skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most fans are very aware of the silliness. There's kind of an arms-race nature to the genre to see who can come up with the most over-the-top lyrics and ambience. Perhaps the one non-silly element to it is the cathartic feeling of aggression and rage it tries to get across. Few styles of music are as tapped into that dark portion of the human psyche that revels in violence, forbidden feelings, and raw aggression. It's actually a very cathartic genre to listen to; most fans and bands are very relaxed and calm people otherwise.
I think you missed the point of the post you're replying to:

elmu's current wealth is owed in large part, perhaps the most, to wealth he received from his rich, apartheid African jewel mine owning parents: that is the money with which he was able to get the rest of the money
For us, what we are striving to do differently is:

1/ DFS vs BFS. We are planning on rolling out connectors slowly vs. building tens / hundreds / thousands of connectors to try to attract a broader set of audiences. Those that have tried to replicate data between OLTP and OLAP know how painful it is and we really want to solve this pain point before we move on to new sources. In addition, we're planning on providing more value than just replicating data from source to destination. We're planning on integrating our telemetry library [1] with Datadog such that customers can:
* Centralize all metrics. See Artie metrics without coming to our dashboard, instead it's integrated with your existing tools.
* Help provide cookie cutter monitors for anomaly detection
* We also want to provide better table quality checks

2/ We do not want to change user behavior. We are using pretty standard tools to solve this problem such as Kafka, Pub/Sub and Red Hat Debezium. If you are already using one of these tools, we can just integrate vs. standing up a whole suite of services just for the data pipeline.
* If you have CDC events being emitted for event-driven architecture already, we'll skip deploying Debezium and just deploy our consumer
* If you have Kafka enabled and want to also consume CDC events, we'll just deploy Debezium to publish to your Kafka vs. ours.

3/ Ease of use. This goes without saying, but plenty of tools out there have broken links in their documentation, extremely confusing UI, etc. We really look up to Fivetran in this regard and we try to make the onboarding process for new connectors as simple as possible.

Do you think there are anything missing with the other CDC or data replication tools out in the market? Let me know and happy to see how we can help!

[1] https://docs.artie.so/telemetry/overview
Have you tried converting the dot file to svg and manipulating the svg file in the build process to improve its appearance? I'm not sure if it's worth the effort but perhaps it's a viable alternative.
Microcode updates haven't been managed in-BIOS for over a decade now. If you use Linux, you'll usually see them released as some package like "intel-microcode" or "amd-microcode".

Even EFI updates rarely are very intrusive or dangerous, and can also be handled by the Operating System via an update.
no, absolutely no debit cards for me. i protect my cash with multiple layers of protection. if i lose my wallet or my phone the person who ends up with these things will have no clue where most of my money is at.

amex takes most if not all the risk in my financial life when it comes to day to day spending. one time i had my wallet stolen and the only thing they could muster was a failed gas station transaction. they didn't even try the ATM card.

i use the free points/perks that the irresponsible idiots subsidize to my own advantage. it's linked directly to my amazon account and shows up as a positive cash balance.
From the article:

"Another study explored shoppers’ preference for untraceable payment methods besides cash. Half the participants were informed they had a $20 bill and a debit card linked to their bank account; the other half were told they had a $20 bill and a prepaid debit card. The researchers found that people with the debit card were more likely to use cash to make a harder-to justify purchase (in this case, a party-sized bag of M&M’s). However, those with a prepaid card used it as often as cash to buy the candy."

Doesn't that study control for specifically that counter claim?
I think being smart is more of a state of a person than a property of a person, kind of like health. Genetics plays a role in it (you can be born unhealthy) but so does the environment. I think extreme success in the modern world creates a very unhealthy environment for the state of your smartness.

After all, if I am to believe what Mercier and Sperber are saying in "The Enigma of Reason", reasoning evolved not as a tool to find the truth and make good decisions but as a social tool - to convince others to cooperate with you, to justify your actions in front of the others, to secure your social status. If your cultish following showers you with cheers no matter what you say or do (especially if you label your critics by that label that your followers hate - woke, ideological, racist, censors, or whatever), how can you not lose contact with reality?

That is the simplified version of my explanation for the phenomenon of previously really successful people saying and doing borderline insane stuff. I could name 10 famous people in the last 3 years that IMO fit that pattern.
Prox was invaluable. I never could write good filters myself but there was a small group on its forum that did a lot of heavy lifting. Tragic that its creator died so young.

I wonder if something like it will come back if ad blocking at the browser level is pessimized by Google and others.

Edit: The website still exists at
https://www.proxomitron.info/
You are correct. There was a time when companies ran projects to replace their mainframes. They all largely failed. The trend now is to integrate around the mainframe. Build new functionality on modern systems and leverage the mainframe where it makes sense.

I worked at one company that is trying to replace their mainframe. The project is now in its second decade. The company has the burden of supporting the mainframe application and now the 'modern' application. The project is still a few years away from being able to completely shut off the mainframe.

Oh and the modern application is also showing its age as the business has changed and the modern system built assumption in from the mainframe system and in many ways is just as inflexible to change as the mainframe app was.

This is why companies aren't scrambling to replace their mainframe systems. They are happy to continue paying for the high cost of compute on these systems because its still cheaper and less risky than replacing the system.
You wrote now "no where did I profess; "likely.""

Your original text contained this line: "The above is why Pyrex cookware is likely to crack and split in microwave cooking". I've emphasized where you wrote "likely", which you can verify at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839086 .

Your Pyrex cookware is NOT likely to crack in split in microwave cooking, as I earlier stated at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839452 .

> it is hotter than ambient temperature, microwave energy has been absorbed across the large surface area.

Sure. Agreed. That's why I wrote "the glass will heat up faster than otherwise" with emphasis added to show how I know the glass will heat up no matter its composition.

Put your 1.75QT - 1.65L Pyrex cookware in the microwave, by itself, and it will also heat up. That's not a sign that there is some special additive.

You think the glass turntable contains a metal additive which absorbs energy. This means it will get hotter than glass without the additive. Where is your evidence that it is designed this way?
Last time I tried this it unnecessarily crossed a lot of the arrows between states. Turned a diagram of a moderately complex real world SM into an incomprehensible tangle even to developers familiar with the actual implementation. Does it still do that?
I'm extremely excited to see if Elon Musk can actually pull off driving twitter into the ground to the point where his entire purchase becomes an utter waste of money.
> DB2 runs on Linux
The DBA's I interned with would yell at you for this claim. They'd say UDB runs on Linux, but DB2 only runs on z/OS.

I worked with both DB2 & UDB during my internship 2 decades ago, and while largely compatible with core SQL functionality, that changed quickly after you got off the "normal" path. UDB was released at a much faster cadence, and if you developed to the latest features of UDB, you'd often find yourself unable to deploy against DB2.

A few of my last projects as an intern: 1) storing BLOB objects in DB2 from a .Net app and 2) porting an "interactive" batch-processed COBOL app to ASP.Net form 3) getting DB2 Connect clustering on windows working (I never did get this working despite spending an entire summer on the phone with IBM support).

I've some fond memories of working with the mainframe. Like the time I managed to crash the entire development LPAR with a specific SQL query that broke the DB2 query optimizer... The phone call from the NOC was immediate and went something along the lines of "I don't know what you did, but don't do it again, you just took down all of development". Development was something like +10k users...
Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe
I get sad every time I return back to America from Asia because of how small the public infrastructure is in many parts of America compared to Asia.

If anyone has lived or at least visited places like Tokyo, Japan or Shanghai, China, you probably understand what I am referring to.
Using the Option Module in F#
"In Object-Oriented Programming, it is not uncommon to encounter null values, which can lead to null reference errors. Despite the existence of extensive code to mitigate these errors, they still persist in C# code bases.

On the other hand, in functional programming, null values are not typically utilized. Thanks to immutability, we can rely on values to always contain something. In cases where null values are expected at the boundaries of our system or when we anticipate the absence of a value, we have effective mechanisms to handle such situations.

The secret weapon F# uses for dealing with null value is the option type which is basically a Discriminated Union:"
Falcon 9 is also only partially reusable. The claim is that Musk gave us reusable rockets with no qualifier on economics or safety. By that standard the Shuttle was first.
> the gain of rights for a particular group

I see gay marriage as a gain of rights for all, not for a particular group. I'm not gay, but I now have the right to marry a man for tax purposes, employer-provided benefits, or citizenship/immigration.
Damn. It's like jpeg for neural networks.
There's no hiding totalitarianism, totalitarian governments exercise total control over virtually every aspect of the private lives of their subjects. Under totalitarianism, you can forget about choosing your school or career. You might -MIGHT be allowed to choose your mate, but even that isn't certain because totalitarianism is characterized by such an extreme lack of individual liberty that the state may even tell you who to marry.

A subverted liberal democracy secretly run by a cabal of oligarchs but on the surface still playing hands-off with everyday people's lives is not totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is not some generic insult to describe any oligarchy or authoritarian government. Totalitarianism is the extreme absence of individual liberty.
It's nice to see this treated as an hypothesis rather than an assumption. Too many smart people I talk to take it for granted that the universe is made out of math.
Nothing out of the ordinary for individual government departments to turn to private contractors when the GSA doesn't offer them a service they need when they need it.

GSA has since developed login.gov, but there hasn't been a mandate that other agencies have to use it over third-parties.
I watched it at home, so I didn't walk out technically, but I also turned off "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". The only movies I've physically walked out of have been "The Departed" and "Tree of Life". I don't think it's a big deal to bail on something you're not enjoying, but have given a best effort to get into.
Naive Stoicism: Why pop philosophy is bad for your mental health
In Europe cold kills 10x vs hot. Does anyone know of a study like this for the USA? Is there some latitude where the hot and cold death are equally likely?

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanplh/PIIS2542-5196...
~~getting job interviews~~

haha just kidding...I'm unsure of whether this is useful at all to transit companies, but one goal of this project is to make transit cool and help people understand their cities better.

I originally built this to help me find housing in Toronto, so deciding where to live could be another good use of this tool :)
Memories of running CATIA on a 43p...
Twitter Challenger Threads Struggles for Traction
From my experience: Better have a > 32gig USB Flash drive, everything else doesn't work (MSI) and I don't have an UPS so it's always quite an exciting experience. Especially since Motherboard Manifactures save almost a whole dollar by not having a display ouputting anything. So it's blinkenlights and hope for the best
Isn’t that all of the above?
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical!
$245. Yikes!
no facebook or phones at all, just handshakes and backrooms in upscale bars
OpenAI's Sam Altman Launches 'Worldcoin' Token to Distinguish Humans from Bots
No this means AMD's numbering scheme is intentionally obtuse. This has nothing to do with graphics, but with the CPU core, Zen 2.
> so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99

Maybe he sold it to the holding company of the company formerly known as Twitter?
Which papers cite it? Are they old papers, when perhaps it still existed, or recent ones?

Very interesting either way!
I use cash at small businesses to get a 1%-5% discount. The study seems to skip this use case.
> As an example: The Boring Company.

Have they pushed the boundaries though? As I understand it TBMs have been a thing for a while and plenty of pretty impressive and enormous tunnels have been built in the alps or under seas like the Channel Tunnel or the tunnel section of the Oresund bridge.

This isn't my area of expertise but all I've heard so far were a few test tunnels and the Las Vegas Loop, which isn't lighting the world on fire. I mean if they make it easier + cheaper to build tunnels then I'm all for it. I've just not yet seen anything that suggests TBC is particularly interesting.
It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Flag Your Social Posts
> It is referenced hundreds of times in many classic papers.

According to Google Scholar, it's cited a measly 11 times .

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1491448744595502026...
It feels like not-a-coincidence that OpenBSD added AMD microcode loading in the last 3 days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36838511
How to Scan Vulnerabilities with NMAP: A Comprehensive Guide
Not surprising at all; considering the holes religión left in their heads. They've been trying to fill them in many many ways, just because they claim they're not like their parents doesn't mean we should believe them.
I think thread poster is only commenting on the smaller, yet much more visible mental ill homelessness.

While housing is the solution to true majority of homelessness (like your individual income experience with the teacher), people like the individual above above make valid observations. They’re pointing out problems that, at the very least, get intermingled with consequences of homes being unaffordable for all. This need not be a value judgement on their character. It is a value judgement on actions, which is something that not only is fair (all are in control of what they choose to do), but necessary for a functioning society (how else do you morally compel folks to follow laws and determine responsibility if not by one’s actions?).

The solution is to both make housing affordable to every person *and* ensure everyone who needs it takes it.
just use a proxy shipper
I think you mean the merchant agreement. There are many gas stations in the area where I live that have different cash prices and still take credit cards, so I'm not sure if this is still a thing. And honestly the fact that they would have that lends support to the fact that all of these credit card "benefits" are subsidized by cash payers.
In my packaging work I encounter hard coded assumptions about pointer width, endianness and presence of atomic operations.
Now, there's a good reason to buy a nest! I think I'll start keeping an eye out for them.
This refers to the pic(1) preprocessor to the troff(1) typesetter. Troff is a historical typesetting software with a long history in the Unix ecosystem. Having personally used some of the modern implementations (e.g. GNU troff or groff, heirloom troff) of troff for personal projects, it has been a pleasant experience.

https://troff.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_(markup_language)

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/roff.7.html
The fix is IPv6
As far as I know, for something like this you can only copyright the specific application. So for example it couldn't be used for social media sites.
Sometimes there's even a backup BIOS die available, so yeah, bricking is now much harder than in the past.
This is one of the oldest concepts in Ancient Philosophy. Not only did the Pythagoreans famously believe it, they also derived a number of other concepts from it, including Eternal Return:

"The Pythagoreans too used to say that numerically the same things occur again and again. It is worth setting down a passage from the third book of Eudemus' Physics in which he paraphrases their views:

> ‘One might wonder-whether or not the same time recurs as some say it does. Now we call things 'the same' in different ways: things the same in kind plainly recur - e.g. summer and winter and the other seasons and periods; again, motions recur the same in kind - for the sun completes the solstices and the equinoxes and the other movements; But if we are to believe the Pythagoreans and hold that things the same in number recur - that you will be sitting here and I shall talk to you, holding this stick, and so on for everything else - then it is plausible that the same time too recurs.’"

- Simplicius
Commentary on the Physics 732.23-33."

The notion of a mathematical universe was also quite famous with Platonists and Neoplatonists, who debated it over centuries. There was a form of Platonic revival -- which might owe something to Spinoza and Newton -- in the Early Modern period.

In the 20th century, Konrad Zuse's "Digital Physics" is explicitly a Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.

The way people attribute the concept to Tegmark is somewhat laughable, IMO. He just modernized small slices of it, in a rather haphazard way.
I realize I'm doing a quixotic thing by offering a different perspective to a hate mob, but he's clearly not motivated by appearing intelligent and is doing things with high risk to reward ratio on a long time horizon. He said repeatedly that SpaceX and Tesla had a low chance of success, but poured all his resources into them anyway. People thought he was crazy with examples of countless individual decisions over a 20 year period, but he ultimately succeeded and changed the world. Still the haters persist as an electric car (Tesla Model Y) becomes the #1 selling car in the world and rockets are routinely taking off. "Ha ha, look at this brainless moron doing this thing that looks stupid! See, I was right all along!"
> “Some of them early songs were, instead of actually singing something, it was maybe just a series of growls or screams that kind of went along with it,” he says.

The first Obituary album doesn't always have lyrics even though you can find fans that transcribed them. :)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/obituary-t...
Show HN: Threaddr.com – serverless E2EE communications platform
Hi HN,

I wasn't feeling ready to post my work on HN yet, but with the recent increase in stories about LE attacking free speech [1], I'm starting to tell myself there's no time like the present.

I've built threaddr to scratch a personal itch. It's a weird story but I'll share it anyway. My wife is taking Portuguese classes and has grown really close to her teacher. Her teacher has another student who's also in tech and also weary about the control Big Tech has grown to have over our lives, as am I. She (the teacher) kept telling both my wife and her other student we should meet. But I only use an old iPhone for FaceTime with my wife, I made a point of _not_ engaging with the outside world via anything touched by corporations. So, since we didn't have a way to get in touch in a manner that satisfied our principles of privacy and control over our communications, I spent a couple of months to build threaddr. I then wrote a letter on a piece of paper, in which I encoded a cypher that unlocked a thread on threaddr - where the two of us managed to finally discuss and he's actually coming over to meet in person tomorrow (from one end of Europe to another). So I guess that's also part of my motivation to show you my work.

Anyway, in a nutshell, threaddr does the following:

(i) serverless in that all code runs in the browser; there's no server required to facilitate communications, only a metamask-type plugin (or Brave); messages are stored encrypted on the Gnosis blockchain, no MITM-ing key exchange;

(ii) e2ee - you choose a mnemonic passphrase or a password to encrypt conversations; requires out of band "key" exchange;

(iii) communications - threads are at the heart of threaddr; a thread hosts messages exchanged 1-1 between two users; in addition to threads & messages, you can also have 1-1 video / audio / screen sharing / file sharing; this works thru p2p (WebRTC) and uses the blockchain to store beacons to facilitate RTC handshakes - all encrypted, without touching a third party server

(iv) anonymous - you can choose to create a public profile to make it easy for others to find you on threaddr, or you can stay anonymous and have your wallet address be your identity on threaddr

In short, I'm happy how it worked for a sample size of two. Beyond this, I've finally convinced myself to show it to the world and taking the first step with you.

Please feel free to share any feedback you have be it the good, bad, ugly, go-lock-yourself-in-a-basement type. I'm equally curious to meet other like-minded people that see value in threaddr or can help make it known to others, or happy to learn I'm a nutjob that needs to focus on something else.

Whatever it is, I thank you for your time!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841369
unleash Generative AI --> fake content --> currency to validate humans --> profit?
Wow, this probably changes everything we thought we knew about this company, the product and its CEO.

No, seriously, does he think no one notices that the new X logo still hides the same old Twitter crap?
> Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box,

No of course not. Philosophy is a progression of original insights built upon the prior progression of original insights. But the key word here is "original", aka a leap of intuition that reveals something about existence not previously recognized. Not regurgitated, un-credited, pop-philosophy.