skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That shouldn't be happening even with an extra fine nib, what kind of paper are you using?
Ha. Yeah, they always come up with some Real Plausible Explanation for the things that they do, and the naive types always buy it.

Here's the reality: the electronic voting systems are being put in place because they are so easily hackable.
On the contrary, having a single blessed, supported, and secure home directory utility will simplify a lot of tasks around generating home directories and encrypting them. You no longer have to figure out/solve automounting, decryption/rotation, or realms using a litany of bash scripts or stack overflow snippets.
The article is describing a solution, but can anyone describe the problem or an article discussing it? I'm having trouble coming up with use cases where this is the best solution.
You don't ever remotely log into your desktop??!

What do you do if you've left files on your desktop at home/work and need them from work/home?
Not criticizing, just mentioning ...

> I was down to 3G, it seemed like dialup speeds.

Sounds like first-world problems! :)

HN works great on my EDGE (2G) Blackberry 8700g (2006) with Opera in SF. Handy on the Muni. Basically no other site is usable at this point unless it's HTML-only.

However, I understand that telcos are attempting to not support 2G any longer, so don't plan on that working much longer. T-mobile still has fairly good urban EDGE coverage, except for SF FiDi.

> I couldn't get any other site to load. Not even google.com.

The google UI appears minimal, but they're loading a ton of javascript.
Their recommendation algorithm? really? I find it to be the worst I've encountered. It constantly just keeps shoveling the same few songs I've liked once over and over.
> "relative airspeed" isn't a well-defined term

The original was "relative air speed", which I would simply take as the way a person not familiar with aviation terminology would say "airspeed"--speed relative to the air.
If you want to rage at systemd, you can do that equally well with or without this optional feature: nothing changes unless you specifically tell systemd-homed to manage your home directory.
Thanks for that link. I see further down that PKCS#11 is supported:

> Takes an RFC 7512 PKCS#11 URI referencing a security token (e.g. YubiKey or PIV smartcard) that shall be able to unlock the user account. The security token URI should reference a security token with exactly one pair of X.509 certificate and private key. A random secret key is then generated, encrypted with the public key of the X.509 certificate, and stored as part of the user record. At login time it is decrypted with the PKCS#11 module and then used to unlock the account and associated resources. See below for an example how to set up authentication with security token.

Key hierarchy management can probably be delegated to an external system.
I have been on do not disturb mode 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the last few years. It’s actually amazing. It has allowed me to use my phone on my own terms, when I choose to, not on someone else’s terms when they want me to.
Someone tldr it please
Weight or volume is also another metric that could possibly be employed, i.e. save the weight and rough volume of each item being scanned...when there's a significant deviation for an product that's shown no or litte deviation in the past, flag it for manual inspection?

Probably too costly for such an edge case problem though
The only way to stop SpaceX is to convince the public they are affiliated with a political party, or that space exploration is a political issue. It’s one of the few arenas that hasn’t been enveloped by hyperpartisanship, so I suspect any actual help Trump may be giving SpaceX either doesn’t exist or is widely being kept out of the public spotlight.
Don't need to fully obscure them, just draw a single vertical line through them to make them unscannable!
Corporations should not have human rights. Bots should not either but they should be allowed on the internet, no need to bring rights into it.
> Despite travelling faster than the speed of sound the plane would not have broken the sonic barrier as it was helped along by fast-moving air.

It makes sense but that is still fascinating to me...
4chan 2003
>I hate how frustrating it can be do convince a multijillion dollar company that, No, they are wrong, and I am right.

If it were easier, then a lot of people who were wrong would be convincing the company that they were right and they wouldn't be a multijillion dollar company for long.
I enjoy an occasional gimlet but how can someone produce a whole podcast about one cocktail?
Anchor does this "dynamic stitching". Much like Youtube they host your podcast for "free" and pay you a fee according to how many listens you get.

https://anchor.fm/

Edit: no, I was wrong. Apparently they match you with sponsors but the ads are recorded by the podcaster.
> "Someone dying is devastating."

But it's not. We're more than happy to throw human lives at most things. Any sufficiently large civilian project (much less anything military) will have a greater-than-zero expected death toll from accidents, on-the-job medical issues, etc. And arguably this is the right way to make the omelette (although we've definitely improved in the past few decades: https://www.forconstructionpros.com/blogs/construction-toolb...).

It's only when we get to space travel that we suddenly become shy about the human cost of progress. It's big and dramatic and failures are very public. Arguably we should be willing to take much greater risks at this point to establish ourselves as interplanetary.
The language of Dario Fo, an outward-looking reinvention (2019)
The blackbirds have to show down to refuel.
That's an even worse modern day caricature than what the other guy was pushing. The immigrant thing especially considering he was born in Canaan/Israel within walking distance from Jerusalem.

I highly recommend reading: "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" https://www.amazon.com/Zealot-Life-Times-Jesus-Nazareth/dp/B...

He was far from a hippie immigrant. He fit a pattern of many men before him claiming similar sanctity and happened to be at the right time and right place in a warn torn Israel for it to really find an audience.

But I wasn't even talking about the man himself from a historical perspective, just the general religious and historical environment from which his legend grew. The man-of-the-poor and anti-wealthy narrative was very much a later development in the history of christianity and was always floating on the sidelines of their work, especially in terms of how it was adopted, not merely what was written in the decades and centuries after he died in the bible.

Like all religious works there are plenty of room for interpretation and holy but great wealthy leaders are plentiful in the history of christianity. It's hardly a new thing. It's even more established in the Koran through the various prophets and leaders in their canon, all of whom held great power and leadership in their local areas.

Even today the works of Mother Theresa are very controversial. Especially in terms of their long term ROI (ie, helping the poor stay poor by accepting their place and not developing the skills or industry to escape such die situations, which to me is not something to be revered).
Huh, just realized - time ends at pi-o'clock.
Yes. Spotify will insert targeted ads into your podcast.
> although I couldn't think of a reason why

One I've seen in the wild is an encoded data structure, a blob of null terminated strings passed around together.
Kaiser utilizes the Experian program.
My biggest gripe with Spotify is that I don't want to be forced to use their player. I wish they had some kind of API to let other players access the music streams and metadata. (I know I know piracy, but the analog hole exists, and anything on Spotify is already easily pirateable).
Given we're talking about mobile browsers... how does one press the Ctrl button on a mobile device?
Ask HN: Do you worry about copycats when building a project?
I'm building a project that I'm quite excited about, but at the same time, I feel worried. I worry that if I release a MVP asap, but not techinically competent enough to quickly implement more features, once it's on the market, someone or some team will copy it and outmaneuver me because they're capable of pumping out new features more quickly. From what I read, time to market is really life-or-death for many product, and I believe for projects not that huge, it's mostly about features.

I have a feature list that I'd like to implement down the road, some of them are quite technically challenging. Should I overcome such challenges before releasing the MVP?

I know people keep saying you might build the wrong project so you should release early. But what if I'm building the right project? What if it turns out to have market fit but because I'm incapcable of releasing new features quickly enough, users turn to competitors because they couldn't wait?

I guess some people might say I should release the product asap, and then hire people to deal with technical challenges once the product turns out to be vaulable. But I don't think I'm good at building a team, and I can't trust myself for finding the people that are really capable of solving these challenges. The hiring just becomes another "technical challenge" I have to overcome (and probably a much harder one). It's not reassuring.

I have a hunch that such thoughts are naive, but currently I can't come up with good arguments. And this possible false sense of urgency is tormenting me.

Do you worry about such things when building projects? How do you deal with it?
The analogy I like is how people listen to the radio while driving. Sometimes you’re just doing something pretty simple (like a tedious refactor) and can move forward while watching something else
Seems like there should be laws about being able to make them come pick shit up too.

Like, a simple magic phrase that makes it clear you don't want the thing they (perhaps accidentally) dumped on you and that they should come remove it, something like "I don't want it, come take it back."
I'd appreciate if a voting wonk could tl;dr this issue after all the reporting is in.

I find how the sausage is made for US democracy to be truly unpalatable, but it is important to know what's going on.
Community engagement done well for housing issues in San Francisco – a thread
We're gonna kill some astronauts, and blame it on Iran.
Phone the FBI and tell them. They will set you up with a new identity and tell you how to stay hidden.
Is that blackberry your daily driver? Why? Just broadly curious! :)
"Rules as intended", I think. The phrase seems to be used mostly in tabletop gaming.
In theory with homed you can just keep all of those files (home directory) on a share or USB drive and access them anywhere.

Im personally curious to see how this works with a tool like Syncthing
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I just launched a site. I have not mentioned it anywhere and there are no links to it on the internet, yet the logs are full of bots looking for vulnerabilities. Judging by what they are looking for, it seems I could eliminate half of them by if (location.contains('php')).
Show HN: Sqlite Backend for Raft
I can’t find any reference now to it to save my life except one on Usenet. But there was also a Gopher Server hosted on HyperCard. A professor reached out to me in 1994 on AOL because he saw my Eliza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) HyperCard stack and wanted to port it to run using Gopher.

He paid me $1500 to port it. That was my first paid software job. It led to an internship somewhere else and the rest is history.

Funny enough, while trying to find information about it, I found a Usenet post in Google Groups where the professor mentioned my name in 1993 about the stack. I never knew he posted about me before today.
What happens when we revise the moment of the Big Bang? Maybe need signed 1024 bit just in case.
I'm strictly arguing with the point about engines being efficient at 90% thrust which is independent of wind.
I don't know what "MidRoll" is but my podcasting software (and I'm assuming all others) has +30sec -15sec buttons. I use them top skip every ad. Maybe I'm an exception and most people listen to ads but I find it's trivial to skip them so I do.
Well _all_ aircraft are traveling faster than the speed of sound with respect to much of the universe, but not relative to their surrounding airstreams...
This article seems pretty snarky but OK.

https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-ta...
i don't see distros like debian ever using that as the default way, and there's no indication that the old way will disappear either.
Might as well just make it signed at that point. We'll never need more than kilibit to represent time.
I connect an Oculus Quest to my shadow instance to play desktop VR games on steam. It works great, and I don't have any issues with latency.

I suspect that a lot of the people saying that sort of thing is impossible just haven't tried it. Most of my friend group uses Shadow for everything nowadays, and I can't see myself switching back to maintaining my own hardware.
Indeed, and it's the high frequency behavior where you see if you're getting charge on and off the gates of the MOSFETs fast enough with just the right timing.
>...and JSON, of all things. Every aspect of systemd which I've worked with seems to be full of sprawling complexity and overengineering

boolean, number, string, array, object, null

Sounds simple to me.
Awesome work!!
Spotify is trying to replace podcasts with the thing that isn't a podcast. You can decide not to listen to things that aren't podcasts, but if Spotify is successful, that may mean that podcasts you currently enjoy are no longer available in a medium you're willing to consume. That's the worry here.

I've already seen this start happening with Parcast. Since being purchased by Spotify, they're using their existing podcasts to advertise other "podcasts" that are only available streaming on Spotify. I'm guessing the ones I listen to now will eventually go away into the Spotify walled garden.
By conditioning consumers to consume that product in a way that depends on the companies.
Without the claims of regret, I think it becomes nonsensical. I am of the opinion that women should stay at home with the kids. Any development driving this is, ipso facto, good.

Divorces are regrettable. The fact that they carry with them financial consequences is not. That is, after all, what people are entering into – "Till death do us part". They should be as unpleasant as possible without being legally impossible, so that they are used only as a last resort. This will put the onus on the counterparties to do their due diligence before entering into the predicate marriages, a clear and present benefit to society.
Are people really this unfamiliar with the idea of having roommates? I'm 26 and it's been a necessity for my entire post living in parents house life. I could buy a house in the city I currently live in, but I'd be spending >50% of my (relatively large) income on mortgage repayments and I'd be utterly screwed if I ever hit the "housing prices crash" + "no job" combo.
In fairness, I suspect that they're cold and unpleasant because of all the vultures that constantly circle them.

When you're being constantly hounded by people that believe that you being wealthy means they inherently deserves a share of it, that'll probably distort your worldview real quick.
I'm curious about their claim to have "no loss in sound quality", when they say they're recording Spotify's playback and saving as mp3. I'd expect double compression that way (the original compressed audio from spotify, compressed again to mp3). Are they somehow reading the actual file as Spotify plays it rather than the audio, and saving that?

They say "Spytify records the same quality that Spotify outputs" but that implies a loss in quality if it's recording an mp3 and re-saving it as a new mp3. There's no lossless option in Spotify.
Thick accent, but not hard to understand, and the fact remains those are not ideal for a public-facing role. I mean, German, sure, but "Indian tech support representative" just isn't a good look no matter how you slice it.

Deaf people could work with some accommodation, but why bother? For leadership roles, "using email/chat whenever possible" is clearly not ideal. You'll get a worse result and/or pay more for an equally good result.

The proper solution to labour law isn't to favorize the concerned groups, but to come up with more opaque hiring procedures so as to render them toothless.
What's the relationship of these values to the efficiency curve of the engines?

I'm pretty sure best glide speed times 1.3 can be achieved with less than 90% thrust from the engines of a typical commercial airliner.
I wonder if there's any other decent way to implement these features. Is systemd the inevitable solution to complex issues like this, or is there a more unixy way to achieve all this?

Edit: isn't JSON technically not free-as-in-freedom?
Not sure about the term, but I know Windows has had them for almost two decades[1], so hardly a newfangled concept.

Here's[2] a fun/interesting 15 year old blog post explaining some of the use cases and pitfalls of using Win32 fibers.

[1]: https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/128/Q128531/ (CreateFiber)

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman...
Why does any criticism of systemd have to be due to "rage"? There is this ongoing behavior whereby anything other than fawning praise is treated as irrational and emotion-driven.

You may as well ask why Lennart rages so hard against ZFS.
For what it's worth, my roommate does a lot of his development on Shadow. He works on one of the Nintendo Switch emulators, and his laptop isn't powerful enough to compile and run things at a reasonable speed. I could absolutely see cloud gaming machines being a useful platform for game development.
Resettable Fuse
Check out my geometric algebra software

https://grassmann.crucialflow.com
Show HN: Simple app for companies looking to hire a team / group hire
It’s hard to see how this might happen without also rolling up Patreon.
New spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to get a never-before-seen look at poles
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. In my example the $2000 CAD paid in Canada to taxes at the same income in Ontario versus California goes to fund one of the worlds highest ranked public education and healthcare systems. I’d call that a meaningful impact.
I see people talking about this but they all seem to have a hard time understanding air speed and ground speed.

The way I like to explain it is imagine a person walking up an escalator. Your total speed is your walking speed (air speed) plus the escalator speed combined (ground speed). Just walking up regular stairs would be like an aircraft flying with no wind.

It can also happen in reverse. If you walked down the up escalator your walking speed (air speed) may be equal to the escalator. Your total speed (ground speed) may even be zero. Aircraft leaving London going to NY were fighting the wind their ground speed was reduced.
Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?
I’m a SR. Dev at a big company we all know trying to rid myself of the insecurities that come from an informal education.

This is the resource in question: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
This has not been my experience. Have you used Spotify a long time so that it has had time to get to know you? My Discover Weekly is uncanny in its ability to find me music I love. I tried going to Apple Music and came running back due to how good that is on Spotify.
Finding Problems Is Only 10% of the Value
> The people who prefer to beg for donations in their podcast episodes are always free to do it.

As opposed to what, an advertiser like Casper or Harry’s begging for your purchase?
If I load the page after he posts the original comment and respond pointing out that the podcasting app is called overcast, an inline comment makes me look bad while the edit makes it clear that there was a context in which my response made sense.
> Pip needs to be common API driven (as Chrome is)

Ah yes, Mozilla should follow the steps of Google's web experiments playground, the Chrome browser. Every month we hear about a new self-serving feature implemented by Google/Chrome engineers.

The web is slowly drifting to the IE days again, and of course this move by Mozilla doesn't help it, but let's not forget the bigger culprit.
Or maybe you aren’t paranoid enough. Can you hold yourself and you industry up to the same impossible standard?

All high level animals respond to reinforcement learning. They learn by correlation, not causation. It’s ridiculously difficult to confirm causation, period. It’s not limited to academics, WikiPedia, etc.
I think it has to do with the RSS standard. As a podcaster ("Eyes of Reason") I like Spotify because I can see things like the age, gender and location of where my listeners are coming from as well as see things like how long they listened. If we can update the RSS Protocol to have these features then it would prevent this sort of Payola and agglomeration from happening.
React w/ typescript, d3, design, and css. I’ve been doin infrastructure and backend for a while and forgot basic front end. It’s super fun and hope I can do more at work.
You can use stylish to remove the suggested popup div, if there's any interest I will put up a gist somewhere. I also wrote some custom CSS to center the controls rather than have them spread across my ultra-wide monitor. Huge quality of life improvement if you watch a lot of yt.
Amazon has absolutely no memory. All of your customer support woes go to people working from a script. The likelihood of getting the same customer support person is zero.

You can get an actual human who can look at what’s going on if you send email to Bezos; that gets forwarded to the secret support team that can actually make decisions instead of just following a script. Or at least you could a few years ago.
Taika Waititi Calls Out Apple's MacBook Keyboard Backstage at the Oscars
> 'People here need to assume good faith in the absence of some objective reason not to. Merely disliking what someone else says doesn't come close to an objective reason.'

All this sounds good in theory, yet here I am on my second account after the first one 6 weeks ago was shadowbanned in less than 15 posts, simply for expressing my honestly held and well researched opinions.

Meanwhile I'm all the time seeing you on here busting various people's balls for the most ridiculous and trivial of things.

The person you replied to just now, while it's true that I don't agree with their comment (obviously they're wrong) they certainly ought to have the right to express their opinion. And the community as a whole has a right to see that opinion be expressed, to see the opinion itself and see the responses to it, so they can judge for themselves what is or is not the truth, without having a Nanny State/Government picking apart and criticizing every word someone writes.

You really need to lay off the bondage-and-discipline mod mentality. You're driving away good people from this site. Who the hell wants to stay in a place where they are constantly being nagged and harassed and even shadowbanned (one of the cruelest things that can be done to an online forum member) simply for having opinions? What is it about you personally that makes you so qualified to treat people this way?
I would suggest Java just because you have a strong background in it, which allow you to move faster. I would throw in using C# with .NET Core and Avalonia [0] as another option, though that would require you learning C#.

[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
The Midlife Unraveling (2018)
I'll skip, unless I'm driving and can't touch my phone to do so.