skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Substack’s docs show an option to export email addresses—I would presume that would mean you could move your subscriber list to another email platform if you wanted to?
Playing Music in Spacemacs with EMMS
If four letter .com names drop, they're re-registered instantly.

There are thousands of four character .com names available though, and outside .com thousands of four letter domains, for example:

kfmw.net
cwix.net
wprd.net
npyp.net
vpol.net
vrlx.net
olfs.net
ldti.net
ufcc.net
dgol.net
[...]
rbkd.org
ytcu.org
ohtf.org
cjmn.org
wgnn.org
mjrb.org
mafk.org
cklw.org
wegl.org
ctnb.org

And available three characters are commonplace too, for example:

g0f.net
j1c.net
y1g.net
x2z.net
j2y.net
o8x.net
2tq.net
k8c.net
2g9.net
c8p.net
[...]
6o4.org
k13.org
19f.org
2rd.org
2fo.org
3yu.org
hh7.org
ag4.org
p-1.org
7de.org
Have you ever looked at the amount of money we spend on pharmaceuticals a percent of our total Healthcare spending?
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Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Java
Patient Infotainment Terminals – The Benefits of Using Bedside Computers
In the new globalized lives today, ‘medicine’ has evolved into ‘healthcare’ and the ‘doctors’, ‘nurses’ and ‘technicians’ are now recognized as ‘healthcare providers.’ With each successive decade, the technology has developed in more conceptual ways of looking towards products and services.
They've already started down that path, judging by all the DDG billboards I see driving my 18 wheeler around the country, and all the DDG ads I hear on NPR-related podcasts.

Not that I'm against making money. But there's a tipping point associated with some height value in a pile of cash, and once you cross that point then the pile controls you. DDG probably hasn't crossed that point yet, but self-justification is one of the steps on that path.
On popular, actively maintained operating systems.

Plug in your cheap Chinese IoT device and see what happens...
I was going to write something similar. I remember the first time I needed to pull an all-nighter in university to finish a project, and picked myself up a packet of the Proplus caffeine pills which were in vogue at the time. Took a few during the night and didn’t notice a thing.

Fast forward a few years and a buddy and I bought our first espresso machines. Experimenting making double espressos with different beans - after two or three he was totally wired, feeling unwell, and unable to sleep; I could pretty much sleep as normal.

Two physiological effects that are fairly clear however:

1) Moderate appetite suppression – useful if intermittent fasting and hungry in the morning

2) Something in coffee is a fairly powerful stimulant of colonic motility...
> "benefits of a state ... can and should maintain these refuges ..."

Real life example:

"The Japanese mayor who was laughed at for building a huge sea wall - until his village was left almost untouched by tsunami"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386978/The-Japanes...

But that mayor was (he died long before the tsunami), I'd think, a rare person.
That’d be a form of equivocation: the accuser is using an incorrect definition of the fallacy, instead of the true one.
AOT compilation doesn't make good use of PGO data (you need a very good test data set) and there is zero chance of inlining across dynamic libraries.

What most developers want is not having to pay for their tools, hence why so much love for GraalVM community edition.

Some form of AOT compilation has been part of commercial JDKs since early 2000's.

In fact, the JIT cache that is now also available for free on OpenJDK traces back to J/Rockit and similarly the JIT code caches now available on OpenJ9 go all the way back to WebSphere Real Time JVM.

Also this is another point, by holding on to Java 8, those JIT caches are not available to those that only want the free JDK variants.

However it is a warm feeling that despite the critic, here is a project that they have kept aliven from Sun Labs (aka MaximeVM) and not only have brought it to production, they have a long term roadmap to replace C2 with it (Project Metropolis).
This is an asshole response.
Yeah, but the reality is somewhat more complicated when you operationalize. The pepperId can be the same for everything, or can be per shard, or just chunked across large sets of records. And pepperId = 1 can have the value of the empty string, which is what all non-peppered have. Now it’s easy to increment the pepperId for new records and have a real value stored elsewhere.

But... bring it to the ultimate conclusion and you essentially are splitting the salt between local and remote storage.
In fact I think what they do here is illegal by GDPR. It does not matter that they say they do not collect the information, it is enough it is unnecessarily sent to their servers to make the whole function illegal.

The transmission of ip address alone, which is necessary for the TCP request to happen, deanonymizes the request enough to not be considered anonymous within the GDPR framework.

GDPR Article 5 (1) c:
"Personal data shall be ...
adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed (‘data minimisation’);" - this is the "Datensparsamkeit" you mentioned.

Exceptions from Article 7 do not apply: The user has to give wilfully give informed consent, which he cannot do as the privacy policy of the browser omits the information that all visited domains are transmitted to DDG servers.

GDPR Recital 30
"Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags."

Oh, and the fact I'm downvoted for a purely informational comment additionally does not shine a good light on DDG.
Winchester lever actions where second tier rifles at that point not Lee Enfield's. Gewehr 98 and so on and used different cartridges

Having to buy basic stuff like that on the open market is a sign that your in trouble.

Wikipedia says

"With the start of World War I, production was restricted to the M1891 dragoon and infantry models for the sake of simplicity. Due to the desperate shortage of arms and the shortcomings of a still-developing domestic industry, the Russian government ordered 1.5 million M1891 infantry rifles from Remington Arms "
That's it, exactly.
I'm pretty sure about this now.

I just looked into the actual data set[1], and analyzed a few papers from it, e.g. [2] the first paper in scopus_nature.csv. They're definitely available on Sci-Hub at least at the moment [3], and there's no reason to believe they weren't available back then.

Also, here's what they say about the dataset, emphasis mine:

> As a quality control, we performed a random sampling of all the articles retrieved, excluding those already present in the first data set. As in this second data set, the number of Sci-hub downloads is precisely equal to zero, we regard it as a control group (nC = 4,015) from which we are going to estimate comparisons for our experimental group (nE = 4,646).

Downloads equal to zero != not available.

[1] https://osf.io/xb9yn/

[2] https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85016141...

[3] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/541123a
I tend to think that Substack isn't that new or different from other platforms that tried to reinvent publishing. They basically took an existing mode of publishing - newsletters - and have build a centralized platform that allows individual writers to share their content with their audience.

The difference is the offering towards the audience. What are readers willing to pay for? Content published on a blog or in a newsletter isn't inherently different: it's short pieces conveying thought, opinions, observations,... So, why would anyone be more willing pay for newsletter content rather then content posted on the Web?

There's the simple convenience of having content you subscribed to delivered to your inbox, rather then having to invest time and effort scouring/curating it yourself from the Web (bookmarks, closed platforms where you need to register, etc.). Content just lands at regular intervals in your mailbox, end of story.

There could be a perception that your Inbox is your own personal space as opposed to the Web as this foreign place with inherent dangers to which you have to expose yourself just to get to the good bits. Authors to newsletters become your guests, whereas you are their guest when you visit their websites. So, I think a sense of agency and being in control are big drivers here.

The sense of exclusivity of being part of a fledgling tribe of readers to a small publisher who knows how to appeal to that sense. Receiving an e-mail in your Inbox is as different from visiting a website, as is receiving a personally addressed snail mail is from going out and reading newspapers in the library.

I'm also curious as to how the e-mail / newsletter model impacts Substack's operations. Unlike 'traditional' social media, millions of visitors don't flock a central platform 24/7/356 which comes with hard infrastructure problems. I'm well aware that there will be different challenges that need to be met, but pushing content to individual mailboxes is, in essence, a hybrid form of decentralization and distributed publishing combined with a centralized platform for curation and subscription.

Another assumption I'm going to make is that revenue isn't spread evenly across all publishers on the platform. I suppose it's more of a long tail with a typical Pareto kind of distribution. 20% of the writers account for 80% of the revenue and then there's a sharp drop off. Thing is, I suspect inactive publishers don't consume much if any resources: e-mails in an Inbox have a rather short half-life as opposed to the (perceived) need of keeping content available over HTTP which brings additional running costs with little to no added value.

It's interesting to note that Substack isn't the only offering in this space. A direct competitor came to my mind: https://www.getrevue.co/

Personally, given the pre-dominant promotional nature of newsletters, I'm pleasantly surprised how this mode of writing/authoring has been adopted, once again, by budding writers and publishers. After all, journalling via mail has a long historical pedigree. It's great to see how the analogue concept finds traction in the digital age as well.
Fox News isn't even a news source — of course they "inject agenda". As for NY Times I don't feel see any agendas in the titles, am I missing something?
Maybe i'm just lucky, but i've never had an Apple cable break on me.
My original iPad 1 cable still works (and is still used occasionally).

Then again, i use my cables for charging, and i never use my devices while charging, so the bending/pulling that destroys most cables never occurs with mine.

One thing that does destroy cables though is a 2 year old kid with a fetish for sucking on the lightning end of the cables. My youngest kid did that for 6 months or so, and every cable he sucked on has a visibly corroded 3rd pin.
As a tenant in Australia, I’ve successfully offered less and also even had agents follow up and offer a price reduction, and try and find other properties for me.

It’s all about supply and demand.
The Need for a New Internet Grid
Indian here. Just want to say that Indian Govt. is a piece of sh*t.

They don't understand a literal about technology. They want to protect citizen's privacy but they don't want to promote the thing that provides privacy.

Also, their official websites looks like they will die at any moment.
All thats wrong with the modern web is in this answer.
Had to google gacha, nice that there is a catchy word for this awful mechanic
I run a successful entertainment business here in Durban, started off as a street performer (Juggling, Unicycling, Rope Walking and Magic) after dropping out of an I.T. degree course. Started off in tech just solving business problems, like the company website and booking system, making my own LED equipment for performance and also as a hobby for fun. Most of it is documented on my CV, and on my blog and tutorial site https://circusscientist.com

The show does go on(line): https://bigtopentertainment.co.za

My dad was a professional programmer (Cobol and Fortran!!) so I have been programming since I was a kid actually.
I don't understand how you can call providing dense housing being a parasite. The parasites are people with frozen property taxes who refuse to sell their land so that it can be used to build denser housing. After all the problem with the housing market is that there are not enough units for everyone so only the highest bidders can successfully rent an apartment.
Oh and also, how did you scale it up then? Did you have to change IP addresses regularly? Did you face performance issues at some point?
disclaimer: I am usually critical of google and for the most part, for bland generic search, have moved away to ddg (usually end up using the 'g!' for technical searches).

Silently depricating bolean operators and quotes was definitely bad for power users but let's be realistic these queries are probably the most resource intensive for google and equally not likely to bring ad revenue.

The bigger issue to me is that even a company like google, with near unlimited resources, seems to be unable to fight off SEO/spam/bots in order to show content with substance to end users. In the last 10 or 15 years this has become scaringly noticeable. The spammers have won the war.
Ask for a slight discount.
That monopoly is guaranteed by your local government. Go talk to them if you don't like this.
Guide to CTF Prep/Becoming a 1337 Hacker
While that last bit was slightly crass, the rest of the comment was dispensing some very sage advice, I thought.
Seconded. Throughout all my time working on Java, Scala and Clojure, I've considered reflection to be a code smell. It's a bit more complicated with Clojure, since it uses reflection to bootstrap the language.
Maybe you have to be logged in to DDG for this to work? Which if true feels that much worse.
Everyone here is pathetic ;) Jokes aside, I'm surprised at how strongly people respond to giving up a 2 cups a day "habit".

I drink 5+ cups a day and have gone "cold turkey" on several occasions, (e.g. long road trips, flying, forgetting to go to the shop) with no ill effects apart from being a bit tired. When I have a cold or flu I generally loose my appetite for coffee too, so I usually go "cold turkey" for a week or so.

For me it generally takes about 2 weeks to get back to no-coffee baseline.

That said, coffee tastes great, has no real long term negative effects from all I have read, and gives my day ritual and breaks similar to what smoking can give, but without the lung cancer.
An episode from the always interesting 99% Invisible about this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-infantorium/
Literally a biased, unbalanced website
It's in the sites about me part, lol okay.
Kerbal's 'Shared Horizons’ launched with real ESA missions
Hjalfi Writes an Assembler Again
Anyone fast enough to accept anything...
The reason why land is expensive is because there is high demand for it. Landlords can't set prices arbitrarily. Every tenant has voluntarily agreed to the rent they pay.
Sorry !! But i had not yet noticed !! But definetely look for it !!

https://devu.in/machine-learning-training-in-bangalore/
97 on mobile and 99 on desktop. [0]

For a site that never had pagespeed as a tool, that is super impressive and just goes to show how bloated today's websites really are.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
You tend to have to buy 2-3 times as many SoC boards in the same lifetime as the other item from experience. Thus the savings up front are artificial.

I’ve got two dead pi’s here ceased to function while in unattended operation.
You are probably seriously overestimating yourself and/or underestimating a large subset of your audience here.

People here are:

- early developers from majir browsers

- extension creators

- creators of major web properties

- people who spend their work days on the web

- etc

seriously. Don't underestimate HN.

Edit: and as someone who's been very into customizing and extending browsers since early Firefox: your ideas about Firefox vs Chrome tells me that you are either

- deeply biased

- use a subset of browser features that is too small to realize the problems with Chromium (in which case I suspect your 100x superuser is wild hyperbole)

You can come back when Tree Style Tabs including related sub-extensions works as well on Chrome as on Firefox.
Thanks for sharing. Is this your comment in html code?

<!-- Badda Bing, Badda Boom -->
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To prevent hash reuse you can hash the password with a constant per site salt, e.g. bcrypt(sha256("news.ycombinator.com",password))
Sometimes it's just harder to appreciate and enjoy freedom we've generated for ourselves than actually to make all that work leading to that freedom.

It's a self-resolving paradox though. Later in life we're wiser, and most of us can better understand our life thru complex layers of abstract models. Like how good are we with diminishing risks and what kind of and how many options we can generate for ourselves. Life is good after that. You trust yourself, you have control. For now just enjoy the ride!
Almost but not quite. With light the electric field can go negative and the average is generally 0. With sound in air the pressure component has a ”DC” offset of 1bar and it cannot go negative, you will just get nonlinear effects when you start nearing that limit.
While I'm 100% against the supreme courts ruling and hope there is eventually some movement on it, I cannot get behind the writing of this article. It is two superlatives short of pointing people to a pitchfork store.
I know for sure, push notification can come through airport wifi (the ones that you need to log in), even when you are not logged in. It may be something to do with notification via IP address instead of hostname.

Can someone who has dived into the code on iOS/Darwin or Android/Linux kernel verify this?
The bytestring was truncated after 32 bytes, in the middle of a UTF-8 byte sequence.
This means the resulting truncated string is not valid UTF-8 anymore.
So my guess is that most devices decide "if it's not valid UTF-8, it must $LEGACY_ENCODING".
The truth is, conservatives would hide the fact you were living with agressive police police (police state attribute) anyway. And this whole post is hardly tech centered.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police...
"Yes, but only if I can look at yours. I have nothing to hide, but I don't want to be the only one who's isolated and exposed to the public".

"I have nothing to hide" implies that everyone should be open to investigation.
I was born in the village next to the bootleg factory. Heard about the factory a couple years ago when they were looking to hire mechanics. I couldn't believe they decided to open it illegally and found the whole story hilarious.
The story is still unfolding and the owner claims that the factory was in fact a research facility and no helicopters were sold. I don't believe that :)

The facility is located in the commune of Răculești, district Criuleni. It's a couple of kilometers away, but not in the disputed territory of Transnistria as falsely claimed in another comment. The owner and the factory workers on the hand, are residents of Transnistria. Why had they decided to open the factory on the "legal" side of the border - I have no idea. Transnistria is notorious for illicit activities including drugs and guns smuggling and would have been the perfect location for a bootleg factory.

Anyway, Moldovan Prosecutor's Office is known to take bribes and this "shut down" sounds like a deal gone wrong between prosecutor mafia and the factory owner.
Well, if a paper is available in Sci-Hub I’ll download it and I may cite it, while of it’s not I won’t so their is 0 chance I’ll cite it. My university system was already annoying to use, but now they switched to a Chrome extension that is not working half of the time. Not worth bothering with it.
They are not quite susceptible to this https://twitter.com/ballouxfrancois/status/12783989319495352...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUTON_bias

> FUTON bias (acronym for "full text on the Net")[1] is a tendency of scholars to cite academic journals with open access—that is, journals that make their full text available on the Internet without charge—in preference to toll-access publications.
It's not about reproducibility but severity and value.

Offering low bounties for something like this can act as an incentive for people who find something like this to sell it somewhere else.

A bug like this would be orders of magnitude more valuable in the wrong hands.
Heh, never looked at this from that angle. At least some more people might have gotten an idea for why privacy is indeed important.
> The lack of caffeine

There is a not insignificant amount of caffeine in green tea, but still less than in coffee
OReilly's Javascript books from circa 2001: https://www.oreilly.com/search/?query=server%20side%20javasc...

Plus a few more from 2001:

https://www.amazon.com/Server-Side-JavaScript-Developing-Int...

https://www.amazon.com/Server-Side-Javascript-Developing-Int...

Netscape's 1998 Server Side Javascript guide: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/816-6411-10/816-6411-10...
This is essentially the same, but pi-hole gives you a nice UI, stats etc, and of course you can point all your machine at a pi-hole instead of editing the hosts file on each.
>Secondly, can you point out what we lose if the landlords doesn't exist?

You now need a $1.4 million loan to live in an apartment.
Every lease I have signed converts to month-to-month after the initial 12 month period. From my understanding, that is pretty common. The only places that I have seen that require 12-month renewals are the newer buildings with professional management. But that is just my anecdotal experience. Another thing to consider, the lockdown has been going on for over 3 months now, so 25% of the population that was locked into a 12 month lease has hit the end of their lease term at this point.

Also, there have been some reports of record amounts of lease breaking. Considering that that behavior was probably close to non-existent before the pandemic, the 'record' amount is probably only a few % of leases at most. But it kinda makes sense. If you have access to free or cheap housing (i.e. staying with parents/family, etc...), and if that housing has a better 'pandemic quality of life' (i.e. more square footage, access to outdoors, etc...) than breaking your lease is somewhat rational. Worst case, they force you to pay the remainder of your lease. Best case, they re-rent it or let you get out without paying. Either way, your are improving your QOL, and you are not any worse off financially then you would have been if you stayed in the rental till the end of your lease.
You use the stuff cited in the citations you already have :-)