skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is ridiculously inaccurate. Consumer SSDs that are absolute overkill on performance and endurance are only half the price of the $0.75 per GB you claim as a price floor for good drives. Realistically, there's no reason for a consumer to spend even 20¢/GB, and there are tons of good drives well below that price which will not eat your data and will outlast the useful lifetime of several other components in your machine. There are reputable, well-behaved SATA SSDs at 10¢/GB.
Especially when everyone else got fired at the same time and finds themselves in a game of musical chairs for the few remaining jobs. You don't care if it means oppressive surveillance, at least you can pay your mortage and send your kids to school.
There are a lot of humans.
I don't know why Apple hasn't positioned video podcasts as an alternative to YouTube.

They already exist, and the subscriber mechanism is already better than YouTube (view offline, choose when/what to download), just needs some work for comments, ratings, annotations etc.
Sounds like MasterMilo! https://www.youtube.com/user/mastermilo82
Think of all the resources you expanded in your life purely on entertainment.

Think of all the times you worked out to burn fat and calories amassed by not eating exactly what you needed.

Think of all the fuel you expanded on leisure, via planes, cruises, roadtrips, etc.

Think of all the recreational industries you supported throughout your life, by spending your viable, limited time listening, watching, reading and even buying their work.

Like I said, if leisure wasn't important and useful, we just wouldn't have it. It's such a ridiculously massive industry, I don't think you realize you are surrounded by it; it takes up the majority of your and everyone else's lives.

You can make these things more efficient, but arguing their existence is dangerous territory. And I certainly will die on a hill to defend how critical projects like this one are to introduce bright minds to the field.
And for the drive to you, which you didn't see
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Warcraft 3 map editor was such an influential tool. Warcraft 3 map editor spawned multiple new game genres. DotA map spawned MOBAs, numerous tower defense games such as Element TD spawned the Tower Defense genre and recently the autochess genre has appeared, taking many inspirations from maps such as Legion TD.

There still are some popular map genres in Warcraft 3 that haven't been converted to standalone games, so there's still a lot of potential. Most notably I can think of are tag games.
I would say microsoft should make an awesome Android store for Android 12+ and lure developers and device manufactures in.
Your comment about car insurance is incorrect. Actually in the UK you do not need to carry any evidence of insurance, MOT, or your licence. If you are stopped, you have 14 days to present it to a police station. Which I think is actually evidence for the exact opposite of what you are describing.

Road tax used to be sticker based (as it is in many many counties), but is also now just an online database edit.
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Ideally it would look like &#x7;

Its useful to be able to encode arbitrary characters even if they aren't human readable.
"I'm undecided about DDG with regard to its relevance for my search behaviour. "

This is a misunderstanding of the economics.

Every dollar you spend on something is a dollar of value taken away from you in value - 'low price' means more surplus and value to the consumer, all other things being equal.

A crapy search engine with 10 000 customers will make more money than a great search engine that is essentially free - but which one is better?

There are other factors at play here, especially concerning scale, whereupon a smaller upstart, with a product 10x better would never be able to compete just on the basis of the cost of customer acquisition, which is arbitrary.

And of course, that search is free, it's a strategic investment on everyone's part to begin with.

'In Other Words' - the search engine with the most, crappiest ads, is going to get top place, but the search engine with 0 ads, supported by open source ... nobody would find out about?

They need to remove the auction, it makes the whole exercise pointless.
I have played Monkey Island 1 on a twenty year old Navman N20 gps. It was a very fun excercise to get ScummVM working on that old Windows CE system and use its stylus to navigate Guybrush around. :)
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When using DDG I also tend to fall back on !g but in my idealistic fantasy I imagine this to be okay because I provide DDG with search terms they can use to optimize their engine.
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A company I worked for in 2001 used chucked streaming to provide search results. The search results were collected by performing live searches in parallel (server side) with multiple partners and then aggregated into a single stream of chunked content. Basically the HTTP connection was kept open until all searches were complete, which would take a few minutes. The results were pushed incrementally to the browser as soon as they were available

This worked surprisingly well. They started with almost pure HTML with the results split into multiple tables to produce what looked like a single table of results. The only drawback was that the columns needed fixed width so that they would align properly.

After a while they switched to a Javascript based solution with dynamic filters. They used the same backend streaming engine to output chunks of Javascript code inside <script>-tags, which called a global "addResult(...)" method to update the state. If the search was cached, it would first render HTML code server side, which was then "hydrated" by the javascript code if needed.

Later it was replaced with a standard XHR polling mechanism.

It is interesting to look back at what we had to do that is trivial with today's technology.
Enter Microsofts browser ballot screen that they were required to show in Europe. Broken randomness and half a dozen IE skins to game the requirement. Main requirements should be: do not let the fox guard the hen house.
Tracking Waze drivers using UI elements
Here's something fresh for today;
Amnesty India quits India operations due to govt' reprisals.
https://amnesty.org.in/news-update/amnesty-international-ind...

Reality, I fear is fairly dystopic and I can keep posting such news articles all day which show India's slide into Authoritarianism.
There are a few other ways:

- dynamically generated animated GIFs
- Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace : the way to animate images on the web since 1993 - before animated GIFs
You see this with children (and some adults if I’m being honest). Being told not to do something makes it more appealing.
IIUC, Elric is referring to the usage of internal mailing lists, whose archives are (internally) open for anyone.

Each discussion becomes a URL in its own right, and is blazing fast (given it is locally hosted); you can point the thread to the newcomer. I too think this is more effective than any chat "scroll-back" hosted on someone else's infrastructure—it can go down any moment.
though, with a suitable focus on the applied science universities (where you have to work at least 1/7 of your education in a suitable position) and dual study programs, I think, we could avoid the worst (and are I actually think).

I think some of the commerce chambers/etc. have brought this onto themselves by pushing the advantage of their paying members who have effectively turned most trades and crafts into guilds, where your only chance at getting a good job (aka being self employed) is inheriting machines and the company rolodex.
[And no, you generally can't pull it off on your own, because you have to actually pay for studying to be allowed to open a business, so you are 30 years old, have no money and have to get a 200k loan for your non-hyperscaling business, while you have to pay rent or want to buy a house]

Capitalism solves the resulting supply shortage of "qualified" plumbers, carpenters et. al. by providing cheap, eastern european, DIY-style "I can do everything"-craftsmen (actually, my grandfathers both had similar sidegigs (ok, one built his and his friend's homes with them) during the "Wirtschaftswunder" and retired).

Nearly everyone who is sufficiently intelligent to pass the necessary exams then moves to university to study in the hope to get a "nice, comfortable" job. Even if they really liked their vocation. But working your ass off in the lower 10%-income bracket, while your boss buys a Porsche a year from profits you earned in a 5-person company he inherited from his father kind of sucks.
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Should I open a UK Ltd as EU resident?
So I was planning to move to London and open a ltd company in the UK but the pandemic happened.
Now I don't know when I'm going to be able to do that (considering we're in the middle of the pandemic) or if it's a good idea anymore.
Brexit, IR35, London being expensive and Covid in the UK.. the insecurity adds up.
I'm reading that many people are moving out of (or have already left) London due to the pandemic.

I'm from a EU country that doesn't have a good ecosystem for entrepreneurship and I want to leave the country for personal reasons as well. My idea was to be in London for at least 6 months per year (for taxation reasons). After December 2020 it will also become harder to open an Ltd as a EU resident because of Brexit.

From what I've read (and I've read quite a lot) it is going to be a problem if where you reside is different from where the company is located.
So I'm trying to see where to move that is helpful to the business but also somewhere I like living.

My second option was Berlin and opening a UG, but I'm reading of many hurdles one has to jump with a German company. Harder to close if things don't go well, more expensive to operate, more regulations to adhere to, more bureaucratic processes etc.
I've thought of Paris as well but I've read there's a lot of bureaucracy/hurdles that makes things hard for business owners.

TLDR; It seems that UK ltd is way more straightforward and the ecosystem and taxation is easier to understand (documents in English certainly help). On the other hand many people are saying you shouldn't found a company in the UK right now because of all the aforementioned reasons.

Any advice?
It's not a fabrication.

Using an 'auction' model is a very easy way for Google to undermine the credibility of the anti-trust legislation.

Any upstart that would theoretically 10x better wouldn't ever be able to get any material market share.

Imagine if there were only 4 car dealerships allowed in America and everyone had to 'bid' on the distribution. There would be no Tesla.
> Generally speaking Google seems to handicap itself by two forces: censoring content (for moral and legal reasons) and monetary optimization (like preferring click bait content over actually useful content).

Not sure if promoting click bait is Google's intent. But pretty much all SEO is geared towards Google. No one really targets SEO towards Bing and Yandex so it's easier for them to rank by other parameters.

Monetization certainly is Google's intent but I don't think pure click bait pages are beneficial to Google in the end.
You point newcomers at the list archive (mailman or whatever)?
Think in terms of kinetic kill devices. Launched from orbit could cross atmosphere in an extremely short time at high angle giving basically no time to react. No warhead would be needed because it would be able to penetrate and kill anybody or anything within most existing standing structures.
As far as I understand (and I might be wrong so please correct me), this can't be used to generate anything. Of course all the technologies you've listed are useful and brilliant but this isn't what I'm seeing.

It's more of an experiment of thoughts to generate types that are defined by the result of the SQL query, bending a compiler to a new strange behaviour that happens to be SQL like.
I see a slightly different argument here for why this is an antitrust issue. The DDG position is that they have lower ability to bid because they are offering a cheaper but superior (in terms of privacy) user experience.

If Google's only priority was the best outcome for the Android platform they'd probably consider cutting DDG a deal. However, because Google also gets the top slot by default they have an incentive to fill the rest of the list with poor-user-experience search engines.

So the antitrust issue would be Google freezing out DDG from the exposure, giving it instead to search engines that Google doesn't feel threatened by. This situation only exists because Google has technical control of both the list of search engines and the first search engine that appears on the list.

I'm not a huge fan of antitrust, being a hardened capitalist. But I can see why if antitrust is a thing then this is a case where it would apply. The market maker also being the major competitor in the market is pretty seedy.
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I initially built this small Slack bot to avoid late night Slack messages (I'm based in Australia). It's now been used by thousands of teams.

We'll send your slack message on your behalf. They'll come from your own profile. All handled securely with some nice features like recurring messages.
Hell no. If someone hires me to do work, it's on them whether or not it was a good idea in the first place. Unless and only unless the risk was explicitly agreed upon.

"You owe me $50000"
"But I didn't make $50000 from the thing I asked you to build"
"Maybe you should have thought about that before you agreed to pay me to build it, based on your idea."
And people don't tend to stay in the same company because they don't receive the proper care. What a nice chicken-egg problem
You definitely should do whichever you find more fun. But for Minecraft there are two clear "why" answers which interact:

1. There is a huge modding community so while your mod might be somewhat interesting on its own, the rest of that community can interact with it too, doing things which you didn't conceive of, but nevertheless would not have existed without your mod and that adds even more value.

Example:

Applied Energistics is a mod about storing things as data and then accessing that data over a storage network. Inside the game you walk up to a terminal and type like 'coal' and see that somewhere in the network is some coal, which you can now pick up and use from this terminal, or maybe you're carrying some stone you don't need, you just drop that into the terminal and it's stored on some disk elsewhere. Is managing disk space, etc. fun? For some people it is.

Thaumcraft adds a system of elemental magic to Minecraft. You can discover what "elements" make up blocks in the world, even enemies you meet, and harvest them to do magic. You can convert the magic into some sort of liquid or gas and combine it in new ways to make things from it.

So then an author says these both sound good, let's apply AE to Thaumcraft, and they make Thaumcraft terminals in AE, so now you're storing magical elemental fluids as bytes on a storage network. You cast some spells, realise you're low on fire element, you run up to a terminal type 'ignis' and get some fire element from a remote storage system.

2. There's an enormous ready to go audience for modded Minecraft. So that's low friction for going from an idea to getting some playtest feedback. You have an idea, you make it out of existing mods, maybe some parts are sketched in, some configuration values are pretty arbitrary. You upload that and people can try it immediately on any platforms that play Java Minecraft (so not consoles). If it sucks you can throw it away the same week you started it.

You can take this really far (e.g. some packs involve actual custom programming just for that one pack) or just throw together a dozen things you like and see if it's fun with them all together with no tweaking at all.
I recently had to learn about SAML so i read about XML signatures.

That's probably one of the worst concieved security standards i have ever read. It should be in a museum for how not to make security standards.

Honestly though, i don't think its entirely possible to separate XML from the culture around it. XML encourages a certain way of doing things that leads to bad, problematically complex, outcomes.
"My understanding of rural Germany is that villages are usually are within 6 km of each other. Is this fairly accurate?"

Pretty much. You have to search for places, where that distance is higher. But there is a increasingly number of ghost villages, where only some old people remain.
Because with password you could impersonate them. If you asked them for their profile infos most are probably willing to give those. There are few people who are really careful about what they share on social media. So that argument doesn't really count.
really nice Firefox has dragging issue. works fine if dragged on the whitespace.(firefox 81.0 windows 10)
This adds setup cost, to create the initial aliases, plus that doesn't remove memorization, it just replaces memorizing the command with memorizing your alias (which I agree is easier, but I have a bunch of aliases myself [1], [2], they're a pain to keep track of). Again, I struggle with what's difficult about imagining someone who's priorities are different?

Also... sending HTML as a parameter in your shell? Have you actually tried this? That's going to be a nightmare to escape for anything even a little bit complicated.

[1]: https://github.com/robenkleene/Dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/alia...

[2]: https://github.com/robenkleene/Dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/abbr...
Hmm yeah I overreacted, but will YouTube still provide the subtitle adding ability in YouTube studio - or will one have to add the subtitles externally?
Thanks for that! :-). The PDF is definitely worth the download :)
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If that is understood to mean palm prints are less invasive than fingerprints, then it also means palm prints are less good at correctly identifying users.

I read that part of their statement as a comparison of data privacy (not invasiveness) with face recognition. I think the contactless part was about invasiveness.
I don't care about anything regarding XML, except the fact that it can read files and make http requests...
This is so cool and very similar to a hack I did some time ago:
Noscript-compatible twitch-plays-Zelda

http://nes-o-png.herokuapp.com

So crazy what you can do with server-side-rendering if you really want to. :)
It's also hard to argue against it. In the end, Google uses all that data to make more money with ads. And having relevant ads for your taste isn't necessarily bad for many.

The amount of data collection is truly bad for people living in totalitarian regimes or have sensitive jobs but that's not the majority of friends for most of us. For the rest, the lack of privacy has no negative impact on their life and is unlikely to have in the near future, so there's no reason to change.

Wanting change to benefit all of us is what we try (and fail) with preventing climate warming.
We're not talking party politics here. The point is that the downfall of Harvey Weinstein disproves the idea that you don't get to stick around if you abuse people.
I guess for the author (and most other people who hasn't participated on usenet or the like), email is understood as "person to person communication through email". As in, not something that involves listserv.

It seems like you agree on the principles but have different favourite tools for the solution?

One upside of using a chat'ty tool is that you don't need to discuss top vs bottom posting ...
Almost every browser accepts, and sends, byte-range headers for video, which is pretty easy to map for an endless stream - you don't have to return the actual length of the video, and if you don't, browsers will treat it as an endless stream.

Whilst you do have to actually trigger the play somehow, the range will come in controllable chunks, so you can respond in kind without trashing the stream.
> less on readability and simplicity

I strongly disagree. The reason XML went out of style is because it in practise was a convoluted complex mess that was difficult for both humans and computers to read.
Yeah, the exact reasons and who is to blame are not clear. But ultimately, it is what it is. I'm not blaming the process, I'm detesting the result.
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> the “college siblings” didn’t exactly fail or end up unemployed... I know it’s anecdotical.

Since there are financially unwise college degrees (social work) and on the other end those with a mostly guaranteed, very decent minimal guaranteed income and incredible potential (medicine), this is an unfair comparison.
Yep, I've done that to send the status of a large upload, that must have been around 2008 or so.

We had a progress bar that would show the upload percentage, then the unzipping, then the virus scan on the server, then it would be marked as done.
Same, latest firefox on windows
XML had its problems, but I wish the baby didn't get thrown out with the bathwater. We got some of the things back (like comments), but e.g. XML namespaces are an amazingly versatile feature when you need to define extensible schemas, or aggregate data from different sources.
> Pay for work not time spent on the computer.

Which is fine for stuff that can be done as an individual contract. Otherwise, there's this thing called "Theory of the Firm" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm) in which economists try to answer just why firms exist.

What if your job is one where it's hard to measure output? What if it's a job where the's a lot of risk? What if collaboration is important, and you want people to use a bit of common sense to put effort behind the stuff that matters (and the boss isn't some super-genius overlord , running some kind of dystopian company where meat-robots are assigned certain goals that can be well specified but are still yet to be completely automated).
it's probably also less error prone - more area meaning more data to base the identity from. Also less fiddly.
Checkout Jacktrip. Worth the effort however it's not user friendly. For user friendly, the options are limited if you also want low latency. Jamkazam is one of the best bets there.
So now we know that a #1 post on HN has about ~450 concurrent visitors

Edit° (~1 hour later): So I've been checking every few minutes, and it's consistently been at ~450, this is a cool metric to have.

°This link was posted to HN ~4 hours ago. I first checked ~1.5 hours after it'd been posted, and it was #1 on the front page. It's still #1 as of this edit. The counter has consistently been between 445 and 455 the whole time.
There's also possible to explore and load them from within the TIC-80 by executing SURF command. All projects are loaded as code/sprites/maps/music so you can freely browse and make changes. Really awesome project.
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Apparently, the author already pointed to this "issue" in another blog article:

https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-ui-frameworks/

I wonder if he does this to generate a bit of intrigue. :)