skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from a user perspective that seems like a complete win. I'm not quite convinced the marginal value of offering that data is worth any kind of compensation. Movie times seems like something movie theaters would want to give out for free and that ideally there would be a standard feed format for that data.

News blurb also seems rational to me. If I only need the headline I shouldn't have a go to the site. The headlines will be all over twitter and Facebook as people share with their friends so it's hard to see how Google is doing any harm here. If I want to read the details then I'd click through to the site.

Heck i come to HN and scan the headlines and only occasionally click through to the actual article. This topic for example I have not clicked through. Does that make HN evil?
The problem is, there is no "fair use" in europe. At least theoretically you can be sued for any use of copyrighted material.
I believe that's right. Which makes the author's point of view rather odd - in that they are obviously mistaken to think that Westerners don't see a difference between the two, or don't think that 児童ポルノ is worse than ロリコン. (Of course we do.) It's also rather funny that the author uses the word "nerd" to describe people who consume this stuff, because it clearly doesn't fit the ordinary use of the term. No one is denying (I think) that the appeal is a sexual one. Even assuming the interest is above board, we'd never label a fetishist a nerd. So it's (I think ) extremely misleading to describe them that way.

I also don't think the Red vs. Blue framing made much sense. For one thing it's not clear at all how the .jp instances are related to the "Red" servers.

There's an actual question to be answered about whether ロリコン is morally wrong and if so, a harm that should be prosecuted. If reason that ロリコン is appealing is fundamentally the same as 児童ポルノ (i.e. that there are children portrayed), it seems like the moral case against it is very clear. I don't know enough to say whether that's the case. On the other hand there might be more societal harm from banning it than allowing it. At any rate it's not hard to see why one might be troubled by it, and so I'm suspicious of the author's claim that it's accepted without controversy in Japan.
> Based on what? And if people aren't getting value from using the blockchain, why are they using it?

It creates value for individuals at a bigger cost to society - a classic negative externality. Making drug dealing easier is immensely profitable and that's where all blockchain profits eventually come from - everything else is a smokescreen of intermediaries to create just enough deniability to let respectable business participate in the drug trade. It's just like outsourcing manufacturing to countries with lower environmental standards to profit from pollution (another example of something that's negative-value overall, but positive-value for the individual engaging in it).
Come on:

> Yet he felt that he had to act as if he didn’t care, or his viewers might suspect that he and Caroline hadn’t actually broken up.

There's some hope for humanity, isn't there?
By using swap, determinism is bye-bye as disk access, unlike RAM, is not deterministic.

I'm afraid of latency peaks caused by this, too.
> Honestly, for most startups a simple multi-armed bandit approach is probably the way to go.

Doesn't this mean maintaining all the variants forever?
Please capitalize NASA -- it's an acronym (for National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
does the GDPR have anything to say about this?
maybe its something to do with the rather messed up state of my mind (autism&ADD) but despite having significant experience with psychedelics i have never had a "spiritual" or "meaningful"
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Ask HN: How do you imagine a website which shows live progress of anything?
I'm a full-stack software engineer and recently I was thinking to work on a site where you could see live progress of community goals, a company's projects, national milestones, etc.

Currently I just have a vague vision of how it feels. It is what people will look at every morning. It looks like a string of news/progress towards a special topic you want to follow.

Do you want to see how Google is progressing towards their new product?

Do you want see how AI, as an industry, is making progress and where we are now?

Even as a manager or CEO you can see the progress of your projects, initiatives, milestones. I know there are many tools and technology that can achieve this, but I'm thinking of something exciting and really useful in every one everyday life.

Imagine you have a magic wand, how do you want it to work? What do you like it to look like? What is the most exciting thing you want to see in this website?
The least to say. SVG support is abysmal in many browsers. PDF support in browsers seems to be much more complete, even though it's much more complex.
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Fascinating! Last Friday I was closing some curtains on a full (ish) bright moon, my other half asked what the star beside it was. I told her it was Jupiter. She then asked what the very dim star beside Jupiter was... I didn't know so I opened the "Star Walk" iOS app to find out. It was 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko! We couldn't believe we could see it with the naked eye in a major city. Quite surreal to think that something mankind made is sitting on it...
I agree, but the optimal achievable situation might be to be on the edge of locking wheels like ABS. Anyway, my point was that damaging the wheels is not the issue at hand.
> the sex thing has never come up

probably because the other person knew/sensed that you are not interested?
Regarding the "code":

I'm pretty confident that the FBI is not the inventor of it, so obviously there should be some information out there about "encoding a message to that the encoded message is human language".

Obviously there's a mapping (assuming x,y are unknowns)

(x | "through good ole Unk") -> "by skyjacking a jet plane".

(y | "And please tell the lackey cops") -> "I am 1st Lt. Robert Rackstraw,"

Doesn anyone know candidates for this type of mapping?
> His children were all female, no?

No, actually. He had one son, Hamnet, who died aged 11.
That was my impression as well. What he wrote about localisation as well - they are trying to localise text in RN files, native iOS files and Android files, maybe using a different approach for each platform, so of course it's complicated.

I managed to localise a relatively large cross-platform app built in Electron and React Native using gettext and had no problem with it. It supports 18 languages and people send me update from time to time, which are very easy to integrate.
People use TCP for all kinds of things. You have no way of knowing if some application developer out there who can design both sides of a connection(client/server) has not made good use of URG.
> I'm sure the prostitutes knew what they were signing up for.

What about the ones who were forced into it?
Because you need to specify the bandwidth, which the router maker cannot know?
There are other ways to bond than partying. I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, I don't even go to christmas parties. And for the past year, I am working remote. Still, ended up making a few friends from work, despite not being the "fun" guy.

I too am glad alcohol isn't a requirement anymore, though I still get weird looks.
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I know people who WFH at their kitchen table, and do fine. Others need isolation, just like at work.
I have heard the Nobel Peace Prize awards explained this way - more an attempt to sway than to congratulate.
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Reminded me of Stallman's approach a little :D (I fully get why this would be necessary with slack, low bandwidth hotel/train wifi etc make the desktop app basically unusable here in the UK whilst travelling). https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
I hate nationalism but i i don't think it is any better any worse as far as the environment is concerned than any other ideology.

Although yes the current wave of it seems to be particularly bad for the environment.
Or possibly because our hot shot Mandarin speaking negotiator isn't a guy ...

Or in another case, when I do business there on my own because my excellent usual Chinese buyer/facilitator is also not a guy

But also I suspect that while that sort of may be common it's not universal
EU would like to have a word with you.
So basically, lets talk.
Its a thing in the US. If you havent been challenged, its because you dont live in one of its many ghettoes.
> Okay, but whose definition of "efficient" are we using here?

That's the problem. I have no better definition. I just have a feeling that the current economics 101 doctrine of free markets just might not be the right answer to all resource allocation problems. (I am vague on purpose who defines what is right and what is wrong. I have no answer to that, either. Just my personal opinion.)
Some of the criticism is valid, such as the performance issues and the fact that overall they didn't feel that it was worth it, the issues with the speed of the ecosystem.

Some of it isn't valid. Build times increasing when you add RN to an existing project is to be expected. If you want very different UX on each platform then you'll generally have to implement it (as you would anyway). Internationalization is always a task, he's unclear why React is being criticized for this.

Overall my takeaway is that if you're looking for an app customized to the UX of each platform, and that's more important to you than having devs who can cover both platforms, then RN is not the way to go. They seem to feel that the work involved in producing the RN features was greater than the work involved to just do things natively twice.
Right, but we got a fairly detailed description of what happened:

"Using codes that only Rackstraw would have known, Sherwood honed in on two sentences for analysis. The first sentence, “I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk,” was decoded to, “I want out of the system and saw a way by skyjacking a jet plane.” And the second sentence, “And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name,” was decoded to “I am 1st Lt. Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper is not my real name.”"

If we trust the facts stated in the article, Sherwood applied a pre-existing code used by Rackstraw to two sentences, each of which contained a hidden meaning. So (according to the journalist!) we don't need the six letters, we just need the two sentences. Which is...fine, sure, that could be a pre-existing agreed upon cipher! But that tells us nothing; this isn't about crypto, it's about simple logic. Even if the code exists (questionable) and appears to match, that doesn't prove Rackstraw is DB Cooper, it just means you can't reject the hypothesis.

> without having the background the cryptographer

As above, you don't need to be a cryptographer to evaluate these claims. Further, the article doesn't claim he is a skilled cryptographer, nor is what he allegedly did cryptography.

As you say, the writing is poor, and the nonsense in the article might have nothing to do with the actual claims being made. But what the article describes is simply nonsense, and can be dismissed out of hand. Whatever is happening, it's not what the author wrote.

And as others have noted, we actually know what's in letter six, and there's just nothing there: https://dbcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DBC-Letter-6...

It's a letter from someone apparently claiming to have been trained by the government, and who used that training to steal the money, which means it could have been written by anyone who'd read a single news story about the hijacking; nothing suggests it's from the actual hijacker. And crackpots constantly write letters like this after major cases, and as noted by the article, it can't even be linked to the other letters, much less the hijacker, making it even less relevant. And yet this is what the the article claims is the smoking gun? Please.

(Plus...it's just a letter, not the second edition of the Voynich Manuscript. Doesn't mean you can't hide a message in it, but it does make it much harder to conclusively show a message was hidden.)
> saving fuel is in everyone's best interest

> started as a luxury and moved to mass market

These two objectives are contradictory. There are so many more trips because the fares are cheap, so fuel consumption is much increased.
For our use case RN has two major features missing:

- No file system access. We use react-native-fetch-blob (to which I actively contributed to add missing features and improve the code) which itself has quite a few disadvantages, such as a disappearing maintainer (fortunately a new one was found after a while, but the whole code has a few issues)

- The only way to transport binary data across the JS-to-native bridge is base64 encoded strings (expensive, has to be encoded and decoded on each side of the bridge) - if you need to read (raw binary) files and send them via websocket streams, as we do, you are screwed (I'm going to change the app design only because of RN so that this can be done within the native code without going through JS code)
MiTM proxying TLS 1.3 connections works just fine.

Browsers ignore cert pinning when the CA certificate was manually installed, so this is not a problem either.

I have no idea what HSTS is doing on your list.
Someone should set up a website listing plugins banned by Google for reasons that fall in a gray area or for reasons that are just outright indefensible. Banning extensions in this manner is a signal of value to the end user. Could also list extensions available on Firefox but not Chrome.

Something similar to hiddenfromgoogle.com but for extensions (doesn't appear to work anymore) [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28311217
In Ireland, DART means Dublin Area Rapid Transit, but since it's pronounced "dart" rather than "d", "a", "r", "t", it's appropriate to write it "Dart". Or so my brother tells me.
Oh, so ロリコン is lolicon? Thank you. I can't read japanese. Even a direct translation would be useful, because even google translate doesn't translate both as child pornography. The assertion in the text that both are translated as such is needlessly confusing.
Ask HN: Graphiccomputing as a service
I was wondering, is It possible to divide the needed computing power of a graphic card on mulitple computers in a cloud?

I found out there is supercomputing as a service. So the idea was that a bad computer could handle imense graphic intensive tasks. Is this somehow possible?

Note: I just started learning about computers and how they work.
I've been working on Fork in my spare time. It would be great if it become something bigger one day. I don't have any particular plans though.
also create third party store focused on foss. Somwthing like fdroid
This does explain why platforms like Facebook and Google have arrived at the sad inevitability of filter bubbling.
> HN has a core belief that many EU countries have an immensely more generous social safety net than the US despite the US having welfare, social security, Medicaid and Medicare, food stamps, etc.

It is an simple fact that a number of EU countries have an immensely more generous social safety net than the US, even with the US having some basic support for families with dependent children in poverty, a minimal safety net pension, some minimal provision for the medically indigent, some basic provision for health care for aged ex-workers, and a system of food support for the poor.

> Having lives in Canada for many years, I didn’t find it that different than the US with the exception of healthcare.

Even assuming that the claim made here based on the flimsiest of claims of authority was correct, it is irrelevant, Canada is not even an EU member, much less a country they supports any generalization about the EU.
I'm surprised at that amount of surprise in this thread. I have a good friend who is (was) in sales. He had to get out once he realised that he'd turned into a full-blown alcoholic and that he'd wouldn't be able to do business if he at all tried to slow down. Heavily dependent on the industry though.
This is fairly common for Wall Street too, so lets not pretend it's not happening here.
What is the downside of using vim packs in contrast to vim plugins ?
I just do cd ~/.vim/pack/start and from there I git clone the repos and that's it...
In my case I usually work in a container and have different packs depending if I'm doing stuff with programming in rust or go or just do configuration management.
I really loved the asynchronous functionality in vim8, any nice plugins that take advantage of it?
For now I only use it to trigger cargo test and let finish at some point later on:
https://github.com/sebosp/linuxtweaks/blob/develop/vimrc#L14...
In order for a theory to be falsifiable it first have to be a theory! The simulation hypothesis is not even a theory (i.e. it makes no verifiable predictions), so it is not even falsifiable in principle.
I think this is correct.

With 24X NVMe servers now common and cheap (AMD EPYC) you can get 96GB/s (theoretical max, and real is not far off) onto NVMe which is same order of magnitude as memory bandwidth.

When PCI-e 4 comes out next year the bandwidth will double and SSD manufacturers will have no problem doubling the performance of NVMe devices once the interface supports it so at that point the bandwidth on NVMe will surpass RAM.

The major caveat is that sequential read/write is much faster than random (this can be offset to a certain extent if you can queue up many random requests at the same time but each random request has a very high latency) so I would expect that switching from 4K to 2MB pages would have significant advantages on the storage side beyond efficiencies gained in the kernel.
I'm quite aware that I have bad bufferbloat problems. Unfortunately suggestions like these are kind of useless to me, and I'm surprised that they're not useless for more people. My (cable) residential internet averages about 110mbps. However, sometimes during the day it will go down to 85mbps or so, and later at night it's usually about 120mbps, and I've seen up to 135.

The way these congestion algorithms work, you've got to let the algorithm limit your bandwidth to ~95% of what's actually available. If I always got exactly 110mbps, I'd be okay with that. The problem is that I've got to limit it to 80 mbps or so for it to be useful during the day. And there's no way I'm going to do that and lose 40-50 mbps of my bandwidth every night.

Widely varying connection speeds are common enough that I'm surprised many people have found these algorithms useful. I wish there was one intelligent enough to respond dynamically to however much bandwidth is available.
From what I've seen, one of the more common "blue tribe" beliefs these days is that there are in fact two sides - either you're a good person who holds all of the correct beliefs that every decent person has, or you're the enemy. A few months ago, a whole bunch of the social justice-y folks on Mastodon actually turned on its creator in #ForkOff because he introduced a popular tags feature that (in their eyes) every good-thinking person should realise was a bad idea, and therefore was a bad person and should be shunned. (Not sure how tightly-policed the red tribe is these days.)
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Virtue labeling seems to use the cognitive dissonance the same way as the Ben Franklin effect. In fact Ben Franklin effect can be seen as subset of virtue labeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
FWIW there is much disapproval in East Asia of these antics, and the guanxi culture emanating from China.

Sadly American business culture seems to be also drinking these guanxi- and gravitas-obsessed kool aids, and less disapproving (from what I have seen) than East Asia.

Others who are more connected and experienced would know more than I do.
He notes later in the article, that at some point in more distant past the "free speech" and "safe speech" claims were used in reverse by the Blue and Red "factions":

"However, I think it's significant that when we had the same fight on Livejournal ten years earlier, it was the opposite way: fictional "child pornography" in the form of explicit Harry Potter fan art and therefore "free speech" was a Blue/Left/aGG/SJW thing, with the Red/Right/Gamergate/MRA side taking what we'd now call the "safe speech" position. For that reason I'm inclined to think that the link between Culture War sides and free/safe speech is more a matter of historical accident than anything naturally flowing from whatever defines these sides."

Interestingly, I remember reading somewhere some time ago (I think on some kind of "rationality" website, but not 100% sure, and probably via HN; but maybe actually in a paper book), that particular concrete views associated with some distinct political "sides"/"factions" (like "rightist vs. leftist") are often surprisingly accidental and "just" of random historical origin. Though usually explained as "rationally/logically founded on basic principles [of the faction]", in reality it seems to often be rather kind of "we say so because we say so". Unfortunately I cannot recall particular concrete examples from the article, I only remember the general idea, as it was quite shocking and surprising to me, as you can see it left a lasting impression. However, in case of the OP story, the "safe speech" vs. "free speech" swap seems a nice example of such mechanism.
I call it beta because I keep adding new features every release.

Fork might become paid but not in the near future.
For filesystem access, can't react-native-fs do the job? For a few things I found it less buggy that react-native-fetch-blob.
But that would allow them to tell that tethering is being used, not to measure the traffic to make it contribute to a cap.
Fork is native on both platforms so it will be tricky to implement and maintain a Linux version.
Didn't finde the filesystem stuff too limiting, it was just different from other systems I was used to. But yeah, it's a bit of a pain.

And FB mentioned the native bridge will be overhauled.
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Also very easy on OpenWRT - just add luci-app-sqm and sqm-scripts and then turn it on, select your codel and apply.
If you are fine with setting up an own nextcloud for your calendar and file hosting - go with uberspace.de

Their servers are located in germany and they use roundcube as email client. Pay what you want, but minimum 1€/month which is very cheap imho. Though they only offer 10G space and the configuration of domains is only possible via ssh.

But once you are finished with your setup, nextcloud and roundcube are looking very nice.
I find your concept extremely interesting. If you ever commit to build it, please let us know.

If I could use your website I would like to see different topics grouped by type and to be able to add my own roadmaps/milestones. Then I would like to see what is the next step I should complete next to go to advance. I do a lot of sideprojects but I feel that many times I just need a small amount of motivation to go on, this can do that.
The blender benchmark is impressive. CPU utilisation increased from 30-50% to 60%-100% by using optane as swap vs a regular SSD. Optane is still a very early product and it's beating conventional SSDs already.
Stripe is a multi-billion dollar company. It could have been Irish based for free. The Irish government spend billions to attract companies like Stripe. Also Stripe is a global brand now used by tens of thousands of businesses.
> the file that has the "meat", and I don't mind if that file is 1000+ lines long

I prefer "meat" separated. And having clear boundaries. 1k+ lines is a bad sign.

Even if it's well-structured, why force your idea of how much I have to scroll?

And why making git diff overviews less useful? (glance over filenames)