skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this different than what console makers have been doing since the 80s? Nintendo not only charges a fee for each third party game sold, it also forced third party game makers to use its manufacturing facilities.

If Google can’t make a competitive ecosystem, it only has itself to blame.

Also revenue has never been the deciding factor on what a “monopoly” is.
I'd be less concerned about drugs and more about human trafficking or child pornography.
Ahh.. what’s in a name?

Not much. Except when you name yourself something stupid.
I feel the same way. The main benefit of a VPS is that they're typically cheap, resource sufficient, and hosted somewhere that isn't your residence. There is an additional benefit, you can spin up a VPS within an hour then deploy a docker image to resume your node. However, a hosting provider may ban tor activity then subsequently disable services for accounts running tor nodes (this is alleviated by the aforementioned quick deployment).

The tor project recommends against using OVH and Hetzner because they have such a large AS presence in the tor network [1]. The tor project also maintains a list of ISPs and they're "friendliness" [2] - some of which are totally anonymous. Every relay operator should familiarise themselves with the ISP page when deploying a relay. Another diversity problem extends to the OSs themselves, Debian has an overwhelming presence [3].

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#...
[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISP...
[3] https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/#os-distribution-relays
tell me about it. On my browser its quite nice as i have the "F.B. Purity" addon, that lets me choose words to filter entire posts by. So i add both common political part words ( tories, labour, conservative etc ) and my feed is a lot nicer.
Its just a shame when i use fb on my phone i get to read that stuff. Muting people for 30 days is a reasonable start i guess, but i'd much rather filter by content
So you can’t....
How many of those VPS hosters rely on infrastructure from OVH, Hetzner, ColoCrossing, Azure, AWS, or GCP?
It's probably worth noting that if you were running an online ads platform, revenue probably wouldn't be what you'd optimise for. You'd be better off optimising for an event that advertisers will pay you for.
I have been tinkering with Rust lately and compile times have been an issue since almost the beginning. After searching around for a bit, I discovered that a significant amount of time is spent in the linker, not in the actual compiler.

By switching from the default GNU gold linker to LLVM LLD, I have managed to shave off a few seconds on every build. There's an open issue [0] about switching to LLD. It still has some compatibility issues but it works fine on my machine and albeit tiny project.

I would be curious to see how compile times improve for other people just by linking with LLD. You of course need to install LLD first and then you can tell the chain to use it:

time RUSTFLAGS="-C link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld" cargo build

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39915
We just moved the problem one step away. If (for example) i classify my ad about climate-change as non-political. Can Facebook disagree with that?
But if the 20th is used for child pornography or human trafficking it might not matter that the other 19th just want to get high.
> I don't think NixOS will be more popular than Arch anytime soon either.

It seems to already have more packages though (60,000 vs 11,000).

I guess NixOS, and also Guix, will be used first in domains where both recentness of tools and libraries, as well as the capability to exactly reproduce software and results are important, such as in science, AI and commercial data analysis.
"Slow" is the issue. I think it's going to be too slow for ppl's liking.
I presume it is going to be ads placed by political parties and PACs
The idea of trending libraries / code seems almost antithetical to good software development practice. Favouring the shiny and new over the reliable and stable seems classic Goodhart's Law.
In a lot cases skimming and reading some parts is already very beneficial
it is an "alternative" to parquet but only works in the Julia ecosystem at the moment.
That's really cool, thank you for sharing that! Only feedback I have is that it feels like I'm going around in circles somehow. I guess it's because the frequency of right turns seems to be a lot higher than the frequency of left turns, for some reason. Not sure if this is just my imagination, but after 2 minutes of watching it I started feeling like I'm going in circles.
Initially dismissed, representation theory is now central to much of mathematics
That’s not how “consumer protection” laws work.
I love HN for this. Read a blog post about Tor, come to the comments, and learn something new about i3. Thank you for sharing.
Stop Assuming in Design
250K per person per bank per account type.
A quantum metrology protocol for locating noncooperative targets in 3-D space
The parent comment is not talking about the model’s actual appearance, but rather what is done to them artificially above that. The correct analogy in athletes would be doping.
The user has a right to buy an Android.
Most likely, the vast majority are not in circulation but stored somewhere and are outside the US anyway. A stack of $100 bills is probably the best long-term investment for illegal funds that will be used at some point in the future. It's relatively easy to transport, valid until eternity (other than e.g. UK where bills are taken out of circulation every few years or decades) and accepted world wide.
App Store rejects “Hey” email app from Basecamp
I'm originally from a country where people drive slow, never crazy and it's dark and cold. I also love places where people drive fast, a little bit crazy and it's sunny and warm. Guess you want what you didn't have growing up?
Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals
Origami Editor 3D – virtual paper folding application
Lawsuit vs. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS drives
Like watching "All Of The Family" with Archie Bunker or those old Disney cartoons.

These programs are time capsules ... they should not be edited or changed IMHO as long as there are awareness on how they would be regarded today.
Racist usage is contextual. What's racist in one context is not racist in another.

I might call my kids "little monkeys" if they act rowdy at home. But given the long racist history of calling black people "monkeys", that same term might not be interpreted the way I mean it should I refer to rowdy black kids that way.

And I would be in the wrong, because it's wrong that I should have gotten to be an adult without learning that aspect of American history. (I shouldn't get away with that privilege, to use the modern term.)

So we have to look towards how the term came about, the racist and sexist interpretations of both "kimono" and "geisha" in American culture, the origin of the term in the era when Americans were worried about Japanese economic dominance (why did the phrase come out of the US instead of Japan?), etc.

Along those lines, how did the term get to be "open the kimono" instead of "drop trousers" or "go skinny-dipping"? And in real life, what secret is opening the kimono supposed to reveal - the color of one's underwear? The existence of one's genitalia?

Given how many times I've gone skinny dipping - including at clothing-optional areas - and taken a sauna at public bathhouses, well, plenty have people have seen me naked. I still have lots of secrets. So I don't even see how the analogy is supposed to be relevant.
Ask HN: What are the shortcuts that are most useful to you at intellij?
I'm a big proponent of using keyboard shortcuts for any field. Since I work with intellij I try to learn every day and add to my toolbox new keyboard shortcuts that give me speed when developing.
I'd like to know what shortcuts you use in your day-to-day life and which ones you see as most useful.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Until I read your post, I didn't realise Github changed the algorithm behind the page. Until last year, I hit the treading page at least 5 times a day whenever, I got a short break at work. This year, I don't know exactly when, but I lost interest in the page and couldn't go back, no matter how many times I tried.
At first I thought it was only me, very much like how you mentioned.

My opinion:
Earlier, we had small problems in the page. Like 5 out of 25 in the list looked useless or wrongly listed. However now, more than half of the list looks wrongly listed and not interesting for me.
That we don't know if it will be legal to keep the files after they stop offering them (as it seems will happen).

Of course it's unlikely that some cop will come and verify that you deleted them, but someone prefers to stay legal/honest
> But when you know how it makes people feel when you make your assumption visible...

How people feel depends on their own assumptions on why you made the mistake. Say that yours was a perfectly natural mistake based on innate heuristics, and there is no value judgement implied. If this is the way your mistake is interpreted, no feelings are hurt. But if you spread the idea that this is racism and a value judgement is implied, then feelings are hurt, and it becomes a serious issue.

So the way you frame the issue actually ends up creating the issue.
Fake USB Memory Sticks Sold via Shopify
Bootstrap version 5 alpha is officially released removing jQuery and IE support
Purely speculation but I strongly suspect the subset of malicious tor users engaging in child pornography and human trafficking is extremely, extremely small. The largest group of malicious users is most likely drug and cybercrime related. Is it worth decrying tor as a heaven for pedophiles or human traffickers if they make up a negligible number of users? If so, the same could easily be said about bitcoin or any other decentralised cryptocurrency. The benefits given to journalists, activists, or any individual who wants anonymity for the sake of pricacy is worth more, to me, than maybe helping a negligible number of users. Further, those malicious users would likely find another way to engage in their activities but could the legitimate users?
A great article with some very good points. 1) should be kind of obvious and easy to do, but especially 3) and 4) are extremely important in my eyes.

The biggest restriction on iOS (and on iPadOS, but for simplicity, I will only use the term "iOS") is the requirement to go through the App Store approval process. The justification is the promise of security and curation of app quality. First of all, those are two separate things and shouldn't mixed up. Second, in my eyes, Apple fails at both of them.

Of course, I don't know how many truly horrible apps (from a security point of view) are rejected by the process, but there are enough examples, where dubious apps made it past the review process. But the elephant in the room - no its actually a diploducus - is the so-called curation. On the one side, there are tons of very useful apps which cannot be submitted, just think of Termux, by the app store rules. On the other side, Apple does have zero restraint approving all those games which only are a vehicle of selling in-app purchases. Furthermore, they sell the prices for amounts which should be considered fraudulent. If you buy a AAA-title for your computer or console, at most you pay $50-$100. How can it be allowed that even the most basic games sell in-app purchases which can amount to several hundred dollars or even more without any limit? That is plain immoral in my eyes.

But Apple allows this. Worse even, they seem to quite support this, as the whole App Store design has driven most other game styles from the platform. On the other side, a lot of useful apps get disallowed from the App Store just for certain "rules".

Another bad example is the App Store search. When searching for an app, you get paid for app placements in the search result before the results which best matched your search. Germany released a covid-19 tracing app yesterday, but a simple search yielded my everything but that app. Only when searching for the exact app name, I got to it. This is bad with general legit apps, a disaster in this specific case.

In consequence, I do think Apple should urgently overthink their App Store approach. Otherwise, legislators should enforce an opening of the platform.

Towards using private APIs: while it totally makes sense to develop APIs by co-developing them with the apps which use them as a test case for the APIs, in general, they should be opened up to all apps. Not doing so is not only unfair competition, but dumb in the long term, as it encourages the existence of semi-maintained APIs for internal applications. And harms the quality of third party apps.
They could literally sell broken phones for 20k$ and it would be legal (if properly marketed)
We can't design everything for people who couldn't figure out how to operate a toothbrush.
I tried muting people during the 2016 cycle. It worked for sure, my feed was less political garbage. It turns out my feed was also mostly empty. I quit and have been off ever since.
I cannot fathom being loyal to a company where they expect two weeks notice from me (at a bare minimum) if I'm leaving but where they don't have to give me two minutes notice before terminating me.
So things would be better if Boost.Signals2 weren't header-only? Makes sense.
Agree with your assumptions and conclusions. Especially impact of Starbucks on indies. Just adding some color.

Insiders regard McDonalds as a real estate company, not a burger franchiser.

Similarly, back in the day, Starbucks' real estate group was their secret sauce, IMHO. They knew exactly how much revenue a store would generate. So while they likely paid more than that indie owner, they most definitely did not over pay. I assume they've only become more sophisticated since.

Source: Worked in Store Planning, wrote some tools to help the architects draft designs based on budgets provided by real estate group.
Truly remarkable. I think if people just could afford houses after a collapse like this, the economic benefits would probably be immeasurable.
ForgeFed: Interoperability between version control services
Failing (and winning) at planning software projects
Planning and estimating projects (or sprints within projects) is associated with a lot of uncertainty and frustration on all sides. At the same time, teams feel they have to adopt processes like Scrum (or their own interpretation of it) and then expect that to fix everything which is usually not the case of course. In reality what I find lacking in most teams is direct communication and close collaboration as well as an appreciation for the valid and reasonable needs and interests of each and every project stakeholder (that's not only engineering and design but also product, marketing, finance maybe etc.).

In this post, I present a set of relatively simple techniques to practice that remove a team's frustration and enable better estimates and predictability.
Assuming that we're talking about the same thing, this is possible in GH from the `Files` tab on the PR screen.
I mean you could probably do with a 20 word filter list for 90 percent sucess rate.
I’m a white Catholic. The first time I experienced being a minority was in Korea. It was definitely unsettling how many people seemed openly or somewhat unhappy we were there. I can’t imagine living my entire life with that sense! If you just normalized it and moved on, I imagine you’d have deep psychological effects and chronic career challenges, etc. So, yeah, pretty much what we see minorities face around the world. I don’t know the solution, though.

It seems to me pretty much impossible that a white person would ever fully feel like part of the group in Korea, even if 100% of the hostility was replaced by genuine love. You’d be different.
Love it! Really neat.

Even if landscapes are very urban, I like this feeling of driving that I don't really have anymore since I'm living in Paris. I'm often playing to Euro Truck Simulator just for getting out of the narrow streets and watching the horizon.

If you like videos like this, I recommend you this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK3HAx-5XIRrWzpFziOQY0Q
The highways, the acceleration effect, and the acid jazz music will give Ridge Racer memories to some of you!
"Google Street View is fantastic. You can go anywhere, anywhere in the world. Where shall I go? My house."
You haven't said why the initial model —where you surrender 30% to Apple— is acceptable, when you pay them nothing for an app that lets you buy other things. They're both apps with potentially similar overhead costs for Apple.

I don't think we're talking about drastically different things when we're comparing the Amazon app, or some client application for SaaS. Apple doesn't force Amazon to use it as a card processor, does it? It seems the only distinguishing feature is that Amazon is massive. You could say that there's a distinguishing digital delivery divide here but Amazon gets out of that too these days.
Is there a Hashcat-as-a-Service or is everyone just renting out EC2 GPU instances by the hour?
Sites such as Advogato and Planet GNOME tried that in the past and for better or for worse, didn't succeed. Let's not repeat the mistakes of the past!
Only servers used for client requests. Dev and integration environments but esp data crunching can be a lot more expensive than serving web requests. And they're hard to keep cheap if you scaling is easy.
I'm glad i live in the eurozone. A place where something like this couldn't possibly happen....

oh wait.
> I'm pretty happy with the walled garden approach and the stores on iOS

The walled garden can stay, but users should have a simple way to opt-out. Like for example SIP on macOS which you can (temporarily) turn off with a terminal command, if you accept the risks of degraded security.

Apple (or Google/any company) should not have the power to dictate which software we may use. Like for example any banking app that wants to use NFC for wireless payments being rejected. It has taken way too long for the EU to step in and forbid this in my opinion.
I retooled a step functions CloudFormation template to create and attach an EFS filesystem to four functions. Took about 25 lines of YAML.
Beetle PSX HW – Texture replacement now available only on RetroArch
The fact that they also had a navy base in the area to protect the nuclear weapons, maybe?

Anyone who has lived in the area knows that it is a Russian stronghold, and has been for hundreds of years.

Remind me again, when did America have a large population of its people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan? I mean, America absolutely demolished these states with its war fighting - by the same standard, shouldn't you be demanding that the world sanction the USA for its illegal invasions and criminal wars?

The double-standards are astonishing!
Well, that the US presidential voting system is weird, is out of the question.
But simply having a shorter campaign before election is no magic bullet either. Here we have the saying, that politicians only listen to people during the election. So shorten that time, shortens the window to get through with something.

But from a rational and idealistic point of view, none of this makes much sense. Campaigning is a huge waste of everyones attention and energy.
The FB algorithm of feeding you unchronoligal crap instead of what your friends write seems to get more ad views since you scroll more. It is really user hostile and are depleting there user pool in the long term.
Why were they living there, if they despised those cultures? (Genuine question, not rhetorical.)
First proof of concept is made by an external contributor, a Chrono Cross texture pack. He ran everything through AI machine learning algorithms like ESRGAN and Gigapixel to arrive at the graphics you see in this video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnXFUNIEGY8
It's not helping. I still have millennial kids in my home.

"But dad if I moved back to my place I'd have to buy my own groceries."

sigh
Sure, as long as it meets the minimum requirements you can operate a node. If you are running it at home, I strongly recommend you don't run an exit node but that's up to you. If you want an easy setup, a bootstrap script does exist: https://github.com/mricon/tor-relay-bootstrap-rpi
Ask HN: How does Crunchbase get away with storing data without consent?
recently googled myself and found an entry of myself on Crunchbase. I never created an account so I asked them to delete the info (their reply below). How is it possible that they can store this info without consent. They say it's crowd-sourced but it looks like it's been scraped from LinkedIn (years ago). Is this legal?

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Keep in mind, your user account is the private information that you can use to control your billing, login information, and alerts. A profile page is what displays externally on Crunchbase - these are completely separate. Because Crunchbase is a crowdsourced platform, any registered user can add or edit any profile page - profiles are not explicitly linked to any user.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions - we'll be happy to help!

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I'd look at studies like [0], which indicate that the answer is "no". When given no indication of time, humans tend towards a ~24h sleep period.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1330995/
> Pointers are variables that hold a reference to something in memory.

This sentence is extremely confusing or meaningless. I would rather say: "A pointer is an integer that indicates a position in the RAM."

Thus, if a pointer "p" indicates a position in memory, then "p+1" is a pointer that indicates the next position in the memory. The value on that cell of memory is often written as p[1].
"That policy will work for as long as the rest of the world continues to accept US dollars as something other than pieces of funny green paper…"

What a nonsense. Like if the USA is the only one doing it.

Everybody is doing it and at the same time.

I hope this help some people to dispel this myths about the "public debt" and living to the grandchildren expense. What markets are covering this public debt when everybody is doing it at the same time?

If something, this situation show how strong the modern economy is. Think about it, a big part of the economy just stopped and the supermarkets are full and there are not supply problems.

People are suffering because they are not payed, not because there is not food available. Compared that to what would happen in other times in history if a relevant percentage of the population stopped working globally.
Maybe I was being too critical - it is actually quite nice on mobile.

I do use the find-file feature on Github a lot, as well as the quick file editor. Both are missing here, but I kind of see that at least the file editor is not well suited to the projects ethos.
Why Majority of Data Science Projects Never Make IT to Production
A blog post by Dan Luu ('luu) about using this to save twitter a lot of money on RAM for JVMs: https://danluu.com/metrics-analytics/