skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because then I learn that "yeah you say just walking but we both know it will end up in running."

And this doesn't motivate you? For me it's actually more motivating: I only have to muster enough willpower to start walking, not to run, but I'll end up having a good workout anyway.
I 100% agree with you. It is extortion.
Proposed bills rarely go anywhere, and so are not on topic for HN unless there is something else that's significant about them. The only reason they ever seem to get attention is because of something sensational in the proposal, and those are invariably the least likely proposals to get enacted.

If something comes of this, we can discuss it then. On HN there's no harm in waiting.
It's the intended side-effect. For the longest time ever AMP wouldn't even acknowledge it's a problem (oh, we just provide the standard, it's the browsers' fault).

Then Google relented and provided a non-solution in the form of an obscure bar on top of AMP pages (in which the link to the original page is deliberately designed to not look like a link).

The signed exchanges is a bone thrown towards standards committees after all the damage has already been done.

And the "solution" has been directly called by Mozilla harmful, they are not going to implement it. Safari shares Mozilla's concern.
The Daily Stormer in 2017 was as you state. However, last year they kicked off 8chan, which was in part due to the El Paso and Dayton shootings according to their blog post about it[0]. I suspect that's what mrtksn is referencing.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
If the team refuses to work on the old code, you have to do something. A rewrite may be the least bad thing you can do in that case, but if you don't ask how we got here and why we won't end up right back here again...

The Relentless Improvement model that many refactoring advocates espouse is one (great) answer to that question. But it also means they won't wait for a rewrite. They'll fix the bullshit they're staring at today, and stare at some other bullshit tomorrow.
>Linux is a great server operating system with a desktop badly cobbled on top.

Especially the most popular flavor, Ubuntu.

Between releases which require reinstallations to get new features, hardware support, and bugfixes (bugfixes are supposed to be backported, but fresher DE versions have worked much better than old ones for me, so I'm skeptical) and the awkwardness of PPAs, it's sad it's the go-to assumed distro which everyone writes articles for and tests hardware/software against when rolling release is such a better model (that Windows now ostensibly uses with 10).

Manjaro seems to be gaining popularity as a user-friendly, nerfed rolling distro which offers safety and fast features+hardware support+bugfixes and can use the AUR, where everything in the Universe is and can be browsed with a GUI package manager -- no PPA terminal imports needed. But so is MX Linux, a Debian-based, Xfce distro whose selling point seems to be "no systemd", which speaks to a misalignment of priorities between many Linux users and the average PC user... if "average PC user" means "vaguely technical person who games and wants fast drivers + new hardware support", which is already wrong.

But FWIW, >>Windows is a painful experience these days, but Linux Desktop manages to still be worse.

Disagree. Can't speak to exotic use cases though; I don't even know what an eGPU is. For me, there seems to be a magical effect of using Linux for a long time and then returning to Windows. Windows doesn't seem to work as well as it used to. There's permission problems with the new 10 Settings interface when trying to access the core system apps like Device Manager. It can't connect to the Internet when I turn off my VPN, when Linux works fine on the same VPN. So many little things.

Suddenly, Windows seems like the janky, ersatz OS I force myself to go to sometimes while Linux feels like the more intuitive "home" system. But I've been on it for like 2 years now, so I'm probably brainwashed. And in 10 years Linux will get worse so I'll boomerang back to Windows like you? Or maybe something better will take over, like Fuchsia.
It seems to me that it's not that Rust is hard, it's that all programming is hard but Rust exposes the complexity so we can make a more informed decision about the trade offs of safety and performance etc, while other languages tend to hide the complexity (null reference, race conditions, etc).
Tell that to us Windows and Linux people
Did some Program Manager needed a promotion at Google? Looks like it.

I personally dislike such changes, which no one asks for.
Either people are just pushing their BS through Google higher ranks or they have no clue how their users actually feel and use their core product.

...
How long does it take you to set it up?
Thanks for a great resource!
> Embracing open source is just the first step of an old, old strategy of theirs.

Sure if you ignore the fact that their major projects were not extensions, and they're MIT licensed. Their past tactics was to extend open standards and become the corporate standard.
I believe the main reason Apple wanted to drop support for 32-bit apps is so they no longer have to support the Objective-C 1.0 runtime, which must’ve been requiring more work to maintain than they wanted to invest.
That's part of the Wine AppDB rating system
This feels like grasping at straws here: How do you handle acute illness? Do you just "push through" and potentially get your coworkers sick, all while cranking out sub-par work?

Further, should I be fired or reduce my schedule if I am hospitalized after a car-accident, or require a surgical intervention like the one I 'skipped' 7 days of work to have done?

...The logic of your argument just really doesn't compute, but I may just be missing something.
E.g. Trust-in-Soft, and while they're cheaper than a rewrite in Rust, and so they're also used more than Rust, especially in safety-critical software, they do require some effort. I don't know how much "every C codebase" is willing to spend to become UB-free.
I've faced that issue. Not totally solved it. I found some help in a YouTube channel on ADHD in a couple of videos from "How to ADHD" titled "wall of awful." That gave some good ideas to make it past that point and start.
Consider the Cellphone Holster (2019)
The entity that solders it received it on a tape most likely, in 10 year I can totally see a small 32 bit core costing less that that.
Definitely. There's lot of fake climbing gear on Amazon, and unrated equipment posing as 'safe climbing gear'. And even if it's fulfilled by Amazon, Amazon conmingles products from multiple vendors into buckets, which could lead to you getting a fake carabiner or belay device.

It's literally life or death purchases, and climbing forums have to warn people to avoid Amazon because the risks are so high.
See the replies elsewhere. The metrics go beyond simple, naive "click counting."

Specifically they also measure metrics like "regret" - if you went back to the search results and chose something else this indicates it wasn't a useful search result for the query and this counts against it.

In theory this is quite a nice defense against clickbaity, content free results.
What Are Forever Checmicals?
The Business of Phish (2013)
Looking at LibriVox specifically (linked to by many of the entries in OP), each audiobook has an RSS feed, so I'll just be listening to them in a podcast app. If you have a decent one that keeps track of which "episodes" you've listened to and allows downloading for offline listening (ideally automatically), seems like that should cover the audiobook usecase pretty well.
You can always prepend „!g“ before your query in DDG to fall back to Google.
Why Is It So Hard to Do Something That Should Be Easy? (Video)
readdir is problematic in ways godirwalk works around.

Of course one could always just make direct syscalls or use a library that does, but this was a comment about stdlib. These would likely be implemented differently in hindsight per discussions on the Go project; and there have been discussions about improving them somehow in Go 2(readdir2?).
"That chip was the SB9210 from SiBeam. This part was originally intended to be used for WirelessHD, a protocol for wireless video streaming that never took off. ...at one time they were included in some smart TVs and in some high end laptops."

It sounds like it would be very suitable for a VR headset.
What Are Carbon Offsets?
well, Joel did make FogCreek write a cross-compiler from VB to whatever (perl or php or something?) so...
Same. I do research and the URL matters.

This reeks of AOL keyword BS.
In the past, Cloudflare were free speech absolutists. They accepted customers in a content neutral way. When people tried to get them to deplatform ISIS websites, they said this:

One of the greatest strengths of the United States is a belief that speech, particularly political speech, is sacred. A website, of course, is nothing but speech... A website is speech. It is not a bomb. There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.

When people started asking why Cloudflare hosts racist and neo-nazi content, they eventually relented from their free speech position and stopped hosting one called The Daily Stormer. The CEO wrote a big blog post about how what he was doing is bad for the internet and free speech but he's going to do it anyways (I'm paraphrasing, read original words here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/). Since then, they've stopped working with a number of other sites due to content, like 8chan.

I think it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation for Cloudflare. They weren't really looking for political battles, but ended up having them anyways. I think this Wired article adds some interesting perspective: https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/
Developing GUI with QT and TotalCross. A Short Benchmark
Like always we find another venue where the giants haven't their foot yet. Or the malicous users does not find a huge interest in.

Rebooting the web into something else is still possible and something that will eventually happen when enough people are too tired about the current state.

This battle has been lost long time ago.
Here's a threat model for you: how fucked would you be if your iCloud backups suddenly became searchable online? Ever say anything bad about your boss or company in an convo? Ever taken any photos you wouldn't want released? Ever downloaded any files you wouldn't want public?

The agencies have proven time and time again that they're pretty terrible at keeping secrets (see: all the leaks, data breaches, TSA master keys, etc). As long as they have a back door, it's inevitable that it'll happen -- it's effectively a ticking time bomb.

When I send a message over Signal, I can trust that it'll be kept private, barring some truly extraordinary incident. With Apple, it's kept accessible by design (storing the encryption key with the encrypted backup? really?).

It's not about the government accessing my messages, because I really don't care all that much, it's that I don't trust them to keep secrets. If the government has access to something of yours you must assume it'll eventually be made public... whether or not you're okay with that is up to you.
This looks interesting! Can I ask, what's the origin of the name? Both "siu" and "siuba"? Would be a useful addition to the docs, IMO.
Coronavirus explained: What you need to know
There are indeed some nuances you are missing as well as at least one misconception you are holding:

> The idea that I can touch variables that have gone out of scope (and that have ostensibly been GC'd)

You can't touch variables that have been garbage collected, indeed.
A variable captured in a closure will have a reference to it and therefore not be garbage collected until the closure itself goes out of scope and is garbage collected.

Closures allow encoding some state into a function, which is especially useful for higher order functions that return specialized functions, for example. This is, for example, how decorators in Python work - a function is captured in a closure, which is then referenced and called by a new function wrapping the original function.
What you say makes sense. Still, if that’s the case, then when they decided not to go down the user-is-in-full-and-absolute-control path for encryption of iCloud backups, they should have publicized it loudly and with extreme clarity on what exactly was happening and where the lines were. So that users could make informed choices.
It's not aerodynamically unstable. It's aerodynamically different than the 737-800 but Boeing decided instead of new pilot training and possibly re-certification, they would address the difference in it's flight characteristics by automatically adjusting the elevator trim when the aircraft is in a specific off-nominal situation such that the 737 MAX 8 feels and behaves just like the 737-800 (MCAS). That's not a bad engineering design decision IMO, but the follow-on decisions (or mistakes) made by Boeing (one AoA truth source instead of two, no extra training, zero indications, basically don't tell anyone about it) is the problem. Once those problems are fixed, no 737 MAX 8 will ever fail due to MCAS again. In fact it's going to be one of the - if not the - most scrutinized (and thereby safer) aircraft ever made.
I don't get why it's good for Germany.
If they had their own currency with such exports they could print money to make it weak and so they will have more money.

Btw I'm germany hater. Fking nazis team up with russia to fuck europe again.
Google = the new Yelp
The Crowdstrike line is another primary talking point of the paid Russian propagandists.
I don't suppose your dotfiles are available anywhere. I'm just wondering what other useful things I can steal ;)
I work at Google (not Search though sorry), opinions are my own.

> When you have the actual manufacturer being buried in the results, we have a major problem.

How do you know though? What if the majority users actually do what you describe in hopes of buying something and thus the shopping results are more relevant for them?

I imagine either there is a bug or this is the case, because I'm sure the links people actually click feed back into the algorithms and the results are modified accordingly.

This being said, it seems like the fact that your results aren't personalized enough to your liking is a shortcoming, assuming you were signed in.
You were making a point about what happens if the exchange rate changes and everything else stays the same. That's not particularly relevant to the real world because if the exchange rate of a freely traded currency significantly changes, then all the other relevant factors also are very much not the same; it has a lot of interlinked consequences, and it can't happen without a significant economic reason pushing for that change (artificially fixed currencies have their own intricacies).

The direct, immediate price effect is exactly as you describe but at least in the medium term it's also affected to a significant (and perhaps even larger) extent by (a) the major macroeconomic factors that caused the Narnian gold pieces to devaluate w.r.t USD; (b) the changes to the income and global purchasing power of Narnian people caused by that devaluation; (c) the long-term changes to the widget trade and competition; and a bunch of other ripple effects; so the effective price to them won't double; it might increase somewhat (but much less than double), and it might even decrease within a reasonable time if that devaluation fixes some underlying structural economic problem and thus their income; It's quite likely that the devaluation was caused by systematic factors that screwed (temporarily) their productivity and income; so large changes in exchange rate don't happen just because.
I have a family member with Williams Syndrome.
Unfortunately, I think I might have read the newer translation. I don't have it anymore, but iirc I got the book around 2005-2006, and it might have been brown underneath, but it had that glossy art cover over it that I took off only once to check out how it looked without it.
Out of curiosity, how does one legally get a license for Windows 10 LTSC without a enterprise contract?
Its great being in an egalitarian country there is less poverty but middle classes have much less money than America, someone has to pay for it and it isnt the billionaires.
No need to prepend. You can bang it at the end and retry your search if it doesn’t work with DDG.
In other news, duckduckgo's growth draws a perfect exponential curve:

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
At least the Valve Proton work is helping to run a lot of games on Steam too.

(Of course there is Proton tricks too... and some games do require special settings)

I feel that the momentum around wine is building. Hopefully the issues you are mentioning will improve.
I have noticed this long ago when they put frozen tongue instructions[0], yet still i find instructions quite informative

[0]https://m.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Stuck-Tongue-from-a-Frozen-Su...
Great opportunity for a "SkySafe" app; filter out known flight/tail numbers based on the equipment (with data from public FAA feed). Can't lie about your equipment in flight plans to the FAA.
To me it is not so much result quality as integration. Currently, with Google no matter what I am searching for, I just type it into my location bar and hit enter. Whether I am looking for a new bar to check out on a Friday night or what does a specific compile error mean in Haskell. So in the first case, I will get a map with bars around me and in the second case I will get a link to stackoverflow. With DDG these become functionally separate. To do the Haskell error search I do the same thing, but to do a local bar search I have to open a separate tab, go to Google and do a search there. Same goes for looking for things like theater plays (Google will give me reviews, showtimes and a link to buy tickets all right there at the top of my search page), address or place name searches (map, directions, open hours and website link all come up right away) etc. The only thing I can do with DDG is the old fashioned "find me links relevant to these keywords" searches.
Greyhole – A Samba Storage Pool
> Specifically they also measure metrics like "regret"

I explicitly addressed this:

> clicking on many results can indicate that they're bad (I click another result because the previous wasn't good), or because they're good (I'm browsing choices).

You don't know the reason why I clicked back. Maybe I got what I needed at a glance, and I'm browsing to the next thing to see if there's more of what I need.

You don't know that the Average Joe (and a million other Average Joes) wasted 15 minutes on clickbaity content free crap despite not getting anything useful out of it. You know, those same SEO spam sites are trying to find ways to make the user stay as long as possible; they are in the game. And I'm
sure there are plenty of gullible users who will stay. Who knows, maybe SEO spam is working and that's precisely why we see SEO spam sites in results?

Again, I think training like this is pretending the problem is much simpler than it is. And I think that there is a real danger that training like this just optimizes for 1) average users 2) sites that managed to game the system with their SEO. Neither is optimizing for quality results.

That theory has so many holes and pitfalls.
What I'm about to say will probably get downvoted as well, but I've noticed HN getting more polarized in terms of votes in the last maybe 2 years.

Because of the way that downvoting works on HN, the few times I use it, my thought is "nobody should see this comment". Because enough downvotes delegitemize and hide a comment, it's effectively telling other people that it's not worth being read.

I don't know if that's actually going through people's minds when they downvote, but that's what I think which is exactly why I rarely use it. But too many people now are simply using it on posts they don't like, even if a post deserves to be there. For some reason, it's an unpopular opinion to believe that an idea or opinion you think is wrong deserves to be seen and rebutted rather than silenced.
You can see the site's current expenses and donations here: https://tildes.net/financials

The costs to keep it running are already covered by over 10x with the current donations, and I believe the existing servers could easily handle at least 100x the current traffic level.

In terms of advice, I'd say:

- Don't go into debt (or take any investments) to launch the site.

- Build something lightweight so the costs are low. Use dedicated server(s), avoid cloud hosting like AWS.

- Incorporate as a non-profit if you can.
Facebook Invented a New Language for Machines to Solve Complex Math Equations
CF appears to be looking at the UA-agent and deciding to block based on that.

I'm guessing it's very basic checking because deep browser-fingerprinting is supposed to against the law in some countries (I stand to correction on this statement).

I'm not personally a fan of CF because of the amount of data they can potentially obtain(or do), but there's a lot of crap out there and their firewall is robust enough to protect Johns Cowboy store from contributing to some dudes Monero mining botnet.
Ubiquitous Surveillance Cameras Are Changing Our Understanding of Human Behavior
Graceful Shutdown of a TCP Server in Go
I mean, I do. It's a pain in the ass to legally integrate our MacOS app into our normal CI/CD pipeline because of this.

It also does put a shelf life on the underlying software in a way that even crazy old computer software like for an IBM 700 series doesn't have.
Is it unstable? I thought the problem was that they didn't want to require retraining so they built in a flight control system that made it seem like the previous generation plane from a flight dynamics pov. That system would only take inputs from a single sensor on any given flight. If that sensor had issues then the flight control system would misbehave. If they had gone the retraining route and not included MCAS, then the plane would be fine. At least that was my understanding.
Apple's work on tracking protection in Safari are a great step for this. Normalizing ITP across the whole Mac / iOS / iPad OS userbase means that sites have to accept it or block a huge number of normal users.
Yeah, Google now shows organic results with similar styling with a favicon so you can only tell the difference by the "Ad" shows next to paid ads. Everyone should switch to DuckDuckGo which shows search results with a favicon and ads in the same format distinguished by and "Ad" next to them. Or maybe Bing which shows the search results with ads mixed in (conveniently distinguished from organic results with an "Ad" mark).
What does DDG use for an algorithm? Originally Google was just using pagerank but that was too easy to game by SEO. This means DDG needed to address this, and apparently they have (e.g, search for 'favicon' like the post). How long can we rely on DDG staying neutral in their algorithm?
UFEI and secure boot predate the current CEO of Microsoft's tenure....
Ask HN: How do you secure home network when you're not the only one using it?
Partner, kids and guests, you cannot expect everyone to follow good security practices.
Heck, often you cannot even trust a lot of the software you use. So what do you do? Separate guest network? Separate network just for yourself?
Amazon should require certification from a safety lab like UL or CE before allowing any seller to sell inventory. And they should also require sellers of these products to post a bond or provide proof of liability insurance before allowing them to list these items.

That would cut down on the number of shitty dangerous power suppliers they're selling.
Yeah. Makes sense. Rust just explicitly exposes certain features so that the programmer has more control.