skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in general against using the reductio ad absurdism to suggest we can't do something positive because there is an absurd inevitable point at which it stops being positive.

The point is, when navigating a highly dimensional design space it's ok to use a gradient descent / greedy optimization approach. If step 1 works then proceed to step 2, if step 1 did not work then we learned something and can pick a different step. Fix whatever went wrong in making the mistake with picking step 1 as the current top priority. It makes no sense to say that we can't make step 1 because step 1001 might be bad.

On the point of taxation, I personally dislike tax precisely because I think the money is not allocated in anything close to priority order. If it was we would be living in a vastly different world.
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I’ve often noticed a strong correlation between bad products and amount of advertising, especially in consumer software. I’m wondering if there’s actually a reason for this.
Assuming you've written it correct the second time. If not, now you've got a deeper problem because it's most likely more complex. If things are waiting and coping with something to be written once again, how have you used your time to decide what needs to be re-written, versus something else that will probably be used more than you expected and needs a serious rewrite.

If you write code and don't think it needs to be rewritten, you are either an expert in your domain, or believe you have written code that fits your problem perfectly. Again, if you are not an expert in your domain, then what you have written is at best a solution that works without a second thought, but more likely could use another rewrite. Most software does not need a rewrite, but if we're talking about ways to reuse in a thousand ways, rather than a hundred ways, you need to have the luxury to rewrite code that is used in so many places that it's almost required.
It's quite nice now. Tooling is way nicer than it was 10 years ago. My team is all Apple silicon Macs and we deploy to AWS Arm64 instances. Unit tests in GH run on Linux workers.
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One thousand times, this.

My first decade of software development was on the Flash platform. Don't get me started. When I began building what I considered "Flash-caliber" HTML+CSS+JS things in 2015, I knew to avoid everything that wasn't TIG-welded to Firefox, Webkit and Chromium. I'm reluctant even about using three.js and regl instead of rolling my own little bit of WebGL.

Docker, React and TypeScript pay my bills. But they will rip away from the world, along with everything built on top of them, as soon as discourse around WASM gels into a sexy low-sodium panacea with a meaningless two-syllable name. Web devs guzzled kool-aid before and they will again, and like hell will I toss any personal code in with it.
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Spoiled western obsessives--at the mercy of our usurious medical system--who leaped at the opportunity to become regime storm-troopers for a shot at free hormones and surgeries, aren't challenging anything. They are thrice slaves: to medicine, to corporations, to politics. Another biological weapon in the elite war against the normies.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a microwave offered for sale that was plugged in at the store at any store. Ditto for any consumer electronics other than TVs and computers (and I guess stereos).

Maybe at Fry‘s they had the microwaves plugged in? I don’t remember.
Don't know if you read the article, but the point is that you used to get something collectible. I've saved every one of my concert ticket stubs since 1983.

Now, for your $50 per ticket in junk fees, you don't even get a tiny piece of card stock. In fact, you've been charged a "convenience fee" for using YOUR OWN PRINTER. That is disgraceful. And now I don't think you can even use a physical printout anymore.

And that's not even getting into the resale/transfer-rights aspect.
Instant purchase.

I assume I can just drop this guy in between my midi controller and my primary interface since it has MIDI I/O, yeah? Does it pass through?
In the early 2000s we had a mail server running on an old recycled Cyrix 5x86. When we had to move offices someone knocked down the wall next to the server but as it turned out the Ethernet cable was stapled to the wall and the machine went flying. Whatever, pack it up and move to the new office, plug it back in and it works fine.

About a year later we were rearranging some stuff and someone powered it off and picked it up to move it… and heard a rattle inside. Pop the cover off and the CPU cooler is sitting in the bottom of the case and the CPU is just sitting there naked. Had absolutely no problem running without the fan at all. We clipped it back on anyway just to be safe :)
Opinions—Hugo or Jekyll for blogs. Yes, that Jekyll! Hugo gives you more rope to shoot yourself in the foot with.

MkDocs or Docusaurus for documentation. MdBook is not in the running, IMO, unless it’s radically improved since the last time I checked.

And here’s my hot take—most generators have a lot of the same design flaws. Routing is generally a mistake—you should instead design a system where every page has a URL that directly corresponds to the source file path, if feasible. Shortcodes are a mistake—you should use custom HTML tags. SSGs should have e.g. S3+Cloudfront as a core part of their design rather than just thinking of S3 as a place you put files when you’re done.
Older but still otherwise perfectly functioning iPhone models have also stopped working. Let's not get into a platform war here.
Is your company related to Darklang by any chance? I recall they were a product similar to yours, written in F# as well, but I haven't kept up with them recently.

Effect is pretty nice, I wish it existed in other languages than TypeScript too. Regarding MoonBit, it seems like its own proprietary programming language so I'd hesitate to move to that over something well known, what are your thoughts on that aspect?
For what it is worth, the British army was deployed in the streets of Northern Ireland and killed not a few people. They probably had the support of the majority of the rest of the UK.

And of course, in the USA the National Guard killed several students non-violently protesting (actually looking on) at Kent State in Ohio - listen to the Neil Young song.
A thread on HN going off-topic is par for the course?
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One of the biggest and hardest lessons in Buddhist (monk) practice is that self deception is as fundamental, and as hard to avoid, as breathing.
Agreed. There's plenty of obtuse indecipherable JavaScript these days.

I keep remembering this code I saw in 2014. It was in ember and used mongodb and some bizarre ember features I've long forgotten to stylize things instead of conventional stylesheets.

I had been doing JavaScript since it was called LiveScript in 1995. I knew it very well. This setup was utterly impenetrable. Charging a button color required I think 6 or so different data stores to be manually updated and placed back in alignment because things were validating and cross checking for no good reason other than being a complicated pile of tangled messes. I had to quit the job.

I know how incredible this sounds. I can prove it. He does everything like this. Here you go https://github.com/davideschiera/flame-ui/tree/master ... I'm not quite sure what these 252 files do but I'm pretty sure it could be done in about 25 lines of code in a single function.

I had worked with him previously on a C# codebase almost 20 years ago now. I remember him being just as insane but somehow the language successfully encapsulated the insanity so I never had to deal with it.

There's this fundamental clash. I think things should work, be maintainable, and have the most minimally complex implementation possible - the Ernest Hemingway approach. Some people prefer James Joyce.
He (Alfred) was well-known for explosives but most of his money came from his shares in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branobel, run by his brothers.
I've been on the Internet since 1999, and I feel a strong sense of nostalgia for those early years. For me, the period from 1999 to 2010 was the "golden age" of the Internet. It was a time of exploration, creativity, and genuine connection. I imagine that people who joined even earlier might feel a similar nostalgia for their own era on the web.

I also wrote about my experiences and why I consider this time the golden age in a blog post here: <https://susam.net/web-golden.html>.
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> * Native support for arrays. I mentioned a few above. `<<Faults$$>>` and `<<$$>>` -- guess what these two mean if you see this first time? You would never guess. It's an empty array and an empty element, you've just failed.

<< means it relates to starting an array, $>> means it is the end, $$ meaning something else — an empty array!

The xᴍʟ alternative is a bodge:

public class PurchaseOrder
{
public Item[] ItemsOrders;
}

public class Item
{
public string ItemID;
public decimal ItemPrice;
}

serializes to:

<PurchaseOrder>
<ItemsOrders>
<Item>
<ItemID>aaa111</ItemID>
<ItemPrice>34.22</ItemPrice>
</Item>
<Item>
<ItemID>bbb222</ItemID>
<ItemPrice>2.89</ItemPrice>
</Item>
</ItemsOrders>
</PurchaseOrder>

Where the array is marked up as two sub elements both called <Item>:

Xᴇɴᴏɴ has first class support for arrays:

<PurchaseOrder>
<<ItemsOrders>
<ItemID=aaa111>
<ItemPrice=34.22>
<&>
<ItemID=bbb222>
<ItemPrice=2.89>
<$>>
<$>

The elements may be scalars so

<PurchaseOrder>
<<ItemsOrders>
<$>>
<$>

has an array with one item of the empty string. So a separate syntax for empty arrays is required!

<PurchaseOrder>
<<ItemsOrders$$>>
<$>
Also inspired a resistance movement that now arguably has more support than the Crown itself in Northern Ireland.
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> There's still no travel card integration with phones

This is not 100% accurate. There is no card integration, but the Opal app does allow you too see pre-paid balances. It does usually show the tapped on/off status, but it may be delayed by a few hours (so it's not completely useful) especially outside of metro areas.

> They actually did develop a digital wallet card

Which never worked on iOS, it was Android only iirc.

> the only mobile device tap that's supported are standard credit cards

You can use Samsung Pay. Make the card inaccessible for normal NFC/touch payments, and only allow Samsung Pay Transit. On iOS I think you can use Express Mode? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/105079

We attempted smart card transport in NSW three times. TCard. There was another one that went bankrupt iirc.

Arguably there is much greater success with Opal vs. Myki.
My team supports an entity that had 3G infrastructure in the US. The carriers aggressively acted to move them to newer tech - including funding replacement modems and devices.

I find it hard to fathom that this would be a surprise.
Lmao thought of this when Trump won
It looks like that should be

x f1 ((f2 y) f3 ((f4 y) f5 (f6 y)))

though the docs include the phrase "which is part of a hook" and I don't know what that means.
I feel like this also applies to software development. I have a friend, who is a perfectionist. they're really smart! a lot smarter than me actually. with that being said total output and progress towards a goal we both share is higher on my end because I'm as they put it "more industrious". I don't say this as a brag, but more people have different struggles to get started and different motivations. I'm not motivated by the big picture, I'm motivated by the challenge in front of me. others might be motivated by the big picture and not the smaller challenges. either way, I think recognizing that fact, and your motivation, alone is a step in the right direction.
20th, I think?
Man, I remember playing Battle Chess back in the late ’80s. We’d go out of our way to see what all the different piece vs piece conquests looked like. I’d love to have that on the iPad for my chess-addicted son.
Is this some AI generated drivel? Or are you intentionally denigrating the Coast Guard? They are a branch of the military. In fact there are six now with the establishment of the Space Force.

Also, yes, the National Guard was deployed on 1/6, but your own comment distinguishes the National Guard from the "military" proper, which is the subject of TFA.
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Out of curiosity, what did they even mean by ${some aspect of the mind/soul} being "located" in ${some specific body part}?
Most of these reasons appear to be tied to commercial publishers. But there is no need to involve a commercial publisher.
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Pundits always forget that the number one reason for the state is to enforce the monopoly on violence.

People want order rather than chaos

This predates democracy by millennia.

Thus if there is widespread chaos and disorder, people usually want the state to step in and restore order using all its resources.
If you use S3+Cloudfront as a core part of your design then you limit your audience to people who want dependencies on S3+Cloudfront.
This is fair, but I appreciate having an interoperable standard nonetheless. I'm currently designing an auth system based on oidc where the first party service is itself an IDP, but you could also use a third party IDP like Google. So if you're worried about losing access to your Google account, you can use the first party IDP and set up an account, and if you'd rather not set up a new account, verify email, set up 2fa etc, you can just reuse your Google ID. Since they're both standard OIDC flows, it's not hard to support both (and many more)
I saw this comment by the user smeej recently on Ask HN about your best purchases of 2024 [0]:

> Semi-recumbent stationary bike that fits under my standing desk.

> I've never been coordinated enough to get the hang of walking on the treadmill and typing, but pedaling slowly all day I can do! I've lost 45 lbs so far this year, and adding up the calorie estimate for each day (I've been tracking) and dividing by the 3500 calories people say are in a pound, about 20 of them have been from the bike! (The rest have been from hard work with a dietitian who helped me solve some longstanding issues, but that was more expensive.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080255
Moreso than riding a moral high horse while violating etiquette and explicit guidelines?
Blogged about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/11/mdn-browser-support-ti...
Mortality of the self is not a big deal, at least if the illusion of ego was already overcome. On the matter there is for example Epicurus classic thought that self death is not a concern as while alive self won’t experiment it’s own death, and once dead there is no longer any self to observe death. That one requires accepting there is no "afterlife" for the self.

Thus, only death of others is a relevant topic of concern, but taking care of them while they are alive is certainly far more important.

Impermanence of everything "only" applies to contingent matters. So statements like "everything (that happens through some contingency) is impermanent" always match some absolute truth. So the apparent contradiction that "if everything is impermanent was true, so should be impermanence and then not everything would be impermanent", is only indeed apparent.
Not at all that I want to get into this, but I do think things have calmed down a lot in NI and will probably lead to peaceful reunification eventually. Just my uninformed opinion.
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> If you have an old phone, that doesn't support VoLTE (including for emergency calls), then it will only connect to 4G networks in areas where there is still an overlapping 2G/3G layer.

I guess the question is, how do they determine if a phone doesn't support VoLTE for emergency calls? That seems to be the problem in Australia, that there is no reliable way to detect it, so they're just using crude whitelists.
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Appreciate the interest :)
dig returns a single IP address (one IPv4 and one IPv6) as well.
Force may be too hard a term, but basically I mean that you should bias towards publication even when you're not yet happy with what you've written, and constantly remind yourself that publishing content that isn't 100% perfect yet is a virtue that should be celebrated. The alternative is a folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all.
True. I was thinking of how you have 2-3 recruiters trying to get you offers at different companies that are mostly equivalent.
I fear not the man who has written 10,000 features once, but the man who has written 1 feature 10,000 times
I go even farther and just record audio/video (including) a virtual keyboard.

Actual sounds are coming via Pianoteq though.

Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSHis77Y1f8

I use OBS to combine all the various elements.
I read another comment recommending an underdesk stationary bike instead, it'll help you move more so you're not trading one sedentary activity for another.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080255
I share your theory. I understand it best in the converse, i.e., we can delude ourselves into thinking we will never be able to understand X or do Y. Not that many can personally identify with the experience, but a huge part of why people think they are "bad at math" is because they tell themselves so. They expect it based on stories they hear from others and then they reinforce it by getting nervous in critical situations and getting flustered. It is the same with positive change -- after a certain point you have to come to terms with what you have been telling yourself about your downsides and how arbitrary and mean that is, and then you can find some distance from that characterization of yourself and begin to work on a new one (which should be expected to be ultimately supplanted by the next, etc.).
I haven't transcended my ego!
People need to stop expecting their employer to solve this problem, because they won't. They're not responsible for making you exercise.

The most efficient way to incorporate exercise into your day is to make it part of your commute. Walking, biking, taking the train etc. - different modes are viable for different locations.

If you choose a job where this is not possible, you're just going to have to make it up some other way - two hours per week in a gym goes farther than most people think if you spend that time well.

In many cases at least one of these options is available to people but instead of taking it they whine that the job itself is too sedentary. I don't have a lot of sympathy, there are far worse jobs for the body than sitting in a chair (or standing stationary, your choice!) all day.

If truly none of these options are available to you in your current job - find a new one if you value your health. So many people have chosen a job for the money or prestige and just ignored this element completely. Those are unhappy people on account of their own choice.
A little disturbing we’re asking ourselves this question, or rationalizing why it won’t happen.
I'm not a lawyer, but have 20+ patents. It's my understanding that if patent A references patent B, it means the examiner thinks that B is not prior art for the claims in A.
I can see how it has nothing to do with nitrogen bubbles exploding. But why are you so quick to dismiss the concept? If gravity affects how liquids flow, bone density, and various aspects of human physiology, it stands to reason that a sudden return to earth's gravity could cause internal issues. No?
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Neat looking site, clean login/signup flow.

As submission titles go, you could probably make this a Show HN. Also, the question mark doesn't inspire confidence for those familiar with Betteridge's law [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
> I've noticed I tend towards a feeling of everyone else in the world being so alien, living some totally different incomprehensible life from mine. (Or more than I'm the alien, and everyone else is living a normal, enviable life.)

Same.

> Seeing little snapshots like these, most of them seemingly just for memory's sake, makes me feel a little more human.

For me these videos only highlight the previously mentioned state of affairs.
Yes, I believe we are still hiring for that role. I'm not sure if 4 years matches what they're looking for, but it doesn't have any explicit number of years listed, so I'd say go ahead and apply. Even if they say no, they'll keep your info in case something else opens up.
https://youtu.be/9oAP2A98qLc?si=MaRGwcJlIyV0-Iff

“THE CULT- SHE SELLS SANCTUARY- LIVE DETROIT 2010”

Pretty great.
Wow, great catch! I just copied the text idly without reading it closely. I agree that the examiner may not have looked at the discussed reference (US5653925A).

(Disclaimer: this is not legal advice.)
No idea now, but San Miguel was the beer of choice in the 1990s.
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