skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to admit how true that is.

Even scrolling through my GOG collection of games I'm somehow too lazy to play instills in me a sense of pride that at least they weren't purchased on Steam.

Though there are also major practical advantages of purchasing things within stores like GOG and Steam instead of a bunch of disparate websites: when you move to a new computer, you don't have to chase down a bunch of websites and license keys and emails to reinstall all of your software. Which is something I hate so much I only got outside of platform shops as a last resort.
> The hard part is detecting that there is nothing more to read from the command without blocking

In Perl $file->blocking( 0 ) or fcntl with O_NONBLOCK enables non-blocking sysread, I’ve recently used that.

https://perldoc.perl.org/IO/Handle.html

https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fcntl.html

https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sysread.html
This is pretty cool. It would be interesting to see more industrial projects using some of the space available to them for community activity spaces such as this
Au contraire, if you've configured Windows to use e.g. Google's DNS then it will bypass deep-packet-inspection-based DNS filtering.
Seems more like he's upset about the stories being about the super powers rather than the effects of the super powers. Superheroes are always as powerful as the plot needs them to be. Of course they're going to win in the end with their power. But most of Marvel's movies just come down to reacting to the movie's 'twist', and believing in themselves to become stronger.

The more interesting ramifications/consequences are often only footnotes. Not every problem can be solved with super strength - Show those.
To those who have tinnitus:

When you put a finger in your ear and create a bit more or a bit less pressure - does that change the frequency of your tinnitus?

Because for me it totally does. And I wonder if every tinnitus is like that.

Also: Is your tinnitus mainly on one side or equally on both sides? For me it is mainly on the right side.
Telegram comes to mind.
ProtonMail team here. None of the above is correct. ProtonVPN is developed, operated and 100% owned by Proton Technologies AG, the Swiss company that also operates ProtonMail. This can be verified in the Swiss commercial registry, which also lists all our directors:
http://ge.ch/hrcintapp/externalCompanyReport.action?companyO...

Proton has also been thoroughly audited/vetted by third parties, including Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-n...
and also the European Commission which partially funds Proton:
https://protonmail.com/blog/eu-funding/

Any data mining claims are categorically false, and doing data mining would also subject us to fines of 20 million Euros as discussed here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/
> Who's to say strengthening family and community bonds would result in a failed society?

Nobody, but getting there by forcing everyone together because it's no longer possible to afford to do otherwise seems to be a good indicator that something has broken.

> It's only purely negative when viewed through the lens of individual economic achievement

I'm 41, I moved out of my folks place when I was 18. My life would have been quieter and poorer if I had had to stay in their house for the last 23 years, following their rules, and it would have driven me insane. I lived in shared houses for several years, then moved to my own place, now live with my partner.

It's not just about economic success, it's about having your own space to be yourself and live life the way you want it.

> (which may not be possible to the level seen post-WW II in the west).

Oh rubbish. Endless growth may not be possible or even desirable, but being able to make your own way in the world is not over, nor is it likely to be any time soon.

--edit-- I do understand that, for instance, owning property is much harder in many places now than ever before, I think we have work to do as a society to mitigate that. But I also think that perhaps we've over-centralised on a few desirable, expensive cities (in the UK, where I live, but also other western nations). A re-balance by distributing the wealth-generation around a bit more would help.
Do you own any other buildings other than your home? Why do you feel entitled to make a claim on others private property?
At a glance they appear to be trying to do solar-thermal chemistry to generate fossil-fuel free cement directly[1], rather than solar power generation via e.g. molten salt. I'm not familiar enough with the space to weigh in on utility/difficulty of their approach.

[1] Probably normally natural gas fired burners/kilns
You don't need much orbital assembly if you can launch something with a 9-meter or 18-meter diameter. And again, cheaper launch cost also makes space hardware cheaper; you can afford to make it heavier, and you can afford to replace it if necessary.
Chinese money wants in instead of the usual way where it’s western money trying to pick China. Not sure about censorship, always a possibility when Chinese money is involved.
Obligatory mention: do / redo [0]

Super simple, uses your favorite language for specifying the build (usually bash, but ... anything goes), much more robust than make, parallelizes builds, and can be included in your project as a 800-line bash script so that your users don't have to install it.

It's not blaze/bazel (et al) -- no hermetic builds, for example, but it doesn't put the '.o' files out there unless the compilation is successful, and it does verify file contents rather than just time by default - most build systems fail on the last two.

[0] https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> Encrypting DNS does not require centralization, but DoH does require centralization in in the RFC.

This isn't a problem that DoH was designed to solve. It is designed to be a highly compatible, secure, endpoint DNS solution. Which it is. So while this criticism is accurate, it is also irrelevant, DoH replaces one "hop" on DNS and that's all it was ever designed to do.

> DoH doesn't even "improve user privacy"; it simply changes who can record your DNS queries. I

It stops passive eavesdropping. Right now you can change who you use for DNS and your ISP can still monitor your DNS to profile you and invade your privacy. With DoH you can pick a privacy focused endpoint and nobody between you or that endpoint can trivially monitor your DNS.

DoT solves this too but has issues (see next response).

> DNS servers need to support DNS over TLS (DoT) or some other type of encrypted transport.

DoT and even unencrypted DNS is blocked on a lot of free WiFi. Now what? DoH solves this issue, as it was designed to. DoH can traverse even the most locked down network over the same HTTPS channel as any other web traffic.

> You don't get privacy by centralizing all of your requests onto one server.

Perhaps, but it scales really well and is the basis for all current DNS resolution. If everyone on the internet did as you suggested core internet infrastructure would fail under the load. You've essentially killed almost all caching.
Facebooks successor is Instagram. Unfortunately for us Zuckerberg bought Instagram.
They don't have to, that's one of the options. If they're corporate admins they likely have Active Directory or the ability to require the profiles.json, which also disables it.

It's intended as a way to allow DNS filtering software to work when admins aren't involved with user devices. DNS filtering software breaks DNSSEC anyway. So using it doesn't break anything extra.
As I pointed out, the know a bunch of facts, but they don't understand the reality between those facts. Which is to say they really don't know what they are talking about.

It's like hearing a person complain about a movie they've never seen, but they read the Wikipedia entry on it. They may understand the major plot lines, but you're not going to have an engaging discussion with them about the acting or cinematics.
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
I do exactly the same thing with the earasers and some of the other brands, but haven't tried hearos.

Just my two bits, but I don't think the different brands are all that different. Some seem a bit bigger or smaller, some cost more or less. Of course I can't say that for sure about a brand I haven't tried though.
I just want a way to sue the fuck out of all medical professionals that told me something would be covered by my insurance

Getting evidence of these statements is a challenge but a civil court would easily put them on the hook for the cost they said I wouldn't incur and 3x it with punitive damages

and then double whammy with a review of their license

They'll go ahead and try to argue what "covered" meant, and everyone will laugh them back to med school because of the shared experience of this bullshit
The Price Tag for Climate Change Is in the Trillions
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7167193

Percussive Maintenance

(uncountable) (humorous) The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device or person work.
> I can legally buy my own insurance, but it will cost a lot more than what I pay through work so of course I don't.

Which is entirely frustrating too. This only happens because employers only subsidize specific health plans, instead of letting the employee spend that money on the health plan that they deem best for themselves. Isn't that ridiculous? Why would my employer care what health insurance I get anyways, they don't know my health situation. I should be able to use the money they spend on my health insurance however I want!
We don’t even need AI for that. Here’s some flawless pseudo-code:

fn is-snake-oil:
return !(coin is BTC or coin is in stable-coin-list)
No, it doesn't. You don't own or have a right to anything other than your house. The arrogance here is astounding. The average person in your generation does not have what you have and it's not because they are lazy (even if that thought makes you feel better about yourself)
I'm forced to use messenger for work but have refused to download the mobile app for this reason. Voting with my download count.
Yes, it does. Adobe changed its name to "Animate" once they got the HTML5 export working. Dunno if it's in use for any games nowadays.
Pika – The JavaScript package registry for the modern web
My concern is not that the PRC will try to put PRC values on the USA, it's that they'll foment negative cultural mores here in the USA - i.e., tap into latent Islamophobia to defend their persecution of Uighur Muslims, and in doing so increase Islamophobia in the USA.
AES-128 is encryption, not a hash. AES-128 will be broken when computers get enough compute power to calculate 2^127 keys (the brute force attack: after covering 50% of the keyspace).

Cryptographic hashes are prone to the birthday attack instead. MD5 hashes (128-bits) are broken when a computer has enough power to calculate 2^64 keys (birthday attack: they found a hash collision).
When we all think of kangaroo courts, I know the first place we think of is... checks notes Sweden.
Our logo is not great and also a carryover from a prior startup one of us had. We should definitely update it...
Same! I'm going to try to nail it down really exactly, but so far 8,236 is as close as I've got while on a conference call :)
Curious Expedition is a fantastic Roguelike. I've been playing it forever. I'm not pleased that they are ditching the gorgeous pixel art for coreldraw-style clipart in the sequel.

Regarding their development stack... this game proves that your stack is absolutely inconsequential in determining if a game/app will be good or not. If the team executes well and the game is obviously not flawed, I could care less if the devs used something not considered "pro".
SD launches anti-meth campaign 'Meth. We're On It.'
It wouldn't be an accurate Android emulator without that feature.
Does this mean 160,000 registered? Or 160,000 entered their cc info and are paying? Way different metrics, obviously.
> Please explain to me my naiveté here.

There is nearly zero incentive to actually your anonymize data, and anonymization doesn't make you anonymous.

This is a lesson we should have learned more than a decade ago[1], when AOL released their anonymized search data for research purposes, and thousands of people were trivially identified using it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
Thread / Discussion on Twitter from this morning: https://twitter.com/pikapkg/status/1196825435671158787
> If you believe in music copyrights at all, this looks like an open and shut case of infringement to me.

There are some that truly don't believe that sampling copyrights should be a thing. They think it's just a way to stifle creativity. One could also argue that Dreams is so completely derivative that is bears little to no resemblance to the original recording it samples, and as such does not infringe on any intellectual property.

> Plus "Dreams" is a godawful piece of music

You opinions on a piece have no legal bearing on what does or does not constitute copyright infringement. The comment was completely unnecessary and uncalled for.
It really is not. At most it can be tedious, because it has large surface area of protocols and formats. Most of them other than SMTP and message format are optional.

Minimal mail system involves just postfix with config in a bunch of files, delivering mail to a folder on the server, and pretty much everything on top, like SPF,DKIM,DMARC,... is optional.

You can ssh to your server from anywhere and run mutt there, or install a webmail if you're into web stuff. That's pretty much all that's needed for a basic thing. Security wise, there's not much to do wrong in this setup. Mail server is open for reception by default as it should be and submission is only allowed from localhost.

Webmail can be protected via HTTP auth and ssl. As long as your password is secure, noone will get there that way.

Rolling your own crypto is a much bigger can of worms.
oh, dude! this is what I was waiting for. Amazing latest release!
There are two niches in which your analysis is incomplete.

First, There are underdiagnosed diseases for which patients don't seek care, sometimes because they do not believe there to be a treatment. The lack of treatment means that it isn't as vital for physicians or patients to pursue diagnosis. Those patients might see an ad and return to a physician to ask if that treatment is a fit.

Second, not all physicians are as on top of new treatment options as we expect. It might have slipped their notice or be in a field with which they aren't the most familiar, and those patients might benefit from revisiting whether a new treatment is a good fit.

I don't really think these two cases make up for all of the advertising, but they might be missed if advertising is cut or abolished.

It might have some fairly large drawbacks, but I think it would be good for pharma and biotech companies to put some amount of money into a fund based on the disease and have awareness campaigns around the diseases. For example, companies with diabetes treatments could form a group that puts out diabetes ads urging patients to talk to their physicians. It gets dicey for first-in-market treatments, but I think it would be an overall improvement from the current system.

Disclaimer: I work in big pharma biology research; pricing and advertising are done in a fancier building with more marble floors, so I've thought about this a bit, but it isn't my department.
> adding as little as 10 percent of its material can make the result carbon neutral

Do they mean making plastics with 10% UBQ pellets is carbon neutral? If so, how can that be? Imagine a world where all plastic was made that way. Each time a new thing is made, 90% of it is new plastic, the production of which produces (among other things) carbon dioxide.
Don't forget each piece of equipment involved in drawing blood. Had to try three times because you're dehydrated? Different-sized needles because you're a person of smaller stature? Gotta bill you for each piece consumed, and the premium for being outside the range for 'average.'
It would be unlikely for Shopify to build integrations with other back office systems that compete directly with Shopify (e.g. BigCommerce), so there'd be a cap on the amount of integrated trade that could happen. A defensible trade network would need to be independent and connect to any system that buyers and sellers use. We'll just keep making it easier for businesses to trade irrespective of the systems they use and their preferred sales channels (e.g. dropship, wholesale, etc.).
The Shopify/Oberlo buyers only sometimes end up being durable. For the ones that are, they come to expect better in terms of ship times, terms and other business things that aren't well handled by Aliexpress dropship. So generally speaking, buyers would graduate to us after they get to six figures. For sellers it's free so they can be big or small.
I've always noticed: Even if a chinese person is critical of the chinese gov they will never say that when speaking to a non-chinese (unless it's your husband/close friend), nor speak of it out loud.
Kudos to the author for this, this is an endeavor of madness IMHO...

The only thing I've ever failed to setup was a functioning mail server using Postfix and Dovecot (it was like ~2007/8). It was a circle of configuration hell I would wish on no one and since then I've never understood why anyone would want to run their own mail server. Pure, unadulterated, hell... I honestly don't even know why we have email at all it's so shit (obviously I do, but hopefully the sentiment I'm expressing is clear).

Granted, if you know how to do it, once it's "running" things mostly work (I've known plenty of people who didn't fail as miserably as I did)... but as others have mentioned actually sending emails and not being labeled as SPAM is almost impossible. Plus, making sure your service is literally ALWAYS available, is really quite tricky. It's pretty damn easy to miss some emails.

I keep hoping some other protocol will take off so we can free ourselves from email, but it looks like the chance of that ever happening is probably zero.
Getting Started with Swift for TensorFlow
Hosting your own DNS is easy. I’m pretty sure there are pre-made images for the raspberry pi just for this purpose.
>The fast way forward involves being critical, being pragmatic, not overselling, and not drinking the Kool-aid.
This is not true, we maintain sole custody and control of our application signing certificates.
And the SS African Glen.
> Nobody cares about your school after your first job and many state schools are more than adequate

Few people say it out loud, but they do care. Both in social contexts and in professional contexts. I've been to a top-25 public state school for undergrad, and a top-3 private school for Master's. I've seen both sides of the spectrum and I've seen the privilege that I've gotten out of attending an elite university.

I would advise people to be smart about the student debt they are taking on. If your goal is to pursue a lucrative career path like Software Engineering, Law, Business, Consulting etc, go ahead and attend the university that has the best brand name. It will pay for itself over the course of your career. If your goal is to be a school teacher, then go to the best public university in your home state.
you seem to be a big proponent of ansible-pull. are any of your use cases/implementations publicly available, I'm really interested to see how people are using ansible-pull in production.

I'd like to do something similar, currently we use a mix of ansible tower (which I don't love) and ansible runs from local machines to manage the infrastructure. I'd rather it all be tied into terraform though, so that we have a single place to manage changes from
There are minerals that you can add that cause ash to turn into a glassy slag for later removal. You can also use a cyclonic collector similar to what is used in bagless vacuum cleaners to capture any particle that are contained in the gas, not to mention filters for removing sulfur and any other harmful chemicals that might harm the turbines that burn the resultant syngas as fuel.
Mao Zedong was widely liked, and the Communists were seen as much better than the corrupt Guomindang [0]. They also defeated the Guomindang militarily. I think the CCP are actually the legitimate rulers of mainland China, both by peoples' choice and military conquest.

You may think the Chinese people chose poorly, but I think it is clear that they definitely chose.

And to put this in some context, China has had an authoritarian government for the past 2000 years, so it's not like choosing an authoritarian regime is that much of a change. You might as well pick the authoritarians who are less corrupt. And post-Mao the CCP has been pretty effective in building the country.

[0] traditionally spelled "Kuomintang" but Wade-Giles is a horrible romanization. You think you know how to pronounce it after looking at it, but you're wrong; it's actually worse than just having a bunch of characters, because at least you know you don't know how to pronounce them.
(Not OP w the Q you answered)

Thanks! Great tips. Do you write about this stuff elsewhere?
Because it refuses to acknowledge the sovereignty of Taiwan, it sent troops to enforce violence against what was originally peaceful protestors in Hong Kong, it is forcefully imprisoning Uighur Muslims in concentration camps, it is forcing citizens to install spyware on their phones, it doesn't have rule of law, it arbitrarily locks up human rights activists and lawyers, it will target people for their religion, etc.

Note that these complaints of mine are against the Party, not the people of China as a whole. Xi Jinping and his cronies are a fresh brand of evil.
Vancouver has been seen as "cliquey and flaky" long before the money flooded in but probably exasperates the problem.

I agree with Douglas Coupland who talks about it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Glass_(Coupland_book). People from more populous parts of the country in Ontario and Quebec come to Vancouver for the western adventure part of their lives and eventually return to Toronto or Montreal. So locals and even other "transplants" see little upside to forming deep long lasting relationships.

Now we have wealthy trans-national elites who come here to get their papers and have almost no contact with people outside their immediate circle.

>Some ethnic Chinese migrants in Richmond have told UBC researcher John Rose: “(Canadian citizenship) is more like an insurance policy.” Other transnationals refer to their years waiting in a new land for a passport as “immigration hell.”

https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/the-unsettled-live...
No soldering required, the motherboard wants a momentary contact to tell it to boot. Soldering the wires together would be more like pressing and holding it.
You say that "a list of quotes from the past has no bearing on the present reality" and then go on to say that "people are really struggling to focus" which is essentially the same point, or at least closely related, that the quotes from the xkcd are making. Why are you acting like the quotes are unrelated when they support what you're saying?
I've been doing this for inbound email on my domains, and outbound mail from daemons and system services. I don't think relying on your personal email server for all email is practical (deliverability), but there are good use cases.
I wonder if the subjects knew the device should vibrate, so if it didn't vibrate at all it would have thrown off the test.

If not, I agree with you. Or just find subjects that don't know what the devices do so they can just sit on their heads doing nothing.
Assuming non-fixed width integers, how can you have an infinite sum type?