skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh you mean storing some data to cryptographically verify that a particular server is associated with a domain? If I'm not mistaken, that's what .onion addresses are.

I wonder if anyone has tried putting .onion addresses into DNS and have clients treat them like address records...
Maybe it's that once a platform achieves a certain size then the potential of making real money comes into view, and that starts to be the objective to optimize for. That means employing typical short-sighted stock boosting strategies such as explicitly focusing on revenue (Digg), or targeting mass appeal. Only the masses do not produce very good content, and they overwhelm the initial users in numbers by an order of magnitude. So the quality of the platform goes to shit.
> "I use X. It has that feature plus these other ones. Why would I switch to yours?" I get the spirit of why someone would say that, but it's really hard to read tone in a forum post.

Maybe I'm naïve but don't see it as snark most of the time. I see those posts as "here is some springboard for you to share the product or your vision and goals.

Sometimes it is genuine snark but I like to believe it is usually curiosity even if it isn't true.

I mean look at Dropbox. The basic idea is so simple. If you've used rsync/robocopy you might think it is ridiculous this product even exists. Doubly so if you're aware of how cloud providers charge so much for network traffic. Even Google Drive unlimited has to cap the amount of data transfer in a day. But there are always ways. For example, I think Dropbox has now limited free users to three syncing devices.

Or gitlab. Like huh? But GitHub exists. And surely git-web or gitea is better suited for a web interface for git? But then gitlab has almost nothing to do with git. As far as I understand, the goal of gitlab has always been to be a complete product.

I bring up these two examples because maybe the comments were snark but the founders seemed to handle it pretty well in both cases (at least publicly). I think their self-confidence shows in the product.
Ah, that's a good point. I'm sure I've heard that question often- "spichy hot?". Kind of like "funny weird or funny ha-ha?".

>> That qualifies as a circumlocution to me. BTW, I didn't think you Greeks learned Latin since all the classy Romans wanted to speak Greek ;-)

Oh, actually I learned some Latin in high school, most of which is now forgotten. But, I was surprised by that turn of phrase myself: I was trying to translate from the Greek in my head to English and suddendly a bit of Latin fell out :)

Edit: Also, to be fair, I love surprising my native English speaker interlocutors with weird little bits of English they never use and which I know because I first learned English not as my everyday language, but from books and textbooks. It helps that some of those weird bits are well, Greek. e.g. I surprised my thesis advisor the other day when I used the Greek plural of "lemma", "lemmata" which turns out to be perfectly correct English, although it's not often used. My advisor suggested I refrain from using such obscure words in papers since most reviewers would probably be confused by them and be annoyed at me- and you don't want to piss off reviewers!
I think it's a little more complex than that:

* Some low-cost airlines (like EasyJet) are pretty much doing just that, their premium membership give you access to priority lanes without any other significant benefit (since they don't really offer any).

* I don't think anyone wants ticketing to get even more complicated. It's obviously a lot easier and more rewarding for airlines to treat their frequent/business flyers well and make everyone else take the slow lines.

* First and business classes don't fill up the planes, airlines are directly impacted by shitty airports that can't embark/disembark/transfer 80% of their passengers (and luggage) quickly enough. You can't say there's zero incentive to fix the problem.
But your excluding a large group of possible candidates
Some of that is easily done with Helm and kubeadm, but not all of it, and definitely doesn't scale as you grow the number and size of the clusters running.
When I looked into starting a coding school, I realized something similar. Getting a curriculum is easy, getting a teacher is easy (I can do both and know how to outsource this as well). However, marketing the damn thing? That's hard.

In all fairness, it might be that a marketeer has the opposite view of this. This is how I came to realize that you need each other.

You need teams, eventually, maybe not in all cases, but definitely in a lot of them.
The first Android phone?
It feels like there are good security measures mixed with 'bad' ones in here.

It may be useful to focus more on the why, then the what.

I see you are familiar with frida and know a thing about reverse engineering, so I assume you know that just like most local protectors, someone will just eventually write a wrapper that automatically bypasses all the 'security' measures.

If we take electron as an example, why do I care that Tauri implements all these things, while electron doesn't. How does it make it more secure? Am I supposed to be worried someone is sitting in between my GUI and backend intercepting messages? Is this a common attack vector for electron? I'm really have a lot of questions why to put effort into developing all these things.
Activity Parameters are the best feature. I use https://hnrss.org/newest?points=10 so you can catch a lot of flagged and removed posts too and tbh some of those are interesting that you would otherwise might not see.
I agree about there being no good reason for Vim being so difficult to terminate.

I've introduced a few people to Vim and I have to start out with an apology for how annoying it is to close. If the user hammers the Esc key, it should at least flash up with a hint of how to quit.

It does this if you press ctrl-c, so it's not as if it can't be done.
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I think what makes relationships work/fail is the relationship people have with themselves above all else.

At times I was lonely and miserable and wanted somebody in my life badly and in those times nobody ever was even remotely interested in me. The moment I did well and / or was also in a relationship it seemed like potential partners were all over me (it seemed almost unfair). Point I'm trying to make is people usually "date" for the wrong reasons. The moment they're in to find somebody to "complete themselves" they create a an unconscious demand on their partner which is the pre-programmed disaster that it will turn out to be. The moment I notice my date is "actively looking" I run.

To me the whole concepts of "dating" is very sterile. It's not in my culture maybe to have a formal process where you sniff each other with prepared questions and then after 3 years you check "where this is going". What has worked well for me is not ever to look for partners actively and the trick was always "the less I look the more opportunities I find" (strange that).

I think why most relationships don't last is because we literally suffocate everything that is good out of it. Usually it happens slowly so we don't notice (or tell ourselves things will get better - they usually don't). For most people it's just a way to build many small co-dependencies into a neurotic prison which they can be unhappy in but tell themselves "at least I feel secure". Some even think it's their mission to fix their partner (and all they do is set themselves up for pain).

A timeless classic on the psychology of relationships: Scott Peck "The Road less Traveled" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck#The_Road_Less_Tr... (one of my top 10 fav books I ever read (and I read a lot).

edit: my experience working for a dating startup called Friendscout24 (a total horror show) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18713837
It takes courage to admit one's dark history. And kudos to Europe for that. Secondly, why the shaming ? Historical facts should be stated as it is and people living in the present shouldnt be shamed for it. That feels wrong. But one cant adjust admit to some glaring faults and say everything else is great. Colonial mindset is still a thing across Europe. Just look at poverty tourism in Africa. Most tourists are Europeans. Its also very much true that European tourists who go to Vietnam or India or Thailand dont go there for experiencing their culture but to feel better about how life is better in Europe as most would very much tell you in private conversations. There is also the mindset of grateful immigrants rampant across Europe. Like somehow if someone makes it here they should sing the praises of their country because it is clearly a one-sided deal.
Really? Twenty years as a database consultant and 5 or 6 tables would be a typical upper limit, you could perhaps get up to 10 or so if you include a lot of lookup tables for codes. I've never worked in banks though, so what would you be looking at there typically?
thanks, I was looking for this comic for some unrelated reason.
You might be confusing the Vatican with the Catholic Church.

It's a semantic difference that has no real meaning. Every Catholic church organisation answers to the Vatican. Treating them separately is like treating Apple, Apple UK, and Apple Ireland separately because no, really, they are different legal entities honest.
Apologies for being off topic, Can anyone here suggest a good course/ book for blockchain?
> "just ship it" is just as dumb as "never ship it". Why are people so prone to these oversimplified polarizations?

Because this mantra is being applied to a group of people who almost universally wait longer than they should. It is never going to get interpreted as "ship when all you have is hello world". It is going to act as a push to ship earlier, when it's uncomfortable, before you feel ready.

Basically it's relative rather than absolute "ship earlier than you think you should". And there is nothing wrong with a succinct formulation of that concept.
This all seems reasonable to me. If you're worling with other ppl, why not have them be people you might vibe with?
Epic list! Thanks for sharing.
My goodness, the questions people sent in. "I've never met a rich nitpicker" comes to mind.
To profit from cloud services at the level AWS/MS do, you need big customers, the long tail is just marketing that happens to make you some pocket money. To get big customers, Google's reputation for losing interest and moving into the next big shiny plays very hard against them.
The definition of a bigot is someone who is intolerant to differing views. That being the case, perhaps this accusation is better leveled at the people relentlessly driving right-wing opinion off of every major platform.
Disappointing from Ubiquiti. While I don't use their video products, I was a user of their networking gear, but given this and the lack of quality / bugs in recent releases, the key features that are still missing or barely functional, I will be looking to migrate.
Nah, I think you are delusionally paranoid if you think retweeting a bunch of non-political China Daily tweets about amusement parks, food and entertainment constitutes "propaganda".

Yes, I want people to see a different side of China than just "they brought the virus, they are poor/uncivilized, they are communists/brainwashed, they steal our tech". I want to show that Chinese society is largely also a normal society, like yours. Nothing to do with politics and whether you agree with border disputes or whatever. Yes you should take Chinese (or US'es, for that matter) media's political messages with a grain of salt. So what? Even showing society is propaganda now? I can't tell others that Chinese are normal people too who can enjoy their lives, and that China is worth visiting? I call this "against the CCP AND against the Chinese people".

I can understand why you would disagree with Qiao Collective. But a "shill presence", as in, "hired by the Chinese government"? You mean, they can't be legitimately a bunch of independent Asian-Americans who have their own opinions? This is just the same "everybody who has a different opinion than me is automatically a CCP shill" nonsense.

In reality, real CCP propaganda is ridiculously bad. It doesn't convince anybody, it is losing the global narrative, and their propaganda departments are full of idiots who don't get it. You have nothing to be afraid of, for they are incompetent.

I will decide for myself whether I am a good faith actor, thank you very much. I won't let you define who I am. But at this point, it doesn't surprise me anymore that you automatically label someone as a bad faith actor simply for having a different opinion.
This. I'm in exactly the same boat. I had an idea, that I thought would be cool if it existed and that I knew I'd make a lot of use of, but wasn't sure if there was a real market for it. Recently another company launched something similar (a few key differences, but otherwise mostly feature compatible), and it got rave reviews.

So I'm looking at that as market validation, and have now actually started building my own project. I think it is quite helpful that I no longer have the uncertainty of whether the project can successfully sustain itself, since the market validation has already been done, and it looks quite obvious that the demand is there.
Looks good and cool site! What did you build it in?
This is the problem with all of these "diversity" pushes --- people have started feeling they should be "helped" and even funded.

Top VCs reject thousands of pitches every year, you are one. Black or white does not matter, deal with it.
The wealthy class of the past had spend some of the wealth to be remembered via public works or patronage of art.

Through their vanity or just a goodwill they wanted to be remembered for something.

This doesn't seems to be a rule, but an exception.

All of the social contracts of old societies were broken old time ago. Helping poor is either PR stunt or dirty work of middle class. Or a ploy to extract more wealth (lookup disaster capitalism).

Globalization decoupled the 'haves' from the place they are living. They can uproot and travel away to another community. Be it SF or next SF.

This was much harder in the past. Business and family ties would make it harder to just move to Spain.

That tied the 'haves' to 'have-nots' in a way. So the 'haves' might be incentivized to make the place a better for everyone - this would be that saying that the philantrophism
is just selfish behavior as you make your own environment a better place, only through indirect means.

But this is largely no more.
Hasn't Musk been saying this for a while, one of his pitches for why you should buy a Model 3 was that it would soon be able to operate as an independant taxi...

At this point I just ignore what Musk says about Tesla autopilot.

I don't see them having it this year. Or next.
I remember, in 2014, Facebook started to be available on Tor, and people speculated that there will be a wave of popular websites being offered on Torspace.

Nothing came of this "wave", if I'm not wrong, right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebookcorewwwi.onion

edit: and it seems down to me right now.

edit2: it works... but slower, than just going to regual HTTPS version with Tor. Which makes sense, because it needs to hop more.

edit3: .... but it doesn't let me log in, as I am logging from "suspicious location".
This is the first time in my hn lurking moment that I felt a desire to downvote something. And I don’t even have enough karma for that. So let me be unequivocal when I say this: you are being naive, and downright insensitive to the case in point. I am truly saddened by reading your comment.
That's easy. If the justification isn't clear, then the answer is No. It's their responsibility to provide a clear and valid justification.
Colonies did keep their histories recorded. It was systematically destroyed. Dutch in Indonesia, British in India, Europeans in America. It is very common to find mass graves in Africa even now for which there doesnt seem to be any records about how they came to be.
This is really useful stuff. I combined this with a side project of mine to get reply notifications from HN. IFTTT works great also if anyone wants to implement the same.
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HN thread for the OpenOffice story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956
What's a good source of chinese quarantine comedy? I briefly tried looking for a chinese equivalent to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BEPFJh4A9M but my hanzi search is weak.

(maybe less distress because our "lockdowns" were less strict? Locally we were encouraged to go outside, etc. just to avoid travel and keep distance from others. Didn't even really do masks, those have come in with the second wave.)
Still pretty silly that our phones don't have artificial noses on them for at least things like Carbon Monoxide and other easy to detect noxious gases.

I am really glad Apple put an EKG into their Apple Watch without being prompted by competition. Many people have been helped immensely by discovering underlying heart conditions through it.
> /6 That's because of the fundamental deal behind First Amendment values: you can't use the government to punish speech because the marketplace of ideas, the private sector, society's "more speech" is the best way to address "bad speech," not government action.

This category of "more speech", including everything from criticism to calling for someone to get fired is dishonest. The letter doesn't oppose criticism.
Looks pretty useful. Not sure how to use it though.

The best way would be if I could make a little html page that fetches and renders them. But they do not provide the appropriate cors headers so that fails:

https://jsfiddle.net/nmvhuf4e/

So one would have to fetch them serverside and send it back to the frontend to read it.

Is there a rss reader which you can use without logging in? I don't keep cookies around, so logging in every time I want to look at one of these feeds would by annoying.

Ideally it would offer to put in the feed via a url like this:

coolreader.com/?url=hnrss.org/frontpage&fields=title,link

And then shows one row for each entry with title and link.

Or maybe there is a command line tool which will do this for the terminal?
Agreed, I graduated high school in 1995, and I was dating a college girl in Rome, Georgia. Our favorite hangout was a coffee shop that served, among other things, lattes and frappes.
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Congratulations and good for them, but nobody gives a shit on what you do in bed. None, zero, nada, null, zilch and nil. Get over it, your preference doesnt make you special. I'm so sick of being forced seeing this kind of stuff literally everywhere.
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"Consent culture", along with contraception and condoms, strikes me as one of the real enablers of the 20th century sexual revolution.
This story makes me smile every time it comes up. It's fascinating how many arbitrarily coded limits we keep breaking as we make our tech go faster without re-assessing the original assumptions :)
I loved f7u12, I don't think content that you can simply avoid is a red flag that shows any particular degeneracy?

HN has 3? moderators. Number of moderators isn't the issue it's whether they're operating with ulterior motives, particularly hidden motives. Here, I think you can assume promoting Ycombinator and other pg associations are a motive that's not explicit.
That's a great idea. I can take it even a bit further though. The defaults matter. Maybe show a persistent thing at the bottom on how to exit and maybe even throw in what to do if you pressed Ctrl + s and now vim is "not responding". But this involves changing the defaults so it will likely never happen, same way as we will probably never see curl automatically enter a new line at the end of a response.
> On the other hand, the least talented developers are more likely to stay put since they’ll have a hard time convincing other companies to hire them.

Terrible fallacy on so many levels. "I can't convince you to hire me, therefore I'm bad". "I can convince you to hire me, therefore I'm great".
HA is available and doesn't require Redis Labs Enterprise, the comment above refer to what is called "Redis Cluster" meaning sharding
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Wouldn't it be possible to see this experimentally? You'd find particles jumping out of a "potential energy well" which they shouldn't be able to escape via tunneling.
Reddit is too nebulous to get very mad about. You can leave a subreddit you're sick of. Trash your account if you're worried your comments risk doxing yourself. Start afresh, it's easy. Everyone is pseudonymous and reputations seem to matter far less than places like Hacker News.

I've been using Reddit - reading a lot, commenting quite a bit, posting a little - since I read about it in the Joel on Software blog in 2006. It has been fascinating and fun but I've made no lasting friendships or connections. I'd move to something better with no regrets, but the site owners are probably never going to annoy me enough to move to something worse out of principle.
I'm similarly unclear on what sort of response you expect.

There weren't many comments when I replied.

My criticism was tailored to a fairly specific phenomenon: asymmetrically imaginative doomsaying that appeals to a vivid vignette / sketch of an adjacent possible future featuring some hyperbolically elaborated extension of trending tech, like Flash Mob Gone Wrong[1] and Slaughterbots[2].

HN flagging and points are irrelevant to me.

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[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots
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> "Addressing the small balance sheet is of direct relevance."

Could you explain the relevance...?

> "The FT article is not more substantive wrt the Ayanda Capital deal."

Firstly, it is, because it includes a response from Ayanda, which is a basic principle of journalism. Secondly, my entire point is that focusing on this one company is the problem. Anyway I don't want to argue this any more, the mods can make up their own mind with regards to which article is better and switch if they feel it is appropriate.
It depends on how enterprisey you want to go, and how much of an all in one solution (fully integrated like the UniFi line). I've started looking at options, and you have:

Prosumer
TP-Link EAP

SMB
Meraki Go
Aruba
Ruckus

Enterprise
Cisco
Merakai

You also have some FOSS options like pfsense and OPNsense for the security gateways. I'd be keen to know if anyone has some good recommendations.

The Meraki Go range looks attractive enough to have APs around your house, but the cloud/app based management concerns me.
I just want to say that's one of the greatest books I've read in recent years. Highly recommended!
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767781
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"contact event"
And if someone wants an account of the entire case, here's a must-watch documentary, especially if you belong to the hacker culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3UkQ
Long-form writing is fine as long as you have something to say. The best thing to come out of the article was the title, unfortunately.