skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK used to be quite extreme in forcing people to get the smallpox/cowpox "vaccine" in the 19th century. Compliance rates were quite high in the 1840s, but by the 1880s they were very low because people started to figure out that there were serious issues with that vaccine. Similar things happened in the Spanish Flu period as in the covid period, including anti-vaccine protests in Ottawa and anti-masking protests too, but by the mid-1920s everyone had forgotten completely all about that. I wonder how soon we will forget all about covid.
> I did c, cpp and c# for money and thats my experience.
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> C# has lowest amount of WTFs per loc

Sure, C# looks great when compared with C or C++, but that's a very low bar to pass. Compare it with Java, and it's on par at best. Compare it with Rust, and C# might as well be C.
Are there more things going wrong on airplanes?
>Checkmate skeptics.

And you're totally missing my point. GP came up with a backwarded way to prove your point so I stooped to that level and came up with the equivalent reasoning that's held on the other side since he was asking for it. Funnily, you're more adamant to address my comment than his because you're more attached to the resulting truth than the reasoning step that lead to it. Admit it, it's not a matter of science anymore, it's entirely politically motivated. I wish you good luck with your control system challenge, I'm sure it will be very nuanced.
Ublock origin works fine on Chrome and Firefox browsers.

For Android you can install this extension on Firefox as well. Brave Browser already blocks youtube ads out of the box.
Why should they spend their time talking to you though? You're asking busy people to help you come up with a business idea for free.

> If they need money or a gift to tell me about their pain point, it's not a pain point.

This just doesn't follow. There are issues I face, but still have no incentive to spend time explaining them to you.
I was in the last batch. The average is probably ~28 years old, but there are plenty of founding teams in their 40s and on. Plenty of folks with families. You wouldn't be a dinosaur.

Apply.
Completely gutted from the OpenJDK, last I checked. See here for the culprit PR: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18688
There's something wrong at Redislabs, it took them over a year to get RESP3 rolled out into their hosted service, you'd expect a rollout of that to be a bit quicker when they're the owner of Redis.

It affected us when upgrading Sidekiq to version 7, which dropped support for older Redis, and their Envoy proxy setup didn't support HELLO and RESP3: https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/5594
The end result is that the NLRB decision potentially made life worse for affected employees. Poor grasp of cause and effect at the labor board.
One of the challenges Redis labs here have is that there's very little reason for their userbase to stay loyal to them.

antirez retired from Redis development a few years ago.

From https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors it looks like activity since he left has been mostly from people who didn't overlap with him much.

Redis Labs have not shown themselves to be outstanding stewards of the project as far as I can tell. Why shouldn't people support the fork?
Could you buy rounds at a bar near a hospital?
Why Ordinary Blogs Usually Suck
Are the performance characteristics of that (presumably) random piece of wood well-established for a usecase like this?

If so: Sure, no problem!

If no: Then that's why.

A key part of engineering pretty much anything is understanding the characteristics of the materials. Plastics are extremely highly-engineered and well-understood (which is why they're everywhere now). Wood can be the same, but by default is not, especially in mass-production contexts where performance can vary dramatically between individual pieces of wood, which is one of many reasons you don't see it used in these contexts.

This could be totally fine, but there's absolutely no reason that should be the default assumption, especially when we know for a fact that was not the typical assembly plan and this is a company and culture known for cutting corners.
At the start, unix commands didn't need or use configuration files. The world really was that simple, for a while. Now we have even simple desktop apps, that I have not changed a single setting in, insisting to write a whole directory tree of whatever data in my home.

Or absolutely moronic things like ~/.config/VSCod*/*Cache* -- really, cache in config?
From the OSI's old history page [0]:

> The conferees decided it was time to dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape. They brainstormed about tactics and a new label. ... A month later ... the participants voted to promote the use of the term 'open source', and agreed to adopt with it the new rhetoric of pragmatism and market-friendliness that Raymond had been developing.

The entire point of Open Source as a concept was to be more flexible and business-friendly than Stallman's Free Software movement. It's both hilarious and frustrating to see people today treat the OSI licenses as some sort of divinely appointed canon of morally good options when the entire concept exists to get away from moralizing.

(I should clarify that I actually am more and more sympathetic to Stallman's vision, but I think that if we're going to moralize we should go all the way, not put a halo around the intensely and explicitly pragmatic open source principles.)

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20071115150105/https://opensource...
His research was on compounds related to ergotamine. It was not some random adventure, the fungus that produces it has a long history of use by midwives as folk medecine and is still used today to treat postpartum hemorrhage. Now, what piqued his curiosity? Did he have knowledge about the "dancing plagues" and the theories they were caused by ergot contaminated grain and if he did, did he make the connection to his feeling of restlessness?

Edit: He also spilled some on himself, it was not the mouse or whatever that was restless. It was him.
IIRC, lampreys are really the stars of the show, upstaging the occasional glimpse of a salmon.
don't chrome and firefox both still have new tab/home pages? it's just that most HN users turned the feature off when they started displaying ads and propaganda.
TrueNAS Core versus TrueNAS Scale
Interesting -- I usually wish people would RiiR because of running into segfaults that I presume would be impossible in (safe) rust, or because installing the (mostly) static binaries is often much easier than wrangling (non-wheel) Python dependencies.

I have found disappointing performance gains rewriting my small Python projects in Rust as most time is spent in IO and many / most CPU-intensive tasks in Python are done in C or C extensions that release the GIL and seem just as fast as Rust would be.

No doubt the improved responsiveness / startup time for rust CLI apps is much appreciated, and it is trivial to intentionally write a very poorly performing CPU-intensive task in Python.
> Just a heads up, you're gonna have to give a source that's not a youtube video if you want to be taken seriously.

Are you kidding? Sure there's lots of garbage at YT, but so what, you can often tell if something is hot garbage or real.

Anyways, this is testimony taken by Senator Ron Johnson. It's trivial for you to verify that Senator Johnson is the one running that meeting, and that this is video of that meeting, and you can follow up with his office if you have any questions. You would know this if you merely loaded the video, even if you didn't watch more than 5 seconds of it. You asked for a source, and you got it, and it is a reputable source even if it is a YouTube video.
At least then you could run your own server with whatever settings you wanted. Now instead you are left with unplayable games because the developer or publisher decided to shut down the servers.
See my reply to the sibling comment by stefanos82.
The Romans weren't particularly antisemitic, unless you define antisemitic as "opposing Jewish interests." There was a lot of bad blood between them and the Jews in that sense.

In one of the Jewish-Roman wars, Kitos War[1], here's what happened:

> 32 Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks. They would cook their flesh, make belts for themselves of their entrails, anoint themselves with their blood, and wear their skins for clothing. Many they sawed in two, from the head downwards. Others they would give to wild beasts and force still others to fight as gladiators. In all, consequently, two hundred and twenty thousand perished. In Egypt, also, they performed many similar deeds, and in Cyprus under the leadership of Artemio. There, likewise, two hundred and forty thousand perished. For this reason no Jew may set foot in that land, but even if one of them is driven upon the island by force of the wind, he is put to death. Various persons took part in subduing these Jews, one being Lusius, who was sent by Trajan. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War
[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10890/10890-h/10890-h.htm

It's not intellectually honest to mention Roman "antisemitism" and not mention that the Jews were very deliberately genocidal. They were absolutely not just innocent victims.
Why there will never be another Bitcoin
His "comic slides" are fun :)

https://eurocrypt.iacr.org/2017/slides/A04-constraint-hiding...
Can you save your game?
Please reread my post, I didn't mention anything historical. I never said who founded it nor who started it. Your arguing against a straw man argument you made up. I am saying today, OSI does not represent the software industry and that given sponsorship bias it's likely to represent the views of those companies that pay OSI.
I’m amazed that they thought that they could do this and get away with it. Redis is almost a foundational tool for modern caching architectures. Every company I’ve ever worked at used redis like candy to cache stuff that wasn’t important enough for the reliable but expensive and slow data stores. Additionally, the main features 99% of people want and need have been in redis for a decade. Even a fork that only fixed security bugs will have done better than Redis Labs after this debacle. It’s like if the author of nano, the text editor, would try this license change. I suspect this will be much like the {open/libre}office changeover. Maybe soon ‘apt get redis’ and others will be aliased to Valkey.
For the record, 30 years later most consciousness researchers still believe it's unlikely that quantum mechanics plays a special role in consciousness. It of course remains plausible, since we still don't have the true answers yet, but hypotheses like Penrose's have not yet been found to be credible.

I really like your summary of some of his ideas, though.
Well then I have the real version of #1 - I have no meaningful skills. I have enough problems that I can't even see myself as a founder, stuff like lack of soft skills from a disability and massive home responsibilities.
The term "bait and switch" infers intent as well though. The community was invited to come and improve the space, but then there's this group that unexpectedly starts to monopolize that space in a way that destroys its viability. So controls need to be put in place, or eventually the space has to be totally abandoned or shut down.
How many years do you have to go back to find 1 company that is on par with a dropbox or airbnb

i feel like if you went back 5 years it would be hard to even find more than 1-2 companies that has achieved a moderate level of mainstream success in the same way
> What happens before you "establish those points of commonality"? Do they just unleash a constant stream of racial epithets at you?

They do not. But establishing commonality is a predicate to relating to people. Anywhere you are in the world, you must make efforts to relate to people on their own terms. If you walk into a village in Bangladesh, you need to figure out how to relate to them. Nobody owes you acceptance. The onus is on you to show you belong.

> Look, the reason you think Bangladeshis are racist and White Republicans are not is because other Bangladeshis are comfortable speaking freely about ethnicity/race in front of you, whereas White (and other) people are not.

Which is a good thing! Liberal whites are way too comfortable talking about race.

> I'm a Black man in an overwhelmingly White Republican part of the South and I have overheard disparaging comments very casually made (e.g. about the number of Indians who frequent our local Costco) when people thought it was "safe". I've also had a White Republican friend confide in me how absolutely racist the area we live in is, including some choice comments made by people we know in common.

But do they treat you differently as an individual based on race? I think that’s the fundamental difference between how liberals and conservatives view race. To me, the only thing that matters is that you treat me as an individual without regard for race. And in my experience that’s true of white conservatives. I don’t care if people have abstract notions about people from Muslim countries if they’re able to treat me as an individual. And quite ironically, white conservatives are much better at that than white liberals.

I absolutely condemn anyone that would treat an individual differently based on race. And that’s why I think white liberals are wrong and must be defeated. But I do not think that people perceiving conflict between groups is equivalent to racism.
Aren't they a media firm that publishes exposes? I don't think that quite fits for a business intelligence firm.
I'm going to post something vulnerable, but I hope people take my comment in the right light, as in general I love YC and what it has done for the startup community.

I've been building startups for a long time, and have applied to YC several times, mainly with the same idea (although I've always listed 4-5 other ideas I'm interested in as well). I have always gotten rejected, and while that was disappointing, I 100% understood that getting into YC was the exception rather than the rule, as YC had a smaller acceptance percentage than Harvard.

After a few batches of these rejections, I decided to take a break from applying and instead build up my startup experience more by working at growth-stage startups, and just in general started focusing on my career as well.

Fast forward a few years, and about a year ago YC reaches out to me (via automated email) saying they had identified me as being in the top X% on the Cofounder matching platform, and encouraged me to apply to their next batch cycle.

I was reluctant to do so -- I hadn't been thinking too deeply about any new startup ideas in the past few months (so I'd most likely have to apply with a previous startup I had built), but after encouragement from friends and family I decided to take a chance anyways and apply once again.

I went all out on the application -- I reached out to some YC friends and mentors to get their recommendations, and had them help me edit and perfect my application as well. I even traveled for a month to San Francisco, just so I could absorb more of the ecosystem, network with as many entrepreneurs as possible, and help give back to the community if I could.

I submitted my application, waited for the fateful "interview email" day, and when that day came -- I got the standard "...we're sorry, we're not going to move forward with your application".

I'll admit -- getting that email stung. I know looking back there were a lot of things I could have done better (e.g. not applying with the same idea as previous applications, among other things), and just like when I applied years ago, I knew that the chances of getting to the interview stage were slim to none.

But yet somehow, that rejection hurt more than any of the others.
I also find it interesting that I graduated from Tufts (2011) and took a Philosophy class in 2010, and yet today is the first time I heard about Professor Dennett. I do wish I'd known him and his works earlier though. His notion of conciousness being a narrative created by the brain resonates well with me.
I think the reason CoMI wasn't well received was a combination of adventure games being on the way out (so not a great sale for casual gamers) and Ron Gilbert not being involved in it (so not a great pitch for fans either). But I have to agree that some of my favorite Monkey Island jokes came from this game, and I appreciate their attempt at "straightening" the ending of MI2.

As for the latest MI... it is my hot take that I would have been better off not playing it. It's competently made and has some good innovations for the point-and-click genre, but not even the characters seem like they want to be there. Then again, it has good ratings so other opinions exist.
Ya know, I saw this a year ago, and was curious if it actually held up. After all, the amount of CO2 released by humans is only about 4% of all CO2 released, on an annual basis (730 gigatons all sources, ~30 gigatons by humans).

But it's a pretty simple equation. We know the approximate mass of the atmosphere, and the number of molecules per weight. We know how many molecules are in a unit mass of CO2.

Thus we should be able to calculate out "how many gigatons of CO2 are necessary to increase atmospheric CO2 by 1ppm", and then given measurements of actual CO2 increases, how much CO2 is necessary to increase atmospheric levels by the amounts seen.

If the amount of CO2 required to yield the observed increase is greater than annual human emissions, then that's a strong signal that CO2 increase is NOT anthropogenic and something else is going on. If it's less, then that is a strong signal that humans are the primary culprit.

Anyway, I did out all the math and it takes about 8.8 gigatons to increase atmospheric levels by 1ppm, and we're netting an increase of about 17gt into the atmosphere per year, for an increase of ~2ppm annually. So it's pretty clear that this is anthropogenic.

If anyone wants to check my math I wrote it all up here [0]. Numbers are a couple years old at this point but the conclusion still stands.

[0] https://biotinker.dev/posts/climate1.html
> criticism of those links is usually that the people who use artificial sweeteners are people who already have habits that would cause diabetes

That criticism perhaps mixed cause with correlation: keeping a sweet-tooth habit by using artificial sweeteners leads to eating sweet foods containing real sugars?
Apple is opinionated about which languages should be used on their platforms, and they enforce it with these kinds of decisions.

For example, there was a time where Steve Jobs threatened to forbid iPhone apps not written in Obj-C, which would have destroyed the cross-platform ecosystem, at Apple's expense. Luckily, he was talked down from being that extreme.
My journey through backwards compatibility
There were people who showed up to Washington DC on Jan 6, who were not affiliated with Proud Boys. Who saw the shattered windows and open doors, and decided to go for a stroll through the Capitol building. I think they just showed up and were interested in what was going on too.
Quick! The one comment where my username is relevant! Must... reply... before.. opportunity... passes...
But semiconductors operate so much faster than neurons that it is hard to be confident that AI hadware has not already caught up to cat brains.
AT&T's website. It's broken enough without the blocking. Recently I had to toggle Firefox's tracking protection to get the chat widget to work. Pile of junk.
That's surprising. I've definitely driven 100s of miles without ever hitting the brake peddle.
How do you even firewall such a protocol?
One is maintained and the other isn't. If you don't care about that you could definitely stick with the old version.
I guess properly around 16 with some C++ cmd programs and some WordPress PHP mods. Before that I had some minor interest in HTML and GUI tools around 13 or so.
Some Volumes Were Slow and We Figured Out Why
I agree with you on the dangers of targeting minorities. My thinking is still, though, that there is a category of people well-served by ISAs, and those people are underrepresented in schools with traditional payment models.

I've often thought that anyone can be a dev--if they want it. Meaning, it has to be someone who likes the material enough to put in the effort. It doesn't matter if you're smart enough; it only matters if you're going to put in the time. There's a reason I'm not a CPA. I'm absolutely smart enough, but eff that!

And lots of times schools do advertise "we guarantee you a position in a high paying job if you just put your ass in that seat for 6 months". Who wouldn't want that? But they leave off the "you gotta want it" part. And then people get trapped.

Related to "easy to leave", we fought to filter the front-end heavily for people who "wanted it". And we fought to allow students to attend for as long as possible with no obligation. The goal was to allow them to discover if they wanted it. However, this was not realized while I was there. So much more I could say here about how that didn't happen, but I'd wager you have a pretty good guess.

Hand-in-hand with wanting it (IMHO) is having a comprehensive, heavy-hitting curriculum. The guy who hired me left Lambda ages ago, but he and I came up with a list of things people should learn to be decent devs... and that was one helluva list. Needless to say, not all of it got covered, and as time went on, less and less of it did.

I love that California community colleges are now free. Easy to leave!

I really appreciate the conversation, btw. I also like geeking out about this topic, and it sounds like I could learn a lot from the ground you've already covered. I'll check out the reading after I finish prepping for class next week. (0-1 Knapsack and dynamic programming. Phew.)
This new narrative makes it as if backdoors started existing the moment xz happened. As if that wasn't always a threat, and that xz more than anything did prove that free software is a lot more resilient than to suffer similar attacks that have happened and will continue to happen without public acknowlegement or as much publicity in unfree software/SaaS.
Show HN: Newcomer – Language Learning SIM
Hi HN!

I'm an indie dev building a language learning simulation that aims to emulate a language immersion experience, similar to studying abroad.

I'm bullish on this idea because the player has a natural context (people, places, things in the world) that they can converse about in their target language. The primary way to learn is by completing tasks, such as ordering a beer, by speaking/typing your second language.

Most apps are stuck on teaching you vocab/grammar and they try and make it "fun" through gamification. There are now many AI conversation practice apps. However, I think a language immersion environment is the end goal as learners encounter grammar and vocab in the natural context of a conversation. In addition, humans use language to affect change in the world in some capacity, and in Newcomer, the goal is the player to use and practice their new language to affect change within the game (and consequently improve speaking/typing).

If you want to see more stuff I'm posting you can check it out here: https://twitter.com/NewcomerGames

I'd love to chat more about it, feel free to reach out to me!

Thanks, Jason