skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found my 8 year old playing hypixel. I know jack about Minecraft, so I couldn't understand how come he was having some kind of chat dialog with someone. The only thing I've ever shown him on his Fedora laptop was how to log in, open a terminal and and start Minecraft from the command line.

It seems that he taught himself to find the web browser, then find google, then search for Minecraft resources, then enter urls for Hypixel and Mineplex into Minecraft.

I was torn between pride and trepidation of what's to come.
Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149177
Hackernews at its very best.
This exact problem also affects Discord/Slack "communities": You have to find them, get an invite, maybe the conversation is viewable in the free tier's limited scrollback, but in any case they're never going to be searchable and useful over the long term.
Sniper rifles flowing to Mexican cartels show a decade of U.S. failure
> As the statistics are showing we've seen a massive dropoff in cold/flu related deaths

Is that not because we’ve stopped recording cold/flu deaths and started labelling them all as corona virus deaths?
4chan is very much mainstream and much more than /pol/, it's one of the most popular websites on the internet.
Seriously, I always wondered why this wasn't done. Yes, some of the more OS-related stuff may not be possible to emulate, but 99% of use cases probably don't use those. I never understood why Adobe themselves didn't make an emulation layer themselves. Once again the community saves the day, but I still feel it would've been a lot easier for them to do it.
Ad blockers already don't work. They're largely useless. If you use one these days, you already know why.
With half the country against public education and science literacy in general, I don't have much hope for a replacement at this point.
Thank you everyone for your feedback!

You're right in that load times were abysmal. I have since removed the Product Hunt-like popup modal on the landing page. While I personally enjoyed the aesthetic and UX, my no-code pop-up was loading all of the images/videos for 100+ job listings upon load. No wonder it was so slow.

The new simplified experience (and many would argue, improved UX) goes directly to a full page listing AND reduces load times by >90%.

I have been operating this job board in beta for a couple of months and never had a complaint about load times (maybe it is all of us gamers that are used to download 12 hour game patches). I owe a great debt of gratitude the HN community for surfacing the issue.

Thank you!
I've never been in the admin side. Thank you for your work. I'm sure your users appreciate it.

I wonder if the problem is just that the barrier to entry is lower now than it once was? Eternal September, Sturgeon's Law, and all that.

I mean, there's plenty of "shiny (or rusty) new tool" posts on the machinery forum, but folks usually manage to turn any such thread into a nerd-fest regardless. That seems to promote a culture that dissuades shallow interaction. I'm going to contradict my previous point and wonder instead if part of the issue is growing a community at a rate that allows new users to take over the culture without understanding the existing norms.

But hey, I'm talking out my butt here. I'd love your take from the admin side.
I was a BBS kid in the 90s. At the pre-Internet cusp, as a lonely, alienated teen I found community through online message forums. Even now, I'm very much drawn to the back-and-forth of debate, conversation, sharing of ideas and so forth. I made friends like this in those days.

This a) prevented me from becoming a degenerate / criminal / dropout as I was pretty alienated and angry as a teen; b) motivated me to learn how to be a sysadmin out of hobby, and not because I ever thought there was a job in it but because my BBS Server required connectivity to FIDONet or whatever, I was fiddling with OS/2 Warp, Linux, and Windows NT out of curiosity and broke stuff I had to fix myself; c) made me friends I have to this day, as an old guy; and of course d) set me on a path to a high paying tech profession today.

When the Internet became commercialized (as in, available to the masses) in the middle-late 90's, I remember the BBS software got ported to web apps. There was a mix of desktop clients that connected to the BBS servers (complete with VGA online games instead of ANSI now), and these new Web interfaces to the message forums. It just didn't last.

It only took a year or two for it to be apparent to all of us that the Internet sucked for this. I'm going to put my elitist hat on here. The popularity dilutes things. You sic a bunch of randos on a message board or forum, you'll often get the dumbest of the dumb rising to the surface, mean stuff (although there was plenty of mean stuff on BBSes too, complete with death threats, police calls on users and subpoenas, other drama), and most importantly a mediocrity that surfaces.

How HN manages to avoid this is quite impressive. It's not completely immune. Sometimes I see really intelligent and rational comments being greyed out for reasons that I believe are ideological. And sometimes top comments are mundane. But overall there's an extremely high level of competency, intelligence and literacy on HN. You forget that most people don't have anything close to these writing and reasoning skills.
> If the site had ongoing problems with CP, I really can't imagine that the Internet Archive would be willing to host its content either.

Except that the CP posts were moderated away, and presumably wouldn't be part of the archive.
Agreed but what is noticeable is how much greater the losses are this year (with still three months to go).

2018: $97.2m

2019: $86.0m

2020: $203.2m
My nieces the same.. very popular with the young ones. They even have an “among us” like game on there
I get that Roblox is a platform and not just another game on the App Store. It appears to be popular and addicting to children, but most children don't have money. Is all of their revenue coming strictly from children's allowances or is this something that has potential to appeal to older people?
With measures like this, Google is actively preventing new, independent browsers from ever scaling on their own.

Want to sign in to Google? Use one of the selected browsers with a significant, existing market share.

But first though, are you actually human? Let's see if your browser is compatible with our reCAPTCHA service. [0]

Oh, you wanted to watch something on Netflix? I hope your browser is approved by Google for DRM playback. [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/1320410639244746753

[1] https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-br...
Now I want screen or tmux. Otherwise you can't really run anything on a remote Windows machine over SSH on spotty connections.
> Extripating the virus completely from the population, and keeping it out through total physical isolation of that population from the rest of the world, is a tall task.

Note that I wasn't arguing for that. My argument is that a few simple, low impact measures would be enough to drop the effective infectivity of the virus low enough that it would fizzle out. There's reason to believe that a simple combination of limiting high-risk social engagements coupled with _strict_, enforced universal face mask requirements would be enough.

That wouldn't 100% eliminate the virus, as it would continue to spread and pool in countries without those guidelines. But for countries that do maintain them it would never gain a foothold.

Keep that up until a vaccine is deployed.

Easy. Low impact on quality of life. That's all I'm arguing.
I'm so glad you're enjoying it! And yes we totally hear the community's reservations about moving to a virtualization based approach and we take this into account as we plan the next overall steps for WSL :)
TSDB, Prometheus, Grafana: Tracing a Variable Across the OSS Monitoring Stack
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This is a cool example, and now that you mention it docker as well seems to provide similar functionality. I guess what's striking about WSL1 then (and maybe what the author was saying) is that it's a mix between a docker container and like wine.
50%, I'd say. Breakdown:

- Reading code: 20%
- Writing code: 10%
- Debugging code: 20%
- Meetings / administrata: 10%
- Other productive tasks: 10%
- Goofing off: 30%
hahaha - just found dirt on like 1/4 of the people I know.
Maybe it’s you who should stop being abused by random words? Change yourself, leave me my technical language I’ve been using for decades, please.
Also a fun part of it is that in my (non-english speaking) country the terms master/slave are being used in their technical meaning only (as loan words). Why do we need to change our technical language and adjust to the concept of guilt that is completely foreign to us? I find this offensive.
Hopefully they can redo this article with more countries stats, I would love to know USA, China, India, etc
Nah, I'm compiling plenty of stuff right on the phone (Librem 5 Dogwood) and it rarely hits the thermal throttling threshold. It has plenty of mass to dissipate that heat now (the whole metal plate behind the screen), earlier revisions had much worse thermals. This week I've played games on it for almost an hour attached to external 1080p screen and it was pretty warm in touch, but not hot at all; the CPU sensor showed 55°C and quickly cooled down when it went idle.

Of course Reform is going to perform much better at sustained high loads, that's obvious, but Librem 5's thermals really aren't bad. If anything, its thermals have the opposite problem - the lower bound of its temperature is rather high (around 30°C) as it doesn't suspend. Regarding the upper bound, I really don't think about it at all during my regular usage.
Arecibo Observatory, a Great Eye on the Cosmos, Is Going Dark
Twitter's web version is an abomination. Every time you click on a link to read a tweet, you get an error. Every time. You need to force a refresh to get the content. Its an absolute joke.

To any twitter "engineers" on HN, sort it or abort it.
So in order to log in to Google Services in a browser that isn't Google Chrome, I have to install Google Chrome?
Still ignorant and wrong tho...
28 years, specifically. https://www.pcalc.com/mac/twenty.html
Got it down to 129 requests by removing the pop-up (which was pre-loading every job listing) exactly as you describe.

I'll continue to look for optimizations.

Thank you einr!
But Chromium is a normal browser!
Same, for all those reasons and more. I hate Facebook discussions along with any other site that uses this nested comment + magical sorting algorithm format (e.g. Reddit, Hacker News).

It's impossible to have a lengthy discussion about anything of substance on sites like this. The nested comment format immediately splinters every discussion into multiple "mini-threads" rather than a single coherent conversation. Each of those mini-threads splinters even further, making it impossible to follow anything.

Then the upvotes and algorithm fuck it up even more by pushing "popular" replies to the top while burying anything controversial.

Every thread is dead within hours, not just because discussions are fractured into a million pieces but because variety is prioritized over substance and the front page MUST have new content every time users visit the site.

On forums there were threads that would live for years, some have probably even spanned more than a decade at this point.
Any response yet?
Roblox has seen massive revenue growth in the pandemic, but by far biggest question is which costs can they get leverage on as they scale. A lot of existing costs seem to increase linearly with revenue/usage (e.g., app store fees, infrastructure, trust & safety).
Fun fact, this is the same widget that used to be available on iOS before Apple killed old-style widgets in iOS 14.
Why don't you just run VNC or remote desktop on a remote machine? Unless those can't run well on 512kbps.
It's an unfortunate situation, because so long as people are writing popular frameworks/libraries that horribly abuse the dynamic nature of JavaScript, the TypeScript team sort of has no choice but to try and wrestle the language into supporting it. But I agree that this is getting out of hand. I still like TypeScript but with each new release it's getting harder to claim with a straight face that it's "easier" than vanilla JS when you have to grok this increasingly convoluted type system.
Very interesting. As a Svelte user I find Tailwind counter-intuitive, as the CSS is already scoped to the component. I also found the added build step slows down the otherwise snappy dev server. I had purchased Tailwind UI but got a refund after I ended up needing to write custom CSS on top of the Tailwind classes.

I would be interested in your setup (I generally use sapper).

As an aside, can Svelte reactivity add Tailwind classes? For instance class={`color-blue-${someNum}`} or does all that need to be available at build time (I'm assuming the latter).
The Atlantic article bungles this point, too, as do most people both opposed to and in favor of masks.

I think it is harmful to say that masks protect the wearer (unless they are N95 or better). This is a big and easily attacked surface that only serves to obscure and discredit the real point of wearing masks.

Instead the messaging should focus solely on the fact that they protect others from the infection carried (likely without knowledge) by the wearer, and that people without symptoms can be contagious.

This point needs to be drilled into people's heads until everyone gets it. People also need to be taught to wear masks properly. Wearing one with nose sticking out is darn near useless.
That’s not what a family office is. That is a family-owned business. See the link in the sibling comment.

Also, it’s possible to determine a value for any company.. not sure why you think it isn’t? Net profit/compensation to owner multiplied by a multiple determined by what industry/sector it is in is how small business valuation is done, plus/minus assets/liabilities.
According to a recent book, the United States sells more weapons to Mexico than any other country in the world.

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (2017) "Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico", p. 228.

https://www.amazon.com/Los-Zetas-Inc-Criminal-Corporations/d...
Probably cut 10 F35s and build a new one. Of course current politicians won't do anything that is bipartisan and generally forward thinking. Dems only want to spend money on social programs and Republicans only want to spend it on blowing brown people up. It's a sad state.
Watch my talk and find out :)

More seriously, if your istio injector stops working, your app will keep working over plaintext. For some users, that’s a feature. For others, that’s a breach of contract with fines. My app targets the latter.
Twitter frightened of a competitor and uses the 'Russia, Russia, Russia' meme so it can stay on top?

Why am I so skeptical?
To clarify, since I think this is not obvious to the other commenters here.

(1) The company ships software updates that happens to be near the launch of a new model. It's not by accident, there are often major software changes to take advantage of the new hardware that is soon to be released.

(2) Users start complaining that they are seeing regressions: everything seems a bit more slow, or it's less reliable (things crash or freeze more often), other bugs requiring the device to be rebooted, etc.

(3) After the product launch, some of the users try the new model, and that runs very well compared to the older device with the degraded software (because the software was just optimized to it and extensively tested)

(4) Executives get reports about the user complains on older models.
Some internally wonder if better software practices or better QA would avoid such regressions on older devices.
Others quickly point out that doing so would be bad in two ways: it costs more; and it reduces revenue by removing an incentive for users to buy newer models.
I believe this should be fixed.
My problem was that the ram was never released back when I didn't use it anymore and it started to kill windows itself. Had to hard limit it from the link you provided.
I have a very strong suspicion that’s nowhere near enforced to any reasonable degree of effectiveness for private individuals.
Literacy skill is not a protected class.

Literacy skill itself is not, but be VERY careful with that. Learning disabilities are still disabilities, and those 100% are protected.

https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/in-the-...
I once heard someone joking (?), that Qemu was written to run Macromedia Flash on PowerPC Linux. So, maybe it takes ten years, but why not emulate M1?
I'm sure it was A/B tested for sales purposes.

I think engineers know the reputation of hashicorp products at this point. The marketing site is for the C-suite people, documentation is for the technical people.

FWIW, their documentation pages [1] are actually a great landing page for technical readers. The comparison to other software is pretty good for "grounding" consul into your other infra.

[1]: https://www.consul.io/docs/intro
[2]: https://www.consul.io/docs/intro/vs
Ob Site Hired, Once Valued at $500M, Discusses Winding Down
The rules are complicated[0] and they say "If all valid claims monetize the video, revenue is divided by the number of claims except in special cases such as cover revshare and music."

So just having content from multiple copyright holders doesn't necessarily stop ads from playing. However, that policy also says "If one of the assets claiming a video has missing ownership information, the default policy action is Track (owner missing)." which "Allows video to be viewable on YouTube and tracks viewership, but does not serve ads against it."[1]

An alternative might just be to add some content at the end of the video which is not advertiser-friendly, which would demonetise the video while not annoying the viewers too much.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6300781?hl=en

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6085494?hl=en
Apple MacBook M1 Review
I just made an update that looks like it reduced load times by >90%. Would love to see if you notice a difference.
ha, you don't sound like you have kids. My kids love Roblox... You're birthday is coming up, what do you want? Roblox gift card. Grandma wants to get you a birthday, xmas, ____ gift, what do you want? Get me a roblox gift card or robucks as they are called. My kids now design shrits and sell them online and take the money and spend it on roblocks. Roblocks is also a way for kids to connect online. For example, mine talk to their cousins that live in another state and their friends from a neighborhood we moved away from.
I have looked into what it might take to pull off some of these tax avoidence strategies for an average, upper middle income person. And the issue isn't just the knowledge, it's that you need a certain size before things actually start to meet the threshold of what the IRS and other foreign tax agencies consider legitimate.

One specific issue I remember running into was the strategy of offloading intellectual property to an offshore entity.

That entity needs to have staff and be at least doing something in regards to the business. I don't think you could get by just having an employee less or even shared entity holding the intellectual property. Because just an empty shell company is going to be seen purely as a tax avoidance play with no other purpose.
I went and picked up an old dual-CPU Mac Pro 4.1 - four disk slots with WD Red 4TB and one SSD in the 2nd ODD slot for Debian.

It is extremely silent after cleaning the fans and replacing the aged GPU with a silent one but not power efficient, that's granted. But at least it's having actual processing power and can sustain ~120MB/s write unlike its predecessor (Lenovo ix4-300d) that could barely be bothered to do 10 MB/s...
A better example would be the SNES emulators bsnes and higan, written in modern C++, which did just work when compiled on an ARM Mac the other day.
It's a brilliant concept too - making games for it is really really run, because all the multiplayer stuff is built right in by default.

Making reliable multiplayer games is tough: I'd love to see a serious API service that does the same thing for "real" game engine/libraries!
Middle School / High School: "What are these letters doing in my math?!"

Post University: "What are these numbers doing in my math?!"
After all these years I still can't find anything as usable as SpeedCrunch on pretty much any platform
I used to own an '86 Subaru BRAT. I sold it to somebody on a forum I used to frequent when I went hiking for 5 months without storage for it.

Car people are the best people, and the forum for my current (utterly quotidian) ride has a couple of people who have been dispensing informed answers for years. I'm with you that small communities can be totally viable and all around awesome.

ETA: totally coveting your 70-series.
House Alarm system armed from a toothbrush
The handpick showcase is an excellent sampling. I wonder how accurate the view counters are, right now BadgerBadgerBadger is the highest with only 71 views.
Before someone claims its fake, here's a bit of detail about what happened behind the scenes https://twitter.com/imduffy15/status/1329575923310604295
I don’t know anything about that particular function, but “color” has several distinct definitions (colors?), some of which even make sense here.
You can see a similar comment from Rich Turner here on Hacker News too, under the username bitcrazed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918

I'd never actually read it with the apostrophe as pointing out in that tweet so the name makes a lot more sense now. Perhaps Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux would be clearer hah

Also, according to his profile, Rich is former Product Manager for WSL and currently "Sr. PM for the Windows Command Line, Windows Terminal"

The interpretation in the article was still interesting nonetheless
I suspect that their is some level of coordination and conspiracy across right-wing propaganda channels such as your clip from Sinclair stations. Though all those Sinclair stations are one organization.

But your suspicioun that Scientific American is in the know of a coming push for censorship and is tayloring propaganda on that basis makes absolutely no sense to me.
One man's edge case is another man's line in the sand.
This is actually why I stopped using it. Forcing types on a dynamic language like this seems to inevitably lead to really, really complex type definitions which just confuse things tremendously. It almost seems easier and better to just straight up use JSDoc with some good standard documentation to back it.
If it wasn't hot days maybe, and no welding work close to combustible materials, then what you notice (but not 'just' only), then not 'confined and contaminated' (9:45) in the chain of failures..

That's why my question (†) - if it could be really avoidable at the last moment, as the video suggest.

(†) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154599
Just goes to show HN ignorance I guess. Both of those platforms have application and platform sandboxing. Safari itself has multiple granular sandbox profiles for different WebKit components.

You are talking out of your ass here.