skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valid considerations & so far I definitely agree Confluence struggles with discoverability. We've started using Confluence & hope to make sure we properly utilize "labels" to help mitigate the discoverability shortcomings. Another shortcoming we found for Confluence was the lack of Q&A options (we wanted support for something similar to an internal stack-overflow). So far we've mitigated that issue by leveraging a Q&A Confluence template from this video: https://youtu.be/IkRmyUCnRDo?t=144

Leveraging markdown to enable service agnostic documentation sounds really interesting...
> Why did they decide to use a signed int

To represent dates before 1970-01-01.

Unix time isn’t only used for the present or recent past. For example, you might have a database where people’s dates of birth are stored as Unix timestamps.
> but the FDA also compels them to say effectively "not that there is anything wrong with rBST".

Source?

Edit, found this. Wonder why this reasoning is not used for false implications in all the other labeling for supplements, vitamins, herbal, and organic food.

Even for milk, there is “A2” milk sold next to regular milk implying that A2 is somehow more nutritious, but it is not required to say “A1 milk has not been shown to be any worse than A2”.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1994-02-10/html/94-32...

> Because of the presence of natural bST in milk, no milk is
``bST-free,'' and a ``bST-free'' labeling statement would be false.
Also, FDA is concerned that the term ``rbST free'' may imply a
compositional difference between milk from treated and untreated
cows rather than a difference in the way the milk is produced.
Instead, the concept would better be formulated as ``from cows not
treated with rbST'' or in other similar ways. However, even such a
statement, which asserts that rbST has not been used in the
production of the subject milk, has the potential to be
misunderstood by consumers. Without proper context, such statements
could be misleading. Such unqualified statements may imply that milk
from untreated cows is safer or of higher quality than milk from
treated cows. Such an implication would be false and misleading.

>FDA believes such misleading implications could best be avoided
by the use of accompanying information that puts the statement in a
proper context. Proper context could be achieved in a number of
different ways. For example, accompanying the statement ``from cows
not treated with rbST'' with the statement that ``No significant
difference has been shown between milk derived from rbST-treated and
non-rbST-treated cows'' would put the claim in proper context.
Proper context could also be achieved by conveying the firm's
reasons (other than safety or quality) for choosing not to use milk
from cows treated with rbST, as long as the label is truthful and
nonmisleading.
The orignal statement was actually "antibiotic resistance issues we are facing due to dishing out antibiotics left and right", which is pretty clearly not "use of vaccines will contribute to antibiotic resistance".
The implication was that they should intentionally destroy the key and falsely claim it was an accident. That is bad faith, and asking for trouble.
So the only way to make this truly "free" is for Alex to publish his work then take his own life? That seems a bit grim and too big of an ask. I'm sure this isn't what Breck wants.
Welp: they finally did a randomized controlled study to prove what people have known for a very long time. Just google "gardening and mental health" to see that.
Normal mode in vim does not have the meaning normal people associate with a normal text editor.
> In the early 90's we thought the net would change the world, but what actually happened is the world changed the net.

To me it seems to be a bit of both?

BTW having read a bit of your other comments, I find your analyses both insightful and introspective.

You seem to be from the EU and to have worked in tech during the 1990s.

Have you lived in the US too? Can you tell me more about how you saw things change in the US and the EU from then to know?

I have some weird interest in old tech: hardware like Thinkpads, software like Perl... but the culture is also very foreign and interesting.

I just watched a documentary about "Dinosaurs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series) and it seems so modern yet quaint?

I want to know more from the viewpoint of someone who lived in that era!
The edit chains might be the rub of the downvotes, Shameless.
I also have a funny related thing to Tell HN:

`git --amend` -> `:wq` is shorter and faster to type than

`git --amend --no-edit`
Ctrl+Z sends a signal to the process which is purely advisory. The process can do anything or nothing. Vim's extensive and unreadable signal handling logic can be gazed upon at: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/src/os_unix.c
>>>> antibiotic resistance issues we are facing due to dishing out antibiotics left and right

>>> Vaccines and antibiotics are two completely different things. One is preventative, other is for acute care of a bacterial infection.

>> this difference [preventative vs acute care] has nothing to do with antimicrobial resistance

> When did they make such a claim?

Right there in the parent comment. Ctrl-F might help?
I remember making fun of that 4-5 years ago in a film photohgraphy forum. We were viewed as hipsters for still using film and predicted people would sooner or later find out about these old CCD pieces of crap and start a new cycle

Hardcore consumerism and the fast cycles it brought us in the last 40 years is making us speedrun nostalgia. I also think some people would do anything to appear out of the norm
Yeah, there’s no reason we need all our beer made in the massive piss factories of Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Even if local beer X and the local beer Y from 50 miles away are basically the same from different breweries- why not?
>> All flu have big risks

Reference?
For a funny / not funny example, see the attempts to ban analogs of illegal drugs. The whole research chemical thing is a result of the need to legislate exactly what’s illegal.
Vitamin C breaks down when you cook food. https://www.health.com/diets/james-blunt-scurvy
"Confronted with the question "what is red?", most people just shrug and get on with their lives."

They would most likely point to something red and say "this is red" "and this is red, but more orange". They don't want to say "this is #ff0000".

And asked what is a women, they would point to some human with characteristic female charaters and say "she is a woman", "and this person probably" "and this is likely a man". Very concrete and refering to the biological terms.

And yes, that can be wrong on first look. And oh my, having long hair I also have been misstaken for a women some times and told, that I seem androgyn. So what? I know that I am biological a men and yes, I have a female side, maybe stronger than in stereotype man. That doesn't mean, I feel justified to go to a women only sauna and start a drama, because I feel more female that day.

"if he stops lobbing bricks at my head"

But is he really throwing something against you? Is he insulting you directly, or do you feel insulted by his opinion?

What would matter to me in this concrete example: does he only accept pull requests from trans people, if they use their old name for example and insist on using "she" only for biological females?
That would be over the line for me. Otherwise I could look over it.
Succinct Data Structures and Delta Encoding for Modern Databases
While this is an interesting deep dive into Boss pedals, anyone interested in pedals hasn't been looking to Boss for innovation for decades.

Programmable DSPs have led to the rise of innovators such as Chase Bliss, Meris, Hologram Electronics, Fairfield Circuitry and Empress releasing tools in a pedal form-factor that are northern Thai street food compared to Boss' Whopper Junior.

If you're interested, I recommend Knobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_BLyPxShG4
Yes, exactly, I use my left piano pedal, which has no use for me most of the time otherwise.
You are dangerously misinformed.

https://www.health.com/diets/james-blunt-scurvy
> IIRC WebKit has its own bug tracker, hence why you get better response times. Radar itself is still a terrible and demoralizing experience (from a developer point-of-view)

The funny thing though is that Apple still sends WebKit bugs into Radar to work on them:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232939#c6
I still use FCGI. FCGI works a lot like CGI; it loads programs when a request comes in, and the programs deal with the request. But it's much higher performance, because it doesn't have to freshly load the target program each time.

FCGI is an orchestration system. It starts up more worker processes if there are more requests, up to some limit it figures out by itself. If there are few requests, some of the worker processes get an end of file notification and exit. If a worker process crashes, it loads a fresh copy. Little or no human attention required. One of my systems has been up for 1788 days now.

FCGI works fine with Go programs, Python programs, etc. If you use Go, you can get performance reasonably close to what the hardware can do. Until you get to the point that you're renting additional servers as load increases, you don't need more than that for most applications.

You can run FCGI on some cheap shared hosting systems. Why pay more?
Ableton has an actual looper plug-in it comes with that works just like a pedal, in addition to Session View, which is looping on steroids and one of the key features of it.

I'm just somebody who has used it a lot, not associated to Ableton in any way.

Another popular DAW for loop-based recording is FL Studio (a little less expensive than Ableton with lifetime free updates and plenty powerful). Also a longtime user of FL.
"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"

For me it's that Apache is the best web and proxy server, Java is the best programming language and platform, Eclipse is the best IDE and never use anything made formerly or currently by Russians including nginx and JetBrains' stuff.
it seems almost impossible not to consume some kind of carcinogen, no matter how careful you are.
Separate your engineering brain from the other aspects of what you are trying to do.

If you are doing UI/UX worry only about what it should look like to be maximally pleasant to use, worry about how later.

If you are doing marketing/sales, worry only about what sells and what gets traction, not about what you want to or think you should be building.

It took me a long time to figure out I was sabotaging myself by thinking about implementation while making other decisions.

Being a dev is just a tool in your toolbox but you aren’t really a software engineer anymore so behave as such.
Things did get diverted on a maps drove tangent but that usually on our pose to enable the same argument you're making now.

The argument started by asking why windshield wipers, environment controls or basic radio functions need to be buried in a touch screen.

Also most vehicles limit what's allowed in navigation screens while the vehicle is moving. Which is annoying when it prevents a passenger get from using it but sensible when there is a single driver.
Well I do have a degree in physics. That helps :)
HFT folks have found shortwave and are now experimenting on it. There are some FCC authorisations for experimental work by HFT folks.
Sadly they are notoriously secretive.
I was struck by the negativity and fatalism of these comments, because in my memory we've discussed warrant canaries, and rsync's in particular, on HN many times over the years.

In my memory the comments used to be more positive about both the effectiveness of canaries and about the sheer cleverness, ingenuity and spirit of fighting back against tyranny.

I wondered what happened to the HN hive mind over the years, has it become more deferential to the authoritarian state, more accepting of the erosion of essential freedoms in exchange for ostensible safety, more dismissive of clever hacks?

But then I read a thread from 13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702247

While there's a noticeable positive sentiment, many of the skeptical comments of today could have been copied verbatim from July, 2009.

So perhaps my memory is faulty.
Thanks orta for the links!

On not having to ask permission.

We failed early. Had a wonderful demo day. Tons of sign ups. It started getting a bit long. Someone decided to shorten each session (max 2 minutes) and choose which ones were worth demoing. So you basically asked for permission to demo. Sign ups stopped. Nobody wanted to demo anymore. Demo day died and took a year to restart properly.

In general, establish “how”. Everything is in writing and GitHub workflow. When someone says “can I?” the answer is “why are you asking and haven’t done it (submit PR) yet”? This moves permission to a public discussion.

Think in terms of must have, should have, nice to have, not allow/disallow.

Managers already have the power to veto, so they don’t need to approve, allow or disallow. Managers need to say that to everyone all the time - “you have an idea, why haven’t you done it yet?”.

Everyone needs to do things very visibly and over communicate to enable gentle redirects and avoiding getting to veto.

Losing control is hard. Communications team wanted to review and control the engineering blog. I said hard no multiple times with every new comms leader. Asked them to comment on PRs.

Don’t fix problems that don’t exist. If someone wants a knob that looks like permission, ask them what problem they are trying to solve.
I prefer reducing complexity instead of hiding it in language cleverness. (Because hiding complexity doesn't make it go away). Try adopting ZII (Zero is initialization) and context managers (pooling, chunking, freeing in batches etc.), this can reduce the amount of boilerplate to a minimum. Writing generic code like that (down to the binary level) also helps improving many other metrics like executable size etc.
This is absolutely the worse idea possible. I would never base my business on a technology that’s not widely used.
And the flu shot is considered good if it's 30% effective. From my personal experience this year, it has to be less than 10% effective this year - I know many people who I know had the flu vaccine get a flu-like virus this year.

Let's not pretend a flu shot stops the flu. It might. Or it might cause problems. Or, in most cases, it does nothing for better or worse.
That site doesn't generally have sufficient recent data, it's essentially saying device fingerprint is rare compared with data from older software versions.
Somehow kde manages to largely avoid that problem. It strikes me as trying to solve technical problems socially, almost as bad as trying to solve social problems technologically.
Yeah, you can categorize tons of political behavior as driven by norms or self-interest. Those are fundamentals, not particularly more left or more right.
> This makes it unusable for normal users.

Once upon a time have flashed OpenWrt as normal user, nothing extraordinary.
Ask HN: Do you use a standup desk, and if so, how?
I switched to a standup desk two weeks ago (found a motorized one on sale at Costco with one-touch presets), but finding it harder than I expected to switch to standing. I switched because sitting all day is supposed to be bad for your health, and because I struggle with keeping good posture while sitting, but now I'm finding my lower back hurting and also my hamstrings. Now I'm guessing the hamstrings may be temporary as I get used to being on my feet all day instead of sitting down, but less sure about the lower back. (I'm in my 50s, in good health, good BMI, reasonably good physical shape).

I was wondering how many of you use a standup desk and if so, how do you use it (i.e., full-time, alternate stand/sit every hour, etc.), and any tips or things you learned to make it better.

I did get a rocker pad to stand on (nothing fancy, but has a soft rubber cover with lugs) helps me move around and shift positions. I've had it about a week now.

One thing I'm having a hard time is finding the right position for my "mouse" arm (right arm); I feel pulling in my arm, even though I have the desk at the right height for my keyboard (elbows at about 100 deg).

Is it just a matter of getting used to it? Should I alternate sitting/standing? Any tips for the mouse (other than use keyboard shortcuts more?)
Well that sucks to hear! I'd be really interested in knowing what device you're on, and whether or not you have things like battery saving on.

I really can't envision a future where every single article would be made in a tool like Instorier - plain text is enough for most things, and I hate it myself when pages scroll-hog. Some experiences may have something to gain from being able to synchronize scroll with e.g. drawing a journey taken on a map, or being able to highlight and zoom in on statues or buildings as a story is told.
Hey, I'm the developer, I noticed some activity on GitHub so I wanted to find out where it was coming from, the interpreter itself is for learning, I haven't added the quick instructions as they weren't really useful speed wise, but I'll add them anyway just for allowing the syntax, if anyone finds issues, let me know on GitHub, the app is still in beta
they probably hate your granma in particular.
50% of everyone older than 6 months is a lot. Here in Argentina the flu vaccine is only recommended for:

* Children between 6 months and 2 years

* People with more than 65 yea old

* Pregnant women

* Special cases, like other chronic illness

It's free for these groups. Other people can get it too paying a small fee.
Burying stuff is a decent option is there's something you want kept safe for decades, but if you want regular access to the stash, it's completely infeasible.
the boss rc series kills. if you're a beginner, i'd recommend the rc-1. it's very basic, but this is a good thing at first. you'll want to get yourself to the point where you can click it on and off in time with the music, making a multi-bar sequence that stays in time without any quantization. don't even worry about midi to begin with, just sync yourself up with your own playing. looping seamlessly is its own musical skill.

once you get to be more of a wizard, you'll want things like backwards playback and multitrack looping and midi sync. you could progress toward more advanced boss pedals, or start looking at things like the electroharmonix 95000 (i have one, i bought it because i saw a video of reggie watts using one)

it's always gonna be a tradeoff between simplicity and complexity, and honestly more complex isn't always better. i find myself reaching for the rc-1 way more than the ehx95000 because it's so simple. just experiment, figure out how YOU like to loop. there's no right or wrong way. the gear should make you want to keep playing. if it doesn't, trade it in for something else. don't burn too much time deciding.
One can do lots of things with RAII. I once wrote some classes to generate xml. I used constructors to write opening tags and destructors to write the corresponding closing tags....
Isn't it great how corporations can flood our food and water with poison and then brag to us about how they're doing it?
Interview with Jan Nieuwenhuizen on Bootstrappable Builds, GNU Mes and GNU Guix
Some context: in 2017, I found by informal testing that I could run (just on a dev laptop) about about 180 lua no-op programs per second, 140 perl5, 35 py2, 30 py3, 15 node, 12 ruby; /usr/bin/true, as a benchmark, a bit over 500 Hz.

Doesn't necessarily extrapolate back another 20 years, but perhaps sheds some light on how "slow" CGI would've been.
No need to test, it's documented: https://neovim.io/doc/user/editing.html#ZZ
I don't know why you think this is the case, but I haven't read any analysis of canary legality that pivots on ex-post-facto laws. As I understand it, the question comes down to: a court order requiring a company to maintain its warrant canary will amount to compelled false speech (compelled speech happens already, compelled false speech is unique to this situation) and will as such be subject to the strict scrutiny standard. The case against warrant canaries: the gag order itself is already subject to strict scrutiny, and people who post warrant canaries have gone out of their way to put themselves in a situation where they will need to make false statements. The case for canaries: compelled false statements are more intrusive than a gag order and will receive, somehow, more scrutiny.

It's not simple and it isn't resolved in law.
> Most vegetarians are such for ethical reasons, knowing it's harder to get adequate nutrition, and planning accordingly.

Getting adequate nutrition as a vegetarian isn’t difficult at all. Pick a random grain, a random legume, and a random vegetable, maybe throw in a salad, and you’ll average out to everything you need nutritionally.

It’s only a problem when you try to transform vegetables into non-vegetables. There’s nothing natural about eating massive amounts of a single part of any fruit or vegetable.

The same logic applies to explain why most juice is bad for you. It’s simply not evolutionarily sound to consume just the liquid portion of an entire bag of oranges or apples.

It applies to meat as well. A diet of only pork rinds isn’t going to work too well.
NYC mesh is on the same continent and Rhizomatica down south.
> I haven't added the quick instructions as they weren't really useful speed wise

they are THE FASTEST way to clear a full 32 bit reg, for example, by far.
You can turn on lockdown mode on MacOS Ventura and it basically disables active compiler JavaScript for all sites - you can turn it back on site-by-site but it’s interesting to see what keeps working.

Benchmark scores go to ass but much of JavaScript I’m actually used is just fine.
Not lost at all. Acoustic music is alive and well. An interesting thing about the arts is that nothing ever become obsolete. Instead, the new just moves in next door to the old, and both coexist.

Whether you prefer electronic or acoustic just comes down to personal preference. I still play alcohol powered instruments (double bass, cello), and ride an acoustic bicycle, though my friends badger me about when I'll switch to electric.
That is the upside. You don't need to know how far down it happened. If you need to know more, you catch it lower. But most often you don't. Whatever the hell it was didn't work, and you do whatever is called for, then.
I developed a need recently to gather some answers to a few simple questions from people all around the internet. Maybe a few hundred at most.

I don't want to make a Google survey or a Doodle or any of that. It's not for me, not off the clock anyway.

I built a simple HTML form to start with. Just typed it out like it was 1997 again (and then added a little Javascript so it remembers that you've submitted the form to soft-block people from submitting more than once; and some CSS to make it look a little nicer and work on phones and such).

Then I thought I had to build a small backend with a database... I'd originally planned to do a simple CGI thing that stuck the form in SQLite or whatever, but then, when I was doing the frontend, I saw that the web server that I use to serve the file actually puts the entire query string in the access log on disk.

So that's it. That's the backend. I can just grep the log file when I want the answers.
You can’t not post-process a photo, because you can’t use/view the RAW file captured by the sensor, or better, only the company who build the RAW/DAC conversion can issue the “codec” to open the RAW file.

The issue is “how many interpolations/adjustments are these companies making when converting the RAW to an image file?” Too much according to the article.
That's an issue of labelling regulation which applies to every product. And, I've never seen such a label.
Looks great, will be recommending this in the futuse!