skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think it is comparable, the invasion of Iraq was way worse.

You think the invasion of Iraq was worse than the rape and torture of civilians, including women and children?

And the summary execution of all civilians aged 16 and above?.

Are you okay? or just unaware of whats going on in Ukraine?.
Lots of operations put small amount people in danger in order to protect a larger group, that's essentially the whole idea behind police, military, special forces and related groups.

People become moles for the greater good, usually, or protection. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not.
Gitignore File Generator
I wrote a simple terminal application to create gitignore files for the projects. You can select the programming languages, frameworks, operating systems, IDEs, text editor, and so on. It creates gitignore file for you.
There are unofficial implementations

- C# https://github.com/Ygg01/Linguini
It's interesting to look back at the commentary on HN from then: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1323561600&dateRange=custom&...
Timezone difference makes it far less appealing, plus the potential language barrier
Sorry to say it but majority of book reviews are just stupid and not informative in anyway. The idea that a book can be reviewed in less than 1-2 page + not knowing and checking background of reviewer is just creates garbage. Similar to Amazon reviews etc.
Yes, the good-old-days :)

I really miss those days, personal systems were much easier to maintain and hack. With that said, at this point I had been using Coherent for at least 5 years.
I also am a trackball user.

Trackman wheel > m570 > Kensington expert.

I’ve tried vertical ones, but it’s just not the same.
In Thailand you generally cannot buy something at an online shop and come retrieve it from your local 7/11 while in Taiwan it's often a practical and cheaper delivery mechanism

I don't mean delivery of products from 7/11 (to save what 2 minutes of walking?)
I only have experience with left-wing Berlin, where some of my classmates would occasionally attend a mysterious subject called "DaZ", and that's all I noticed as someone unaffected. But they certainly did graduate speaking fluent German.

My source says all Länder carry out proficiency testing, can you name a specific Land that doesn't have remedial classes for children who perform poorly on the test?
If germany would just stop dubbing virtually everything no matter how small from english to german they would get years of intrinsic english learning for free. Whenever i meet someone with surprising english skills (ignoring cases of having native speakers in the family) part of the answer is that they watched english shows and movies from a super young age because their countries were not dubbing.
It’s always a bummer when you go into these threads and you see all the doom and gloom folks talking about the end of the world and we need to use less not more. I never know what their expectation is for the world. That we cut the population in 75%+ and go back to some kind of agrarian lifestyle?

I for one am pretty pumped for the future and excited for all the things to come. We should be aware of how we use our resources but it should not stop innovation.
Speaking for myself, I don't share the beliefs of the author about which he wrote elsewhere, and reading that "Ship" story separated from these beliefs, and assuming a different context, I see the story "functioning" better than his other published writings.
It apparently takes a lot more resources to build an electric car, mainly because of the current of batteries they use.
I have a trackpad on the left and a trackball on the right. I’m right handed, so I use the mouse for most, but when I need a gesture, the trackpad is there.

Has been working great for years.
To me the idea of a small web is a great one. But then for some reason everyone equates small with "static builder" and before you know it you're into a hellscape of complexity with static site builders, SPAs and other madness.

What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up, with maybe a light sprinkling of CSS and js for any interactive elements"? Why did devs get obsessed with a deeply complex jamstack type thing to do even incredibly simple sites?

It's like a sort of "iceberg web" - small on the surface but hiding a mountain of complexity and dependencies under the surface.
At this point I feel like people should just feel free to remake clones (with improvements) of classic titles such as spore and other games that for some reason hasn't gotten a modern version or some kind of continuation. (15 years seems well outside the time where if nothing like it has appeared again, making improved clones shouldn't be discouraged.)
> and also doesn’t want to walk the 10 minutes of the journey?

If they have a pre-existing medical condition: sure, they can use an alternative method of transportation.

If they don't want to walk for 10 minutes, they're bound to have a medical condition soon-ish.
Not mutually exclusive things, at all. Most (all?) metros in the US are currently on a "density" kick also and I hope it continues...it's also a multi-generational problem where electric cars will probably go from niche thing to majority of cars on the road within a single gen
Elon Musk accused of manipulating Dogecoin price in $258B lawsuit
I thought the invasion of Iraq and use that f Guantanamo are universally accepted to have been pretty idiotic even by super power standards. The USA gained no security and lost inordinate amounts of money, blood and good will.
IMHO engineers should also (and should be expected to) lead through influence. In my mind, as engineers grow they should be expected to tackle problems and influence solutions of increased scope, complexity and ambiguity.

Junior engineers should be able to drive smaller, well scoped projects.

Senior+ engineers should be expected to tackle complex, cross-org, ill-defined technical challenges, examples include technical mergers of company acquisitions, large scale migrations of business critical systems, technical design of big bets (also analysis on which big bets to take), evaluate new technologies/platforms, dev tooling to multiply productivity, etc

A lot of this requires buy-in and stakeholder management to succeed.
Proofs please.
Personally I am not a fan of Scala. There was the time I spent two days debugging something that used Scala actors to parallelize a calculation that: (1) got only a 2x speed up on an 8 core machine and (2) didn’t get the same result every time that we ran it.

It was a 20 minute job to rewrite in Java with an executor and it got (1) a 7.5x speed up and (2) the right answer.

In other cases it was human factors like the engineering manager who told me how great it was to handle errors with monads instead of exceptions except that they never actually handled the errors. This place claimed to be doing “functional programming” but they also claimed to be doing “code reviews” but if that were really the case that eng manager would have known that policies weren’t being followed (e.g. allegedly we writing unit tests but it was few and far between.)

Personally I thin Java is going in the right direction through JDK 8, JDK 17 and now JDK 21. If anything, Java is adopting “ML the good parts.” with pattern matching, sealed classes and such.
This was on Reddit, but those are restaurants and not streets.
I'm pretty sure this happens more often than you think. I'm literally scraping all Linux security trackers (both OVAL data if available and the trackers themselves) and correlating them. [1]

In my personal opinion, Debian/Ubuntu are the worst when it comes to security and maintenance. There are thousands of issues and CVEs marked as Fixed or Ignored on their security tracker which were not actually fixed but had a tag similar to the meaning of "code diverged too much from upstream".

A lot of PoCs that you can find on ExploitDB still work today, after 5+ years later, on an updated system. Especially the ones that are disputed CVEs where companies like SAP ain't give no damn about security issues (they have a dispute rate of exactly 100%, how can that be?).

Blaming misconfiguration up onto the End-User is not what I would do here, because it's the distribution that labels themselves as being secure/stable/whatever. If users use the default packages with no changes to configurations, I expect the distribution to provide sane and secure defaults.

If you argue that a "misconfiguration" is what makes a system vulnerable, then good luck finding a system that is not vulnerable - because there will be none.

Coming back to glibc and its messup when it comes to environment variables and parsing and linking issues: That was one of the reasons Alpine started its muscl library.

I mean, glibc is so ridiculous that you could get root privilege escalation via using the "ping" command up until around 3 years ago when distributions finally started to remove the SUID flag on the binary and instead use the network capability flags.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/vulnerabilities
Yeah - I guess I hadn't really considered it for that task. I've only used for live stuff personally and I hadn't made the connection with screen recording per se.
I have been thinking about how to fund free software development for years and the best solution I have been able to come up with so far is...

First, as stated in this article, the problem is the asymmetry.
Normally you need to pay to use a service and the service provider needs money in order to continue.
But in software development, the developer needs money to continue but the user doesn't need to pay to use it.

This problem of asymmetry has already been solved all around the world.
The citizens in a country can use a lot of services because they pay tax.
This works because the government patches the asymmetry by filling in the gap of the missing money flow, using money that they collect from everyone who wants to be a part of this system.

There is just one difference with software development: software is global, so we can't use any existing tax system.

What we need is a global system that collects money from everyone who wants to participate in the system.
The money could be collected by the software developers, similarly to how some of them already accept donations.
When they get a payment, they register it in a global database that keeps track of who has paid.
This database can then be used by anyone who wants to enforce this system by requiring that people have paid a software developer in order to be able to do certain things.
The question then is how many people would be willing to make this requirement.
Why "most expect"? Certainly there would have been greater focus on dictatorships/war zones? The target of websites found so far support this.

I can understand the desire to gather intelligence from every other nation, even allies. But I do believe it's a bad idea. E.g. Brazil seems to be aligning with China more and more... largely economic driven. But no need to also give it political backing.
Insisting on speaking English with you, thus slowing your integration. Actively avoiding you if you're an Ausländer. Segregation along racial/linguistic lines in the workplace or other settings (my workplace has three groups: Germans, Slavs (I am an honorary Slav it seems) and Chinese). Speaking either fluent, mumbled German or not at all or just English—no attempt on their part to accommodate your imperfect German by speaking more slowly/clearly/simply.

IMO that is what it's like to live in Germany. I don't expect people to bend over backwards for me. But on the one hand, Germans absolutely insist on immigrants learning German, but on the other hand, even when you are learning German, they don't really change their behaviour at all, so actually learning German is far less helpful than you might think.
Where can I read about this? They're on trial for training copilot on private repos? This is huge.
It helps that in the Netherlands we subtitle rather than dub foreign (and thus most English) speaking content. I was surprised when watching Forest Gump to hear that "Shit happens" is translated to "Scheisse passiert" and my German speaking friends didn't even know the English version. Ironically, I think most German speakers are more familiar with Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice actor, than his own voice while being from Austria.

Our music also contains more English music than German, which doesn't seem to be the case in Germany.

So in the Netherlands, we're exposed to English a lot more than German, French or Spanish speaking countries. I bet the same applies to the Nordic countries, which also have great English speaking ability
It's not just nostalgia. Those old computers really are fun to operate -- like an MGB is fun to drive -- in ways modern systems aren't, even if they are far less useful than a modern system. In fact it's now possible to take advantage of modern software tools on modern systems and push those old beasts to new heights they couldn't have possibly reached during their heyday.
The roads would continue to exist in a road usable by modern cars for only about 10-15 years. Have you been to any failed state? :-)
> I have heard in some places in the US, people need to travel close to 200 miles one-way to get to a hospital

This seems like it would be the extreme end of rural living in the US, but certainly some people live in those places. And yes obviously the EV range would not work that well for them currently...but what is the point of calling this out?
I try and live according to a similar principle, albeit less "pretentious", as other people have labeled it.
"Buy once, cry once" only works every so often, but I do stand by one thing: don't cheapen out on things that MATTER (for example safety or comfort).

Generally speaking, the cheaper you go, the less a thing will last. In the end, everything is built/manufactured to meet a price target with the exception of things that are overpriced because brands, and it's important to learn to identify this.
Nope, not the VA, just someone that borrows much of their codebase. (EDIT: but yes, I think the VA is transitioning to Cerner but still on CPRS for the time being.)
Perfect is the enemy of good. Even the Bay Area cannot get together and make meaningful improvements to non-car commuting infrastructure. I recall how many years it took just to get the dang bus lane from Richmond district to downtown. I will take any incremental positive changes I can get.
Aren't many aspect of this society, like overconsumerism, overpollution, waste, disrespect for the environement, air flights and other kind of avoidable impactful leisures pure evil too?
Especially less "money", less "travel", less "housing space".
Improved density is worse for people and the environment. One should leave sufficient greens within a city for people and wildlife, and a row of trees or bushes can also easily shield traffic noise. Traffic noise which transit also produces in copious amounts.

Maybe increased density is relevant for some US cities, but European ones should definitely lower their density considerably. Most European cities are dead zones for anything but rats and pigeons, and people fare similarly badly.
> Easy access to guns and lack of mental health care has been a thing in the US for over a century, but curiously mass shootings only started happening a few decades ago, so maybe something else is the cause? Interestingly mass shootings started happening around the time that certain psychiatric medications came into widespread usage, medications for which homicidal ideation is a know but very rare side effect. It makes sense that even if a side effect is super rare, when millions of people start taking the drug you'd expect the rare effect to happen on a regular basis.

Except that these drugs are likely used in lots of places in the world, and that large school shootings often is a uniquely American concept.
I still sometimes dream that someone would leak the demo game (if you let me be a bit more greedy, along with the source code). Hey it might not be that functional, but it would still be awesome to explore what it was actually capable of.
This sounds good in theory, but in practice 2e and 2f will be the problem classes that everyone will be trying to escape, including those immigrant kids whose parents are more upwards-mobile and who pay attention to their kids education.
I guess we all agree that continuing as is is clearly unsustainable. The one and only alternative to full human extinction is radically scaling down humanity, primarily quantitatively. We would still need some amount of people, ideally geographically distributed to stay resilient against god knows what else will come in the future.

I am not well versed at all in the multiple disciplines one needs to talk about this in technical detail, but I guess 500.000 people per habitable continent should be enough?

I do realize this is impossible to enforce top down or get the people to do bottom up. As the evolutionary greedy animals we are, we will continue to procreate.

After all this rambling my short, personal answer: The only possible thing is becomming true eco terrorists and genociding 99% of the world population somehow. Boom. 99% of the ecological/climate foot print humanity has evaporated!

To the appalled reader: I‘d prefer reasonable counter arguments over downvotes and flags...
Sure, you give up your fridge and your washing machine first and I'll do it next.

What's that? Silence?
It's funny I actually had it in my head that this game was from Molyneux because it so overpromised and under-deliverd. It was a good game, but it essentially had 5(?) sections - amoeba, hunter, community, city builder, and spaceship. Each of those sections can be done as a single stand alone full budget game. Imagine if Spore had released with FTL as it's spaceship stage? And Cities Skylines as it's city builder? The scope was just way too big and the result was very thin.
Yea I see the same things, from an otherwise intelligent and thoughtful HN crowd too. One of the comments is "Less people are better for the environment, no matter their lifestyle.". Like wtf? What are we supposed to do with that?
Interesting theological question:

AFAIK the “Holy spirit” is something like the tentacle of the Cristian hive mind that reaches into each believer.

A gathering of believers is therefore representing a part of divinity itself.

Can a “sentinent” machine be part of that?
And it’s definitely not good enough for negotiations or legal discussions that are common for business. There is a lot of important nuance that machine translations don’t capture that can be critical. A machine translated contract for example is a very risky proposition.
Many similar forums back in the day were all volunteer efforts. What is preventing HN from being run by a volunteer staff?

Don’t get me wrong, I think HN is great the way it is, I just don’t think paid moderation is a requirement
Extracted from Wikipedia given in OP

https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/ces-jeunes-partis-combattre-l...

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/010919/ces-re...
The problem with Wuhan lab is that the Chinese dictatorship blocks any independent inquiry into it. If they had nothing to hide, they wouldn't be hiding everything. If that was a criminal case, this kind of behavior would be taken as a evidence of guilt.
I wouldn't call it "unsubtantiated bullshit" or "tenuous at best" claims. They put Kaczynski in the ballpark of being a participant of the MK Ultra program. Do you think they have shared and took away all redacted bits of information?

"Conspiracy Theory" with Mel Gibson and Julia Robers looks less like a comedy the older I get, and the more I find out. Don't be the government puppet in the techno spy thriller who stares wide-eyed in horror with disbelief while tied to a chair as the CIA goons put the needle in your arm ;)
What’s even better is less cars and more alternative means of travel. This comes in the form of biking, especially e-bikes, public transport, especially a large variety to serve various needs, and finally better zoning to create walkable neighborhoods and promote movement for going from place to place.

For the remaining trips not covered by the above, aka the exception case, using cars. Most car trips can even be PHEV and our non-freight transportation emissions would be substantially lower.

Even in the worst case scenario of everyone having to drive, PHEVs are a much better option as we transition to a fully society EV. I’m disappointed that most car manufacturers are trying to go through this all or nothing mindset of jumping directly from Gas to EV. A large portion of the population drives less than 50miles a day so a PHEV with ~50miles or range would make a huge dent in our emissions.

Complexity is often cited as the reason for not adopting PHEV, and I think that’s an easy scapegoat, as humans we’ve solved many complex at scale, if we can build massive fleets of Priuses over decades, why can’t we build more of them with a slightly larger battery.

I’ve also heard the economics don’t work out argument against PHEV, and we could say the same thing about EVs, they’re cool now but can we manufacture, and recycle enough batteries to keep up with demand?

EVs are heavy, Can we maintain road infrastructure that was built using fuel consumption taxes, for lighter weight cars?

Taking these concerns into consideration, I feel that PHEVs are awesome and we should all demand more of them, they are lighter than EVs, cause significantly less emissions and are a wonderful bridge technology that improves the car trips that we do need to take.
I suspect it got flagged because of the comments this type of article is attracting.
React and Django are good default options.
Yes, more up front resources, way fewer over the lifetime of the vehicle. That's the trade.
> Grocery shoppers are also extremely fickle and price sensitive.

Are they? Don't most people just go to the one that's closest to their neighborhood?

I know I do. And I see people from my neighborhood in there every time. Good way to quickly catch up.
I went to school with children of Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Greek backgrounds (mostly the parent generation migrated) and none of them were distinguishable in terms of "broad" culture from those whose grandparents were born in Germany. Not sure what kind of "migrant trends" you are talking about. The most prevalent cultural influence in my school time was probably MTV and the local "Landjugend" and in my sons' kindergarten and primary school its (sadly) Paw Patrol.

Yes, some very specific school districts in urban centers are predominantly migrant and there are cultural ramifications to that. But that is a fraction of German schools.
That’s for a fairly broad definition of “migration background”. Everyone who wasn’t born a German citizen or has at least one parent who wasn’t a German citizen at their birth qualifies (“Wer die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit nicht durch Geburt besitzt oder mindestens einen Elternteil hat, bei dem das der Fall ist, hat einen "Migrationshintergrund".”)

For example, Angela Merkel’s mother was born in Danzig in 1928. That wasn’t part of Germany at the time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig), so chances are she wasn’t born with German citizenship. If so, Angela Merkel has a migration background according to that definition.

For primary school kids, I would guess many of them are children of people who have lived and worked in Germany for decades.
I think there's a huge opportunity to do a 2023 remake using generative 3D AI.
Machine learning, not metalanguage. Disappointing.

Yes, downvotes. ML used to mean the language which would be a worthwhile thing to render on the Erlang VM.
This is backed by infrastructure studies. It's called traffic calming and it's done on purpose in places with advanced infrastructure such as the Netherlands.
Do hard drives have any advantage over SSDs anymore beyond cost per terabyte?