skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just guessed another two undocumented endpoints "deadcomments" and "deadstories", these take you to a special admin login page if you're logged out, or say "Unknown." if logged in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/deadcomments

https://news.ycombinator.com/deadstories

And the endpoint "flagged", which is empty for me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged

But if you add a username, e.g. "?id=dang", it says "Can't display that." instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged?id=dang

Interesting to stumble upon these even if they do nothing for a non-admin user!
Perhaps there are worse things for the collective psyche than a bit of extra carbon in the atmosphere.
The first problem is that if you don't get the permits you aren't allowed to be launching the rockets.

The second problem is he has a history of actually illegally discharging toxins for years (e.g. Fremont paint factory, not far from a school incidentally).
This seems like a really lazy argument. You could say the same argument about getting rid of almost anything thats old and isn't working 100% for current requirements
We don't at this instant have enough, but of what relevance is that? The relevant question is how rapidly we can move to the alternatives.
I have about 10 5-quart jugs stashed away in my garage, I’ll eventually bring them to the auto parts store when I already need to go there for something. It’d be silly to make a dedicated trip each time.
That's my experience too. When I hike in the mountains there are places where I can run for a while without getting tired and gain a lot of time. Usually it's the slightly downhill sections. Wouldn't want to fall there though.
The surface of the sun was booked.

Also, it’s always been in Vegas, so there’s inertia, and part of the draw is the attendance synergy with the rest of the hacker summer camp events like black hat, bsides, and others. There’s no good reason to change, and a lot of good reasons to stay.
Go is nice but people either love or hate the error handling.

There have been some good proposals but because people are so passionate about all their requirements and edge cases, that I don't think it'll ever get improved.
Because August was historically Vegas's off-season, being a bajillion and a half degrees outside, and they could get a good deal on conference space.
>I just don't understand how the FCC can justify just giving away spectrum forever to the first person to ask.

Strong agree, which is why they've traditionally licensed transmitters at specific sites. The coordination of use of a limited resource is the proper role of the FCC.

>They should instead hold an auction...

Strong disagree. Any auction is a tax, that gets increased and passed along to users. The whole idea of making a "profit" from the airwaves is a premature (and evil) optimization.

Part of a broadcast license should be expanded to include operating a timing and navigation beacon, supplied and maintained by the government, which transmits precision timing (via local atomic clock(s)) and thus can be coordinated with others to measure position. This should also apply to all cell sites.

Also, the shutdown of ground based navaids by the FAA should be reversed as much as possible. Full ground coverage in the event of a GPS loss should be maintained.
Perhaps, although that requires experimenting the new fee model first.

It's too big of a decision to take without actual numbers, and having gone through it for a few months also helps on the communication side: on the surface Patreon at least gave it a try, and there's even a chance users are pissed off enough by the new model to campaign for that change and defend the move to their fans.
`/flagged` is the list of stories you've flagged.
Beautiful game, incredible attention to detail. Sorry it hasn't sold 10x more copies but at least you got to make great art!
Using Airalo plus a Verizon physical sim in Europe with an iPhone SE 2 worked, and I found the cost fair enough, but it drained my battery like mad, so bad in fact that I found myself turning the eSIM off a lot. I think this is probably just Yet More Shoddy Apple Software, and I will probably use eSIM in future, but it’s something to watch out for.
4mph per hour hiking is pretty fast. I can do maybe 3.5 without starting to jog.
I love the convenience of physical SIMs. Will hate the day when I don't have a choice but to 'upgrade' to eSIMs.

I have a phone with dual physical SIM card slots. I can go to any country in the world, buy a SIM, put it in, and am up and running. eSIM provisioning at airports is barely available in few coubtries.

I broke the display of my phone? Easy, remove the SIM and put it in a spare phone and I can still make and receive calls.
Viking Hell Is Just as Metal as You'd Expect
Fair point.

I do think Steam is engaged in anti-competitive behavior, but that doesn't mean they're the full equivalent of the app store. And we can see on the PC market the large number of indie games that very literally would not exist if PCs were locked into only using Steam.

My point here is more that Steam is not really a good argument for justifying a pricing model. But it's a good clarification that in many ways Steam has "only" mostly locked down the PC gaming market, where Apple has gone further and locked down the actual software that can be loaded onto the phone.
This is the comment I made in the other thread [1]:

It's nonsense, for example there is no "I used pure water in the input to the process" exemption; why would there be, the output is what matters. And I believe even unprocessed potable water can be illegal to dump due to the presence of chlorine/fluorine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229100
TikTok cuts jobs in Africa as part of global layoffs
tldr: it’s often more expensive to tear them down than to update them. Okay. Same goes for all buildings.
Had it for years. The security, convenience and not having to wait 2-3 days for a replacement is great.
At work they haven’t supplied users who select an iPhone with physical SIM the last two or so years.
Even my mom had her new phone set up with an eSIM.
Never heard of any issues, and our department has 100s’s of devices with eSIM.
Cahokia Mounds are great, but I had to pass through the scariest, sketchiest, most bombed-out looking neighborhoods I have ever seen to get to them. This was 20 years ago, so maybe things are much better now, but I never thought I would see such urban blight and devastation in the USA. It makes me wonder about the civilization that used to live in St. Louis 50 years ago with their grand brick warehouses, industrial might and river boat commerce.

Maybe the population of St. Louis themselves also fits the narrative:
“They put a lot of effort into building...but there were probably external pressures that caused them to leave,” Rankin said. “The picture is likely complicated.”
Urgh some of those are crazy expensive. Best to pick by destination if you can.

For example they charge you $23 for 10 gig in Central Asia there but if you get a local eSIM it’s $5 for the same and $10 for unlimited. I just WiFi hopped because there was bugger all reception out there anyway.
While that might theoretically be a benefit, it is one not realized. I have never seen a restaurant not hire staff as employees, as opposed to leasing the space to independent contractors, which means that the restaurant is on the hook for their compensation.

Perhaps you are thinking of strip clubs?
>I own an iPhone. I am not Apple, and Apple does not own me. Why should Apple be able to charge money for "access" to me, as if I were a prostitute and Apple my pimp? I'm simply using a computer, which I paid for.

really solid point. they shouldn't be able to.
Can't Go compiler statically prove that such single implementation interfaces are indeed that and devirtualize the callsites referring to them?

Either way, the problem seems to happen in most languages of today, if they (or their community) ever happen to accidentally encourage passing an opaque type abstraction over a concrete one.
Or just pay a data broker.
>Are you going on PTO

I think that was implied well enough by the last paragraph, or rather the PO has no recourse to the threat of taking PTO.

The comment is more about how managers don't think about the obvious consequences of their actions when it's their job to do so.

Aside from that, saying "do your best" right after you removed someone from a project is hilariously tone-deaf. So is the work valuable and I need to give it 110%, or is it not and I have 3 weeks notice?
space shuttle looked safe for the first 24 launches.
not shilling for Boeing. just pointing out that space is dangerous. and a couple of successes does not make the risk go away.
I agree with Go being simpler, but modern Java and Spring Boot is also fine. Backend programmers are spoiled with riches nowadays with all the completely workable options we have.
You can buy eSIMs before you reach your destination fyi. Used them in Europe and India through Airalo after buying them in the US.
If you can afford an iphone, you can afford sending money to a number of random strangers without seeing a blip in your monthly budget. That is pretty much the reality.
> I don’t think saying you’re 5x InfluxDB on writes is going to persuade too many people.

I definitely agree with this. Our early prototype of Synnax actually sat on top of a combined Redis/S3/SQL stack and focused on those high level features. We found that it was challenging to deploy, manage, and synchronize data across these services, especially when you're running everything on prem.

We've come to believe that a re-architecture of the underlying infrastructure can actually unlock the high level workflows. For example, to compare a real-time telemetry stream with a historical data set you'd need to query across tools like Kafka and Influx at the same time. For an experienced software engineer this isn't too hard of a task, but they don't tend to be the people who understand the physics/mechanics of the hardware. We want it to be possible for say, a Turbo machinery expert, to translate a Python script they wrote for post-processing a CSV into something Synnax compatible without a huge amount of work.

In short, we're working on finding a way for subject matter experts in hardware to implement the anomaly detection mechanisms they already have in their head, but don't have the software expertise to implement.

> The thing I wanted was one solution for something that was always two: a properties/metadata database, and a separate time series database.

What do you think about TimeScale for this sort of use case? Haven't run it in production myself, but having your time-series data in the same place as a SQL table seems pretty nice.

> We found that visualization layers tended to reach down just far enough into the data intake world that it was really hard to sell just another tsdb.

This is a good point. We think that focusing exclusively on the DB is probably not the right approach. Most of our focus nowadays is on building out higher level workflows on top of the new database.
+1 for Supernatural. It's a valuable exercise app for VR.
I think it’s more of a “bruh look at all my wing nuts, whoa” type thing rather than a classification and taxonomy chronicling the history of the wing nut.
The first entry is fascinating but not toxic. The concept of living in an artificial spectacle resonates with me after 10 days of Olympics and what seems like a lifetime of pseudo-news.
Classical Music to Treat Depression
If you read /r/costco, supposedly the new bosses have changed a lot of things for the worse, especially for the non floor employees.
While being vaguely on the side of review being not very useful I would agree with Apple doing that if only to make their position more consistent, even though I am sure every developer would riot if this was the case. (Although I vaguely remember someone saying we provided feature flags to Apple when we submitted builds at Twitter. But do take it with a grain of salt, since I wasn't on the release team and my view of them is vaguely positive in that I think they generally didn't try to use tricks to get through review.)
Nah, just Apple. Whenever any other tech company tries bullshit like this, alternatives pop up and people switch to them. When Apple tries it people make excuses for them.
> it's that Apple can force itself as a middleman.

Sure, which it can do because of the monopolistic position it has entrenched itself with. If that were cleaned up, it would no longer be in a position to do that. But the other commenter doesn't agree with you. He says that is an entirely different problem.
Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible [video]
eSIMs are fantastic! Except that they just make me even more irate with various service providers that don't work with them, or don't work with the VOIP number that I use when using data-only SIMs.

Seriously, my Airbnb account has been broken for TWO MONTHS because Airbnb:

1. Uses SMS (only) for 2FA. For a fucking international travel company.

2. They don't support VOIP numbers for SMS 2FA. An issue I reported to them at least 4 times over the past 2 years.

I'm sorry, but what the fuck is wrong with people. Not everyone uses an iPhone, and even then, I'm pretty sure those iPhone carriers will NOT DELIVER SMS WHEN IM IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.

If I could donate 10% of my salary to just sending boxes of dog shit to the AirBnb C-Suite, I would.
User-defined Order in SQL (2018)
SIMs are one of those things that work so well they shouldn't be touched - which doesn't mean doing away with progress (ie. eSIMs) - it means both should coexist.-
Is your name Fabian, by chance?
Generation Z Is Revolutionizing Sex
That sounds like you’re only considering strict city limits but there are three major categories: urban, suburban and rural with urban outnumbering rural two to one but suburban far outnumbering both so it really comes down to how you slice suburban. While suburbanites don’t live within cities proper they could be fairly categorized between those who reside in the suburbs but live their lives in the city and those who spend most of their time outside of the city.
> crazy high

Not high enough that it can't go higher.

Maybe somebody should make a betting site around when the next order-of-magnitude increase on the rent of AS/400 hardware will come. With 6 months granularity.

IMO, the people without a plan are crazy. But yeah, there's plenty of them.
Makes sense. Check out the implementation of automatic lock timeout retries in Strong Migrations.

Lock Timeout Retries [experimental]
https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations
I mean like C11 has a whole atomics addition and memory model to go with it
> It just moves the problem around so it hits the poorest the hardest.

Could you expand on this? I can’t think of a scenario where that is the case.

> Social security's payout formula should factor in the number offspring.

Ha, how will you track it? I have no offspring in this country (USA) bc they decided things are better elsewhere. But they were born here.

Germany just does it directly: when your kids are little you have to support them (assuming you can); when you are old and decrepit your kids have some responsibility for your wellbeing.
the argument isn't that it's expensive to tear them down, it's that a lot of carbon was released to create them, so to tear them down would be wasteful.
HN could really use some client software. If nothing else for choosing how to read thread replies (ie: most recent, most upvoted/popular, most downvoted, by replies from the OP, etc) + a more advanced built in search.
“After we explained our operation to the EPA, they revised their position and allowed us to continue operating, but required us to obtain an Individual Permit from TCEQ, which will also allow us to expand deluge operations to the second pad. We’ve been diligently working on the permit with TCEQ, which was submitted on July 1st, 2024. TCEQ is expected to issue the draft Individual Permit and Agreed Compliance Order this week.”
Show HN: Noobies, a P2P Way of Travel
Backpacking friends and I have been putting a lot of love and weekends into our hobby project: noobies (previously cotravel.es)

WHAT is noobies?

We help expats and travelers find unique, non-touristy things to do, and meet with locals and other expats while traveling with the click of a button.

HOW is this different?

The main problem is that known websites such as Trip Advisor, will get you to the tourist hotspots -- while others like Meetup are now over-run by professional and sponsored events. That's not what most backpackers want. They want to immerse themselves in the culture of the country.

WHEN will this be out?

It already is! We have a working MVP with 50 closed-beta users. Our goal is to build a network of solo-travellers, first in Spain, and later on other countries.
One thing I'd like is ability to search your (or others') favorites.
Yes but also even the most blue urban cities only vote about 60/40 democrat/republican.

The point is the only way to win the popular vote is by capturing a lot of rural America no matter which party you're part of.
Surely DEFCON has more limited attendance than any number more mainstream conferences.

Search results are saying that defcon sees some 30k people. The 2023 Chicago Auto Show had 300k. Major city with all the amenities.

https://www.chicagoautoshow.com/the-2023-chicago-auto-show-c...
HN is incorrigable. Life is not a bipolar axis of capitalism and communism like a 60s propaganda film. Since the beginning of the United States, taxes and regulation have been used to protect the market from abuse and harm. You are privately allowed free enterprise, but said free enterprise does not protect you when you break the law. If you sell an illegal firearm to someone, the legal nature of the transaction doesn't cover for the fact that you're violating export restrictions and municipal law. It's the basic communitive property.

You can jeer when the FTC throws your favorite corporation a yellow-card, but what else are you going to do? Europe's not going to stop, Apple hasn't payed taxes to half their jurisdictions in God knows how long. Japan doesn't care since Apple schemes ways to avoid their hardware duty. Your broader point can be whatever you make it, but the world doesn't owe you shit if you deliberately organize a criminal racket.
I appreciate the Rust approach where Rust <-> C and Rust <-> Python get along really well together. They really thought about interoperability with existing infrastructure.

Java wanted everyone to rewrite everything in Java because that was easier than to interface with the existing libraries on the OS.
I agree! Also I think it could open up entire new types of games.
Show HN: System design for an idea validation SaaS tool
My company and the client decided to remove me from the client's project in three weeks, and I have to work on the project until there, most of that time on support (which is a kind of punishment in itself).

Somehow they expected that knowing this I would finish my current ticket and just happily work on that pile of technical debt called a project with a smile. Instead a 5 minute call with a doctor got me a work break, which is compensated like work days (but doesn't consume vacation days, is effective immediately and can't be opposed to).

Why not working on that three more weeks? Because I hate that project that got me in a burn out state since a few months. Their decision was sudden and brutal, with no formal warning and no effort to try getting my point of view and improving things. Since management decided to play asshole game it's fair game.

Now you might ask what if I get fired? Well I could enjoy my 1 year half vacation with unemployment benefits north of 2K€/month working on interesting projects like research papers and my video game. Very scary indeed. I hope the boss can see the light of economic rationality again.
I certainly don't take my keys if I don't need them like I'm not driving my car. Someone else may be driving. I'm just walking from my house. (I have a keyless entry system.) I basically only need my keys if I'm getting in my car when, yes, they generally go in a pants pocket or fanny pack or backpack.

What I did used to do was be careless in tossing them somewhere random when I came back into the house when I did take them. I now have a keyhook by the door I consistently use. But, sure, be condescending. I'm sure it will serve you well.
> I'd rather poke my eyes out with a nail than use Python.

Glad I'm not the only one. Every time I'm forced to use Python I cringe. What version disaster and I'm going to run into today? The 2->3 transition happened a long time ago at this point and I still run into lingering effects. Also, for short 'script' like things Python doesn't feel any quicker or easier to write. Go is my Goto (hehe) for short scripts.

And while I'm ranting, I'll also say that modern/latest version Java is also really nice.
I’m ok with TVs and jewelry getting stolen occasionally if it means my government is not constantly tracking my every move
Nevada is one where I would avoid having a flipper with me at all.

https://www.toool.us/lockpicking-laws.php

> 1. Every person who makes or mends or causes to be made or mended, or has in his possession in the day or nighttime, any engine, machine, tool, false key, picklock, bit, nippers or implement adapted, designed or commonly used for the commission of burglary, invasion of the home, larceny or other crime, under circumstances evincing an intent to use or employ, or allow the same to be used or employed in the commission of a crime, or knowing that the same is intended to be so used, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

Having lock picks in your possession coupled with the circumstances that suggest you intend to use them would be a crime.

It wouldn't be a stretch to find someone with a flipper poking at things could run afoul of this law.

It is in the "a flipper is legal, but be very cautious having it... and if you were some place where you shouldn't be and had a flipper, it could make things worse."
When I was a teen interested in amateur astronomy I actually considered learning astrology in order to learn how to calculate the positions of the planets. My thought was that material written for astronomers assumed a level of math and physics sophistication that I did not yet have, whereas material written for astrologers would be written for people who didn't an astronomer-level understanding of math and physics and thus take a more "blindly follow this algorithm" approach.

This was in the mid '70s and I was not able to find anything in my county library that actually told how astrologers find planetary positions, so nothing ever came of it.

I had a similar idea 20 years later when I took a break from programming to go to law school. Some thing in a couple of my tax law classes were unclear to me and I really wanted to see how they were actually applied. I went to the university bookstore and found the section with textbooks for the university's business school and bought the textbook for their taxes for accountants class. After reading the examples and explanations there I then found the corresponding material in my law texts much more approachable.
The values of the "putative function" do not depend on the chosen coordinate system.

This is the essence of notions like scalar, vector, tensor, that they do not depend on the chosen coordinate system.

Only their numeric representations associated with a chosen coordinate system do depend on that system.

If you compute some arbitrary functions of the numeric components of a tensor in a certain coordinate system, in most cases the array of numbers that composes the result will not be a tensor, precisely because the result will really be different in any other coordinate system, while a tensor must be invariant.

All physical laws are formulated only using various kinds of tensors, including vectors and scalars, precisely because they must be invariant at the choice of the coordinate system.