skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read dmos62's comment and my response again.

I mention namecoin as a single example of decentralised dns and mention that there are other projects (thats not advocating or evangelising namecoin).

I then point out the major problem with all of these alternative dns, no one uses them because few have incentive to do so.

You responded by calling me a con-man (sounds reasonable) because I had the audacity to mention a technology in one of the only use case's its good at.

> I'm not at all upset (and you're projecting again) -- I'm being sarcastic, and it whooshed right over your head.

I got the sarcasm, I got the name calling, it's childish. If I got more upvotes would you consider my words instead of the con-man image you are projecting? I don't think so.
> So if we take Ethos at their word

It is unfortunate that we have a business culture where to take someone at their word is not only naive but so reckless that the duped gets most of the blame rather than the duper.

And yet, here we are. This is the reality. Taking a private equity firm "at their word" is so foolish that it's hard to believe the author isn't being disingenuous.
What Is Static Electricity? We May Finally Have an Answer
yup. 'I am, therefore I am biased' as they say.
24 Years of Nvidia Transformations
And some people by the age of 9 learn how not to be mean to other people.
In practice, you don’t do all your type juggling at compile-time in even moderately complex libraries or applications. So TypeScript could certainly use better RTTI, I think. design:type metadata is insufficient.
Based on a quick look around the web, "interval cancer" means specifically a cancer that develops after having previously received a cancer screen where no cancer or pre-cancer was found.

So basically it reduces "interval cancer", not "cancer", by more effectively finding warning signs.
We have known instances of people’s twitter accounts being hacked, and then fired from their job, after ‘their’ twitter feed posted objectionable content.
> This transaction will put that bigger mission on a solid footing

I don't understand how that should be true. Either Ethos would have too pay too much or Ethos would have to be able to run this business more cost effective. Both sounds questionable.

> While it's true that running .org provided a relatively steady income stream, ...
> Establishing a more diverse portfolio of investments will allow us to have more predictable revenue over time.

Relatively steady sound pretty predictable to me. It will be interesting to see who from the inner circle will benefit from those future "investments".

> Even in the worst case, ... the Registry Agreement for .org requires a 6-month notice period during which domain owners can lock in a 10-year registration at pre-increase rates.

That is wrong: "Registry Operator shall offer registrars the option to obtain domain name registration renewals at the current price ... for periods of one (1) to ten (10) years at the discretion of the registrar, but no greater than ten (10) years."
Downvoted ? Really ? Must have hit a nerve somewhere.

"Machine learning's real problem is in the west, which has a very difficult time accepting unpleasant facts even when fair ML systems produce them.'

For example, "proof" that bias exists in an institution due to a statistical difference between its distribution of identity groups and the general population. Will be interesting when these type of rules become part of our ML overlords.

True story: I took a science course in school a long time ago when my lab partner used the calibration knob in the back of the voltmeter to get exactly 5 volts out of the power source. Found this out only after we kept getting very odd results.
Static electricity was where the term was electricity comes from
I guess it’s still a dome, just a huge one!
i'd say that tax money should go to newspapers but how do you disentangle tax money from politicians is... a bit of a problem.
It depends on the severity of head injury.
>Degree Analytics enables schools to track its students movements, ostensibly to increase retention

while most students have a phone in their pocket, this may not always be the case. They’re not just measuring a student’s attendance, but also their wealth, which by its self if a huge predictor of student success.
"(...) what Ethos themselves have said about their intentions (...)" means nothing. They can change their mind, put new directors in a month that will have different opinions etc. What's important is what they can legally do and how incentives are structured. Giving monopoly to private equity and expecting good things to happen is a joke.
You should check out the Pinephone then: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Easy dumb money like SoftBank is the greatest enemy of innovation and progress. Just take a look at the first deck. Companies like Uber, Softbank, WeWork all having trouble with funding is an important step in our economy
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21655889
Doubling every 7 years.
But what if someone stabs your fabric!? We could never have teenagers on Mars. You would never be able to find all the holes.
If you use a "short, simple" string as a username across various services, the price you pay is that various others are going to be using that same name on other services.

You aren't entitled to a certain username on every service simply because you happened to be the first to register it on one service.
> Any methane "emitted" by livestock is already present in the carbon cycle: cows eat grass which is made of atmospheric carbon. It isn't sensible to compare that to carbon from fossil fuels.

Considering that:

a. most cows in today’s world don’t eat grass, or rather, they eat a lot more soy, corn and other foods grown for them

b. the feed for the cows is grown using conventional methods to keep costs under control, which also implies using fertilizers that are produced from fossil fuels (also add the fossil fuels used in the transport of feed as well as the animals)

I don’t understand how your entire argument holds true. Seems like there are gaps in your model of the world.
The possible gain (both in money and in regulatory powers) from imposing the carbon footprint tax on corporations and individuals dwarfs any existing fuel taxes. It's not about climate, it's about further control of the populace's private affairs.
It's all true, but it was not anti-Ukrainian crime commited by Russians. It was anti-Russian crime commited by Bolsheviks.

Every agricultural region with Russian(Ukrainian or Belorussian included) population suffered, not only Ukraine.
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I'd think an inflatable habitat inside a lava tube would be ideal. For the Moon, it'd be perfect - lava tubes are supposed to have lots of ice in them.

There are photos of lava tubes that are hundreds of meters wide and kilometres long. That's a lot of space shielded from radiation.
I love the software part in the article. Basic GTK apps just need a few changes and they start working seamless on both Desktop and smaller displays.
It’s an article (he interviews someone) collecting facts from sources that represent the scientific consensus.
I admit to being very confused about collections. They just seemed very inconvenient and there's no way to get to normal bookmarks.
Those in power will certainly prefer your kind of thinking. With your kind of thinking, Nelson Mandela wasn't going to be released from jail. I doubt they were even gonna send him to jail. They were going to quietly execute him. Apartheid wasn't going to be defeated, and black South Africans were still going to be treated like animals in their own country. It was reporting by British media, politicians, celebrities and ordinary citizens that put pressure on the apartheid government to end apartheid. What is happening in another country does affect you. Those people will soon be running to your country when life becomes unbearable.

Same as holocaust, I am sure Hitler was going to prefer that other countries don't report on what was happening so that he can continue to eliminate all German Jews. When he was done, he was going to move to neighbouring countries and continue until he reaches your backyard. By then, it will be too late.

What Donald Trump tweets, does affect me directly because Google Play on my Huawei phone can stop working with one announcement from him. I need to be up to date with the politics of the US. Recession in USresults in recessions all ov er the world. We are part of one global community and what happens on one corner of the world is everyone's problem.
So...how much does it cost to run gTLD these days? Perhaps the time is right to set up a non-profit to run one at actually affordable prices, instead of the current ripoff and the future .org price increases.
The need to properly digitally sign absolutely all content is higher than ever.
Men know this reference and find it funny. Boys don’t. //smiley_face
I am so excited for this. I have some AMD GPUs that I used for ethereum mining that I would LOVE to turn into an AI machine.
No, but most critique is still valid. Weird tablet-like UI, missing features. (like that absurd file chooser which lacks prefix-search in current directory)
I'm a .org domain user. My email is a .org, my website is a .org. It's [my name].org. I've registered through 2029 now. Hopefully by then this whole nonsense has passed. Honestly domain names have been handled very poorly over the past 10 years, between this and the ridiculous gTLD system. They are just becoming super-expensive vanity items for corporations to get nice redirects.
> I refuse to spit more than $200 for any of those devices. People say "but I used it everyday, it is my main computer", well with all due respect you are addicted to your phone.

Well, that's an entirely arbitrary line in the sand you've drawn there. It's an entertainment platform. Am I addicted because I pay extra for a high quality TV, stereo, or gaming computer? What if it was spending extra money on a jigsaw for my woodworking hobby?
The big thing enabled by them is not needing to `use ($variable)` to pull a variable in to the scope; however, IMHO, that actually then adds cognitive overhead to the system - I personally will stick to "fully" generated closures.
My first thought is I'm mildly skeptical that this will end up being granular enough or detailed enough to actually be useful in practice, but if it does, it could be very useful.

I'm pretty happy to see Firefox pushing its dev tools in this direction. They've done a really great job with layout and styling tools, but their JS dev tools have lagged behind Chrome's. So even if this particular effort doesn't pan out for some reason, it's still very encouraging.

They're not just carbon-copying Chrome, and they're not just sitting back and ignoring the dev tools; they're trying to push them forward in some interesting ways.
Excuse my comment if I’m incorrect, but did you read the article?

“How about you make a cheaper product without software bloat”
To me this was very clearly answered with we broke new ground building the right system from the ground up and that was expensive.

And we used our existing OS as the base and we’ve achieved true mobile <> PC converance.

Give the article a full read and please consider editing this comment.

The reason for the cost was literally what was covered in the article.
There's some variation in whether online vendors will require a prescription or not. The first one I tried did, so the second one got my money. AIUI there's not a federal law requiring a prescription, but there are many state laws. Often, they make a distinction between positive and negative prescriptions, which is why you can buy reading glasses (to correct farsightedness) everywhere but have much more limited options for distance glasses (to correct nearsightedness). I guess some vendors can't be bothered figuring out which laws apply to a particular sale and just apply the strictest.
Ah Mumbai, the place where taxis wait under the noses of policemen at the domestic arrival gate, only so that they can pick up unsuspecting idiots and then fleece them of 5-10000 Rs for the privilege of taking them to the International departure gate (or for a lower fee after just 100 m).

Little wonder everyone is advised to use prepaid taxis in India. I've been told by various sources that this the development of the petty "anti-capitalist" politics that dominated India since its supposed independence.
> Why do I need to know that there's massive protests going on in Hong Kong, the middle east and South America?

Given the poor quality of the reporting on local political issues it seems highly unlikely that the news is even reporting foreign political situations in a helpful fashion.

Even assuming good faith; it just seems unlikely that the facts will all get identified and accurately synthesised.
I'm still curious if climate change is really a serious threat to human kind, because it sounds like it is. It's a little weird that nobody can confirm it.

I never had a clear answer when asking if a temperature increase would be a threat to the food supply, but +4C seems like a lot. Even displacing crops to the north sounds a little crazy.

But it's true that climate change demonstrated how so many people are just uneducated. It's impossible to talk science when politics are concerned. Technocracy looks like it's compatible with democracy and there are times I wish science was part of the political process. Officials are generally poorly educated on science, and it's a problem (that adviser is educated on science).
Setters and getters aren’t really object oriented. An object has behaviour, ensuring the inner workings of that object are protected is a good thing _even if_ the inner workings are only ever inner workings. There’s lots of valid and meaningful uses of this functionality.
At least for Java, PHP has the massive advantage of "change the code, save it and hit cmd+r" while Java, JavaScript and .net require recompiling, repackaging and deployment.

At work I develop for both PHP and Java projects and... it's cumbersome to develop for Java projects, to say it nicely. Ever tried developing for Jira, Jenkins or enterprise CMSes?
You can already run your own private CA. What you can't do is get a government to vouch for you, which is effectively what DNSSEC does; it replaces the CA with a tree rooted in country governments.

What discretion the de jure controllers of .COM and .IO have, we don't want them exercising over our code. But, of course, the problem for code signing is that they'll have little discretion at all, and, were operating systems to consider switching to DNSSEC, they might as well just stop doing code signing altogether, since creating a situation where anyone can generate an authority that disables the UAC warning box defeats the whole purpose.
It's sure the best thing for hobby users today. It firmly beats probably all of the sub $1000 "pro-sumer" or "maker" tools like eagle.

But as much as I like it, it's still years if not decades away from catching up to the big industry tools like Altium, Cadence, Mentor. They have $$$$$/seat pricing, but if you need them, you need them.
You don't disagree with me on the science. Methane has a limited half life, this is well understood and built into the models. You are repeating the science as if it were different, and then drawing different conclusions from it.

I don't see what the absolute numbers have to do with whether or not oil or gas installations should be able to vent a particular quantity of methane.

Or why it matters that another unrelated source of Methane is limited. If cattle produced a similar but different molecule that would reduce the Methane absolute numbers dramatically, but in reality would have no impact on the question at hand. This is all like saying that driving a car in North Dakota matters less than in California, because North Dakota has lower total absolute emissions. It is sophistry.
OS X/macOS have always been slower than Windows and Linux on the same exact hardware in my experience. I've been comparing them since the early 2000s and here are my observations: Programs are slower to start, dragging and resizing windows is slower and programs that need to display a large amount of text/data are less response e.g. when selecting text, scrolling, waiting for navigation, etc.

These problems are exacerbated by the poorly implemented / missing window management features of the Mac OS, the general lack of a good keyboard acceleration system and Apples penchant for hiding useful features beneath label-less icons or hidden/stateful gestures.
What a fucking moron!

1. No, 26$ is obviously not a sane, let alone a reasonable price for a domain registration. For comparison, you can register .de for < 4 EUR/year, so at a price of 26$ this is redirecting 220 million dollars of funds that were donated for charitable work to definitely not charitable profit for these investors--or 160 million more than right now.

2. The price increase is capped at only 10% per year? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you seriously not have a clue how exponential growth works? .org has existed for 34 years, if you add another 34 years of increases of "only" 10%, you are at 255$ per year. Or, as he himself calculated, it's more than doubling the price in ten years, which would be just crazy.

3. "They promised they'd be good!" ... seriously? You seriously can not see the problem with a transaction where a profit-seeking entity obviously explicitly avoids actually promising anything (that is: making any of those "promises" legally binding)? After all, it is possible to actually promise all those things in a meaningful way, that's what the legal system is for.

4. "Give back to the .org community through a Community Enablement Fund" ... or in other words: Appropriate charitable donations where the donors have already decided what causes they should go to and redistribute them to their liking. Can anyone really be too stupid to see through this and be in a position to make such a decision?

5. "While it's true that running .org provided a relatively steady income stream, it effectively staked most of our revenue on a single business, and required a certain amount of our resources to be spent managing that business, distracting from the broader mission." ... WTF? And running it in the future will not require any resources? Does this guy not understand basic financial math either? Like, if you buy a business, you pay for expected profits, i.e., after you you have subtracted expected expenses, i.e., if you sell a business, you still "pay" for all the future expenses? Selling a business does not magically create money, it only shifts the cash flow to the present day. The only way selling a business can increase your cash flow is if the buyer increases prices or reduces costs.

It's all so obviously from the bullshitting playbook you can hardly believe anyone would actually believe any of these "arguments" to be of any value, when the path to actually guaranteeing all of these things that we are supposed to just believe is so obvious.
EU parliament declares climate emergency
At least they are clear about it.
Well . . . I have now read the source article (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0), and I would say that the authors fear that we have already passed or will pass these tipping points in the near future. I.E. they are basically inevitable, but we may be able to affect the rate of change.
The human body just cannot get sick by itself without the impacts coming from external agents. In that sense, all illnesses are linked to some pathogens, and inflammation is simply a reaction of our immune system fighting them off. In my opinion, a lot of illnesses are really just a form of autoimmune disease. Our body must have been fighting some unknown pathogens for a really long time and without our awareness, eventually it just succumbed and triggered those conditions.
Is the 10% increase for individual domains or on average? If it's on average, that means those with the most valuable domain names can expect increases of 300% or more soon...
When my government wants to increase my taxes even further to combat climate change (already 50% tax rate for income above €17k/yr and 21% VAT), yes it does indeed destroy the economy of my wallet. Infuriating since the emissions my little country, Belgium, producese, are next to nothing.
Completely off-topic.

Came here to say that I hate that stupid ticker at the top. Utterly unnecessary, gratuitous, overboard animation, even when the price of an item didn't actually change!

Immediately switched to Reader View in Firefox because the ticker was too annoying.
Very difficult due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Nvidia Magnum IO
Not to mention consuming way too much memory. I prefer Gitea, or cgit if I need even less features.
Sometimes, the problem is that you’re framing the problem wrong. Something everyone could find useful to keep in mind.
Well, the article is about the historical context of the idiom, and they got the context wrong. The full context (K&R second edition at least) is working through pointers and trimming down strcpy(). The '\0' one is version 2, and the following is version 3.

As the final abbreviation, observe that a comparison against
'\0' is redundant, since the question is merely whether the
expression is zero. So the function would likely be written
as

/* strcpy: copy t to s; pointer version 3 */
void strcpy(char *s, char *t) {
while (*s++ = *t++)
;
}

Although this may seem cryptic at first sight, the notational
convenience is considerable, and the idiom should be mastered,
because you will see it frequently in C programs.

https://rkvalley.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/kernighan_ritch... page 88
The Drone Databook [pdf]
Panasonic Corporation: Announcement of Transfer of Semiconductor Business [pdf]
this was really useful, thank you
Interesting idea. Btw, the look and feel of the landing page is similar to stripe's. Did you model it on that?
Now I'm wondering if IKEA offers a 3D model of their furnitures.
https://archive.vn/iI8H1
The thing I really hate is that even if you do get a prescription, most optometrists will try to leave out the inter-pupillary distance. This area is mostly governed by state law, not federal, and in my state they're explicitly required to provide that information upon request. I've always had to remind them of this fact before they'll comply. Then, the form on which they provide the prescription - unlike the one they use themselves - usually doesn't even have the space for that information. It ends up being written in the margin, usually unlabeled as one last act of defiance.

It has always seemed rather scummy. That's why I've been buying glasses online for several years, tweaking it a bit based on actual all-day wearing experience each time because a measurement taken at any one time of day is sure to be wrong at another. So it's better as well as cheaper. Just need to find a site that doesn't play the optometrists'game, because some do and some don't.
How to be different and attract more customers
Setting SSL/TLS Protocol Versions with PostgreSQL 12
'So trollen wir uns' (So we troll)

I doubt that this is an accurate translation. "Trollen" isn't used in the internet sense here.
only there is no process isolation so no strong guarantee that secrets aren't leaked. no control over baseband makes the whole environment in which (other privacy protecting) apps are running extremely hostile from a security pov.
Israel is an illegal state.
I dont get any spam on my google calendar. Could it be a setting?
My impression is that Reddit, Twitter and Quora are completely broken on mobile. My only possible conclusion is that these companies don't care about mobile users. Or at least not about casual mobile users who don't have the app installed. (I'm certainly not going to install a separate app for every website I visit; I already have a browser for that.)