skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think you're underestimating the array functions. They might be ugly (programmers tend to prefer expressive array syntax), but their learning curve is the best of any language. So much of programming for the web is "do something to an array of stuff", and PHP makes that super-easy.
It's barely possible to read a single tweet or thread without being logged in. If you don't block anything.

Solution is of course to not use twitter.
There's this lovely browser extension, Invidition[0], which does Twitter to Nitter redirecting (as well as Youtube to Invidious).

[0]: https://codeberg.org/Booteille/Invidition
Russia up in arms over Chinese theft of military technology
i use:

- wrist band to hold a smartphone;
- use VNC client on it to connect to rpi4 in a running vest;
- twiddler keyboard and joystick paired to rpi as input device.

This hybrid approach with smartphone as a display works better for me than head-mounted display.
That's super interesting to hear. I'll definitely think about adding an auto-export feature soon.
Kuzee, is there any way I could reach out to you privately? Email, whatsapp or similar? I'd love to ask you some questions about your process if you don't mind.
For what it’s worth it also depends on the skin color of the person involved. If you’re on the more brownish side of things (like my mother and brother are) then you will not be as affected as the people who are more light-skinned (like the guy from the submitted post). There’s also the fact that our grandparents managed just fine to work all day long in broad sunlight without developing skin diseases, but it’s also true that they would almost never wear short-sleeved stuff and they would always keep their head covered under intense sunlight. Nowadays it’s almost a matter of pride among some people (think Nordic or British tourists) to show off how red-skinned they have become after just a couple of days spent in Greece or Southern Spain, it’s nuts.

Later edit: I’m talking about something like this [1], you can see how no person in that photo wears anything short-sleeved and you can also see that almost everyone has their head covered, with the exception of those two guys who probably took their hats off in order to enjoy the tzuica or palinka.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harvest_time_in_Romania...
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I often worry I don't know enough about web technology, and that it's hard to keep up with, but my favorite websites all look roughly like this one.
Thank you,

I shouldn't have just made the assumption that the PinePhone lacked kill switches. I like the fact that the PinePhone kill switches are hidden behind the back cover. It seems like kill switches on the outside might easily be switched by mistake. I also like that the PinePhone kill switches allows greater granularity, since it has six switches, allowing the cameras and microphone to be killed independently. On the other-hand, I really like that the Librem5 kill switches can cut the GPS. Of course, all three have to be switched to accomplish that, but it is still nice to have the option.

Both phones use a Qualcomm modem that is black boxed and connected via the USB so that the phones do not have to deal with the firmware. The downside of this approach is that, I am assuming again, the firmware can't be updated for the modem. So a vulnerability found in the modem's firmware would not be patchable. However; the Librem 5 modem is replaceable.
Using ground relays with Starlink satellite constellation
> One particular annoyance (present in this post) is the FB pages.

Or how about Pinterest?

I've tried to make Google keep Pinterest pages out of my search results, but somehow Google does not want to improve my "search experience" even though they explicitly say they do.
Haha - this is exactly what happened to me when Maps.me app (formerly OpenStreetsMap) led me to UK military base in Cyprus (it made a route which skipped border checkpoints to occupied Turkish part of the island)
Bear this in mind when people express skepticism about the existence of the 10x developer.

My own productivity can vary over approximately 2 orders of magnitude day to day so I don't have any problem with believing in individuals differing by a single order over time.
The reasons are mosly two:
-deforestation
-blocking illegal drugs
It’s a CRM, not a CMS.
And yet the infrastructure cost of rural areas is regularly cited as a problem, and moving people into big dense cities is proposed as the solution.
> How does anyone pay 10,000 a year on health care

$832.21 X 12 -> $9986.52
It's just a single click. And you remain on the same page, too. I don't think it's too bad actually; it keeps the page very clean.
Oh I see, thanks. Personally I find easier to use the total amount of a macro in a day: I aim for 100g protein, know that by restricting carbs I will be under 100g carbs, and add fat if I’m too low in total calorie at the end of the day (when I do a lot of physical activity or when bulking with strength training).
I missed that link and was coming here to complain about the lack of example code.

EDIT - how does one actually run a Java applet nowadays? Which browsers still support that integration?
Spam and Sybil attacks were well known problems a decade earlier. It is basically what killed the vision of the semantic web in its infancy, several years before Facebook took off. It's certain everybody knew gaming data was a thing in 2008.
Visualizing Large Workflows (With D3, React and ClojureScript)
I agree that it was a bit steep and could easily have skipped opening it because of that.

OTOH it has a generous free tier and is open source so you can host your own.
This gives me flights of fancy. Imagine (something like) FB (re-)built as a fake AI-generated company (with fake AI-generated users). It would feel like a circle being closed, something reaching its ultimate consequence.
I didn't claim that blogs were consistently reliable sources. I claimed that they were routinely used as evidence of notability. Evidence of notability != Reputable source.

I'm not making anything up either; I have penned several articles on Wikipedia and gotten them through the AfC process with much less notability evidence than the Apache Arrow draft had. The difference was that I used to be an established contributor so the rules were not as harsh against we as they are against newbies and unknown contributors.

Also, you can look at the link I gave you and see that the notability rules are not uniformly applied.
Well rst is better than markdown from day one. The only reason it became famous is thanks to wikimarkup.

So markdown needs to thank the popularity of Wikipedia for its success, as rst did not have any application like Wikipedia. But still rst is used widely enough with its killer Sphinx, readthedocs and now its kind of de-facto documentation writing markup in Python and many open source software world.
Does it help with second hand smoking?

It certainly helps with the smell, the basic side products of burning, and so on, no?

Sure that might not mean much in terms of total impact on QALYs. (Because it might lead to prolonged exposure of lower dosages, ultimately resulting in the same grave health impact.)
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation of AI
> (And before someone screams "citation needed," I'll just say that it's well known, and if you didn't know it by now, there's a thing called Google and Wikipedia that you can go look at.)

Lots of beliefs are "well known" and nevertheless wrong. Just look at all the people, even in this thread, claiming that Santa Claus was invented by Coca Cola, even though a simple google image search will reveal illustrations of Santa from before Coco Cola was founded. As for the pagan traditions around new years they are not very well documented and a lot is speculation.

Of course gift-giving is known throughout history, but the figure of Santa Claus is associated with the Christian celebration. I'm pretty sure you wont find any reference to Santa Claus or Father Christmas from before Christianity!
A deep dive into one of the fastest adblockers
Same here with a Vernee Mix2
Would anybody expect the truth from FB? No way they wouldn't spin this to their best possible advantage.
Definitely on my list for the holidays. Look at this project's Dockerfile, it's a build, then run tiny binary. Done.

Very compelling stuff.
Cool. Now it needs to work on algorithms which detect whether a journalist is working for the CIA.

That'd be progress.
This is something I see people misunderstand time and time again; “innovation” isn’t just inventing an entirely new novel product.

Musk is not about innovation in terms of entirely new products. As other posters have commented, rockets, electric cars, and Internet satellites have all been done before.

Where he seems to be special is having the vision to see opportunities to develop or scale existing products much further than incumbents, and having the confidence/chutzpah/bloody-mindedness to pull it off.

However, through the development required to meet his challenging goals, his teams often need to innovate significantly - this innovation is often exceptional.

And of course, what makes a large-scale global Internet satellite service viable is actually the ability to reuse launch rockets - one of his other major innovations.
> The whole premise of entropy depletion is that cryptography does not work (the CSRNG does not prevent the leak),...

Nice post but had to stop there. I don't get why some cryptologists don't grasp redundancy. In systems design this is a very sane assumption, in other words
The premise is not that "cryptography does not work" but rather "one piece of a cryptography systema may have been broken or weakened".

You don't tell a system engineer "The whole premise of HA is that servers fail" right? Are elementary components of a crypto system expected to be unbreakable or uncompromisable? I mean to me this makes me want to ask the writer of this post: I thought security of CSRNG is estimated to be infeasible to crack based on existing computational resources (brute force) and existing research to break and weaken the RNG ? If so, how is it improbable enough for a bug or backdoor to exist in the CSRNG or for some algorithmic breakthrough with PQC?

In my opinion, it is entirely possible(as history has proven) for elementary components of a crypto system to be weakened and a general purpose OS should presume some level of redundancy where possible. I mean, most users should not be concerned of such rare attacks(except maybe they should,given how billions of devices depend on Linux's rng and there are many extremely resourced attackers that would be interested in dragnet attacks) but you have to also keep in mind there are people who are of enough high value that they will be targeted individually. And I can envision not just the NSA and other spy agencies but plenty of private organizations and exploit brokers that will capitalize big time on discovery of csrng flaws that are not reported for a bug fix or publicized.

I think urandom is fine for most cases but on rare situations like pgp keys, TLS certs, disk encryption keys,etc... The paranoia of /dev/random might come in handy at least for a handful of people somewhere.
What are examples of some datasets you built?
I actually have a similar setup, but I dynamically add a route to traefic with the API through the same ssh tunnel.

I also set it up with a wildcard certificate so the https is instantly available.
https://gist.github.com/shobotch/5160017
Regardless, there are lots of stones to be thrown at our inability to build infrastructure and do projects that are not novel in any way on-time and on-budget.
"We might not bring back apprenticeships, but by bringing back the features that work, we can all hopefully learn a bit better."

The piece seems to ignore that apprenticeships are still a thing in quite a few countries around the world. Here in Germany they developed since the medieval times this piece seems to find so great, and usually include stretches of classroom attendance to get the theory across because you just cannot learn everything by doing in such a setting, I would guess that's even more true today where even trade companies are quite often relatively specialized.
On the surface I agree with this, but you don't necessarily need to make a new browser to provide an alternative. Writing a browser is a fool's errand, but there are like a bajillion Chromium forks all focused on "privacy"and whatnot that block things by default.
Former Orange CEO gets jail term for 'harassment' linked with employee suicides
I relish when something gets a thoughtful graphical representation.. would be nice to have it in a more advanced 3d shape...maybe something like that could be done in unreal engine/blender, driving isosurfaces blobs. Too bad software inventions are so emepherals.. won't have it working in 30 years , or less though.
There was also a project called peep: the network auralizer (http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html) which would transscribe server load, service events and network events into a natural soundscape like for example the ambiance of a forest with a small creek. Sometimes when load was high, it would rain. On crunchtime the rain turned into a thunderstorm.
The reasoning behind it was that the network crew could listen to the nice and calm ambient soundscape all day and would be able to detect when something was off.

Really would like to someone take up that idea once again and implement it as a monitoring plugin.
When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre
"Second to last"
Boxing
i whnt to play
Nice idea. I wonder what would be involved in making that happen.
It’s fine that you interpret the bible that way. Certainly I’ve seen Christian pro-gay-rights memes that say Jesus never mentioned homosexuality.

Unfortunately, this whole thread seems to be on the topic of “It’s a shame that mass-dissemination of information demonstrably fails to make the best ideas into the most popular ideas [0]” — and although you interpret the bible that way, I’ve witnessed many profess Christianity while also condemning gay men.

[0] Well, unless you take the memetic evolution attitude that “best” isn’t a moral statement but shorthand for “best at reproducing”, but if anyone on this thread has said that, I’ve missed it.
> maps can easily represent lists but not vice versa

Obviously false, as demonstrated by Lisp, with which the author must be familiar.

The problem with maps as a basis for a programming language is that you need expressions to have one entry point which says what expression this is. In a sequence, an obvious choice is the first element, or sometimes the last. This is why YAML-programming expressions in Ansible in fact work exactly like regular function calls, with their “- function: argument argument” syntax (which Ansible authors seem to not notice). ‘Misc’, of course, also has to choose ‘0’ to represent the expression entry point.

I think this syntax is translatable one-to-one to old Lisp syntax, probably with keyword arguments.
Toilets in Japan
After you found them. And you find them after you become aware of problems.

And how hard it is to clean up the data at this point in time depends entirely on the kind of system you're working with.
Decades Later, His Student Debt Came Back to Haunt Him
This is called master-master replication or multi-master replication. Postgres has been working toward it for years, and making progress. Not an easy problem to solve and get right. Postgres is not there yet but closer than before.
For anyone else suffering stuttering, a reminder that most browsers support reader mode which makes it silky smooth again. For Firefox its the page icon in the navbar.
Alas, that's not what "hard" SF means these days (or even since the 1960s). Consider the "known space" stories and novels by Larry Niven, who is pretty firmly pigeon-holed as a hard SF author: they're full of magic wands, devices that break the known laws of physics -- to which he makes the sole concession of at least striving for internal consistency.

"Hard SF" is a term I'm deeply suspicious of; it originated in the late 1950s/early 1960s in the US SF publishing field as a twitchy counterpoint to the "New Wave" then appearing, as previous social taboos began to crumble -- "hard" had connotations of two-fisted manly-man engineers with slide-rules clenched between their jaws, support for the Vietnam War, and the implicit technocrat agenda espoused by the racist and sexist John W. Campbell, editor of Analog (the de-facto house magazine of the hard SF tribe), who over a 30-40 year period used SF to promote a white supremacist and ultra-capitalist agenda (hint: Heinlein's "Fifth Column" was written to an outline provided by Campbell, and Heinlein apparently toned down the racism in it, so it's now merely a screamingly racist "yellow peril" yarn).

There are some rare exceptions within the hard SF sub-genre -- where the science was diamond-hard and the author didn't use it as a platform for some sort of far right political agitprop -- but they're dismayingly rare; for more on this phenomenon see Michael Moorcock's seminal essay, Starship Stormtroopers:

http://www.anarchogeekreview.com/essay/starship-stormtrooper...

If you want constraints I'd recommend looking into Mundane SF, a much more recent (and much less visible, less successful) offshoot of the field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundane_science_fiction

It says something about our desire for the fantastika that "Star Wars" (space wizards! Evil emperors!) is infinitely more popular than this stuff today.

(PS: gratuitous appeal to authority: I'm a multiple Hugo-winning SF author, and I write SF novels for a living. If you don't recognize my name, go feed "Charles Stross" into wikipedia before you downvote.)
Big, high-tech and expensive fake trees have taken over Christmas
> Should we really be worshipping economic progress?

Yes.

The genie is out of the bottle, there's no going back to some imaginary idylic pre-industrial world. The best way to preserve what there is and free up more space for preservation is to pursue technology and efficiency ruthlessly. Do more with less.
Building a parachute is boggling
In the states, the authors model is absolutely true. Pick up a high school algebra text and it's a more colorful with some meager attempts at explanation version of a Springer book.

American education,at least what I have seen, is devoid of applications.

To be fair to educators, we do have a cultural issue here in that for manyadolescence is a time spent learning a lot about fads, entertainers, and gossip. It is hard to motivate anyone to learn when there's no external motivation.
Huh. Didn't know that. Thanks. Maybe I'll try it.
If your issue is that tax payer money is being stolen then presumably open access should only be granted to citizens of a country, for research arising from academic institutions in that country? Otherwise countries will similarly be stealing tax payer money from one another. Actually, do public libraries get access to Elsevier etc?
I did the following to run it locally instead:

cd $(mktemp -d)
wget http://will.thimbleby.net/misc/misc.jar
wget http://will.thimbleby.net/misc/bootstrap.misc
java -jar misc.jar

And then it drops you into a repl. (Add `rlwrap` in front of `java -jar` if cursor movement doesn't work correctly)
As in Monica Geller, right?
Your claim was how does “anyone” pay $10k for insurance. It doesn’t matter what you pay. The answer is older people in high cost of living places.

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...

And insurance is just insurance. out of pocket maximum is usually $10k+, so if you do need care, add that to premiums.
Carnival Cruises Collide in Attempt to Dock Off Mexico [VIDEO]
I tried running this a year ago and remember some things which stood out. But again, a year ago -- details are fuzzy, and likely outdated.

pros:

- The no-cost self-hosted setup was easy enough. I didn't have to jump through too many installation-debugging-hoops

- Could easily customize the UI with minimal CSS edits

- The app was pretty responsive in my view, and my view is that web apps are known for clunkiness

- All the things you could do within the app were pretty obvious from the interface ("no manual required")

cons:

- Honestly, the thing that killed it for me was being required to select Male or Female for every person entered. It was ridiculous, so they probably have removed any sex/gender field by now, right?

- To my knowledge it only had a web interface, so I couldn't open up and edit the data in a text editor (personal preference), for instance
Ask HN: Do you need hiring to scale?
Reddit has been at 1 active engineer for a while. With 13mm unique visitors and > 1 billion page views monthly.

GPS has 4+ billion users and is still operated by only 40 engineers, or 1 engineer per 100 million people (!)

Whatsapp, imgur ..
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The sheer simplicity of deploying such tools as Adminer is astounding.
> Either Facebook will fix it, or if they don't, new products will pop up to solve the problem to try to provide more reliable content.

Do you believe that “more reliable content” will have a financial edge over “more popular content”, and if so, why?
> Every 30 minutes, the application will grab the top headlines from Reddit or Hacker News and have the Transformer dream up each article from scratch.

And here I was impressed how realistic the headlines are.
Implement Worker Modules
> Compare the way IBM these days is just IBM, not International Business Machines.

This is the second time I've seen someone make this claim online and I wonder where it comes from. IBM's name is still officially "International Business Machines Corporation (IBM Corp.)" according to this legal statement:

https://www.ibm.com/privacy/us/en/.

As for how it's referred to in practice, I've always heard it called IBM for as long as I can remember (at least back to the 70's) and I think that's been the case for much longer.
Bernard Stiegler's story has always fascinated me [1]:

"In 1987–88, with Catherine Counot, Stiegler commissioned an exhibition at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, entitled Mémoires du futur: bibliothèques et technologies. Stiegler defended his thesis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1992. He has been a Director at the Collège international de philosophie, and a Professor at the Université de Technologie at Compiègne, as well as a visiting professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has held the positions of Director General at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), and Director General at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)."

So in short, he has a PhD, became a professor, and ended being the director of a french research institute ("IRCAM is part of a consortium with Stanford's Center for Computer Research and Acoustics (CCRMA) and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) in Berkeley, California." [2])

Before all of that:

"Between 1978 and 1983 Stiegler was incarcerated for armed robbery, first at the Prison Saint-Michel in Toulouse, and then at the Centre de détention in Muret. It was during this period that he became interested in philosophy, studying it by correspondence with Gérard Granel at the Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail. His transformation in prison is recounted in his book, Passer à l'acte (2003; the English translation of this work is included in the 2009 volume, Acting Out)." [1]

I find this so inspiring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Stiegler
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCAM
One of my favorite Youtube channels, The Tim Traveller, did a video on this dam/highway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6zcMl2Xmw