skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only use wood. If it dries out throughly, I don’t think much can survive on it. Put it in the sun if you’re worried.

I always oil my boards.

Either way I’ve cut meat on wooden boards for 20 years and never been sick.
Not so clever marketing ploy based on the 500 euro bank note.
IMO, because ad code is a step above “potentially unsafe”, it’s sometimes malicious, and even intentionally malicious.
A good modern microwave is a fairly magical device, most people don't know how to use it right though. It's definitely useful the more you read recipes that specifically use it. It's like not a top 10 device but its like #11.

Check out peeled steamed asparagus in the microwave, quick, beautiful and delicious.
Anyone else get that sense of Maximum PC Nostalgia
Sabine is fun to listen to, love her. But to be honest her snark is a bit too abundant for me so I check her videos from time to time
Don’t put plastic in the microwave,” has been common advice in my circle for over a decade, maybe three or more? I feel like it either finally stopped getting suppressed, or it finally hit an emergent “critical mass” and broke through (probably the second one).
This is a pure-python version of the first example in shshsh's README. The example uses ls without any arguments.
The UN report on the attention economy actually said:

By the 2000s, so much information was being generated
worldwide that only a small fraction (0.5% in 2015) of the
digital data generated was being analyzed at all.

https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/attention_economy_...

Where "analyzed" probably means something other than "got any views". In any case, the claim is unsourced, so I wouldn't put much stock in it.

The way I see it, people's ability to give attention is limited, but the ability to do something worth paying attention to is even scarcer, so even the most trivial feat (like writing a comment on HN) is likely to garner at least a few views.

Becoming famous is much harder than getting any views at all, because now you need to do something so attention-grabbing that some of your few initial viewers will tell others about it and your audience size snowballs from there.
The Vanishing Hotel Room
Great read! I don't know why there's so much negativity in the comments, but great job Tony!
> For the record, I am not jealous – I make my money doing literally whatever I want, on projects that I find much more exciting, with ample time left over for nature walks, rock climbing, reading, and more. Unlike these authors, the money I make is not the most interesting part of my story

Frankly, I think you’re being incredibly rude to assume that because someone shared their story on a topic, then it must be their entire identity. It’s just so presumptuous to assume that the author or authors of these pieces have nothing else in their lives of value, because they decided to share this piece of their life.

There’s a lot in your comment I agree with, but this note struck me as just… extremely uncharitable, presumptuous, and rude.
Seems like a child that believes “god is always watching” might have the same effect?
Sounds like Product Hunt to me.
I really like Hossenfelder's physics videos. However, once she leaves her area of expertise, the quality drops off a cliff. Most of these videos are just summaries of random articles with no critical thought.
Also this is just lol

> The great entrepreneurs of our world are hardly motivated by money

Yeah come on like Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, Hoffman etc aren't motivated by money lol.

For a forum created by an accelerator, it is weirdly anti-success.
> it’s not accurate or fair to call Tony’s products useless

I'll cede that point. Having an arrow on your Twitter profile is of some use to someone, and just because I've never had a problem with iPhone screen capture "press two buttons" doesn't mean some people need to click through an app, a nd the teletype style of GPT3 doesn't bother me but I guess some people need faster response.

I know snark is against the rules. Technically they aren't "useless" but they are single-task gadgets like you'd find for your kitchen drawer on QVC at night. The people that make the "banana slicer" probably made a ton of money and by your definition a "banana slicer" isn't useless because someone bought it.
Cleaning products emit hundreds of hazardous chemicals, new study finds
> ~90% profit

Even though I understand the mechanics of the free market, in how many other fields do we consider this kind of profit margins to be honest? What about a farmer selling at a 90% profit? A pharmacist? A banker?

Good for him though, "why not if he can", after all. I'm just not sure how I feel about it...
I think they could also be good search engines.
I may have involuntarily stolen this idea from GWT at some point during the last 15 years or so :)
I guess we've been living in this dystopian world for 10,000 years, since that's the oldest known profession...
When I went looking to ditch java after learning about ptrs and cpu caches, D won out over C/C++ for being multi paradiam and having a GC (wasnt in the mood to learn manual memory mangment yet). It has kept its primarlly used language status however due to its meta programing capablities(mixins std.traits, staticif staticforeach, CTFE..). The only other systems langague I'm aware of that can beat D in this regard is JAI. So if anyone knows of any others I'd be intrested to hear.
There's Uservoice and Mechanical Turk too, if you want a more general audience
But Australia can't do that with their housing market. If they try, prices just go up. Real estate is monetized, people need to park their devaluing dollars somewhere. The more they try, the more they price their own people out of their own country.
Why are tickets priced too low?
As far as I'm able to tell most call functionality is built into the JS SDK (is this true), so what will embedding Element Call actually gain me? The (beautiful!) UI?
is this already blocked by default in most corporate environments?

it seems this opens up a easy way to exfilarate corporate data (without detection?)

correct me if I am wrong please

attacker (or a cooperating employee) can browse and download any files from target machine inside corporate network by opening the generated vscode.dev/tunnel URL from a browser on any device anywhere in the world ?
Sorry for my ignorance, but what harmful bacteria predominant to meat will live for that long on a surface? After using my wooden cutting boards for meat, I throughly scrub them and let them dry for at least 48 hours before even putting them away. Salmonella and campylobacter I think are well destroyed by then, and I probably won't even use the board more than once every 5-7 days, always cooking everything cut on it.
> but at this point they've become optimal enough that a lot of the improvements would be trade-offs for something else.

I don’t think that there’s any evidence that this is true. In fact, the performance of the Rust compiler has continually improved over the last five years while _adding_ new features, and not by removing anything. <https://perf.rust-lang.org/dashboard.html>

All a C++ compiler needs to do to get similar results is to have a team that does nothing but performance work, and is actually rewarded for it.
Even these kind of collapses work out better for the rich than the poor.
Can you give us a quick rundown of what heat is, in your understanding?
Humans are really robust against meat bacteria. Even rotten meat is not as problematic as most would think. The majority of human evolution was spend without refrigerators, so we had ample time to adapt for the consequences.
Except without any kerfuffle.
>I suppose you could maybe use UV light to sanitize a wood cutting board

If your wood cutting board is made right, it helps with sanitization. The grain is supposed to be "up and down", so you cut "into" the grain. This pushes the microbes "into" the cutting board, where they are starved over oxygen and die - or the wood pushes the microbes back "out", where you can clean them off the surface.

By the way, many wood "cutting boards" are actually "charcuterie" boards - they are thin, and the grain doesn't run "up and down". The wood cutting boards I'm describing are thick, like 1 inch thick.
90% profit is a market failure, you should not be able to overcharge your customers almost 10x in a working market.
It certainly does.

Speak to anyone who has learned more than a few languages :)
It has learned an algorithm that plays chess purely by reading chess logs. It can play at different skill levels depending on the surrounding natural language How is that not understanding?

By the way, would you say that Stockfish 15 understands how to play chess well?
The juxtaposition of a entrepreneur recounting his experience building/selling products, with the original commenter criticizing entrepreneurs for being greedy, alongside of stories/comments every week here complaining about how we aren’t paid enough in tech and how it’s immoral to ask tech workers to drive to an office is quite ironic.

He has a point.. HN is full of greed (or lack of appreciation for the privilege most of us have) and criticizing a solo bootstrapped entrepreneur for greed feels completely misplaced.

To a certain extent, yes, let’s defend and embrace greed when the outcome is a solo entrepreneur doing cool things and sharing the experience publicly.
Soup? Thick cut of meat already seared? Melting cheese?
I also fish, would hunt, and forage for mushrooms and other vegetables. But yes I also partake in meat at the supermarket. The natural thing is I could be hiking in the mountains and get attacked and eaten by a bear at any time. Omnivorous and carnivorous animals eat other animals, that’s what’s natural.
Hi, I'm the author.

Originally I didn't want to post it here because I hardly ever post anything on HN and guess no one would read it.

But the feelings were strong and I really wanted to tell people what I was feeling.

After I posted it on HN that day, it sunk quickly, and sure enough no one read it, so I didn't go back to HN to check on it.

Until this evening, when I got a text from a stranger saying thank you for the post. I was surprised and opened HN to find it was at the top.

Thank you all for reading it.

In a way I put this article into practice, I put my emotions in my product (article) and you extracted from it.
> If the search engine really is that good, you should use it more

In practice the opposite happens. Because Kagi is presumeably so good, people use it less, because they find stuff faster. Something that would require 2-3 searches on Google is just one search on Kagi.

Anecdotal evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37008132
A real shame. To me, VS for Mac seemed to be converging on the level of product functionality/quality I associate with VS on Windows, only for me to find that its going away...

Seems like VS Code + C# Dev Kit is going to be the future [1]. I've been using VS/Mac for some MAUI and Xamarin development and, while I can probably continue to work on Maui in VS Code with C# Dev Kit and another extension, there doesn't appear to be a way forward for Xamarin.

And for some reason I find VS Code, with all its extensions, about as friendly as Eclipse (which is to say, not much). I much prefer the kind of integrated, native experience that Visual Studio provides (and without the Electron bloat).

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-fo...
What size/impact does personal choice have. Plastics are so prevelant is the impact 1% or 50%. If the former your choices don't really matter that much, the latter they might.
Tabs are bad because they lack a sense of timing that sheet music has. I’d recommend going with a powertab or guitar pro file as that will show you the standard notation as well as the tablature. Many printed guitar sheet music books are also formatted like this. That being said knowing what sort of positon to play a note depends on what you are going for. You are right that you can play a single note all over the neck, but for a lot of those positions it will be awkward to get to the next few. Knowing your chord shapes and scales helps make this intuitive and automatic.
bullseye. when I read this I specifically thought of a few guys I know that made proprietary license SDKs that tons of corporations are paying for. there's a dude well known in the mobile space for example that sells the background geolocation plugins that everyone uses. it's a very tough problem to solve and he works on it full time and probably make a boatload of money owning his own business.
This is not true anymore.
It has been discovered that gpt-3.5-instruct when prompeted with purely PGN notation.playes at >1700 Elo and makes no/little illegal moves.
I had never trusted the automatic “reheat” options that a lot of microwaves have had for years, until just recently I tried it out for reheating some chicken and pasta - and it really did a decent job. They’ve obviously iterated. (I don’t even know the model, but it’s a larger one probably two years old that I bought at goodwill for $30)
... and bad stock photos, like the one about microchips, where for a long time all the imagery is photos of PCBs, sometimes without any component that would resemble an integrated circuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QFO_SXOcYM.
"Make something that saves businesses time and money"
> I cut-&-pasted Buttrick's quote from his website without alteration directly into HN's edit box and the uppercase text was immediately converted to lowercase. I'd not planned this but I could hardly have had a better illustration of the problem than this excellent example.

This has nothing to do with typewriters; the text is actually lower case, it's just being used with the small-caps variant of the typeface (I haven't directly verified it, but I am familiar with Butterick's site, and he uses them frequently). It's not really a Unicode problem either; small caps are not encoded in Unicode (well there's something similar for use in phonetic representation but it doesn't have the X for example).

I agree with the other points; keyboards (with the possible exception of handmade ones) have all standardized to a quite limited range of input keys, all traceable back to typewriters, leading to most people I know irl replacing curly quotes with straight quotes, all the dashes with just hyphens, and so on.

In his book, Bringhurst brings up this limitation of modern keyboards, and muses over the possibility of a fully programmable keyboard (in hardware and key displays, not just layers or software hacks like OS/environment-dependent modifier keys). It would be nice to press a button or two and have any keyboard layout I want, multiple scripts, and so on.
here's a good read about terminal emulators, including speed benchmarks and discussing security aspects:
https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/
https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
fear monger
I'm going to change the license on my products to "You are NOT allowed to use this. Don't ask. Don't use"

It's not like people are suddenly going to respect licenses.
What do you mean by ‘no state management’ and why is it a good thing?
Academics in general can be rude and condescending if you look up all the stories on the phd subreddit about the experiences of phd students with their supervisors. There are lots of stories of academia being a toxic workplace. I would presume at this point that the academic researchers themselves are a core causal factor of that phenomenon.
I simply rinse my wooden boards with boiling water after cutting meat on them (and then wash them of course).
> If he “was on a deserted island and [plastic] was all that was available,” Rogers says he’d opt for types two [High-Density Polyethylene] and five [Polypropylene]. These are both higher density formulas, used to contain liquids and manufacture items like the rigid plastic forks dispensed at your local takeout restaurant. They have a higher melting point, “and they also don’t tend to chip or shatter as much,” says Rogers. (Still, Hussain’s team found these types of containers shed plenty of microplastics when heated.)

This the part I feel should be focused on. HDPE is notable for being safe to handle during its entire lifecycle, from production to use to recycling. Even when pushed well past its softening point, it does not create any hazardous fumes. A sustainable future does not mean avoiding the use of plastics entirely, it means identifying which are the most useful in the long-term.
I'll take that as a "it's not per capita, I'm just bad at math"

Why is anything remotely not-far-left somehow flamebait? How about you get a little perspective and then come back to me. I have every right to be equally confident in my position as anyone else. Moreso in fact because I'm actually correct. Misinformation about motor vehicles is harmful and needs to be refuted with fervor at least equal to that of the misinformation purveyor. Otherwise rational thinking dies.

Surely you appreciate this fact.
I'm not sure thats true for most of the development people work on. Most line of business apps are pretty much the same for the most part. The specific domain may differ a bit but the domain doesn't seem to impact the design of the system that much in practice. It's only when you find yourself working at a Google, Facebook, or Netflix that you really start hitting it depends style questions.
Interesting! It does seem to be missing the part about tracking stack usage at compile time though, unless I'm missing something. The more I think about it, the more that seems like the key part, and dynamically growing the stack being more of a fallback thing.
> I think now it’s all just pointers to the file system

It depends. InnoDB, assuming the DYNAMIC row type, will store TEXT/BLOB on-page up until 40 bytes, at which point it gets sent off-page with a 20 byte pointer on-page. However, it comes with a potentially severe trade-off before MySQL 8.0.13: any queries with those columns that would generate a temporary table (CTEs, GROUP BY with a different ORDER BY predicate, most UNIONS, many more) can’t use in-memory temp tables and instead go to disk. Even after 8.0.13, if the size of the temp table exceeds a setting (default of 16 MiB), it spills to disk.

tl;dr - be very careful with MySQL if storing TEXT or BLOB, and don’t involve those columns in queries unless necessary.

Postgres, in comparison, uses BYTEA as a normal column that gets TOASTed (sent off-page in chunks) after a certain point (I think 2 KiB?), so while you might need to tune the column storage strategy for compression - depending on what you’re storing - it might be fine. There are some various size limits (1 GiB?) and row count limits for TOAST, though. The other option is with the Large Binary Object extension which requires its own syntax for storage and retrieval, but avoids most of the limitations mentioned.

Or, you know, chuck binary objects into object storage and store a pointer or URI in the DB.
200A service is standard transformer to a house.
This is not true anymore, see this tweet.

https://twitter.com/GrantSlatton/status/1703913578036904431

I have tested it myself.
Hey, most games never get on a top ten list. That's an achievement!
When I was an avid Twitter user this person was pretty active in selling his product. Particularly in the “indie hacker” hashtag.

My take from this is: know how to market and sell your product. If not, get someone that can
> Obviously having an arrow on your Twitter profile is of some use to someone

One of the reasons your upper comment isn’t fair is because the story was about how he pivoted the product away from just showing the arrow & circle progress bar, and moved toward something more complex that does analytics reporting, and that’s when he actually started making money on it.

> I guess by your definition a “banana slicer” isn’t useless because someone bought it.

That was half of my definition. The other half, I think, probably agreed with yours, and points out that banana slicers are useless and we have an economy that is built on banana slicers. So, anyway, what is your definition of useful?
I think a lot of home cooks take advice meant for commercial kitchen standards out of context and apply them their home. where they make a few meals a day for probably pretty healthy people.

like there are really people out there that won't eat cookie dough :(

i remember digging into this a bit and came away from it finding that wooden cutting boards are fine for meat. supposedly they have some "antimicrobial" property, forgot what that was though or if its actually legit.
CoffeeScript brought more to the table than just syntax changes. Some of the recent niceties we have in JavaScript today were influenced by it.

Also, recall that the whole JavaScript ecosystem was kind of a mess when CoffeeScript was created. ES5 happened at around the same time and its predecessor, ES4, had gone nowhere. I don't remember polyfills really being a thing and you couldn't even use `forEach` reliably. Every JS question on StackOverflow used jQuery in the response whether or not you wanted it.
Do we know that animals don’t have morals? What are morals and how are they unique to humans? They’re valuable in society because they help shape society into what it is today, but do they help us much in our interactions with other members of the animal kingdom?
Somewhat but if that God is not drilled on a daily basis it tends to drift out of the mind, as well as the personal view of how God judges you, how God may ignore some small bad acts. A camera’s physical presence is a constant reminder you’re being watched and everything is being recorded, there’s no escape or respite.
I have to disagree that airlines have extreme barriers to entry. Yes they are a capital intensive industry but starting an airline is actually pretty simple and there are seven national scale airlines that have been founded since 1980 in the United States and are still operating today.

To start an airline all you have to do is lease planes and gates and hire an interchangeable labor force. You don’t have to develop any technology outside of your reservation system, no factories, no research and development.

An example of a recent airline startup is Breeze Airways.
This reeks of moral superiority, you probably consider yourself to be a non-judgmental person too. Even if they were purely money driven, why is it bad for this person to have sought out money by creating a tool used by many that improves people's lives? It's not like this guy is a financier or middleman just pushing numbers around and taking a percent on every transaction.

I'd think that someone with the ability to live and walk around in nature would not be so critical of others.
I don’t know if I buy the premise of the article. We were able to have an opportunity to buy tickets after being waitlisted (I think it was 48-72hrs after the initial presale). But the tickets were extremely expensive. Ticketmaster was scalping not the scalpers.

We did buy Taylor Swift tickets for next year however it was $1k for three tickets.
Trust is like a nice glass vase... It takes a long time to make one. It takes seconds to break one. And you can put it back together, but you'll always see the cracks from The Last Time This Happened.