skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take a step back and look at the situation. You are saying with a straight face several lawyers told you that the UK government deliberately breaking an important international agreement that was negotiated and signed by the same people just months ago is comparable to other countries inadvertently breaking some patent agreement signed decades ago. A matter that several high-ranking British officials had a problem with to the point of resigning in the past few days. Only on the interwebs do people fall for this tosh.
Any time now, "https://www.lindows.rocks" will happen. I hope it has the Lindows Rocks song on it :D
This is what I find annoying as well.

There is a region parameter you can use for the search query, e.g. the query `hekksaks r:no` will set the Norway slider. It does not permanently set the region (fortunately, as there seems to be no way of specifying “no region.”)

Still this is much more effort compared to Google.

Edit: see here for some docs, but note that the list of regions they refer to is not correct

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/settings/r...
Ah, that makes sense, sort of.
Or has it? How would we know? In particular, if we think conceptually software patents could be a good thing, why do we think the current length of patent protection is appropriate?
Sadly, thatsso.gay is akready taken. That would have been a really funny domain to have.
If you think it invalidates my whole argument, then you did not understand my argument at all.

It is extremely sad that HN folks have zero empathy.
Thanks for the mention!

Jen here- founder of Lunch Money. Definitely give us a try if you're looking for something more modern and user-friendly. Lunch Money is less rigid than YNAB so much easier to get started on and build habits with.

If you (or anyone else reading this) decide to try it out, let me know you're from HN and I'll hook you up with a free month on top of the 14 day trial :)
On the thread about the update yesterday hundreds were coming out of the woodworks to say how totally fine this update was haha.
I don't understand the appeal of using a cli to manage commits, branches, remotes, merges with conflicts, and so on. To me all these things are so much better internalized and understood when presented visually. Git GUIs are aplenty (Sublime Merge being my latest discovery, SourceTree before that) and generally really good. Combined with the already amazing GitHub web GUI, it's a wonder what use case is better served by sticking to the cli, other than this misplaced notion that it's what the cool kids are doing.
I have been using AMZN Cloudfront, mostly because I was in AMZN already. Azure has a similar "service" with the difference that you can choose one of several CDN services -- which lowers the appeal to me a lot. On one hand I can't imagine I'm not being played by a Verizon CDN, but the mental effort to choose a CDN is almost certainly more than the benefit one could get from switching.)

Alternately, I'm not convinced that CDNs are not a scam.

Basically, it bends plausibility that a system with N+1 parts is really more reliable than a system with N parts. One more part is another part to fail and you can only come out ahead if you do everything right in the system design.

If you host your site in (say) us-east-1 and somebody wants to access your site via https from somewhere in Africa, it will work, but there will be some extra latency.

With pipelining you will be able to hide many of the round trips.

A CDN is going to have to copy the content to Africa before it can serve it to the viewer and if they haven't viewed it before the cache is only going to add to the time it takes to serve the content (first it has to determine it doesn't have the content, determine which parts of the Rube Goldberg machine are going to get it for you, get the content, serve the content.)

The CDN industry has convinced people that they "need" a CDN because "everyone else" uses a CDN. They never show full-system performance results, and if they did and they didn't like the answers they could always change a few parameters (didn't work well in Uganda? look, we got down from 20s in Nigeria to 19.2 s!) or blame you for doing something wrong on your site. (Pro tip: many web sites use 90% or more bandwidth for advertising, trackers, and other bloat... remove those and viewing your web site is like being hit by a bullet!)
Clickbait title aside, a good and reasonable post about using terraform. Point 2 about the evils of a monorepo is not unique to terraform, but also a more subtle problem of service boundaries generally.

I've seen what I would term a distributed monorepo which has all the headaches of a monolith combined with all the deployment coordination headaches of microservices, managing to exacerbate the worst problems of both. Enforcing boundaries is hard, and the most natural architecture state without a firm guiding hand is the Big Ball of Mud.
If your name is Gay, iam.gay would be very cool. MAybe I'll change my name by deed poll.
How do you know they have no understanding? Perhaps they got shares in large software companies and just want to eliminate competition. It just seems like corruption to me.
I want to see whether Google will register google.gay

Will they sue me for registering it?
Urbit looks like some strange combination of rent seeking, land grab, and absurdist comedy. I keep waiting for the whole thing to come out as having been a joke.
I want to check out Svelte, thanks for the reminder!
Unmoderated user testing: making user testing cheap, fast and efficient
IP address at a minimum gives you a coarse location anyway so this isn’t even DDG going out of their way to collect personalization information to provide a better result. Alternatively maybe they view any personalization data as a slippery slope and avoid it wholesale.
I expect dang to jump up any second and remind you that that's most likely because you don't come into contact with people from vastly different backgrounds who hold vastly different opinions on your other forums. It's actual diversity.

Skepticism, even extreme skepticism, is generally a good thing, and having some people out there that are convinced that something is not as it seems is a good thing. Even if they're wrong, they will look very closely and bring things to attention that everyone else will not look into because they subconsciously feel that it's not a good idea to poke that hornets nest if you want to keep your ideological world view in tact.

With Navalny, for example, there's been quite a bit of demands to halt or cancel North Stream 2. There are obviously very powerful interests in multiple settings that would very much like to see that happen. Obviously that doesn't mean anything for the case itself, but if you flat our reject that conspiracies and intelligence false flag operations exist (or, alternatively, believe "we're the good guys, we wouldn't do that"), you won't look into it, because why would you.
Here in Sonoma County [Tubbs fire, kincade fire, LNU Lightning fires] PG&E has had 2-3 contracted helicopters out pretty much every day doing line maintenance/checking.

I watch flightaware pretty constantly, so it's easy to see their contracted helicopters up in the area.

Point being, they are trying -- I think people also fail to understand just how huge and rural Northern CA is.
Your second paragraph is really insightful. It's very simple, perfectly describe the behavior of countless people in various situations, and is not a mere criticism of people in general as this kind of behavior is perfectly rational from an incentive perspective. I would like to read more about that.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Kindle Publishing
I am looking to self publish an e-book. It's a fiction book. I dislike Amazon's fee structure for Kindle publishing. I wonder if there are any good alternatives.
I also noticed that sketches can be messed up if you make changes earlier in the chain. BUT: if you get in that state, you can use the 'Map to Sketch' feature to repair it. It's a bit clumsy- even after mapping, you have to click on the sketch, and the object made from it, to get it to recalculate. But this has saved me a fair amount of rework when fixing something earlier in the chain.

Also, when you're working on a sketch you can go back to the object tree and use SPACE to disappear objects temporarily if you are having trouble selecting.

I don't know what you mean by tesselation configuration- ah, well that explains why I had undersized holes (I print a lot of parts with shaft holes, or holes for bearings).

v0.19 is a lot more stable than any previous version I've used- I still have a crash a day too.
I took too much and didn't have the relevant experience.

If you take a low dose and follow harm reduction practices you should be fine. Just make sure you do your research ahead of time, and go in knowing the risks. If you have underlying mental health issues, then be careful, and maybe consider alternatives that don't require drugs.
I was involved in identifying and locating the attack vector of the DAO Hack, and Matthew and I connected pretty early in his research on it. I like him; he had a strong interest in figuring out what actually happened.

This should be a good read; real-life cyber-ninjas battling things out, and because of the anonymity available to those hacking smart contracts, the entire aftermath went down in an atmosphere of intense paranoia; who could be trusted with security findings? Who was everyone on this skype call? (Yes, it was 2016).

At any rate, this was a really fun and actually pretty important moment in crypto history, I’m glad to see a book about it out and published.
Even if the search results are bad that 10/10 I have to use !g .I will still want to use ddg just so that they have the data on search strings which perform poorly and can improve their systems.

Also I actually find lot lesser clutter on DDG because SEO folks pretty much optimize for Google, no amp or other google policies to game .
It is the same thing. A dehumidifier is just an Air conditioner followed by a heat pump.

Though I agree more efficient.
My first job at HP was writing a PROFS gateway using RSCS. /shudder/
Nice essay on the “jet age” aesthetic. If you’re interested in some excellent photographs of this subject and period, check out Garry Winogrand’s Arrivals and Departures and the airport photos in 1964.

Examples:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5d/28/fe/5d28feade063b435409a90ddb...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/93/a5/2e/93a52e3e66703c68f895...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N-1Qg0bUCdw/TXgFrbKWjxI/AAAAAAAABS...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f1/63/f9/f163f925a99a1f6b73137b3ef...
No. A gratuitous software license is a bare license. Because the licensor gets nothing, nothing is binding upon them. They may alter the terms of or revoke the license at any time, even notwithstanding promises in the license not to do that (as in the GPLv2).
real.gay is still available for just 2200€/year!
No doubt the intent of this tool is to tightly couple your development flow to GitHub/Microsoft.

Makes switching to other vendors more painful further down the line.
It's not term and factor, it's just operator precedence. Hence 1,2,3 is appropriate.
Intel’s Tiger Lake 11th Gen Core I7-1185G7 Review
Not sure what the status of the project is, but work on https://github.com/hasura/eff is supposed to improve the performance even more!
A whole set of mitigations were published on Tor Project's blog in 2018.

https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-vanguards-add-onion-s...
I would be so happy if Blender tackled parametric modeling like this.

Tried FreeCAD, gave up in frustration after I drew a second sketch on the face of an object and no matter what I did it wouldn't extrude.

After that went poorly I'd just picked up Fusion 360 about a month ago and have been doing pretty well with that. Whoops.
According to this [0] there are only about 1.5k exit nodes and over 6k relays total. It's a pretty small network. I'm not an expert on tor internals but it sounds to me like a sufficiently dedicated player could easily control a big chunk of this. Don't even need crazy money.

I understand that they have mechanisms preventing obviously fake new servers from flooding the network. But still at these numbers it doesn't seem that tough to play the long game.

[0] https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html
> buy is.gay

> make a fortune from selling subdomains
Bootstrap Templates – Open-Source and Free
The discussion of journalists not understanding or respecting the need to keep material encrypted is consistent with why I feel like I'm developing a lower degree of trust for people who lack a physical or technical skill, as without one, it is hard for them to have a sense of consequences for being careless or stupid in new domains. Ultimately one of the Guardian or NYT writers published Assange's insurance archive password in a book. Whether that was mendacious or stupid doesn't matter, Assange overestimated reporters and editors in their ability to apprehend risk.

It becomes a moral issue when they don't hold themselves above that standard. They're fine for administrative tasks, but not people you want to take risks together with.
> Some of us want our work to actually reach people who don't write code or sysadmin their own computer, i.e. most people in the world

The majority of the internet is run on free software, and free software touches nearly every stack, even ones that are otherwise proprietary.

With regard to accessibility, there are open source tools out there that are pretty great for blind users, but they still need more work. There are also blind users that can't afford a Windows licenses or expensive screen reader software. I've worked with a local charity that helps people with sight impairments, and the money just isn't there when it comes to expensive software licenses and hardware.

If more open source options for people that have sight impairments become available, that would help a lot of those that are currently priced out of using modern technology for work, leisure and social interaction.
When you (eventually) get to speak to a human (assuming you do, eventually) simply say to them, "Hi. I'm very happy to hear that $ORG is recording this conversation for [quality|security] purposes. I, too, am recording this conversation and I trust you're OK with that."

You'll never get challenged on it. You're simply off their script. But you have implicit consent to record the call.

I do this and then record... using pencil and paper... to capture the essence of what's said/promised, who and when. Nobody said that recording has to be a verbatim electronic copy. Agreed that might be useful from time to time, but mostly not essential if you've captured the substantial points.

If it ever gets to a court case, your lawyers can compel $ORG to produce the original voice recording if it seems necessary.
I love this tool and use it everyday. Thank you Github and contributors.
as long as on your first time you start with a low dose, in a safe, familiar setting with people you trust, you'll thoroughly enjoy your experience. I would not recommend smoking weed at all.
No, that's not the story I know.

The name google was name chosen after Googol (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol) to reflect the amount of webpages that in the founder intentions they were about to index.

Apparently when they registered the name the officer/employee was not familiar with the concept and just wrote down the name as they thought it was written: Google.

edit: source: https://www.webcitation.org/68ubHzYs7?url=http://graphics.st...
Or using traditional architecture. I once lived in an apartment building that was obviously built in the 70's, and was trying to be cool and new by having all flat-angled roofs, rather than normal gabled roofs. (Sorry don't know the technical terms.) Every winter, giant hundred-pound icicles formed, threatening to drop at any time onto people walking in and out. Yeah, those gables over the entrances weren't for looks guys, they were solving a problem. Maybe you should have asked why they were there before getting rid of them.
^ This. I’ve bought a few games outside of Steam than turned out to just be a Steam redemption code. That’s not a problem.

Take Minecraft for example.[a] One used to be able to buy and play Minecraft without an account. Then Microsoft bought it and the game now requires an XBox Live account![b] Why? Sure, it wasn’t a big deal as I already had a MS account for Windows, but why must I use it?

EDIT: I just checked, and they’ve also added this “feature” to the iOS version as well. Which means a game I spent actual money on now requires me to use an account. As in, people who previously didn’t have to agree to MS’ TOS now do. And it’s too late to “refund” the game.

[a]: My memory may not be the full picture as I play it on and off. I previously played on iOS, but now on the Switch.

[b]: Even local play on the Switch requires a Microsoft account!
Ask HN: What Is Snowflake's Software?
Snowflake was just in the news for their big IPO - raising $3.4B and garnering a $70B valuation: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/09/16/Snowflake-sets-new-software-IPO-record/7451600286729/

But after reading a few articles and browsing snowflake.com a bit, I still don't really get what Snowflake is. Some articles mention AI, some cloud, there's talk of data lakes and data warehouses, a data marketplace, etc.

But what actually is it? Is is Hadoop/HDFS with nice tools and consulting expertise on top? Is it a data center in a box?

What the heck is this thing?
Bangs are a superpower, a game changer, and by far the best UX for mobile search I’ve seen so far.

I feel like we're aiming pretty low if the best UX you've seen so far requires 3 taps to input ! followed by one or more taps to input the rest of the operator plus a space, all before you can begin typing your query.

Wouldn't a better system be a grid of icons to choose from, with the ability to rearrange them as you see fit, like the icons on your phone's home screen? That would be much faster than DDG's keyboard dance on mobile.
There are a bunch of examples which I find very useful with the CLI: Creating new repos (gh repo create), opening the repo in the browser (gh repo view), checking out PRs when you have the ID (gh pr checkout ID), diffing the currently checkout PR against the base (gh pr diff).
How Renormalization Saved Particle Physics
Dashcams are illegal in few countries.
Mobile App Stores and Crypto
The military and intelligence services are rather fuzzy though, aren't they? The CIA uses drones, they regularly employ SEAL teams.
How about when you already do most of your development on the command line? In web development anyway, most frameworks, servers and tools are CLI only so you are already on the command line for the most part. It's far quicker to do a quick commit there and then rather then move to a GUI.

That said, I use both. Most of my commits etc. are on the CLI but I still switch to a GUI if I want to browse the repo or see more detailed diffs etc.
> you’re free to take away Apple’s decision making power you grant them by simply not buying an iphone.

That's a very common argument

But it doesn't get any less stupid with time.

I never owned an iPhone.

Because I am an adult homo sapiens that can take decisions for himself.

But you should know that if a standard exists, and the standard has been approved by a consortium, a consortium where Apple is a very important member, they should at least support what they signed for, instead of forcing developers to go through hoops just to support their platform.

When Elon Musk make Teslas he has to put airbags in them, stop lights, front lights, safety belts, they must pass crash tests, because that's the standard, otherwise he couldn't sell them as cars.

So if Apple believe that the standard that they approved is too dangerous, they can make their OS more secure, instead of putting the blame on developers.
I preordered https://areyou.gay a while ago.

I don't know what to put on it, but I would like to host a FAQ or something for people who are questioning their sexuality and make it v wholesome.
Playstation 5 event: $499 with a disc drive, $399 without, on Nov. 12
They dont just proxy your requests real time to bing in real time so unlikely it is because of bing API.
And newLISP makes LISP fun again!
The NTSB doesn’t seem to have much trouble with it.
It uses native Mac UI widgets, and feels very Apple-y.
"That she is on the position is testament to the democratic dysfunction of the Union."

???

That she has her position is the most glaring evidence of 'democratic dysfunction'.

Nobody voted for her, she was unknown before the election. The very few people that voted in the EU elected voted for something else, after the election 'the true powers' decided to push the ostensible candidate aside, and behind closed doors without input from elected MEPs, Von der Leyen was chosen from relative obscurity (at least outside of Germany) - foisted on top to 500 Million electors, almost none of whom have ever even heard of her.

She was not vetted, she did no debates, there was no public coverage, there were no speeches, there was no published platform, there was no campaign agenda.

Just: "Here is your new leader, that you have never heard of , that you have just elected".

This is not democracy.

So perhaps if there were more transparency, or even some of it, you would have been able to vet her, and actually vote for or against her.
Not sure if it will work for fiction books, but I have seen people self publish e-books hidden behind a simple Stripe payment. Should be relatively easy to set up as well.

I believe ddevault published his Wayland book this way.
I got bit by that twice and figured my old standard alarm clock would be good enough. Had it for 15 years and it has never missed a day.

In industry, the more reliable you need something to be, the more simple it has to be. Phones are too complicated to be a good alarm clock. Plus I don't have to blast out my eyeballs to see what time it is in the dark.
Those rates seem low. 20 years ago consultancies were charging $150/hr + materials. Their employees might see $30-50 depending on how much unallocated time they had. For a solo, the average including down time (sales) could reach $80-100, charging that same $150 to the clients.

Have rates fallen so far?
> Don't act like every gamer is automatically a pirate, millions of people are perfectly happy to pay for games and want to see their favourite studios continue

I'm not sure where you got the idea I said this. I don't think every gamer is automatically a pirate, though a lot of people do follow the path of least resistance.

I pay for my videogames. I support indie devs that don't bundle DRM crap with their games. For AAA DRM-ridden games, I simply don't buy or play them. (To be honest, I don't have a lot of time to play any games these days).

DRM is anticonsumer for legal buyers. It gives them a worse experience than the people who play pirated copies.
Sadly I have to agree. Not using something like OOSU10 is like not running an ad blocker on the web. Not coincidentally I blame a lot of the ways Windows has been ruined lately on the adoption of web development trends.