skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, we're still 100% mortal, and it's this big thing that looms over everybody. Nothing has changed in that regard. We die just as much as we ever did.

I had a terrible fever when I was 3, I probably wouldn't have made it if it wasn't for modern health care. Beyond that, though, I've only needed modern healthcare for ailments caused by modernity: Tooth problems from sugar and not chewing enough, and also I was hit by a car.

Talking about cruel healthcare practices, though, can you imagine being on your back with a tube shoved down your throat for weeks while you slowly suffocate to death like some of those peeps in the COVID wards?

3 of my 4 grandparents are dead, and all but one died in slow, drawn out and excruciatingly painful ways.
I scrolled through all of it and it still ends at alt.* which is a minuscule fraction of all of usenet. Where is the rest?
Of course a stab is better than decapitation. The point of the analogy is to ask whether the stabber is your friend.
JavaScript Today Is for Sale
https://javascripttoday.com and https://blog.javascripttoday.com are for sale.
> I try to use private browsing tabs as much as I can.

I regularly open websites and searches in private mode, but cookie notices are killing me. iOS Safari doesn't even share cookies between private tabs, so there's one notice per tab, even if you already accepted/denied it.
I just watched this for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Enjoyable film, though I actually cried at the end, knowing what was about to happen there.
WandaVision Gets Physical Release, Without WandaVision Itself
My website is being targeted, how to stop it?
My friend and I maintain the website jointly but recently we discovered that someone has completely copied the entire website except the logo, and made it available over the newly registered domain. We have just taken down the website by using the DMCA but the attempt did not stop there. Instead, the same duplicate copy was again uploaded onto another one website. This time also we discovered and tried using the DMCA to take down but the hosting provider did not take any action or reveal the infringers name and contact details so far even though it has crossed more than 14 days.

Original Work:
whatmylocation.com

1st unauthorized duplicate work:
myziplocation.com (taken down using DMCA)

2nd unauthorized duplicate work: myzippostalcodes.com (need to be taken down)

We suspect this would be a one of the well known malpractice attempts by any of our competitors. Even if we are able to take down the duplicate content this time, we can't say they will stop by this attempt. How to handle this situation and legally identify the fraudsters? Any legal or relevant advice or would be greatly appreciated?
> There's a constant stream of duplicate and low effort junk that gets only stronger over time,

There's a question on meta from a decade ago about what the Roomba (automatic deletion scripts) should be deleting. One of the answers had a bit of point in time information:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/262077

> How much traffic do the questions that get duped to something bring? Especially the (currently) 410 questions linked to the Java NPE question.

The Java NPE question is https://stackoverflow.com/q/218384

It now has 10,339 linked to it. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/linked/218384?lq=1

That makes it harder to find the original source, more difficult for google to chase, and clusters results.

> The original idea is great, but like any other place it needed to evolve barriers as userbase skyrockets and it mostly failed to do that so far.

Which upper management has been working against by encouraging a reduction of those barriers, disincentivizing people from moderating and curating, and trying to grow engagement from people asking questions.
I say that because property values in areas like that are likely to be on the decline and it might be a sooner is more kinda thing to pay attention to that
> and dozens of people post answers claiming that this is the wrong way to do it and that they should use some other tech to solve the problem

Yes, and they are factually correct in doing so. The correct answer to the question: "How do I use a hammer to tighten a screw" isn't a lengthy description of how to perform some magic with a hammer. The correct answer is: "You don't. Use a screwdriver."

HTML isn't parseable with regex. The various answers under the question explain in great detail why [1] that is the case.

SO isn't a help forum, it's a question archive. The purpose of an answer isn't to solve one guys specific question, but to provide an answer that is useful to all people who ever stumble upon this question.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1758162/19508364
>The endgame is to move all ad and tracking code to 'first-party', i.e. the website delivers the code in its source.

I don't know why this hasn't been happening. I can think of a thousand ways of making sure that users see my ads. The fact that you can block ads via /etc/hosts is... pathetic.
This paragraph from the explainer stood out:

> Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they're human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.

This phrases itself as ensuring news sites can block unpaid users, but also targets the Internet Archive, other webpage archives, possibly Reader modes, and more.
God I watched all these too as a kid. Had some of the videos on tape and I remembered watching them all the time. Kiki Stockhammer!!! My first grownup crush (I was a teen).
Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm
Agree. Using "not in" can also theoretically make certain checks faster (e.g. testing negative presence in a hash-based data structure can bail out without walking the collision chain if the initial hashed location does not have an element).
(Note that I'm not the parent)

The first goal of the proposal is to

> Allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device.

That is, to give web servers the ability to Digitally restrict (or Manage) a user's Rights to access content on a device and software stack of their choice.

Can you explain in what ways this is not DRM?
There is no one size fits all answer. It depends on the tolerance for failure in the system. If testing in production stays within the tolerance, then it's likely more efficient to test there. If not, then it's more efficient to test pre-prod.
The funny thing is that the person who worted top voted answer is not smart all. He might look smart for a newbie but the question is about tokenizaion and not about parsing.

So here is the reason: the top voted answers are wrong.
> these school districts bought a $250 computer 7 years ago

I have not tried to confirm this myself, but the petition ends by stating that some of these products are still available for purchase today.

> you can easily install a Linux distro on Chromebooks and extend the life yourself

It is entirely possible that YOU can do that. But I have worked in school technical support departments (once long ago, I led one) and I can assure you that in most cases THEY are not capable of installing a Linux distro on their Chromebooks.
Is this truly your take on it?
For those who want this it exists on https://search.marginalia.nu
> he's a "free speech absolutist" and is "defending the future of democracy of the world".

thats what he says....... his actions say otherwise
Really have no idea what you’re referring to with the legal bill things. Other than the company that represented the Twitter deal, which is in the middle of a lawsuit over their charging practices. Seems like you’re mixing up trumps legal history with Musk.
Perhaps you could detail how organic chemicals without exception degrade rapidly. You may want to share this groundbreaking insight with those that study PFAs, some of which have estimated environmental half-lives of over 1000 years. It's also worth noting that a lot of environmental degradation is caused by the processes of living organisms, which is obviously not an issue if life has not evolved yet.
How is that even supposed to work? Go ahead and downvote and flag and try to deplatform and cancel me all you want (even though it would disprove your conspiracy theory that my name somehow protects me, and make you a hypocrite). So you actually created that brand new green account just to say that, huh? You're so ridiculously and ignorantly wrong, no wonder you don't want to associate your own name with your comment. You're so addicted to conspiracy theories, you even make them up about me. I invite everyone to downvote and flag this comment just to prove how wrong you are.
I think you are describing many programmers, myself included. Dyslexia and some form of ADD seems to go with the territory.

In my case, I tend to get really passionate about some project, not so much because it will make me rich and famous but rather simply because I cannot wait to play with it when it's coded.

That gets me through all the typos and so forth.

Keep hacking!
There is no need for names to evolve.

Based on what you said, let the kid have a proper name and then they themselves can change to weird as they wish later. Stupid parents have no right to give a stupid joke name to others.
groupon used word press in the beginning to create it's deals pages.
Because we have theories and proofs for those theories. Others like "god created the world" or something have nothing to support them. Therefore those are currently being viewed as facts as long as there is no alternative theory and proof.

You can't say that "but we will find disproving material in the future so this is not fact". If this kind of argument is valid, I can also say that "you will be wrong anyway in the future so you are just wrong all the time". Do not use future to determine today.
Scaling Front End Applications
Best Practices for Scalable and Maintainable Frontend Projects.

Malte Ubl, the CTO of Vercel, gave a talk at React Summit 2021 on the principles of scaling frontend applications. He narrowed down the principles to six key points that can be applied to any frontend project to create a scalable, maintainable, and adaptable repository.

This article summarizes the key points from his talk and provide practical tips on how to apply these principles in your frontend projects in a practical way.
You're optimistic. The denial you see today isn't going to wane over time. People's minds are being poisoned and once poisoned, they're essentially gone. The most optimistic thing you can hope for is our grandkids and great grandkids, who will suffer the full blunt of climate change, will wonder why we did so little to stave off what we knew was going to happen.

But I've also lost hope on that. After all I would have thought the rise of Nazism in Germany would have provided us a historical lesson. Less than 100 years later and that lesson appears to be lost on many people.
Unused cycles are wasted cycles. /s
Vim edit-compile-edit cycle for fast error browsing
It’s strange that cars can operate without vendor support for 100+ years. What happens when a vulnerability arises through the 2010 infotainment console?
> People who want to work use it to find the work that’s best for them, paid or unpaid, and those who work a bit less focus on everything else in their lives of more importance than overwork.

I'm particularly interested in this. I like working -- I like it a lot... but, I don't think everyone should have to do it, nor should _anyone_ have to put up with a terrible job because it's the only thing that can pay their bills.

I like working especially in my field because I feel I can really do something impactful. I understand that not everyone feels that way about their jobs.

I feel that UBI would allow more people to chase those things that would help them feel impactful.

> ... I was blown away that crime dropped by 42% in Namibia while entrepreneurship quadrupled ...

Holy shit.

_This_ is what I want my taxes to go toward. Not the military industrial complex, not the prison industrial complex. I want my tax money to go toward improving the lives of people in need.

I pay a lot in taxes. I wish my neighbor could have some of it. We do, in fact, live in a society.
It's got several 4x7 pixel displays.
You sneer at “getting on the front page of HN” but when you rephrase it to, “discuss something you’ve observed informally” your dismissal loses its oomph.

The point may be to entertain as well as inform. Many humans enjoy the unfocused discussion around the main point, and perhaps the author prefers it to the clinical and formal tone an academic paper tends to take.
> Is there any studies to back up this claim?

Did you read TFA? It's the entire subject of the piece.

One could analogize attention as a muscle. If you're only lifting 5KG dumbbells, you're not going to be able to lift 25KG.
Ask HN: Any good self-administered alternatives to Stack Overflow?
After seeing "The Fall of Stack Overflow" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855516, I'm wondering if there are any good self-administered alternatives to Stack Overflow when developing a new tool or utility?

For example, Github repos have the "Issues" tab. But, the "Issues" tab mixes bugs and other task tracking with help requests. Furthermore, the "Issues" tab isn't the question and answer format that Stack Overflow follows.

Is there perhaps an open-source Stack Overflow clone that's easily hosted on Heroku (or via Docker?)
Have they won any of these frivolous suits? Don’t think so, they’re lawyers are trying to push as far as they go but they aren’t ignorant of the law.
My theory these days is that indexing services like google are now too big to work properly. There's more and more noise added every time new information is indexed, to the point where strong bias is necessary for it to return relevant results to average user.

Maybe there's a point where the internet, with decades old information pilling up, becomes unbearably big for indexing services to handle all of it in a efficient manner. Hence the recent "optimizations" that companies swear haven't worsened searchability.
Here is info how I installed Debian to Chromebook:

https://github.com/xet7/chromebook

If it needs locking down, just not give root password to students. Manage them all with SaltStack etc.
To parent's point, depending on your org "VSCode" is less the editor part, and more the server component coupled with specific extensions, and probably container definitions for some esotheric projects.

We have a setup guide for beginners, and the VSCode route can be set in 15 min , where going for any other editor would probably require half a day.

Switching to something else could of course be done with enough effort, but it would take some crazy level sabotage from Microsoft to go these lengths.
I'm glad SO is going down, because it is a really nasty site. Every time I click on a page it asks again for cookie permission. Probably they want me to register to the web site, which I refuse to. So, no wonder people who are not already members think it is not a good search result.
> That OpenBSD just never got around to implementing AVX more thoroughly?

Realistically that probably the right answer, they didn't have the developers nor did they priorities going in and just retro-actively fitting AVX in everywhere where it could potentially help with speed. The "smart choice" deliberately or not, is to not just jump onto everything new but adopt new features at a slower pace.

My reaction was towards against stuff like this:

> I get frustrated because many times OpenBSD is immune to security vulnerability simply because they don't implement modern tech advancements like AVX.

I don't get that. Sure part of it is might not getting around to implementing it, but there's also an implicit choice in not just going in and adopting new features everywhere just because you might need it. OpenBSD developers doesn't seem to have viewed AVX as being something that needed to be prioritized. Otherwise it would have been in more places.

But you're right, they do use AVX, that's clearly a mistake on my part.
It had coca extract, it still does, but now, the cocaine is removed.

The extracted cocaine is used by the pharmaceutical industry, as a bonus for top level executives.

Yes, the last part is a joke, but it is really used in medicine as a local anesthetic.
Apple uses to go at a great lengths in order to jeopardizing students so it is not a role model.

And since a Chromebook OS is Gentoo (AFAIK) Google might just de-google that laptops and return the ability for user to continue to do at least some limited set of tasks. 7 years is nothing for any laptop with replaceable battery.
He is successful but there has been questionable decisions made at both SpaceX and Tesla, such as the recent launchpad destruction or the issues with self driving. In both of these examples, Musk has decided to move fast and break things despite objections. The media started exposing these issues when their feud with Musk started, IMO.
Yeah. I give it 12 months at most before Twitter goes back to being Twitter and X becomes some kind of guiding vision blah blah blah.
Twitter is already as irrelevant as MySpace or usenet to anyone under 30. It is a dead brand walking. Renaming makes total sense.
Does this refusal of medicine extend to those who are incompetent? For example, if someone staples their finger to the wall should they be allowed to seek medical help? What about a car accident due to texting while driving? What about someone carrying a lot of boxes downstairs then trips and falls?

Why when people do something you don’t like do you want to control them by removing access to medicine?
> The endgame is to move all ad and tracking code to 'first-party', i.e. the website delivers the code in its source. (Un?)fortunately that is not happening quickly since advertizers distrust the publishers.

The other issue with this is that advertisers use Google/TradeDesk/Etc because it gives them access to a ton of supply (publishers) with one interface to handle all of their reporting/metrics. If the publishers own the tracking/targeting/reporting there will be 1000 different implementations. Which is probably good for the end user and publisher but bad for the advertisers. It will be interesting to see where adtech goes in the next 5 years.
In addition to the explanation others provided here [1] are some additional undocumented features that someone wrote that may be helpful.

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
This is a bad example as they would be direct competitors within the same market.
Ask HN: How do you find the right VC investors?
How do you find your VC investors? I recently tried to help a friend who's raising funding for her startup. I defaulted to using Pitchbook, but I wondered if there is a better service that can help me generate a short-list (maybe even ranked list) of VC's she should be approaching?

Is there somewhere I can go (other than Pitchbook) to get that list, or find those investors?

To be clear, this post is not looking for investor recommendations, I'm looking to learn how others do this, (how others make this list of VC's to reach out to or approach).
>Plus you can easily install a Linux distro on Chromebooks and extend the life yourself.

100%

I imagine there is some sort of locked down linux that make it so kids can't go full anarchy.

This is just a reminder to support FOSS, seems like there is always someone willing to pick up the torch or fork it.
And nerves makes it easy to do IoT stuff / almost-embedded
> We kinda do.

You are talking about nuclear, aren't you? I agree with you that nuclear is part of the solution. The pragmatic in me just insists that we cut drastically fossil fuel consumption after enough nuclear reactors are in operation.
> but it still holds years worth of answers that were just fine a few years ago

The flip side of that is a large proportion of those are no longer fine or operant.
why not just save the page as html? Isn't that what official Safari does with the reading list?
I think people are misinterpreting this -- it looks fine for, say, the first 20 invoices if you suddenly find yourself needing to generate them. There are plenty of more complex options once the transaction count and tax situation gets too onerous for copying into Excel.
Please try again -- now all of our services are back online, except for Proton Mail Bridge. We are also currently in the process of bringing the Bridge online too: https://status.proton.me/.
> The company’s aggressive pursuit of growth, coupled with lack of moderation in the app, has already led Signal employees themselves to publicly question whether growth might come from abusive users, such as far-right groups using Signal to organize.

Lol what? What exactly does far-right mean in this case? Why intersperse irrelevant political digs at another ill-defined faction? Does far-right just mean non-progressive and conservative?
Also around that time that me and my friends learned what 'Extended Area' calling was- we all thought that if it was not long distance then it must be free! I remember us solemnly concluding that we would have to 'hack' the phone company. All of us also very special.
> but once you figure out how to get on usenet (which I no longer know how to do!) it is a much better experience.

Get a reader and sign up on https://www.eternal-september.org

The days of open servers are gone, but fairly permissive authenticated servers exist.
I think it's more accurate to call it an early precursor to the video game.
Trains: the crab of public mobility.

futurists:train::evolution:crab
I considered it and came to the conclusion that they are wrong.
Seems like the only people making money in this whole thing is the company hired to change the sign every other week when Musk decides to make a joke or do a sudden rebrand.
Since you're obviously such an expert in all these fields that you can confidently assert that none of them know what they're talking about, why don't you link to some of your published papers where you prove that the accepted theories and analyses are wrong?

If you're going to insult and denigrate entire fields of research, I think you should put your money where your mouth is.
If you are in engineering or physics in the US, you use metric.

There are some beautiful conversions too: 1 m^3 of water is 1000 kg or 1 metric ton. It is also 1000 liters of water.

Wait until you run into the Imperial system's slug, a derived unit of mass, or the blob, the inch-based unit of mass in the Imperial system. 1 blob is 12 slugs.

The metric system is just logical and cleaner than the Imperial system. No crazy conversions e.g. 1 ft = 12 inches, or 1 ft / 5 = (1 ft * 12 inches/ft \ 5 = 2.4 inches = 2 inches and 0.4 inches is almost 25/64 or 13/32nds!!)

1m = 1000mm or 100cm and 1m / 5 = 200mm or 20 cm.
1m / 3 = 0.3 (repeating decimal) m or 333.3 (repeating decimal) mm. No fractions needed.

I can't tell you how many people struggle to read a tape measure down to a 1/16 or 1/32 or in machining to 1/64 and not really grasp it. Uncertainty in measurement is a recipe for disaster in science and engineering.