skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow - I'm really sorry you've only been exposed to bad video games until now. It's a decent game but it doesn't even come close to the best game I've ever played.

I agree with the sentiment that video games back in the day were more elaborate in other ways that matter more than what is done today. Several good or promising franchises have also been totally ruined by becoming big.

As soon as it's making large amounts of money, it garners attention from the kind of people who don't really care about anything but making money. DLCs and all the other bad shit is because the people in power aren't the ones that are passionate about making great things.
Can someone help me understand the greater vision of this project?

I do like the idea and efforts from a technical point of view. Tinkering with OCR on unusual (or old) languages.
But that's not the goal of this project as far as I'm concerned (it's a byproduct?) Archiving every single news entry for the sake of completion sounds more like obsession than purpose. We're creating so much information that it will be even harder to separate garbage from valuable information (you have to spend time reading the useless stuff before you can justify whether or not it's valuable to you).

Information overload IS a problem and by adding more information to an already saturated ecosystem I don't see the vision here but would like to understand :)

It almost seems like a hording problem but for the digital natives. People accumulate a lot of stuff but rarely can they actually appreciate what they possess as time & perception is a very limiting factor.

An article that would shed some light would be highly appreciated.
You're deluding yourself if you think your 13 year old isn't consuming much worse than video game violence on a daily basis. Just let him play the game.
Hi Daniel, it's really nice project.

Any plan to build a website for more visualization in the future or maybe a newsletter to receive the updates?
Thanks! The bit about the gangs was +interesting. Found this:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/early...
As it was relayed, the apple thing was the moment that he realised that the mysterious force holding the celestial objects in their orbits was exactly the same force as gravity.

It's not that gravity was a new concept or anything. In fact, it goes back so far in our history that we still use the silly name "gravity" for the phenomenon; it was once though to be a property of an object or an element (in the "four elements" sense), and was opposed by another property called "levity". You will note that there is no current theory of levity. Galileo had already put numbers to gravity on Earth by that point, and the idea that the force holding things in their orbits acted according to an inverse square law was circulating before Newton got there. (There's no reason to believe he couldn't have come to that conclusion independently, but there's no reason to credit it to him either.)

What was missing was the connection; the generalization. That's not obvious in any way. How do you get an inverse square law to work with Galilean gravity? It smacks of equants and deferents until you find a way to put the effective mass of a body, such as the Earth, at its centre. Imagine a world in which there's some inverse square force thingy holding the moon and planets in their orbits, and there's gravity and you know how that works, and nobody has even the slightest notion that they're in any way related. And then you have the OFFS moment.
An Immature Obsession with Greatness – physics educations and disillusionment
Many do, but surprisingly many more don't. Their main complaints are economic. If they would be a bit wealthier, they would be content. They are ok with a one party state, homophobia, corruption, etc. It's just they're very poor and it does kind of suck. So they're upset about wealth, but everything else is ok as far as they're concerned. Generalizing of course.
pass the tax & expenses to customer

they'll become taxi company (without obtaining medallion)
Never had a qnap.

2 cents..

We have sun, sg, dell, hp, asus ecs4000, hitachi 4u60...
All run centos and zfs.

A few of our end users use their own budgets to buy synology. And a couple of times we've had to rescue them by mounting their disks on PCs with enough(6-8) sata ports.. Happily synology are straight md raid. Its not so bad...
Versioned HDF5
Everyone I know plays something: DoTA, candy crush, Codenames, Jackbox, online cards, Skyrim, Zelda, Witcher, DnD on Foundry, even my old relatives play various games on mobile and iPad. Whereas, the younger, especially male, people I know almost all have a gaming system of one kind or another.

I am very into Starcraft myself. It is a wonderful combination of speed, strategy, economics, deception, and accuracy.
Bletchley Park Trust to undergo organisational restructure
I've been running Synapse from home for more than a year, so far nothing is too painful about maintenance, except at every update its asking to review the changes of the homeserver.yaml config file from the terminal, I would have liked a more automatic approach, like when a setting is different from the new one, just leave it at it is and update the rest.
They're not generating new information though, they're aiming to make old information available. I'm sure that it's quite helpful for historians to be able to search & read old newspapers, it gives more details about what people read about and often establishes a more specific time line.

We're probably not that good at recognizing which bits will be of interest to future generations, so archiving everything (to a point ... but I believe that newspapers are well within reasonable) sounds like a good idea. Plus you never know what you discover when you make things available.
Sure they can, and they can do so much better that their predictions are trusted to the point where they become a part of the narrative. Oh yeah, guess not...
Is it me, or it downloads so fast that the progress output doesn't even show in the terminal ? On Archlinux.
Is anyone from CloudFlare or Canonical reading?

Please parter to make mirrors for Launchpad PPAs. They're so painfully slow around the globe and there is tons of open source projects that depend on PPAs...
So, Uber's business model only works by exploiting the workers by denying them the benefits that an actual employee would have?

Sounds like all the courts deciding that Uber's drivers should be classified as employees got it right then.
If we separate out the usefulness or profitability of using blockchains to store non financial data,

Then

The data type doesnt matter. Taking supply chains ( or asset tracking im general )
Transactions could be of the form

From entity , To entity and Asset Descriptor - > mapped to blockchain ID

From to asset timestamp hash
One could have functions like
Check_current_ownership()
Check_transferability()
> all emails be written assuming that they could be made public

That's not what I meant though. I meant that the emails were making arguments specifically targeted at the public and/or the courts. If you viewed the emails as Epic and Apple having a conversation with each other and trying to negotiate or convince the other, they'd be totally ridiculous. Epic made a jerk cold opening, and Apple gave a pointless lecture in response. This wasn't a conversation, it was a debate. The emails were essentially opening arguments in a court case.
While it's a bit annoying I never saw the problem with this.

The article sounds like the author will give their full attention to the chat application after replying "hello" until they receive another message.

You can just switch yourself to nonblocking mode and handle other events and wait until epoll marks this chat readable again, or if you don't have any sort notifications turned on, just check back when you have a second. Worst case, the person at the other end wastes their time, not you. If it takes you an hour, their bad. But chances are they turn to something else in the meantime and don't stare at the chat window for hours on end. Would be kinda bad if you were on vacation and accidentally left your chat client running.
This is only partly a myth; there are contemporary accounts from Newton's acquaintances noting how he described being inspired by observing the fall of an apple from a tree. It was the fact that an apple falls from a tree specifically in the direction of the Earth's centre that was said to have piqued his curiosity.

The apple falling on his head seems to have been a later embellishment.
It lets you edit in place, which is very handy. It also keeps the original file permissions, which "blah bar > foo ; mv foo bar" does not do. Convenient. Frankly, I think that should be in the posix standard.
Exactly. Popular video games today are purposefully engineered products made to maximize addiction and play time with decisions being made based almost entirely on how to maximizing profit for shareholders. It's sad.

Incidentally I've been finding much more enjoyment in indie games the past few years, because these tend to be made by people who aren't doing so to become rich(though I suppose they wouldn't mind that happening along the way).
Ah, then this might be exactly what I am looking for for my 128gb flash drive: I want a persistent Ubuntu image with all my software, and an encrypted dmcrypt (cryptsetup makes this easy) partition to hold my backups.
Absolutely, but then that should be a separate benchmark, designed to test exactly that.

Same with intrinsics. Have a benchmark that tests how good are the intrinsics, are there any significant overhead etc.

When I look at generic names like "n-body sim" I'm thinking ok, let's see how generic mixed floating-point code compares between the languages.
Ofcourse its difficult to keep onchain data and offchain data consistent.
So its best to have an adapter for real world data
Blockchain, the Amazing Solution for Almost Nothing
Coinbase dodged the $9M Ethereum Classic 51% attacks
Also, ocrmypdf [0] is a great Tesseract-based tool which makes it easy to add ocr layers to raster pdfs. Plus, it takes care of optimizing the resulting file (compression, etc). I used it on several old academic papers and have been pleased with the results.

[0]: https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF
So is Alpine Linux. Almost no enterprise I've worked at lately wants to deal with antiquated software as long as their Kubernetes distro is working well.
I can see how it would be easy to consider equal what I say with me being specifically against China, but I was speaking in broader terms; Genocide is something is very broadly considered to be a horrendous crime, hence my example of it -- the correlation with China is incidental and not intended to be the main focus.

I single out specific ideologies as being dangerous for the future of humanity. It is the paradox of tolerance -- to be tolerant, you cannot tolerate intolerance, and that is what I am trying to grasp at. There are certain things that most people can universally agree to as being travesties and immoral (genocide being an example of such.) Any countries or governments participating in such activities, whatever the inclination of the people they govern, should be decried and blamed for such immoral acts. We should have to no tolerance for people and ideologies that are intolerant.

And with that said, I don't think I ever blamed the Chinese people for what their government is participating in. While I wish there was more political will and influence in the general population in China to pursue friendlier policies, the current actions of the Chinese government are likely not directly condoned by their populace, and I lay no blame at their feet in this regard. At the same time though, I can blame their government for enacting and undertaking policies that are inherently anti-humanitarian and anti-ethical by most 'standards', and agitate for them to do better. I am just as happy to call out my own government for the various malfeasances it has participated in as well, but you focused on China, so there we are.

I will gladly take the competition from China, or from Europe, or Africa, or Mars even for all I care, as long as its not on the back of the mistreatment of people. Until that's the case, I'm going to complain, whether its China, USA, Russia, Borneo or the Tooth Fairy that are doing bad things.

So again I ask, what is the problem with being political, when being apolitical means being apathetic?
A web framework that uses React Hooks for declarative data persistence
Contrary to most people I found this an interesting opinion, if only because it centers so much on SV culture. For those of us working in other countries and in unglamorous companies it has always been a very different kind of culture. Typically SV pioneers new ideas and new ways of working, and then over the next 5 to 10 years this slowly permeates global programming culture, but watered down.

Covid has changed this dynamic because for once everything is changing everywhere all at once. I noticed two major changes already. The first thing was freelance work drying up, because new projects were put on hold. With most of the economic consequences (and bankruptcies) still to happen, this could go either way. Either the tech sector has a lot less work, with wages falling and everyone trying to get the security of a salaried position, or there is a boom of software with businesses trying to retool and freelance work coming back with a vengeance. The second thing is obviously the shift to WFH. This move could conclude with everyone being ordered back to the office (once vaccinated), or with structural WFH being a thing for always, and many if not most developers rarely seeing the inside of an office. I don’t think anyone knows where it is headed, but the global impact of covid makes it that for the first time the changes to programming culture are likely to happen everywhere at once, instead of happening first in SV and then slowly rippling out. That levels the playing field, and it makes for interesting times.
Your second paragraph explains why you think there would be a price difference. That you can only choose 4.99 or 5.99 seems unrelated to your actual theory, and it doesn't make sense on its own.
For this I use autojump[0], what I really like is the integration with ranger FM[1]. I don't know exactly how ncd works, but with autojump you need to visit the directory at least one time to be able to fuzzy-jump.

0: https://github.com/wting/autojump

1: https://github.com/fdw/ranger-autojump
Ach. It was "Norton Change Directory" http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/norton_change_directory_clon...

But I already made my own. It is quite perfect:

#! /bin/bash
d=$(find / -name "$1" 2>/dev/null | head -1)
echo Jumping to $d, Control-D to return
sleep 1
cd $d
bash
I don't think acting like hacker news is some kind of sanctuary of erudite scholars is helping anyone either. Just ignore his comment and move on.
>is virtually child pornography disguised as a cautionary documentary

Ah damn, and we watched the movie with our teacher. Maybe the US is just different, having Cheerleaders with miniskirts and dancing like at Moulin Rouge that's ok, and children beauty contest (mostly in the conservative states)...no problem, but watching a disturbing and disgusting story like in Kids is called "child pornography".

BTW, i like that critic much more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/fashion/kids-20th-anniver...
When I stopped believing in Google's fundamental good nature
The so-called 'shy Tory' effect has been fairly conclusively proven to not actually exist; people will claim to be 'undecided' but will not claim to support X and then vote for Y. Look to size of the undecided group and then see where they break if the pollster forces a decision -- in 2020 the undecideds are smaller, and unlike 2016 they are breaking hard against Trump.
>because these tend to be made by people who aren't doing so to become rich(though I suppose they wouldn't mind that happening along the way).

I agree. One I enjoyed recently was Paratopic[0].

[0] https://arbitrarymetric.itch.io/paratopic.
Chess: Bobby Fischer vs. Nigel Short in 2000 (2017)
There is a beta level pine phone :) The calls/texts, bluetooth and wifi all work.
Our Chicago area group (APCU) is down to about 50 members, and we meet virtually thanks to the mismanagement of the plague here in the US, last time was a Zoom call.

The hardware has gotten reliable, and even the software isn't so cringy as it used to be. Gone are the days when we started each meeting with "Microsoft Bashing" just to get it out of the way.
Ok, thanks; I thought you were saying that external-to-the-device USB cameras would no longer be supported (which I am now thinking is not the case).
Not OP, but my take is that stability is usually defined as a base-state that will continue onto perpetuity unless some outside force disrupts it. Resiliency is more closely defined as the ability to recover from disruptions back to the base-state quickly.

Since the context here is that efficiency can remove layers of redundancy therefore allowing disruptions to wreck more havoc - I believe that's what OP was getting at.
Damage to the Olfactory Complex in Patients Testing Positive for SARS-CoV-2
Blackshark.ai is the platform creating an authentic 3D map of our planet
But it is. Take Spotify. You can't pay for that in the app. If they could charge more, they would. But they aren't allowed, so they discontinued IAP alltogether.
I'm not going to get too excited about this.

"Brain cells can harbor and spread HIV virus to the body" - https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-cells-ca... (June 2020)
I'd like to see research to support the sales hypothesis. I've heard it before as well but never seen any actual data to support the argument. It's also a really tricky thing to research, given triple-a developers typically don't like sharing much.
VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
You can pretty much do anything with Android, the same cannot be said about Apple's dictatorship.

I am not even sure about stock installs given Apple's poor security record.
As much as I'd love to use CloudFlare's uniformly fast network for package update, I'd never use this simply because I already depend on them for too much stuff.

It's not like letting them gather logs on my computers updating would be terrible somehow, but if it's so easy to avoid donating more logs and more dependence on them, why not do it for the sake of preserving diversity?

Growing companies often exhibit a long term pattern that usually seems innocent at first manifestation:

- Offer something for free

- Become hugely popular at offering that free thing

- Alternatives slowly dwindle in popularity and/or begin to die off

- User 'choice' increasingly becomes concentrated in that single option

- Company introduces surprising policy change, but users can switch to an alternative if they don't like it

- Company introduces differentiating functionality setting its option apart from the alternatives.

- Users grow additional dependence on the new functionality, alternatives look increasingly obsolete

- Company becomes increasingly aggressive at introducing changes, as they now own the primary alternative

It's hard to imagine CloudFlare are somehow going to monopolize package management :) But nonetheless, free services like this generally signal the beginning of this pattern

At some point I'm sure e.g. DejaNews seemed like an innocent dependency, and that attempting to look far ahead into the future would not have revealed its eventual sale to Google and the loss of the only comprehensive archive of the early Internet community in existence.
I apologise, I was speaking loosely. I don't know if sponge collects input in memory or in a file. (Frankly I've never needed to care since the files I've ever needed this tool for have all been small)
The study in question for anyone interested in reading it.

Parents’ Nonstandard Work Schedules and Child Well-Being:
A Critical Review of the Literature

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jianghong_Li/publicatio...
Coronavirus websites usually go over people's heads, study finds
> 95% is “Obama vs a dog”

That's what it was, don't forget how impossible it seemed at the time, it was a giant upset and shock.

> You think if Hillary went up against Trump, America would choose her 19 times out of 20?

If you are using "Hillary" and "Trump" figuratively about future elections with similarly matched candidates, then yes, see above.
This tool is simple and simply awesome.

I used this to fix a broken windows system recently while visting my "in-laws".

Probably a bodged update, booting windows resulted in "Boot device not found".

I had created the stick a couple of weeks earlier and put some ISOs on there, including windows 10 and ubuntu. Just have it with my leys now.

Used the Ubuntu stick to assess the situation, run smartmontools on the disk, backup data to an external hard drive and then used the windows stick to restore a recovery point which fixed the system.
No, it is not necessary _or_ sufficient. That is what I'm saying. You can audit a closed-source app, and there also might be open-source apps which are impractical to audit despite them being open source.
Need Ubuntu and Raspian.

When I saw the title I though they were proxying npmjs or docker hub.

The install process of editing a file is a bit painful. Means few people will do it. Somehow would be nice to have this offered in the is as a built in optional feature.
This is the first I've heard of this. I didn't know it could map to a new platform.

I have two and just got them working and haven't updated in maybe a year. I use them as internal switches and only really use vlans + dhcp.

It might be interesting to see if porting is a big deal. I have one annoying weirdness where ports are labeled sfp,1-5,6-10, but the logical mapping is really screwed up switch0:6, switch0:1,2,3,4,5, then switch1:5,4,3,2,1 (reversed)
stick -> iso, this is the point of the tool. One stick, several isos.
There are multiple physical malls and deportment stores where you need to drive from one to the next and consumers have zero problems doing that, why would it be different for applications?
Why not use the website instead of an App? Other people said Safari is bad, but you aren't trying to play flash games, you are looking at JavaScript at most.

(Not that I'd ever give Apple money, but trying to find solutions to those who made the mistake)
> “Although [OVPN] strive to store as little data as possible, there must be data connecting users and identities to make the VPN service work. In this case, a user has paid for a VPN account with the ability to connect a public static address to OVPN which the user has then chosen to link to the file sharing site ‘the piratebay’, i.e the user has configured his VPN account to point to the given domain.”

The article doesn't seem to go into why a VPN service _must_ have data connecting users and identities. AFAIK, Mullvad allows you to be completely anonymous with your purchase, granted they throw away the IP who made the purchase, which doesn't seem impossible to do. Simply store no data about the transactions and you have no data about it. Not sure I see the reason there has to be data about it.
All English vowel sounds in one sentence
Facebook is a global threat to public health, Avaaz report says