skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the web 2.0 style social networks we had community forums, frequently run on phpBB or some other BBS forum tool (before that Usenet, before that... actual dialup BBS systems).

My point is that while most were not profit driven, the VC profit models of myspace, Facebook, et al. attracted massive investment that enabled a much wider reach and therefore a superior network effect and accessibility. Suddenly you could tweet at your favorite celebrities or businesses and they might respond, and in many cases we found this a fair trade for occasional advertising.

From what I can see the advantage of Lemmy is that you can use the same login across multiple forums that are independently operated with minimal central control, and you can take your reputation with you as you move between forums. Hypothetically, like the old days, some could be profit driven while others are fully community supported.

This model does seem to offer many advantages, so long as they can continue to match the accessibility and performance of the centralized social networks.
DOOM WAD Simulating Dementia
3 hours! Ill do it as 4*45 Looks interesting!
Exactly, that’s the feature we have that they’re missing
OMG, Paul Graham actually released Arc in some form? I thought he never finished it.

I was going to make snarky comment about how between spez and PG, Lisp must actually be extended-release brain poison for people in executive management positions; now I wonder if spez just knows PG personally and takes his advice.
MiniJinja: a powerful template engine for Rust with minimal dependencies
if this project gets pages and tables, it could be an open source notion killer
Down Dog is great! Looking forward to the future generative AI version of it.
Yeah, and ask God too while we're at it.
blocknote looks very nice! I am unsure why I didn't take this as an option earlier, as I think I looked at it. I will check it out.

FWIW I picked up prosemirror because I have experience working with CodeMirror 6, and I trust the general model to be right, if complicated to use. But honestly I might not need the level of complications provided by PM.
I am currently dealing with my father's estate and I can say that deeds etc will not be useful. It's really easy for your spouse/executor/whoever to access anything like that if need be with a letter with a copy of the death cert and will. A list of your accounts, life insurance, pension policies etc would on the other hand be very useful, so they know who to write to. I just had to sort through 300 pages or so of stuff going back 30+ years to try to figure this out.

The most useful things you can do are:

- Make an expression of wishes to tell your pension/life insurance provider what to do with your money. This might be a UK thing, but here your pension does not form part of your estate and therefore isn't governed by your will. So if you die without filling out this BS little form, the trustees of the pension can in theory divide up your pension in a way you don't like. Even if you have filled out an expression of wishes they can do this but it's more susceptible to legal challenge if they do.

- If you are married or in a similar long-term partnership with someone, put as much of your finances as possible into joint accounts and in particular have your regular bill payments etc work through a joint account. Your bank will freeze any individual accounts until the probate is granted and your family can be left in a difficult position of trying to figure out what all the bills are that are going to fail to pay because your account has been frozen and they have no access. Them having your online passwords won't help because the online access will be shut off.

- Put an emergency fund into a savings account that your spouse/child whatever can access. Ideally enough for your dependents to live on for a couple of months plus handle a couple of chunky bills. It can be one of those savings accounts that only allows one access per year or something but they need to be able to get their hands on this cash quick. We're just setting this up for our child after seeing how it played out for my Dad. Say you have one child and you and your spouse suddenly die in a car cash or something. Believe it or not your accounts (including all joint accounts) will be instantly frozen and there will be a period before matters get resolved when your child will have no access to money at all. There are ways around this predicament but you wouldn't want to put your families through that if they're already dealing with the fact of your death as well.
Yeah, OpenSUSE does BTRFS although they also support XFS. I ran tumbleweed for a while and managed to lose a root filesystem twice, although that was a few years ago and appeared to be triggered by running out of space, as the home filesystem on the same box, also BTRFS, survived both times.
That's my optimal schedule too, but I cannot do it.

First two hours awake in the morning is devoted to toddler, which includes feeding him, dressing him, then waiting for 0730 so I can take him to school.

Similar schedule when he returns.

Hopefully when he's older things will be easier in the morning.
Apple to discontinue Apple Card financing for iPhones bought without a carrier
Even with the context, this comment sounded so intriguing and wrong at the same time that I hesitated while opening the link.

Watched a few mins and bookmarked it for another day.
There were many other name suggestions that are good but I'm glad you kept the initial name.
Yeah, I just stopped paying the „Sondertilgung“ (special repayment) for my 1,66% loan, and instead put it into a fixed deposit account at 3,25% (compounding).

It is fixed exactly until my loan is due.
In some cases, Dev Ops became the person who knew what was going in the disaster of unknowable services that is AWS…
The only non compliance for my Samsung A40 is the glue: it holds the cover to the body of the phone and the battery to the back of the screen. Everything else is a dozen of small screws and cabling. Do without the glue and everybody can replace the battery. Was the old times 5 seconds battery replacement better? Yes.
Click that single photo. It's a folder, at least it was for me.
Yes, but factor interest rates in. Refinancing 70k at 5% is worse than having 100k at 1%. So although it may be doable, I don’t imagine seeing this in practice
Takes me back .. once upon a time I was an admin on old OG Freenode + #C + #lisp and recall when that was floated to take potshots at and use as a beta test crowd.

The first non reddit team submissions were some very dry comp sci papers and tech manuals .. the cats came not long after.
Any suggestions for a vscode extension that allows editing markdown files in the same wysiwyg way?
The less productive person would also benefit from measuring against themselves. On a day-to-day basis, there are no metrics that make more sense.

(Or not measure at all, which is fine -- but if you do measure something, that's what you should be measuring)
Twitter's API used to be free until Elon Musk recently started charging exorbitant prices for it.
> That's a way of saying that breathing faster won't burn more fat just because of the breathing

Which is wrong, since breathing involves pumping air with your muscles.
Yes, but that's the ePrivacy directive, not the GDPR.
Sounds like he has you on a terrible prescription. Undecanoate every few months? With a proper dosing schedule you won’t have these peaks and crashes. Unfortunately, in most places the common prescriptions for these things make absolutely no sense!
What's "astroturfing"?
Apple doesn’t sell many $300 new phones, so it is a useful feature for the phones they do sell.

I’m probably just clumsy, but I’ve dropped my phone into bodies of water twice in 10 years. I also know of 2 people that have dropped their phones in toilets.

The Venm diagram of expensive phones and clumsy people is large enough to make this a useful feature for some.

I wouldn’t mind if the regulation was that a phone company must offer at least one model with detachable battery, but I’d be sad if the amazing advances in waterproof phones were compromised.
> I need to figure out how to get paid for that.

Or don't. Monetizing your leisure activity might well turn it into Just More Work that drains and stresses. Speaking for myself, I needed zero-stakes activities as a pressure relief valve when I was doing the corporate job, or I'd end up relying to chemicals to simulate that relaxation and get back to baseline. Benzos rot your brain, booze makes you fat; pottering in the ham shack does neither.
It is not a good idea to ask for my location then set your database to that location. Mainly because there's a very low chance this will show any houses for sale, and this makes it look like your service is unused.

You've got the normal big challenge of creating a two sided marketplace - search for that term and you'll find any number of posts and podcasts talking about that. That is going to be hard to overcome.

I think that sites should take you directly in to the data - don't force people to read some generic page of benefits - show don't tell. Put all that guff on an "about" page.

If you are going to make your age a selling point, then drop visitors straight into the data browsing page, make sure there are some houses there - and put a picture of you up top and say hello and point out you are 77 years old and you wrote this. It's something unique, so why not?

Also you should fill your database with houses - use AI or some sort of random data generator to generate them and just make sure there's a small but clear note on the listing saying this is AI data. It's not ideal but it is better than an empty database. Give people something to look at.

Great work though.

What is it built with? Who wrote it? You?
Don't forget to multiply by the square root of 2 (management overhead coefficient). Also note that this is an irrational number so it has a subtle jab at management built-in.
From my brief experience working at a similar company, calling the software they use closed-sourced is a bit of a reach. When I worked there, we almost exclusively used rebranded and slightly modified open source/freeware CMS systems. Actually the only software we sold that was completely developed in-house were testing/configuration tools or extremely simple and basically worthless LDAP auth based reporting programs that could only be used on-premise.
Man this comment resonated with me. I am fully capable of doing productive 80 hour weeks sustainably - I did most weeks for 15 years. Took me that amount of time (and marriage, kids etc.) to realize just because I can doesn't mean I should, especially now that I'm seeing diminishing returns in terms of reward. Still love my work, it has been difficult to dial back honestly.
I'd like to learn more. Sources I can refer to?
Using Dar for Data Archiving
I've been at places where there was no 'no tip' button. I had to put in 0 myself.
So I've read that they wrote it in Lisp at Paul Graham's request or to win favor. Does anyone know if writing your startup code in Lisp still has that benefit?
Once again, I'm astonished at how different our experiences can be, since I'm a frequent commentor and I literally cannot remember the last time a comment of mine got deleted.

I notice you did not answer my question though. And I have to wonder what you're posting that you keep needing new accounts. As someone once said, 'If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you keep getting banned and having your comments deleted, maybe you're the problem'
IANAL but my understanding is the contains your wishes about the distribution of your assets. However, the process of actually operating the will (ie probate) can take a while. Hence, you are better off moving your assets into a trust so that in the event of your passing, the trustee gets to distribute your assets according to your wishes immediately.
Nuclear waste has been lost multiple times throughout history and has killed people. Kind of amazing someone could think it cannot happen.

https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/overview-of-the-cns-gl...
Nothing stopping you to do something does not mean it is a likely event to happen ;)

As you can see, the product selection of users and ongoing results shows that really well.
Btrfs is significantly more complex and very different case. Bcachefs is designed by single guy with different motivation.

Main problem with Bcachefs is its in unknown state. There was no major testing done on that. When some company (like Oracle or Suse) puts it through automated stress test matrix, it may do exceptionally well or completely fail.
> You get paid the same no matter what.

You don't get paid more if you perform better?

There are extremely obvious productivity and impact differences between some employees, and this should ideally translate into pay differences. At some companies it does, sometimes it doesn't. But you seem to be suggesting performance never impacts pay.
I updated a slack bot to support calling dalle but none of the images work because it striped the query parameters from the URLs. Very annoying
> There are literally thousands of studies about long COVID

But none of them had a placebo group as far as I know.

If another one did, I'd love a reference.
You can prob find a better explanation online, but basically faking a “grass roots” movement using bots or a brigade of users. It’s called such since astroturf is fake grass.
Show HN: ChatGPT plugin for AWS – WIP/broken but looking for contributors
I started writing a plugin for ChatGPT that would allow us to query and alter AWS resources (other cloud providers could be done similarly but probably would bloat it too much).

It's probably always going to be self-hosted because it requires sensitive credentials, currently sourced from your profiles defined in .aws/config.

It doesn't work yet but I'm looking for contributors, so if you have some spare cycles feel free to join the fun. PRs welcome!
Nickel is a programming language. While HCL is just a configuration format, so not really comparable.

Here's a comparison with similar tools: https://github.com/tweag/nickel#comparison
(from another comment)

TDC has stated to Danish media that they "recognize parts of the story" but have refused to elaborate. They haven't wished to refute any parts either.

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/business/2023-06-16-tdc-genkender-del...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj1q7arJATM
"The reality is in terms of safety there were 1000s of things happening in the 70s that damaged far more people then some nuclear waste management."

Eh, no. You are making my point for me. All the "nuclear is safe and sustainable" propoganda hinges on getting a series of highly complex reactors all built and interoperating (well), and even then I am not clear that all the fuel is re-used, or that the "unspent" portions have some amazing-yet-not-yet-known use. I am sick and tired to the argument that "it's ok lets just do thes 20 other things 5 of which don't even exist yet and have innumerable hurdles facing them and it will be fine".

It's really not fine, as you state we are quite good at making mistakes and bungling things, adding more factors into the equation increases the risk of something going wrong, it doesn't reduce them. We can even see from this article, the "solutions" already involve unproven theories that we think quite possibly are wrong, and yet the plans proceed as if nothing were to go wrong.
Nobody should do benchmarking like this anymore.

Memory layout of your code has such a big impact on performance on modern computers that measuring performance without removing that variable leads to wild goose chases, where you think you improved something, but in reality you incidentally got the compiler to move the code around a bit.

Emery Berger has an excelent talk on this [1], and a causal profiler that they developed called Coz[2].

Branch miss-predicts might be somewhat invariant to that, but still, one of the main points of the talk is that people do too much eyeball statistics, mistaking the variance of the underlying stochastic process with actual signal.

Coz is pretty trivial to set up with Zig too.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A

2. https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz
Pretty sweet that this is legit from the future

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synch...

```NEUROSCIENCE
Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact
The minds of social species are strikingly resonant

By Lydia Denworth on July 1, 2023
Scientific American July 2023 Issue
```
Ugly to have 5 cameras on the back :-)
The USA needs a big reform on when it comes to what is displayed as a price to lure in people. What's the meaning of having a price advertised only to be met with + taxes and fees. I can calculate the taxes in my head but the fees are so arbitrary. What's stopping a shop advertising a car at 10% below MSRP and slapping on a dealer showroom MSRP? We shouldn't allow fees for things they are mandatory. Like the resort fee. Or the online purchase fee.

And the tips at the end. Always begging and begging.
do you know any like this?
The confidence thing is way overblown, very few people actually report that. The myth is perpetuated exclusively by people who have never taken steroids. Personally I feel exactly the same on almost any compound, the exception being tren which made me incredibly irritable. When I first tried them I thought I’d been sold fake gear because there was literally no difference in feeling compared to being natural. After being in the community for half a decade I can tell you that this is an extremely common experience.
I uh. Check my small rural town high street. Check my small rural town industrial zone and friends that opened factories there.

Check my own experience with bank when launching a bootstrapped company

Banks definitely do loans for SMB. A lot.
WTF does this mean for Blogger?

Does it have a migration route for the photos?

If there's no migration route, a tool that could be created by one Google developer, it means thousands of people now have work to fix thousands of Blogger posts. Cumulatively ~48 hours of work for a tool has just turned into at least 48000 hours for everyone else.

What's worse is, people will fix their blogs but I bet Google will use broken links as (another) justification to shut down Blogger next.

That means those 48000 hours will be an utter waste of time.

If you ever needed proof Google have no fucking strategy or clue anymore this is it (that and shutting down Google Music when YouTube Music was incomplete, people just moved to competitors).
OP works for Vercel so I assume they had early access.
We shall see if this remains true after the firing squad was taken to Google Domains... I really hope Google Sheets doesn't suffer the same fate!
As a user, I always need a response, even if it's just the dreaded "we'll get back to you ASAP".
By my reading, it's the opposite, that only a society that has already ended (of some other cause) would be incapable of managing nuclear waste; dangerous levels of mismanagement would only occur in a postapocalyptic setting or similar.
Every close to sea neighbor ( and further) of China is actually threatened by China and as such, maintains US relations.

The core problem in this case is China. Not someone willing to help because there is a clear problem with China.
Unless you mean when developing on the nixpkgs repo, in which case it could help.
My Fujifilm firmware reverse engineering project has been incredibly difficult so far. The codebase isn't that complicated, but reverse engineering the most cryptic and obscure embedded RTOS I've ever seen is next to impossible.
I think the argument was that if the society loses the ability to manage nuclear waste, it would have been due to some societal collapse caused by other reasons.
> What's the use case for a snapshot at that point? Isn't it the same as making a copy of the files?

As you say, it's a consistent copy. cp(1) won't give you that.
Not quite true. As a natural your levels fluctuate massively throughout the day. Drink alcohol? Levels will go down. Bad sleep? Levels will go down. Sick? Levels will go down. Low body fat %? Levels will go down. When you’re on TRT you have consistent levels 24/7 no matter what environmental conditions are present. This has a significant effect. You will absolutely be able to more easily build and maintain a good physique on TRT.
As an American this sounds like my fiancee speaking mandarin any time shit gets real lol

English is the new lingua franca, and I'd bet English terms will have as much sticking power 1000 years from now as latin/"Italian" does today as a result.
Just jumping back to day i find myself using it daily! Awesome work!
Looks fine to me. Syntax is the run-of-the-mill post-Java style currently favored, as exemplified by e.g. Haskell or Rust. Not a fan personally, but this is what is popular now, so that's what we have to live with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Style-wise, looks fine. Code split up into functions where it makes sense, inlined where it doesn't. I've seen worse - for example, code that takes the equivalent of that, and splits it into 100 functions across 10+ files.
Yes, I've seen this. Satanic.
You would have to be doing something incredibly inappropriate for that to be your experience. I’m quite confident you haven’t actually been through this yourself.
> Tell that to the cannabis is laws.

I would, but the US Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005) already did; the current state of nonenforcement of federal prohibition agaimst state-authorized use isn't from a Constitutional limit due to the interstate commerce clause, but from a federal law adopted by Congress, specifically, an appropriations rider adopted in each spending bill since 2014 prohibiting DoJ from spending funds to enforce federal marijuana laws against certain acts whetr authorized by state law.
Indeed. After the vote of the Parliament, the Council needs to also approve the final text. But in practice the ministers only rubberstamp whatever Coreper (the ambassadors) have approved, and Coreper deals with dozens of matters in any one meeting:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/mpo/2023/6/corep...

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/mpo/2023/6/corep...
"A thief is mostly just scifi nonsense."

Yes, militaries, secret services and terrorists don't exist. Russia/China/USA don't exist and wouldn't find it incredibly convenient to cause major damage to each other by "leaking" these stockpiles. Added benefit, it only would kill those exposed and leave machinery untouched. Nobody would ever steal stuff like this. /S
Just to note, MOVEit is (was?) used by banks, non-profits, healthcare companies, oil companies, airlines, etc. [1]

So this hit a wide spectrum of services both public and private.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/15/moveit-clop-mass-hacks-ban...
They (top athletes) are also often physically devastated at age 40 and suffer from chronic issues for the rest of their lives. The incentives for top athletes are not conducive to a healthy life at all.
It’s your life so take my bullshit morality with a pinch of salt, but you make it seem like at least three of your workdays are dedicated to this job. That seems significant enough.

I’m sure you do an excellent job and your boss is probably over the moon with you, but this is not about what “society” notices about you. This is about what you know. If I entered into contract and obliged myself to work a set number of hours (and not “productivity”) then I have honour-bound myself to that and all the mental gymnastics in the world cannot change that. I would know I could be more productive and that is actually contractually agreed upon, that’s the rub. If I thought otherwise I need to change the contract to “value of X” iso “X hours”. (And maybe you have such an agreement?)

That’s just for me though, I don’t judge you and I’m sorry if I seem that way. Just wanted to offer a counter to the “sucker” narrative.