skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine changes every few weeks.

I found it amusing to see that the OP web link stops showing what my IP has been downloading at the same time that I got the IP only about a week ago.
It's funny because we all knew Flash was a scourge on the web and highly inefficient, and we swung so far around in the other direction that now Electron is a scourge on desktop and highly inefficient.

Price of progress I suppose.
That sounds intense. I’d love to chat; will email you tomorrow.
Instagram adds “Mute White People” sticker to stories
I really wanted Lime to succeed here, because we could all use the competition, but man, that Lime chip really is absolute crap. It has dead zones all over the spectrum where the LO PLL won't lock, even within the temperature spec. [1]

I returned my LimeSDR Mini after a frustrating weekend and bought a USRP instead, which uses the AD chip, and there's really no comparison.

This is one reason why I said in another comment that I thought it'd be difficult for a fabless upstart to complete on a complex / high-performance design like an ADC. The chip Lime designed is an absolute monster -- it has multiple ADCs, DACs, filter banks, switches, oscillators, PLLs. If any one of them isn't perfect, the whole design is shot. I'd still like for them to succeed, but when you're selling a hundred dollar IC, it really does need to be flawless.

[1] https://discourse.myriadrf.org/t/new-limesdr-mini-loopback-t...
I stopped when they resuscitated Jon Snow. That was blatant pandering, and it was clearly going to be downhill from there.
No, you just would not be able to reach UK DOD.
My theory of the progression of manufacturing for some product goes like this:

stage 1: figure out how to make a thing

stage 2: figure out how to make the thing well

stage 3: figure out how to make the thing cheaply

stage 4: figure out how to make the thing well, cheaply

I'd say that for electric guitars, the '59 Les Paul was at the early end of stage 2, and sometime in the last decade or so we've gradually transitioned into stage 4.

One might argue that there's also a stage 5: figure out how to make the thing well and cheap, but customized to a specific user's preferences. Right now, that's the main reason why one would have an electric guitar custom made by a luthier rather than buy a factory-made instrument. (I like to mess around with just-intonation-based tuning systems, and have ended up building or modifying a lot of instruments simply because guitars in the tunings I want simply aren't for sale.)
I was happy when the state released clear metrics for what would allow a county to move onto Phase 2.5 and Phase 3 of the reopening.

Initially one of the key metrics is that the county have 0 deaths and no more than 10 new coronavirus cases per 100k residents over a 2 week period.

Then the number became 25 cases per 100k residents.

Then it became 100 cases per 100k residents.

Then my county was permitted to mostly reopen with 300+ new cases per 100k residents, in conjunction with a few hundred deaths per week. To me it's clear that we've strayed from the original emphasis on "science based" metrics.
> Bro, people don't have any opinions of their own they just pick them up along the way. Think about it.

Isn’t that true about what you’re saying here? If you don’t have any why spread it as if it’s yours?
We understand the disease a bit better, and have better treatments (eg dexamethasone) than we had in March, so I'd expect the true fatality to go down somewhat. (read carefully, this is not in contradiction with the CDC raising their estimate of the IFR). Better treatments are of no use if hospitals are overwhelmed, unfortunately.
Show HN: Communick. Privacy-respecting social media and messaging hosting
Communick has been one of my on-again/off-again side projects for almost 5 years now. The idea started when I was working at T-Labs (Innovation arm from T-Mobile) who wanted to go after the big software companies in the messaging space. As ambitious as their ideas were, it didn't take off because it was trying to do too many things to too many people.

The idea for Communick is simple: instead of trying to recreate everything from scratch, just take every best-in-class service in the messaging and social media space and make it as worry-free as possible for everyone to use.

At first, we are hosting:

- Matrix
- XMPP
- Mastodon

One of the things that we are doing differently as a way to break the chicken-and-egg problem is to offer group
packages. You (the privacy freak) can buy a group package of 10 accounts and then invite friends. For those that value their privacy and understand TINSTAAFL, it's a small price (really, our introductory price is less than $0.15/user/month!)

Focus on privacy is so big, a lot of the late work was to make it easy to accept crypto. Ethereum and ERC20 tokens like Brave's BAT or DAI. Email addresses are not required for signing-up. I am hosting the servers in Germany, no user
data stored in the US. I am also only supporting messaging services where end-to-end encryption is easy to be adopted
by anyone. I also put together a discourse instance at https://support.communick.com to provide help and hopefully
create more documentation and guides to help non-technical people to adopt these services.

It would be great if you could take a look, join and let me know your
thoughts and feedback to make this better and more useful.

Thanks!
I think the quality is still hit or miss. I have a Chinese Epiphone LP Standard from 2017 or so, and it is a fine guitar, but this is after leveling frets and replacing the nut, bridge and pickups. Before that it would not stay in tune, buzzed at several frets, sounded dull both acoustically and through pickups and especially the "hotch" bridge pickup was a wonderful combination of muddy and thin. If you are thinking "but that's how a Les Paul sounds", you have no idea how muddy and thin. To be honest, the "59" neck pickup wasn't bad, but Tonerider that replaced it is better.

Another guitar I use regularly is a Squier Bullet Strat. It sounds kind of like Strat and it doesn't buzz at frets because of super high action, but it won't stay in tune, the ends frets are sharp and so are saddle adjustment screws that are a couple of millimeters too long and the icing on the cake is that basically anything played on second string makes something under pickguard rattle unless you press it at a certain spot. If you have to ask, it's audible through pickups and kills sustain.

I think you can find equally bad USA-made instruments at several times of the price if you look hard enough, but I wouldn't call these good instruments.
I met George Wilson, Toolmaker of Williamsburg. He was old when I met him in the 90's and I don't know if he is still around, but I hope so. He was a luthier and made some amazing guitars, and I got to play some of them at his house. He also liked to make Gretsch copies. I am not familiar with the models, but one I got to play was a large hollow body, perhaps it was known as a Country Gentleman. Gretsch guitars are highly collectable, and expensive, which belies the fact that the vintage models were often not made well, and play terribly. George's copy was perfect right down to the serial number and stamp on the volume and tone knobs. The only way to know it was a copy is that no Gretsch was ever made so well, and the fact that George's guitar would have 3-4 times the market value than the original vintage guitar he copied. I was naive then and I think George took advantage of me. I had a flawless blonde 1989 ES-335 dot, and he talked me into trading him for it for a Bedrock amp that he wanted to dump, an AC-30 copy. He sold that guitar in less than 2 weeks on consignment and got considerably more than I paid for it new a couple years earlier. I still have that amp, loaned to a studio, and it has gotten work on many records over the years. It always sounded better than any original Vox AC-30, though still faithful to the original sound. But that amp was never worth nearly as much as that 335 I have been missing ever since, I doubt even half as much.
There is some racing that lends itself to electric like stage rally, rally cross and the drag strip. I'd love to drive an electric rally cross car, especially since it's one of the most accessible forms of racing out there.

Circuit racing (in particular endurance racing) is a long way from electrics being competitive (though LMP1 cars certainly use a hybrid powertrain to boost speeds). Le Mans cars currently cover over 5000 km in 24 hours. When Porsche stretched the Taycan to the limit they managed 3300 km in 24 hours. That's roughly a 1950s Le Mans pace (and that as when the track had fewer turns and longer straights).
Clickable - https://communick.com

Another note: I am putting this in a "soft-launch" mode. There are still a bunch of things, big and small, that need working on, but I'd rather put this in front of you to get some feedback than put it again in the backburner. I am making a "Soft Launch Special" price of $5/10 users/3 months to have access for all 3 services, including 14 days of free trial.
> 3D printing is magnitudes slower than forging

Suppose you wanted to mass produce 3D printed parts as cheaply as possible. Would there be opportunities to scale up the speed of printing?

One thought is to steal an idea from traditional (2D, paper) printers. A traditional dot matrix printer has a head which sweeps side to side, but there are much faster printers called line matrix printers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_matrix_printer) which essentially have a head the width of the entire page, so it prints one entire row of pixels in one fell swoop. (One such printer is the IBM 6400. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPBWru2Ecg#t=6m57s)

One could imagine a similar approach with 3D printing with a wide print head that prints an entire row at once instead of a point.

Maybe there could be other optimizations or economies of scale as well.

Obviously R&D costs would be high, so you'd probably only do it if you could use for more than just pistons in one low-volume model of car.
I can't recommend getting some good quality earbuds from China, with metal faceplates (or entirely metal) and replaceable wires, enough. Cables cost 4$, you can buy a second one off the get-go, and if the connector breaks at least for mine you can simply unscrew the connector, replace it (it's a standard), and resolder the two wires.

The key is to spend a bit more and do your research, mine cost 40$ and will probably last a decade. To name them, the model is KZ ZSX - the sound quality is absolutely excellent too, and there are impulse response files to make them sound almost completely perfect.

There are also other more reputable brands such as Shure, but AFAIK none that will make headphones with metal faceplates for under 150$.
There's also the problem that if the copyright owner themselves made the torrent available, it's not actually illegal to download it...
Run, Run, and don't look back. It's great that they were willing to hire you but a job has to be beneficial to both sides. The reality is that if you were not doing your job they would let you go. There no reason for you to stay if they can't meet your needs.

I wouldn't burn bridges but I would gracefully leave if I were you. Try to leave the place in better shape than what you found it in but it's time for you to go to your next challenge.
I only use Firefox. So it's probably not just that in itself.

It sounds like you're using something that adds enables a dark mode preference to Firefox - and currently some of the Firefox addons and Chrome disagree about some of the finer details of how that should process.

Try it without asking for dark mode.
It feels so weird to grow up in an age of rampant, unabashed piracy, where literally everyone around you is burning CDs or cracking games or handing out copied mixtapes, and see questions like these. It just goes to show how thoroughly streaming squashed piracy (at least before everything fractured into the current landscape), and how short our collective memories are.

Data yearns to be free -- sharing it and copying it cost nothing. Shows are just video data. Forcing real-world, scarcity economics, in a realm where the only currency of the land is plentiful, seems strange to me.

There are so many other ways to monetize media content, and yet we keep going back to DRM and publisher-controlled walled-gardens. It's a complete and total shame.
The engine is very, very, rarely the limit in racecar performance. They're very tightly regulated.
We're rapidly reaching the limit of tire technology, not engines
Is he wrong though? Any of us who operate websites know our traffic numbers. I'd say we have at least 80% of our traffic coming from mobile and tablet.

People are doing all kinds of things on their phones, including applying for jobs and getting government services.

The only thing I think Jobs might have been wrong on is the mix. The smartphone has become so powerful that the mix of smartphones to tablets is probably not what be predicted.
We really need these things to be Closed Circuit by law. Want the data? Get a warrant and seize the device physically. Centralized databases of surveillance information needs to be outlawed criminally.
This is so cool. I want to feed recipes into GPT-3 to generate novel (and humorous) food items.
That depends on the ORM -- ActiveRecord has a ".explain" method on the proxy objects for its query builder which displays the SQL, and the query plan (displayed in db-specific format).
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Pretty refreshing to hear a company leader just say "we want to make the best product". No fluff, no ecosystem, just seemingly straightforward best products and best features. It seems almost bizarre today.
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On reconnection got a 56.x ip so USPS as well.
All caps is part of it sure, but that's not the only thing going on. Given what "env" means, either "environment variables" or "env vars" is more normal. Mixing one short and one long is an oddity on top of the capitalization.

Like I said though, it's along the lines of a code smell. It's definitely possible the writer is simply doing it by reflex due to influence from some other language (but then, why not use that language in the example at the top?), but it sticks out and makes more familiar readers question why it's being written that way, where the author is actually coming from.
This looks incredible! I remember getting Flight Simulator X for Christmas when I was ~10 years old. I had a very simple setup, with a 3-axis joystick, but had many hours of fun, exploration, and learning.

Out of curiosity, I tried installing it on a Win10 PC last year. It did install and I got to having an airplane on the runway, though I didn't have a joystick and didn't have the patience to figure out flying without.
Neat website.
However it seems to provide a poor experience to users who deny the geolocation browser permission, as there's no way to type in any address as a string on the few pages under the search header I took the time to explore...
> Another 10 years and I would be surprised if there was a single ICE vehicle that could beat an electric.

I think that really depends on the context.

For most races? You're probably right.

It'll be extremely difficult for electrics to beat gas cars at something like the 24 hours of Le Mans.
"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."

- your company's IT guy
If FP is going to survive within mainstream programming then it’s the “very basics“ of it that will carry it forward. It’s the difficulty of understanding and application OOP that is leading to OOP’s demise. Unfortunately, and incorrectly, the need for a “deep understanding” of either paradigm is not a factor that will lead to mass adoption.
I think the joke may have been by ChrisLMB, who saw the opportunity when he read the unmasked second-level domain in ben174's address.
"Piracy" is not the problem, it is the solution. The truth is all subscription services straight up suck. They don't hold a candle to copyright infringement. Despite making billions of dollars in revenue, they simply can't compete with what's essentially a bunch of enthusiasts. More often than not the reason why they can't compete is copyright itself.

They have clunky interfaces, making users miss mpv. They don't have chapters, making it annoying to seek to a specific part of a film or episode. They don't allow users to download content beforehand, locking them out whenever there's no internet connection. They have annoying DRM, preventing content playback on perfectly good computers and TVs for no good reason. They aren't available in most countries, locking out entire regions of the globe. When it is available, users get only a subset of the content and feel like second rate consumers. Whatever ends up being available is frequently modified, censored or cut. Users straight up lose access to content with no warning when licensing agreements expire. Every copyright holder launches its own little streaming service with its own annoying quirks. They compress the video so much even pure black frames have massive artifacts and have the audacity to charge for this garbage. They don't have enough subtitles. There's usually zero extra content such as commentary tracks. They track everything users do and watch.

There is exactly one area where streaming offers a superior experience compared to copyright infringement: multiple audio tracks. This is because of a technical limitation: video players can load subtitles that are external to the video file but not audio tracks.

Something as good as "piracy" shouldn't have to stop existing for the benefit of aging industries. It's the 21st century, copyright doesn't make sense anymore. Society must rethink its laws. The copyright industry must adopt new business models or disappear.

> Because everybody does it, that makes it okie dokie?

The fact everybody is infringing copyright is evidence that the law is wrong. Laws are supposed to codify the customs of a people. If everyone is violating a law then that law obviously does not represent the customs of that people. Society must recognize this and adapt so that the behavior can be allowed.
Plenty of Indians/Hindus conduct the same sort of linguistic analysis, beginning with a guy called Panini who lived around 800 BC. In any case, the nuance and depth of the arguments in the University of Texas article far supercedes the a priori (and apparently religiously nationalist) statements you are making here.

Historical linguistics is an evidence-based field of study that many Indian scholars also actively participate in, wherein they also analyze non Indian languages.
You won't see a difference in results between browsers. There's 0 Javascript on the site.

If you're seeing something funky with the CSS in Firefox... Then you probably have a dark mode addon. And the addons and Chrome disagree with how dark mode should work. Try disabling it.

I'm seeing 40+ responses for each of those words when searching, across Firefox, Chrome, Firefox Android, Chrome Android, and even Lynx.
We were hosting an Au Pair from sweden. One day comcast sent us an email saying our IP address had been used to illegally download content.

I confronted her about it, and she lied denying it was her.

Needless to say, we never received another complaint.
> And the query planner isn’t a black box. Once you read the documentation on how the order of operations is determined by the engine, you can start to be thinking on the same plane as the query engine. You can infer how a query will use indices and the way the WHERE clause will be used.

If you're willing to put that kind of time and effort in, you should have no trouble understanding how your ORM generates queries - IME they tend to be far clearer, better documented, and more introspectable than database query planners.
> Moto

> Through automation, anything is possible.

Did you mean ‘motto’? I like what you’ve published so far, I might mention on articles you surface like “SCP is insecure and slow”[0] that it was written by a company with a competing product to sell you, in this case Gravitational.

[0] https://gravitational.com/blog/scp-familiar-simple-insecure-...
Rocketlab too, additive metal manufacturing is definitely production ready.

There's YouTube channels that get 3d car engine parts printed. This is not just the realm of multinationals.
> We've had nearly 1% of our population killed or wounded in a short period of time before

In fact, more than 1% of the population dies every single year.
I've only seen 2-2.5% cited as a CFR (case fatality rate) for 1918 influenza in the US, not the IFR (infection fatality rate). I don't know if those are assumed to be equivalent for are assumed to be retrospective analysis, but the CFR rate and IFR remain significantly different for COVID-19- ~4% for the all up US CFR rate and estimates anywhere from 0.1% to 1% for the COVID-19 IFR in the US.
> You're assuming that your "secret formula" automatically provides an arbitrary amount of secrecy. It doesn't

I disagree. My assumption is that sha256 digests are uniformly random. Thus, xor-ing a sha256 digest with something of the same length is equivalent to a one time pad, which is uncrackable. And since I'm only crossing the border once, it works perfectly. Now, I only need to hide the ciphertext and protect the input to the sha256 digest, which I do by selecting an algorithm with sufficient entropy that it will never be guessed.

> Unless you can provide a proof that your method is sound, it isn't.

My method is sound because it's a one time pad[0] which is sound.

> It's simpler, provides more bits of secrecy, and is easier to validate than some harebrained secret-chained-hash scheme.

I disagree that it is simpler. I know how to xor two things together. Downloading openssl CLI or kali linux or whatever I need to do it "the right way" would take hours of research to make sure I got it right. I know I can get xor right.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. If this is a one time border crossing... why invest countless hours researching the perfect solution when hiding the key in the words of email using something like black magic[1] works just as well, stays just as hidden, and doesn't break if your country decides to implement stenography purging techniques on files (zeroing out padding bits/metadata on common formats used for steganography).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

[1] https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Black-Magic
I'm a heavy user of Open API Spec. I do have issues with that project, so I'm certainly hoping something better will replace it, but that said:

What motivated you to build this instead of just using OAS?

Why did you create a DSL when you could've used, say, TypeScript? Using an existing language allows you to rely on widespread, well-understood, efficient tooling, so a DSL is sometimes an extreme choice that implies a forceful rejection of existing languages.
Apparently hamachi also uses the 25.x.x.x ip range for their vpn interfaces[1]. Not sure why anyone would use a random delegated range when there are plenty available, especially the 100.64.0.0/10 range.

[1] https://support.logmeininc.com/central/help/about-the-hamach...
The more governments "focus on housing", the more prices rise. Rent control is rife with abuse and pushes prices up elsewhere, and governments tend to heavily restrict zoning and building regulations so that builders can't build.

If someone wanted to build ultra dense skyscrapers in NYC with very small apartments for poor people it would never be allowed.

Compounding the problem, once people "make it" and own a house, they vehemently vote for NIMBY policies to preserve their house's inflated value.

The thing that damns this article the most is the claim that minimum wage improves opportunity, a fact so clearly wrong it's almost as if they're pretending it has never been tried and failed repeatedly.