skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been 20+ years but I loved this shirt for it's SQL agnostic-ity:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/lol-code-geek-select-from-user...

(This shows the shirt you could buy once-upon-a-time from thinkgeek, which appears to be no more...)

I believe they used beefy-t brand shirts, which was like the nicest thing you could get for t-shirts at the time. (Personal opinion, don't @ me.)
If you're looking for similar content, I would add Retro Game Mechanics Explained (Alex "IsoFrieze" Losego).

https://youtube.com/@RGMechEx

This is a channel that does deep dives on specific games, often at the level of carefully explained assembly code, for glitches and graphical techniques in 8-bit and 16-bit consoles.
I've implemented this and it works as expected in Firefox (no delay, notifications are 1 or 2 seconds of latency at most from send time).

Be ready to do lots of debugging to implement this though -- its far from straightforward and overly complicated IMO.
Man, it sucks that the law makes this situation. Texas would rather punish TCS than have stuff work well. But I guess you can't go around sharing confidential information - it's a big no no in these contracts. TCS should know better.
Ask HN: How do you find experts?
I'm interested in people's experience with finding experts in any field or subject. Often when there is an event or subject that dominates the "feeds" I read things like "You should find the experts on both sides" or "go read from the subject matter experts" but I struggle with this given the vast amount of information available. I find myself in a bit of paralysis when learning about new fields in which I focus a lot on finding the "right" source.

How do you find experts and how do you verify their expertise?
... try to look at it from a lens other than your own.
I comment on a recent On The Media podcast about podcasting, and respond with a podcast in the style of Keith Olbermann.
If you're talking about a particle in real life, then you're talking about quantum mechanics, which is discrete, so the real numbers don't even come into play in that realm. Then, the use of real numbers in physics is a conceptual and calculational convenience which is not quite correct.
Great advice! Hacker news is only for us degenerates !
I've had much better success without switching.

Burnout doesn't usually come from work itself, but from its effects on your home life. As someone who has worked in startups, has a family, and takes on too many extracurricular activities, these three things helped me the most:

I set limits on my time spent thinking about work. I will put in a solid 40 hours (and more if my company really needs me on occasion), but I let it go after my 8-hour allotment. It will take a few days for both you and your company to get used to this. However, don't hesitate to prioritize your family commitments. For example, you might say, 'Sorry, that's all for today. I need to attend to family responsibilities.' and then firmly adhere to this boundary.

Take small amounts of time off. The effects of having time off are near immediate, but they don't last long. Instead of taking a solid month off, plan several 3-4 day weekends well in advance, and it will pay off massively.

Get your personal/outside-of-work house in order. Let your loved ones (or people/groups with whom you've made commitments) know that you're trying to mitigate your burnout and outline what you need. Whether that's some time to yourself each day or scaling back your commitments, it can help immensely.
Depends on the player whether or not they take what happens to their character to seriously. I know some myself included have a folder full of character sheets/builds they want to play so if one dies they just pull out the next. And if the character dies before I want to be done with them their is enough game mechanics and means of having a character resurrected that it really is more of a statuses condition than a end of the line
The comment appears at odds with several items in HN guidelines, like

- Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

- Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

- Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

- Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Why is it all about imaginative and pretend play? That was only a phenomenon for maybe fifty years of human history. Prior to that it was about learning survival skills or work skills.
> Google Maps showed a 0.006% error rate over 1,000,000 tests, with errors spanning thousands of miles.

> Out of 1,000,000 tests conducted, we encountered 60 failures, instances where Google Maps and our API diverged on the state or country returned.

That sounds way less dramatic as the headline makes it out to be.
Oops! What confused me is the switch to an analog microphone, which seemed like it would eliminate the need for a codec and the whole digital side. But I missed the Bluetooth requirement.
The output of nutrition science (using the word "science" loosely - the epistemic standard is not very high) must be examined with the understanding that the field is extraordinarily biased by religious and political considerations, e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327179700_The_Globa...

In particular, there are a number of political and religious factions opposed especially to red meat.
Using google docs (or any web based office apps) to write a novel (or do any other serious "heavy" work) is a terrible choice for a writer to be fair.
The mistake is trying to to scry personal life guidance out of research papers. Research papers just describe experimental results, and sometimes unsound ones.

They're meant to feed further research and bring prestige to the authors, not to help intellectuals hyperoptimize their longevity or whatever.

It's a widespread mistake, especially among intellectuals who take pride in being able to read jargon, but what you're calling "impossible to deal with" is actually just the outcome of trying to use things in a way they're not meant to be used.

If you really want guidance (you actually don't need much), either look to traditions if you're comfortable with that or turn to institutional guidelines if you want something that feels more evidence-based and modern. Neither of those is unassailable either, but at least then you're using things as intended. You'll have less grief and frustration that way.

Which is probably good for you.
Layout APIs don't have to be terrible – lessons from Bokeh
>Texas would rather punish TCS than have stuff work

Why would it have to be one, and not both?
> it actually feels a bit weird

I won’t argue with that. :-)

> it’s like wondering why chess grandmasters don’t seem to care that chess is a fictional game and not real warfare

You’re exactly right. That is why I will never be a chess grandmaster!
Adler-32
Take a long vacation and unplug without working on anything else or checking in for at least a month. Explain to senior leadership that you need this for everyone's benefit. They'll be happy to abide if they value your contributions longterm.
Someone made a site for "cure or cause cancer" before, too bad it's not available anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495213
For cloud backup of anything, even moderate quantities of documents, i've never trusted Google in the least despite its size, even aside from its grotesquely parasitic "privacy" policies (a complete joke of a word for anything to do with that company). Now there's crap like this event, affecting who knows how many customers.

Basically, a 3-2-1 strategy is also a good idea. A physical HD/SSD in a safe place for one, along with synced working copies of documents in a machine you're using, and then in case of deep catastrophe, some sort of cloud solution, preferably one that's zero knowledge, either because it has it baked in or from using something like cryptomator.

So far I've tried several online backup services and maybe unexpectedly, the most easy to work with and simply functional across multiple machines and several external drives has been SpiderOak. Its desktop interface is shit, but the overall service is easy to use and has never failed me one so far, and it constantly, incrementally conducts deduplicated backups of even minor file/folder changes as long as it's running. As a second option, Arq has been nice too, though its UI is also rather clumsy.
Ask HN: Whatever happened to setting Firefox to use Yahoo?
In 2014 there was this article: https://fossbytes.com/yahoo-replacing-google-become-default-search-engine-firefox/

I remember when Firefox used to show Yahoo as a search engine choice in settings. Today it's missing. It appears one can search for one of several addons and hope to get one properly supported by Yahoo. [Edited to be nice.]
For anyone who cares enough to watch a 2 hour video on it and hasn’t seen it yet, this Rick Hartley video is the recent gold standard of explaining the issues at play:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ySuUZEjARPY

The mindblowing thing to internalize is that you don’t route energy as electrons through copper traces (they move incredibly slow) but merely use the copper to guide a bunch of waves traveling outside of them, where they are up to all kinds of shenanigans like coupling, reflecting etc.
Not everything in life is about being as productive as possible. Play is healthy, as is joy.
3d6 Down the Line – 50 Episodes in Arden Vul
As a “woke SJW” I don’t think we’re on the same page for what it means to be “critical of the idea of a beauty standard”.

For example, to me being critical of a beauty standard is rejecting the following statement:

“All else equal, a person with double eyelids is more attractive than a person with single eyelids”

Widespread acceptance of the above statement culturally is an example of a beauty standard, and it’s the reason why eyelid surgery is the third most common cosmetic surgery in the world.

Rejecting this beauty standard does not mean I need to be attracted to every person with a mono eyelid nor have a partner with a mono eyelid.
Galileo takes on detecting AI hallucinations, but new metrics are needed
I've worked at small non-tech companies (less than 50 people) and the quality of my peers was frustrating.
*In mice
I'm not denying that it's a good idea to make independent, offsite backups of cloud data for many reasons (even though some cloud services have protections against your ransomware scenario).

But I think it's a bit unfair to blame users for using something like Google Drive as a backup system, because it does in fact have all the main features of a rather mediocre backup system.

Cloud services are supposed to relieve users of some of the traditional burdens of operating computers, such as making proper backups, copying files to multiple devices, keeping it all up-to-date and in sync.

These things are hard to get right. Most people's backups are utterly chaotic, unreliable, insecure, incomplete and vulnerable to some of the same attacks you describe.
Oh I know! Google completely trashed my photo collection GPS and timestamp data, I would never trust them as a backup anymore.
When they’re logged in, they are much easier to throttle or even ban compared to IP hopping to dodge IP throttling/bans.
You are trading some efficiency for smaller size.
This wasn't just between projects - it was from one firm to another. So there is a conflict of interest; why would any gov. procure anything from anybody if a giant like Tata can swoop in and poach all your workers and steal your project? Personally, I think that any technical implementation details that does work for citizens should be public property and not commercial IP, but that's just me. It's not the world we live in.
Set up a Google Photos shared album, and an equivalent iPhone one (don't know how it works there, but presumably they have one?)

Let guests choose which one to upload to.

Do some hourly backend sync between the two. https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/sync-google-photos-to-ic...

Also, congrats!!
Trump was conventionally attractive by the standards of 1977: https://cmg-cmg-tv-10020-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/.... He was 6’2”, had a straight, narrow nose, clear skin, and straight white teeth. His face was chubby but back then it was boyish and youthful. If you look at old pictures, he and Ivana weren’t an obviously mismatched couple.
There's a difference between "not black and white" and "replication crisis". Nutrition studies suffer from a replication crisis.
"Tasmanian Devil" event has the power of billions of Suns
The part which is usually not mentioned Laszlo Polgar was himself a chess expert (publishing many books on chess) and a renowned psychologist, so very far from being just average parent.

The only result we get is that training a child from early age often gives them a significant edge in some specific field over children getting trained later. But that's a result known from many other sports as well.
The point is that you're discussing precision as it relates to a coordinate system trying to model position.

That really and truly has no bearing on reality except insofar as the coordinate system has attempted to map reality.
My favorite I found on Amazon: I keep all my dad jokes in a Dadabase
And if github truly goes to shit like source forge did people will just move to a clone.

But if you look at any source forge repo right now, I think you'll see github as a long way to fall before it gets that bad.
I've used statusii as a var name holding the status of several things. Just because naming things is hard, and I felt spunky at the time.
and that's just the beginning. Heavy rain, snow, fog. There are tons corner cases and yet they couldn't have something working in a continuous loop
Maybe that's a blessing in disguise.
As a general rule, don't seek dating advice from (probably scripted) Tiktok videos. Really, the less you try and learn about the human condition from sources like that, the better.
The lower end models do, but my "new" (refurbished) HL-L8360CDW does not.
> Or you can be sitting bored for 8 hours at your desk stretching out 1 hour of responsibilities to last all day and feel super burned out.

Can confirm, this is exactly how I burnt-out at my first professional job. I've burnt-out of 3 jobs, and I honestly think make-work / work-stretching burnout was the worst, or at least the most soul crushing. (Though, to be fair, it was also the first for me, so I was least equipped to know what it was / deal with it.)
I've been a dev for 25 years. I write code every day.
This, and also you print coloring books, math quizzes, puzzles, and everything else. Yes, these things are available on tablets too, but I think working with pencils and paper is also important.
His stackexchange profile is a gold mine itslef.

https://stackexchange.com/users/1136690/mark-adler#top-answe...
The idea with chroot is for compatibility with anything POSIX
The best damn actual play of old school dnd on youtube or podcast. I had to post this because I think they deserve a bigger audience and I know that the HN people will love them, if they aren't fans already.

Fantastic, mature play in the old style, with dungeons dangerous and dark, and resources are precious and must be used sparingly, and things move in the dark that will kill you as they explore (and flee) the Halls of Arden Vul.
why cant they just use the old approach for anyone and the good stuff for loggedin users tho.
I had vastly better luck using https://webcammictest.com/check-mic.html when I was testing out my cafe coder setups.

The record and playback loop is much slicker. It outputs a spectrogram to make eyeballing the results much better. It also has a live loopback mode with delay & volume control. There is a compare mode that lets you record multiple microphone streams at once, which was crucial for me for figuring out which device was working best for nosiey environments.

The site also has great headphones and webcam tests.

It's also iirc a pretty good example of using Web Components, if anyone's interested.

I've used mictests.com but grew frustrated with the narrow somewhat dated experience, and was having trouble effectively getting ready for meetings from cafes. I highly recommend https://webcammictest.com/check-mic.html instead.
This needs some elaboration.

Scenario A: I take a photo. There is no backup. Is this my data?

Scenario B: I have multiple independent backups of a document. Google deletes the main copy off my computer against my will. Is that "not my data" because Google deleted it? Does the deletion not count because I have a backup? Third option?
How the $1.8B Real-Estate Commissions Lawsuit Came to Be
Maryland awards $27M for 133k Chromebooks for the underserved
It requires accepting additional terms, seems pretty likely to be a breach of the obligation to provide the sources (if it's the only way to obtain them).
Health experts criticise new NZ government's shock reversal of smoking ban
Get an Apple Silicon Mac. The latest Sonoma beta has a bug that makes every WebView use 99% CPU all the time, and the fans don't even spin :)
The Intel Macbooks had woefully underdesigned cooling solutions. They're also less efficient than the model demonstrated here.

This "airjet" is a kind of almost solid state fan using membranes to generate airflow. They may be able to perform similarly to normal fans with less noise and a smaller physical footprint, but they still need to get that air moving through a heatsink somehow. I don't think it'll work for laptops that are designed to thermal throttle after a few seconds.
Closer to tens of thousands, if you use other “keyring bonsai” metrics (such as maintaining a PGP key). Signal’s intended userbase is O(humanity).

The complexity here is in crossing domains: Signal will need to decide how to communicate which “kind” of identity a user has, what that means, etc. They’ll need to decide whether to use random-but-intelligible identifiers (easy to make errors with) or allow people to configure identifies (which means storing more personal data, plus impersonation risks). And so forth.
I have used https://www.wedshoots.com/ few months ago.
Never underestimate your guests to not understand tech or not even bother uploading anything, even if they love you.

If I had to do it again I would stick to WhatsApp and manually ask to get high res for the best pictures.
You could publish a little webpage called "An historical note about the Docker prototype" under your own name, which you could then cite on Wikipedia.

I think it makes perfect sense as a general and strict policy for an encyclopedia. It would simply be too hard to audit every case to check if it's someone like you, or a crank.
Especially since the mentioned app apparently doesn't run on the newest Android version...
If you go out in space and look at what extrasolar stuff zaps you, you'll find a very standard power law distribution of charged particle energies, with no known upper limit. This is a better position to be in (from a detector confidence standpoint) than seeing a completely bananas event every few years. Here it's bananas (and progressively less bananas) all the way down.
Figuring what is "the one thing" is the art. It's like factoring code in separate functions that work well together and with others. There are no strict rules, criteria or methods to attain it.

Small programs communicating over pipes via plain text was/is the implementation. The philosophy is more general [1]. This one is more or less how I think of it:

"Even though the UNIX system introduces a number of innovative programs and techniques, no single program or idea makes it work well. Instead, what makes it effective is the approach to programming, a philosophy of using the computer. Although that philosophy can't be written down in a single sentence, at its heart is the idea that the power of a system comes more from the relationships among programs than from the programs themselves. Many UNIX programs do quite trivial things in isolation, but, combined with other programs, become general and useful tools."

"Medium sized" (systemd alone is around a million lines) C-programs are extremely difficult to debug or modify if you're not intimately familiar with the codebase. The code in them can't typically be used for any other purposes. Sysvinit as a program is very small, but the point is the protocol that allows multiple different kinds of programs to co-operate. Being able to glue things together with shell and Perl is a feature, not a bug.

Journalctl is a good example of violating the UNIX philosophy. It contains its own binary format, its own grep, its own head and tail, etc. With /var/log files you don't have separate cat, grep or tail to examine files and directory listings. That is the UNIX point. And this is what I mean by general purpose.

sysvinit had/has plenty of problems and systemd typically works better at least nowadays. I'm not singing any praises of sysvinit. But e.g. OpenRC manages initing without a million lines of code and taking control of more or less the whole OS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
The Nintendo Switch and the PS4 both use modified versions of FreeBSD, though "modified" could mean "changed so much as to be nearly indistinguishable".
Or some backend data storage system experienced transient errors and occasionally returned a corrupt pointer to a storage location.

Low frequency data loss until it reaches alerting threshold of 0.1%
Kiwix lets you download a pack of the top 100,000 articles on your phone which is more than enough for offline browsing.
Now do the Three Gorges Dam.
TL;DR: Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Notifications -> Block new requests asking to allow notifications
> Does second mover in Go have some sort of artificial benefit in scoring or playing? As in -- is there something to compensate for moving second?

Yes. The second player typically gets an extra 6.5 or 7.5 points.
From the article:

> Kiwix also allows you to download subdivisions of wikipedia — like the top 1 million articles at 43.53GB
Yeah I stopped paying attention to cancer research. Someone should aggregate all the cancer headlines just to show people how many of them there are.

I lost my SO 6 years ago to a weird form of cancer that fed on her estrogen, so doctors tried to put her into menopause to stop its growth. That's hell on earth, like taking away the soul of a woman.

So for years every single cancer headline made me react, but after a while you get jaded because you never see them lead anywhere.
I've an RPI with a big old spinning metal disk external HDD attached, anybody recommend a good workflow for automatic bidirectional sync between GD and my thing?
I'm reminded a bit of this XKCD comic:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks

My youngest son recently asked me to make a robot for him. Getting something up and running that connects to an AI voice assistant and can talk to him is now a fairly trivial task. The wheels, arms, and ability to play with him on the Nintendo Switch, that might take a bit longer.

It's crazy how literally every part of this is getting easier and easier on both the software and hardware side though - you don't even need to do proper embedded programming at this point, a Raspberry Pi is small enough that you can get a real PC in a tiny box and implement things in the laziest possible fashion.

Maybe in a couple of years... maybe in six months you'll be able to tell an AI bot what inputs and outputs it has, describe a task for it and a vague value function and it'll bootstrap into a decent Minecraft player.

At which point it's probably time to smash all the machines and go for a nice walk outside.