skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A properly fitting bicycle that will get you out for exercise and transportation will pay immense dividends. Decent e-bikes are in this range now, and can now realistically replace a car for many people who would not consider themselves ‘cyclists’.

Similarly, a membership to a gym or other kind of physical activity (martial arts, etc.) that you’ll stick with is worth it to anyone who largely sits in front of a computer for work.

Pretty much anyone can also benefit from a few months of therapy. We all have baggage from our childhoods that can be overcome, and all of your personal and professional relationships will prosper as a result.
"Harms 0% non-old and non-weak population" -- completely 100% demonstrably false.

One of my friends older sisters, in her late 20's came down with the flu at night, then in the morning didn't go to school (she was a teacher) b/c she was sick. She went to the hospital that evening and was dead before midnight from inflammation of the heart caused by the Flu.
I really enjoyed this exchange.

- This looks machine generated

- Hi! I'm the person who wrote this by using a machine to generate 'the words' but the important parts are original

- Oops, didn't cite my/its work

Especially in the context of an industry of content creation falling over.

Thank you both!
Is any regulation considered an act of 'war'?

I pay taxes, do you call that a War on Income? If so, when did it start?
Your bafflement is baffling about the wrong question. People who eat vegetarian may on occasion want to eat a meat replacement product for the flavor of it. They would not make it a major component of their diet.

On the other hand, these products can displace meat consumption in diets that consume unnecessary volumes of meat, which will also be generally beneficial due to less resource use.
Next study: water is in fact wet!
I recommend Adam Something on YouTube. He speaks about this and truly autonomous vehicles frequently on his channel. If you go watch a few of his videos, you'll see we already have the technology to remove the distracted driver, and in fact the act of driving from the equation altogether.
But why would they do that?

I understand that in this scenario we trust rsync.net and are afraid of secret warrants. If rsync.net wanted to deceive is, they could do that by... just lying? What incentives do they have to pregenerate these messages?
I understand the preference for keeping the struct tag, but virtually no other language does this, with modern IDEs it's trivial to find out what the definition of a given type is, so the tag seems superfluous to me in practice.
Four-One-One is going out of service for millions of Americans
The obvious solution to all these problems is to not implement them yourself and use a platform like Auth0 or WorkOS.
Yeah I do that a lot. And on macos, vi decides that :Wq is an error and returns a non-zero status code on my subsequent :wq, cancelling my git commit. So I get to type the commit message again.
Gotcha I guess I missed that
It is a matter of where the burden of proof legitimately is, and what evidence you need to bring.

If you think humans were blocked from access to North America, you need a mechanism to have blocked them, and evidence for it. We know that the fossil record is absurdly thin, and get our noses rubbed in it each generation, but seem never to learn better.
Credit card rewards typically represent around 1% of transactions. For a cross-country trip with a $500 flight, 3 night at a $200 hotel, 4 $25 taxi trips and 9 (average) $20 meals that works out to 1% of $1380 or $13.80. In exchange for this modest benefit you will need to keep receipts and do data entry for about 15 items. If you forget a single meal receipt or accounting disputes a single charge, you’re already in the red. It’s not even clear if this reward covers the theoretical cost of extending a loan to your employer (at consumer interest rates), which is what you’re doing.

This only adds up to a substantial benefit if you’re doing major international travel (carefully) or handling big-ticket hardware purchases on your card. Meals and travel is almost certainly a net loss.
I do the same thing without Python. ctrl + shift + t opens previous tabs and windows.
`:<Tab>`? Or do you mean something else?
It was definitely a software problem. Small Perl app would take few tens of MBs max back then (and now).

Also Perl FCGI existed much earlier than 2000 (looking at CPAN ~'96-97 appear to be first versions), althought obviously the code would be bit more complex than just "dump html on stdout"
As a junior systems engineer, I thought touchscreens and iPhone-like animations would be really neat, and give pilots more context, for helicopter GUIs. My senior human factors engineer told me no way. I begrudgingly agreed.

Then I tried riding in a helicopter. Oh my gosh my eyes were opened. Real buttons. No animation. Everything else is vibrating and busy enough already.

Human factors engineers working on airplanes and helicopters have known touchscreens aren’t good for this for decades.
I really just run the same python module as you directly, its the most predictable across platforms.
It protects against mass bots but not individual user agent bots which I think is desirable.
That's true to some extent but has nothing to do with "resume gaps".
Great thread. My setup...

Hardware:
Intel NUC, running Proxmox
Synology DS920, 16 TB - used for storage and file services only. I avoid the Synology installed apps to keep this decoupled.
A pile of custom Wemos devices - sprinkler controller, digital radio to listen to my weatherstation, landscape lighting control, sensors, etc.
Zwave devices - light switches, mail delivery sensor, garage door status
Security Cameras - been happy with the Amcrest ones
Tablet - fixed display of Home Assistant status, using fully kiosk
UPS

I gave up on Pi's after suffering too many SD card corruptions, nice for playing around, but not good for stable deployments in my experience. Didn't want to bother with the usb stick approach as by then I was on a NUC and it's been great.

Apps & Services:
Home Assistant
Mosquitto
Plex
Pi-hole
Unifi
Wiki.js
sftp
VPN Server
Syncthing: primary use case is for syncing Obsidian vaults
Veracrypt: encrypted store of info, keys, credentials, financials, etc.

Hosted services:
$50/yr VPS in Netherlands - 1 TB storage, absurd amount of transfer
Uptime monitoring - healthchecks.io

I follow the reddit selfhosted sub to learn about developments in this area.
Yep. I was really into the TPS a while ago, and autonomation is a concept that stuck with me.
Alcohol: Good or Bad?
Yeah, man or woman doesn't matter. There's a tangible anxiety at the end of the article.
TLDR: gps tracker with backup battery and activated sim card found in sealed car ECU (BTO from china, to save some pennies, in a high-security-custom build car)
>>where only a few companies control an entire industry.

I feel like we are now into the absurd... You know what kills competition. REGULATION.

Every industry where you can cite limited competition I can tell you the regulations that killed that competition.

Unregulated industries have LOTS of innovation and competition. Regulated industries have slow innovation and no competition.

Free market work because of competition, no competition no free market.

>>Car companies have started to move to electric not because Tesla's cars were such a good business model but because governments are moving to ban internal combustion engines somewhere within the next decade;

This is a complete revisionist history, and it is very very very very unlikely any nation will actually ban ICE cars in the next decade.

While I will not deny regulation played some role in the speed of transition, it is unlikely that role would be more than moving the needle more 5 years ahead of where it would have naturally gone anyway.

Electric cars where being made long before the Tesla, Tesla simply timed the market correctly at the same time technology got to the point where an BEV was even possible.

To put 100% of the transition to BEV on government is simply false, and in fact I can make a good case that government accelerating the natural progression is in the long run going to be HARMFUL and may even set back the transition in many ways
Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years
Traditionally, doctors, as men of science, have been given wide latitude to prescribe, since there is no one treatment that is good for everyone. Unfortunately, that seems to be changing, as doctors are expected to adhere to a standard regimen of treatment options. It is the dangers of institutionalization of our healthcare.
Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology
Acknowledging, generation time is a legitimate counter.
Yet they always find a time to wank with some new tech stack instead of just using what worked before just fine...
Sure, I just think it's interesting, and that surely you do need to think about why you're interested in whether an animal 'makes' or uses 'tools' to know where that cut-off should be, otherwise it's a bit arbitrary and self-fulfilling ('only humans and some apes use tools' ... 'where tool is defined as a manufactured object held in the hand'!) isn't it?
Breed differences in cognition and problem-solving ability in the domestic dog
Aw, such a great post. So encouraging.

I'm in the middle of quitting caffeine. I think that the energy boost from a 7am coffee can somewhat help you in the 10am part of a hard interview, but really work against you during the 2pm phase when it is wearing off. Your adrenaline is fading, the coffee is fading, your anxiety is peaking... I think sometimes it puts you in a state where your thinking ability is totally at its lowest but you don't even realize it.

The bad news is, the only way to avoid that trap is to escape your caffeine addiction beforehand, which can take 3 months or more to fully get free of. The good news is, it is wonderful to be free of it!
There are lots of really useful advices on all other comments but there is something I haven't seen mentioned yet. I had those problem when building a SaaS targeted at small to medium business (up to 200M annual revenue).

- Who is going to manage your software inside the business?

In my case we expected that by now almost all of those companies would have internal IT personnel or at least some qualified IT partners but it wasn't based on anything... and it wasn't true, this was a major pain point. We had to create a "sibling" company that handled user training, implementation, integration and many other things because most of our customers couldn't do this themselves. As you might understand customer spend on those services is higher than that on the actual SaaS but with way lower margin, think of Salesforce for example: many SF customers spend way more in partners than on software licences, and many if not most SF customers need a partner to implement SF and cannot do it themselves.

- Which problem are you trying to solve for those companies? Is this problem linked to other stuff?

When you start your project it may seem that it is a perfect fit and solves all the problems you are imagining, but as soon as you start selling you notice that those problems you are solving are just the tip of the iceberg. In a short time you may find yourself with a software that actually only solves 5% of the bigger problem and now there is a 95% of unknowns that must be addressed. Maybe in those unknowns there are other SWs, maybe legacy SWs, and you need to communicate/integrate with them or else your offer doesn't make sense to the customer.

From my anecdotal experience you need to find some initial customers that look like your potential target customer and sell them your idea, maybe having just a simple prototype, and only after you have a few you start building for real keeping those early adopters in the loop. If you're not a seller find a sales co-founder, sales are extremely important when dealing with business.

Please note: I don't know what you are building so those adivices might be totally irrelevant, I hope they can help you anyway :)
Any other current events headline from major news sources.

Closing stock price of multiple stocks.

This week's powerball numbers.

Count of babies born in several hospitals on a specific day.
Yes, I have one terminal window in which I run / use the code. I start it like this:

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/some/where debian:11

Most of the time I don't use plain Debian, but an image based on Debian which I have peppered with some convenience stuff.
The only navigation thing I can do that feels safe while driving is “Hey Siri, take me to XYX.” Any non-verbal way to interact will take your eyes and hands away from driving far too much.
Phantom candidates and ghost newspapers
The latest bitcoin block hash.

The current nytimes headlines.

The most recent close of the largest stock markets.

The last power balls numbers.

Most of those would be valuable in their own right if you had foreknowledge.
That however was not my opening inquiry which was "is there any area of life at all in the EU that should be free from government interference?"
Different flu strains have affected different age groups. For example, the 1918 flu pandemic killed 25-50 million people and disproportionately affected young adults: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
Man, this “guest post” on Gayle Laakmann’s site comes off super weird. What is the takeaway exactly?

It bothers me because it’s designed to resonate with the broadest possible set of SWE interviewing anxieties, but it doesn’t take a stand on what is wrong with the situation or what anyone can do about it. It feels entirely like emotional clickbait, and cheap engagement for someone who literally wrote the book on FAANG interviewing.
Yes, by definition:
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Permutation.html
We used to think that humans were the only animals to use tools, but this was disproven long ago: otters use rocks to break open shellfish, birds use tools to create their nests, etc.

Then, we thought that humans were the only animals to fashion tools, not merely pick up objects from their environment. This was also disproven. Primates sharpen sticks to hunt, bend twigs to get ants out of trees, etc.

Today, we believe humans' unique relationship to tools is recursive: we're the only animal ever observed to use a tool to make a tool.

It's this capacity for self-referential thought that sets us apart from the rest of the creatures on earth.

There's tremendous intelligence in the animal kingdom: Octopuses and crows can solve complex problems, dogs can manipulate humans, dolphins can transmit visual imagines to one another through sound.

But self-referential thought is why a human built this website and other animals could not.
No. Very basic, no context
Nice, i was trying to get into the motives of the "snow is white equals Joseph Stalin" commenter. Not a condemnation of your statement.
OpenBSD was forked from NetBSD which is derived from 4.3BSD-Reno, and like all BSD, ultimately derives from Research UNIX. The original Berkley Software Distributions all referred to themselves as Unix and upon logging in a user would see a "Welcome to BSD Unix" text banner. Linux derives from Minix which, beyond using a BSD userland, is otherwise unsourced from and unrelated to BSD and UNIX. GNU is a recursive acronym that literally means "GNU's Not Unix!"
Speaking as an ex-professional Jazz Musician and someone who loves 20th and 21st C music in the Western "Classical" tradition, I can categorically say that there is hiphop that qualifies as great music.[1] Like all popular genres of music there is plenty of junk though.

As Louis Armstrong said "There's only two kinds of music, good music and bad music... and we play good music".

[1] A few simple examples from artists that HN folks may not be super familiar with to prove my point:

Little Simz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxfGQ2AJHGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8Q2iytzns

Dave (this was live at the UK's version of the Emmys and noone knew he was going to do the verse about then Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the end so it caused a real stir).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLS2IzZSdg
Can't disagree with any of those really. I guess it's really hard to draw out general conclusions about these sort of things when the specifics really make a difference. You can pretty much say "spend your time wisely" which is not very actionable.

For instance on your last point - I've heard that used to argue against any new technology even if it solves real problems. Rust, Bazel, React, Typescript, etc.

I would go so far as to say some of these general principles can be harmful because they are mostly used as a lazy way to defend bad decisions. E.g. "premature optimisation" is more often used to justify ignoring performance entirely than it is to stop people writing things in assembly or whatever.
The tech pioneer behind Sound Blaster has passed away
I think your comment is an example of an important discussion we need to have around what are the consequences to our drug policies, whether they are tough-lovish or harm-reductionist. I can see value in both, in different circumstances.

However, the video you link to is from a notorious far right propaganda outlet. I don't think people will get an honest perspective from TPUSA, who clearly have an axe to grind (and bills to pay, which they accomplish by manufacturing outrage).
We don't even need modern IDEs. ctags solved this problem last century.
Wanted to experiment with neumorphism for a bit! https://rakhyani.com
You can also just press ZZ in normal mode.
That is heartbreaking for sure. I think OP is trying to say or raise the possibility that the alternative could be much worse on a population level scale. I certainly have the same question but no background in this area to know myself.
> There is really no legitimate reason to code C anymore: A C++ compiler is available for any modern development target. Confining yourself to any C subset (with or without ISO C marginalia) amounts to crawling when you can fly.
>
> To be more specific: nothing that can be done using C is unavailable to the C++ coder, but enormous power is available to the C++ coder and wholly unavailable in C.

As a counterargument, sometimes constraints can be valuable in their own right rather than just being requirements for some larger goal. The most prominent example of this in programming design is type checking; enforcing type checking at compile time strictly reduces the number of programs you can express, so dynamic languages can do everything that static languages and more, and yet it turns out that it's still pretty useful specifically because we sometimes want to avoid the programs that a dynamic language would allow but a static language would reject. At the risk of getting too philosophical, imagine framing programming as an exercise in trying to write rules to specify one program out of the set of all possible programs, where each bug you write that changes the semantics moves one step further from your goal. The compiler can act as a "filter" on the set of programs you can potentially select by refusing to process your rules if they would specify one of the forbidden programs, which reduces the chance selecting the wrong program by mistake. In this scenario, the theoretically ideal compiler would be the one that rejects all programs other than the exact one you want! This obviously isn't possible in the general case, but the point here is that as long as compilers don't reject the exact program you want, a compiler that rejects more programs is _more_ useful.

I'm not making any claim about whether it is in fact worth it to code C anymore, but I disagree with the logic that C++ letting you do anything C can do and more is proof that C++ should always be used over C. Maybe C is crawling compared to C++'s flying, but if my goal is to get a pen that falls under my desk, it's a lot more useful for me to not use an airplane to do it.
Tcl: Everything Is a Symbol
Players are on PS5

Wololo

Players on are Xbox
You put quotes around "dangerous opinions" - you're wrong to do that, because I never used that phrase. I said he was dangerously uninformed.

There are times when people can have valid, personal opinions and times when there's just objective reality. Some people these days say that their opinion is that the 2020 election was stolen. That's not a valid opinion - it's just wrong. Saying that hangovers make alcohol self-regulating when >10M people in the US are alcoholics (for whom it is, as a point of fact, untrue that alcohol is a self-regulating substance) is not a valid opinion - it's a misunderstanding of reality.

As someone who knows people who have been very severely negatively affected by alcoholism, I do not enjoy conversations with people who make points about alcohol that are totally uninformed and suggest that we should base policy around those uninformed thoughts.
Same experience here on mobile, where scrolling vertically tends to skip sections.

I had the same issue on a website with scroll-snapping a few months ago and fixed with the following CSS applied to each section:

scroll-snap-stop: always;
"accumulated tolerance and long term damage from drug abuse had blunted their response"

The succinct term for this phenomenon is "chasing the dragon".
There's also a difference between taking your eyes off the road momentarily to look at a simple predictable display in a fixed location, like a light or a needle or a fixed text display, and taking your eyes off the road indefinitely to look at a screen that displays something unpredictable, complex and arbitrary as part of an interactive session, usually with animations.
If you do this half the time you will have forgotten that you have edited the file and won't be able to exit
UV-C light generates ozone