skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A screenshot of a tweet is already a low fidelity capture (cf. a web archive). Why would I want to alter it further?

If I needed a tweet to look better than it actually does irl, I would screenshot something from Mastodon or Pleroma instead.

If I need to screenshot a tweet at a high resolution, I'm going to do this in any Gecko-based browser with <my own enhanced system font rendering preferences>.

If the screenshot needs to be larger-than-life, I'm going to use any of the puppeteer-based tools for this.

If I'm one of those godawful aggregators that needs square images with colorful patterned wallpapers behind the tweets, I have to use my library of cursed wallpapers and whatever shitware macro has already been written for the job.
3D Bin Packer
Hello HN,
I have built a 3D bin Packer as a POC, perhaps will make it commercial. Play with it and any feedback is more than welcome.
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The cult of originality is reinforced by the current (psychotic) reliance of academia on papers, which, structurally, must be original to be considered significant.

Historically, tradition was more important than originality. Logically this makes sense: most new ideas are more likely to be bad than the current set of ideas, settled on in a somewhat darwinian manner.

In many fields the cult of originality isn't too damaging: you get a lot of useless "original" stuff that is quickly forgotten and discarded. Pointless and expensive, but ultimately of little importance.

Architecture, unfortunately, is an area where the cult of originality has done real damage to the actual, physical world. There are power stations built by anonymous journeymen in obscure parts of the US, using pattern books, with more architectural merit than much of the stuff built after WW2. We now put expensive lofts in what were once storage sheds in major cities, because they were built when tradition was still a functioning factor in building.

htmx, to an extent, is an example of something that mixes originality and tradition. It takes the traditional understanding of HTML and web development (itself an original idea!) and adapts that to AJAX.
“Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.” [1]

[1] http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Mayer.Amschel.Rothschild.Quote....
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CSS Grid has replaced it, but people are too polite to say.
"Take me to..." as I'm buckling up in the car has been very helpful. Then I'll use it to send an "on my way" text.
Another example is most news articles are just adaptation of AFP or Reuters reports
The list of resident services on the OP link lists exclusively "per night" accommodations... which makes the list kind of useless for the purpose of the visa consideration.

Guessing there are monthly/annual leases that aren't priced nightly.
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Looks like it's back:

"The IP NOC with the assistance of the Operations Engineering team confirmed a routing issue to be preventing BGP sessions from establishing correctly. A configuration adjustment was deployed at a high level, and sessions began to re-establish with stability. As the change propagates through the affected devices, service affecting alarms continue to clear"
> Disrespecting elders is a time-honored aspect of nature. Even critters have it (watch puppies and kittens ignoring their parents).

Nonsense. Puppies and kittens are not adults, are they? The "ok boomer" meme originated in people from older demographics criticizing adults in their 20s and 30s based on blanket and entirely baseless assertions that somehow they knew better just because they were born earlier.

If you want to take metaphors out of nature, you can start off by learning how young lions expel older lions from their pride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW-_KC5wtXU

Its one thing to show respect to everyone around you, but its an entirely different thing to have members of that community systematically insult and aggravate younger members for absurd reasons and using ridiculous arguments, and still in return expect that that sort of antisocial and downright sociopath behavior should command reverence from the community, specially those who are directly attacked by streams of insults.
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> Why did I pay for this machine if it weren't intended to facilitate me?

I happen to agree with the idea that the filename should be a dumb blob of bytes and the kernel should not do case folding, as it is the wrong layer for that, eg. the user can change their language but it won't update what has been written to the disk in thousands or millions of places where you could suddenly have a filename collision somewhere based on those rules changing.

But, I do hope you get that refund for your Linux.
Matplotlib is amazing EXCEPT for the speed and the 3D plotting. This looks quite intriguing to me.
I wonder if the science at work here could lead to the creation of a tractor beam capable of moving larger objects.
I use Siri all the time for sending/reading text/WhatsApp messages and making calls and setting/stoping alarms and timers, and creating notes and taking pictures (Siri will open the app to where you are a click away from taking the picture. I also use Siri as a dictionary and weather forecaster.

I wish Siri was more powerful, to do things like create contacts and turn of the phone but Apple seems super conservative about what it will allow Siri to do
What would be blessed way of doing it? Inline assembly jumping to it?
The lottery is not gambling because the probability of winning the lottery is 1/290 million making the expected payout almost zero in most circumstances; which is significantly less than black jack and orders of magnitude harder to win.

Under what other circumstances would be possibility tolerate that low level of efficacy?
Hello all! I am a student from Singapore who was introduced to Vimium by a friend two years ago. Vimac is my attempt to implement Vimium on an OS level.

I have shared this app on Reddit about a year ago. Since then, the notable changes would be a major performance buff in webkit/electron, force keyboard layout, and reducing the overwhelming no. of hints to what is just "clickable".

It is open source at https://github.com/dexterleng/vimac/.

Do let me know if you have any questions!
It isn't going to go up every decade. Also Check markets in Japan and Europe which have been flat 30, 20 years.
How to Know a Twitter Poll Result Without Voting
I took a class in college on voice interface design, and the professor named this as the biggest hurdle that's yet to be overcome. Screens and keyboards are the computer's domain, and we're comfortable adapting to them. But speech is our domain, and we expect the computer to adapt to us. The problem is that the tech isn't quite there for real understanding of language.
It doesn't just remind of Pharoh/Caesar. It's basically the same game! Needs some differentiating mechanic.
Daylight saving time is the idea that you switch time zone offset during the year. The specific time zone offset is not really the issue. As you point out, it’s the transition that’s the problem. We can pick whatever time zone offset we want. Without the change, there is no “daylight saving time”.
Has anyone any good resources for learning more about the "internet-level" infrastructure affected today and how global networks are connected?
Hey guys,

I wanted to check the Twitter poll results before voting for one of the choices. So, I wrote a bookmarklet which opens an alert with the poll results when used on an ongoing Twitter poll page. The script just intercepts the API requests Twitter make to fetch poll results every 30 seconds and populates the result. You can find the script as a gist: https://gist.github.com/vicke4/891b14bbf46f247fb7314cb3565d1....

To test the bookmarklet you need to find a poll. You can get only polls as results when you search for one of the below queries,

card_name:poll2choice_text_only

card_name:poll3choice_text_only

card_name:poll4choice_text_only

card_name:poll2choice_image

card_name:poll3choice_image

card_name:poll4choice_image

On the mobile app, you can just turn off your data/WiFi and select one of the choices, you'll be able to see the results for a moment.
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes ....

There was a huge AT&T outage in 1990 that cut off most US long distance telephony (which was, at the time, mostly "everything not within the same area code").

It was a bug. It wasn't a reconvergence event, but it was a distant cousin: Something would cause a crash; exchanges would offload that something to other exchanges, causing them to crash -- but with enough time for the original exchange to come back up, receive the crashy event back, and crash again.

The whole network was full of nodes crashing, causing their peers to crash, ad infinitum. In order to bring the network back up, they needed to either take everything down at the same time (and make sure all the queues are emptied), but even that wouldn't have made it stable, because a similar "patient 0" event would have brought the whole network down.

Once the problem was understood, they reverted to an earlier version which didn't have the bug, and the network re-stabilized.

The lore I grew up on is that this specific event was very significant in pushing and funding research into robust distributed systems, of which the best known result is Erlang and its ecosystem - originally built, and still mostly used, to make sure that phone exchanges don't break.

[0] https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collap...
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> Because race is not a biological trait.

Is that only in humans?
> Brave concerns about WebBundles are legit in a location-based addressing Internet, but all of them would immediately be removed the moment we switch from a location-based addressing to a content-based addressing approach for the Internet.

I failed to find any good case being made for why content-addressable content would be any less likely to try to perform malicious actions than URL-addressed content. Is this just utopian wishful thinking or did I miss something?
Why Jeff Bezos Is Worth $200B
Wow this is so silly.
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Wow, you may be right. I haven’t run any tests personally, but subjectively I’ve always been satisfied with Crunchyroll quality. Funimation, too.
Is this affecting all geographic regions?
All Circuits Are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995)
Centralizing connectivity over cloudflare makes the impact worse.

Furthermore, centralizing services over a handful cloud providers only encourages reliance on few large carriers.
Boost C++ Non-standard containers
Actually that happened to me too, it turns out there's such a thing as being TOO confident

I'm getting that vibe from you a little as well, where you're refusing to jump through the hoops that companies put in front of new hires (binary tree crap)

I'd recommend you either knuckle under and play ball, or even better: Get into consulting / make a SaaS business like the Expat Software guy
France implemented the metric system a year after the Execution of Robespierre. Russia used the Julian calendar until Vladimir Lenin's decree in 1918.

So yes, there are indeed states which are capable of these sorts of changes.
I think it’s because with content addressable URLs, the URL is a hash and you can verify that the content never changes? But not 100% sure
You never tried and gotten used to orthodox file managers perhaps, such as the mighty Midnight Commander. That's okay. Yes you're missing out on a world of productivity.
+1

Many of the comments here presume knowledge about this stuff, and I can’t follow.
GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Env
It is telling that their homepage has a video titled "How is GetEmails Legal?" https://youtu.be/45DoQR66TfQ

For those skeptical of the efficacy of GDPR or similar legislation, it is keeping these sorts of seedy tactics at bay at least for now.
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Is that related to the hacker's crackdown?
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing! :)
> There are some cozy, chill, nothing-ever-happens places where you can just sit there at night, maybe do a couple of walks but other than that you could work on your projects!

Working night shift sucks and is bad for your mental and physical health and reduces life expectancy.
True originality will be so different that barely anyone will like it.

Evolution is the way to go.

I'm an aspiring writer and when a random internet person comments on my short stories, they're focused on "oh it is like X Y" "oh it is like Z movie"

They're obsessed with finding which story it relates to rather than enjoying the story (and it isn't like I'm a pathetic writer)

I'm not saying I'm the best writers ever, but why I don't like such morons is that they don't have any otger constructive criticism like "your character sucked ass" or "dogs don't fall in love with cows"

No. Their entire problem is "oh I saw a movie like this and that's why this is a shitty story"

These morons fail to realise that LoTR derives heavily from Mythology, GoT is literally a fiction version of War of Roses

But these snobs will love and swear by LoTR because "that's original" and other books are "copy cats"

The idea doesn't matter, execution does.

Sure Gone Girl came first but girl on the train is also a good book. It isn't "copy cat" just because it has a untrustworthy narrator. Gone girl wasn't the first one to have untrustworthy narrator, I think
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and why Cloudflare was having so many issues https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
> To get a new bearer token (good for any number of API calls or SMTP submissions) you log into a web site and request a new token.

Is the bearer token used as the password in the SMTP transaction? Could the same one be used for IMAP access?
Arguably the biggest difference that I notice when using linux as a desktop environment as an end-user is that it trusts "you", the [sometimes root] user, to a far greater extent than other operating systems. It is for this reason that I enjoy it.

It also means that if you want to do something highly annoying and unusual, you can – and arguably case-insensitive filesystems are a subset of that.
Or direct copies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
The libsodium secretstream API supports ratcheting and forward secrecy by rekeying on every exchange:

https://doc.libsodium.org/secret-key_cryptography/secretstre...
I just looked up the topics for cascadiajs and it looks awesome! I was disappointed to find out that all the tickets are sold out even though it's a virtual conference. I know you are just a speaker, but do you have any insight into why there's a hard cap on attendees? Is it simply to avoid potential infrastructure problems that could occur from delivering live video content to an unforseen number of attendees?
Yes and no.

Yes, because maybe so.

No, because he issue you're commenting on doesn't suggest that. It looks like the nature of this particular outage is such that a previous iteration of the Internet wouldn't have been any better equipped to solve this faster.
And there's a ballot measure in November that would allow Berkeley to discriminate based on race again.
It was also down from South Africa. It's luckily up now. Gasps for breath
Thanks for the update.

Wasn't able to access HN from India earlier, but other cloudflare enabled services were accessible. I assume several Network Engineers were woken up from their Sunday morning sleep to fix the issue; if any of them is reading this, I appreciate your effort.
Nah. It really is freeing to not have to do that.

I sincerely want to help people that help people. The rat race is just too exhausting for me. I didn't realize how exhausting, until I had a couple of years of working on my own to see the difference.

I'll probably never get paid a dime for my work, ever again, and the thought brings me great joy.
>Finally, it's only true that the long-run opex per working transistor is lower on smaller processes. Many processes are actually more expensive on a "per working chip" basis at introduction than their predecessors.

Yes, but if there is a design that uses a fixed amount of transistors, then the chip size will be smaller on smaller nodes. So even if there are more defects per transistor on a new/small node, it is possible that the yield per cost (even with more expensive wafers) might be higher.
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NANOG are talking about a CenturyLink outage and BGP flapping (AS 3356) as of 03:00 US/Pacific, AS209 possibly also affected.

AS3356 is Level 3, AS209 is CenturyLink.

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-August/209359...
Well, so this kind of thinking is really part of the problem. The number of hours you put into something should never matter. What matters is the value of the productivity. We should be getting paid on the marginal value of our labor, not the minimum we're willing to bear. In addition, if the job can get done in 15 hours, then we should get paid the same, regardless. It's the conflation of hours to productivity that's destructive in this conversation. They're not the same, and a reduction in the work week should not be a salary-reducing event.
The beginning of WWIII probably looks something like this.
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Sorry, looks like I made a mistake. The title I'm actually reading is The Tactical Edge by Remsburg. Street Survival is still good, but I think The Tactical Edge is more useful.
map/reduce and collect/inject (terminology)
just a reminder: vim has it's own file browser netrw:

vim .

It has many known bugs but I use it because it don't need any extra install/config patching. Just simple file browser to find a file to open in vim.
This is a really scary situation for an employee: maybe this case was a mistake or maybe it was bad intentions, but imagine you are leaving a company and your access should be closed, but is actually not, then your account still active without your knowledge might get hacked... and you could be responsible?
conservatives: work hard to get ahead.
liberals: it's everyone else's fault they have to work hard to get ahead, let's implement socialism so we don't have to! cry!
thought this was going to follow up with a plug to stephen wolfram
Right. But that only works for resources whose initial version is fully trusted (due to review or trust in its source), and which never change. Which doesn't cover a lot of the usefulness of the web.
This perspective is interesting and potentially valuable, but it must be emphasized that quantum mechanics has linear evolution and hence “no cloning”. That means, when the registers are quantum objects, there is no such thing as copying a value into a register — there is only one version of each object, and you’re always manipulating it directly. That’s one aspect which leads to very difficult questions when thinking of “creating” at local nodes — because it’s the same object/copy that’s accessed at different nodes by various observers — so how can we ensure consistency of observations?
I was so pissed at Waze earlier for giving up on me in a critical moment. Then I found out I'm also unable to send iMessages, but I was curious, since I could browse the web just fine.

When something doesn't work I always assume it's a problem with my device/configuration/connection.

Who would have thought it's a global event such as the repeated Facebook SDK issues.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Level3 (not an internet level, just a company :)
Don’t follow what he claims, follow how he acts.
Seems like one of those cases where solving a “little” issue would actually require rearchitecting the entire system.

Namely, in this case, it seems like the “right thing” is for games to not derive their ELO contributions from pure win/loss/draw scorings at all, but rather for games to be converted into ELO contributions by how far ahead one player was over the other at the point when both players stopped playing for whatever reason (where checkmate, forfeit, and game disruption are all valid reasons.) Perhaps with some Best-rank (https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...) applied, so that games that go on longer are “more proof” of the competitive edge of the player that was ahead at the time.

Of course, in most central cases (of chess matches that run to checkmate or a “deep” forfeit), such a scoring method would be irrelevant, and would just reduce to the same data as win/loss/draw inputs to ELO would. So it’d be a bunch of effort only to solve these weird edge cases like “how does a half-game that neither player forfeited contribute to ELO.”
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No one expects Steam to put their own titles in a rival store. You don’t buy Halo on Mac
An alternative way to view measurement is that you're just entangling yourself with the quantum system, and are as much in superposition as the system itself.
What is a reconvergence event? Is that what's described in your last sentence?
https://status.ctl.io/history/f19a0555-abbd-4038-91cb-b55a76...

https://twitter.com/g_bonfiglio/status/1300022993251446785?s...

https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ijb8tn/global_a...
> I don’t buy the efficiency argument.

John DeLorean achieved his original initial career arc by resurrecting the Pontiac brand. Technically speaking, there wasn't a terrible amount of innovation there -- the idea was using existing products in a new way by putting a bigger engine into a smaller frame and marketing it in a sexy manner. But it took off like wildfire. He invented the idea of a muscle car.

So, as sibling comments say, you may not buy the efficiency argument, but will you buy the focus argument? Tesla made a name out of doubling down on the future instead of the past. They were first to market with a vehicle so iconic it become eponymous with the sector itself. They built a global supercharger network to challenge the whole idea of a gasoline vehicle being the norm. Personal feelings regarding the antics of their founder (and horrible mismanagement/mistreatment of ICs inside the company) aside, I have a lot of respect for the innovations that their product culture has achieved.
> That's okay. Yes you're missing out on a world of productivity.

Feels like a sentence like this doesn't explain much. I assume you are not moving files around all day, so where is the productivity exactly in a tool like Midnight Commander? What it allows you to do?
> No one is quite sure why the lab model failed. It’s obvious that a scenario where Xerox is paying scientists to do research that ultimately mostly benefits other firms, potentially even competitors that help to put it out of business, could never survive.

I don't agree with this. The lab companies had gotten really good at attracting some of the smartest people (in academia and elsewhere), designing models to motivate them to invent while giving them tremendous latitude, and then profiting from their discoveries.

See people like Wallace Carothers[1], a chemist that DuPont hired out of Harvard and let him run a lab. He ended up inventing nylon which was obviously tremendously profitable for DuPont. So the model did work.

I don't have data for this, but I think what actually happened was just a lot more short-termism as investors, companies, and executives focused more and more on short-term profits, so large recurring R&D expenses that might require longer horizons to recoup investments made less sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Carothers#Move_to_DuPo...