skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, because it only added 2 stations, and that's where the real cost is. Tunelling is relatively cheap, it's the underground station construction that's adding real expense

Which is why that viaduct tunnel with no underground station was so inexpensive :).

Broadly: I'm not arguing that it's cheaper to build a subway in other parts of the world, that's absolutely true. A lot of ST3 cost is forecast in 2040 dollars, which slightly inflates the cost. Of course, even if you bring that back to 2020 dollars, take away the 10% for debt cap wonkiness, you still end up paying more than you would in many other countries, this has been true here, in NY, LA, SF and everywhere else in the USA.

I'd love to see that fixed!

But in the interim, I'd rather use progressive taxation to fund quality of life improvements for everyone in the area - even folks that don't directly take the light rail will some benefit.

I don't think it's fair to compare taxation to grocery store shopping, either - that's a strawman much like comparing a household budget to the national debt doesn't make sense in reality. It's fair to say we'll fundamentally disagree on that, and that's ok!

I'd love to see a congestion charge as well - passing more of the real cost of using a car would go a long way to exposing that the normal way of life in the USA comes with a lot of hidden costs, and I hope would shift the balance to public transit. I would love to be able to couple that with a more efficient construction cost as well - unfortunately, I don't have the answer to that.
No, because the trick is that you're paying a knowledgeable person to run the benchmark. That person would presumably actively iterate on the benchmarks and try to detect / avoid cheating.
How did you remember the precise date? Impressed.
Finally a library to help me make a mockery of my project!
A filtering proxy can still fix the results by substituting the real URLs, since they are still unmolested in the href= attribute of the anchor tags.
This is crazy. All the star wars games that were previously licensed by one company or another can still be played. Why is Tetris different?
I don't know their solution exactly, but what usually happens is they look for common packet signatures. Most DDOSes aren't very sophisticated, and can be blocked with fairly simple rules.
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The founder created vine which preceded tiktok.
There are still many wonderful niches on the web, and by going there - while avoiding the bad stuff - we strengthen them so they don't disappear as well. As techies we have an opportunity here to bring them more to the front, by the technology choices we make and the projects we contribute to, the awareness we raise.
Which reminds me Facebook's wall worked perfectly for them. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind signing up yet another account among the hundreds of accounts I already have.
On my intentionally not updated install of iOS twitter, it doesn’t have the garbage mode (still has some inserted garbage, but is otherwise chronological)
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I've been using yabai as well! I was wondering if it was possible to replicate iTerm2's dedicated hotkey window [1] for other applications (primarily firefox) using yabai/skhd?

[1] https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html
Pick up some game theory, too! Your strategy works great when you're the only one who follows it. But if everyone follows your strategy, everyone gets screwed.
Well, there was that too. What I was referring to was a specific issue that allowed you to add entries for domains in r53 which were already in use (in r53). I can't remember the specifics too well, but I think it was an api validation issue on one of the endpoints. It wasn't a "I own your domain now" so much as "I receive some of your traffic sometimes".
This feels insightful. I work for a big tech company (not faang) and we're doing a bunch of insane cost cutting bullshit and we've had a hiring freeze for maybe 10 months now.

It's interesting to see the inside view but see that none of it hits the financial press, or even the analyst stuff like seeking alpha.
It is one of the 200+ viruses that make up the common cold. If you did a lab test and found a coronavirus would it automatically raise a concern?
I think an often-overlooked factor in company behavior is that either way its just money. Companies exist to make profit and if the screw ups cost less money than the shortcuts generate they'll happily keep doing them. In the majority of cases its not even the manager's money at risk its the shareholders. Do you think any members of Boeing's board of directors went to prison after their shortcuts murdered 346 people? Do you think any of them even took a pay cut?

Fining companies for misbehavior is a fundamentally inadequate method of regulation.
Emacs's greatness lies somewhere else. Its extensibility is unmatched. IMO there's no other software product ever been created that can be extended like Emacs.

I'm sure if given enough resources and motivation, it's possible to build superb support for the modern programming languages. For example, you wouldn't claim that Intellij/VSCode/Sublime/Atom has better support for Erlang, for OCaml, for Lisp, for LaTeX, would you?

Emacs evolves slowly. Things take time. And yes, there are always IDEs that do things [slightly] better. At a given moment. Remember, though Emacs outlived many trendy IDEs. Relatively not too long ago IDEs like C++ Builder and Delphi Builder, Eclipse, NetBeans were quite popular. And they did have some remarkable features that Emacs didn't. Do you see any HN posts about those anymore?

Now check, for example, Github Language Stats¹ and find there emacs-lisp. Isn't it surprising to see it somewhere in the middle of the list? Isn't it surprising that it made into that list at all? Remember that it is not a general-purpose language; it is not used in the enterprise; it is not used in the game industry; not suitable for writing mobile apps or web pages. And it also a pretty concise language, it's a Lisp. But there's a lot of it on GitHub alone. Who are these people? Who writes all that code? And how the heck they keep doing it - none of them ever have gotten paid for it, aside from some tiny voluntary contributions and hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for Magit.

If a programming language stays relevant for long enough, people eventually will build emacs packages for it, and they'll keep improving them. But for a proprietary IDE, if it doesn't have a feature you like - you have no other option but to submit a request and wait. Sometimes you have to wait indefinitely.

> People who've been using only Emacs for the last 20 years are in no position to comment on IDEs

I moved to Emacs after almost 20 years of using IDEs. If I am still programming 20 years from now, I'm sure it will be in Emacs.

____

* ¹ https://madnight.github.io/githut
I am writing a small benchmarking site (aimed at asymptotic performance rather than singular tasks) which should hopefully have a fairly generic API/Specification, so I'll look into the more "competitive" side of it (Project vs Project as opposed "Uh oh, Commit f4r0adfja has made the build slower and [test 3] slower for large n".

The logic itself is easy but I'm having to step into the dark arts of DevOps and web-cancer - should be online by the summer.
We talked to Quora's CEO about 2 years ago about premium content and alternative business models, including subscription.

There was no interest at the time and advertising was a sole focus for business model.

CEO never followed up.

Sad.
Aviation has a relatively small global impact because almost nobody can afford to fly. For a typical person in a rich country, it is really easy to double your climate impact by taking a long distance flight per year, for example from Europe to SF.
There has been some doubt about the validity of this experiment [1]:

"A widespread misconception maintains that the Farm-Fox Experiment started with wild foxes and recapitulated the entire process of domestication. Belyaev himself accurately described the founders as fur-farm foxes, but by referring to the unselected population as ‘wild controls’, contributed to this misconception. In reality, the experiment started with a fox population from eastern Canada that had been captive and purpose-bred since the late 1800s, something Belyaev and his colleagues may have been initially unaware of."

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.011
https://prism-break.org/en/all/ is comprehensive
How hilariously dystopian. You can expect this behavior to get worse and worse until we have decent digital consumer rights laws.
It's much more advanced than you think : custom asics etc...
That is an important step, but unfortunately emissions at cruise altitude have a much higher impact than the CO2 at ground level you produce your fuel from.
In August 2008, Apple Inc. removed Tris, a version of Tetris from its online App Store. The software author had written a tetromino game for the iPhone iOS without authorization from The Tetris Company.[12] In March 2009, The Tetris Company sued BioSocia, operator of the Omgpop gaming portal[13][14] because one of its multiplayer games, Blockles, was too similar to Tetris. By September 2009, Omgpop removed the game from the website and replaced it with an alternate that the developers created, based on Puyo Puyo.

In May 2010, lawyers representing The Tetris Company sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act Violation Notice regarding Tetris clones available for Android.[15] Google responded by removing the 35 games listed in the notice as it was legally obliged to do, even though, according to one developer, the games contained no references to Tetris.[16][17][18]

In February 2011, The Tetris Company continued to make copyright claims against independently developed Tetris clones, most notably against Tetrada on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. The developer, Mario Karagiannis, rejected the claims of copyright infringement on the grounds that copyright does not cover gameplay design, but still removed the game, citing lack of resources to fight what he called "bullying".[19][20]

A US District Court judge ruled in June 2012, that the Tetris clone Mino from Xio Interactive infringed on the Tetris Company's copyrights by replicating elements such as the playfield dimensions and the shapes of the blocks.[21]

Why is this still going on in 2020? Is the copyright on a falling blocks game concept never going to expire? This is a poster child case for why current copyright law is harmful to everyone.
I recently had an interview at Mozilla. I remember the interviewer responding to one of my culture questions with "We aren't a startup by any measure... Firefox is one of the oldest software artifacts on the internet still being maintained."

+10 for candor
I end up using it because it's there for the most part. I use python for hacking stuff, and not because it's fast but because the libraries exist.

I am almost repulsed by the language and now you've said it I agree wrt the documentation too.
We're at less than 1K of warming today, but our emissions put us on a 3K+ path.
Pay for the Real Thing, they told me.

Eschew the clones, your pay supports the game, they said.
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Anti-oxidants turn out not to be as beneficial as they have been advertised to be.

In particular, if excess amounts are not kept out of cells, they interfere with signaling systems within the cell that tell it to kill itself ("apoptosis") because it has begun doing wrong things. An example of cells that do not kill themselves when they should is cancer.

People were just sure that large amounts of vitamin E would be good for us, but very large and carefully controlled studies showed that vitamin E supplements correlated with higher mortality.
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"Been to space" and "been in orbit" are very, very different things. To my knowledge, Virgin only has plans for the first.
Does anyone know if this might also effect aligators? Was thinking about the python problem in the everglades.
I've set DDG as my default search, but it's frustrating how often I still have to make my way back to G.
It wasn't just Linode (a provider that's generally much cheaper than OVH), but high end providers like Softlayer too (and, as far as I know, still are)
It seems like a riff on replication where you replicate values instead of operations in a traditional database.
Shameless plug for my writeup of all the different paxos varieties:

https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all

(lots of links to papers inside)

It's a fascinating field and there are a LOT of variations of Paxos worth investigating.

I recently added a ToC so that it's a little easier to navigate/jump around
I am not his ad campaign manager or landing page optimizer. I just gave a quick tip. If I were to do it I would have done it differently. The idea is not to say that this is the best way to go about it. The idea is to steer him in the direction of keeping it simple. If you have a better tagline you can suggest it.

And yes, the tagline I mentioned may not be the best but it will definitely get him more conversions compared to the one he currently has. At the end of the day conversions matter the most. No sales, no business. Doesn't matter how much analysis you do.
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People may still be voting on comments in that thread.
The problem is that you show up with minimal symptoms like someone who has a cold, to an ER where people have serious wounds and problems. You get triaged and end up sitting in the waiting room for hours, infecting potentially tens of other people, who may have weakened immune systems, etc. and it goes on to spread around the hospital.

What can the hospital even do to help you with this?
> It is a slight modification of the original Paxos algorithm, which is very simple and typically used as a minimal building block for more complicated algorithms such as Multi-Paxos

Wasn't Raft invented as a teaching tool because Paxos was too hard to understand and implement correctly?
But it was only possible because EA can terminate their service anytime with a 30 days notice [1].

What if they had not added this in their TOS? Can N3TWORK force EA to break their TOS?

[1] from the article:

> But buried deep in the games’ terms of service, EA has made it clear that the company only has to give notice 30 days before terminating one of its services.
Oh, that's neat. For those who want to play with this, Denon documents it in the manuals and downloads section of their site. Go here [1], find the page for your receiver, and look for the document with "protocol" in its name.

If they don't have it listed for your receiver, a couple I know have them are AVR-1913 (Rev 8.5.0 of the protocol document) and AVR-X4000 (Rev 10.0.3).

I tried it and it worked.

echo -ne MVUP\\r | nc denon 23

increased the volume by one notch.

The remote app on my phone is able to get a listing showing my favorite stations in the internet radio app of the receiver, and I didn't see offhand how that is done via the telnet interface, so I watched via tcpdump while the app did it, after some difficulty [2].

It turns out that the remote app for my AVR-1913 is not using the telnet interface. It's doing HTTP POST to the receiver's web server. All the ones I saw were to /goform/AppCommand.xml. What it posts is some XML with one or more commands. For example, it posts this periodically to get information:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tx>
<cmd id="1">GetAllZonePowerStatus</cmd>
<cmd id="1">GetVolumeLevel</cmd>
<cmd id="1">GetMuteStatus</cmd>
<cmd id="1">GetSourceStatus</cmd>
</tx>

The response is XML with the root element being <rx>, then one or more <cmd> elements. The number of <cmd> elements in the response seems to be the same as the number in the request, and they contain the response for the corresponding command.

Here's what is coming back for the <tx> shown above (formatted a bit nicer):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rx>
<cmd>
<zone1>ON</zone1>
<zone2>OFF</zone2>
</cmd>
<cmd>
<volume>-40.0</volume>
<disptype>RELATIVE</disptype>
<dispvalue>-40.0dB</dispvalue>
</cmd>
<cmd>
<mute>off</mute>
</cmd>
<cmd>
<source>SAT/CBL</source>
</cmd>
</rx>

I've only searched briefly, but so far not found any documentation for this.

[1] https://usa.denon.com/us/downloads/manuals-and-downloads

[2] I set my switch [3] to mirror the port the receiver is on to my Mac, but was not seeing anything with tcpdump on the Mac. Took me an embarrassingly long time to remember that if you don't explicitly specify the interface to monitor, it monitors them all but not in promiscuous mode, so you only see traffic to/from yourself.

[3] TP-Link SG-108E. I highly recommend this or the SG-105E or others in the family. They are unmanaged switches, but they do support port mirroring, some VLAN features, and some QOS features that you normally have to go to an expensive managed switch for. My 108E (8 port) was only $30. The only thing I don't like about it is that the status lights for the ports are in the back, above the connectors, rather than on the front.
I honestly don’t remember the last time I saw a useful answer. It’s just always reads like a generic advice spam.
> The problem (psychologists discussed) was that kids need to be bored...

Yes. It is why I made my kids endure road trips several times a year.

I love road trips. All my good ideas come from the boredom of the open highway.
I discovered this recently: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

It works really well for blocking quora from google results.
At one point years ago I signed-up for Quora, and the question feed was filled with stuff like:

* Did Picard violate the Prime Directive in TNG S6E13?

* If five ninjas attacked you, how you would you physically defeat them?

* Here's the intellectual take on Spiderman fighting Batman, do you agree?

* Men who have dated supermodels, what was it like?

I thought it was supposed to be a somewhat serious site but it obviously wasn't. I don't think I ever went back. Perhaps the whole point was just a glorified PHP BBS, with a nice theme, better seo, and SV in-crowd early adopters. I never got it.
100% agree. Having a 3rd party sign in is as an option is fine, but when it's the only option it is not fine. Always offer your own account system too.

Pros and Cons list for using 3rd party login ONLY

Pro: user doesn't need to sign up, just logs in

Con: If your account is terminated by the third party for any reason then it can't be used to log in anymore. YouTube recently terminated peoples google accounts for using emoji's over and over again in a live stream after the streamer told them to do so for example.

Con: If the user closes their account on their own accord for that third party site they can't log into your site anymore either.

Con: If the third party terminates the developers account for any reason then no users can log in at all!

So yeah, if you're designing a website/app/anything with a login system, please please please always allow a user to create an account on your system too. It's fine if you want to give the user who don't care the option to log in via the third party, but I and many others will flat out not use your service.
Like others have mentioned, I don't know what the product is from the website. Wth is an acceleration node and why should I care if there's 240k of them?

While I'm being cynical, Indiehackers could stand to not load their css in js, at least for the global stylesheet. Surprisingly the content actually renders, but the header svg and so on breaks quite badly.
The web is far too large, and far too commercial -- adtech have forced commerce into fucking everything, and fucking ruined it. Without ads, a lot of things hundreds of millions of people use wouldn't go away, they'd reduce to a more sustainable number of companies and products. The remaining products and services would have to work harder to be better to compete and attract custom. Your new startup might have to offer a genuine improvement or innovation to get traction...

As an example every single Amazon or web product or service search results in dozens to thousands of irrelevant, shoddy and worthless products and services that are far closer to an outright scam than something to use. That's without considering the vast array of true scams and fakes.

A web without ads would have a chance of being useful once again, rather than every single click being an opportunity to part me from more money. Perhaps with suitable heavy regulation we could have the best of both worlds, more like newspaper advertising of old. Just "enough" non-invasive, non-tracking, non-JS ads to provide information on new services and products, but with enough demands of honesty, escrow good behaviour deposits, or whatever constraints you can conceive to keep all advertisers well behaved.
FWIW, a twitter user claims to be threatened by the police for donating surgical masks and goggles in Hubei:

Tweet in simplified Chinese: https://twitter.com/yajunwwz/status/1220632278688129029

With link to YouTube in Mandarin: https://youtu.be/N6jsuoxENPE
So, you do a lab test and it comes back Coronavirus which is expected. They do nothing (its the "cold").

Someone else wants to check it (basically luck or maybe policy since SARs) and when they do they notice it is different - 7th of January
then by the 14th, they have it sampled and they have detection kits.

Because of SARs Wuhan takes a few days to figure out what to do and then decide to quarantine the entire city. It is a rush job but they don't exactly have a lot of time.

From the real discovery (7th) to massive response time is 2 weeks. In the past it has often been over a month before anything effective is done. What would you do differently?
Well and you can never make a mistake for fear of potentially triggering or offending someone, forcing topics to be pretty banal. And if you can't have interesting conversations with people and explore mutual interests then it's hard to build any sort of friendship that might transcend your work relationship.
> Paxos algorithm, which is very simple and typically used...

Madman, cult, or both?
Made a Siri Shortcut:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f0b4b6986cfd422aae1a40b09da...
Presumably the copyright will expire sometime around 2079.