skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m still holding out hope that this is satire, and pretty good satire at that.

The level of detail in the paper he’s publishing is making me doubt that - but maybe he used an LLM to make the joke go a little further?
Whois needs it's own port open usually, this is good I suppose, now it's all HTTPS. Now, if only passive dns resolution data was part of this same api. As it stands today, if you're looking into WHOIS information, historical WHOIS and passive dns are a must, and they are usually provided by commercial entities.
that's grounds for cancellation of a domain sooooo.....
OpenSoundControl

Easy protocol to control devices
> and adopts a pleasing color palette and set of fonts

This is an unfortunate side-effect of confusing apps with web pages. No one hired a designer to pick the fonts and colors for Windows 95, because that was up to the OS ad user.
This seems like it would break things.
Not even annotations. The committee standardize this https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/span/operator_at

So they clearly doesn't care so there's no point convincing them.
The concept of WHOIS has felt sleazy for many years.

If I register a domain, the registrar will basically extort me a couple extra dollars per year for “domain privacy” for the privilege of not having my name, home address, phone number, and email publicly available and then mirrored across thousands of shady scraped content sites in perpetuity. Even If you don’t care about that, then begins the never ending emails texts and calls begin from sleazy outfits who want to sell you related domains, do SEO for you, revamp your site, schedule a call, or just fill your spam box up with legitimate scams and bootleg pharma trash.

All because you wanted a $10/year dot com without paying the bribe.

And yes I grew up leafing through well worn phone books next to corded phones. This is not comparable.
The thing that always shocks me is the number of Americans on prescription drugs. We eat this stuff like candy. 66 percent of all adults in the United States use prescription drugs[1]. 50 percent of people used at least one prescription drug in the past 30 days[2]. I get asked as part of a routine doctor's visit what prescription drugs I'm on, and I sometimes get weird looks when I say "none."

I'm not a doctor, but these numbers seem totally out of whack and out of control. It's not just the elderly, either, although the percentages from 80+ aged folks do skew the overall numbers.

1: https://hpi.georgetown.edu/rxdrugs/

2: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm
very interesting, I'm looking for something like this, will check it out.
In my obsdian vault, I keep a lot of code snippets and even entire python scripts. Do you see your method as being perhaps an alternative to dedicated github repos for tiny personal projects, replacing a million little repos?
And at the same time having notes in the same repo?

Have you solved the git repo index problem, Ive found that large vaults cause a problem and require occasional cleanup:

```bash
git gc --prune=now # Garbage collection

git repack -ad # Repacked objects, optimizing repository storage
```
It costs money to move, and if you don’t have the money I wonder how kind the GP commenter would be to someone fleeing a rural area and living out of their car or a tent in their community.
I'm a gamedev as well, also in rendering.

> There's not much else to it, no grand conspiracy

True, in that raytracing is the future. Though I don't think it's a conspiracy rather than just the truth that "RTX" as a product was Nvidia creating a 'new thing' to push AMD out of. Moat building, plain and simple. Nvidia's cards were better at it unsurprisingly, much like mesh shaders they basically wrote the API standard to match their hardware.

And just to make sure Nvidia doesn't get more credit than it deserves, the debut RTX cards (RTX 20 series) were a complete joke. A terrible product generation offering no performance gains over the 10 series at the same price with none of the cards really being fast enough to actually do RT very well. They were still better at RT than AMD though so mission accomplished I guess.
I don't play with domains all day, but this very much feels like nothing important was accomplished, and things are just being made more complicated for political reasons. Sorry if that is being harsh, but I've never had any issue using WHOIS.
ACA is also just Romneycare from MA.
If distribution packages don't abstract this trivia away I'm going to be endlessly frustrated
The years 1996 to 1999/2000 feel to me like I could go back and live them 20 times over, each time different, and still feel like I would look back with longing at all the things I missed out on and wish I could go back and relive/redo/take-a-different path.

I haven't had a feeling anything like that since about any time. I know it's probably in large part because of my age at the time (early 20s) but there was also just so much going on and the feeling was so intense, and youth culture was so on fire, so much energy. And in our tech industry, where I was just starting to find my foothold... there was this feeling in technology like if you just found the right combination of tools and ideas you could really be at the forefront of something new.

Dropped out of my BA in philosophy to join the fray and write code. Weekends full of raves, neat parties and music, meeting all sorts of people, and feeling like tech was part of something progressive and world changing in a positive and utopian way rather than ... this place where we are now.

The .com financial crash definitely exploded the euphoria. But more than anything 9/11 really was the thing that let the air out of the balloon for good.

Sept 12, 2001 I think was the beginning of this current era of paranoia and fear.
If they do it illegally, there’s nothing you’ll be able to do about it.
Nah, I was an Amiga 500 user in Europe at the time and was looking at maybe getting an Amiga 2000 or 3000, but with VGA games like Comanche and Ultima VII being released on PC, great IDEs like Turbo Pascal/C/C++ available, the value proposition of the Amiga just wasn't really there anymore, the writing was on the wall. And so with a heavy heart I bought a 486DX instead. I agree insofar as I wouldn't have opted for a 386SX.
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Most code is unoriginal boilerplate that serves a business need. LLMs are very good at generating output that is 60-90% of the way there.
You only need implementation-defined behavior to grease the wheels of multiple implementations. You don't need the gaping void of undefined for that use.

There's a big difference between "it'll be some number, not promising which one" and "the program loses definition and anything can break, often even retroactively".
It's like comparing a strong tough guy who doesn't cut corners and plans for the years ahead and a "drug zombie" who only wants to have better KPIs on paper by the end of the month/quarter/year for a title promotion or more internal political power.
HI personally worked on it while I was at Pivotal Labs (RIP). I loved that the point was to get in, add some stories, aka "bookmarks for conversations", have it opinionatedly setup your sprint by averaging the last few sprints worth of points, and then you got out. I use other tools now and I cringe every time at the complexity. I don't want a swiss army knife of features, I want a tool that does exactly what I need and I don't have to spend hours grooming and configuring and tweaking. Tracker hit that sweet spot.
> The rural parts consistently prefer a tax cut over anything else.

No. They do not prefer tax cuts over eating, for example.

> Rural people elected the current federal government.

When the entire country acts as if you and your problems don't exist (for several generations), burning it all down doesn't feel like much of a catastrophe.

I've heard from Indigenous Americans who aren't overly bothered by our massive ongoing crises. Their position is something like 'you might experience a tiny sliver of what we've had for centuries'. And they have a point.
Bro he faked the video. How gullible you have to be...
There are quite a few half finished GUI designers for it but I suspect they all remain half finished because the people who start in on them realize that such a tool will not get Tcl/Tk onto the level of QT or GTK and fights against what makes Tcl/Tk such a great tool. It is not about slick and highly refined UIs, it is about quickly and easily making functional UIs. You learn the sense and quirks of pack and grid and for applications which those simple containers work well for, nothing will be as fast or as easy as Tcl/Tk despite the lack of a GUI designer. Tcl/Tk is not for big complex UIs, it can do them but generally you will be better served by other toolkits for those.

tkcon gets you reasonably close to a GUI designer, it is text mode but instantaneous, and quite simple to configure the widgets to allow you to configure them with your mouse if you really want to do that.

https://github.com/wjoye/tkcon
If you study medicine in Turkey, at a public or private university, you have to do up to 3 years of mandatory but paid service in a place government assigns you in order to obtain your diploma. This is how you can get rather good healtchcare coverage accross the country.

You need to do this once more if you do a specialization.
I'm not disagreeing, nor did i claim they're the same word. but your idea of “building” always seems to come with demands, implied or otherwise.
I'm trying to understand what their actual definition of a Pharmacy Desert is, as they don't seem to define it. A search suggests it might be having no pharmacy within 1 mile in a city or 10 miles in a rural area.

I'm guessing I've lived most of my life in a pharmacy desert without realising it.

Looks like I'm 18 km (23 km by road) from a pharmacy to the north and 22 km (28 km by road) to the south, but the one I actually go to because it has longer hours (7 days until 9 PM) is 32 km drive.

On the other hand, when I lived in Russia every street had a pharmacy seemingly about every 300m, and people ran to them for the slightest sniffle. That's probably why they have such a good life expectancy.
Notion has a very flexible data model. We use it mainly for documents, but it also can contain databases, which can be viewed as kanban boards, timelines, etc.

https://www.notion.com/blog/data-model-behind-notion

It's really nice to have one place to go for all kinds of content, but that content can link within itself, @mention other pieces of content, etc.

It can (and does) turn into a huge mess if you let it, of course. But that's down to team culture.
> they are clearly a net benefit

Do you have any data to prove it?
What would make sense is tapping the devices together, and using NFC to pair them. The hard part would be figuring which parts of devices to tap together so it would probably be more like rubbing them together to find sweet spot. Also, it needs to be seamless and automatic, not involve downloading any apps.
> After ten years of their opinion being consulted on big company decisions, they’re trying to hold on to that power.

I feel this one. I've been doing this for twenty years, and we get listened to the least now of any point in my career. Rather than what we build being a conversation about what's possible, we get told what to build and have to push back when the requirements are impossible.

The opportunity cost is just silly. So many times we could build something better than the requirements but it's not worth the effort to try to get it through the bureaucracy.
Fexprs are very cool. RIP John Shutt
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CC SA(ShareAlike) clause is basically the equivalent of GPL: any derivations must be licensed the same as the original (either CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA, latter only permitting noncommercial use).
In Australia they were used for broadcasting audible messages and did not cause harm: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-18/coronacheck-sonic-wea...

We're not living in some oppressed totalitarian state here in Australia. It's a bit of a nanny state, and the media's pretty Murdoch-dominated, but it's about the same as any other Western democracy.
Not having images in an article like this is just wrong.
Here's an article about the paper that comes with some great images.

https://www.earth.com/news/meet-mixodectes-pungens-prehistor...
We have ownership records for real estate for a reason. Domains need some level of accountability.
And who is going to pay for or subsidize the delivery costs? Especially when the government is talking about axing USPS?
Potato potato. My point is UB isn't an accident it's intentional. Mind you I'm not saying it's great, just that it's not some kind of slipup.
Free Software is for the people who build it. Great closed source companies become great through their ability to sell to many customers. Great free software projects become great through their ability to coordinate and integrate the contributions of many people. The larger the percentage of "people who have contributed something" to "people who use it", the healthier the project is (think of this as [C/(C+U)] where C=Contributors and U=Non-Contributing Users; every Contributor is a user).

The reality that you can use many free software projects without much contribution at all is a happy and good accident of the system; but a dangerous one that can and has been often-accidentally weaponized to burn out the actual contributors.
I was really cynical about this for the longest time as I had used Linux on and off since 2001/2002 and was used to just debugging shit to get it to work. I found it fun but I could never recommend it to anyone.

I built a PC last May thinking "fuck it I'll install Linux and see how long I can ride this out until I can't stand it anymore" and I'm totally sold. It supports my weird 5120x1440 monitor at 240hz with HDR. Most of my games work just fine without tweaking (namely CS2, Baldur's Gate 3, Hunt Showdown). The non-gaming stuff is all in a browser or works better on Linux anyway.

If you're annoyed by Windows it's honestly worth poking at Linux again.

(I'm running Bazzite with KDE.)
So many tech people have a fondness for that time. To me, it was a very narrow slice of the human experience. Today I can find sites and communities on any subject I can conceive and billions more that I cannot.

And personally I found it more horrendously ugly than horrendously wonderful. But that's just my opinion.
Upon reviewing the Docker Compose, I noticed a large number of containers. Although this could be seen as negative feedback, I view it as a challenge and make time to address it as a self-hoster.
this is from the acm if it's not on-topic nothing is.
A lot of people liked "Sometimes A Great Notion". I personally prefer it to "Cuckoo". It doesn't read like something written by someone whacked out on acid.
No. The same photon is aware of all alternative paths it can take, without creating or interacting with any other photon.

There's no photon multiplication, and no "all other photons" changing their path.

There is some inter-photon interaction because they are bosons. But it's not significant enough to impact the multi-slit experiment. And the experiment works exactly the same way if you send only one photon at a time.
I'm a big proponent of the bear case, but if you factor in dividends [0] pretty much any time in the last century has nominally been a good time to invest in the S&P 500 even if the first few years aren't optimal.

The bear case is generally "this will cause a crisis, then the government is going to print money, hand it out to asset owners & lump taxpayers and citizens with the real costs". There has been a reasonable expectation that shareholders will come through fine since the '08 crisis firmed up expectations about how the government will handle problems. I don't think there is an expectation any more that the S&P will go down in nominal terms. To argue that it will someone has to come up with a theory where the Fed doesn't get involved. There have been multiple major crisii and if anything US stock market performance is the inverse of how the economy is expected to perform. For example, COVID was a big winner for shareholders and asset owners despite obviously being an economic catastrophe.

[0] https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns
You’re just using bad registrars.

https://porkbun.com/products/whois_privacy
This is what it means:

$ rdapper ycombinator.com # cf. https://github.com/gbxyz/rdapper

Handle : 147225527_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Status : client transfer prohibited
secureDNS : {"secureDNS":{"delegationSigned":false}}
objectClassName : domain
ldhName : YCOMBINATOR.COM
nameservers : {"nameservers":[{"ldhName":"NS-1411.AWSDNS-48.ORG","objectClassName":"nameserver"},{"ldhName":"NS-1914.AWSDNS-47.CO.UK","objectClassName":"nameserver"},{"ldhName":"NS-225.AWSDNS-28.COM","objectClassName":"nameserver"},{"ldhName":"NS-556.AWSDNS-05.NET","objectClassName":"nameserver"}]}
events : {"events":[{"eventDate":"2005-03-20T23:51:07Z","eventAction":"registration"},{"eventAction":"expiration","eventDate":"2026-03-20T22:51:07Z"},{"eventDate":"2025-02-14T02:53:36Z","eventAction":"last changed"},{"eventDate":"2025-03-17T01:38:05Z","eventAction":"last update of RDAP database"}]}

================================ Terms of Use ================================

Service subject to Terms of Use.

================================ Status Codes ================================

For more information on domain status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp

======================= RDDS Inaccuracy Complaint Form =======================

URL of the ICANN RDDS Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://icann.org/wicf

Edit: Fixed formatting of command line/comment.
This is about sunsetting the WHOIS protocol in favor of RDAP, not doing away with domain owner registration data.
Discussion on the inspiration project Nepenthes (714 points, 59 days ago, 274 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725147
Let's just see if it's going to be nagware or not.
A big part of that is because GDPR basically murdered Whois. It hasn't been useful for many of those last ten years.
That was a common racket a long time ago, but pretty much every widely recommended registrar offers free whois privacy now. At least when they're allowed to, some TLDs forbid obfuscating the whois information.
Yes, keyword hopefully...over some indeterminate time horizon...but surely not a mere 6 months after emergence from a legal proceeding that took a year to resolve.

Commodified OTCs are hardly raking in compelling margins relative to filling scripts, so it's unsurprising that some Rite Aids are operating as the parent reports.
I don't think so. If the authorities are willing to point something that permanently damages hearing at thousands of people in the name of "crowd control" or "protecting property" then they don't deserve to be the authorities anymore.

In the grand scheme of things, property just isn't that important.

Also, did you watch the video? They were just standing there.
I use a mail order pharmacy for most of my needs, and I live in a major metro.
Porkbun only came out in 2014

Two decades late on a problem
Although shit did happen back in the day. Someone show up at the house of the DeviantART CEO in like... I wanna say like, mmm.. 2007? and slashed his tires etc. WhoIs was only cool in the 90s.
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The stack is NextJS, Firebase, and Stripe. Yes, I know there's vendor lock-in with Firebase, but for testing ideas, the deployment speed outweighs future migration concerns.

It includes auth, billing, serverless architecture, and automated setup scripts for both Mac and Windows. Perfect for weekend projects and first-time founders.

Fair warning: This isn't ideal if you need complex data relationships or want to avoid proprietary technologies. The serverless approach also means potential unexpected billing if you don't monitor usage.

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I believe it was mostly an llvm problem and gcc supports restrict fine thanks to Fortran support
Yes it was the first popular tracker that was developer centric, specifically agile (arguably Scrum), with story points being a very key (pivotal? pun) feature. It was also extremely opinionated (i.e. bugs don't get points). This made it very predictable and easy to get started on.

I liken PivotalTracker to a Ferrari. It does one thing and it does it well while JIRA is like your 18 wheeler. It'll also get you A-B, but you can bring everything "in case" you might need it and modify it to hell and back. It can even carry your Ferrari. But getting it setup and moving is a nightmare. Even simple searching your history is an exercise in complexity.

Of course as with anything opinionated, if you wanted to do something outside of its core philosophy set, you basically couldn't. For better for worse, this really meant you were at least waist deep in agile's.

When Agile+Scrum first started becoming popular it was very well received because fundamentally it gave a better framework for business to understand how developers worked other than promising deadlines. But, it's success was its own poison well... that's a different story.
you are stating this with confidence but it doesn't sound at all convincing - where are you getting this from?

aggressive crowd control measures have been used very often and they almost never result in an armed rebellion. that's just nonsense. There are many MANY levels of escalation left for both sides - as well as the real expectation of behind the scenes diplomacy and within-the-system politics.

like really, are you just fantasizing about a balkan civil war because it's exciting? or are you trying to get more people to think that civil disagreement may as well be considered warfare? just what are you on about, mate?
Government processes in the United States remain outdated, inefficient, and resistant to change. Unlike the private sector, where competition forces companies to innovate and improve, the federal government operates as a monopoly. Its sprawling bureaucracy, outdated technology, and lack of accountability contribute to slow, frustrating service delivery that lags behind not only the private sector but also other developed nations.

Numerous executive orders, legislative initiatives, and federal modernization programs have attempted to address these issues. Yet most have failed or stalled due to bureaucratic inertia, inefficient budget structures, and an unwillingness to embrace new approaches. As a result, essential services, such as tax filing, passport processing, and benefit applications, which remain slow, requiring months of waiting and excessive paperwork...
Walgreens is being taken private in a $10B deal, and is planning on closing 1200 locations in the near future.
I was given my first prescription drug (to suppress stomach acid) around my 61st birthday. It's a PITA. Though the drug itself is "free" (or was ... my last pickup in December they charged me $5) they will only give you three months of it at a time and the freaking GPs office charges $20 each time to receive a "please can I have some more" request on their web site / app and forward the order to the pharmacy.
Why would it have to let the user know via an obtrusive splash or anything? Could just be a very simple unobtrusive option on app launch or a menu item.

Same goes for post install - not too hard to arrange to auto delete the old copy.
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Domains point to IPs, and IPs already have subpoenable ownership records at RIRs. In the real estate metaphor: we have property ownership records, but we don't have records of every rental tenancy.