skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You've been assuming a crap load of stuff as well when it suits your argument. Like having a pre-prepared USB key to begin with.

You are still conveniently ignoring what I said: if you want to install system with ZFS root, you have to make it. That's also the reason why I have it. I just didn't throw it away after the installation.

> Except the whole point of this tangent is me demonstrating where it does work.

Yes, if everything is aligned right, it can work.

> I seriously just think you're now just arguing for the sake of winning an internet argument.

You are free to think whatever you want.

> you can use live CDs to repair a degraded system running ZFS.

Yes, under certain conditions. How they apply in your environment is up to you to assess.

> Sure there will be occasions when you cannot; but that's the case when doing anything in IT (and thus why use sysadmins get to command such a good wage). But generally you can. And I literally have. Many times in fact. So enough with the dumb "death by a thousand paper cuts" and goal post moving arguments please.

It's not goal post moving, it's what happens. Having a livecd that supports your configuration is advantageous to not having it. Being able to download a ready-mady one is advantageous to having to make it. Etc.

So when I can choose between freebsd or opensolaris iso and native system that fully support whatever I need (that was the original issue, remember?), of course I will choose the latter, or having the latter available is preferred.
How to Do ‘Good Fat’ Better
So, if I understand this correctly, Rust would be a good fit for bittorrent, right?
Handling lots of stuff simultaneously, peers, trackers etc, to me a bittorrent that actually does more than download and quit always seems like something quite heavy...
Unfortunately that is an overwhelmingly large amount of people.
That midi file ... amazing
I just found my first website (from January 2000) in the Wayback Machine. Not gonna post it here, but it's actually not that bad -- it had a consistent header, sidebar navigation, and a collection of nerdy sci-fi jokes that for some strange reason I thought were hilarious. :/
It is clearly this company - http://www.gtx.com/

The inventor of the patent is listed on the register as Marvin T Ling. [1] The gtx.com website has a press release stating the owner and founder of the company is Marvin T. Ling. [2]

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

[2] http://www.gtx.com/about/press/aml_president_pr.asp
SO you think the problem is people getting guns LEGALLY? THAT'S what you think the problem is? So all those murders in Chicago, Baltimore, et al are from legal gun owners?

And all this because the current laws FAILED to be ENFORCED - so now lets get more laws and restrictions? are you serious? please explain this position. I am genuinely curious.
> I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters

Don't do that! Hoard them to sell on eBay for hobby money later. There is a looming retrocomputing SCSI hard drive shortage. You can already get good prices for 50-pin SCSI drives. I don't know about ATA/IDE drives, but I imagine people trying to build "authentic" systems will drive demand in the next decade as well.
There's opportunity on the internet, too.
oh man winblows.com
That sort of is the point though. People shouldn't feel great about being cheapskates.
Yep, I got it on a CD-ROM, but since my drive was IDE based it wasn't reckognized by the basic boot loader.

I had to copy the tarballs into the MS-DOS partition, boot with those floppies you mention, and then at a given moment give the path to that directory.
And your proposal, to hold them liable for content on their platform, would making things a hundred times worse, as they'd now take down more content because they are afraid of being sued for it.

It would certainly be great if the big tech companies engaged in less censorship. Which is why we need more policies that encourage them to be neutral platform, possibly like the utilities laws we have, instead of doing the opposite of making them more likely to take down content.

Lets move them towards being a more neutral platform with less or no editorial control. That would be wonderful.
If this were Snopes, they'd most likely use their True/False category where they state what is true and what is false:

True: Clinton's team destroyed emails on the server
False: the process didn't leverage "acid wash", but something called BleachBit

Or something to that effect. Not a Snopes writer.

To give a recurring example, this is like the debate on gun control and when someone says "automatic weapons" or "assault rifles" and the other party attempts to shut it down there. That is what the tweet effectively attempts to do (countering the intent of the message by discrediting verbiage).
Would it be a good idea to have major kernel forks targeting different sizes? Say for example {kernel_tiny, kernel_small, kernel} targeting {<4MB,<100MB,<inf} respectively. Although as you mention I'm not sure it is really a wise choice to use Linux for really small and simple systems.
what no <blink> tags?
I'm glad that twitter is the only outlet left where you can talk with people without this PC echo chamber circlejerk that other social networks turned into.

Please, for the love of god, if you don't like twitter go to the Facebook, we don't need twitter to be "improved" by gentle snowflakes.
I remember some of those old free text image sites where you could make stuff like your title. Ah the good old days. I'm disappointed by your lack of frames btw, I feel like every site had frames in frames back in those days. :)
It still has functionality missing from newer editors
No. Companies that matter are MS (they are still pushing DirectX), Apple (Metal or bust), Sony and Nintendo (each console has its API). Without full platform owner support Vulcan will be a second class citizen with all kinds of performance and compatibility issues.
Since everyone is sharing there's, here is mine from 2003 (I had one older than that but it was on a public library's domain that never got cached, so this is my second oldest site). It was responsive, sorta, and while it looks like crap it still works!

https://web.archive.org/web/20030720195550/http://binaryidio...
Ask HN: Resources to learn math as a foundation for CS
I’ve been a self taught web developer for about 4 years, and although my programming knowledge has been increasing at an exponential rate recently, I feel like I want to step up to the next level, by which I mean trying to teach myself the foundations of CS. I know in order to do this, my maths needs to be much stronger than it is now. Assume that my maths knowledge is currently at the same level as a high school student. I’d appreciate any advice as to how I can improve my maths, and what I should be learning in order to better grasp CS foundations. Thanks!
That might be the best use of bootstrap I've seen.
RIP index_sequence, 2014–2017
Sure, making loans is not the same thing as counterfeiting.

However, viewed in terms of effect on the money supply, it is the same thing as counterfeiting. They both increase the money supply.
They may be trying to work their way up with settlements.
Adding creditcard is broken.
Btw - some comments below are asking about use-case and joking that physics grad students are happy. I'm looking for accurate hyperlocal mountain weather forecasts generated with the latest possible data. This is useful for avalanche prediction, planning expeditions, and trips in general. I live in British Columbia btw.
> my point was that they aren't engaging in "culture war" by doing what this article says that they're doing.

True, that ("fact-checking" satire) is not an act of culture war. It is a behavior that makes them very questionable candidate as an arbiter of truth, which Facebook seems to have anointed them to be.

> but it's incredibly obvious why they have to-

No it isn't. On the contrary, them confusing "checking" satire and checking real facts blurs the lines between fictional expression - which can't be rated as true or false as it is not a factual statement - and factual claims which can be evaluated as true or false.

> people treat them as a one-stop-shop for finding out whether an article is real or not

That's a bad thing, both from the point of view of robustness - that means that people surrender their agency and critical thinking to some random site on the internet - and from the point of view of choice of that single point of failure - by choosing the site that can't even go as far as distinguishing between factual statement and fictional expression and routinely confuses the two.

If they just said "The Onion is a satire site, the Bablon Bee is a satire site, that's it, move on" - it'd be fine. But the way they do it - to actually evaluate it as a factual statement and assign rating "false" to it - is mixing two concepts, and it's a bad thing. "Fact checkers" regularly commit the same thing by "fact checking" opinions they oppose as "false" - and that is very much a part of the culture war, an attempt to present one opinion as "objective fact" and the opposing one as "objective falsity". Snopes did not do it in this particular case, true - but they did it in other cases, as well as other "fact checker" outlets. That predictably hurt the reputation of the whole business.
Takes me back, but it loads way too fast :)
> Conversation muting

The ⌄ menu on every tweet has "Mute this conversation"
You are trying to instigate a bickering match with someone who is trying to educate you on epistemology. Dial down the toxicity and stop letting intellectual discourse fly over your head so swiftly.
I am really glad that you are working for MLB.tv now. You seemed to have liked baseball when you were 12 and now you are working at MLB.tv.
credit card form is broken. chrome and FF.
Do you by any chance have a credit card?

Furthermore, while there are economic models in which loans are collateralized by goods of value exceeding the amount of the loan, modern American loans are generally not that way.
They didn't say explicitly...but you have to look at the context of the conversation...perhaps I misread it
Does everybody have an equal opportunity to work in high paying fields? Or avoid major medical issues and expenses?
Don't get too hung up on the $50k number, I just picked that at random because $50k in currency is a large enough stack of cash to be considerably harder to conceal and transport than a watch.

This was a few years back and he (understandably) didn't go into much detail. This is of course just a single data point, so I can't tell whether it's representative for the entire industry.
Every now and then I go to the Space Jam site because for some reason they still host it. Some great 90s web stuff in there, especially all of the tiled backgrounds and liberal use of frames.
https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
> What is "censorship"? When I learned about the concept, I learned the definition that "censorship" is to block a person's speech in a purely public space. You seem to be alluding to a more abstract right than this.

Censorship is just limiting/preventing speech. It can be by government, private organizations or even individuals. Governments can censor. Companies can censor. Your parents can censor.

Historically, since governments have been the most powerful institutions and our focus was primarily on preventing government censorship.

Censorship by private organizations and private individuals is legal ( including self-censorship ). Censorship by government is generally illegal in the US.

But that doesn't mean twitter can't censor. They can and they do censor. It's just that it is legal and their right to censor.

Hope that clears up any confusion on censorship.

But here's a thought, as corporations get more and more powerful ( even more powerful than many governments around the world ), should we as a society think about protecting citizens from corporate censorship?
Ask HN: Is there an API for creating quote photos?
Basically this: https://pablo.buffer.com/ as an API.

The background image is pretty random, so having the ability to get text onto the image and maybe a logo, optimized for each social media platform? e.g. Longer image for Pinterest, shorter for Twitter etc.
Mine is also on same network, http://davinder.8m.net although now I have forgot the password. Current one is DavChana.com
I think if you took the time to research obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc, in America vs. other countries, you would not be spouting this nonsense. Americans have the ability to get in a bad car wreck and live because we have incredible emergency care. That's it. That is not health.
You might like this one too: https://www.lingscars.com/
I assume you are at least passingly familiar with Piketty's Capital? He argues that as long as the rate of return on investments is higher than economic growth, wealth will concentrate, and the 2nd half of the 20th century was so equalizing because of rapid post-war growth.

This makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't automatically imply unilaterally implementing a wealth tax will solve the problem. It's not like there aren't a lot of people who want to tax wealth rather than income, but it is much harder to hide income than wealth (and yet we still have people who do so to a large degree).
Me (1994): I should buy up a bunch of english dictionary word .com domains, since they are so cheap, I cant lose money.

Domains bought: 0

Bad memories.
No, we're going to blame them both for raising the level of informational entropy - Snopes for producing the noise like "fact check" of satire and Facebook for anointing the noise-machine of Snopes as the ultimate arbiter of truth.
Lego to replace oil with sugarcane in its plastic toys
Such project already exists, even somewhat officially: https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/
I think you must have been the inspiration for lingscars.com
Venezuelans Are Paying a 100% Premium for Cash
Yes, (most) people care that it's a shitty thing to do, but again companies like this do not. Their goal is to grind as much productivity out of you for as cheap as possible. It sounds fatalistic but it's just how it is. Romanticizing things just leads to heartbreak.

EDIT: Note I said "companies like this". There are clearly companies that are run at the top by compassionate, non-shitty people and those values filter down through the org. However, as companies get larger and especially once they are beholden to investors and ESPECIALLY when they are beholden to public investors that seems to die a gradual death.
When I remember applying for student loans from the government, nothing that would be considered collateral by a bank was asked for from the government. Not surprisingly, we see ever increasing NPL rates and larger nominal balances…

Though there was some stuff about having to agree to be enlisted when the draft is made, but you know… metadata drone strikes these days may not always hit the desired target… ;)

With regards to having to pay back a loan, there is always that saying about trying to extract blood from stone…
When I see a shady link, I open it in a browser inside my virtual machine. I've had attacks on firefox that straight executed a binary on my machine, without me doing anything but clicking a link.
No, nothing has managed the same combination of exploration, trading, ship building, and combat skill, plus an over arching slow burn story. So good.

I loved WC 1-4 (hated Prophecy), but Privateer was the best.

I will not speak of Privateer 2.
U.S. Navy awards Lockheed Martin a $150M contract to develop laser weapons
I've had luck with themehunt in the past (as you mentioned coming across already).
The lucky part was that I joined the one startup that turned into the runaway success out of the many hundreds that were available to choose from at the time that failed. This was during the height of the first dotcom boom. Next Big Things were a dime a dozen.
Because the Radiograph is a relatively cheap screening test to rule out an underlying bony abnormality as a possible explanation for the soft tissue lump.

Further, radiographs and MRI provide complementary information. Taken together, they provide much more definitive characterization than either alone.
"The corporation is still fully liable." is incoherent. Pfizer (the corporation) is a convicted felon. Whereas this would basically eliminate an individual's access to credit, ability to vote, and a whole host of other rights and privileges, in the context of a multi-national corporation it means literally nothing. They got fined a little money, that's it.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_judgment#Declarato...
Mine went down on geocities when my yahoo account expired from not logging into it and I was very sad.
> Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens

So cam girl sites are under threat?
Re: Halal - That part of the book[1] talks about minority rule and the idea of 'renormalization groups' (I suspect not really the same thing as the identically-named concept in mathematics). It covers Kosher food, organic food, non-GMO food, Halal food, Christian intolerance, and politics. So saying it is about the "danger of halal food in our supermarkets" isn't accurate. It is explaining the mechanism by which a small, intolerant minority is able to have its views spread.

[1] http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf
I think he is not interested in epistemology. But I always find discussions on the origins or human knowledge just as fascinating as you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

It sounds like you may have already been exposed to it given the content of your arguments, but there is a very enjoyable debate/discussion between Foucault and Chomsky on the acquisitions of human knowledge and human nature [1] and your position sounds quite similar to the one Chomsky elaborates on.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8&t=760s
https://twitter.com/wwwtxt is always there to remind you of the good times of the Internet.
I don't know what a neo-liberal is, but sounds left. From right POV, the more left you go, the more enlarged the gov. The more right you go, the more personal freedom. Most know what the TEA party stands for: it is in the name.
So you'd agree that neo-liberal is to the left of the TEA party on that scale.
XOOM counter! I can't believe I forgot that XOOM existed back in the day
The downsizing of Chinook salmon
Doesn't 230 just cover the publishing of user generated content?

I don't see how if affects "two-sided markets" at all.

It seems like it would make far more sense to make operators of two-sided market places liable without destroying every small forum and every blogging platform and possible every public chat platform.
As a bio-plastic? polyethylene? What different does it make if your atoms were cycled through a living plant, or a dead plant in the ground (oil)?

From a chemistry point of view it makes no difference.

There are many types of polyethylene. This particular type used by Lego apparently can be recycled more easily than other types of polyethylene for reasons not explained in the post. As for why it matters whether the plant is living or dead, there is a vast order of magnitude difference in the energy extraction cost from living plants vs finding, drilling, refining, processing, and transporting dead plants. Oil extraction is expensive and the various processes required to extract and use it come with significant environmental externalities.

You can make polyethylene from air. Are we calling it atmo-plastic now?

Citation needed. As 1/3 of the most common polyethylene molecule is carbon, and 2/3 is hydrogen, you would need some very special air to make polyethylene.
My homework?

Small or big: cutting taxes provides growth.
Including more tax revenue.
The Hyperloop Pipe Dream
What is "private labeled" in this context?

I have a credit card from Wells Fargo. It's still made by Visa and Visa takes its cut of credit card processing fees.

My point is that in practice you can't issue a credit card and avoid Visa (or Mastercard) processing fees.

You would have to get most merchants to upgrade their POS terminals to support your payment network and that's not going to happen.
Wish I could click and get Netscape
You hit the nail on the head with this. Certain companies and "gurus" love to promote the idea that you can make a cool mil by sitting on your ass and dropshipping via Amazon.

What they don't tell you is that Amazon doesn't give two flying cares about you as a seller. Send out a load of late shipments, get a few cases, and game over. If you are just starting, Amazon is the very last place you want to sell things.

Of course, if they were making a cool mil a month, they wouldn't be selling courses at $299.

I have an Amazon store that I won't even use even though I'm allowed to sell dresses (which is very difficult to get approved for). I haven't found a group of suppliers I trust enough. If someone trustworthy has access to dresses and wants to try being a supplier, feel free to send me an email (it's in my profile).
Ask HN: Want to outsource project mgmt of your projects?
As a software developer, I know how time consuming all aspects of project management on freelance projects can be.

From creating the initial Scope of Work to ongoing managing client expectations and general project management can be a major distraction from what you want to do -- build product.

If you are interested in exploring the outsourcing of the administration and project mgmt of your projects, leave a comment here or email me at marc dot gayle+hn at gmail dot com.
Heads up, your document is 1.5 years out of date.
Looks like a welcoming project with lot of good information for new contributors on the Github.

Unfortunately all the project's Slack links I can find (including this one) seem to be expired.
Yes, you can seek a declaratory action in federal court, and more recently, you can seek to invalidate with the USPTO's PTAB through an inter partes review (IPR).
Imageine if there is an USB device with new Chrome WebUSB driver (which has necessary permissions) and then vendor's website gets hacked.
I miss this era of the Internet. It represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish, rather than post on a corporation's platform.

Obviously there's been plenty of development since then that I would not give back, but people favoring publishing their own sites rather than posting on social media is not incompatible with those developments. That part didn't need to be lost.
How many German productions have you seen? How many French?

Germany and France each produce just as much or even more content than the UK.

Yet, none of this content ever leaves the country. British content can directly be sold on the US market, which means they can get much more money from those licensing deals to finance more productions.

The only situation where German or French productions show up internationally are nature documentaries (many of the documentaries the BBC or PBS show are produced by Germans, or as cooperation).

The English-speaking market is so large that English productions always have an advantage, and US productions even more. A US production reaches 300 million people in its home market, and a billion globally. A German production reaches 80 million in the home market, and 130 million globally.

And that's without the venefits hollywood has from having all the actors, staff and technology in one place.

This battle has been decided long ago.