
On all of my machines, Caps Lock has to get mapped to switching between keyboard layouts. Saves me so much time every day, not having to do the Alt+Shift dance dozens of times every hour.

If only there were more non-US people making decisions in tech, we could have had a dedicated key for that, the way Japanese keyboards have a bunch of Japanese-specific keys, but alas.
Always looking for a new one, but sometimes interface is the dealbreaker for me. Any screenshots of yours? Love that it’s already good to go in Docker.
Cool! I saw this link and your books came to mind as another example of how material like this is vital for seeing (amongst other things) how creative endeavours cope with ‘the other 90 percent’ of projects.
Picking specific companies and putting your life savings in it when you’re in your early 20s sounds like the exact opposite of what was asked for here.
I’d be interested in it as well. I imagine the author talks about Rust being hard, cause extending Ruby with Rust doesn’t seem problematic. Here is an example of simd json extension written in Rust using Rutie: https://github.com/drogus/simd-json-ruby/blob/main/src/lib.r...

It has a bunch of macros that are rather straightforward to use
Some of the arguments listed in the page are misleading:

> Zig is a programming language, but it also ships with a package manager

Which is not true:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/943

> Zig has no macros and no metaprogramming

Literally from Zig's homepage (https://ziglang.org/):

"Comptime - a fresh approach to metaprogramming"

The rest of the arguments are very weak in my opinion.
I agree, our use cases were quite different.

In my other comment I said that around 1997 we put Linux x86 and 21" monitors running at 1800x1440 on all the engineers desks and used them basically as X terminals to the Suns in the closet. Our Sun graphics cards and monitors were 19" (I think) limited to 1152x900 so everyone thought Linux and the monitors was a big upgrade.

We did use graphical programs like waveform viewers and chip layout programs but they were all simple 2D graphics and worked okay via remote X11 with 10 Mbit ethernet. We upgraded to 100 Mbit ethernet and it was virtually the same as running locally.

By 2002 we were running all the software on Linux x86 directly

We did have some Creator 3D cards in the Ultra 2's but it was mostly overkill for what we were doing. Those cards did have an interesting feature for programs hard coded to X11 8-bit 256 PseudoColor. We had an internally written program like that and we would basically run out of colors if you also tried to run a web browser or evern a second copy of the program. The Creator 3D card had one 24-bit display and then 4 separate 8-bit displays combined together. We could run 4 copies of that poorly written internal program before having colormap issues.

I remember running netscape with the -install option to get a private colormap. The screen would basically look like a rainbow except in the netscape window then move the mouse outside and netscape would turn into a rainbow.

On Linux we could use the extra virtual consoles to start multiple X servers so sometimes I had one 16-bit X server running for normal stuff and two 8-bit X servers for that ol d program. Luckily we didn't need to copy paste between all that much if ever.
The interface is as minimal as the rest of it :-)

I will try to stick an animated gif up on GitHub soon.
When asking these type of questions on HN and reddit you have to take the Doomer factor into consideration. Both places are full of people convinced the economy will soon collapse and we should all go into prepper mode.

World Index Funds are still the way to go n the long term.
I'm not a big investor, but here is my strategy:

20k blanket: you never know what can happen, this money can be put in accounts with small returns but can be available immediately.

Up to 5k immediate spending: i like surprise vacations, especially when I surprise myself. This allow me to say 'fuck this, I'm out' and go rent a boat or something.

Then, the excess goes into 3 categories. I divide it in 10.

6 part go into low risk, low return investment. State debt etc. It's pension funds, but also weird bank plans (ask a bank councellor);

3 part goes into diverse index funds. I got energy, green energy, old people (they have nice name for it), luxury goods and something else I forgot (i chose not to invest in the defense industry, but I'd take that if I weren't bothered by it). I hedged against tech for a reason: I'm very well paid, and as long as tech do well, i won't be laid off.

The last part i invest directly with my bank application. I got lucky [removed humblebrag coz details don't matters]. No real strategy here, invest in stuff you think is worth more than it cost.

I don't know if it's the best investment strategy, but the banking councellor helped me with it, so I guess it cannot be too bad. If you're in France, go to a bank outside big cities (doesn't matter anymore as everything is dematerialized) and ask for a financial counselor (it was free for me), they respond way faster than in Paris, and help you decide a strategy.

Detail that matters: i don't have kids and mostly frequent women who are independent
Honestly, it’s really easy right now.

Put all your residue money into a S&P500 ETF (ideally VanGuard), lock it up and look at in again in 10 year intervals. Done.
What has done best for American investors over the last few decades: buying index funds. Which is why everyone recommends them. In 2023 it isn't always good advice, especially outside of the USA.

The best things are paying off debt, avoiding debt, stabilizing yourself, and get ready for buying a house. If your employer matches some pension contribution do that.

At your age you should look at investing in yourself. Think about if you can buy knowledge to improve your career, maybe a masters degree or even books etc. Either more engineering skills or maybe management skills. This will give much better returns over the next few decades than an index fund.

Finally Financial knowledge is a great thing to learn if you're so inclined. I was always interested in investing in markets as well as small local businesses. Learn accounting and basic business speak and follow the stock market, maybe buy a few companies - even if you lose money you'll learn a lot if you follow them. This will be helpful when you're older and have more money. Be careful because for half the people in the world its not worth doing this, and are better off ignoring it so make sure if its you or not.
Many of the demands which radical left-wing students make - such as cancellation of events, or that academics be fired - could also in principle be made by radical right students, just with different individual targets and justifications

For example, right-wing students might demand an art exhibition at the university be cancelled because they believe it to be “blasphemous” or “obscene”. Or they might object to a Marxist being allowed to deliver a guest lecture on the grounds that it is insensitive to the victims of communism.
I've never used D, but aren't you kind of making the author's point?

If you disable GC in D, and end up with something equivalent to Zig, then why not use Zig?
> Now there is more surface area to clean.

I can't imagine thinking that way when it comes to basic food hygiene.

If it came out of the drawer/cupboard it gets washed (by hand) all over no matter whether it was used, looks clean, fell on the floor, only has one side soiled ... All over, all the time, just as basic hygiene.

Also in our house we rinse off the (probably unhealthy) detergent before stacking to drip dry, prior to using a drying towel. I'm not at all sure what anionic surfactants are, but they don't sound like ambrosia to me.

My dish detergent of choice is antibacterial too so cloths, sponges, bowls and sink should be quite sanitary. Also using the dish cloth to wipe down prep surfaces after a meal adds some antibacterial hygiene to the kitchen.
Try to switch to lower sugar, higher fat/protein products with as few ingredients as possible. Fat is generally good for you and helps satisfy and keep hunger controlled. Protein is similar in this regard and the two together are really good for dealing with hunger. Try to avoid simple carbs since they break down into sugar immediately; if you must, have them with a fat and protein to help reduce the glycemic load. For example, if you want a bagel, use a good amount of butter and/or cream cheese to help ease the escalation of your blood sugar.

Stay on the outside/perimeter inside of the center aisles in grocery stores. That's where the money really is for them and its mostly junk. Also, checkout the organic aisle(s) as most people think its too expensive and eschew all the deals that are happening with the actually decent food that otherwise goes bad or takes up needed space like any other food products.

Buy lemon/lime juice or pure cranberry juice and use it to make flavored water to help distract you from sugary drinks. Get a SodaStream to make soda water if you like and experiment with various pure juices to flavor the soda. Try to avoid fruit juice since its basically pure sugar without any of the fibre or need to digest that comes with actual fruit. If you must, go for ones that are 50% less sugar and do not use any sweetener (just the constituent fruit juices themselves) like Oasis Hydrafruit or whatever but still try to move away from juice.

Hemp seeds are insanely nutritious, use them wherever you can. Particularly salads, parfaits, shakes/smoothies, etc. They have it all: healthy fats, fibre, minerals and vitamins, etc. Great for satiety and pleasent subtle flavor.
The supply and demand curve model is either tautologically true (when applied in retrospect), or essentially entirely useless (if you try to use it to model a future product/price).

The cost of reprodcuing a pile of bits is quite unimportant compared to the cost of producing that pile of bits the first time around. This dynamic is poorly captured by supply/demand, and this is where copyright laws have always come in. While they are being abused with absurd expiry limits, they are a necessary part of any kind of money-based society.

Without copyright, for-profit companies would insist on ever more draconian DRM and software obfuscation technologies to replicate similar systems, while liberally taking any piece of code they can get their hands on - whether open-source or from another company with inadequate copy protections.

This basic problem would remain true even if all software and media companies were worker owned syndicalist co-ops.
Attacking the group here is funny, because it ignores the idea to go after the flawed people implementing it.

Instead, you should try and explain why it’s okay to be offended when someone expresses disgust at your viewpoint, but not okay to be offended by a viewpoint. Why does freedom of expression stop arbitrarily at the person saying the disgusting thing?

It’s almost as if you want to prevent the expression (manifest in the form of bans and boycots), or something…
> For most people, another person doesn’t need to be contrarian to be interesting.

I’d go one further and say that contrarians are intrinsically uninteresting. They are very predictable and tedious in their inability to accept ideas just because they are accepted by others. Being systematically opposed to ideas because they are perceived as mainstream is just as much of a fallacious reasoning than the other way around.
Yeah I'm specifically responding to the question above.

Some things like REST/HTML/XML are familiar enough that the initialism is as good as a dictionary word.

SOAP, on the other hand, I forget what that was. Hopefully it's not important.
Finding your scientific story by writing backwards
That's possible yes around channel 96. Weather radars are pretty specific in frequency because they rely on water resonance.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
I really liked he did that, completely changed the perspective on the comments. I never click on links.

Even if he did not improve as much as he did our discussion, did you have to be so mean. It's Christmas, let him have it.
M&A and Private equity activity is down at the moment but it’s only down from the record high of post-covid liquidity.

We had a year of uncertainty and semi stockpiling and then when the recovery steps were clearer a huge amount of pent-up investment happened in the following 12-18 months.

Sentiment is mostly negative right now but deals are still being made, where they make sense.
On a related note: Hunter S. Thompson simply retyped The Great Gatsby and some Hemingway texts to see how it feels to write such texts.
Are we doing wishlists? All I want is the possibility of doing nominal typing.

Hrmph: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/364 - https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/4895
Turning on the heater reduces my electric miles by a factor of 3. More energy is spent on heating than on moving.

> I think it's worth it to fight the feelings of superiority you allude to in your last sentence.

In every other thread about climate, people hyperventilate about the doom of climate change. But when I try to do my part, it's "100% pointless" and is characterized as merely wanting to feel superior?

This to me sounds like people want to be cynical while at the same time not wanting to do anything about it.
8 billion / 6.7 million is 1/1,200 or 0.00084 which is 0.084% not 0.0008%. You forgot that % means shifting the decimal 2 places to the left.

Also, “A recent assessment of health information systems capacity in 133 countries found that the percentage of registered deaths ranged from 98% in the European region to only 10% in the African region.” https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covi.... Actual death totals are likely closer to 15 Million than 7.

Thus the real death total is likely around 0.2% of global population which is still quite far from the Black Death etc, but far from meaningless.
Nobody does in any absolute sense, so it’s not really a position being taken in this argument.
Broad index funds as a longterm buy and hold investment. I would take a "FTSE all world accumulating", that is all you would need.

https://www.justetf.com/en/etf-profile.html?isin=IE00BK5BQT8...
I think it is people that left ruby coming back after seeing the alternatives. :-)

I view ruby ecosystem as totally different philosophy system anti-ethical to many others seen in the engineering realm.

This may be my personal poorly-educated view, but I cannot shake it. Most of the good engineering practices are based on the orthogonal cartesian view of the world, where ego of the creator wants to believe the that all the corner-cases will be ultimately handled. And we just need time to add this or that component. That leads to increasing complexity and it is a vicious circle because all the abstractions are leaky. While in the ruby community, I don't see above described philosophy to be as strong as it is in other language ecosystems.
One of my favorite Macklemore lines: “I wish somebody would have told me that someday these will be the good old days”
The touchbar on Intel machines ran bridgeOS. On ARM machines there is no separate SoC and the touchbar is controlled by the main SoC.
No, pets are not fine.

Just the other day I had to perform some maintenance on a long-running VM hosting some monitoring software. A backup VM is supposedly always running and ready to handle the workload in case of downtime. The switchover seemed to go fine, at first.

Turns out, someone long ago had manually added a cron job to the primary server without adding it to the backup server, without documenting what it does, what permissions it needs, how it works, or why it's needed. This was only discovered after some manager in a different department complained that he stopped receiving the daily report to his e-mail inbox.

If whoever deployed the report generation script took an extra hour to document what the script did, or even better, added it to VCS as part of the provisioning process for the server and re-deployed the server to ensure that the process works as expected, a day's worth of headache could have been averted.
A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data in Ruby
Will the person who downvoted explain? Ritalin must be the worst stimulant I have ever taken, worse than caffeine, and amphetamines work ok but that's just speed and has bad side effects.

Doctors here are not aware of other medications and so I just smoke weed by the truckload :-)