skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The news is that someone worked out the maths behind it and wrote it down - then proved they were right.

It's a bit like the fact that everyone knows the shower curtain will billow towards them in the shower but no one has managed to prove why that happens.
Because physics is about formalising intuition.

If you don't write the algorithm predicting the empirical consequences - you haven't solved the problem.

The mystery is in the absence of an algorithmic solution.

Think: Reverse Mathematics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mathematics
I'm currently considering moving from bitbucket to sourcehut.

Another way sr.ht is stuck in the 1990s is that it doesn't bludgeon my browser with analytics and gazillion requests like a certain bucket was fond of doing.

In general, sr.ht seems simple, in a very positive way. AFAICT, it doesn't try to compete with the GitHub-ish web UI for pull requests and code review. Personally, I don't mind.
“I have struggled a lot,” he said in an interview in the one-room flat he shares with his eldest son. “But now she can use her hands. Now she can walk.”
call me old fashioned, but I still use Ctrl+S
There's a difference between going offline at a set time for a set amount of time, and going offline randomly for unpredictable amounts of time.

HA is not just about getting that sixth 9, it's also about the peace of mind that you are insulated from a range of problems. Not only would I not worry about our SQL service going down, I also don't have to worry about what I have to do when a node goes down, because that's automated.
> their web UI seems to be stuck in the 1990s

To some of us decidedly a feature, not a bug. And:

> All features work without JavaScript

My endless upvote.
BitPay blocks $ 100k Bitcoin donation to Amazon rainforest fire charity
Bitbucket may have better styles, but its load times are atrocious.
Hear, hear. This whole trust-us-we're-the-good-guys come-on line self-regulation is giving us is clearly not good for much of anything beyond an orgy of self-interested PR.

It doesn't matter how many times people say the market works. There are plenty of self-appointed policy experts but no external force (I.e. regulation) helping people to live up to what they're saying. I think AI policy is pretty well-catered for labour at this point, but enforcement is not.
So you say that it's a conspiracy?

The first line reads: Taking mass transit is a better climate-change solution than tooling around in one of his Tesla vehicles.

I don't know, I can't really see how this can be a conspiracy aganinst Tesla by BMW and others when they argue that it is better to use mass transit that also runs on electricity. How can anybody argue that it is more efficient to transfer people in 2 tons, 3 metres long 2 metres wide boxes with chemical batteries instead of much more denser electric systems like metro trains and no chemical batteries.

I like what Tesla is doing to the car industry, I want dinosaur smoke out of my living space ASAP but please stop gunning towards public transport. Poblic transport is great and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to replace it with private vehicles no matter how dinosaur free they are.

So yes, electric cars are a lifestyle choice. Maybe a health choice too if we are to ban the fossil fuel from the cities.

I recall Elon Musk bad-mouthing public transport but public transport is great and cannot be replaced by Tesla vehicles. Maybe he will finally come to that realization when Hyperloop's final version inludes ride-sharing :) I cannot wait for fancy looking metro syst... I mean Hyperloop ride sharing.
He probably means Franky Zapata's flyboard: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49225001
Well in Dublin approximately 100% of taxis are Prius (it's mad, you can see the lines of them in the street, it's Clone Wars), and there is no Congestion Charge or toll or zones of any sort, so…

Could be they are more efficient (in energy cost) for city driving ? Dunno.
The goal is to be simple and easy to use. The UI should get out of your way ASAP - you're there to get things done, not to gawk at the pretty UI. As a bonus, it's very fast and small, easy on your web browser even on old computers or slow internet connections. And it's not spying on you!

That being said, I have been working on conservative improvements to make it a little bit more pleasing to the eye, without sacrificing the principles behind it. More color, for example, is not going to be added, or will be added cautiously, because color is used sparingly to attract your eye to the most common reason you would come to a page. Each element of the page should be intuitive and have purpose before it's pretty.
Please submit again when there's something to show or try. Right now it's two sentences and request for the user's email address.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This month alone there's 5 different 'Show HN'. I'm very skeptical any of those exist more than an idea and signup page. And Show HN is not meant for those.
Alleged cryptocurrency exit scam swindled $2.9B, but main suspects on the run
It's hard to compare, the UK is more densely populated, twice as high as France. My guess is a lot went into buying off property owners.
We really need to move to a model of charging a flat fee for a connection, and then metered rate for electricity. Wrapping everything up in the metered rate just creates annoying disincentives for the utility companies.
The intent of those that ratified it varies wildly. The making of the Constitution was very contentious, and Hamilton definitely picked a side.
The story here in Scotland is that "marmalade" was invented to make use of a consignment of bitter oranges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmalade#Dundee_marmalade
The answer is simple: Don't use a tool if the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost. Also, only use tools that are "market leaders" in their segment. So that there will be plenty of fixes/tutorials/help available to get you over bumps on the road.
> If we're talking about direct air pollution in cities I agree.

What about PM2.5? Do EVs do not use breaks and tires?
My dad cooked dulce de membrillo every year :-)

When you're boiling quince with sugar you have to keep stirring the paste to stop bubbles from forming. Those damned bubbles burn bad in your hands, so when you start you cannot stop until it all done.
The only report I've read about that side issue assumed that producing an ICE/petrol engine and transmission caused no CO₂ emission, or the authors just forgot.

Do you know anything about that? What is the CO₂ cost of producing a typical battery+electric engine compared to that of producing a typical transmission, ICE engine and the minor ICE-related parts that electric cars don't need?
Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactor in Wake of Latest Accident
Dulce de membrillo and (Portuguese) mermelada are the same thing. In fact, in Gallego, dulce de membrillo is called marmelo, much closer to the portuguese word for it. In Catalunya it's "codonyat" (the quince itself is called codony in catalan, and codoña in some other parts of Spain).

I always thought that the English "marmalade" and the Spanish "mermelada" had a somewhat shared history, since in both cases, the portuguese meaning is lost and it picked up a similar meaning (jam type preserve). It's probably because the process of creating a jam is quite similar to that of creating a quince cheese, but with different fruits. Perhaps at some point, the word became a description of the technique, and not of the particular ingredients used.
US investors have plowed a record $5.3 bilion into European startups this year
The value of the parent strategy is that they got external feedback from many different people. Because it's hard to see oneself as a stranger.
The Government Wants Your DNA. Don’t Run Away
gitweb requires server setup, while Mercurial web ui can quickly start locally without any configuration and that was the one of mercurial selling point until github and other services arrives.
Yes, but only in common usage of the word. As a real technical term it has to be called Konfitüre in Germany, as Bretain actually managed to get protection for the term, even if only they use if to the orange based stuff...
I really love the pragmatism of the Singaporean Government sometimes. Other countries are nowhere near as pushed for resources and consequently don't do anywhere near as good a job as them of facing big, gnarly problems like this. Kind of a pity, really.
Mexico court approves recreational cocaine use
Macau passed the national security law.
FBI charged 80 people and arrested 14 for “Nigerian Money Scam”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_in_the_United_States
I think there are multiple projects that Mark describes. One of the good looking one is https://yunohost.org/#/ for example. I wish the community could join forces, select one solution and make it production ready. Does anyone know about similar projects to yunohost that look promising?
Switzerland Tried Negative Rates in the 1970s
Large stake? Dell owns both, it's a move to rescue the tailspin that Pivotal's stock price is in.

Potentially.
This is awesome. Thank you for making this. This is the list of clipboard manager apps I've been using, and ClipManager/Clipy are bugged on macOS, and Pasta is pretty limiting + UI does not have the ideal simplicity.

- [ClipManager](https://github.com/naotaka/ClipMenu)
- [Clipy](https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy)
- [Pasta](https://getpasta.com)
Need some help understanding how to design Server-to-Server Authentication
I'm writing a SaaS application that should work in the following way

- the service takes input requests
- checks if the API Key / Referrer is valid
- sends out a response

At the same time there is the business user who can control what the output is in the response.

I want to make the onboarding/ authentication as smooth as possible but also maintain that is both secure and robust enough.

For example, the use case would look like this

- The customer installs the plugin / code on their website
- The website reaches out to the SaaS server and authenticates itself (tells the SaaS app that it is contacting from xyz.com)
- The SaaS app does a Reverse IP check to see if the request from the IP was same as xyz.com
- A record is stored in the DB which maps the API key to the customers domain name, and the API Key is stored on the customers website.
- All the requests from customers website to the SaaS server now uses the API Key that was generated

So far it looks very straighforward for me to implement. Here is what complicates things and I don't know

- How do I authenticate correctly and eliminate fraud if there is more than 1 website hosted on the same ip
- If a user changes their webhost / ip address, how do I authenticate them again?

More Questions

1. Is this a good practice (secure) ?
2. Are there any tools/libraries out there that provide this out of the box?
3. The whole post sounds very stupid and I should simply read how OAuth 2.0 works
`git instaweb` is sufficient to get a working gitweb stood up.
If it took you 15 minutes from the plane hitting the ground in Manchester to get to your house, I think that says more that you live really near to (or next to? inside?) Manchester airport. And 10 minutes between leaving your front door to arriving at the gate!?

That's either a slight exaggeration or an impressive feat
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just to complete the collection: in italian marmelade is "marmellata", while quince cheese is "cotognata" (quince being "mela cotogna").
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The former is a human-readable text which allow eye to easy understand and latter is a technical info which is not required to have space on the screen and makes UI "hard to use".
Isn't it kind of defeating the purpose of micro-services if you deploy every one of them every time?
Four years. But Microsoft have already acknowledged it's a dead end and are encouraging win32 apps into their store. Even the Wikipedia page refers to it in the past tense. Also wasn't there talk of a new UI kit at the last Build event?
With Amazon Ablaze, Brazil Faces Global Backlash
Real life effect of this is that now people will know how to draw more fuel-efficient routes for ships, tankers etc, so they will consume less fuel which can lead to cheaper logistics, less CO2 release and less negative impact on the environment.

So I think it’s OK to call this groundbreaking :)
I just went for a look because of your JS remark and holy moses that's a fast site.

I still sometimes forget how slow stuff is relative to what's possible, even though I frequent HN.
Click bait title, this is not a replacement for ODBC at all. It's a different protocol to fetch data.
So what's the difference between marmalade and jelly? Is marmalade jelly made of quince?
Great answer, cheers
Hahaha that's great, thank you :)
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They're not different words, as the origin is the same. They're the same word, with a slight semantic shift from one language to the other. And frankly, quince marmelade is not very different, in preparation or use, from other types of marmelade.

A similar case is the Italian "mostarda" vs the English "mustard"- two very different preparations, but both based on mustard seeds.

A real case of culinary false friends is the Spanish "aceite", which means (olive) oil and is derived from an Arabic word, and the Italian "aceto", which means vinegar and comes from Latin "acetum" (related to the English "acid").
Ripe guavas are one of my favourite fruites. Unripe guavas are tart and hard to bite.
More power to you, I'm shifting today
Tangentially, I recently learned about the Austrian insult for (northern) Germans "marmeladinger" (marmelade-eater?). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmeladinger
>4Chan is 4chan, some niche boards are great, but media bias.

When you curate the boards effectively, you can come across some nice generals for your interests.
One of my instances here became unresponsive for about 30-60 min. Rebooting did nothing, no but stopping and starting fixed it.
Ok, interesting, thank you for your answer !
Those dialogs were a bad idea in browsers (and have been gradually going away) too. Never do this in new software.

Treat "Cert is broken" the exact same way you'd handle not being able to connect. Don't treat it as something you can just cross your fingers and ignore.
I personally think this is an extremely exciting time in chess, especially when you take into account the surprising amount of doom and gloom that occurred around the World Championship. We've recently moved from long, boring theoretical battles in the Berlin or Petrov to revive various lines in the Sicilian, and Magnus Carlsen's classical revival since retaining his title seems to be based on very interesting positional sacrifices, instead of just grinding out wins from mostly-equal positions as he may have done in the past. It's hard not to want to acknowledge the invisible hand of AlphaZero (and indeed Leela) in these changes. I'd like to think that opening theory is going to go through something of a renaissance as more top players get access to these new engines with a better long term strategic sense of the game. It's hard to believe we're going to run out of new, interesting positions in our lifetimes.

Between those changes at the board, and the wider changes of people pushing chess as an esport, and growing prize pools from St Louis and the Grand Prix circuit, there's never been a better time to be a player or fan at any level of the game.
Which could also be said for electors voting against their local interests in favor of their state's interests. Who's the derelict if everyone who lives within a 50 mile radius votes one way but the state goes another? That's the point of electors; states getting all of them for free should be the outlier.
I, too, thought it was the former, but the toy geek in me hoped for the latter. To my surprise it was neither.
Download your Twitter archive when account is suspended
Long story short: Twitter blocked my account for posting some guy's email address (a Gmail address, so who knows if it was his real address or not) after he wrote it to me to talk in private, and then he deleted that message.

I don't care much for Twitter suspending my account, they got their reasons, they are wrong in my opinion this time, but I don't think social platforms as they are now are places of justice.

What I care about is my personal data on Twitter.

Apparently you can't download you archive if the account is suspended.

I thought of downloading my archive and then delete the account, but I can't, I can't even remove my phone number from the profile.

I can't even remove the account!

Is it even legal?

p.s.: I'm in Europe and my rights as owner of my personal data are protected by the GDPR.

Can Twitter violate it?

Should I report it to the authorities?
Wouldn't it be the other way around? Singapore got built dense because they had anti-car attitudes.

Singapore has grown 4x since 1960. A lot of infrastructure and housing got built in that time. American cities in the era built themselves into a corner with auto-sprawl, Singapore didn't.
Show HN: Document Security System to Prevent Confidential Leakage
I played around with Closure for a while to learn its cost/benefits. It is basically the love child of Lisp, Haskell and Java. So it introduces nothing new to the world. However it is certainly an interesting mix that some developers like. And Rich Hickey is an entertaining speaker/presenter/seller of Clojure. Even if you don't care about Closure, watch his talks on YouTube.
The idea is that you have a dev cluster _per developer_. I've ran with something similar way back working for a certain notable Perl shop way before k8s/Docker became popular, and I have to say it has a lot going for it, especially for more complex setups and more annoying database stuff. It was an (on-demand one-click provisioned) _VM_ per service per dev, though, so the biggest annoyance (no code reload, slow fs sync) was nullified by popular preference for either Vim or Emacs — with my current preference for VS Code I'd probably be annoyed by it. Also it's a bit expensive, I guess, but you can stuff a lot of VMs into a single big server.
Europe to see third major heat wave this summer, as temperatures soar
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If all 4 carriers in the US have the same stance, then Apple would need them more. And I suspect they would if the government leaned on the carriers.
Indeed, cars are bad for lots of reasons. But reducing nasty emissions and noise pollution, and making roads safer with various assistance systems, are improvements to the status quo. Since cars are here to stay (for now), improving them is worthwhile.
>To be crystal clear, this relative safety on the world stage means the USD is in demand as a "flight to safety". Same can be said about Treasuries, which is why domestic economic analysis doesn't necessarily align with the recession indicator of an inverted yield curve. The world could be going into recession. It's also worth noting that Gold has been rallying in USD terms, which tells us it's even safer.

In other words, this is 1997 as opposed to 2007-2008.
What Companies Are For
might depend on the region, but when I saw it in hungary it was generally called "birsalma sajt" (literally "quince cheese"), e.g. this

https://femina.hu/recept/birsalmasajt-receptje/
When you register, you notice that:

> Notice: sr.ht is currently in alpha, and the quality of the service reflects that. As such, payment is currently optional, and only encouraged for users who want to support the ongoing development of the site.

Caveat emptor.
Oh wow, of course! I know salicorne from vacations in France. Totally forgot about it.
Does Faceapp give a result of popularity? I don't think it allows testing different haircuts and see which one is more popular
Beyond what sourcehut is providing, I would also upvote because of Drew (Sir_Cmpwn). I don't know him personally, but based on blog posts, HN comments and interaction via email, he seems to be very helpful and polite, my general impression is that this isn't the norm in open source.
In the UK, marmalade is almost-always a preserve made from Seville (bitter) oranges. Occasionally lemon or lime, but usually orange.

Jam (jelly in the US) is made in a very similar process, except the fruit used in place of orange/lemon is something a little less-bitter; typically strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, apricot, plum (my favourite).
https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/src/kits/network/...
Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls
Not sure why you are being downvoted -- it's a fair suggestion but worth pointing out it's for enterprise/business clients only.
> but not in your defense

why not in my defence? i mean, my smartphone already knows everything about me, so why not use it for my defence?
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> they decided not to campaign there to give the impression they were safe.

Fascinating. Would you happen to have a link or more details on the rationale?
Regenerative braking cuts these down a lot.
brakes ? rarely

I am sure that tires (in the city where is majority of cars electric) will not cause PM2.5 mayhem :)

Also VW prepares this technology : https://www.motor1.com/news/346653/brake-dust-particle-filte...
How to Make Friends over the Internet
It's really bitter by fruit standards, more so than cooking apples.
I would love that as a quick and dirty service, e.g. Test haircuts, bio texts, job descriptions, etc against each other and ideally have a specific target group evaluate them.
You haven’t even lived half your life. Hell you haven’t even gone through half your work life, how could you be too old?

Never let fear of the future stop you from doing something that you want to do. Well, maybe within reason, but changing careers is definitely reasonable. People make the weirdest things work for them. The real question is whether you want to do it or not, not whether you can, because you absolutely can.
> Simply? Yes. Most of it was scientifically poor research, of no value, anyway.

That's a different reasoning though, one where nobody would disagree, I'm pretty sure. If they have value, what then?
Isn't raw quince hard as a rock?
Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse
They violently break all the recent frontend best practices. Where is the React or Vie, SPA architecture, tons of JS?

There should be a federal law prohibiting making fast and simple UIs so that nobody will have concerns that the UI frameworks war leads us to great future.
India is an exception to that too. There they will speed up to scare you out of the crosswalk
There's no getting out of paying 1-2% of interchange fees unless you're willing to exclusively accept debit cards.
Citation needed. The literature I've seen suggests that an electric vehicle easily makes back any deficit quite early in its life.

An easily digestable version of this calculation is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM
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for sure, but you have to admit that technology does help immensely in crime solving.
If you can afford to do it without (or little) debt, and it doesn't effect your dependents, then why not?
Tyres yes, brakes not so much. The brakes are needed only to come to a complete stop, most normal braking is handled by running the motor as a generator to dump the energy back into the battery.
I don't think many really say that about monsters like Amazon. It's usually these very limited in scope and functionality like Twitter that boggle the mind.
I actually get the impression that the catalog IS small from the current Netflix UI.
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I like the opposite: only with physical presence, no consult, no studying openings just you playing your best game against your opponent doing the same according to the classic time rules.