skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took umbrage at the OP "laughing and laughing" at how apparently technology has no downsides. In America, millions of uninsured and underinsured people get shitty healthcare. Many die. Many more go bankrupt. "Laughing and laughing" in the face of that is callous.

I'm not "trying hard to be woke" and I'm not missing the point. I've been through this whole techno-utopia, all the way to the end, and without fail technology has its blind adherents whose overconfident pronouncements mean the rest of us have to eat the dust of this never-ending rollercoaster ride. I've been around long enough to tell you exactly what is in store for you. Future shock. Long years of struggling as every skill you have is rendered utterly obsolete by change; every fond memory of places and people you knew is chewed up and spit out by change, and the world, the physical world--how it works, how you go about life, will keep changing and changing and changing, and you'll end up old, surrounded by kids who literally have no memory of the past, who cannot understand your pining for a walk in the forests obliterated to put in a subdivision, for empty fields overrun by this--this technology. And yeah, it's technology. It's all technology. It's a machine eating all of us up.

Technology is not just some nicer drugs and cancer treatments. Technology is our entire society revolutionizing itself because we have made change itself our only value. Technology is a helpless 80 year old person who can't do damn thing because their dead-simple phone has been replaced with some new-fangled machine that they simply cannot comprehend, and shouldn't have to.

And yeah, that's great technology has improved so many billions of lives. But the number of people on this Earth has doubled in my lifetime. It's crowded. And I don't know most of these people. But their waste products are all over this planet, not just in the air. You'll find out. Have fun until those kids grow up and revolutionize the world you like to be some dumb
arcade.
I wonder if the killer feature for AR/VR is as simple and unsexy as replacing my ridiculous array of massive monitors.
The founders admit on their own podcast that making the ice cream is not rocket science. All the recipes are out there, including for their custom mixins. Anybody can do it.

Getting the factory to work to scale that quality is another story. But that's only worth it if the demand can be generated, and that requires the kind of marketing that the founders were actually extremely good at. It remains to be seen whether their rabid fanbase will follow the brand without them, which was very tied into their story and community connection. It would be one thing if it had already achieved critical mass, but the business crashed just before that.

My nearest two grocery stores in NJ carried Ample Hills until recently. Now it's gone and that space is occupied by the other few dozen boutique ice cream brands. I doubt I'll see it return.
Unfortunately people want quick-fix solutions that mollify their conscience too. It's become ideological.

In SF the climate is such that officers only pursue the most egregious cases where they think their work will have results. They know the DA will pull punches and drag their feet and drop lesser cases so they don't even bother. The DA often times pushes the victim to agree to restorative justice. It's not a deterrent.

Restorative Justice can work in some special cases. We can work to make prisoners more ready for the workforce when they get out. But we need lots of support in the way of social pressure and also some brainwashing/reconditioning. Most criminals will not want to go through the effort of turning things around, unless you change them via stick and carrot. It's hard to change course. It's hard to change course for anybody.

Now, some people are salvageable. We have to get better at spotting potential and providing tools and support for those people who want to change for the better.
This seems like a waste of time unless society also reforms its hiring practices.
My favorite is the GPU paragraph:

> While NVIDIA would be technically possibly the best performance choice, issues arise with general attitude towards FOSS compatibilty.
In any case we look and listen into NVIDIA and CUDA options, accelerating totally open documentation from NVIDIA's side.
Also the NVIDIA's Jetson IoT and AI platform is researched for a compatibility with RISC-V architecture, ISA and FOSS

Uh, surely they don't mean the retro ISA bus, right? :D

On a more serious note if I could build a big (dGPU oriented) open laptop I would put an MXM slot in there, so that existing Radeon cards could be used.
Biden ends U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen, says war 'has to end'
> there are no circumstances whereby the author has to accept that their hypothesis was False.

The author described such a circumstance, but then explained that he did not have access to the necessary lab testing to actually do so. The hypothesis is falsifiable in principle even if the researcher does not expect to have the equipment necessary to measure falsification by that outcome.
It costs $50k to house someone for a year.
They can't ban a windows pc software like this as it's not walled garden. When phones come with app store, they must be responsible.
This article could have been written by Gwyneth Paltrow and it would have had the same level of authority. There's a reason vaccines require staged trials. This seems play playing not with fire, but with nitroglycerin or maybe Nitrogen triiodide.
While /usr is locked down with SIP, /usr/local is not, it is perfectly writable; brew does create new directories there and changes ownership of existing ones.
> Those who downvoted me think I support such behavior;

You don't know what those people think. That's the nature of downvoting. All you know is the aggregate score for your comment. That's the nature of this moderated comment system.
That's not true, I'm quite certain a number of states have started removing first-past-the-post in favour of preferential systems. (Sorry I don't know the states nor what the term for the above is in the US).

I agree democracy has its flaws... but what's the alternative? (This is highly off topic sorry). But complaining that minority rule to protect a "Happy Neighbourhood" is morally equivalent to "gay rights" seems like a dishonest argument to me.
This is what I was thinking also. Tel was(is?) more or less locked down so you can only put contact info on the site itself, also.
UK pressured to follow US in ending arms sales to Saudi
That quote was from a different era where the internet was seen as a bringer of free information and hope, unfortunately.
This is not true: most value is stored on hardware wallets, and the public keys are exposed to the computers whenever the balance is checked. It’s dangerous to treat public keys as private information, as most software is not designed to protect it.
Yeah, and in due fashion Chromium became "critical infrastructure" when SpaceX decided to use it as the basis of the Dragon capsule's UI. They pinned to a super-old version of Chromium that stopped getting updates 18 weeks after release. Which means it is absolutely chock full of bugs.
> if you can afford to pay for Inlets Pro please do so

LOL. This is just a SSH forwarding. :-) I suggest you rather pay https://devnull-as-a-service.com/.
Legitimately confused by this claim. These companies all do tons of acquisitions
This is the main reason I sold my Facebook shares about a year ago. It's clear that FB will not be able to repeat their Instagram trick in future
Same difference, the city becomes a honeypot because authorities decided it was a good idea to advertise their intentions.
I back up around 20TB and the easiest solution I found was to just buy 4x12TB drives and mirror to cloud (yielding 2x offline copies). For stuff that's really really important, around half of that, and which if restore is needed fast access is required, I also back it up to SSD.

It's not the greatest solution, but when you're hovering at some small multiple of common single drives, it's certainly the easy answer.
Well, that sucks but good to know, so no RV traveling yet?
No. What does that have to do with my comment?

As far as justifying my "it's not really a Mustang" comment, you just have to... you know... look at it. It's a crossover SUV. SUVs don't drive like sports cars. Higher center of gravity, more suspension travel distance and heavier body which means more body roll. In that sense, the reviews I've read match my expectations because it couldn't have been another way. Instantaneous torque, which is fun, but bland steering and some body roll. So an electric SUV that vaguely resembles a Mustang.
If you're claiming the screen size is the browser size, you've provided more fingerprintable information. Browser viewport sizes are more numerous than screen sizes.

I'm assuming Tor Browser doesn't actually alter the CSS stylesheet layout engine, so here's a quick way around that: Construct a CSS stylesheet that styles a div a certain way based on the media query size. Encode the success or failure of the media queries in the width of the element and then read out the width of the element to tell if the browser is lying to you. Even if the browser throttles CSS queries, you'll still know that a lie happened, which is an extra fingerprinting bit.

If you're thinking of prohibiting dynamic CSS, you'll break all sorts of harmless JS - and still not fix the problem. You could maintain two sets of computed layouts, of course, but that would break JavaScript layout scripts (e.g. masonry.js). The option that breaks no scripts is to lock browser widths to rendering at specific viewports - if Tor Browser does that, then it probably has adequately resisted this particular fingerprinting vector, at the expense of some user experience.
It may be a matter of demographics. Slashdot had the same effect with other new technology (ipod. Less space than a nomad). And Usenet or irc forums were full of people discounting myspace, FB, and other newer technologies.

Hacker news has changed a lot since the time I joined. I came from /. And osnews . And initially it was strongly pro business . Now it has became more "liberal " and pro open source.
They absolutely were a huge part of is failure. But they were a huge part of its success, too. This wouldn't be a story but for the heights they achieved before crashing and burning, and that's not going to be so easy to replicate in a sustainable way.
https://projectbullrun.org/dual-ec/ext-rand.html contains more information about the TLS Extended Random proposal and how it relates to the backdoored Dual EC DRBG.

Also Eric Rescorla, the other author of the Extended Random draft, is now the CTO of Firefox? He's one of the foremost experts on TLS, it'd be interesting to examine his role in this.
Are you serious? X is true. Google "X is true" and the list is endless. X is true.

This is practically the definition of confirmation bias.
It was likely only on your local shelf in the first place because of growth hacking; the fact that it's gone doesn't mean they won't be able to continue the brand or keep making great ice cream.

And maybe it will come back, once it's actually grown to that scale.
Why use something slower when an equivalent faster tool is available?

There's definitely a noticeable delay on my machine with starting up the python interpreter. Enough that it dominates most actual request times to fast servers. (`http get www.google.com` is ~460ms while `ht get www.google.com` is ~130ms)

For a tool I'm constantly using to check APIs I'm developing, I really appreciate snappy commands that give me results that feel instantaneous.
I had a terrible experience in Berlin where a small start up pulled a job offer from me 2 days before the start date. I had already sold all my stuff in my current country and had the first month of rent paid...

At least they paid me 1/2 a month salary for the trouble after I mentioned suing them...
Thanks for sharing. Key quotes from this:

"it's supply chain limitations by design, because the customers told us, we don't need them, and then coming back and said, oops! we might have been wrong."

From the CEO it's due customers thinking it was going to be bad (for various reasons) and then it wasn't. The process have long lead times and when you pause them you can't just expidite them, they have a fixed lead time.
It’s not a vaccine if you don’t have efficacy data. You can go snort all kinds of peptides all day long, that doesn’t mean you’re going to actually have something useful happen.

Do you know why we’ve developed all these complex rules about how to test whether drugs and vaccines work? It’s because humans have reliably demonstrated over and over that we have no friggin’ clue how our bodies actually work. I worked in drug discovery. The one thing that all failed drug candidates had in common was that they all looked like surefire bets right up until the point where the data came rolling in. The reason all these complex studies and checks and balances are in place is because ~200 years of human experience making vaccines and medicine has given us some small amount of humility.
I use spyder on my 4k 15 inch display. It works 100% fine. I think I may have set scaling in the options to "auto" or "hidpi".
Good point, we aren't generally allowed to own RPGs and attack helicopters, so it's not maximalist. However, RPGs and helicopters were not around at the time of the passing of the amendment, so I'm not sure we can that it is historically and textually accurate. For that matter, the guns this legislation would target weren't around then either, so I'm not sure how useful that criteria really is.
Assume that is true, what do you do when they pull a gun, pay them more?
Does Great Lakes gelatin have the same "random assortment" issue?
ISA == Intruction Set Architecture.
It isn't overestimation as much as willfull disregard for reality, if I outline my version of the universe eventually it will become true.
Bat People on the Moon: A Great Moment in 19th Century Science Journalism
I've noticed the used video card prices have skyrocketed. I've put up an eBay auction for a GTX 1060 6GB and it ended up selling for twice than what I bought it used two years ago. Also lots of people DMing me asking if I have more to sell. Is there some mining craze going on with old cards?
3 TB/year? Why even bother with the tape at that point, a $300 hard disk can store nearly 5 years and doesn't require a special 2 drive solution.
This has been the case at every “startup” or “tech” company where I’ve worked. Even the “enterprise” company where I worked for almost a decade had noticeably low “random” drug testing for IT. “Low” meaning “I didn’t see or hear of it happening unless someone was obviously out of their minds at work the entire time I was there.”
Not all browsers are properly handling but placing a “.” after the name is a temporary fix.
Curl + parsing is better because it decouples transportation from interpretation. Dnswalk and other clients that speak "native" DNS provide are monolithic, handling transportation, parsing, and more. And many of these concerns, like data transfer, are dealt with in an ad hoc way, when it might be preferable to always assume URL+DNS+TCP+HTTPS+GET=>JSON. As a one-size-fits-all transport mechanism, it's not bad at all.

Still not convinced? Imagine a world where APIs are only called from inside proprietary binary blobs that are built and released by the API provider. In that world the indirection is in the wrong place, at the process invocation level. Luckily this doesn't apply to (most) APIs these days, although it does apply to certain areas of software, like embedded programming (or so I hear). But this is analogous to using a specific binary tool to interact with DNS vs HTTP.

Yes, I'm sensitive to the argument that we shouldn't abandon the other parts of the network stack, and forget that there is more to doing networked applications than just TCP+HTTP. But honestly, for practical reasons there should be very compelling reasons to "drop down" the stack and pick something like UDP+DNS for your application.
I wrote one. My point is, we need a better way to write a complex equation as easy as we wrote some texts like in MS Word or LibreOffice. That's an innovation. At least some guys in Microsoft or LibreOffice guys already did. Hide the complexity. Maybe one day you could write a complex equation only by voice command. No one will touch TeX anymore.
Same thing happened at an Amazon all hands Circa 2004. You could ask questions anonymously via a literal question box and someone asked is Amazon ever going to drug test? Jeff laughed for about 15 seconds straight and then said no he didn't want to lose his engineers.
I understand that, I was a step ahead of myself in my mind. My question is better phrased as: why write legislation at all if you think the Supreme Court would very likely strike it down were it passed? What is the point of this effort?
It's so cruel that it's hard for me to call it absurd. For instance this part from the article:

Instead, insurance wants to make sure that you really-super-duper-need
whatever it is they're going to give you, to the point where there's
basically no way they can say no.

is directly connected to this part:

And, then, when my company switched insurance providers at the beginning
of 2021, this nurse service stopped abruptly.

Insurance companies are financially incentivized to not only say "no" to covering treatment but also just to kick the can down the road a bit. The later in the year that they reject an approval the higher the chance that you'll:

1. have to cover part of it in January when your deductible resets,

2. have to pay more toward it than you would when your plan invariably gets more expensive in January,

3. it will be some other insurer's responsibility by then,

4. you die before you incur any more treatment costs.

Truly sick stuff!
This is funny because Google SRE, who are pretty good at devops, are also notorious alcoholics, or at least that's the internal meme. Judging by the prominent liquor displays I'd guess there's some truth to it.
CPU pricing is weird. If you look at the 6th-10th gen Core i7s they are not too far off in price, [1] - for example the 6700K is currently $272 and for ~$30 more you can get the 9700K. The current generation usually command a bit of a premium.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007671%20601351803%20601321...
Thanks. This does sound very interesting. I wonder if there is any other place that offers a combination of many low level courses as well as game programming ones...Those Nintendo guys must be very cool. Did any of them work in the nes/snes period?
Delete the crudeness; don't just cross it out.
I guess remind me in 10 years and we'll see how returns on crypto compares to 'stocks, hard currency, gold, silver, luxury watches'

Funny how all of those things are not supply constrained, so they seem to be at a disadvantage from the start. But we'll see.
Well, having a list of a few million valid & invalid pages as a test case would probably help.
> Huge investment firms diversifying into crypto. So yes, value is being stored.

Something being a desirable investment vehicle usually makes it an undesirable store of value: a store of value should be stable and predictable, not subject to significant changes in any direction.

> Which means easy to store, and highly resistant to manipulation and inflation.

These are, again, negative qualities in a store of value. A good store of value is inflates and deflates exactly as much as required to retain its backing value. Inflation means loss of value; deflation represents a liquidity risk when exiting the asset.

More generally, this is an indictment of the cryptocurrency community's basic financial literacy. You can't just call a speculative instrument a "store of value" because every who bought into it in the past two months has seen a positive return; that's just not what it is.
Thanks for your comment. What I find most interesting isn't that Stripe tried to cancel my account (now reopened) but from where they got the information to make such a baseless decision in the first place.

Regarding the "controlled substance" bit, Stripe actually says Kratom mimics known drugs which is false (nature doesn't mimic synthetics). I brought this obvious error up with Stripe in my Twitter DM and I'd bet dollars to donuts they don't have a say about it nor the power to change their own terms due to Capitalist US regulations working hard to keep Big Pharma's thumb on our noses.
And here I was looking for the MiniZinc/Zork crossover hit...
Three's a crowd: A rare form of polyorchidism with sertoli cell adenomas
That would include me. I am not a convict, but I am unemployed. My many years of professional development experience is all in embedded and other hardware control software that generally needs to be done onsite. At this point I would be glad to do any remote work, regardless of pay.
That supposes some sort of concerted action by the British Raj, which I don't think was the case. Rather, the early Ahmadi Caliphs were keen to state their loyalty to the British as their temporal masters, and that the hands-off British rule was preferable to native princes, especially the Sikhs. Like other evangelical movements in such an environment, they flourished.
Maybe, or you developed and scaled up production of a vaccine that only worked on young healthy adults who don't need it that much, and kills or maims everyone else. Wasting a ton of time, resources, and good will that could have been better spent saving lives instead of getting 20 year olds back to bars.

Remember it wasn't a given that mRNA vaccines were going to work, we were lucky.
I am sure that’s part of it. Minimum wage jobs are hard. But there are plenty of people who work hard jobs or come from hard situations without turning to crime. Sf does it’s best to make crime and drugs an appealing option when the law isn’t enforced.
Show HN: Temps-lite – 5mb clone of 43mb Electron weather app
Compare the 32-bit Windows releases of Temps (42.6mb), made with Electron:

https://github.com/jackd248/temps/releases/tag/v0.7.0

... to the Temps -"lite" remake (4.49mb) using the Sciter engine:

https://github.com/GirkovArpa/temps-lite/releases/tag/v1.1.3

Temps-lite (and of course it's predecessor, Temps) is a desktop weather application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Provided a free openweathermap.org API key, it displays live weather information for any location in a very attractive, sleek interface. It also shows the forecast for the next 4 days.

To duplicate the very cool rain, snow, and thunder effects, I basically just copied and pasted the original source code. For everything else I redid it in my own way, which probably did not result in very professional-looking code but hey! It works =) Minus some tiny bugs, which I've had help with from someone who's more familiar with Sciter programming.

The original Temps was built/packaged using Electron Builder and Electron Packager (I'm not sure of the difference, to be honest).

The equivalent for Sciter is Quark (quark.sciter.com), and that is what I used to package the HTML, CSS & TIScript files into a single convenient executable which is not only 10x smaller than the Electron version but also starts up way faster (virtually instantly), and has a relatively extremely light memory footprint.

All this without the slightest observable decrease in performance or speed.

One new thing I learned about Sciter while making this project is that it natively supports persisting its equivalent of local storage to a database file, similar to MongoDB.

If you think this is interesting then feel free to check out Clipper-lite, which is the same idea. Another Electron app remade using Sciter. Specifically, a clipboard manager:

https://github.com/GirkovArpa/clipper-lite
I didn’t mention “possibility of high returns” as a metric. I said “low volatility”.
It's both to me.

But now it's also hopefully going to be a utility people can count on.
Beware, it spams browser history.
GameStop mania may not have been the retail trader rebellion it was perceived as