skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't wait for others to do things or take decisions. That's going to be an uphill battle if you really want changes quicker. Start with yourself, and then push others (including friends, family, colleagues, corporations, politicians, etc.). A lot can be done if people take up changes on their own instead of waiting for politicians or corporations or "those other polluting countries" to "just do something" about it.

Here are a few things you can do yourself and encourage those you know personally to follow:

1. Eliminate/reduce throwing or wasting food. Don't buy anything you wouldn't finish eating.

2. Eat only plants, or make plants the largest part of your meals while eliminating or reducing the consumption of animal products. Make sure you read up on nutrition and/or join some support groups.

3. Walk as much as possible and avoid fossil fuel based transport for yourself. Or try cycling. If necessary, take public transport.

4. Promote and use renewable sources of energy, like solar and/or wind, wherever possible.

5. Have fewer children or delay have children a little bit. This may have some other side effects depending on where you live and how the population demographic looks like.

If you think of yourself as committed to this cause and yet you see issues or barriers with the above, that's only a sign of how these things seem impossible to others who don't care enough. Work with (and on) yourself first.

Don't be shocked or surprised: you will see a whole lot of apathy all around you. People will even try to discourage you from doing anything and try to convince you that whatever you do just doesn't matter. Stop looking at them or listening to them.
Follow the 10,000-Experiment Rule
More recently there's the imgur redesign. But it's still usable at least.
> Nashorn doesn't have a commercial edition and it's being deprecated in favour of GraalJS which is fully open source too.

Right, Graal has commercial versions and doesn't have community ownership.

> The JCK is also open source now I think.

No. I think you're making the same mistake as many and confusing the Java EE TCK with the Java TCK that was refused to Harmony and is non-open.

> Reduce the age of the editions they'll help support - no [...] Maybe they're supported for a few less years

A clear self-contradiction, and my point exactly.

> Your final complaint appears to be just "they're trying to make Java financially sustainable" which is hardly a problem, the lack of that is why Sun went down in the first place.

I think it is a problem. Languages these days cannot expect to be financially sustainable in and of themselves as it only incentivizes non-free actions against its users/developers. Sun's problem was not realizing this and their inability to be financially sustainable enough outside of the language to fund its development. Oracle won't have that problem, they'll take their pound of flesh from the language itself, free maintenance/support be damned. It might seem impractical to expect free language/runtime development paid by the stewards and with no cost on the developers, but it's clearly the only way to keep the ecosystem thriving sans perverse incentives.
Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
It's tiny and right next to a couple of other links, so very difficult to press on mobile.
This I definitely want to know. I figure PG has no problem funding HN but how much does it cost to run HN? It wouldn't surprise me if it's bills are footed by someone else though, like reddit or somebody whose grateful to ycombinator.
Sure, TIMTOWTDI was an intentional goal. I'm not sure it was a good goal, in hindsight. The whole "What idiot wrote this crap? Oh yeah, me" problem was worse in Perl than in other languages. And reading other people's code often involved learning whole new programming concepts.
as tptacek noted in a sibling, there is seriously good Mexican food here, and Latin American food as well. All over.
> Are there more examples of products that did (on purpose) not change significantly?

I think Craigslist would be the classic example of a simple design that hasn't changed significantly over its lifetime.
This isn't a fine, it's just the cost of not changing a security culture. Just some statistical noise on the balance sheet of a billion-pound corporation, nothing to concern oneself with if you're upper management.
Indeed I fail to see any hope for a productive discussion involving different opinions on HN if I see people scrolling down to the bottom of a comment page to put another downvote on an already greyed out post.

It's becoming an echo chamber.

I am happy to continue a discussion, but not here.
I work from home, but I have an exercise bike. Does that count as biking to work?
One of the features of HN is that identity is downplayed. Personally, I think that this encourages engaging with the arguments that someone makes, rather than who they are.

It's also a throwback to the old internet where pseudonymity was normal. It's refreshing to see usernames like AdmiralAsshat and TooMuchToDo.
I don't buy that at all as well. They could have made the console a bit bigger, and a bit more flexible inside.

I wasn't asking for the full powerdrift arcade experience, but something that can emulate it to a certain degree.
cache links sounds like an okay idea.

OTOH, the avatars sounds like a horrible idea to me.

I'm neutral on the markdown one, it wouldn't be too bad but it might end up making comments look like mini-articles rather than just comments.
If someone engages with me near the post time on Reddit, then I have no issues ignoring them or responding respectfully.

If someone counterpoints something I wrote 30+ days ago... nobody else is reading so it is now a cage match.
Depending on your budget you can get a helicopter ride for a few hundred dollars or you can hop on a fishing taxi from Chepo for $20. You can hire a full boat for 10 people and gear for $200 RT and that is about a 3-4 hour adventure through the gulf.

For many of us the remote nature of it is a feature, no EMF (some of our crew is really into not being in range of cell or WiFi), plus the adventure to get there is a filter of sorts.

We bring water with us but yes, with 100” a year we are planning to set up rain water collection as well as exploring the possibility of a well in the lush jungle lowlands. There are some water fall areas as well.
Governments directly control the DNSSEC signing keys for their ccTLDs, but at best indirectly control DNSSEC signing keys for some gTLDs. The US government could, for example, use some legal instrument to compel a US-based CA to issue a certificate for an arbitrary domain, and similarly compel a US company like Verisign (who manage the .com gTLD) to change the DNSSEC records for a .com address.

The big differences are 1) you can choose a domain under a gTLD that isn't run by an American company (or other country that is part of your threat model), 2) you can choose to run your own gTLD (at a certain cost), 3) admittedly Certificate Transparency for CAs is much further along than CT for DNSSEC, you're right.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zhang-trans-ct-dnssec-03
Where were you renting DVDs for 50 cents a day? That seems really cheap.
It's a great example, because it's actually measurably affecting accident rates.
I have to disagree on the rotten shark, it really isn't that bad. It's not (even close to) good or anything, but it's not absolutely horrid either. Tried here: http://islenskibarinn.is/net/
The main reason I'd like that functionality is so I can read the responses.

Sometimes karma changes are an indicator you got responses but not always.
ML Kit vs. Tesseract OCR: Which SDK works better for mobile text recognition?
I agree completely. I use https://hnnotify.xyz/ which emails me periodically with all my new replies (other similar services exist, my friend happened to make this one).
If nothing else, it probably is/was a fairly good marketing tool for YC.
The spreadsheet linked in the blog is almost entirely factual and I made quite a point of adding comments with links to various sources.

If you want to be pedantic about the sentence you took offense at it is actually true. There are operations that can only ber performed using Powershell. People have given examples in this thread. But that isn't the point.

What I should have written for that part was that most people google for solutions. I've done this in the past on Azure and you get a random assortment of answers. Click here, Powershell this there, do whatever. It's disjointed and takes you out of mental context. I could update the blog with more clarity but I don't think anyone will change their mind.

I've used Azure, GKE, AWS. It was played down a little in the blog, but I have used the non AKS parts of Azure pretty extensively. Have you tried GKE? My suspicion is that you've been stuck in a Microsoft world for a while.

Not everyone is a paid shill but some people have a lot invested in the Microsoft ecosystem and I can only assume that's the reason for some of the comments here. I do 100% believe the Microsoft PR team has posted in here at least once though :)
I believe it is a McAfee product.

https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/products/technologie...
These guys are stealing parts to supply a black market (which exists because there is a demand that Apple will not sate).

I didn't say anything about "right to repair" but if there were one, I can only imagine that would come with a demand that electronics manufacturers make parts available (which would obsolesce the black market).
I was gonna say, this sounds like something ripe for others to join in on, thus negating any perceived weirdness.
> Why do you care about managing your own streaming platform.

because voluntarily giving up control over your content to a monopole means you loose leverage. If 90% of all video content is on netflix, they can set the terms, not you. "we're paying half of that or we dont host it".

> Just licens everything at a price you believe to be fair

They most likely do. But if noone else is willing to pay enough, its only going to be on their own platform.
This is a strictly political issue.

Most people think humans can’t destroy the planet’s atmosphere. That’s hubris, and based on your politics.

“Science” always thinks it’s proven right until it’s proven wrong.
You should check out HN Replies (http://hnreplies.com). Not done by me and just a happy user. I don't comment a lot but it works pretty nicely whenever I do.
I was just talking to my friend about how in python I can just write "and" "or" "not" instead of the symbol orgy in almost every other language xD
More generally, I am wondering: how do smaller companies go about even attempting to comply with the GDPR? The “head in the sand” approach of simply not serving requests to people physically in the EU doesn’t work for a number of reasons, and I don’t see how you can even sell anything on the internet without being within its reach. (Of course, now that I think about it, how is the EU going to fine a small business in the US that has no overseas operations?)

Are there any resources for small businesses in the US that want to protect themselves from onerous fines the data regulators can impose? How can they even begin to assess the risks of noncompliance?
In Berlin. I think the most expensive rental was one Euro per day, before all those shops closed down.
Only if you have an out-of-band way of verifying SSH keys. In my experience, 9 out of 10 times that doesn't happen and people just accept a changed SSH key.
>Xinjiang's new legislation says examples of behaviour that could lead to detention include [...] refusing to watch state TV and listen to state radio [...]
I envy your ability to use that workflow. Across three enterprise jobs over the last 7 years, all places using git and GitHub, I’ve never worked on any sections of code where this could be tractable, except maybe for the process of using —amend in some rare cases where we wouldn’t want this history of those commits to be well separated for later purposes of bisecting to find regressions and bugs.
Fascism had some other key attributes: violence and dehumanizing rhetoric against opposition to keep them from having a voice in government was likely the biggest one.
The green parties around the world are to blame for this.
The only worthwhile actions to combat this are

1) Using nuclear power (on a massive scale preferrably)
2) Stopping globalisation (because transport is such a large contributor to CO2 emissions.). Local manufacturing would be much better for the environment (reduced transportation needs and also the western countries factories are much more sustainable than in third world countries and china)

Also reducing immigration helps, people in Africa use much less resources than the same people eg. transported to the cold north.
Well my comment was kind of generally directed at a few different ideas floating around in the comment thread as well as from the original article, but I do believe that yes the main point of the original post is what you say.

I definitely believe that any open source project should to the best of its ability make it easy for users to contribute back upstream. That requires a welcoming community, a sane design, good documentation, etc. Many projects fail and lose out on worthy contributions as a result. That certainly is sad.

But I just wanted push back against the idea that some have that people should always be contributing their changes upstream. I don't even mean to focus on any moral obligations. As a user of open source software, you should make changes to fit yourself and your needs without regard to others. Sometimes your changes might make sense to upstream, but often they are just changes that you prefer. The real-life parallel would be painting a cool design on your ikea furniture. Just because you like it, doesn't mean ikea needs to know or that you should feel any sort of obligation to tell them or any others about it. It's your furniture and you should make it the way you want it.

Maybe I'm just blabbering, since I don't think we really disagree, but I just want people to remember that open source gives users the freedom to mess with software in whatever way they want without any pressure or need to make it look nice or to give it to others. It's their computer and they can make the software run as they wish.
Ebay, some are available on Amazon, or you can order from Aliexpress/Gearbest.

My only warning for buying Xiaomi phones is to make sure they work on your carrier in your country.
> What if you say it and someone is seriously harmed or dies as a result?

Frankly, that's the price of freedom, and it's the reason that fighting to maintain our freedoms is a never-ending battle.

Allowing the public to own and operate cars likely results in more deaths from crashes, but it also allows people to travel to and from arbitrary places on their own schedule.

Allowing people to own general purpose computing devices allows people to develop harmful software tools, to route around safeguards, to communicate clandestinely about illegal activities, and to design CAD files for 3D printed guns. Of course, it also brings us the ability to build software that works the way we want (or need) it to, to build successful businesses, to preserve ephemeral cultural history, to expose official corruption, and to organize political dissent through encrypted back-channels. You cannot have the benefits without the risks.

Allowing people to speak freely may result in someone feeling emotionally attacked, it may result in convincing someone that a false idea is true, or it may give people a flimsy excuse to engage in physical violence. But the benefits are innumerable. Unrestricted speech allows us to voice our concerns as citizens and participate in the political process without being silenced. It prevents the powerful from using concerns of "safety" to suppress dissenting opinions. It serves as a safety valve that helps potentially dangerous ideas rise into the sphere of public debate, where they can be taken apart (or even just "rounded off") before they result in something like genocide.

You can't stop speech, period. You can prevent it from happening publicly, on a temporary basis, but in the long term that kind of repression leads to violent revolutions.

That said, there must be some limits; I cannot run you over with my car or use my computer to hack the Pentagon, and I cannot threaten your life. But these limits must be explicit and narrowly constructed or they will be abused by the powerful. That means that there are necessarily "edge cases" that have to be decided by a fair and impartial process! This is unavoidable, because otherwise some people will continually step just over the line and then claim innocence. There is no way to "fix" this; it is always a messy process because of the enormous complexity involved in the world.

It's always tempting to trade freedom for safety, especially for victims who may not have suffered as much in a less free world. But we have to push back against that sentiment, or the future will not be worth living in.
That was around the infamous rootkit scandal, right?

They also have some very annoying practices for their hardware. I borrowed a Sony digital camera from a relative for a roadtrip and the memory card broke down. To my dismay I realized I can't just put any old memory card in it, I have to put in a Sony one which costs 10x as much for 0 benefit.

Since then I also stopped buying any Sony products. I think they're just too big and too diversified to fail at this point. They don't have to care about their reputation at this point, the money just won't stop coming since they're so pervasive.
I think you should add bodyweight squats or get creative with heavy objects you have around for extra weight. And if you can get a pullup bar, there is nothing replacing pullups for upper back strength. They help with everything including rounded shoulders( and you can do jump negatives to begin with).
Better BibTeX for Zotero
We haven’t had a huge issues with mosquitos.

While Panama City is about 50km away, we are just 5km from Chiman which is a fishing village with a police station, medical outpost, church, food, etc.

There is also a road being put in between Chiman and the Pan American Highway which will allow for one to drive down and then take a 10min boat ride.

Right now the aesthetic is very much a burning man camp, with people bringing in what is needed and leaving no trace - however we will begin to create some light shared infrastructure.

We also have a small shared ownership stake in a tiny home in Kalu Yala which is an eco village on the mainland.

Come visit sometime!

PS, we don’t plan to export food, our primary export will be culture and transformation — meaning we have companies and individuals who come for coaching / leadership training / etc and for the festival.
I disagree. The sheer magnitude of fines that can be imposed makes the potential damage huge, even if the probability of being hit by them is small. This makes the risk of noncompliance high.
so, its actually a combination of racist and trolling. solid, good to know.
That a small minority of people with exceptionally high karma can kill posts and threads that they dislike for ideological reasons.
FinTech is becoming synonymous with credit in Afrika
As my kids grow up, go to college and move away... at least I can count on the HN gui to be the same until I die.
Taking advantage of something someone created on terms different than what they’re willing to offer it to you is not a “victimless crime.” (Just like jumping the turnstile in the subway is not a victimless crime even if there are free seats, or sneaking into a sports stadium.) At the margin it lowers the price everyone is willing to pay for the item.

As to music industry revenues--they're basically flat over the last 20 years: https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=9McmTl.... Which is crazy, because the number of new consumers that can afford their product is through the roof.

People treat piracy as a victimless crime because the marginal cost of each item is zero. Imagine extending similar logic to a handbag. If you steal an LV purse you can’t afford, how do you measure damages? The $1,000 marginal cost to physically replicate the purse, or the $10,000 retail price? That basic logic doesn’t change as the marginal cost goes to zero.

The moral rationalizations don't really hold water. It's not like the music industry is out there lobbying to prevent competing content. Their whole business model is creating content that's so desirable that they are non-fungible--people won't settle for a slightly different clone. Advances in digital technology have made it so the cost to create content is lower than ever. But people don't want just any superhero movie, want to see Wonder Woman or the Avengers: Infinity War.
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The only solution to rapid reduction in co2 emissions that can be deployed right now at sufficient scale is nuclear.

There are passively safe designs built right now.

It can provide electricity, heat and desalination if lack of water is an issue.

There is enough nuclear fuel in sea water to consider it an infinite source as far as humans are concerned [1].

Further, USA alone can be powered by its existing nuclear _waste_ for many years.

Surprisingly, nuclear is almost never mentioned as an option.

[1https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-t...
Ummm other than Silk Road pulling tons of countries into their sphere, using it to push new Chinese standards for people to switch towards, making HK/Taiwan/Tibet fully incorporated and culturally homogenous, taking islands away from other countries across SE Asia and calling it all china’s sea, etc etc.

They’re just more subtle, until they’re not. They have a very long term outlook on their efforts.
Why would you ever agree to pay legal or transaction fees greater than $0.30? It makes a new class of agreements possible where settling in court is not practical. It also brings increased transparency.

If you could get insured for software agreements using off the shelf open source software that already worked for lots of other people why not go for it? How is that worse than custom agreement and settlement via chains of private 3rd parties with opaque fee structures.
That does not work. You have no bargaining power.
Worth pointing out maybe that MyPy is not a language but a type checker that works with regular Python. I've been getting into the habit of using it on everything I do lately and find it extremely useful. You can even do runtime checking on the types with tools like Enforce [1], and the Molten framework that was posted on here last week [2] uses MyPy typing as a core part of the framework.

[1] https://github.com/RussBaz/enforce
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18107818
To add to that, new protocols are designed not to rely on DNSSEC: MTA-STS for MX records (uses HTTPS), Web Key Directory for OpenPGP keys (uses HTTPS).

Even old GnuPG deprecates DNS based key lookup: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-October/0...
https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-infuse-spirits-760696

If you're using a high proof liquor you typically don't need to pre-sanitize, but I typically do. You can either boil the jar for 5 minutes (timed) or rinse with bleach.

The more finely cut the fruit is, the more flavor will be absorbed.

I usually let them age for a minimum of 2 months, but up to 6 is preferred. Make sure to use ball jars with fresh wax seals and seal them while hot - once cooled, the lid should have a bit of flex to let you know the seal is unbroken. Make sure to mark contents and date on each one.
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