skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is being a mindless cog, and honestly, at the extremes, nobody eants that except for the most mindless, easiest manual jobs. And there is being a professional who does his job as part of a team, follows some basic rules and still speaks his mind, but also knows when it just doesn't do any good. Try being the second, because at the other extreme of the mindless drone (which people are forcedbto be and hardly are by choice) is being a contrarian know-all who is just impossible to work with.

Edit: From what others wrote about about your blogs, I think your ascertion that your personal views shouldn't pose a proboem are wrong. By that I don't mean having them is wrong, but being as outspoken about, lets put it mildly, potentionally controversial opinions in a borderline aggressive way is the problem. It would be an equal problem if we talked veganism as another, potentionally bad, example. Nobody wants to be called out by their co-worker during lunch for having a steak everytime. And nobody wants to talk about why a co-worker feels insulted for not being ablento bring a gun to the workplace.

Edit 2: Paul Graham has one of his earlier articles that seems relevant: the one about keeping a low public profile. Is more relevant than ever, the more said profile deviates from the mainstream the more it can become a problem. GP is great example for this.
I don't dictate IDE choice on my teams, but projects definitely end up with a very convincing "happy path". 75% of the Dev market uses vscode anyway, so I never got resistance to that level. And once .devcontainer is revisioned people would have to work to AVOID using the convenient, perfectly configured environment so no resistance there, either.

At that point, GH codespaces is a convenience tool, icing on the cake for when you want to make a quick edit during PR review, or when you're away from your desk. I saw devs use it that way (and did so myself) with no resistance.

But I have big caveats to my experience:

1) my only teams since this whole toolchain came into existence were joint microsoft/customer "build with" teams, so they were more positively predisposed to MS tooling than average.

2) I've never seen a team that uses web based codespaces EXCLUSIVELY.

Even though I know the difference between vscode-in-electron-with-remote and vscode-in-browser-with-auto-provisioned-remote is academic (and performance is probably better in the browser!)... I would still struggle with how ephemeral web apps feel to me on a gut level. Plus, as an old person I am uncomfortable when my toolchain isn't 100% local. I have nothing against the children with their cloud-powered toolchains, but it's hard for me.

<Principal Skinner on the playground, the children who are wrong>
There is also Modified Newtonian dynamics as a potential alternative to the dark matter explanation for the apparent extra mass:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
Characters are abstract entities, glyphs are the shapes that represent them. a and a are two distinct glyphs for the same character.

"rune" is Go's name for a unicode code point.
I worked in a factory when I was still in school in the 90s. I had to put some metal parts into an injection moulding machine every 21 seconds for 2 stretches of 4 hours with a 45 minute break between. If I missed the 21 second deadline the machine stopped, a yellow light flashed and the foreman shouted at me.

There was a switchboard with buttons for emergency breaks (e.g.toilet break). If you used it the machine stopped, a yellow light flashed and the foreman shouted at you.

I don't write this to complain, actually for me doing this for a couple of weeks during summer recess was quite fun. After this experience I also totally see how you just cannot do a job like that for 40+ years without alcohol.
Super killer T-cells discovered in patients who beat cancer
Are you ok to share those 3 subs on reddit?
I've been using Expo for past 2 years and I enjoyed the experience overall.

But make no mistakes that Expo is a SaaS with the ability to inspect some part of the codebase.

(I stand corrected here) ~Everything important for building and distribution process is moving to EAS, cloud-based service that is not open-source and cannot be self-hosted. So if want to build your app using your own VPS, you are out of luck (at least for Expo managed workflow).~

Again I'm happy with their service and probably would pay for it when the time comes, but the open-source part is not really the big selling point anymore.
I think you can track repo visits by putting tracking images in the readme
There is no way 2% makes you drunk in practice. When I was 14 drinking 3.5% worked like one or two times before I got used to it. And I drank it really fast.
Citation needed. The earth has tons of resources and can easily support several times the number of current humans.

It is bad for the species to have fewer people. It's also bad for the production of novel art.
Not everybody is equal and body adapt to regular consumption.

Although I am not a heavy drinker (mostly only drink alcohol on weekends), I am fine with 3-4 6.5% beers in a day, or similar consumption of alcohol in wine, especially if not binge drinked but over the course of a day mixed with meals. Even the nights I get totally drunk I very rarely feel sick the next day. The reason: even when I drink alcohol I also drink a lot of water. Usually the next day's sickness is due to dehydratation of the brain. If you keep hydrated (with water!) on top of your alcohol consumption even if you are drunk you won't suffer from it the next day.

Having said that, not feeling sick the next day doesn't mean you don't do any damages to your body and your brain.
In a normal conducting material eddy currents dissipate relatively quickly. The shard of material in the magnet video appears to be floating quite stably for dozens of seconds, which implies that eddy currents are not being dissipated. I'm personally excited, I think it's the real deal but with some limits on maximum field strength and current
I have first hand experience of this being false, just a few months ago to stand out for a React open position for a company called Personio, I created a org chart that feel much snappier and friendly using React and CSS3 animations that the one the company is using in their main product (this one if you are curious https://github.com/Ivanca/personio-demo ), I linked it in the cover letter and also tried reaching out some public email addresses of their recruiters but nothing, I got a generic rejection message.

I have tried similar tactics before for some other positions I was highly interested in but nothing, it never works from what I can tell, the jobs I have gotten were all using my generic CV and not much else.
> For those interested, this is Latin for "I give, so that you may give [presumably in the future]".

Yes, apologies for not specifying it. About the topic, I guess that the chances to obtain cheap energy, which would be vital for further industrial development in the areas involved, could convince local leaders to not mess with the projects, also with the perspective of cashing in public political support when time comes.
The T1 was for the customers. The 128k Ricochet modems were for me. ;)
Tell HN: You are looking at the Internet through a keyhole
Just as the title says. A very sanitized keyhole. Google does not produce in the output billions of results. The number of results is very small, and that is a problem.

This might be another 'dead internet rant' [1]. It might be a common knowledge, but Google shows only several pages of results, by average 10 links per page. 31 pages for 'news'. The common argument is that google produces only 'relevant' data, and 'nobody looks beyond the first link'.

I made an experiment today.

Example 1. Google

If I write 'covid' in Google, then it shows me 19 pages of results for 'covid'. 30 pages for news filter for 'covid' keyword.

Example 2. Next. I hoard links [2], from various sources, mainly RSS. I store them in my SQL database. I have about 1095264 links in total.

I have 12566 links which have 'covid' in title. 'covid' is important term, and very broad. Some links in my database are not important. Some are trash. However there is a big difference between the amount of results Google provides, and links found in my database.

Example 3. If I search Reddit for 'covid' keyword, using reddit web page, and search box I can find around 246 links, which is also not a very big number.

Analysis of the tests.

Google focuses on 'recent' links. Does that not erase history, by applying 'recent' filter? I know you can apply a filter in Google tools, but you would have to manually scan for the desired time frame. You would have to know when the news occurred to find some news. It reminds me of hiding the history.

I myself cannot quickly search 1095264 links in my database, but I assume Google has more resources. I think it should do better.

It is easy to find something useful in Google for terms like compiler errors, but I would expect Google to find billions of links for 'covid' keyword.

I am not sure even if chatgpt could be better, cause it gives answers, rather than sources.

What do you think?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

[2] Links are present in https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023
IMO have to weather through cohorts of increased life expectancy due to modernity until their property/wealth transfers (especially in urban areas) gives newer gens more space to family plan. Older I get, the more people who previously didn't want kids due to material conditions lament wanting kids but still not having said conditions. Gut feeling is once enough density in East Asian countries drops from insufferable levels, TFR will pickup. Though might still not enough for replacement TFR, but perhaps settle at a more sustainable equilibrium.

e: over post limit

Equilbirium doesn't have to be current population level. maybe japan with 60m population and lower urban density to enable average house size increase from 1000 sqft to 2000 sqft + other interventions will get TFR closer to replacement @ 60M. Govs still going to have to pile on lots of carrots and sticks on top to make decisions swing towards 2 kid+ households. But it seems like most of Asia/Europe pop density + limited housing is one impediment to raising families.
like what? vote or something
We can still have growth but the growth that matters most, growth per capita. Fewer people but who can be better off individually than we are now.
OpenAssistant/llama2-13B-orca-8k released
USB-PD is not exclusive to the USB-C connector. USB-PD rev. 1 was finalized in 2012, whereas USB-C 1.0 was finalized in 2014.
As an aside, the opening disclaimer "get help from a professional" is, in my view, actively harmful. I'm not anti-therapy but I am anti-telling-others-they-need-therapy. The latter is simply a euphamism for "I don't want to talk to you about your problems". The reason can be as petty as the other person finding such talk to be unpleasant. The idea that you should pay someone to talk about your concerns, insights, struggles, degrades the concept of intimate friendship. I just don't buy it that people in the past didn't have the same thoughts, struggles and emotions. It's just that people listened to each other, however imperfectly, and did their best to help each other. Yes, obviously some situations are really out there (like an acute break from reality) but I'm talking about 'normal' stuff like depression, anxiety, guilt, and self-doubt. Our unwillingness to talk about this stuff with each other is bad, and "go see a therapist" is a cop out that degrades the norm of listening to each other.

Obviously this is an article, not a friend, so the message should be "go talk to a friend".
Nice, what was the year? Approximately.
Image Metadata: Thoughts after 4000 Scans
While I disagree with the stance and tone of that repo, I appreciate that someone stops being a corporate lackey even on their personal websites; we've all become sterile, pleasant representations of the ideal worker just hoping for someone to have the decency to pay us for our programming ability and talent.

Maybe be a little careful with the conspiracy theories, but I am quite done with the corporate-friendly personas we are pushing in our tech world.

I wanted to write a couple posts about anarchism on my personal blog, nothing crazy, and kept being concerned it might drive off a potential recruiter. Who the hell cares, a company where I cannot have a touch of personality is not a place I want to work at either.

Must be because I learned this job in the early 2000s, when sysadmins were wearing black shirts and listening to death metal, and the CEO stayed well away from that office, not the shirt-wearing, well-trimmed DevOps you see at conferences these days.

The only potentially "controversial" idea (as in, corp might not like it but will have to deal with it) that is still accepted in tech is being trans or a furry. I have no issue with either, mind you, just pointing out that anything else is a no-no.
Love this post and reading about " remote lounge " ! I ran a night in a Chinatown dive bar here in Melbourne , Australia back in 1998 and inspired by the release of FSOL " ISDN " back then we streamed live performances from another club in Adelaide using 2 - bonded ADSL 128 Kbps links. It worked great despite just having enough bandwidth for decent audio and we ran 2 - small parties that were done like this ..

Though my real vision at the time was to have all 4 - walls projection mapped with video from other locations and perhaps create an " in between " space. That could link with different places around the world. There was a project in the UK around 2005 that tried to do this using a circular ring with cameras. However , am surprised that nobody has attempted more with telepresence in public spaces ..
Depends on your definition of "children". France only banned alcohol in lycées in 1981... only 42 years ago.

Otherwise, you are right. The main ban (children under the age of 14) was in 1956, or 67 years ago.
Remembering and focusing intently. Why is nothing getting done about this?
Microsoft Releases Q4 and Full Year Earnings
Capitalism doesn't reward anything more, which is the point.

And academia has gone down the drain just as well, just look at how ridiculously insecure and underpaid most academic employment is, outside of the holy grail aka tenure track of course. Meanwhile, universities blow billions on fucking sports teams.
> and few distractions

I think there are not many people that have few distractions. It's a (very very hard) decision to force yourself getting rid of them or ignoring them. Distractions are everywhere. At some point you have to resist and move on.
Does the thought that there might be some guy in a garage 5 miles from you replicating this baffle you?
What do you think the anonymity makes the locals' angrier? While anonymity can encourage people to provide honest feedback, I also had an experience where I received negative feedback for nothing:)
I haven't used react native in years. Expo at the time felt like a shitty add-on trying to capture some part of the app development process but I didn't feel it added anything.

Sounds like I s gotten a lot better and found an actual usecase. I'll have to check them out again.
The only non-functional cookies are from google.com. If they got rid of the captcha, no cookies, no warning nescesarry. This is either just lazy or a dick move.
It's a bit hard to break it to you, but Santa isn't real.
Even though a small example doesn't highlight the advantages well, I still prefer the PRQL syntax in this because that reads like map/filter code I'd write in some programming language.

So the mental model seems easier to me
FreeRDP 3.0 Beta Brings AAD/AVD Authentication, WebSocket Transport
Ask HN: Is there a good icon font?
Hello y'all!

I am currently building a WordPress Gutenberg theme. WordPress still does not support SVGs but it is possible to enqueue custom fonts (e.g. in *.woff2).

Do you know good resources for icon fonts? Basically what font-awesome used to be in its early versions. I could use font-awesome, but i've gotten a little tired of its design.

Thanks!
> You could write an unlocked signed bootloader on the board, that is valid and boots and that can boot into anything.

True, but almost no one does this (Google/Chromebooks being an exception).

It would be a hugely positive step if manufacturers were required to ship/escrow/provide an unlocked bootloader to sell their products.

Unfortunately, that isn't the case today and it's only through goodwill that this is possible.
It really depends on the type of recycling you do. I recycle (after reducing and reusing) obsessively, while also being painfully aware of the problems with recycling.
One of the things I recycle are soft plastics [1], which are made into fence posts (among other things) [2]. I recently bought 58 of these posts, and asked the company that makes them to do the maths on how much plastic was diverted. It surprised me - the 58 posts are the equivalent of "17,694 milk bottles and 79,098 bread bags".
(These posts are warrantied for 10 years, and are expected to last for 50 years. I don't know what happens at the end of those 50 years).

1. https://www.recycling.kiwi.nz

2. https://www.futurepost.co.nz
GraphScope Achieved Record-Breaking (2.45X) Results on LDBC SNB Interactive
The National Library of Sweden has made the raw digitized files available under CCBY here for those of you who want to play around with their own visualization: https://data.kb.se/dark-17757824
The salient detail is that he was arrested for not presenting his ID, which was in his where he was staying for the night. He didn't know that the NL requires it to always be carried.

You may assume anything you like indeed.
> It's important for each of us to do our part. It's even better when we help others do theirs.

I challenge these assumptions. I suspect the “everyone must do their part” mentality is at best useless, and perhaps a major blocker, for devising effective techniques and systems to address the wide variety of issues that have been thrown together under the banner of “climate”.
I respectfully disagree. Some days even a single thing is a challenge.

Anyway, at the risk of rehashing a very old argument, OP presumably means that if you want to reduce the effects (landfill, increased consumption of plastics etc) then the best place to apply your effort is in industrial contexts.

It's good to reduce any waste but it's rational to apply your finite efforts where they'll give the best return.
This sort of thing is a instant black ball almost everywhere.
His bio just says "Christian", and doesn't say anything about being a Mormon.

Also pretty sure most of the people working on bare metal are not LGBT or furries. Certainly some are, but... what a weird thing to assert.
This can only happen if population is exploding or life expectancy is low. Neither is the case.
Why stop at "fewer", with zero, there will be no problems to worry about at all. Besides, humanity is "90 seconds from midnight"[1] as it is. A little more hubris and just the "right kind" of attitude towards each other, and it will achieve the amazingly intelligent and glorious realization of zero population and zero diversity.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/what-is-doomsday-c...
Completely agree, thanks for putting it better than I could have, with an excellent example. Correlated subqueries like the example you give, or similarly lateral joins in postgres, fundamentally are treated like for loops by DB engines anyway.

Semi-related, but the example you give is also why I love Postgres' "DISTINCT ON" functionality (I don't know if other DBs have something similar) - it makes it so much easier to reason about these "give me the 'first' one from each group" type queries without having to resort to correlated subqueries.
A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant (2016)
Original HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11690859
Not sure if it will ever be possible to moderate content as it was in the past. Time to generate content has become way faster and cheaper.
The thing is, with incineration you also lose all the raw materials and the energy contained within them, as well as release all the CO2 and other greenhouse gases - not a good thing given that most of the stuff ending up in incinerators is fossil in origin.

Landfills at least can be mined in the future when we develop at-scale actual recycling capabilities for plastics (e.g. GMO bacteria/fungi that break down the polymers in the waste into precursors that can be used to create new plastics).
We went around with this at the beginning of the pandemic, when Christians debated whether it was safe to offer the Most Precious Blood as Holy Communion.

While silver and other noble metals have antimicrobial properties, the percentage of alcohol in altar wine is way too low to make a difference.

When transubstantiated from wine to blood, it retains the accidents of wine, and those accidents will infect you with a disease just as any other.

That's the miracle of the Eucharist; our feeble senses can't distinguish it, nor could a microscope or science lab point out which is Eucharist, and which is ordinary wine.

Almost all Western churches suspended distribution under the species of wine, even though the odds were very, very low.

The Eastern Orthodox couldn't do this, however, and it led to several Greek bishops insisting that no disease could come from this Holiest of Mysteries, and that it is uniquely special and don't worry about COVID-19.
Depends on your definition of "innocent". Sugar is Satan-incarnate (and I am its slave )
> (...) my experience is that a good blog or a good Github doesn't account to anything more than a few pleasant sentences at the beginning of the interview.

A few years ago I was offered a job explicitly because I had a github account where I hosted a public project that used a framework.

Later, I was the recruiter in a few hiring rounds, and public source code repos was my primary source of data to assess q candidate. If a candidate had shit code in their repos, they'd be rejected. By "shit code" I mean a candidate for a senior software engineer for a C++ project showed up his GitHub project as his C++ portfolio, and all he had for show was a project that didn't even used include guards.
> For kicks and giggles I even have "Certified Log Home Builder" in my CV after taking a course on it.

- Proficient in the use of log aggregation tools

- Experience ensuring systems can stand up under heavy load

- Skilled at operating within strict architectural constraints
I’m rebutting the parent post that claims countries other than the US somehow have a better solution to landfilling for non-recyclable waste.

Of course solving the root cause is the right thing to do, no argument from me!
Yeah. I often look at a candidate’s GitHub profile before an interview to get a sense of what they’re interested in - but mostly so I can ask interesting interview questions. “So, I saw on your GitHub you’ve made a few projects building terminal based UIs. What got you into that?” / “What are the big challenges in making modern terminal UIs? Why don’t more people do it?”
Instant no hire from me. Too vocal and opinionated, could be a liability later.
This is interesting. After the recent collapse of a recycling company in Australia I was under the impression that soft plastic recycling wasn't economical. Are the posts particularly expensive? Or maybe are the definitions of 'soft plastic' in each case different?

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/redcycle-sof...