skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
paraphrasing the linked article: A little history lesson (from someone who actually bought their products).

I have one personal and 5 company managed librem 13 linux laptops. It's been a nightmare of amateur hour problems.

On two, the -/_ key only register 33% of the time it is pressed.

None of the 4 or 5 m2 SSD I tested booted consistently from the open bios. Every boot required 3 to 7 reboots until they where seen. Needless to say, they are have simple 2.5mm SSDs and no developer want them now because of the lack of RAID. To the bean counters and HR they went.

They still do not have usb3 support for epci, display, or charging. basically stuck in 2016.

The Radio/Video switches are nothing but cutting the power to the USB bundled peripherals. there's no special driver or anything else. Though still better than the majority, but far from the best with truly integrated solutions.

And support have been non-existent. And their forum used to be a bunch of people asking basic questions about their rebranded gnome, but lately it is a flood of "amateur android specialists" (adb script kiddies. thinking of so many puns now) threads on the librem5 phone... if you know the kind of content you get on xda forums, it's the same level.
Visiting the whale museums and community-based orca tracking efforts in the Pacific Northwest has made me feel much more connected to the issues in our marine environment, which are easy to ignore because they are hidden from plain view. These issues are also more painful when it concerns orcas, because of how intelligent, social, and like us they are.

Food is certainly a problem, and the one that gets the most attention. But there are significant issues in noise pollution as well. For example, if you listen to recordings of sounds in the Puget Sound / Salish Sea, you'll be stunned at just how loud boat traffic noise can be (https://vimeo.com/247051394). I imagine this is just plainly torturous to animals, particularly social ones that communicate through vocalizations. There's also the risk of sonar testing (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orca-endangered-killer-whale-ri...). You can learn more about this in the documentary "Sonic Sea" (https://www.sonicsea.org/).

Other issues include reduced oxygen levels in the Puget Sound (https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Puget-Sound/Helping-...), stormwater runoff pollution from dense sources like Seattle (https://komonews.com/news/local/new-project-to-tackle-puget-...), opioids and other pollutants from sewage (https://kuow.org/stories/relaxed-mussels-opioids-found-puget...), etc. The number of issues impacting our marine ecosystem is staggering and poorly understood.

On the bright side, I want to add that Tahlequah/J35 just recently gave birth to a new calf, J57. Fingers crossed for a healthy pod! News article at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/08/tahleq... and photos at https://www.whaleresearch.com/j57
In many respects, I think you already break your stream of consciousness when you sleep or are knocked out. When a copy of your brain is made, that copy will experience what all of us do after a good night’s rest in a train: waking up to an unfamiliar environment, subtly changed by random firing of your neurons when you were asleep. The “you before sleep” is effectively not the “you after sleep” because there was a break in the chain.

Thus, there’s no benefit to the “you that didn’t go on vacation”. There was a benefit to the “you that did go on vacation”.
So...practically none of them...?
What you’re talking about is more like a hash table not a rainbow table. If you’re looking for a pre-image for the first 8 bytes of MD5 that would be a table with 2^64 rows * at least 8 bytes or at least 144 exabytes of data.

Using such a table would allow you to select guesses that matched the first n bits of the stored hash and then use timing to try to guess the right choice for the n+1’th bit... up to the first 64 bits. You would then have limited the number of guesses down to just another 2^64 possibilities. So that’s not really a valid approach.

A different approach would be to try to figure out the first ~32 bits of the hash using a much smaller (34GB) table and use that knowledge to screen potential candidate passwords offline.

Again, all this works only as long as there isn’t a salt, and the value you are trying to discover is a guessable password and not a randomly generated key.
(Ok. Can somebody explain what is all this fuss about filters?)
fly.io is [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22621926
> It's the mindset of DHH or Taylor Ottwell what makes their product oriented frameworks more product oriented.

Yeah I totally 100% agree with this. I think it's very much so why Rails and Laravel won't be going anywhere anytime soon. As it turns out most people who are into web development are trying to build products and services.

But I will say that every time I've talked to Jose or Chris (I don't know them personally, I just mean in chat), they always say the best way to offer suggestions or feedback about the language or framework is to post on the forums. It's just unfortunate the community is so against feature requests or open to talking about things.

It just feels like the forums have the same regulars shooting down ideas from anyone new, or feature request threads get little to no replies.
I have less than 20 years experience (less than 10 even) and I have gotten/seen a bunch of offers/jobs/etc with remote-only or remote-first over 100k
For me, two small things that haven't yet been mentioned here.

Dependency management that's much more friendlier to forks. Very often I want to patch something small in a public NPM library and point my company's private project to the fork that contains that patch, not having to wait for the maintainer to accept the PR. Publishing a separate private or public version of this is still a chore.

Typescript support. The current "building" from Typescript to JS is something that mostly works, but still feels icky and sometimes breaks down. Setting up a great debug environment in Typescript/NodeJS codebase is still a pain, and mostly I don't even bother.

I see that none of those are "killer" or seem very important, but it's enough just to try it for some small project in the future. And then, who knows? May be it'll just turn out to be better in general.
You’re right. I was tired when I first read this last night on Reddit and I could swear the link wasn’t there then.
Not every domain registry's zone files are available through CZDS, unfortunately.

Not every domain listed in a zone file represents a "website".

Choosing a random domain from a zone file and prefixing it with "http://" and having PHP send a GET request certainly does not have a 100% chance of returning a web page.

(Might be interesting to calculate the probability.)

Seems like the author is not even filtering out A records corresponding to the NS entries in the zone files, e.g., something like a.ns.domain.tld

Sending a GET request to such subdomains is obviously not going return a web page.

As for clicking the button over 200 million times (assuming the total domains listed in the zone files is 200 million), that might violate the ICANN Zone File Access Agreement. Unless the terms have changed, one of the restrictions used to be against redestributing the data. This project would not be redistribution of the IP address data but if the user logs the names there's an argument it could be redistribution of the name data.

To "click the button" once from the command line

curl -s https://theinternetportal.net/php/button.php
echo
yeah, but it's never aliens until it's aliens.
I used to be a fan of Jugaad concepts, but ended up (opposite end of spectrum) critique. The reason was, the concept was used by corporations as well as SME domain for cost cutting and throttling the innovation. The reason they become successful in doing this, too much focus on cheap labor.
Hopefully, the concept of using the technology what we have (basic foundation of ITIL v4) to start the project, work iteratively with improvement in cycle with core focus on achieving the targets (again, core philosophy of ITIL v4) and get the product whats the need of hour.
There is core similarity of JUGAAD mind set and Agile as well as modern dev-ops. Hopefully, world will take Jugaad what it was.

Brief history of Jugaad (as one mentioned, means life hack): With explosive growth in '90s (and before that, controlled production of commercial vehicles in India), local mechanics started using small diesel engines or totalled vehicles engines/front body and attaching that with locally available carts. Haryana roads were full of these vehicles (before that there used to be 3 wheel tempo, which was called Jugaad as people were using that for people movement instead of freight), This thread has some good examples of Jugaads :)

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/commercial-vehicles/117066-ju...
You don't, probably.

As long as you don't have a chat window focused and accidentally press the enter key, you can just backspace out any accidental keypress that might happen.
What you describe is the case for every MacOS upgrade except Mojave to Catalina, since that particular upgrade means losing access to all 32-bit apps.

I'm normally a pretty quick upgrader, but the MacBook on which I'm typing now will remain on Mojave until the day it dies.
"Turn your head" means turn your head 45 degrees, and look at the half of the squares you haven't colored green. You see a board of uncolored diamonds. Recursively checkerboard that. Like Huffman coding, green gets one bit, red and blue get two.

In math we can barely understand each other. It is often easier to reverse-engineer code than to read someone else's code. Go look at the picture on Wikipedia, ask yourself how you'd describe it to someone in an elevator, then read my description again?

Equally distributing RGB cells would be less efficient. Not equally distributing RGB cells would be more efficient. We're saying the same thing.

The copper works out easier, not using a honeycomb. In the 1980's I imagined that by now we'd have compilers that could generate a custom circuit for every programming task, and computers would be whiteboards capable of directly simulating any circuit. This would be the primary mode for all computation. On one hand, programmable gate arrays approximate this, but they're only used when one needs that flexibility, as they're not efficient enough to replace general purpose CPUs. Someone on a plane set me straight. Again, one could give an entire course explaining the answer, but the gist is the same: it's the copper. Fewer traces.

My Dad already had in mind post-processing algorithms, and computers in the 1970's were quite primitive. Ask someone to program on a honeycomb at a stressful tech interview, and they won't get the job. Plain arrays are easier, more efficient. Now computers are faster, but the processing has moved into the camera.

Our fixation on rectangles is a cultural conceit. If photographs were hexagons, we might prefer honeycomb sensors. Silicon wafers are round; I'm surprised that the largest telescope camera sensors aren't hexagons; they're piecing together photographs, not putting them up on a wall for display. Yet they piece together square sensors, use a square grid. Huh.
Thank you for explaining like I'm five, and not assuming prior domain knowledge! You've greatly increased my understanding of the nature of Deno and NodeJS and how they relate to each other, I'm starting to get it.

What I still don't fully understand is why people want to write non-webpage software in JavaScript, a language designed to run in web pages. Why not Python or Go or Rust or literally anything else? But perhaps that ship has sailed, and the answer now is just inertia, people use JavaScript because people are already using JavaScript :P
> This "tiny cube" weighs 500kg. For comparison, the first car I owned, a Fiat Punto, also had 500kg.

It's electric, the weight is likely due to the battery.

The tiny cube is still tiny - way easier to control (and avoid) on narrow streets.
Google Abandons Plan to Rent Dublin Office for 2k Workers
That last one is big for me. I like using an iphone and I have an idea for a nice app but I do not like macbooks. I have tried them a few times and just do not like macos as much as linux. Now I can't work on my app idea because apples policy is you buy all apple products or things just don't work properly anymore.
Yeah, S3 is frankly a disaster. People use it like a filesystem and if you have billions of objects, it very quickly becomes a nightmare to manage. Size of data is a complete non-issue, it's all about the number of objects.
> Sadly, few people had access, because you had to either pay or pirate.

not to mention a crazy fast computer choke full of RAM.
indeed, but being baked by warming glowing warm glow of solar radiation sure does help with that.
What is the “it” here?

EmDrive looks like an accounting error to me, not something that actually works. Any energy it expends turns into heat, radiating in a predictable but not necessarily isotropic way. This radiation carries momentum, but much less than the EmDrive claims to be capable of.

A rocket or ion drive? The energy goes into the kinetic and gravitational potential of the exhaust.

(Aside: kilowatts are power, not energy).
That they have feelings is easy, of course they do. Whether they coincide exactly, or even mostly, with that of the human experience, is very non-obvious.
I'm working with @TubeTimeUS to see if I can reverse-engineer the bitstream.
As somebody who programs a lot of python for roughly a decade now I really like Python 3 (although I tone quite a while to switch over completely). Unicode handling really got much more straightforward (which you might notice only if you need to deal with Unicode, which many people in the anglosphere don't do all that often). I like the new formatting options, type annotations all great stuff.

And quite frankly most python 27 code I wrote worked after adding brackets to the print statements.
>I've owned several cars, but the most expensive, shiny, sexy one cost $2.4k.

It didn't cost $2.4K new, did it?

Now your car likely wasn't a luxury car, and likely cost way more than $6K new.
If your notebook is nice and stiff, the pressure will be pretty evenly distributed across the whole keyboard. Keypresses should be rare with such low pressure per key.
Depending on the ancestor we may have already qualified centuries if not millenia ago - but that has more to do with them than us. If they call those who do not worship their long forgotten gods not human then we technically already lost. Let alone other specific aspects like not considering pygmy peoples human.

The point being hypothetical bigotries of the long dead is an unmeasurable metric (oxymoronic) and pretty useless.
Working with Slices in Go – How Append, Copy, Slice Expressions Work
https://www.ipevo.com/products/mirror-cam
Looks like a notebook. If its a reasonably thick/sturdy notebook and you don't push down extremely hard then it doesn't press the keys.
Been following this topic for a little bit now, and one thing I don't see being discussed very often is the possibility that the phosphine gas is being created by bacteria or microbes of terrestrial origin.

I.e. who's to say that the lander that made planetfall a while ago wasn't contaminated with a hardy strain of bacteria?
The rather shallow angle probably helps a lot. On top of that the camera probably has some form of auto white balance which will counteract the tint the CD will give to the image.

Here's a quick proof of concept using a random CD and my phone's camera: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20200914-000627_psx-cd-reflectio...

Note that the color of the reflection is not much different from a normal picture (visible at the bottom). For added difficulty I used an original PlayStation disc, that's dyed black: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20200914-000836_psx-cd.jpeg
that would only make sense if there were stacked rocks everywhere since people have been going into the wilderness for literally all of history. its because these people see it on instagram and want to do it themselves.
I strongly agree with your sentiment that going the YC and/or VC route requires careful consideration. However, I have a slightly different take on Series A competitiveness.

The # of Series A's hasn't grown as quickly as the number of seed rounds, but strong companies still have good chances of getting Series A funding. One way to think about this is that years ago maybe there were 5k seed rounds/year and 1500 Series A's. And today maybe it's 20k seed rounds and 2000 Series A's. But those 1500-2000 Series A's are still mostly distributed among the 5k top seed companies, not the 15k additional ones that wouldn't have been funded years ago. So if you have a company that you think could've been funded 5 years ago then you probably have similar odds of a Series A as you did 5 years ago. I don't have data to back this up, but this has been my anecdotal experience.

FWIW, the seed fund I'm at has had a consistent 65-70% seed-to-Series-A graduation rate for our entire 8-year lifetime, even though the number of seed rounds during that period has grown dramatically.
Ninja returns to Twitch
But should it be is more the point I think GP was making?
If you are looking for ways to help, here are a few:

1. Rewild/plant natives where you can, such as your yard or if allowed, easements or verges, ideally from pollinator-safe plant nurseries or places which care for very local species

2. Advocate for wild spaces, wildlife corridors and wildlife bridges and underpasses, particularly on migration routes for small species (guarding frog movements for three weeks a year is pretty neat)

3. Volunteer with local wetlands/trails associations/reserves for whatever their ecologists decide needs doing.

4. Reduce your carbon footprint, and then offset the rest. We are working on helping people do this (and take action on climate change in other ways) at https://projectwren.com
I was staff (vs faculty) for a public uni. It was understood that all state funding would eventually go away, effectively making it a private uni. I'd have to look up the numbers, but state funding went from 80% in the 1970s down to 10% in the 2010s.

Obviously, rising administrative overhead is due to cost disease, and misc adjacent theories, like Graeber's bullshit jobs).

But I haven't seen anyone discuss the corollary of "keeping up appearances". Parents now spending ~$3,000 per credit hour (non-resident) have high expectations. Better housing, better food, better amenities, responsive office staff, etc. All that cruise ship caliber fluff needs that much more bureaucracy.
Did it a few times, all I got were ads and dead links. Maybe implement a filtering system?
> Would you pay 50% of the cost (which you can afford) so a clone of you go on vacation?

Surely by symmetry that means they would be able to pay for me to go on holiday?

(This feels like the one-box/two-box argument with a paint job).
Microsoft Says Its Bid for TikTok Was Rejected in U.S.-China Standoff
Can you expand on what you didn't change in the last five years? Or in other words: what should I focus on.
> if you can afford a new iPhone you can also afford this

And that's not taking into account the SE which has a modern processor and is $400.
> If the NSF was scrapped, what would the scientific world look like? Probably like the world before WW2, when most science was done by hobbyists or "inventors".

There were scientists who received financial backing from wealthy individuals in a manner not so different than VCs operate today; Tesla among them.

Regardless, I tend to agree that science that exists for the sake of publishing, because publishing is a requirement of receiving grants, has diluted the respectability of science.
You should read the whole web page and you would understand.
We could drastically cut costs with a nickel instead of a quarter.
Except for those parts that are covered, which by my accounting is where a about a third of the population lives (in either country). Of course it's way less by area. And we're stuck in 2008-2010. I just looked up my place, it was kind of trippy.

They're still taking new pictures, by the way, they're just not releasing them -- yet. And it's not just Google, I saw an Apple car a couple of weeks ago.
Hardware solution: plastic tray over the keys.

Software solution: Keyboard Cleaner http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/48-Keyboard-Cleaner.h...
You're making lots of questionable assumptions here. Primarily one being that the US (and indeed the EU) continue to exist in their current form on a 20 year timeline. Given the political climate in both, that seems unlikely.

Given that the US is reindustrialising [https://doc-research.org/2018/06/reindustrialisation-us-degl...] right now, it's extremely unlikely we'll see a decline in German manufacturing - even if that means an increase in european protectionism. There's no way Germany (who hold vastly outsized power within the European Commission, especially in a post Brexit world) would willingly allow that strategic and economic advantage to wilt. Especially given the economic decline and social disintegration that the move to a service economy wrought on France and the UK. Chinese economic might is almost entirely based on exports, in an era of increasing protectionism and at a time when their manufacturing base is moving to places like Vietnam and to a lesser extent India. The US's failure to invest in infrastructure (everything from broadband to roads to dams) has left it in need of massive capital investment. And of course massive internal investment (arguably unsustainable and fraudulent) in construction. I'm not suggesting these are paper tigers, but neither are assured of 'superpower' status.

Moreover - the enormous material costs we're starting to see from climate change will accelerate. We can estimate some impacts, such as enormously larger migrant crises and water wars. But the second order effects of this are extremely unpredictable.
Another mass resignation of an editorial board has happened
We know that tardigrades can survive in space and that there are Martian rocks sprinkled over the Earth. Perhaps there were some microbes blasted into Venutian orbit when the Chicxulub meteor took out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago?
What's the name of the business/what is the purpose of the site? Choose the one that most closely resembles it.

Don't use a weird TLD, stick to .com

imbuefitness.com sounds the best to me... But if your company name is Imbue World pick imbueworld.com if it's World Imbue, pick worldimbue.com, if it's just imbue, pick imbue.com, etc.
Thanks for this. I hadn't read that Quora answer before, even though I used to work at Quora.
You don't need to, provided you're willing to also maintain a Python 2.x fork on your own instead, or willing to pay someone else to do it for you, or willing to risk no more patches to the interpreter. You do you, boo.
I had to buy pens for white boards even though I was volunteering to help students prepare to university exams as a math/physics teacher, I wasn't getting a single penny and I had to pay for minimal resources because they were only available for free for the hired teachers.

I have nothing but a giant respect for teachers that are usually underpaid for the giant importance that they carry on their shoulders, a good teacher can help completely change the life of their students.
I guess there isn't really a propper need for a perpetuation of python27. This is mostly people who don't really see a difference between the versions other than that their print statements suddenly fail or that unmaintained dependency they used in that code half a decade ago complains. Who cares about the security pitfalls involved with using outdated python when tour code doesn't work?

Of course python could have dealt better with backwards compatibility, but the python code I wrote was transfered to version 3 pretty quickly.