skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do I get Good at Cable Management?
I’ve known a bunch of folks who were really good at network cable management, none of whom were full time network techs. When I try to imitate them, my cabling ends up a total mess. If you’re good at cable management, how did you learn it?
mail is federated, but web mail apps seem ok
Who knew! I certainly didn’t know that Ben Franklin was not in favour of the bald eagle being chosen as US's national bird:
[..]
"I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.

The turkey is a much more respectable bird and withal a true, original native of America. "[…]
Finding the search terms is half the search. If you already know "Sparta", you're past that stage.

Or, by Douglas Adams, knowing the question is pretty important.
Contrary to popular opinion - physical attractiveness and intelligence are highly correlated: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

Higher IQs are correlated with higher incomes, too: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208125113.h...

Anecdata source of one - but most of my friends from college who could've ended up with many many women ended up with women that had super rich parents, and most of the women that everyone was crazy about ended up with men with rich parents.

None of them claim to have married for money - but from the outside - the odds seem to be that at least some of them probably did.
>newspaper run by a religious cult

I think you confused them with someone else, Moon of Alabama is just an anonymous pro-Russian blogger:

>The editor and the person who runs the blog are anonymous, and the about page states that “Bernhard started and still runs the site, and you can reach the current administrator of this site by emailing Bernhard

>In this update, we find that Moon of Alabama has become sympathetic toward Russia and the war in Ukraine, often citing misinformation ... Generally, Moon of Alabama is a pro-Russian conspiracy website.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/moon-of-alabama/
How is performance compared to the ordinary implementation? Same, better, worse?
not a lot of people knew how to write back then?
AI Won't Save the World
The only innovations in the C languages are in making it more like Lisp or working around the deficiencies of a syntax with no macros by adding more syntax on top.
I mean, yes. They aren't that important to us. We have much better systems, both on land and airborne. The problem is Ukraine hasn't been given most of them (and admittedly our best tools for maintaining air supremacy, the F-22 and F-35, are super expensive and require lots of maintenance).

We've also given Ukraine just a tiny fraction of the Patriot and NASAMS systems that we ourselves would use.
this is tough for Elon to fight against, companies fighting like dogs for getting the data for free.
if he goes too hard, he'll harm harmless users.
I use this and it works great: https://notrashsearch.github.io/about.html
What’s so memorable or “heirloom” about a crappy or embarrassing picture of yourself taken by someone else? It’s not as if the relative lovingly painted it from scratch - it’s just a photograph.
Au contraire, Winamp 5.9.2 released recently and it's the same old player.

They are working on a new one that I am somewhat suspicious of, but Winamp 5.9 has been a pleasant surprise.
> Source?

Men. You know any?

> I can envision a decent proportion of men

You can envision it? Anyone can envision anything.

> at least myself and a few I know, who would find it preferable to have a redundant source of income in the household.

"Myself and a few I know"? Are you a man? Then you should know. What's with the awkward response?

> having one who is capable of earning more can be a desirable trait for multiple reasons.

As the OP stated, men are attracted by youth, beauty and physical traits. Women put more focus on money and status. Men are biologically programmed to want women they can breed with. Women are biologically programmed to want men who can provide for them and their offspring. It's why women want men who are taller than them and also who make more money than them.

Sure, it would be nice for a woman to have youth/beauty and money. But given a choice of a woman with youth/beauty + no money and no youth/beauty + money, most guys would choose youth/beauty + no money. I don't remember a single time anyone ever wondered about "how much a woman makes" when it comes to dating.

If you are a man, ask yourself, would you rather have an old ugly female doctor or a young attractive homeless woman. If you are a man, your lived experience should be source enough.
Hasn't played in MLB for over two decades, gets $1.2M a year until 2035
Even if the number is from a bachelor pad how would you know a family isn't visiting and a violent husband didn't just decide to go full batshit crazy? Or someone is calling from a google voice number where you can pick your area code?
I recently switched to Kagi, and it does most of the things I talk about above. I don’t stumble into SEO crab very often anymore. And when I do, I instantly black hole it.

They recently rolled out a leaderboard where you can see the top sites people block, downrank, uprank, and pin to the top. Extremely useful.
Fair enough. However, I'm not sure that's an improvement.
> It’s so incredible how deep the rabbit-hole goes when you try to solve a real world problem and you have the capacity to understand and pull information from a vast number of seemingly unrelated works.

It's funny, I considered quoting this other part as well:

> The big prize is to discover a new fractal bud. You notice a crack in the surface of knowledge, pry it open, and there's a whole world inside.

The nature of fractals is that everything is a new fractal bud. There's really endless complexity everywhere. So I don't think that alone is the "big prize". There's some other dimension, like utility or interest. Because I get that discovering a new subfield of topology is different from discovering the new sounds you can make banging on your stove. But it's not just that one has more to it than the other.

Real world problems with disparate fields involved are a rich of source of "medium sized" fractal buds by this unnamed measure. No one is dedicating their life to your application of measure theory to data dashboards, but it's meatier than searching in the absurd and easier to find than breaking ground in pure theory.
I started saying exactly this. In my culture, our elders used to say this about old fashioned photographs. Young people used to laugh about this.

Now I wonder if those elders were also joking, just didn’t wanted their photos to be taken.

EDIT: I still take plenty of pictures but not too many or share as much. Mostly don’t want my photo to appear in random places. My joke is that if you take too many photos, then you will lose your soul completely.
Second to last paragraph:

> That matters because fusion research, with no risk of runway chain reactions and producing vastly less radioactive waste, is being conducted under existing regulations by individual states, rather than the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Google Gladys Orca, here in Argentina one of them was hit and then they started to pursuit and attack Yachts.
Why? I mean what event made you glad?
There’s a difference between “I don’t want any photos of my kids in a server anywhere” and “please don’t share pictures of my kids to other people unless we do it privately”, which your wife immediately violated by screenshotting an obviously private message.
IMO he’s talking about innovation and creation as “great work”.

Sure there’s vast numbers of people doing great work that isn’t innovation and creation.

You’re dismissing the insights here too quickly if you’re just wanting to find fault with the intersection of the term “great work” with all the people in the world doing all sorts of different types of great work.

This is about creation and innovation as great work.
Yup. The US uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin for portable antiarmor, and it's still in production.

If the US Army or Marines needs to defend against air attack, they expect to have their own air support available.
I think they learned that there is tasty meat wrapped in nylon wrappers in those piñatas
The problem is also that federated doesn't really solve the problem of decentralization and that's the problem we ought to be solving. I don't want to create an account on the X instance of the fediverse, I want to create an account on the fediverse. It should be one big fediverse, which instance I use should be completely transparent and irrelevant. Coupling accounts to instances of the federation might be the easy solution, but it doesn't solve the problem we actually should be solving. This was already something I disliked about Jabber/XMPP and this was 20 years ago, we ought to have solved this by now.
We've forbidden most people to take pictures of our youngest because we don't want his pictures online without his consent. My parents are still very mad about it.

We've posted or shared some limited photos but never ones that show his face.
> Compound literals are lvalues

> ((struct Foo){}).x = 4;

Do such lvalues have any real use?
> I blame the government more for not keeping the supply chain alive

A broad section of Americans, from the 1970s (roughly post peak Soviet power) through today (albeit declining), has called for dismantling our military-industrial complex. That production capacity is the military-industrial complex. The peace dividend of the 90s was a direct result of reörienting military production to civilian use, making fewer guns and more butter.
We had diplomacy: it produced Helsinki, Budapest memorandums, Ukraine Russia border treaty, and NATO Russia founding act. All of these reaffirmed the security of borders, right of countries to pick their alliances, and the independence of Ukraine. Russia just doesn't like what it signed up for.
Uh, linux in the data center?
They likely changed something and unintentionally messed things up. Many users are reporting issues, even those using the official Twitter app.
As usual, this is both interesting but also so generalizing as to get frustrating in places. But it’s clearly well-meaning and earnest, which makes it easier to tolerate some of its annoyingly breezy certainty.

Then there’s this:

> Religions are collections of cherished but mistaken principles. So anything that can be described either literally or metaphorically as a religion will have valuable unexplored ideas in its shadow. Copernicus and Darwin both made discoveries of this type.

> [18] The principles defining a religion have to be mistaken. Otherwise anyone might adopt them, and there would be nothing to distinguish the adherents of the religion from everyone else.

First, anything can be either literally or metaphorically described as a religion, so that makes this an empty principle, since it either covers nothing or everything or both. (“Cheesecake is my religion.” Etc.)

Second, the footnote is literally impenetrable to me. Honestly. I can discern no coherent meaning. That everyone could adopt a principle or belief does not mean it must be false just because everyone uniformly and indistinguishably believes it and therefore nobody disbelieves it. Whether people can be distinguished from one another with respect to some belief (say, that in base 10 arithmetic that 1+1=2) has nothing to do with the truth vel non of that belief.

And honestly, I am genuinely struggling to fathom a mind that could not only believe that statement but believe it so deeply that they breezily announce it as obviously true. So it’s funny that this is the next paragraph:

> What are people in your field religious about, in the sense of being too attached to some principle that might not be as self-evident as they think?

The only, and I mean, literally only, interpretation that I can come up with is that PG is using “religion” and “religious” in enough different ways that when he mixes them, as it seems to do here, he doesn’t notice. Or he means them ONLY in the sense of “too attached to some principle that might not be as self-evident as they think.” But I have a very strong suspicion that he is definitely not using them only in that way.
NIH killed OOP. Nobody wants to use someone else's object, because that isn't FUN and programmers get paid in FUN.
the initial plan made sense as a way to weaken the Soviets, but after the USSR collapsed in the 90s the US should have pulled out and also not let China into the World Trade Organization unless they played fair. Going to be seen as an all time historical blunder.

Tiananmen square made it clear China wasn't going to change and the idea that "improving economy leads to democracy" has literally never happened unless that nation was occupied by the US military like Germany and Japan
That interpretation of GPL is the main reason for this post. You have not stated anything new here. Your argument started with something about effort and fell back to their legal line. All your posts in this thread are of a defensive/shilling nature. It has stopped being productive.
Both are valid, but I much prefer the `register` method I gave (documented in https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Register-Variables....), as it is far more self-explanatory. GCC's extended asm syntax has too many inscrutable constraint and modifier codes even excluding these GCC-ext-asm-specific codes to reference machine-specific registers by name. As such, I totally disagree with your statement about "the only good use". Given that I first learned about that method of specifying registers by reading linux kernel source code, I think others would disagree as well.
I'd be willing to argue that "sentient" is a bad word. These creatures are capable of transmitting complicated ideas. That means they have wisdom. This means they are sapient, not sentient. Sentient means they are able to respond to input, but we don't go around and call HTTP servers sentient.
It's not particularly harmful fwiw. A yacht sinking due to an orca would have sunk due to a strong wave.

Also it seems the orcas are bored.

If Hvaldimir is anything to go by a ball would be a good solution here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvaldimir
Does that include CAM? Much of what I pay for is the CAM functionality.
No, that's just one of many "theories" about how this particular biochemical works, but it is not in any way a proven fact since we don't really know how the brain works in the first place, only what it looks like under certain conditions. "Dopamine hit" absolutely IS a thing though, because that term just refers to the fact that when dopamine producing areas of the brain light up in fMRI scans, people report feelings of pleasure. That's really all it means.
if the Dutch East India company had missiles it probably would have
Could a hybrid approach work? [1] Add a "Login with Github" button on a forum or some other file sharing thing or some other self hosted repo platform.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71741596/how-do-i-implem...
You could pass them to a function where something non-null is required but you don't want to use it, like : `f(&(struct Foo){0})`
You didn't really tell me how likely that is, or what even the harm is. Lots of things happen, there are always cases.

It seems like something people fear and let that drive their choices without it being very likely or having consequences.
"Please stand by while I get my credit card information ..."

(leaves phone off the hook)
Iunno, I have two numbers in the same area code, one work and one personal. I fuck with them on my personal number but not on the work number.

Can’t say I’ve observed any difference in inbound frequency.

If we could just advise everyone to mess with them and waste their time, the problem would go away.

(Which is the opposite of local advice by “law enforcement” to just hang up, which just speeds up the scammer’s process to find an actual victim)
Good point, but I think the feature that I can paste any fediverse URL into the search field on my own mastodon instance and view it there, solves around 40% of the problem.

There are also already browser extensions which automatically redirect you to your own instance I think, but those need access to all browsing :-/
Apartment threading means that your component has a thread in, which doesn't call into other components. It receives the requests via messages, same if it were running in another process. I believe there is marshaling of arguments to an apartment thread, like in the out-of-process case. Thus you don't have to deal with the possibility that two or more calling threads are executing the component's code.
Honestly, watch some YouTube.

I did that for running cables inside computer builds and it gave me so many ideas.

Then... Buy a ton of zipties and such and try it. Then take it apart and do it better. I'm sure within 10 attempts you'll get pretty good at it.
My parents had several issues with boundaries on this point, and in the cases they are allowed to see my kid, they are not allowed to take pictures. Pictures must be taken with my wife or I's phone.

They're mad about it. I don't care.
Students can learn The One True Way from their teachers as well. I think that has more to do with who is learning and who is teaching than it has to do with whether they learned from a teacher or from a video.
I believe you can do this even without the `closure` extension, using standard SQL `with recursive`.

https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html#recursive_common_table_exp...
I get it: the US strategy of dominating in the air means their normal ground troops should never be facing an enemy air offensive at all, which makes Stinger-type missiles largely useless to them.
I always assume that failure to regulate something, when coming from an entity with essentially unlimited power such as a government, is simply done on purpose.
I'm italian and I'm divorcing. Marriage is overrated.
That actually sounds like a pretty positive review. Have you done anything with the gcode paths?

I guess one just works through the tutorials until you on your own.
> If you wanna actually find yourself in a relationship, do what I did and travel to other countries.

A lot of being single is tied pervasive poverty. For folks living paycheck to paycheck, how might they get to another country and then support themselves there?
What was the timeline, if you don't mind me asking? When and why was your wife skeptical of social media, and when did you truly start understanding her concerns?
I don’t disagree, but I feel the need to share a small bit of anecdata for perspective:

My kids often say, “this is so cool! Can you get a photo and share it with our friends online?”

Of course, anyone can take that last sentence, render it in their own context without the availability of any details to conclude that I’m a terrible parent. But that’s kind of my point: parenting is partly about making informed, nuanced decisions. You never have the information necessary to make an informed, nuanced criticism.
Fascinated as I might be to read an approximately 11 trillion word article which says "if you want to be great then work on things you are passionate about stay fresh and curious"

I have to first stop and wonder if this is advice that I've already seen being given in embroideries, on countless coffee mugs, or along the side of a ballpoint pen.
Not going to lie, friends: I’m rooting for the whales.
Is it worth it to be updated on world events? I mean, what do you get from “being informed”? At what level would you say you have to be informed: country? Continent? Culture?
Doesn't the same potential problem exist regarding the selection of a personal teacher? And the same potential solution.
I hear this a lot. I think it's a dangerous crutch. Learning is hard work, no matter how well the given style of teaching matches the preferred style of learning. It's easy to give up any pursuit when it gets to be hard. If you distract yourself with the concern that there might be a mismatch between styles, but the real problem was just that it's a hard subject to master, then you'll waste time shopping around for new styles, starting over, blaming the teacher, criticizing the quality of the materials, etc., when all you really had to do was keep studying and practicing.

See also satisficer vs. maximizer: https://healthymindstherapy.blog/2021/06/12/are-you-a-maximi...
After staying at a job for too long by 2008 and barely surviving the recession at a startup until 2012 and also getting married the same year and (gladly) becoming the father to my then 9 and 14 year old stepsons, I changed jobs six times and pushed myself to get ahead until 2020 and falling into a mid level position at BigTech (cloud consulting department).

I then tried to stay on the treadmill and I spent about a year working toward a promotion by increasing my “scope” and “impact”.

I then realized by 2022 at 48 years old, why? I make more than “enough” especially seeing I work remotely.

I then told my manager I was just interested in “improving in my current role” and my wife and I decided to do something completely different:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966

I’ve never been happier not trying to be “great” and being “content”
Hey I am on the dev team if someone has questions :)
NAND ram is just silicon. SK hynix and Samsung make most of it in their own fabs.
The previous generation as well, and the one before for Xbox 360 and Wii, and the one before for Gamecube.
How did you find and choose the teachers? Do you have lessons in person or online?
That's silly. Straining your relationship with your parents over preventing anyone from simply looking at your child (which hundreds of people do when he/she is walking in public every year, and hundreds more will do by simply buying a yearbook when they are in school) is uncalled for. When you grew into adulthood did you demand your parents take down all of your baby pictures that they had hanging on their walls?
> I mean look at Mastodon - it peaked when Elon took over Twitter, but has just been in decline since then.

It's probably reasonably expected to get a surge of new sign-ups when a competitor does something controversial, then drop back down to a more natural rate (but hopefully still higher than pre-surge). I don't think this on its own indicates failure.

> I built my own HN/Reddit alternative [1] with the sole mission of retaining a high standard of quality. Will it work?

At the risk of being snarky myself, I'd claim the mission is a failure right from user #1: https://i.imgur.com/57BhkkJ.png - the quality standard of ad-hominem soapboxing is already near rock bottom.
Why does the Ruby SDK not use a constructible client like other SDKs? It does not look re-entrant.
But a lot of people knew how to tell stories in bars and a lot of people who knew how to write spent time in bars.
You are just spewing russian propaganda talking points.

Russia requested that nato would leave all the eastern european countries that had joined, Poland, Baltics, Czechia, etc. Then russia could also start invading us after it had taken Ukraine.

Russia was mot interested in diplomacy, they just wanted Ukraine one way or other.
Says what reference? Every one I can find states the opposite. Not to mention Piorun has a much better seeker.
There's the idea, and then there's its execution.

You're saying someone else's successful (and partial) execution of an idea somehow validates the original failed execution.
I find that quote rather condescending. It’s also an excuse in disguise.
A single whaler in 1820 versus a spate of events since a few months back seem rather unrelated

Only if you assume that the inspirational event in 1820 was the only time it happened.

I don't think the Georgians had the ability or inclination to document every time a whale took down a ship around the whole planet.