skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget about something as major as Postgres, I have trouble updating packages (that aren't install via pip/npm/cargo) on Linux all the time as a newbie. The experience is worse than Windows for some reason.

Hell, I have a hard time to tell the version of some system build-in binaries.

A few months ago, I have trouble to unzip a file which turns out ot be AES-encrypted. Some answers on SO [1] saying I should update my `unzip` to newer version but I can't find any updates for my distro, and I have no idea (still no, so feel free to teach me) to update it manually to make my `unzip` supporting AES. And all the versions, the good and the bad, all say they're "version 6.0.0" despite they behavior obviously differently.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60674080/how-to-open-win...
Worth a watch is the documentary about the "H" in DHL, Larry Hillblom:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212449/

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/business/king-larry-the-b...

He leveraged his FU money to become a South-Pacific sex tourist so prolific and shameless that, besides his death giving rise to a massive, multi-national paternity dispute, probably was instrumental in getting Congress to criminalize the sexual exploitation of minors by Americans traveling abroad.
Can you elaborate a bit more ?
It annoys me when they act annoyed with us for maintaining our rights. I offer them the bear minimum of respect by not ranting about how they're part of a system slowly restricting our rights into nothingness, the least they can do is not offer backhanded comments back about how I'm making their job harder. One time I refused to do the pointless facial surveillance thing next to a plane boarding gate, and the flight attendant loudly said to another, "ugh, why do they refuse," and the other loudly replied, "I don't know." Never been more tempted to play the part of the horrifyingly obnoxious sovereign citizen and educate my fed up comrades on the other side of the counter.
I haven't finished the reading of the post
Similarly, for Templ/Tailwind/AlpineJS components, I’ve recently found https://goilerplate.com.
Imagine if reality wasn't actually real! That would be nuts.
He's not written books on the subject. You can setup a search yourself. There's also a blog with easier access than transcripts.
https://www.robterhorst.com/post/apple-watch-ultra-2-vs-seri...
Get an AI to generate 100 examples then
Fun fact, the site fetches the textfile from the server at '/kernel.txt' and stores it in the browser local storage.

The code is obviously from the Linux kernel, specifically managing group memberships and permissions for processes.
Although relatively far inland, 高千穂河原 would be on an island convenient to have been settled by horse-archer-ruled people coming from the eastern end of the eurasian steppe, by way of a peninsula which shall not be named here. (and far enough south to not have had to immediately impinge upon 擦文文化?)

I'm not sure if the idea is that groups are as wise/responsible as individuals so much as that if one wishes to accomplish something as a group it helps greatly to have the relevant individual buy-in (in some cultures it seems to be the habit to gain consensus first, and only afterwards bring matters to an official vote).

Yes, exactly that time period, but that would make you meeting the Old Physicist somewhat like the Tao/Erdős picture? (and to first-order, yes, bits-exclusive: hence why I think I'm much more likely to contribute something to my wider context by working on quantales than in expending effort in attempting to coax the primates to get along)

EDIT: also late 80s/early 90s, the zine InFormation: "Every day, computers are making people easier to use."

also a historical note: in 1815, my locals decided "hey, you know, Napoleon's patches were in many ways better to the Ancien Regime", so they pretty much kept the new revolutionary structures, and just replaced all the french who had been adminstering them with local boys.

someday I need to figure out the latin for "Man, the rationalising"
I am applying for PERM through my employer, and have gone through PWD process and yesterday I submitted my PERM application under EB3. I also recently married a US citizen about a month ago.

They estimate that it will take about 1 year to review my PERM application, so my question is would it be better to get a green card through marriage? I'm currently on H1B coming from Canada.
I doubt it was true in 2012, because sysadmins would be the ones trying to make it run reliably, including things like replication, upgrades, etc.

Pretty sure that even in 2012 MySQL had very easy to use replication, which Postgres didn't have well into the late 2010s (does it today? It's been a while since I've ran any databases).
A sky burial achieves the same purpose. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

At least if the dead person starts thrushing around while you cut them up they stop soon afterwards.
Having the famously crashy DuckDB share a process and memory with PostgreSQL doesn't seem like the most robust setup.
Lack of transactional DDL is certainly painful, but not unique for MySQL. Oracle doesn't support it either.
There are some real moral qualms there. A healthy person can spare some plasma and they’ll make more quickly. You can’t grow a replacement kidney. If organ sales were legal, people are certain to sell them for horrific reasons. Take the dumbass who sold a kidney to buy an iPhone: https://www.vice.com/en/article/teen-who-sold-a-kidney-for-a...

But is it good to sell a kidney to pay for a relative’s medical care because insurance doesn’t cover their condition? How about a piece of liver for a house down payment? Or stop complaining about tuition and donate a lung like your cousin did.

I’ve played Cyberpunk. Selling organs is a big step toward a future I’d prefer not to experience.
Every surgery has risks and it's dystopia to force people into that economically.
Elo. Not acronym, named for its inventor Arpad Emmerich Elo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Maybe the current ones aren't trying to poison the well.

As an exception, consider Infowars. Now imagine someone 10 times smarter, maybe even with no monetary goals.
I had to look it up (although I realise now that's what all the chemicals shown on Six Feet Under were about). Sadly as I get older I've been to many funerals here in the UK. Not one of them had an open display of the dead body. All but one of them was a cremation. Is embalming a very US thing or is it common elsewhere?
Well there’s the trolley dilemma up close and personal.

I imagine those out there in the field have to think about this a lot more than the rest of us.

Edit: removed link as was tangentially related
I'm a bit disappointed they didn't an artist drawing something live and then rotating that.
That is too bad, Teleport is how I learned a lot of the crypto APIs in Golang. It also provided me with a glimpse into part of openssh which was never very well thought out - signed keys.

Since I was working in an environment where development teams tended to obtain root credentials from CI-CD pipelines and use them to change all the permissions on production servers or fill the storage with database dumps, I ditched teleport, ssh, and logins altogether! We followed the serverless model and there are no logins to any compute resource. The only way to bring data in is via unprivileged ci/cd pipelines or the application's API, the only way to get data out is via stderr or writing to a resource like S3. Nothing runs with privileges, there is no ssh, there are no admin-only access methods. Overnight that eliminated almost everything mysterious or unreproducible. No more permissions issues.
I would not class someone in a persistent vegetative state as brain dead. My understanding is that for organ harvesting to take place the subject has to be brain dead.
I've got a better idea: allow embryonic stem cell research, pump money into tissue growth/printing research and let's just solve this stupid problem at the source.
Don't forget the banana!
You can also express LOOP constructs in terms of DO. However if you were to construct a more exotic iterator that is not so straight forward in LOOP (beware of edge cases), I think it is more reasonable to pick DO. I think also that your example illustrates this.
This is interesting to me. I'm developing a similar idea across the Atlantic. If the organizers are on here, do reach out.
> I doubt it was true in 2012, because sysadmins would be the ones trying to make it run reliably, including things like replication, upgrades, etc.

Possibly I got it wrong and switched around which was easier on the devs and which was easier on the sysads?

In my defence, ISTR, when talking to sysads about MySQL vs PostgreSQL, they preferred the latter due to having less to worry about once deployed (MySQL would apparently magically lose data sometimes).
> The one point he does have is interoperability, which if a lot of (especially medical) equipment uses 1s compliment

No it’s completely loony. Note that even the devices he claims to work with for medical devices are off the shelf ARM processors (ie what everybody uses). No commonly used commodity processors for embedded have used 1’s complement in the last 50 years.

> equipment uses 1s compliment because its cheaper (in terms of silicon)

Yeah that makes no sense.
If you need an ALU at all, 2s complement requires no more silicon and is simpler to work with. That’s why it was recommended by von Neumann in 1945.
1s complement is only simpler if you don’t have an adder of any kind, which is then not a CPU, certainly not a C/C++ target.

Even the shittiest low end PIC microcontroller from the 70s uses 2s complement.

It is possible that a sensing device with no microprocessor or computation of any kind (ie a bare ADC) may generate values in sign-mag or 1s complement (and it’s usually the former, again how stupid this is) - but this has nothing to do with the C implementation of whatever host connects to it which is certainly 2s. I guarantee you no embedded processor this dude ever worked with in the medical industry used anything other than 2s complement - you would have always needed to do a conversion.

This truly is one of the most absurd issues to get wrapped up on. It might be dementia, sadly.

https://github.com/RolandHughes/ls-cs/blob/master/README.md

Maintaining a fork of a large C++ framework (well of another obscure fork) where the top most selling point is a fixation on avoiding C++20 all because they dropped support for integer representations that have no extant hardware with recent C++ compilers - and any theoretical hardware wouldn’t run this framework anyway, that doesn’t seem well attached to reality.
Show HN: Black Screen for Windows
As we increasingly live/love/marry across nationalities, being very conscious about immigration rules has to become something “normal people” care about and think about.

Rather than blaming the victim it’s a hard truth. Now, I would personally love for this to be different BUT as long as rules on immigration are what they are in many places of the world, we need to consider it when we move/marry/have kids.

For instance, one important piece of advice to people thinking about studies abroad (especially PhD) is to also consider what their particular opportunities for work and permanent residence is in the place they go to. Chance are after many years in a place, you may meet someone or you may want to stay. If you choose a place (say UK a few years ago) that is unlikely to let you stick around, well you may need to be prepared for disappointment.

Furthermore, unless you live in a country where you clearly have an idea of how to get PR then you always need live with the understanding that you may at any point have to pack up and move. This is a reality, and sucks to take in but is the truth. Nothing worse than building a life some place and then 10 years down the line get rejected during your semi annual “visa renewal”.
I acknowledge the point, but whether it is reflex or valid brain activity in a vegetative person is up for debate.

Regardless, a vegetative state is never a qualifiable reason for harvesting organs! The person is still alive. At the very least, the person should naturally be allowed to die. If they have family, their permission also matters.

P.S. Ambien (zolpidem) is a well studied drug to help treat a vegetative state. There may also exist other such drugs.
Discussion (131 points, 13 hours ago, 132 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871899
That would be inhumane, what is next? paying college athletes a portion of the money generated?
That's how something like `clock_timestamp()` can be supported. It returns the timestamp at time of execution, so it can change even within the same query if called multiple times: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-datetime.h...
Yes, it is very important for learning Inkscape to understand that Inkscape is a SVG editor, but not for common graph editor.
I'm sitting on a plane with a bag full of knives, can confirm, they aren't doing shit
Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies
Lots of dogmatism in this discussion, it seems. A couple of things:

1. Most psql deployments are not exposed to the interwebz, they are typically only accessible to the applications that need them by virtue of network setup (firewalls etc). This limits the attack vector to whatever the application does. Good.

2. Distro vendors (RHEL et al) often stick to major psql release for the lifecycle of the OS version. If the OS lives longer than the psql major version, they take on the responsability of backporting critical security issues.

3. While upgrades aren't hard, they're not easy either.

4. Psql is pretty much feature complete for many workloads, and pretty stable in general. For many people, there is little need to chase the latest major version.
> it can be stored safely in 2704

No, it can't. URL doesn't have any length limit, regardless of the fact that different software will impose different limits.
> It's not magic if you've got your priorities figured out.

I doubt most people have their priorities figured out before their 30s. I envy those who do.
Why is that? I didn't know the timeline for bills would be so slow.
It’s a nice word. Sounds like plausible English, but unlikely to be mistaken for any real word. The context strongly suggests a meaning, so the text is easily interpretable without looking it up.
Governments can own stocks just fine, just look at sovereign wealth funds around the world. But a more 'automatic' solution where the government sells off the stocks amortized over the year is also fine, and gives more predictability for the stock market.

And who will buy? Other billionaires yes, but they will pay the state, so the end result is moving of wealth from the billionaires to the state.

And regarding your 'state ownership' tabu, Scandinavia says hi;-) But that's a different discussion, for this tax I am fine with the state continuously selling it.
I'm a big proponent of livable spaces. I've spent the last 18 years in Davis CA, which has a lot of walkable, bikeable path, and is human friendly. But let's be serious. In its form, its not affordable, and this project strikes me the same way...at least in terms of their marketing.
What a lovely read
> I have trouble updating packages (that aren't install via pip/npm/cargo) on Linux all the time as a newbie. The experience is worse than Windows for some reason

If you haven't installed them via your programming language's package manager, you either installed them manually or via the OS package manager. The first one you'd know how to upgrade, and for the second you can ask it what version it is and what version is available to upgrade to (for compatibility reasons it might not be the latest, or latest major, unless you use the software vendor's own package manager repositories).

It's actually much easier than in Windows, because you have a piece of software (package manager) that is your one stop shop to knowing what is installed, update it, check versions available, etc. unless you've manually installed stuff.

In Windows you... google and download random
.exes? Cool. As good as the worst possible option on Linux.
At the very least, division by zero should not be undefined for floats.
> With this specific “negotiations” topic, I believe there is a missing angle, and I don’t know what term would suffice. But think like this: Watch out and forgive my small mistakes and naivete, and I will do the same when I see you doing it.

I second this. Regardless of how it is portrayed in the media, India is a high tolerance society. Most people would forgive mistakes and naivety.
The secret to success is not mentioning your failures.

(Think about a famous photographer who's showing a few great pictures you could never have made yourself. Well, he isn't showing the 10.000 others he made but were not good enough)
I guess I'm lucky and 10 minutes of downtime is not a problem for my customers during off-peak hours, every year or so. Upgrading has always been a painless experience with just a pg_dump and pg_restore on the upgraded db server.
This is going to be a disaster. It'll be breakable, since it's basically equivalent to DRM, so the only effect it'll have is making people way less skeptical of fakes.
Strong disagree on the "childhood sweetheart" thing.

In my experience / opinion there is more to be said for a (gentle) bit of "playing the field" when you're in your teens and early twenties. Get that stuff out of the way - get to know some different people, different ways of being, different dynamics in sex / friendship / beliefs. Get to know yourself, mainly - figure out the person you are. Because you sure as shit don't know when you're 16, and you probably don't really know until you're 20 or probably even 25.

I'd say the same about getting out there and socialising - drink some drink, smoke some weed, take some mushrooms, travel the world. Don't get stuck in one thing straight away - in any direction, whether that's location or relationship or job or misc life situation.

Obviously everyone's MMV and there may be some people who do find that person when they're 16, but even then you've got to ask "how do you actually know that's the right person if you've never experienced any other kind of people?".

It's like travelling - say you got on a plane to an island on your first day of your first expedition away from home and had such a great time that you just stopped there, cancelling your future travel plans. Seems foolish and small minded to me.

Obviously long and beautiful and balanced relationships are what most of us aim for - and that's great and a brilliant thing if you find it (I'm ~25 years into the best possible relationship and marriage I could possibly have hoped for) - but I (and my wife) got here via a whole bunch of teen and early 20s relationships - some brilliant, some silly, some deeply hurtful, some short, some long, some with people that really suited us, some with complete howlers that were destined for disaster from day one. And that whole journey enabled us to discover who we were individually - and then when we met in our mid 20s we had a much better understanding of who and where we wanted to be, both individually and as a couple.

I've been immensely lucky in my journey but it's because of that journey, and it's because quite a lot of that journey was sometimes hard. Breakups and dating the wrong person and getting it wrong are part of that journey, and it sometimes hurts. So does life, and to expect otherwise is deeply unrealistic.

I'm already fascinated as my two kids (20/17) do this themselves - but my strong advice to them and to anyone else is that getting to know who you are involves bashing into the world a whole bunch - it can be painful and difficult but that's what a satisfying and realistic life looks like.
I love it. This is going to be my new mantra.
Because not many people actually want to blow themselves up?

The TSA only really exists at this point because the flight attendant unions are scared someone might be able to hurt them while they enforce increasingly absurd rules mandated by their airlines meant to extract money from passengers
Maybe, I also see lisp as the slavic language of programming :)
Putting some tape on the back makes them immediately crunch down and creep. There is definitively a reflex going on.
Doctors take an oath to do no harm. While they may triage frequently, they don’t explicitly sacrifice one living patient for another.

The people playing the trolley game are the organ transplant board and the nonprofit in charge of the transplants for the state, which seriously screwed up here and tried to pressure doctors into doing harm.
There’s three levels of healthcare

1) developed counties

2) developing counties

3) the USA
Sure, and I’m far from an authority on these things, which are fortunately way outside my usual experience. I don’t know all the policies or laws or ethical guidance involved. My sole point was that someone opening their eyes and seeming to look around isn’t solid proof that the person is deliberately trying to take in their surroundings. By analogy, a football player laying on the ground with their arm up could be waving to the audience, but they could also be showing the fencing response to head trauma. It doesn’t mean they’re intentionally sticking their hand up. It could be the case, but it’s not proof of it.
Feels like a candidate for the Ig Nobel prize - and this is high praise!
As an alternative solution, someone offered a coffin with a large spike on it.
N= 1 but I’ve attended funerals in Australia and Europe and never once encountered the open casket/embalmed body that seems so common on US TV and in movies.
Don't forget you are talking to the people who left and their reason for leaving, not the group that stayed and are happy.

I loved London for nearly 2 decades, but moving out to the countryside was the best thing I've done - huge house, cheap mortgage and nearly (but not quite) as many well paying job opportunities. I could go back to London and maybe even double my wages. But to have the life I love now in terms of just housing and location I'd have to quadruple or more my outgoings.

But I'm sure I'd give you a great story for why I was in London if I ever moved back there.
PDP-10 byte size is not fixed. Bytes can be 0 to 36 bits wide. (Sure, 0 is not very useful; still legal.)

I don't think there is a C++ compiler for the PDP-10. One of the C compiler does have a 36-bit char type.
I think most people (60%) get cremated even in the USA these days, so it’s much less common than it was a few decades ago. Morticians usually run both since embalming doesn’t really support things anymore. In my state (WA), it’s around 80%, but it’s as low as 25% in MS.
I cant help but say: Americans tend to see high crime rates even when sitting in the safest city in the world. It seems like Americans almost culturally see it as a duty to be afraid.
I honestly dont see the problem. Wp-engine should and must pay some trobute to the open source maintainers considering their revenue of over half a billion dollars. Matts decision has no effect of people wanting to run wordpress free on their own server.
The argument is not that the billionaires are bad people, but that the amasment of wealth is bad. It's bad because it concentrates power, causes social unrest, and because the money can be better spent other places.

The rest of your argument is that governments are bad and that money spent there is always better spent by a billionaire. Idk what kind of dysfunctional society made you think this, and I definitely agree that there are such dysfunctional societies out there, but for functioning ones this is clearly wrong.

Government invests in stuff like national defence, law system, education and health care. These are clearly beneficial and highly profitable things, they are in fact the stage on which the billionaires build their wealth. And if the billionaires don't help pay for it, the middle class must.
Oof I can understand this from a purely logical standpoint, but those photos are deeply unsettling.