skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The thing is, as a coder, you will be more attracted by generic product. Generalizing is more elegant, and if, like me, you like to solve problems, you will want to try to figure out a bigger problem than your initial scope.

This is a major issue with my side project (https://www.Didgets.com) which is a general-purpose data management system. It started off as a 'file system replacement' where you could use it to store tens or hundreds of millions of files; put tags on each of them; and then do lightning fast searches to find subsets of them.

I discovered that the tags I invented could also be used as columns in a columnar database table. So I went off inventing a way to build fast relational tables that were good for both transactions and analytics. I also discovered that the system can be used to build logging frameworks, indexing services, configuration management, and backup mechanisms.

The problem is that I don't have the resources to fully build out each feature set, so it does a dozen things (some of them really well) but none of them are a finely tuned, polished product yet.
Nowdays people can just reply “fake news”.
Crikey. The writing from that excerpt is tedious to parse. Why is academic writing so often insufferable?

Are there any other genres of writing that are usually this clunky to read? Maybe legal writing?
The Bourne shell was a relative latecomer to UNIX, released in 1979, replacing the [Ken] Thompson shell.

It lacks many things provided by a POSIX shell (nearly all of which are present in the later Korn shell).

There are many entire operating systems that survived only a fraction of this time. I think that it will remain relevant for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell
I doesn't "repel" them. It kills them dead.

Apparently, Eucalyptus is quite toxic, but smells a bit like cinnamon.

Koalas are tough little dropbears.
It never fails to amaze me how people are currently ok with effectively wiretapping communication, compared to how it was treated back when wiretapping was a thing. That you have the NYT blatantly publishing something this brazen while ignoring completely the repeated surveillance scandals in the last decade is mind boggling. I know I should be charitable but there's no explanation I can find other than they're trying to create a second "x man bad" with elon for the guaranteed traffic now that trump is effectively neutered and irrelevant.

Even during the heyday of the patriot act the mentality didn't seem this bad for americans, granted that could be my memory failing.
Zen 5 is the most likely candidate. Early 2024?
Don’t sleep in Manning. DRM-free and simple process. Even the email receipt has a direct link to download ebook in all formats.
My favorite game is to google the titles of some of his references, often to find out they were retracted and should have been noted. I chose his #10 and found a rebuttal to key points [1]. I'd suggest going to a plant-based website, one for which advertising does not sell pills or foods, but, instead, supports the non-profit foundation and put "animal" in the search bar [2] or study this clustered search at PubMed [3]

[1] https://www.alineanutrition.com/2020/07/28/how-state-of-the-...

[2] https://nutritionfacts.org/?s=animal%20fat

[3] https://search.carrot2.org/#/search/pubmed/animal%20fat/tree...
Pelé Dies at 82
Speaking of Scrabble, is there a decent online version for playing against other people? My wife loved the version that worked on her iPad, despite some clear bugs. I understand that it got killed off, to be replaced essentially with "Words with Friends", with all sorts of infantile blinking animations and unrelated cruft.

She loved being able to play long-distance with family members, and even met some new people to chat and play with from other countries.
What's L C R and why can't there be more letters?
I remember doing this during one of my first years of college. I would usually finish the lab assignments early, so I would poke around the computers and see what I could get into. I eventually discovered `net send` on the cli, and read through the help to discover that you could broadcast with a wildcard.

So, I promptly ran `net send * All your base are belong to us`.

The immediate result was giggles from all around the computer lab. As soon as I realized I had sent it to every computer in the lab, I realized I had no idea what other computers I had sent it to. I decided my best course of action was to log out of the machine and switch to another one.

About 5 minutes later, a couple people came into the lab, going straight to the machine I had sent the message from. They looked around, asked the room if anyone knew who was using the machine, got a bunch of noncommittal shrugs, shrugged themselves, and left.

A couple weeks later, the Messenger service was disabled across the campus. I found out from someone that the message had popped up on every machine on campus, interrupting presentations and leading to some slight confusion on the part of teachers all over.
You are more forgiving than a lot of people. I know very little about football or Pele, but this particular "mistake" seems like a biggie.

It's like you be a nice guy 99.9% of the time, but in the remaining percent you murder someone. All your niceness is nullified by your single action.
Same experience as OP and others here in discovering this setting (also in middle school). While sitting next to a friend I jokingly typed out "net send * [our third friend's name]" intending it as a "haha wouldn't that be wild. OK let's delete this now" quip, but my friend reached over and hit ENTER, we ran away from the computer like it was radioactive, and later discovered it was sent school district wide. We had used a non-user specific account but cracked under the pressure of being grilled as the obvious suspects for any computer shenanigans at our school and being good friends with friend #3.

The third friend's father was LIVID that our friend's name was besmirched by being placed in the contents of the pop-up, later threatened me over the phone, and put pressure on the school to throw the book at us (fulfilling his promise to "TAKE THIS TO THE MAT!"). My friend and I were suspended for a day and banned from visiting the high school computer club for some weeks.

From the district IT perspective the middle school's punishment somewhat backfired because news of our suspension resulted in many more students across the district learning about the command, greatly increasing the # of incidents and becoming a district-wide. They weren't able to figure out how to turn it off for a year+ after. As a temporary measure they made the printer in the high school library print out the originating computer of every net send message, which often backed up printer and caused the HS librarians (my mom happened to be the head one lol) to have to remove these useless sheets from the printer all day.

0/10 would not recommend glob experimentation
Yeah, I think I agree with you. I still find it curious that the python language server is quite capable of inferring types from unannotated code yet most of the type checking tools for python seem to explode as soon as they encounter an very popular yet untyped library. I guess typing is more of an afterthought than a priority for most dynamic language developers so it doesn't get much love.
>ETH/BTC reached 0.1515 in June 2017

Yes, there were few weeks when ethbtc was higher, but that was over 4 years ago.

There were 6 months of free money during the second half of 2020 with three digit APR. Most active people in defi multiplied their eth holdings several times (4-6x). There was no risk because tokens to dump were received for free.

>Slow and steady wins the race.

No, it doesn't. Yield wins the race. This cycle had a once in a lifetime free money period. There's not making up for missing that. Current yields are single digit but still good.
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic but after the announcement that was made to "prevent a paucity of masks for health care workers", there were several studies that came out showing how masks were ineffective! The methodology of course was to get someone with COVID, put a mask on them and them have them cough into a petri dish. Then check the dis to see if COVID was present, it was so obviously masks were bad. The science had spoken.

These studies were posed all over the place including HN as proof that you didn't need masks.

Then a little while later, someone changed their mind or something and all of a sudden we all needed masks, even homemade cloth ones would do. Or even a bandana on your face.

The point is that if there is a political will, science will be made up to support or debunk it. Which is bad for science and society in general.

I have no idea about HCQ or it's usefulness but I have a feeling that if it had a different political backing then we might be talking about HCQ deniers instead of HCQ conspiracy supporters because we had the same thing with masks.
Show HN: Just 5 Top headlines of you need to start your day with
isn't it wild that not once in this article do they talk about working with governments to handle blocking in cloudflare's proxy layer? they go on and on about why ip blocking sucks, but don't actually propose anything better, especially to improve the situation for customers behind cloudflare who become collateral damage.
Soft plastic being collected but almost all burned in kilns or recycled abroad
I'm fairly skeptical of recycling but this had a lot of interesting details, for how recycling works in Ireland(& EU)
Just in general? I guess I'll start with tech:

- Tech: Watch more lightning talks; automate more business & personal processes; try REXX again for fun; maybe dip into Raku (if setup & battery installation isn't annoying--this sometimes gets me with new stacks/langs); maybe play with satellite imagery [1] and try some 10m QRP SSB, see what happens; work on homebrew weather charting system using NOAA data

- Thought Process Changes: Do more second- & third-person journaling; engage with specific growth archetypes I identified in 2022

- Art: Work with pencil more, use the eraser more (have always been a pen & ink person); continue developing my system of designing e-cards

("Working On in 2023" seems to overlap with my personal New York Resolutions so I'll stop before I get into the esoteric stuff. Anyway, there was some stuff that excites me. :-))

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NvyEIuoLnc
The article states no long term negative effects have been found, compared to positive short term findings. There’s been a wide range of child-rearing practices across cultures and history, including infanticide. Probably no culture has gotten it exactly right, but this practice is not that far outside the norm as other practices from other cultures.
You shouldn't call people abusive in one breath and then try to say "I'm not judging you" in the next. It isn't credible.
The idea that the US gave smallpox infected blankets to Indians is a myth that was circulating in various 1960s underground subcultures, many of which were collated and published -- without any footnotes or sources -- by Howard Zinn in his "People's History".

Many have tried to trace down some proof of this happening, but no one has been able to do it. Others have tried to figure out where the anti-American underground that Zinn drew from came up with the idea, and the best they could find is a letter from a British military official speculating that this is something the UK should do to the Indians in their North American colony. But there is no evidence this idea was ever implemented, by the UK or anyone else.

Some lefty professor found the letter, concluded it happened, then during the retelling in various anti-american teach-ins and seminars, this changed from British doing it during the colonial era to the US doing it, time shifted to the civil war era in the wild west. But it never happened. It is one of many fabricated events in "People's History", but to be fair, Zinn didn't make it up, he just collected all the various unsourced rumors circulating in the underground at the time and decided to publish them as fact.

> I sure hope you know your history.

Indeed.
And it's not idealist to believe the opposite?
> The disruption was a $30bn charade though. Would these companies have succeeded if they actually had to make any money? I'm actually quite not sure how to deal with the concept of a company that's lost that much money and still doesn't seem to be close to being profitable. I do believe companies and their executives should be punished harshly for acting criminally though.

I don’t think it was a charade. When I say that it was a government-enforced monopoly, I mean this quite literally: there were a limited number of medallions, generally owned by private investors (although they like to pretend they are owned by independent drivers). Uber/Lyft/others have problems, but at least their existence democratized the supply-side. Even if they have failed to make a profit (partly because of aggressive competition to win the market), I don’t think the public as a whole is willing to go back to the monopoly.

When something is disrupted, it doesn’t always mean the disrupters will win or even stick around. Sometimes that’s not the part that matters.
Sounds like Steve Jobs and his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs whom he denied paternity for several years.
No success can compensate for failure in the home.
Left, Center, and Right.
Netgear has been a brand I've avoided for a while. Tons of security issues that should never have happened like hardcoded passwords and IPs, plus they're okay with infesting their products with ads (https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Wi-Fi-5-AC-Router...) and they collect "analytics" like what devices you have connected, your IPs and MAC addresses, etc.
Wait, are you asserting that calling them "conspiracy theory" implies they fit people's predispositions?
I never said we need to burn down government.

That's a very large strawman you just argued.

I'm saying that successful government is limited in nature. And that overgrown government usually not only fails to achieve its goals, it does more harm than were they absent. Look at the past 20 years of military intervention, for example.

> Of course when you do that, you're usually just transferring power from an entity that the public has some limited control over, to an entity that the public has no control over.

This isn't even remotely true. All if not most of our regulatory bodies & bureaucracies are beholden to lobbyists and special interests, so how exactly is that entrenched and unimpeachable corruption more accountable than private interests that are at least subject to competition? Say what you will, but the monopoly power of government is far greater than any private business in my opinion. One has a world-dominating military.
Yes, a big coincidence that the war happened to pause for the length of the game and that nobody questions the correlation of both events. Great respect for Drogba, but these two are not really exclusive events (also, not a competition).
Yes I am aware of what she said. You have yet to provide what that means, clearly no vote took place as they are not in session. So how did the legislature agree, under what law, rule, or mechanism was this agreement reached.

I have yet to see anyone explain that, they just keel quoting the governor which has zero meaning and given I do not trust the governor I have not reason to trust that statement
Makes sense. I forgot about the problem with breastfeeding, since initially we were all in the same room and there was zero sleep, so it didn't matter much. By the time breastfeeding would have been annoying (for waking up), we were already co-sleeping.

Our first 2 weeks were really, really bad, with the first week being at 2 hours in total (that is 2 hours of sleep for 168 hours), after a month and a half she started sleeping with us.

The second one just slept with us from the beginning since knew all the tricks of it and worked really well the first time
looks like there's an impl already: https://github.com/cbschuld/uuid-base58
I've heard of finger and remember finding it cool. The memory might've lived in my subconscious while making this site, but it wasn't something I had in mind while making this site.
After suffering extreme trauma, I have a different view on babies crying. Being heard and responded to is one existentially low level mental need. Touched too.
i have been with friends who let their baby cry it out in the other room while the parents entertained guests. it did feel like emotional abuse.
While I think this is a solid point in general, if someone has installed weights to trick autopilot into thinking they're awake and holding the wheel, they probably know that they're supposed to be awake and holding the wheel.
>You can't say the same about Maradona who will be remembered perhaps more for cheating and dying a fat cokehead than for his ball carrying.

Despite him being a scumbag in many aspects of the personal life, this is way off the mark. He is one of the all time GOATs and his adoration in Argentina borders on the fanatical.
Why aren't you doing it, then?

Oh, right, because it's impossible.
Hypothesis: the parent, by forcing themselves to sleep train, conditions themselves to ignore more of the infant's emotions; and the infant, observing no reaction to their emotions, learns the same behavior, leading to higher incidence of autism.

Typically (aside from some neurological disorders), there is an underlying reason for the infant to be crying. They could be hungry or wanting to urinate or defecate (many cultures begin potty training shortly after birth). This is frequent because their stomachs, intestines, and bladders are small. Figuring out what they want and responding is normal and has a long history of working, not just among humans but among all mammals with dependent young.

It's astonishing that some pop-parenting guide came along and said, "You don't have to figure out what the baby is crying about if they happen to be crying at night or if you are sleepy," and nobody stopped to wonder what night time had to do with it.
Your points strongly align with my views, and “how to pass value” is why I have been so excited by contract-native blockchains.

I can imagine a world where each creative negotiates their public contract associated with a work, then when the work is released anyone in the world can pay/donate anything they want to the wallet in direct recognition and know without question that every creator will get a fair piece of it.

“Piracy” would be the same as the radio (a convenient way to get exposure), and I suspect that people who do the actual work would see much less drama.
> the easiest way to cut down on spam is to charge users money for access

Which realistically means everyone will log off and touch grass instead of pay to interact with other verified humans.
Sometimes it's not about winning or losing.
All-or-nothing thinking aka "Splitting": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
The only reason you read it that way is that is exactly what happened. ;-)
Totally understandable! I didn’t mean that the people who don’t enjoy programming anymore are in some way inferior to others. Just that other projects or professions could offer them more joy.
The “quiet car” on medium-haul passenger rail routes (e.g. Acela in the US.) or a sleeper car on long-haul rail or a first class “private room” on airlines like Emirates.
if you are in a position a crime ring can take over your town, no amount of surveillance will help, it will most likely make the crime ring stronger by giving them access to it, there's a joke here about the government being already the crime ring I guess.
Not the OP and not sleep training, no need for that, but I did manage to poopy-train our cat, meaning he only takes a poo when we are awake. The same goes for when we are eating, he's not taking any poo during those times, either.

Pretty smart cat, if you ask me, he also managed to teach our dog to play certain kind of games between the two of them.
Santos toured Europe many many times, playing the best European teams of that time.
So, using the same method that Musk has been for reporting on hate content since the takeover thaf has it going down, while every external source monitoring Twitter has it going way up.
Plant-based does not imply meatless, vegan, or vegetarian. Many people who eat a mostly plant diet call themselves "plant-based" even if they e.g., eat meat 10–20% of the time, or eat only chicken for instance.

It is its own category: where vegetarian to binary omnivore has become a spectrum. The author's confusion derives from trying to fit a round peg in the existing square holes.

One can eat largely salads and vegetables with occasional meat and still be plant-based.
I prefer UUIDv7 over ULID because of the standardization process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
Ironically this is exactly how cloudflare handles its spam prevention. Have a dynamic IP? Its Russian roulette until cloudflare decides you're dangerous.

My favorite experience was building a website for a client, putting cloudflare in front of it, then discovering cloudflare blocked the IP of our client's office from seeing their own website.
If you ever want to see when some PC product really entered market (not always respecting official release dates, sometimes earlier, sometimes paper launches), what was popular, period correct prices or availability between 1998-2009 this link is for you https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/backnum.html (google translate works great on that link) Japanese nerd/reporter was visiting Akihabara every single week and blogging detailed reports of new products, availability, price lists, hot sellers etc, all including pictures of products/shops.
It's hard to imagine these days, when we have multiple camera angles for even the most mediocre of plays, but most of Pelé's games were never even captured on film.

We have to rely on people's memories, newspaper articles, etc. His favorite ever goal had to be re-created in computer animation.

Such a shame, not having access to that material feels almost like the tragedy of the Library of Alexandria. How things have changed.
I've been looking for this paper for 20+ years. Thank you!
They are considered "experts" by the media, for one thing. So if you read an article on nutrition and some "expert" or other is quoted, and you act on its advice, then you might be in that fraction.
The first act of Fall explicitly takes place in a world polarized into micro-groups because AI chatbots generate so much content that it's impossible to determine what's true. It might even talk about the initial act that started the practice, I forget.
The fact that you are getting enraged is a huge part of the problem. Keep your own morality to yourself and your own family. If you don’t want to use cry it out, then that’s your decision. The fact you project onto others is the problem and it’s none of your business.

Cry it out is effective and works wonders for families and it has no side effects, as mentioned in the article itself.
You're not allowed to drive at twice the speed limit, nor to smoke in enclosed public spaces, and, in certain pandemic situations, you shouldn't be allowed to breathe unobstructedly on strangers. Where's the privacy dimension?!
Really nice to see Verilator mentioned, since I worked with (in fact was recruited by) its primary author for a job a while ago. That is a really under-appreciated piece of open-source software, along with SimH which that company also used. Those were fun times indeed.
One other thing not covered, on any airport chart, the exact alignment of the runway will be noted, usually down a tenth of degree.

So the numbering is a useful backup and discriminator, but the charts have much more detail, and modern navigational and instrument systems on runways obviate much of this for most flights anyways.