skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A big issue with public transportation is other people. You don't have the criminally minded youth in your personal car, you don't have a homeless guy in your car, you don't have a mother on her phone while her children are crying at full volume while you're in your car.

I live in Tokyo, where everyone uses subways. None of these things are a problem here.

>it's often not because new tunnels are incredibly expensive and it's hard to fit new train lines into existing cities)

It's not hard to fit new train lines: you just build more tunnels. Even America has done this before: the DC Metro system was built mostly in the 1970s. Building new train lines is merely a matter of political will.
This is a feel good leftist political scheme to make people feel better while the 99% problem lingers. The problem ain't plastic based plates and cutlery
What are Runbooks? And why are they needed?
I could totally see there being a mass movement to add robot.txt to opt everyone out of being indexed.

Then a movement to defederate anyone who allows indexing.

Then hopefully a move to allow-list federation which I personally have suggested for a while now as the only sensible move if they really want some privacy.
Of course it will hit the poor the hardest. The system is rigged that way. Not just in the US but most of Europe as well.

The rich are always looking after themselves and they need the middle class to vote for them and pay for their wares so they're not going to be the worst off either.
My mother had some type of stomach cancer and got her stomach removed, and then she had chemo. She received a fairly modern drug (Rituximab), and I think this is probably what saved her life. This was 10 years ago, and she is doing fine right now, without any signs of remission.

In your case, the doctors will prescribe the best course of action. The chemo drugs are different, but you can expect 2 things: chemo will be rough, and her immune system will be weak.

One thing you should consider to prepare for the weakened immune system is vaccination. I for one am very pro-vaxx, but you should do your research. If I were in this position, I'd advise my Mom to get the latest Covid booster, and the flu shot. I'd look into pneumonia and shingles vaccines too.

My Mom got a herpes infection when she was doing chemo. That's not fun. Later on, she got shingles. This was years after the chemo, but it took maybe half a year to clear out. Things that are easy on a healthy person can become major nuisances for someone with chemo.
Where I live we have "American breakfast." It's fried rice with ketchup in it, some little hotdogs and a fried egg. Cursed.
This would be so good.

DHTML is the greatest hack in all history.

It's almost unbelievable that we're using such a kludge for almost all user-facing application development today.
100% agree, however one of the biggest hurdles to overcome when playing David against these giants is legislation and regulation.

Incumbents have put up walls, dug moats and set traps to most insidiously tax, blunt or completely remove pebbles and slings from your arsenal.
If you’re in a public space (and not the legal definition of public [...] you have no legal expectation of privacy. Period. End of story.

Wrong (as so often with people who assert things like 'period. end of story.')

*photography is permitted in public spaces, you don't have a right to not be photographed in public. but in many jurisdictions, including California, recording other people's conversations requires consent from all participants in the conversation. Doing so covertly is treated as equivalent to wiretapping and is a crime, as well as exposing you to civil liability.

Laws on this vary by state. Here's a brief explainer on California's laws, with reference to relevant statutes and court cases: https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law
Tautologically true.
The "And just like that" strongly hints that the change is "at the stroke of a pen" and not something real.
Here's the opening of one demonstrating that artwork (Safe for work): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-S58v9AgpQ

Yes this cool looking cyberpunk looking game was an adult game.

Here's an overview video that I watched at one point that shows a bunch of examples of such games and talks about the history of the platform (note some images and language are a lot less safe for work): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpX2y6KjwA
Concrete alone accounts for 5-8% of global emmissions (solid enough range, not a tighter figure due to systemic reporting issues).

[1] https://bze.org.au/research_release/rethinking-cement/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concre...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02612-5
The linked post is not a comprehensive manual of LaTeX but just a collection of typesetting tips that the author found interesting.

TeX is at heart a system for setting, breaking and laying out boxes. Each character (e.g. 'T' from font Helvetica, say) is a box, a paragraph is a sequence of these boxes (with "glue" for the words), which is broken into lines (each line is a hbox), which are assembled into paragraphs and pages (vboxes).

It is a remarkable evolution in patterns of computer usage (since the 1970s/early 1980s when TeX was written) that people today expect to use programs without even skimming the manual (e.g. this is covered on page 27–28 of The TeXbook). Using TeX without caring about boxes and glue is missing the point, I think. (Surely there are alternative simpler programs if one doesn't want to be bothered about the finer points of typesetting.)

Anyway, see e.g.

• https://texfaq.org/FAQ-overfull

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35/what-does-overful...

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/138/what-are-underfu...
Probably more like the floppy disk imagers we use today in preservation, that preserve far more information than the nominal disk size. (This is particularly important because the golden age of floppy-based copy protection used all manner of weird tricks, so the analog state of the media is important - not just the "official" binary data.)
He immigrated in '71, invention was "late 70s".
>but my point is: one needs enough flatness to make cycling attractive.

No, you don't. You just need a bike with these things called "gears" and "derailleurs", things the Dutch don't seem to believe in. You can also get an e-bike which makes going uphill no more difficult than riding on flat terrain.
Yes but you can make a lifestyle blog of your athletic pursuit. It doesn't matter if other people are better than you at the sport, what matters is that you are better looking while doing it.

You think 99.99% of yoga blogs are by people that are the "best" at yoga? You think a transcendent yoga master would care about peddling Lululemon tights to the masses?

Don't forget the plastic surgery, filters, plastic surgery, toxic positivity daily affirmations, plastic surgery, and EPO/Steroids as appropriate to your sport. And plastic surgery.
I don't think korean banks run safetynet. They roll their own checks with varying levels of strictness. Most of them were fooled by Magisk Hide, but not all.
Matrix games, as they have become popular in institutional settings, are tabletop simulations where interactions are adjudicated by expert referees. The documentation for a matrix game may be no more than a few pages of backstory, as the operation of the simulation will rely on the experience of the referees.

Tabletop RPGs are (traditionally) built on elaborate systems of rules for managing character traits and interactions. The rule set will strongly influence the structure of the game narrative and your perception of options. Converting settings and scenarios to another system can be a major change. D&D prevails in the market due to the huge inertia, despite the existence of many attractive alternative systems.
Microsoft pointed abc.microsoft.com to GitHub pages through dns. That GitHub repo name was deleted; & eventually available back for anybody to get it. New user gets that repo name. Now new user publishes his content on that repo. Now if you type abc.microsoft.com you will see new user's content.
IIRC (it's been years), a highly-conformant Perl5/Perl6/python/javascript regex engine core in SWI Prolog was concise and performant. Like "wow, it just one short file" concise. And "KISS competitive-with-little-optimization" performant. Modulo memory halo. IIRC, far more effort went into bootstrapping grammars and creating testing infrastructure. It helped warped my perspective on how concise and pretty compiler guts could/should be.
Outsourcing your auth suuuuuucks. It is such a pita when like the most critical service to uptime lives outside your control and so painful to switch.

Don’t write your own, but also own it, and completely abstract it. Don’t let anything but a single file in a single shared library or service know anything at all about the underlying implementation.
which is both a triumph and a tragedy
I guess it depends a lot on where you are. My real estate tax bill has separate rates and line items for town, school district, county, and state. Some places have separate assessments on each district within a municipality. Some cities have their own sales and/or income tax. And then there can be local use fees, vehicle registration, and all sorts of other state/local taxes.
And it's entirely unclear what any of these non-view-source minimal-user-agency alternatives has that's actually improved over what the web can do. There's no contentions about what about these alternatives would be an improvement, or to whom it would be an improvement.

Most of these architectures could probably be recreated on the web, if we cared to, if we thought they provided sufficient advantage. Projects like swf2js are surprisingly competent at playing Flash. But it's... just not a better medium, for users, for extension builders, or for developers. It did have some good tooling for creatives at least, but there are plenty of really good modern web tools with similar capabilities, they're just not as popular, not as important anymore, I'd argue because Flash was actually a pretty crude & raw interface builder that lacked much of the refinement, navigability, control, & capabilities we now take for granted.
I thought this was a pretty good essay.

Schopenhauer thought his pessimistic philosophy was similar to Buddhism. Negation of desire or denial of self is a tricky thing. You can see the issue here with this table (from the article): https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...

It's not clear that someone who doesn't "grasp" would want to have sex...or to eat. That's the conclusion that Schopenhauer comes to: someone who is enlightened would just chill without being attached to anything (think Meursault not crying at his mother's funeral). Though it may avoid suffering, that state doesn't seem worth pursuing. Maybe temporarily.

Buddhists respond to that critique by making some distinction between "bad desire" and "good desire" (implicit in the table). But the line is unclear and the insightful kernel of Buddhist teaching is that desire, full stop, is what leads to suffering. Besides, Buddhist monks are ascetics, not programmers who dabble in meditation.

Buddhism makes a lot more sense as a cultural practice where you have the monks who are practicitions and the lay-people who give them alms. The idea, then, isn't that everyone pursue enlightenment. It's enough that some people are pursuing it and the general population supports them.
Ask HN: Has Musk Influenced Your Decision to Buy a Tesla?
For those in the market for an EV, how much or how little has Elon Musk’s non-Tesla activities influenced your buying decision?
From this HN comment from 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754

I use:

git init --bare $HOME/.myconf

alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME'

config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal

commands like:

config status

config add .vimrc

config commit -m "Add vimrc"

config add .config/redshift.conf

config commit -m "Add redshift config"

config push

And so one…

No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation.
And this shows the fundamental problem: it's the people themselves, the voting public, who in car-centric places oppose any attempts at making the place less car-centric. Then they whine about how it's infeasible to be less car-centric. Yes, that's true: it's because they, themselves, have opposed such efforts!
Against Access
Looks interesting, but when did we start saying "synching" instead of "syncing"? I mean, its literally based on the idea behind rsync.

Why the sudden need to add an "h"?
Ha! That is a funny one. We call those miniature _frankfurters_ Wiener/Vienna Sausages --man, I hope people in Vienna don't even know what those things are.
Fuchsia is be incredibly interesting for this reason.
A Check-In Agent’s Mistake Made Me Miss an Antarctic Cruise and I’m Out $17,000
You can disable password authentication as well.
In Seoul's subway stations, elevators usually take forever to close, like long enough to make you think "Geez if I just walked I would be on the other floor by now!"

And that's exactly the reason, i.e., to shoo away those with a good pair of legs, because otherwise people who do need elevators might end up waiting forever.
While I agree with the problems, some were not covered, the proposed solution is not for most. Nix and sqlite are not a must...

We use packer+Ansible to bake a dev image, then let devs setup a VM as needed with a script and very minimal instructions. The same Ansible is run via cron to update
I think the two main problems here are:

- Users can't use it to learn, because ChatGPT responds with high confidence but could be terribly wrong.

- Even if it could learn from users, it would really only learn from people that know a subject and are willing to spend their time correcting ChatGPT.
Did you consider making this a poll?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
I am sitting in a farming village in central EU and I have 900mbps fiber, as of last year.

My family lives in old South Seattle neighborhoods and has excellent fiber.

I had something like 100mpbs co-axial 21 years ago in West Seattle.

What is the problem with San Jose?
> In a field that includes X Windows, you might want to reconsider "worst design imaginable".

You can implement a XServer in only a few MiB, that runs on a potato (as seen form today). Compare that to current web browser.

> Yes, the web has grown complex beyond all reason and if you want to make a real state-of-the-art web app today you'll have to use an absurdly deep stack of tools. It's probably time to rethink things.

It's long over due. We should get lost of all this "layers of madness".

> No other system would have even been _able_ to evolve like HTML + JavaScript has done.

How can you know that?

The problem is only, the market takes always the cheapest solution that barely works. And you can't compete with "free" (like in beer).
I think so. A lot of people are developing their business this way now. In addition, many people buy subscribers to increase the attractiveness of their profile. What do you think about that?
While it's not necessarily feeling great, it's called public for a reason. If anything it should be an incentive to add a passphrase to one's keys.
Something to consider generally about 90's game production is the interplay between the in-game assets, the cutscenes and the production models that were evolving at the time.

The software itself is a factor in this - and there was hardware, too, a lot of Silicon Graphics workstations were used in the mid-90's - but the device constraints at play dictated the idea of pre-rendering 3D assets for games like the Diablos and Resident Evils, which in turn made it easier to consider reusing them for FMV. That in turn produced the "parallel pipelines" mentioned in omershapira's comment whenever the engine was actually capable of 3D: often games were pitched to publishers by producing a cutscene trailer, and then the development team figured out what the engine tech could actually do as they went along. Because the in-game assets were still very basic and produced relatively cheaply given a design spec, this served a combination of development and marketing goals. Lara Croft got on all the magazine covers because of the high-poly CGI, not her in-game version.

(Why would publishers focus on assets? In this period, acquisition was extremely common as the industry got bigger and financing new projects got more risky, and so publishers gravitated towards a practice of shopping around for IP development and staffing at a low price. What they were banking on was not getting just one hit or a powerful engine, but a franchise that would sell well for years and experienced developers that they could put on their own projects. Likewise, studios were hungry to get publisher support and their heads often settled for an acquisition rather than shutting down. Focusing on asset production was a way of meeting in the middle, since the tech was so often an unknown; if you acquired a team that could make good assets, then plugged them in with an in-house tech team, a product could be made.)
How do we join Urbit? What can we expect
If someone unilaterally sticks a camera in my face and forces their company on me, I feel no obligation to passively refrain from judging those actions. They initiated the situation, so they've waived their right to be be left alone.
Not really. I didn't have much intention of buying a $30,000+ vehicle with touchscreen controls then, and I still feel the same. That being said, the Twitter debacle didn't really move the needle in either direction for me (maybe because I don't use Twitter?)

It certainly didn't get me to part ways with my Starlink, though. There's quite literally no other service with comparable up/down speeds for me and many others.
Someone should build a chatgpt type of tool that resolves merge commits. It should be able to read commit messages, and both parent trees, and just merge both cleanly. Train it on github. Just credit me on your website ;)
The CCP accomplished their goal without sending him to a camp or killing him: they demonstrated that even a billionaire isn’t above the party, exiling him [1], marginalizing his influence in Ant [2], preventing its IPO [3], etc.

It was sending a message (“know your place”), perhaps not fully intertwined with “common prosperity” [4], but sharing some notes.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/29/alibaba-fou...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/ant-group-says-jack-ma-reli...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/technology/ant-group-says-no-plan-ip...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_prosperity
As fabiancook mentions, credible sources all end up on pubmed within a year or two of publication, so it's an excellent resource.

That said, Pubmed is an aggregator, not a curator. So you'll find a fair amount of crap there too. Also, there are ~600 results per year related to ovarian cancer, which is likely too much to meaningfully sift through.

The things that come to mind for me are:

- Try to get second, third, fourth opinions from well regarded oncologists at well regarded hospitals, ideally who specialize in ovarian cancer. There is a pretty big gap, especially in cancer treatment, between those who keep up with the latest recommendations, and those who use "still ok" recommendations from 5-10-20-30 years ago

- ASCO is the major scientific conference for oncologists. In terms of understanding what is cutting edge, looking through their material is useful. I would suggest reading what has been presented at ASCO and then taking that to your doctors / second opinions.

- If there are specific biomarkers associated with her cancer, understand those, and make sure you understand if there are latest recommendations specific to those biomarkers. These are the types of specific case information that a generalist oncologist might miss (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7998656/)

- Another place you might be able to complement / compensate your oncologist's care is understanding options for "cancer support" (chemotherapy support as fabian says). Basically, the faster you can recover between treatment sessions, the more drug you can be given faster, and the more cancer gets killed. Oncologists are often (but not always) more up to date with the latest chemo/immuno/surgery/radiological interventions than with the options for chemo support.
Is it legal to use a hypothetical device to point a low powered laser at those cameras to wash out the images? I don't think so, but I'm curious as to what laws this would break.
They don't usually have any of the music I listen to, so I don't even bother looking at the offers. I don't use the services, and can't imagine enjoying it if I tried. For that matter, I tend to follow the managing companies of music that I like online, so I know when an album I want is coming out, and then get it that way.

I got burned by Apple deleting even my own personal recordings a decade or so ago, so I simply do not trust such "services" anymore.
What you need is a DAG (directed acyclic graph), a tree is not sufficient, and allowing cycles would be messy.

DAGs are also the fundamental structure of git commits, and this is what you will see if you do "git log --graph" as well as in most graphical tools.

The advantage of letting a user do the layout manually is that he can reorganize nodes the way he wants, for example grouping together subgraphs that are functionally related. It doesn't exclude an auto-layout option if the user doesn't want to micromanage his graph.
And it includes a ui to make stacked diff reviews better. If only github lands played better I would be done.

I’m looking forward to the planned server and sparse options being brought inline with what the internal tools were.
Men's Interest in Sex Linked to Risk of Early Death, Japanese Study Finds
Even Flash was much more sane for application development than HTML / JS.

But as always, the cheapest "solution" won.
That's the tradeoff I was referring to.

Whether or not removing several intermediary layers of abstraction, and the commensurate 100x (?) boost in efficiency, between users tweeting a hashtag and the actual electrons vibrating, is worth taking on the significant constraints you've enumerated.
If you want to hide from the world

This is a bait-and-switch; you're saying that the person intruded upon has a responsibility to conform their behavior to suit the person who intruded upon them. The poster above said nothing about wanting to hide from the world, you just made that up and ascribed it to them. You might want to review your approach to discourse.
You're saying recognition is a necessary condition and jasonwatkinspdx is saying that it isn't a sufficient condition. There's no contradiction there. I would say you're both right. The big question is what is a sufficient condition.
No, they're the ones who need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that this system is trustworthy. Why should we cede power to representatives otherwise? The existence of an exploitable vulnerability is the definition of reasonable doubt. Instead of pulling all the stops to demonstrate that this vulnerability was not exploited, they started censoring and oppressing everyone instead.

In the Planato Palace there should be an "we want the source code" sign right now, provided the police hasn't arrested the people there already.