skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't exactly recall if we called it "e-mail" at the time or "mail". I do recall emailing in probably 1985; I recall distinctly setting up a cute multi-line graphic "you have mail" shell notifier when I was primarily dialing in on an HP-110 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_110 ) with the 16 line display, it was a loaner because the 24 line Plus model was out in 1985 and everyone wanted that one.

It was a lot of bang paths, where you'd list your e-mail address from a pretty well known location, like "hpfcla!hpilsb!linsomniac" and the sender would have to know or use trial and error to say "I bet ihnp4 can reach hpfcla.

You know those viral videos of kids tossing a ball the hits a pot that bounces over to a pan that bounces to another pot then to a kettle then into a cup? That's what sending e-mail was like back then. At least via UUCP.
Does it work in the back of a van? Let me know!
How Pebbles Form Planets
Terrible article, it probably wasn't true them, and we certainly know better now.
Can you explain why they have 3 concurrent cursor projects for the same code base?
Repping to failure has potential ethical implications?

Reps to failure can be done pretty darn safely with machines and incredibly low risk of injury if done on the higher rep ranges (say 20 per set). You’re not going to get rid or risk of injury but in order to even do this study, my opinion is you have to be at a normal level of injury risk or the study is pretty much flawed by design.
There isn't a date but clues indicate that the crossing was decade or more ago. The Garmin 12XL was released in 1996. It is possible that was using GPS and none of the equipment available now, but more likely that didn't exist.

Solar panels weren't as available back then. Satellite messengers weren't available. Both are popular with sailors now.

Edit: It mentions other GPS units so could be more recent.
Discussing politics with friends and relatives is what makes you a moderate overall.

Otherwise you will grow up inside an echo chamber, far away from reality.

People talking about politics IRL makes you understand and reason other points of views. If you can't tolerate others views, then you are clearly a radical.
I do my best to avoid talking and or thinking too much about politics. If I do i then realize family members to friends have sold their mind, intelligence, ability to clearly point out right from wrong, etc to political emotional babble from either side.
:-) I was surprised when it spoke aloud, myself!
This is very outdated information. The old research didn't account for alcoholics in the non drinkers bucket. Now the researchers have shown that any amount of alcohol is bad for you
bravo, i like the current admin of the US

some say trump is the cause of the current state of the United States, well, in fact, trump is the result of the current state of the United States
A 17 year old ThinkPad is going to have extremely limited utility for today's applications. You can browse the web****, sure. You can replace parts, yes. But it still performs like dogshit for today's applications.

That said, I maintain a G4 Cube running an outdated OS to play Sim City and Sim Tower. And it's "upgraded" as much as possible.

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This does not help against real DDoS attacks (that don't even speak HTTP most of the time) or full-browser headless bots, besides warming the planet more. It also only looks at Mozilla user agents (despite one of the reasons given for its development was bots changing user agents), so it's extremely easy to bypass. But solutions like CF's or similar are better tailored for anti-DDoS purposes where the threat is from massive amounts of bandwidth, not well-behaved AI crawler bots clogging up your logs.

And if your argument is that it helps DDoS by being a frontend proxy, well, you still need more bandwidth than the DDoS uses, in which case you could do this with a simple "click here" page just as easily.

But please prove me wrong if I've misunderstood something.
If they're running the business, and it's at a point where it needs layoffs; sounds like they're not doing their job properly, and should be replaced with people who can-- like every other position in the business.

Not that they will-- too much self-interest.
Publishing an AI-written novel is about as thoughtful as a doctor sending you an LMGTFY link with your symptoms.
Send me a resume at mark.kegel@disney.com.
Wait until they declare nonresidents are not entitled to properties in the US and seize all bank accounts and 401k, USSR style.

The scariest thing, and most absurd to me, is that even though I made that joke just 1 minute ago, now that I think about it, it is not completely impossible in this current political climate...

I dread to think about what the US will be 10 years from now. Trump is not the problem. He is a solution, or claimed to be, to the ailments that plague the US. The people here want change, they know something is rotten but they don't even know what is the problem with so many lies and misdirection and days to days burdens they have to bear. So Trump become their cry for help. It is just sad and tragic. Truly something for the history book, if we ever get there.
Maybe I wasn’t clear. My anecdote wasn’t about Chinese IP theft, but rather American arrogance. We thought the Chinese weren’t as smart as us and were just cheap labor, but that was wrong.

I don’t want to take a stand against or cut ties with China. I want America to be more like China, and rebuild our industrial capacity.
Its not _all_ theater. Sometimes something does make it into the box and out the door.
I immediately thought of the wrestler LMAO
Why does the Flowbite Blazor website have a 'Docs for AI' button?
When you click the button it returns a plain page of markdown. Has anyone seen this on other sites?
I was really hoping to catch up on Real Housewives of Vatican City
If a politician tells an obvious lie, it's not enough to call it a lie.

There has to also be a competing vision.

The Democrats have been stuck in a "That's a lie!" + {crickets} rut for too long.

What is the competing vision? (And no, general platitudes about freedom, democracy, and apple pie aren't enough)
Just something that would be good to emulate a paddle controller from the arcade and Atari era, with a relatively fast polling rate, that can plug into USB.
How is it insane? Migrant labor has had a centuries-long stranglehold on the American economy. This is neither a new phenomenon nor a moral crisis.
The biggest mistake those employees make on their way to getting overlooked is assuming their boss knows.

Everyone needs to advocate for themselves.

A good boss will be getting feedback from everyone and staying on top of things. A mediocre boss will merely see "obvious" things like "who closed the most tickets." A bad boss may just play favorites and game the system on their own.

If you've got a bad boss who doesn't like you, you're likely screwed regardless. But most bosses are mediocre, not actively bad.

And in that case, the person who consistently helps unblock everyone needs to be advertising that to their manager. The person who's work doesn't need revisiting, who doesn't cause incidents needs to be hammering that home to their manager. You can do that without throwing your teammates under the bus, but you can't assume omnipotence or omniscience. And you can't wait until the performance review cycle to do it, you have to demonstrate it as an ongoing thing.
Tesla cars are sold online, not at dealerships or "showrooms" like other cars. A surge of buyers trying to cash in on $5k in rebates before it runs out isn't implausible.
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Howdy, I'm looking for our next Software Development Team Lead. We have a beautiful (mostly empty) office in Calgary but are remote-first. Your team members are located from Vancouver to Quebec - for now; we're growing so maybe NFLD soon?

This person will lead our growing AI/ML team, but they are first an experienced team lead (you have managed people before) with significant python development experience. You can be creative with how you demonstrate your skills, experience and passion for AI/ML, and you'll get a chance to grow in these areas working with our strong technical team.

if you're interested check out the posting, and if you apply I'd appreciate mentioning you found out about this on HN (long-time participant but first time as a hiring manager in this pool of talent). Thanks for your interest!

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You're drawing a false dichotomy between believing things with no evidence (what you dishonestly call "deduction") and simply waiting for the accused to produce evidence.

I know this is mighty convenient framing to justify the conclusion you've already reached, but back here in reality there's actually no shortage of people with access to all sorts of records who are extremely motivated to find and publish such evidence. They haven't yet and they almost certainly never will.

P.S. To deduce that Biden ordered these investigations, you'd have to disprove alternative explanations including "the defendant himself and his own legal team publicly provided ample evidence of his criminality to justify investigation."

You're making shit up, not deducing, lol.
I'm no teetotaler, but this article is wildly misleading. Many of the longevity benefits claimed are just selection bias.
This is another article that largely boils down to "Some people really really like money."
I agree with the author's point, which basically boils down to "pay peanuts, get monkeys."

But I think another large issue is a deep lack of respect at these jobs, in every way. They are impersonal, they are short-term, you are a cog in a machine, they don't know your name, the customers don't know your name, they don't care about you, you are replaceable, you don't care about the work, why would you?
Headscale has been serving me well for half a year now. It is great, to the point I have no idea how I lived without a tailscale network before.

It is packaged in openbsd, and that package is the server I am using.
This works significantly better than I would have expected. I was just exploring extremely simple png strings as an alternative to the hash libraries requiring decoding. I had also explored two color css gradient, based on pregenerated major/minor colors, but too course to be useful (for a fast scrolling gallery). I’ll give this a test drive!
Location: Boise, ID

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Python, Javascript, Rust, PostgreSQL

Resume: https://gist.github.com/johnnydevriese/8463d1f60443d5abda51d...

email: johnnydevriese@proton.me
Show HN: All Books, All Languages (ABAL)
"All Books, All Languages", or ABAL for short, is a modern, web-based, parallel text language-learning application that I've been working on as a side project for about a year.

I've already received a lot of great feedback about the application among language learners. In addition to what I hope is an intuitive UI/UX, one of the unique things about ABAL is the way that pronunciations are customized to a user's native and target languages.

Systems like IPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...) don't make pronunciation any easier to get right for a majority of - if not all - language learners. ABAL solves this by showing phonetic hints that are written in the user's native language script and are meant to be pronounced in the native language's voice.

The name All Books, All Languages is intentionally quixotic, as it serves to set the ambitious and unreachable goal of hosting all of humanity's written works while making them available to all language learners and readers across the globe!

Today, it hosts a number of generated short stories categorized by subject and CEFR level. I'm currently working on supporting (private) self-uploaded files, and works in the public domain. Work is also going into adding support for more languages, while evaluating and optimizing for cross-language translations accuracy.

It currently supports 56 languages (including Klingon and Latin!) - which comes out to 3080 permutations - or 3080 unique user profiles as I like to think of it. Both the marketing and application sites are fully internationalized - even response messages in 4xx responses use i18n. Quite a bit of work went into automating the i18n diff generation system to make sure I can release UI/UX changes quickly.

I hope you'll find it useful if you're learning a new language or need to practice one you already know. If you're not learning a new language, but wish you could read classics in a language you're fluent in, stay tuned!

Marketing site: https://www.abal.ai
Application site: https://read.abal.ai
X for updates: @abal_ai
If so many companies are such a disaster, why isn't someone founding a startup that says "We won't do any of that crap here" and eats said companies' lunch?

Might be such startups are unstable, because once the lunch starts getting eaten, the founders are instantly offered "F-you money" to sell their company, at which point it gets rolled into a disaster company. Or it loses its incentives past a certain size.

Rare indeed is a company whose founder(s) both (a) refuses to sell for a generous valuation and (b) actively put the brakes on aggressive growth out of wariness it will destroy the company yet (c) still sees the company to success.
.io is the ccTLD for Chagos Islands.

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

There is a mixed history of what happens to the ccTLD in such cases.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526
The British Indian Ocean Territories (.io) might go to control of Mauritius. They will be able to decide what to do with the TLD. It could in principle be restricted to residents, or go away entirely.
Settings -> linked devices?

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320551-Li...
I am firm believer in the right to free speech and the importance of expressing ideas that are contrary to the general cultural attitude.

That’s why I turn on the Show Dead setting on HN, and I love that HN has that feature.

Save your upvotes for people positively contributing.
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Wasn't that the plan all along, people always said "Ballooning Government debt is fine since unlike normal debt Governments can just print money and never really pay back the real value".

Someone has to get screwed over when you do that, who do you suggest get screwed over?
Thanks for the reply.

But I really detest the ever-growing universe of unnecessarily obscure slang. It's not clever and not informative. Good slang is akin to a word that you can figure out from its Latin origins; it makes sense, might be clever, and you can figure it out if you think about it.

This is just douchey.
Big discussion earlier (114 points, 11 hours ago, 145 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557524
I think google several years ago had gotten very good at matching on related concepts, but it just fell off a cliff after that.
We are hired to support whatever closed door management agreements were made. Mostly not even made for the company goals but the managers self interest
> The law is unfortunately very vague and thus open to interpretation (which is ultimately subject to the commander in chief, the current clown)

That is it exactly. The US legal/governmental system is a house of cards that has been running for at least 150 years on a bunch of wink-wink-nudge-nudge assumptions that both sides were too scared to test or even acknowledge. An ounce of prevention might have been worth a pound of cure, but now we'll need the cure, and it's probably going to be painful.
The article brings to mind a 1983 SF short story, "Rogueworld" (Charles Sheffield, published in *Fantasy & Science Fiction) <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?49095+2>), in which a rogue planet enters the Solar System and rapidly evolves from an apparently dead static body to one of immense turmoil due to accumulated stresses, both physical and electromagnetic.

The idea that static electricity could similarly serve as an initiating factor in the formation of smaller macroscopic bodies (dust -> pebbles -> boulders -> asteroids -> planets) is of the "why didn't I think of that before" plausibility. Transition points between static-electric effects, chemical bonding, and gravitational cohesion would be interesting to model.

Some further reading on the topic:

"How do stars and planets form and evolve?"

<https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/big-questions/how-do-stars-and-p...>

"How Do Planets Form?"

<https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/how-do-planets-form/>
That's a lot of words from someone who doesn't know what's been going on for ~6 months or so that is relevant.

Mullenweg lost his mind and attacked a competitor to Wordpress hosting (WP Engine) and kept doubling down and only served to demonstrate how much of an unhinged asshole he was.

Along the way he pissed off the Wordpress community - the worry was that if anyone else pissed him off (which could include he'd accuse them of using the Wordpress name or even "WP", even if it was descriptive (which is entirely permitted use of a trademarked name) and run up a bunch of legal expenses for them.

Angry-at-the-world blog post after blog post doubling down over and over. Taunting people as he banned them from the Wordpress slack, that sort of stuff. Then he blocked WP Engine from accessing the Wordpress.org plugin and theme registries which meant a huge number of sites couldn't update plugins or themes.

Then he announced Automattic was going to cut back engineering hours to (if I remember right) one full time staffer. One person to keep up with security updates and bugfixes of a very complicated piece of software used by a lot of organization.

Incredibly childish and thoroughly demonstrated to the world that he was unsuited for leading a company and being the sole person almost completely in charge of a piece of software used by a 20-30% of the websites in the world.

This was absolutely foreseeable, especially when he cut back Automattic's engineering to 40hr/week.

I advised a client a few weeks into the drama to at least keep in the back of their minds that they might have to migrate at some point as "the CEO of the company is off his rocker, they probably will start to struggle with security updates, and the company may go out of business."
.. "we will need writers who remember freedom" Ursula Le Guin

Both of our best ways at getting to the truth - Journalism and Science - rely on entertaining and following all sorts of contradictory ideas and then comparing them with observed reality.

Universities in particular need to be physically safe spaces, where ideas of every kind can be mercilessly attacked.

We are losing what took so long to build.
I mean, it's not just search that assumes we don't know what we want. A huge amount of technology these days has shifted to telling us what to want rather than letting us obtain what we have independently decided we want.
Give me a way to filter out results with ads on them please.

Edit (hn doesn’t let me post this fast): is finding places to buy shit really an issue? How many times in your life have you thought “damn I know what I want to buy, I just don’t know from which site to buy it”? That’s hard to imagine of anyone. This user story just seems like a problem made up by search indexes to court capital.

Edit2: Kagi is great. I'm a full subscriber.
Diarrheactive™
Canonical’s interview process sounds like more than just thorough, it sounds completely insane. I can’t believe people actually put up with that rubbish to have a chance to work at such a mediocre company.
I pay sales tax when I buy something with money I have. That was already taxed.

Huffing and Puffing about paying taxes when you do a thing _just_ because the thing you are doing, you do with money you already paid taxes on - is a crazy idea. So crazy, nobody does it even though that happens all the time. Except, apparently, inheritance tax.

You must really hate taxes on fuel or cigarettes too, and sales tax of course.

Similarly, this:

> but you decide that you have more of a right to direct those assets for them.

Is quite the statement. That is what governments do all the time. You want to do a thing, they tell you: No, you cannot do that. If you fail to comply, we will punish you. For some countries, all the way up to and including murdering you.

Government dictates and you agree. That whole 'monopoly on violence' thing.

In this case, government has some thoughts on how you should spend your money as you are shuffling off your mortal coil. It suggests you spend some of that on general things the country as a whole wants funded. It very strongly suggests it. Insists, really. Kinda like how it insists you wear a seatbelt.
jumping in to defend myself (thanks f5bot). you are not a serious person.

1. i'm very proud of Fomo. for 6 years we fought against fake data. i said "no" to many lucrative opportunities that were not ethical. our vision was "to given entrepreneurs the credit they deserve," and our mission was "to help consumers make better buying decisions online." your comment is libelous. [1, 2]

2. as of yesterday, all 11 of my courses are free. i've helped over 10,000 people learn to code and learn to sell. [3]

3. on the side i do a bit of pen-testing. i help stop* scammers, and i help non technical folks protect their brand. that's why Bubble added me to their home pages and dozens of cash bounties have been sent my way. [4, 5, 6]

[1] https://blog.fomo.com/having-a-vision-works/
[2] https://blog.fomo.com/introducing-honest-marketer/
[3] https://x.com/ryanckulp/status/1907099032616378815
[4] https://www.ryanckulp.com/hustlewing-is-a-scam-so-i-hacked-i...
[5] https://bubble.io/security_acknowledgements
[6] https://bubblesecurity.gumroad.com/l/unhackable-101
Do you think the US has an infinite supply of labor?

Do you think that people will choose easier high paying jobs over harder lower paying jobs?

If you give the reasonable answers to those questions, who do you think is replacing the $3/hour production that we import?
What if it doesn't survive and 70% of the people who were in the Kingdom end up in worse, arbitrarily-ruled, small despotic fiefdoms instead? And only 10% end up being better off by being lucky enough to have landed in the high-trust+high-competence small group?

Or, switching to consumer products vs company revenue/profit or kingdoms, and grounding in a specific example: people love to hate Windows, but how many of them would actually be better off if the options were just Mac (still expensive, still niche) or Linux? And "well they could just learn how to [code or configure text files or whatever]" for these purposes counts as worse off, IMO - more time spent on something that used to kinda-sorta-at-least-work-predictably for them.
Thoughtful perspective on the social risks of political discussions. However, respectfully engaging with differing viewpoints is valuable for personal and societal growth. Perhaps focusing discussions on understanding each other's underlying values and experiences, rather than specific political positions, could lead to more productive conversations.
I still use my t440s all the time to this day. it is durable, versatile, does exactly what it does and does it well. not tied down to its firmware, software - i can't think of the analogy off the bat but its like several other things that "just work" (maybe indoor plumbing or something) so well you forget about them
Silly Mozilla. Everyone knows you use bitwise OR to perform union operations!
> I guess there's just too much data now to search stuff like that.

That seems extremely unlikely as the reason.

It's far more likely that some executives looked at the numbers and decided that removing search operators would make people more likely to click on ads, while leaving them in would make people click on the actual results that they were searching for.