skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you shutting it down?

From this page: https://getsandbox.com/shutting-down

>it has been running mostly on autopilot for the last few years and increasingly we don't have the time to dedicate to the maintenance or improvement of it

I don't understand how it was on autopilot yet, at the same time, represented too big of a time sink maintenance wise.

>and the process of selling it off too high friction for the reward.

Have you tried some services that get shared here to sell/buy SaaS companies/products?
It's important for the title to say (2016) because things have changed A LOT.
Exactly. It causes no harm. I'd rather have more real sex, but in the meantime porn is the best substitute available.
In strict sense of being Turing-Complete, noting is TC, because of physical world limitations (infinity doesn't really exists).

If we use "useful" definition of being Turing-Complete, then even `printf()` alone is already TC.
My resolutions are about crafting a daily routine that will have positive longterm outcomes - So, 3 main things:
(1) Workout everyday
(2) Read everyday(50 books for the year goal)
(3) Meditate daily
The middle tier is the real price in my opinion. The only reason the basic tier is there is as upsell opportunity and meant to be punishing.

I read somewhere that only 5% of seats sold on Delta are basic. I get it. It’s meant for people who are price sensitive. But aren’t those the ones who can least afford to lose money if something happens?
* Machine Learning, Andrew Ng, Coursera

* Practical Deep Learning for Coders, fast.ai

* Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization, Imperial College London

* Deep Learning Specialization, Andrew Ng, Coursera
On the other hand, when you spend more programmer hours on less productive languages, those programmers end up having a larger energy and natural resources footprint with the increased amounts of money paid out.

99% of programming projects aren't "web scale" and the development costs far outweigh the operating hardware costs.
Perhaps you have been spared from writing code for Windows:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/refe...

> In text mode, carriage return-line feed (CRLF) combinations are translated into single line feed (LF) characters on input, and LF characters are translated to CRLF combinations on output.
The US government has gone to great pains to try and make people believe that.
What Even Is an Institution?
Show HN: Mastodon Quick Start in 280 Characters (Including This Title)
Mastodon Quick Start In 280 Characters (Including This Title)

1) Pick a server at https://joinmastodon.org/ that admits new users.

2) Register account and confirm email.

3) Search for users or check out the "Trending" tab.

4) Follow and engage with users. Mastodon works like Twitter.

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The whole guide including the headline are exactly 280 characters long :)

The philosophy behind this is that it is more important to seize current ripples in the social media space and get people to check out decentralized social media than it is to have its principles understood. There are risks, but the are low and justified in my opinion. The main thing to avoid in my opinion is to have people unexpectedly loosing their data. Regarding this, I see two these two main risks of this oversimplified approach:

Server shutdown: By guiding the users to a server of https://joinmastodon.org/, it is unlikely that the server will shut down without notice. (Note that twitter can cease operation too, although this is more unlikely.)

Getting banned: Account can be redirected. (Note that getting an account banned for violating the rules can happen on twitter too.)

Feel free to copy, modify and use it however you feel. My hope is to encourage people to check out decentralized social media.
But taekwondo is once a week. Roaming the forest instead of playing NES is something you did every afternoon.

I too have 2 children and struggle a lot with this question, I tend to lean towards more independence and my wife towards more supervision.
I want to start keeping a journal and by journal I mean having daily note with:

- In the morning: make a list of what I want/have to do - doesnt have to be exhaustive just write SOMETHING.

- TIL - "Today I learned" section with anything in it that caught my eye that day.

- At least 2 sentences about how I felt or experienced today

I am hoping this will help me being organized a bit more and maybe some of it will be usable in terms of publishing it on my website as fully fledged post or even just short note about cool stuff I found.

Plan is to not make any of this tiresome and to just create a habit out of it.
Nice tool. But I would think about using traditional “--“ for passing conflicting arguments to a script instead of really-really approach. Double dash means stop processing args and pass/use them as is. This way you can e.g. rm a file named “-f” or echo a string “-n”.

rm -- -f
echo -- -n
> * find something new (that's not related to writing) to keep me creatively busy

I'm a hobby collector! Feel free to to reach out at hello@taylor.town if you'd like to chat about creative outlets :)
GC can be faster and allocate less memory.

tracked_ptr: 279.95ms (151MB)

shared_ptr: 1035.07ms (480MB)

source: https://godbolt.org/z/jP7ohPehY
I built Gaintrain (https://gaintrainapp.com/), a meal planning app designed to help users optimize their muscle gain.

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Since its launch in July, we have focused on improving retention and making the app as useful as possible. Currently, we have not actively pursued marketing efforts, but have gained users through searches on app and play stores. Recently, we introduced a paid subscription option and have already surpassed $500 in monthly revenue.
Soviet Computing Technology Smuggling
Both of your statements are true, but Tjunction isn't the target operating temperature. Tjunction is the maximum operating temperature after which damage of the chip becomes likely.
Massive fan of Mailsac! Great offering.
Given how seminal to life on our planet the winter solstice is, I'm surprised the moment and subsequent three days is not more celebrated.

https://www.britannica.com/science/winter-solstice

In dark northern places like Scotland (Hogmanay) Scandinavia (Santa Lucia) this turning point is a profound and important part of life. Christmas etc was overlaid on this ancient awareness.

The Roman calendar 'new years eve' has always felt fake and depressing to me (Let's celebrate the start of a new tax year!) but I always feel something emotional at the solstice moment when the planet stops its tilt and a literal new cycle begins.
Running on the Web with WebGPU and WebGL
Does direnv have an advantage over `nix develop` in that regard?
Cars use it and they're almost always not connected to the internet constantly. I am willing to bet they use weird protocols all the time.
Do you cook? I've never seen a dishwsher that can clean a pot, or pan or baking dish that was used to cook food. I feel like every responding does not cook. It would require significantly high pressure water jets, with computer vision scanning and robotic hands rotating an item with cooked in food to be cleaned. I think none of you are cooking. You're just rinsing fast food dirtied plates.
I don't know much about Java's regex engine, but my understanding is that it's a backtracker. Indeed, such an optimization can make the regex go from intractably slow to quite fast.
De-technologify. Ideally this is the year where I stop having a smartphone, very few active use-cases are left for that for me. We'll see ...

Professionally, I have some plans for TVL with our Nix rewrite in terms of CI systems and interesting developer tooling. IME, making it too concrete reduces the chance of it getting done though, so I'll leave it at that :)

Oh and also, get back to using Bulletjournal properly.
This assumes that people actually know what they're doing when writing code.

But this assumption was proven wrong infinite many times already.

Shouting RTFM didn't help, even after decades of doing so.

Actually it's getting worse.

Copy'n'paste form Stackoverflow without understanding anything was likely only a warmup. Now we're going to get AI generated code.
I only use cards and have never gotten an unrelated email
Sweden life expectancy is 83.18 [1] and Sweden had only small bump in deaths [2].
It looks like people died from obesity or lockdown effects like closing hospitals for non covid health problems.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/life-expect...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
"There’s a pretty simple reason to learn Rust: It’s new and people like it"

the best reason? what else ya got?
Thanks, I just think it's an idea to simplify my study (so that I don't really care too much about formulas)
If that's the case, does that mean I cannot simply treat them as independent blackboxes as they affect each other?
Hit its effort vs scale limit and we’ve got more pressing things to spend time on. We could grow it but the result isn’t worth the effort compared to cost benefit of other endeavors we’ve got on the go (big tech jobs) and more recent time needs (young families).

Learnt a bunch across so many dimensions and set us up for ongoing success with that knowledge, but this specific thing has no future and selling it appeared too hard.

It was on autopilot for sure but that baked in an assumption that customers self solved, and had no new needs. We felt bad that we were delivering a decaying service to users in silence, users could use an alternative and get better service for their $ (in theory) and we would stop taking $ for what we see as delivering a subpar result.
- Sign a new contract, my target is $1000 per day, but seeing how the economy is atm, I’ll probably be ok with anything over $750 per day.

- Buy the penthouse I’ve been saving for. With a bit of luck the housing market will crash and I’ll get it at a discount.

- Sign up at least one more client for my side hussle consultancy.

- Cross the 100 n-count mark.

- Start aviation lessons.
I feel naked without static types and my background is in humanities.
It can't come soon enough. I can't escape this irritating boring profession because of family responsibilities. If I am forced out I won't have to shoulder the guilt.
To not fix other peoples bugs on my github repos.
Try to run a non-toy RSA by hand using pen and paper, it will be quite painful and impractical. Practicality of RSA largely depends on existence of computers. Even in the presence of all required theoretical knowledge, an application may not be practical, thus it does not get "invented" until the practicality issue gets resolved.

I would say it's more interesting that one-time pad encryption was not invented and used much earlier than 19th century. It has obvious military and intelligence uses and is simple enough to be executed by hand.
Do you have 6 year old in Germany today or are you talking about your own childhood? My 6 year old went to school on his own a few times and he was the only kid in his class to do so. He now no longer does as the teacher scared my wife into thinking it's dangerous to have him cross the street on his own (it's a small street and the entire way is 5 minutes walk).

I talked with my wife and we do want him to start going alone again when he is a bit older, maybe 7 or 8. But no other kid in the lower grades does (I went to school on my own from ± the very beginning as far as I can recall).
How about a tool that does the opposite of Copilot: given a bunch of scripts, it generates a human readable synopsis, and perhaps even a usage summary and some keywords for each script. Then you can easily search for them using grep.
How would you design a microservice, that does not depend on another?
How do you plan on battling your perfectionism? It's something that's been holding me back for a long time...
Remember when every single link on a page was curated and almost all of them were worth looking at?
Phoenix by definition assumes your projects will take longer than an afternoon. :)

If you want a quick and dirty API, using Plug directly may be an option: https://gist.github.com/josevalim/fbfc669aa6087c5b79402b399d...
> I'm surprised immutable systems aren't more popular.

Well technically near every router and embedded device is "immutable", with usually only config partition being changed, and firmware update being just re-loading whole image.
It could also index comments at the top of the file, for those of us not diligent enough to add a --help flag
HN loves monopolies except when it's fashionable to hate them :)
I misread the second quote. I suppose that is evidence, but setting them to an incorrect value suggests that this might not be a valid file even if it works.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6902224 uh-member this?

ownership society my ass!
In Finland, NYE the single evening of the year on which launching personal fireworks is allowed. I'll probably go out for a walk and try to take some pictures of people doing questionable things. The city is also putting on a concert and fireworks show I plan to watch.

However, the weather today has been November-levels of disappointment inducing and the nice snow from early December is melted. :<

I love the tradition of fireworks on New Years, as long as people are sensible about it. I don't appreciate them going off right off my balcony.

I'd love to spend another New Years in Reykjavik someday. I don't think I've ever seen fireworks like that anywhere else.
Here's the Super Mario theme:
https://youtu.be/EYWsDrSGpCA
Blake3 would be a good choice. Having a fast hashing algorithm is not a bad thing. Integrity checks involve a lot of hash calculations.

That's perhaps a reason Git has stuck with sha1 hashes. They are fast enough and good enough.
I just canceled my Twitter account. I tried to stay far from it, because I know it's potentially addictive. I've had an account for a year, without posting anything. And I recently started to comment and argue with people. This thing is toxic (well, at least for me) and bring the worst out of people.
Stop with excuses and workout at the gym 2 times a week. Get healthier.

Find a way to tame procrastination and get more things done. Consciously tell myself that it is better to do something okay than not doing because I can’t see the path to perfect.

That’s it. Keep living happily with everything else.
To be fair you could use Plug and Plug.Router directly and get almost the same line count as a flask app.

https://hexdocs.pm/plug/Plug.Router.html
Python is a general purpose language. You can write anything in python, from quick and ditry replacements for bash scripts, to windows desktop applications, to clustered supercomputer code. It also has an library ecosystem to match.
Scrubbable stainless steel surfaces. Only generous radius corners. No tile grout or silicone caulking. And the whole thing cleanable with a hose if necessarily. As a parent of children, I'd totally go for this, style be darned.
What site? In my experience almost every .to website is worth bookmarking. Blocking javascript on as well, but worth bookmarking.
Ha. If money has little value to you, if you value only meaning, then there is nothing anyone can do to help you be happy in this profession. If you want to challenge yourself intellectually beyond the minutia you are out of luck. If you want respect you are out of luck. If you want power, you are out of luck. It's a dead end profession and hopefully it will be automated away soon with LLMs.
Do people use GitHub for leads?
First time hearing about Tamagui. I literally just set up a new project with Nativewind, but I might try writing a few components using Tamagui as well to compare the two.

Keen to hear from anyone else who's used both Tamagui and Nativewind as well.
I think it was subject to the buying syndicate's approval. For example, my reading was that the Saudi investors put up additional cash before the sale knowing that they would be getting a payout of a similar value when the buyout went through.
My dad's job for a while was configuring telecoms in a DSL built atop of prolog. The worst thing - the development enviroment was MS Word.
How much did you drink before, and how has it changed your life?
> At the risk of conjuring a strawman, I've heard people worry about the loss of control, like maybe the process has some sensitive data in RAM that it will release and then the OS will alloc() it to another process.

I'm sure some people worry about this, but I think you will be hard pressed to find a modern OS that actually would give away your contents to another PID.

Just because a program can malloc(8), fill eight bytes with known content, free() the pointer, malloc(8) again and see their old content doesn't mean the OS hands your data to anyone, just that the libc (or whatever runtime you use) is not actually getting a whole page for that single 8 byte malloc, and it didn't give it back to the OS at free() either, so you "owned" the page where those 8 bytes lives all the time during execution of this simple test.

The limit for which your allocator starts _actually_ handing back data is probably never less than 4k and upwards to 256k depending on page size, malloc settings and OS/libc defaults.

So while there are a lot of traps code can fall into as mentioned in other comments in this thread, I think everyone can stop worrying about "the next program to malloc() will get my old data" because that just doesn't happen.
We've lived in Germany for 9 years (and Austria before that, which is culturally and economically very similar) and I've not encountered that supposed widespread threat of being replaced with cheap foreign labor.
> De-technologify. Ideally this is the year where I stop having a smartphone, very few active use-cases are left for that for me. We'll see ...

I posted a few pointers on reducing smartphone attachment in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34195542
This may sound a little odd, but I want to be more hedonistic.

I’ve spent my entire adult life up to now saving and investing so that I could buy a house. Now that I’ve done that it would be nice to indulge just a little bit.
its been revealed by other comments. it might be a bit unfair to single out any particular person as responsible for providing intellectual cover to a manifestly inaquate ideology. he is basically just the convenient reference for an entire school of thought. had he not existed somebody else would have had that role.
Though there could've been different ways to ask rather than saying, arrogantly, "wheel is used everyday too"
C null terminated strings are not magic. Protocols between the sender and receiver have to be defined. You face exactly the same problem regarding byte order, size consideration and marshalling with C strings.

You are basically arguing that C strings are a good default because they are the default. If they were something else, well, we would have saner FFI in a lot of place.

C strings are a terrible default. They are fundamentally unsafe. Mishandle the null char for any reason and you now face a serious security issue.
Sure, but then you can't either act surprised when the more evil politicians are elected and blame people for either not voting or voting for better politicians.

You get what you vote or don't vote for
Salt could be misunderstood.

This what I’ve learned video discusses salt and recommended standard sale amount might be too low: https://youtu.be/amJ-ev8Ial8

But if the GP comment is listening to his body, it’s fine.

I personally prefer more salty food(not snacks) than others around me. And the only opposition seems to be that less salt is better. And less salt means more mental stability.
That is exactly my experience too. Very poignantly put.

At my org they went away to their high towers and decreed that scrum is what we need to solve all our issues.

Do you think they engaged with us about challenges, performance etc prior to this? Nope.

And any complaints are ignored and all efforts are going towards being Scrum oops sorry I mean agile. (The word scrum is almost verboten despite hiring a Scrum consultancy to shove Scrum down our throats)
The problem is that it forces people to vote for the lesser evil as well. Sure you can vote for your loved party, but if that only gets two votes then your ballot gets counted for your second choice anyway.

We need a system where you’re vote counts against everyone you don’t list.
You beat me to the submit button by a minute.
I have been trying to contact them regarding the transfer of a .gq domain of a customer.

Their platform is bugging and marking my order as automated: "We were unable to verify you as a human, please try again later."

I sent a ticket and they replied two days later, saying that they "will not be able to effect this transfer". I asked the reason and didn't received yet another reply.
Cliche, but getting fit. Sitting at home eating junk for two covid years didn't do me any favours.

Already dropped booze in Sept so off to a running start...
Cool website, will be using it for sure!
Are you comparing porn with cigarettes for real?
- Find a new job and get a serious pay bump

- Move country to make my relationship work

- Find a therapist

- Buy my (our) next house
Spellcheck without autocorrect taught me to spell. I would retry the word with a squiggly red line under it til it was good. Autocorrect doesn't allow this self-remediation and learning. Disable it :)
> Probably more useful would be to install means to drive fixing CO2/H2O -> glucose using an electric current driven from external PV cells.

Solar Foods[1][2] does something like that by using the electricity to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen, CO2 and water (plus some nutrients) is then fed to bacteria that produce protein.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634192-700-a-factor...
You say it would be ludicrous for banks to be able to recall debt based on their assessment of the value, but it isn't far off from normal lending practices for commercial real estate where the bank can just decide that your property has fallen below an arbitrary threshold and require you to pay back a portion of the loan immediately.
It seems that it's not just Defender (despite the title), even more sophisticated "endpoint protection" suites seems to not bother checking stacks.

That bothers me a lot.
> - In the morning: make a list of what I want/have to do - doesnt have to be exhaustive just write SOMETHING.

One pattern I used for a long time was "2 BIG THINGS, 3 SMALL THINGS". Each day, I tried to tackle 2 scary tasks and 3 easy tasks.
Is there a reason I should blame the OS specifically and not the C runtime?
Even if it wasn't evil, it's still bad is my point.
That should be obvious. It doesn't matter if you smile while robbing me.
I can’t argue about the rest of them but Tokelau is a series of atolls in the pacific with a population of 1400. Additionally, even the official government website is hosted in New Zealand’s TLD.

https://www.tokelau.org.nz/

So yes, they are actual counties but we can’t use that information to pressure that there’s must be at least one legitimate user (e.g. the government).
What are some things you have met where it seemed outright evil?

(I don’t have any work experience yet)
What do I do if I am not content shoveling shit? I'm exceptionally bright, like many others in the field. When I chose it I did not expect it to be like this. The disrespect, the monotonous work, the hyper analytical and socially oblivious coworkers. The complete lack of promotion opportunities. I'd quit to start an unrelated business, but the financials just don't work out. I'd rather be working the fields.