skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lead solder didn't bother me at first (I had read all the arguments about vapor pressure, solubility of lead, people's lived experiences, etc. Plus, my initial experiences with lead-free were terrible). What convinced me was when I realized how much fine solder dust I was making every time I cleaned my soldering iron tip. More than once I've had the dust from the brass sponge spill out onto my desk and leave a big grey mark.

I've been using some low-temp lead-free solder from ChipQuik in both paste and wire form, and it works perfectly fine for prototyping. It doesn't seem as strong as other solder types, but the low melting point (even lower than leaded solder) means I don't have to stress the chips as much with temperature swings (great for rework), and I can keep my iron cooler, which reduces tip oxidation.
Expand the thought to general lives, and it is probably the same? Many lives were tough. In ways that we can and, in my opinion, should prevent.
Ask HN: Will you gain Bitcoin exposure if a Bitcoin ETF is approved?
It was a random (and facetious and probably bad) idea to include a bullet point that would elicit a “wait, what?” response from anyone who would read it. My resume highlights, as an academic achievement, that a professor once suspected me of illegal research.

If someone brings it up, I’ll know they read through my resume. If they don’t bring it up, it may mean nothing. The former is a green flag, to me.

I’d suggest something more innocuous sounding, though. “Level 3 pencil twirler” or something that would elicit some conversation.
Color Contrast with WCAG and APRA
Men (citizens and immigrants) aged 18-25 are required to register with the Selective Service. Should the US declare war, conscription could start again. The Constitution doesn't forbid it -- to the contrary, it outlines the process to declare martial law and suspend its ordinary protections.

https://www.sss.gov/
Shameless self-plug - I'm working on a product that supports aggregating RSS feeds: https://looking-glass.app
It works differently than the other RSS readers I've tried.
It's in early stages, so feedback is highly appreciated.
Why Distributed SQL Databases Elevate Modern Application Development
I totally agree. I developed a 3D rendering engine using Flash + as3, and I think it's my favourite platform I've ever developed for. AS3 is a great language - Brendan Eich referred to it briefly in his Lex Fiedman interview, apparently it was essentially a potential successor to Javascript that never made it into the browser, which I found interesting. I wish it had become a new standard.
Actually I can also see this one, maybe becoase of the 3d cube at the beginning that exactly shows you what to do.

Now I will probably see everything blurred for rest of the day.
Depending on how you use the database it is. If you write the data as well as the offset to the DB in the same transaction, you can then seek to the offset stored in the DB after application restart and continue from there.
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Afte...
Technically right, but using "historic" instead of "pre-COVID" is a form of propaganda targeted to people who don't pay attention, and is rightly flagged.
Beware of cherry picked data. It's not statista doing it, but whoever they sourced their data from choosing to start at 1990. Here [1] are the same data (from the FBI) from 1960, instead of 1990. 1990 was not a historical rate, but the result of an exceptionally sharp spike in crime that began in 1960. In 1960 motor vehicle theft rates were 183. The statista table (which goes until 2021 instead of 2019 from my source) shows today they're at 268 and trending upwards.

I really wish I could find data prior to 1960, but I guess you probably end up with a poor signal:noise ratio at some point. Those data are all from the same source, so have meaningful comparability. In any case, the long term trends are anything but clear. Crime rates currently look something like an eccentric sine wave.

People in 200 years sure will have it easier, data wise.

[1] - https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Exactly, common sense tells me that surviving the weather is the primary concern for most people if they ever lose shelter.
Meduza is a notorious propaganda outlet with a penchant for just blatantly making stuff up.

Considering even twitter (now X) seems to have absolutely no other information aside from the same copy-pasted few sentences despite it being over 24 hours, I’d take it with a grain of salt for now.
The per-subinterpreter GIL that shipped in 3.12 should also help with situations where native code frameworks want to have parallel callbacks to Python code. But your logging use case is a good example of the problems because the Python code would still have to solve synchronisation there even without a GIL.
As the post says, I'm wondering if anyone else got a weirdly unfilled templated email from YC.
Interesting theory. I would guess that's rare and that more often than not, people are overdosing on prescriptions that they lied to obtain and then abused, or purchased on the street from someone who received the prescriptions but didn't need them.
I'm speaking from personal experiences, but of course, it's anecdotal.
> You can just trust IP geo databases to be accurate down to the country*

You can't trust even that. There's an ISP which shares the IP pool between its child companies (? or some similar arrangement) in Crimea and Poland. We found out when Polish subscribers got affected by sanctions on business with Crimea.
it just needs analog magnification, so very achievable.

i'm more worried about how scratch or defect resistant it is, given the small feature size. if you have to store it in some kind of case to protect against scratches, then how long does the case last? do you have to do this in ultra clean room conditions, to prevent fungus etc from being encased with it?
The joke was there were so many single working people my age that the only people having kids were either the very poor or those making >$400k/yr.

There's no way to meet anyone, so there's no point to think about it. Live life without worrying about it.
And where exactly did you get the "seven year" figure from?
Largely because there's nothing proprietary about the format, and even less about recovering data from it because you just look at it under a microscope.
I have the Gen 9 X1 Carbon running Ubuntu. It has been my daily driver for years without any issues. Whether it is developer focussed can probably be discussed, but it has to be considered high-end.
> We build and maintain ultra long-term data storage archives called Arch Libraries (pronounced “Ark”).

It's hard to take someone seriously when they claim to be acting on behalf of all humanity then immediately does something as pretentious as this. Probably made for the same kind of elitist types who like to spit on you as they try to demonstrate how they can pronounce "LaTeX" correctly.
I love cities that embrace street food. My home (New York City) is well-regarded for street food, but I found it that it's nothing in comparison to Mexico City where a vendor seems to dot every single street corner.

With our density, New York could have a much richer street foods scene if the permitting and regulations allowed it.

I have put Fukuoka on my travel list.
I’ve been there. It’s very quiet and everyone stares daggers at you if you look the type to make noise.
If this had happened, the attacker would have likely stolen the servers TLS certificate and keys

Whereas this attack generated new keys (and was detected!), suggesting the attacker didn't compromise the server itself.
> GP is right, but it's all cars that have become extermely samey

If this is the case then I wouldn't call GP "right", because their complaint is very misleading.
My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar
Crazy reading about this here. I just had this problem. Spent a couple hundred bucks for the local mechanic to track it down to parasitic drain from the SOS module (“Starlink”). He just disconnected it since I don’t pay for the subscription anyways.
"Crime did rise nationwide in 2020 and 2021. The disruption caused by a deadly pandemic, a record increase in the availability of guns, a pullback of policing in some cities and perhaps other factors combined to create a surge in homicides and other crimes."

Why not look at those one by one?

Guns last basically forever, so I don't see how a spike in purchases followed by a drop in purchases would explain a spike and then a drop in crime. The guns are presumably still around.

Next, a pull-back in policing in 2020 may have reversed somewhat by now. A bad DA in SF was recalled. It's plausible that this explains at least a part of the spike followed by the drop.

I'd be interested in hearing other explanations. Maybe the criminals are busy with other things (jobs, etc.)? Maybe the free flowing pandemic cash drying up means less money to fight over? Maybe criminal-enablers (drug users, etc.) are busy with other stuff?
Feels like bragging ... but mine went incredibly well. Wrote 4 initiative applications. This is in Germany and without any job experience outside of academia.

One quickly came back telling me that they did not do what I was applying for at the location I was applying at. Would I be willing to move for the job? No.

One invited me for interviews which I messed up.

One offered me a job after a first interview.

Then I stumbled upon a perfect match job description. Applied, went through 4 rounds of interviews and got the job.

So 2.5 out of 4 applications.
> Likewise, if you start with a positive integer that ends in 6 and repeatedly raise it to the fifth power, you converge digit by digit toward the strange number

> b = ···743740081787109376

No you don't. Trying with 6, 16, 26, any number, you don't converge.
Meld mainatiner building platform to re-unite missing children
Northing ever happened?

This site circa (2002) was set up after re-enactors did The Battle of Orgreave https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/the-battle-of-orgreave/ (2001)

Which as part of a doco isn't quite in the spirit.
Only positive integers from 0 to 100?

If we would allow all real numbers, I would surely include pi and -1 in the top 100.

Since you already have 10 in there at position 4, I would say there is nothing so special about 100 that it deserves to be higher up than - say - pi.

So I would assign 3.14159 to position 7.

I think I would include -1 at position 8.
LUGs core reason for existence — sharing Linux and systems administration knowledge — is no longer relevant. You can learn mostly everything you need to get to journeyman level experience online and in books. Once you want to achieve master level proficiency you join special interest groups and go to conferences.

The LUGs I have been to are mostly social groups running off the inertia of old members which were around back when LUGs were relevant, an inertia which is slowing down with the age of the members.

I served on the board for a local LUG and there is still some interest from the community but not like back in the day when they could pull 100s of people in a meeting and IBM or Redhat would buy free pizza for everyone in the early 2000s.
Back in the day, before flash added 3d I wrote a flash player emulator in a Java Applet, as a "UI System" for our 3D engine. Looking back, I've literally no idea what the hell I was thinking. :-)
> after application restart and continue from there.

What if the application doesn't restart before the queue decides the message was lost and resends?
That doesn't include the 2023 stats that they're talking about.

The problem here is that they're citing this one guy as an authority on unpublished stats for 2023.
Respirators should have been receptors.
Helped start a space long ago. It struggled to stay afloat and eventually was subsumed by the local uni. Now, my dream of a modern hs is limited by lack of funds and..space.
Pessimists really hate optimists. Really, really hate optimists. And optimists feel sorry for pessimists.
Oh this is such a cool idea! It looks like there are several episodes by 99pi about my area that I haven’t listened to yet.

I’m unable to successfully navigate the interface on mobile though so I’ll have to try when I’m back to my computer tomorrow. Because I only ever listen to podcasts on my phone it would be nice to have a better mobile interface.
these pillboxes are very interesting thing, why to destroy them. Instead they should exist as they are, they serve as remainder of past history for coming generations. My grandfather was from Soviet Army, he went till Berlin. He was wounded to his leg...unfortunately very little information left about him and his military history. Maybe one can find information about him from archive. Often case old Soviet documentaries portray USSR as victor of WWII, I think that can partially true. Thus, I was wondering whether any one of you could suggest documentaries on WWII, so called Western view of the war, I would appreciate it. I can find documentaries by myself, but often war connaiseurs know best docs on this topic.
I always had in my back pocket a goal to learn OpenTelemetry, but some recent unfavorable HN commentary left me surprised and deflated.

I wouldn’t mind reading some more critical review.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295097
GCP incident involving networking issues across multiple cloud products
It's an interesting picture... rising cost of living and affluence at the same time as law and order broke down. It's getting better from what I hear, but my relatives still avoid downtown. Definitely not the city I strolled around solo as a kid.

I have a relative in public safety(fire) who deals enough with cops to know that the problems are not coming from cops feeling spurned. A combination of lax laws and an almost pro-crime judiciary sent things into a spiral. Things finally got bad enough that PNW liberals are becoming more pragmatic and it looks to be improving. Time will tell.
Not so great. Not a single call yet. This after having spent over a decade as CTO at a startup, built all products and teams from scratch. Dont know where I am going wrong. But.. hope is what makes the world go round!
I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended.

There's 5 links on your HN profile:

* One to your personal website that is just "work in progress" and nothing more

* One to your defunct twitter where you didn't appear to have many followers or did much of note

* One that just returns an opaque blob of json which I'm not sure how I'm meant to interpret

* One that seems like an intriguing project that seems pretty trivial on the surface but I'm willing to be convinced is more substantial but with a plus feature "coming soon" for I don't know how long and a twitter account with 12 followers

* One to a github project that you haven't touched in 9 years, also with a bunch of things you've been meaning to work on for a while but clearly haven't.

I'm willing to be disabused of this notion but my instinct via this gestalt is that you're someone who likes to overpromise and underdeliver. My question would be, what have you been doing in the last 9 months if you haven't had time to polish these bits of your public surface area?

That's probably an unfair judgement from me and in a hotter hiring environment, I'd be willing to bring you in so you could disabuse me of my prejudice and I could be pleasantly surprised but it's much easier now to filter based on trivial gut feel like this and you should be more conscious of the digital image you're putting out into the world because HMs won't bother telling you this stuff because it's an awkward conversation with no gain on their end.
Link to the original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/22/celebrity-...
You should drop "(...) and carefully acknowledging them when you are sure data is safely stored in your db (...)" part then, because it means it's not necessary, you don't rely on it.

One-or-more semantics + local deduplication gives one-and-only semantics.

In this case you're optimising local deduplication with strictly monotonic index.

One downside is that you leak internals of other system (partitions).

The other is that it implies serialised processing - you can't process anything in parallel as you have single index threshold that defines what has been and what has yet not been processed.
Fads come and go. Too many people just wanted to create an elitism to lord over others or consume a movement than do anything productive, creative, and interesting as few did. I left for good when I discovered they promised to give to charity and gave nothing. Cheap, privileged, selfish, clueless, trash people.
A large local hackerspace in my city simply went broke over covid. Real estate and operating costs got more expensive and the business model couldn’t keep up. Unfortunately just piling a bit of cash between your friends can no longer get you a dingy commercial space to hang out.
Is it even desirable to store data for millennia? What's wrong with humans wanting to destroy knowledge?

As you said culture is probably the best method of preservation. But still fallible, and this may be a good thing!
Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off
As a British kid who would play around such things the vibe is crack-den / toilet. Expect graffiti, ancient garbage, drug remnants, poop. The ones in the link are like the stately homes of pillboxes!
Is there documented reverse engineering about the algorithm and about which properties have strong evidence?

edit: here's something at least gleaned from some research papers from Google - https://ecoaerem.com/youtube-recommendation-system-code
That is a complete misunderstanding of consequences of Rice’s theorem which generalizes the halting problem.

You can not prove non-trivial properties about all programs that could could ever exist with no false positives or false negatives.

You can prove non-trivial properties about almost every program.

For instance, if I want to disallow programs that will not halt, I can just reject any program with a unbounded loop. I may also reject programs with a unbounded loop that will halt, a false negative, but I do not care. I just want to be certain that I will never run a program that will not halt. I just decided: “will definitely halt for my purposes” even though the halting problem is unsolvable in general.

This is generically true and is why formal methods work at all.
I ran a small one in Missouri and have a few friends that ran ones here and there over the years.

The two big reasons I and my friends don't run them anymore: rent costs and COVID.
I think you could use the source code on Github and compile it and install it manually yourself on a browser
The distinction at between operating systems is in 2023 pretty negligible in practice. Most people work on some kind of UNIX on Windows/Mac/Linux. OS tinkering/distrohopping tends to be an anti-pattern, a waste of time/not task oriented in any way.
>>distinctly different way of moving through the city

Yeah, on a bycicle moving at 50 km/h across lanes.
sounds like a good way to get rejected rather than for someone to want to pry deeper, when faced with a stack of resumes
As someone who studied accountancy, let me clue you into a secret: there is only one "rule" of double entry: Something Owned = Something Owed.

Call it Asset = Liabilities, divide those liabilities into owner vs external, divide those assets into current vs long term, those are just externalities that we tacked on so that every one is on the same page.

If you want to put an asset with a working lifetime of 10 years, all into one year, double entry will not stop you. Debit Asset, Credit Cash, boom it's done, your books will balance.

It's who decide, hang on, this asset will be useful for 10 years, it would be more true and fair if we divide this value over the 10 years.

And that's the unspoken law of accountancy, Captain true and fair from IFRS HQ to the rescue, to make sure every one's books make "sense" and are "accurate" and "comparable" and what not.

But if the taxperson decides, hand on, other people's machines last for 12 years, so you too must divide the machine's cost over 12 years or get a penalty from us... guess what, we now have the first actual law: Whatever the local law says, is how we will do it, and if we have to keep multiple books so that accounts comply with all the various jurisdictions, so be it.

Most companies I know have two set of account reporting, one that complies with IFRS and one that complies with local GAAP, with some sort of reconciliation paper to keep track of the changes between each.

But at the end, it boils down to the same thing, everything owned = everything owed.
James Harper Became a One-Man Megasupplier of Illegal Tech to Moscow
Annoying yes, but if the technology works, who cares. Does it work though? I can't tell from this article.
Remember the times when the biggest disks were up to ~100GB and LTO tape could store 1.6TB (compressed, 800GB uncompressed)? That's 8 biggest hdds. And now? We have spinning hdds bigger than the biggest lto standard. Where is my 160TB lto tape?

It is sad there is no removable media other than maybe these few TB portable ssds that can be used for archival purposes. I _still_ have my commodore 64 datasette tapes as well as floppies from the start of the pc era(for me).

Even for the prosumer there were iomega drives. Now, one is supposed to use (and trust in) the cloud. Bonkers.
Biological factors are pretty unlikely to be a concern on the moon :)
> Isn't that the farm's problem?

From a legal perspective, maybe.

From the farm workers perspective... it sounds they'd better try avoiding the situation anyway.

---

An analogy is an accident between a semi trailer and a motorbike.

Even if the semi trailer was the cause of the accident (legally), it's still a really bad idea for the motorbike to not try avoiding it. That way leads to a squished motorbike rider. :(
America is a third-world country in multiple ways. It's just most Americans don't have passports and don't know how bad we have it.
The US government barely survived an incompetent carnival barker, let's not give the founders too much credit.

The system they set up has far too much ambiguity and survives only as long as honorable people are in the correct places at the correct times and _just_ barely enough were, this time, to prevent it all from completely crashing down.

> [...] ultimately he was forced to step down, and though justice is slow, he is finally seeing justice for his many crimes.

I mean I'll take it, but he's only being prosecuted for a small fraction of the shit he did, even if we ignore his whole life before the presidency. Our justice system has been openly corrupted by the rich and the powerful.
It actually chuckled when they mentioned “labeling misinformation” or “manipulating search results”. Those are forms of speech! They are doing the thing they’re complaining about.

Either this is being done in bad faith by peddlers of BS, or it’s just intellectually lazy. Judging from the list of signatories, probably some of both.
I am talking about 'select ' at the top level, they can be harmless in exists, sub-selects and CTE's. The number of columns sent to the client (the program) will change when you add a column to the database. If you don't remember to change all of the places in your code where you used a 'select ', you program is likely going to fail or have unexpected results.
probably because of the sponsors
Meh. OCaml spent over a decade underappreciated, fixed a few sticking points like package management, and then underwent a resurgence. I'd like to think that merit will ultimately win through.
City funded(subsidized?) maker spaces is such a great idea
6^5 ends in ...76

6^25 ends in ...376

6^125 ends in ...9376

6^625 ends in ...09376

and so on
I always feel 51 is underrated.

Also 63 being in 63rd place. I think that deserves a higher ranking ;)
Content farm style title.

A rising programming language that dominates system programming - and no, it's not Rust.

Would the above title be acceptable for HN?