skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's odd, when I became a father 18 years ago I did not feel any older nor do I feel so now. I'd even go so far as to state that having children - 2 daughters, the youngest is 11 now - put me back in a younger mood since I have been exposed to so much youthful discovery and experimentation again and in some ways still are. If and when one of them gets children themselves I more or less expect the same to happen, another round of exposure to everything being new and in need of discovery. Children don't make you older, they keep you young.

Maybe it helps that I don't live in a city but out in the woods on a farm? Discovery here entails tramping through the woods, digging up things, building stuff. Get a bunch of branches and build a "stone-age home", why not? A swing on a rope between two trees or hang up a hammock there and see how high you can make it swing (answer: very). As long as my body plays along - and it better do so or I'll get mighty angry with it - I expect to feel more or less ageless, neither young nor old. If it starts to fail me I'll probably change my mind but for now I simply don't bother with the concept of 'age' - going so far as to have to think about how old I actually am, something which trips up my children every time age is mentioned. It is just a number, something like those vague values seen in a S.M.A.R.T. report telling you about the health of a drive:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006

Does it matter that the Raw_Read_Error_Rate is not 'perfect' as long as it does not go below the threshold? What does 099 mean here? Just as much as 57 means when talking about my age...
Imagine trying to present this kind of architecture to a room full of executives already sold on the "benefits" of kubernetes, big data, serverless, etc.
It's easy to interpret that as "stackoverflow should change to be
like this", but I think it was meant to be more like "If I had to
guess how stackoverflow works, this is what I think it would look
like".

That's not a better interpretation. It says something (something not good) about the mindset of modern software engineers that the first thing they think of when they look at a website like StackOverflow is a n-layer microservice architecture, with more moving components than a Swiss chronometer.
The sum of last 7 digits has to be a multiple of 7, not sure if I remember correctly but definitely very simple
OP's comment history suggests that they are not engaging conversation in good faith. Best not to feed the troll.
This discussion [1] on another repository of the same account seems to be related. Apparently "the first message on both repositories was DMCA takedown, then for some reason it was changed".

[1] https://github.com/orgs/iptv-org/discussions/12
You should read an emoji submission form. You have to prove that the emoji would be culturally relevant and useful before it's added.
Title should read: Delhi Excise minister arrested for liquor scam
Have the ad-free version of this article as well: https://archive.ph/99V0E
Agree, now try and reason that there are a TON of people that have been through the last three years and haven’t come out even a tiny bit more skeptical of governments, media, and authorities.
> There is no system better than complete free speech, because it allows the most amount of information to be passed back and forth and gives people the opportunity to decide for themselves.

I used this think this, but then I figured out that I live in a world where I'm not always welcome by the "majority" and have seen first hand how these things can go sideways. Now I view this attitude as a privilege and that it typically comes from someone whose rights aren't all that impacted by the tyranny of the majority.
When buying Merino please inform yourself about mulesing beforehand. Those sheep got bred so they have wrinkly skin, so more surface for wool growth. They suffer and likely die when not taken care of: the wool around the buttocks get encrusted in feces and urine, and the parts get often infested. Instead of breeding further sheep that are vulnerable to this, many farmers, for example most in Australia, cut off skin, so the scarred tissue won't grow wool. Google some images and decide if you want to support such practices. If you can't live without Merino wool, check up your sources, as there are less violent methods. But in the long run it would be better if those sheep weren't further bred.
Sure, because the law doesn't support freedom of speech. We're discussing the morals here.
Nobody talked about changing rights. People have the right to speak, and others have the right to reciprocate. We should voluntarily practice tolerance toward each other because the fragile apparatus of society breaks if we don't.
The problem with this is it requires introducing a vast zoo of features distributed across the spectrum of power, and it is not at clear that it is actually easier to learn this whole zoo so you can select precisely the least powerful point on it, than it is to understand the use of a single (or small number of) all-powerful constructs within its context.
Why are you a fan? It seems to be unsubstantiated speculation.
They mean preconception
Is there a website that tracks outages of other websites like Stack Overflow over years? I know some that tell you if it's down right now, but not over years.

I have a subjective feeling that Stack Overflow is down a lot more than other websites. I don't see that ever mentioned in the discussion of cloud vs on-prem which makes the discussion seem lacking.
I have to be annoying, but - if you have a token that is only valid for X seconds - you still need a token to renew the expiring token.

I have the feeling that damage control is the only option:

1) Secrets store is on different credentials

2) Decryption key is only known outside of secrets storage

3) There is a maximum number of different credentials that can be queried per day (adjustable over time)
Yeah that tracks with my experience. Sucks when more junior folks blow up over things they don’t have total context on. You give them as much as you can, but sometimes people decide they want to be a prophet of doom and close their minds.
Yep. Following some of the SO folks on Twitter a while back, I remember watching them do all sorts of things with .NET that didn’t feel remotely “necessary” for a Q&A website. It’s not like you can pull people off the street and have them get away with infrastructure this simple.
The part about Bill Joy using a terminal with arrows on the HJKL keys is new to me. Thanks.
I don't unfortunately. I coincidentally came across that source recently while doing some research.
Seems highly opinionated and not based on fact. IE a typical low quality blog post.

Plus, most people don’t wear 100p merino. It’s usually a blend with other materials to help combat the so called “problems” described.

My blended, mostly merino hiking socks are incredibly soft while still being incredibly durable and quick drying. Also prevent blisters unlike anything else.

In a nutshell, this post is mostly drivel.
With the Darn Tough warranty, lasting even two years and then getting a replacement would probably be best for you.
They do in fact cache some things like that, they've had caching issues in the past (and again recently, I think) with the wrong cache being used in some situations:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/235277
This entirely depends on the total amount of theories. It also assumes the known theories cover all possible origins.

Saying COVID evolved from nature is sort of a catch all. It's like saying all possible theories in aggregate except for the lab leak theory.

For example: What are the chances of anyone but you winning the lottery? Quite high.

So when they say low confidence of the lab leak theory it most likely means it's a crap theory.
There are two theories:
- the covid19 was created naturally and just happen to happen near the only place on Earth (or one out of two or three places?) that study covid19-style viruses;
- the covid19 was created in the lab and leaked outside because of negligence and/ or sloppy procedures.

Your choice which theory you believe. But a lot of powers in this world have vested interests to make you believe in “nothing to see here theory”.
Political speech isn’t a problem, but I object to people spreading objectively false information. Convincing people to take alternative medicine for serious diseases is just as harmful as yelling fire in a theater or hate speech the victims are simply the believers and their dependents.

This isn’t a new problem, it’s been illegal to pretend to be a doctor for decades. The difference is simply the reach we are giving charlatans.

PS: I can’t wait until a flat earthers start defunding GPS because it’s spreading lies…
Not true. “Often” in this context is a wild overstatement. Humans around the world have co-slept with infants for thousands of years and it’s generally safe.

There are known risk factors for infant smothering during sleep. E.g., parental drinking or smoking, infant low birth weight or respiratory issues (as a sibling comment said). Education and care control for these well.
I love hacker news. We geek out on aurora borealis. What I am more grateful of is that the community is so diverse ; Norway, Poland, England, Estonia, Netherlands and the list goes on.
People at the university would just 'individual' download it for non-commercial use.
Another one of the cool things about woolens is that you can use needle felting[1] to repair holes. TL;DR version, in felt wool fibers get tangled together, with a piece of fluff (aka roving) and a barbed needle you can tangle a patch into place. I have fixed a bunch of sweaters and socks by needle felting, even with pretty big holes in them.

1: https://www.thehookandi.com/2011/01/08/sock-repair/
An intentional leak would be an attack. I don’t recall that being on the table during the early part of the pandemic. I’m sure there was a least one person suggesting it but I recall the lab leak theory being the most ridiculed was some kind of accident or mistake at the lab resulting in an infected worker. …probably asymptomatic to boot.
> tail recursion is a complex and subtle expression of control flow

That is simply nonsense; it's just function application, ideally without having to think about state (or as little state as possible).

> for loops are immediately intuitive to anyone, for loops are immediately intuitive to anyone

That's just hand-waving without some sort of psychological data. Even if it were true, it would not be relevant because you can't just hand over software maintenance to just "anyone" pulled off the street who finds some language feature intuitive. (In my anecdotal experience, on the contrary, non-programmers have a very poor intuition for the idea of changing variables by assignment and what that means when a backwards jump takes place.)

A solution expressed recursively is demonstrably, quantifiably easier to reason about informally or prove correct than loops and state variables. Of course, not to "anyone" with no programming background just pulled off the street, but to people who have the understanding and skills. There is simply less proof material. An entire body of proof techniques that are required with imperative loops are absent. You just use straightforward inductive reasoning instead of pre and post conditions over stateful variables, and loop invariants and whatnot.

Anyway the idea that for loops are somehow easier than recursion is definitely not from mainstream CS; just some fringe view fr
there are millions of people who want to know what Apple is doing
https://archive.is/KbNVN
This! Quora is a great example of what SO would be if it wasn’t for their moderation.

That being said, I think most would agree it might have gone too far and there may be value in trying to tweak it a bit to make it easier to contribute.
Quite the opposite. It’s what mere morals think it’d be, vs what the extraordinary talent has gotten away with.
This feels similar to how I felt in school when everyone was getting the iPod, and I had a Sandisk Sansa. :)
Sorry if I'm being pedantic, was just responding to OP's phrasing of static typing being a "need" despite JS and Py having come so far without it. I'd say it's situational at best, and "you can turn it off" is probably TS's best feature.

If you're starting with TS, you can't really tell if it's useful or just a chore. I started a large Node project that a teammate moved to TS, saying the same thing about any that you did. I thought it'd be like Rust where it figures out the type for you, but no, any spreads. We replaced all those with explicit types, and I was writing fresh code in TS, but I realized it wasn't preventing any bugs that our integration tests wouldn't catch. It was just wasting my time with verbose types for things like SQL result rows that you could obviously tell were fine from the context. The other guy spent a ton of time fixing our build/deployment for TS, something that's taken lightly until you actually do it.

The project was pivoted for unrelated reasons, and I was left alone with it. I finally took it back to JS when I reached my last straw with TS, finding that it breaks the built-in Node profiler. Overall my velocity improved going back to JS. If TS were truly useful in that scenario, it'd be worth its weight for the reduced bugs that cost time to fix, but it wasn't.
I was tempted to make a finger gun at this post and take a photo to show how ridiculous this is, but I'm afraid to (deservedly) get hammered by dang for this.
ChatGPT has been teaching me the differences between brackets in bash, redirections, and other stuff like that. I've used it for a number of languages I've never written before. Just the basics mind. It's good because I can ask it specific questions I would spend time trying to search for that I wouldn't ask if I was in a class learning it.
> You know how styrofoam cups keep hot drinks like coffee hot and cold drinks like iced tea cold? Well, merino... keeps you cool when it’s hot and warm when it’s cold... merino’s insulating incredibleness...

That is... not true? How could there be any such thing as clothing that keeps you cool via insulation, when your body produces heat?

Pretty sure all you can have is lighter, more breathable clothing that allows the heat to disperse rather than trap it. And light-colored clothing that reflects sunlight rather than absorb it.

I mean, nobody's wearing a merino sweater to keep cool in the summer...
> but then I figured out that I live in a world where I'm not always welcome by the "majority" and have seen first hand how these things can go sideways.

and if they cannot say what they think, they will simply welcome you more?
Agreed, there is one issue of release. That we can never prove. China, not China. Intentional, not. GoF funded with US dollars or not.

There is imo a bigger issue with response. And if ANYONE thinks the response was even remotely correct or good then they need to put their screen down for a good long while.
http://stats.pingdom.com/w2oc4thvox7s/73676/history
My friend from school basically got his entire PC upgrades for good 5-6 years paid because he "invested" in CD burner (then-expensive devices requiring SCSI card to even work) and profited off copying business. Think it was around age of 10.
Agreed this is a prelude to some kind of India-like verified identity scheme.

The Arkansas porn site ID law is now looking like it will become the law of the land with 7 states[1] considering / about to pass very similar laws.

Once these laws are in place they are likely to swiftly be applied to many other domains with social media, and tiktok (due to young users, CCP control) as well as reddit (with their NSFW communities), easy targets as the next platforms mandated to enforce ID verification once the porn industry complies.

Once these 7 states pass these laws it seems politically very difficult to fight against these types of bills in every other state. Being for 'ID-less porn for kids" is likely not a tenable position no matter the political party.

Once this happens (or maybe already happening) Google / FB / MSFT will encourage this as regulatory compliance overhead furthers monopolies / stifles competition due to the burden if places on cash constrained upstarts with low userbases vs cash rich monopolists with vast userbases.

The end game for the United States is ID to use just about anything or at least the majority of apps that people spend their time on (social, video, search, games).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/seven-states-pus...
>Every single time someone's uttered those words they were eventually proven wrong

[citation needed]
Exactly, and it’s reinforced by the fact that the two main ethnic groups in France (“ethnically French”, and North African Arabs), are distinguished by religion: the former are mostly Catholic, and the latter are virtually all Muslims. So the lines between religion and other markers of identity are blurred.
I'm sure everybody read the article before commenting, but just to summarize: Voltaire probably never specifically gave this quote, it probably comes from a historian writing about him. Likely due some ambiguous quotation marks, people took it as a direct quote and ran with it.
> I personally believe that most people are smarter than this

You've grossly overestimated the willingness (not the capacity) of people to reason and gravely underestimated the power of propoganda.

Everything in history from religion to politics, from sports to war, yes even the history of science, points to the capacity of humans to willfully ignore knowledge.
It's interesting. In an alternate universe Pascal becomes the system programming language of choice.

It nearly happened in this universe in the 1980s. The original Apple Lisa and Macintosh software was largely written in Pascal[1] and all the original developer APIs were in Pascal.

Pascal was a first-class language on Vax/VMS, and it's easy to imagine a world where Ada (which is a Pascal-family language) became popular instead of C++.

My first job was in Delphi, and I still am fond of the language. But it really is mostly dead for new applications now.

It's interesting to see the influence that Object Pascal in Delphi had on C# and now on Typescript - Anders Hejlsberg is responsible for all three.

[1] https://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=519
Same. There were 4 entries that were not me listed - one was even an incognito visit. They were all from the same date about a month ago. Maybe this service works better on iPhones than Androids?

Edit: Reread your comment and you were on an iPhone.
I’m so annoyed there’s no SQL API for Airtable… even if it was read only.
Uh, here since forever post office put rubber stamp mark on stamps to prevent that, I'm surprised there is country that doesn't
What if someone (person A) directly conspires with another person (person B), through dialogue and speech, to commit murder against person C, but doesn't actually commit the murder themselves? Yet they caused the murder to occur via their speech. That is an example of speech that we probably both believe should be made illegal.

The problem with free speech absolutism is its childish view of causality. It only views the end cause of a sequence of causes as bearing any responsibility. Reality doesn't work that way.

The decision to absolve person A of criminal (and often moral) culpability leads to obviously pathological outcomes in certain situations. For example, what if person A is a master manipulator, and person B has an IQ of 60. Who really has the culpability in this scenario? The free speech absolutist would still lay the blame at the feet of person B, but most reasonable people that aren't possessed by ideology would clearly identify person A as bearing a significant chunk if not most of the responsibility for the murder, even though all they did was use their speech.
Until they figure out how to do product placement.
Let me guess: you've never actually been credibly threatened with serious violence?

You're basically thinking like a "crunchy mom" anti-vaxxer who thinks that measles are harmless because she doesn't know anyone who's died from it.

Imagine for a moment that you're a black person living in 1920s Mississippi. You personally know people who were hanged by lynch mobs. You've read about Mary Turner who was burned alive while 8 months pregnant for daring to speak out against the lynching of her husband. And now white people tell you they'll kill you if you register to vote.

You seriously argue that banning those threats would be a worse infraction on people's freedom than allowing them?

If you don't see a way of defining hate speech in a way that won't be misused any worse that free speech is, it just means you haven't thought very hard about it, and suffer from status quo bias.
Yeah, this blog post is mostly opinionated drivel mixed with false statements. Not based on facts at all. It’s like the author chose to talk about something they knew nothing about and didn’t even bother to do real research.
> I almost agree. But there seems to be speech that should be forbidden, like threats of physical violence.

I would not ban that either. However, if you decide to make a serious threat, which takes a significant amount of energy, like doxxing and calling me on my phone to tell me you will kill me, you will have to live with the consequences of the legal system.

If you just tell me in HN comments that you will kill me and my family, I would certainly not give a damn because that's low effort.
> but I object to people spreading objectively false information.

"But they couldnt have known back then, the facts only came out later".... This sounds good in theory, unfortunately people lie, and one mans objectively false information is another mans truth. If there was a magic 8ball that could say "true/false" to any such information, i'd agree, but there isnt.
You put a period after Amazon, and then immediately listed three other names separated by commas. It's really easy to mis-see that as a list of four items separated by commas.
He argued that, because machine learning is just based on correlational statistics, it would never be able to produce reasoning about causation.

Which is, at least in retrospect (GPT turned out to be able to do causal reasoning), a fallacy: It's like assuming humans can't think about gold because they do not themselves consist of gold. Or: That humans can't manually evaluate a computer program, because they are not themselves computers.
> has to write the low level C/ASM code to make it all work

shhh. Let's not disturb those that believe in the GC fairy that sprinkles their code with safety magic late at night while they soundly sleep. Firmware doesn't exist. I can't hear you. Na na na na na na na
Opposing evidence says she wasn't even working at Wuhan at the time

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/51845/is-huang-...

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/h6DBBQKNGJt528lwdOMpnA
It was so common that "something cd key" was a common search term. And people would put that in the wrong input box/window such that they would end up typing that in chat rooms. In some of those, people would reply with the same "something cd key" followed with "to you too", as if it were some form of greetings. Later on, people would show up saying "something random cd key" as an actual form of greeting, not a mistake.
If it wasn't so transmissible, it wouldn't have been a pandemic.
I remember grepping my entire 2GB hard drive for some files (a bunch of scripts) I lost when doing some Linux shenanigans...
Maybe we should stop supporting the study of dangerous viruses in facilities that don't maintain adequate levels of transparency.

Regardless of what actually happened in this case (FWIW I still believe a natural origin was most likely), the Chinese authorities covered up everything to do with the lab and destroyed potential evidence before a proper investigation could take place. In court cases we have a norm that evidence you destroy is treated as evidence against you, for good reason.