skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discord is easier to use, no doubt about it. However that ease of use has been achieved by ruthlessly cutting control. Mumble options have I think literally 100 dials you can turn to tweak audio. Discord has like three. The Mumble options require a lot of knowledge to even comprehend, which is why they're not good for popularity. However these options are a godsend when you run into a weird audio issue.
Have you heard of magic wormhole?
Think back to your own CS professors, were any of them particular good software engineers?

I've found that Physics PhDs tend to have the highest probability of being good coders since a certain subset of them get bit by the software bug when they need to write non-trivial amounts of code to solve research problems.
You are not entitled to use a platform, but there are plenty of reasons why a platform may be liable for kicking you off.

There's the obvious case if they should discriminate against users based on a protected class.

Platforms have also been sued for things like tortuous interference and deceptive practices as a consequence of deplatforming users.

If a user engages in activity that is either clearly illegal or contrary to clear and sensible Terms of Service, removing them is obviously a fine and good thing.

Outside of those circumstances though, I would not take it as a given that there is no recourse if a user is deplatformed.
Following the links down a hole a little bit I saw this statement: "Bitcoin is by far the largest and most secure blockchain"[1]

Sure it's the largest, but it seems ETH2 might now be the most secure. It (at current prices) has $2,400,000,000 staked in the network. Sure this is still in the league of nation states to corrupt, but the penalties for breaking the rules are _so much higher_.

Given that, and the fact that Ethereum is based around smart contracts, I find it hard to believe that this could compete with ETH2.

[1] https://blog.blockstack.org/realizing-web-3-proof-of-transfe...
While Native American rights seem more than enough reason to deny the government granting the land, it is a travesty that it's our last line of defense against the inevitable destruction Rio Tinto would bring.
That's exactly the point. Being the first company to achieve that is certainly newsworthy.
DC Rainmaker has a detailed analysis of what this means for consumers.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/google-completes-acquisi...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/bpa-substitutes-may-...

Might not necessarily be better, just different to satisfy the claim "BPA free".
That's not even remotely true. For example, here's a list of buildings damaged and looted in the much shorter Minneapolis riots:

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/a-list-of-the-buil...

Can you show me a list of building and businesses damaged and looted for Jan 6 that exceeds this?

Remember, a woman was kidnapped, raped, and then murdered in the "mostly peaceful" protests that followed George Floyd there. Her name has never been released and her story went down the memory hole. Some of her last moments were captured on a doorbell cam when she was desperately trying to escape her attackers. We watched her die in realtime.

Kidnapped: https://i.imgur.com/md660xQ.jpg

Raped: https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/126610937944044749...

Murdered: https://kstp.com/minnesota-news/woman-found-dead-inside-car-...

Can you point me to such an event happening on Jan 6? No, you can't.
I think it's fine if you have an issue, but just so others no I have never had any issues understanding him, and he has gotten a lot better.

Issac Arthur is a treasure, I wish high schoolers could take a semester of him.
I think it has to do with this sort of issue: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1418668/kids-left-traumatised-...

For the last few years, there have been complaints that Youtube Kids has issues where the algorithm stumbles onto content using cartoon characters in ways that are disturbing for young kids.
Apple had at least a partial implementation of e2e backup that was resilient to users losing their passwords, via something like friends-and-family secret sharing to perform data recovery.

The implementation was scrapped.

There are ways of solving these problems, throwing up hands and saying "it can't be done anyway" is silly. Apple has done a lot of things that couldn't be done: a computer without a floppy or serial ports, a phone without a keyboard, a headset without cables between your ears.

Building the iPhone was difficult. Building APNS and iCloud was difficult. Building the App Store was difficult. Building the Apple Watch was fucking difficult. Building the Ax line of mobile chips was difficult. Building the M1 was difficult. Don't forget about airpods, homepods, and all the other mindbendingly hard shit Apple does all the time now.

Apple does insane technical achievements on a regular basis. Secret sharing for e2e backups is well within their capabilities. Google even managed to e2e encrypt Android backups.

The problem is that Apple serves at the pleasure of the US military intelligence apparatus, and they know it.

It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Exactly. This in turn devolves into a race to the bottom where you are basically speculating on the speculations of others. Content then becomes popular for no other reason than people thought that other people would find it popular. So basically like the real stockmarket. We don't need more things to be like the stockmarket.
Just for fun, I'm working on some performance transmission parts for quicker gear shifts. I'm using basic 3d printing and laser cutting to prototype, hoping to move on to manually machined aluminium soon before go to CNC steel.
Hey, I recognize your site!

Both 'Troll and Flame' and 'Friend or Foe' were top results for Dragon Magazine galleries when I was searching for a specific issue several years ago. Ended up finding it (#142) from the cover art. I bought it as a gift for the person who taught me to play tabletop games. They used that issue which included some details for 2nd Edition and the Warhammer RPG. Thanks for preserving this content! Especially in the simple format you've presented it in.
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I recently started the process of digitizing some old 8mm home movies from my late grandfather. I lament not knowing most of the stories and people shown in the films. It's gotten me thinking about the best way to preserve details of my life for future generations--like what I think my great great great grand kids might be interested in knowing about me if they were doing genealogy research. They probably won't care to dig through a hundred photos of each vacation I've ever been on but would like to know some of the highlights.

I haven't yet built anything, and it might not even be a solvable business problem. Hopefully though I'll at least figure out good ways to organize data I want to pass on to my children.
Sorry, even after looking at those links and rereading your edited comment, I'm not sure I follow: How did it make things worse? Was it that "nothing even remotely political" was just way too broad?
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Not bad signal, but the basis of how wifi shares the spectrum is time distribution.
Have you given any thought to this being used in place of pseudocode in white papers? If the language is much easier to translate problem into code, it is probably good at conveying ideas for documentation or teaching. My naive assumption is that would be a more useful focus than IDE tooling.
If Factorio feels too much like work, then this is going to feel... exactly like work.
Mumble has excellent audio quality but it's marred by its lack of feedback cancellation. Mumble is basically unusable if anybody isn't using a headset to listen.

Which may be tied to its low latency... I assume there are algorithmic reasons why cancellation needs latency.

That and between the audio setup wizard and its unorthodox auth system, the onboarding process is brutal for non-technical users.
push, p/eu/sh?

long, l/on/ng, l/an/ng?
If U.S. government provided a platform, then these "free speech" claims might have a basis in law. IMO, the issues would be easier to grapple with.

Instead these enourmous websites are filling what is now an obvious void in public services for communication.

Perhaps I should not have used the term "common carrier" as that term has very specific meaning, and only in certain jurisdictions. What I mean is common carrier-like treatment by the public. People talk about these websites as if they are public services. Messenger apps are treated like they are interchangeable with telephone service.

Practically speaking (i.e., how they are being used in practice), maybe, but beyond that I refuse to see them that way. These are not anywhere close to public services, IMO.

Even the trend of websites that we would otherwise see as "public websites" containing "public information" that urge visitors to create "accounts" or "profiles" and "log in" is a disturbing evolution to me, blurring the line between public and private websites. Traditionally, a website that is protected by a password is not "open to the public". If "accounts" are required then disabling the account can disable "public access". Accounts can be disabled for any reason.

Of course, that trend is probably driven by the commercialisation of the web as an advertiser's wet dream.
Watch "Au service de la France" and "Family Business", both really funny. Second one is a bit vulgar.
I think I'm getting fatigue for all the $CompanyX condemns the Capitol riots stuff I'm seeing. It's actually outpaced the generic emails I get about how Marriott/Lyft/Uber/Delta/McDonald's/Wells Fargo/public transportation/Pornhub are committed to supporting me during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Every time I log a bike ride in Strava, 15% of the screen is a message from the founders of Strava a out their feelings re: the Capitol rioting.

Is this the new normal? Does every company feel obligated to let its customers know that they condemn terrorism? I don't want corporations to constantly remind me about all the fucked up stuff in the world. I already know that things are fucked up. Just let me have a few minutes of escapism while I ride my bike/buy groceries/check out source code.
What you described reminds me of Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl”, I kept wondering what the deal was with her accent. But it turns out she’s British and did accent lessons. Her English wasn’t incorrect but just sounded really strange to my Midwest ears.
Perhaps the better idea than suppressing politics would be to have a week where technological discussion is encouraged and actively highlighted?
Apple has to log client IPs on these systems to prevent abuse, to stop people doing things like scraping every public key for every iMessage user and then publishing the diffs.

IP to ISP/Location mapping is just a lookup table, and can be done at any time now or in the future.
> the trust is not in the code, it's in the community and their policies

I can heartily agree with that.

That's why I think having the "layer 0" social consensus of a network aim for maximum clarity, so participants have as few points where there's three potential for surprise disagreement later.

Ethereum is very strongly "no abnormal state changes" starting with the Parity issue. I think there have been a few more similar cases of contract bugs, some even involving client devs, and any suggestion of a new fork has met with strong opposition from all ends of the community.

Another thing I think is useful for a blockchain is to have multiple independent clients... It helps prevent devs from having outsize voice in discussion (though the users and the node runners are always the final vote).

I think working out the meta structure of how to work these social level contracts is definitely something the whole cryptocurrency industry needs to work on.
Cross "The Intercept" off the list of organizations I donate to.
It turned every thread into a political battle and made every political side 10x madder at us than they already were.
Tensorflow model for Chess Board evaluation using binary board state as input and Stockfish eval and training data.
> not so much binding
Play it faster. 2X or more.
The ratio in the US is reported as 320:1.
I personally have given up and turned mercenary. Even if you're passionate about statistics, machine learning, or any ds related discipline don't think of work as being a bigger part of your identity than the average star bucks barista does. Find a team/company that pays you well and isn't too opinionated, with low ego (if possible). Don't look for challenging work, the few places it exists already have the people they need, whereas the companies that pretend they have challenging problems tend to be insufferable. Look for a team where you can check-in and check-out without too much stress and get paid well.
That is actually where I was going to start. Tracking the CO2 output for the production of millions of individual items across the internet is hard but I believe there are some services that can estimate CO2 for deliveries based on country + zip.
For side projects I've been exercising a different set of skills. I built:

An electric go-kart for the kids.

A lithium battery for my car.

A full custom electric skateboard. Custom deck, hand made lithium battery pack, custom motor mount, and more.

A portable and high power lithium battery. That powers a water heater I made from parts from a Keurig machine. Basically its a cup-at-time portable electric water heater I use when camping with the family. Goes from off to a cup of hot water in less than 2 minutes, only heats water you will use. I could have used an inverter and a Keurig machine directly but that wouldn't be fun.
Do you know the Monty Python line "God would see through a cheap ploy like that?" People would see through that and rip it to shreds the same way.

Another thing I learned from that experiment is not to try experiments like that. Turns out it's bad to fuck with the firmware.

Stability is really important. HN is a site for intellectually interesting stories and discussion. That includes some political discussion, as I've explained at the links above. This has always been the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.
You should make it. I'll buy one!
Wait I’m confused, it sounds like mean game ‘changer’ instead of ‘breaker’? :)
having a lot of money staked doesn't mean it's secure. The security model of Bitcoin comes from proof of work, which most people complain as being waste. But it's not actually waste. It's secure because miners have to keep working hard and "wasting energy" because the network is worth protecting (and only if the network is worth protecting). With proof of stake, the stakers only need to make an investment once in the beginning, so it results in rich get richer, and the network is essentially "protected" by those who do not keep working hard to protect the ledger. This suffers from the same flaw that exists in the real world financial system. The whole system could collapse overnight like a domino if something goes wrong. It's much more unlikely for something like that to happen for Proof of Work because miners invest heavily in constantly innovating and investing back into the network. To summarize, in theory Bitcoin is secure exactly because miners "waste" energy. Without wasting energy, all the protection is just a mirage.
This is neat, but it's less "How to Train a YOLO4" and "How to put your data into [our product that abstracts the training of YOLO4 behind the scenes so you don't even have to know what you're doing]." That's totally fine, to be clear, but the title makes it seem like one will learn about training YOLO4 models, when instead one is really learning how to use the roboflow dashboard to put images into their system, the fact that it happens to be YOLO4 under the hood is incidental.
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Chrome extension support for Electron-based web browsers: https://github.com/samuelmaddock/electron-browser-shell

Despite a fair amount of folks disliking Electron for replacing traditional desktop apps, I find it's a great fit for building unique web browsers.

I believe there's a lot of opportunity for making interesting web browsers, but building and maintaining them by forking something like Chromium or Firefox is a ton of work.

With Electron, it's possible to create something interesting with a team of one.
I took a look at ExVenture when I first started working on this. A lot seems to have changed since then, but from what I could tell at the time there were some potential races. For example, movement processing seemed like it allowed for the possibility of players to seemingly move through doors that were closed (at least, from the players' point of view). I could easily have been wrong though since I'm new to Elixir.

That said, a requirement for scripting I have is the ability to chain together arbitrary actions in an atomic fashion without any races or deadlocks. Content creators can create really complex scripts that involve arbitrary locations and actions. I wasn't sure how I would achieve this goal with ExVenture.
I'm developing a retro video game called Tiny Thor.

I'm working on it on and off since 2012, but now working fulltime on it since last year.

The game has art by Henk Nieborg and music by Chris Hülsbeck. They are two heroes of my youth, so this is really an absolute dream come true for me.

The player’s main weapon is Mjölnir – a magic hammer – that bounces off enemies and walls. So the player has to carefully aim and use the environment to do bouncy trick shots to defeat enemies or solve physic-based puzzles. This leads to all kinds of crazy and funny situations.

Some WIP Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTpi3D4IFA

Infos: https://asylumsquare.com/games/tiny-thor
A month ago, I deployed this mobile app:

https://www.listbequick.app

It offers cross-platform list sharing without accessing your phone contacts. I’d appreciate any feedback on pricing or anything else!
These are of course multiple well-publicized but zero-fact assertions used as propaganda to trick people into ethereum and other altcoin bags.
I'm sure somebody could figure out a webapp that's nothing but a globally synchronized metronome.
I just shipped this book on React's useEffect hook: https://useeffectbyexample.com/

Taking a break from building side projects for the first time in three years otherwise.
Mobile game. Intent to monetize using ads and in-app purchases. Godot open source. Just for fun, probably won't make much .
I generally agree, but with charging especially it seems to be hard to figure out what exactly "name brand" means. Obviously you've got companies like Anker that've been around for a good while, but, in my opinion at least, it can be tough to distinguish up-and-coming brands pumping out great products from not-so-great brands producing junk.

For instance, I've bought stuff from Aukey and Ravpower that's worked well so far, but I wouldn't necessarily call those name brands yet in the US, unlike Anker.
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>Something changed over the last decade or more, and now no one wants to do any better than they currently are. They are despairing in content with themselves<

People still aspire to be attractive they just don't feel the same social pressure to chase it that they used to. Personally I don't see the problem for the USA, if people are happy being unhealthy then let them be unhealthy. If this was Europe I could see a public cost argument but US businesses are already starting to charge more to people who are inconveniently obese so I don't see why it's a real concern.
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I can tell you right now they're just gonna default to Zoom as that's the service that is mostly talked about, and probably the easiest to set up and use. Even my grandmother knows how to set up a Zoom meeting.
Not when it comes to sexual attraction. Women are not sexually attracted to your wallet or social circle.

Sure high social status alone can help you land relationships but absent raw physical attraction, the foundation will be shaky. There is such a thing as a trophy wife / gold digger after all.
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"..the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error."

- John Stuart Mill
Compressed cellular audio vs good landlines is a world of difference... and the modern cellular sound still sucks
Nothing is stopping anyone from posting more of the kind of content they would rather see, as opposed to complaining about the content they would rather see less of.

That said, Hacker News is about intellectual curiosity, and people can be intellectually curious about things other than technology. Even politics can clear that bar, although it very rarely does here.
Amazon legal brief says Parler shutdown was for dangerous content violating TOS
Please do share your game when you're finished. I am interested in seeing where it goes :)
Once they can deliver my groceries as well right when I need them, I might be willing to sacrifice my privacy.
Thanks for your response. The extension itself won't solve global overconsumption, poverty or climate change in the same way that any one individual won't. I do believe that by being more mindful of our purchases it can influence other parts of our lives though - we start to consider "the machine", consider more closely our impulses against the negative impacts our choices have and perhaps then we begin to demand something more from "the machine". Maybe if enough people become mindful they will vote for politicians that represent an interest in saving the environment, drastically increase environmental protections and incentivize sustainable manufacturing which I hope in the long run benefits all.
Yup. Creator of Counterparty here. It's funny to think that if the Core devs hadn't be so incredibly resistant to people using the Bitcoin blockchain in unexpected ways, Ethereum wouldn't exist in its current form.

See https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/929804867568373760
If you have an AWS env, and they have no comparable alternative, you may be forced to look outside AWS, eg: to Elatic's SaaS offering. But in many cases, if AWS has a comparable offering, you simply don't bother looking outside.

It's similar to bundling tactic of Microsoft, and other big vendors. By bundling MS Teams with other things, no one has to "buy" Teams, they already get it for "free" (well, it's no extra cost beyond what they would be paying for Office or whatever already), so why "buy" Slack when you have a similar chat tool for "free".
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