skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most languages don't offer any alternative, although Lisp does offer alternatives, which are to quote x, or to implement f as a macro which is expanded at compile time.

Mathematica allows you to pass symbolic expressions in this way too, no?
This wouldn't seem to help, unless you correlate it with motion sensing data. You can build point clouds from deep fake videos just as easily as from real videos.
Does anybody know whether there's an open initiative that tries to create a directory of reverse-DNS based IP/subdomain maps to identify adtrackers that are just hidden behind subdomains?

The only one I know is crimeflare [1] but it's specific to cloudflare proxied malicious websites. It would be awesome to have a similar directory for second-party domains that point to known ad service IP ranges.

[1] http://www.crimeflare.org on port 82
Irrational Nuclear Fear Puts Sweden in Danger of Succumbing to Stupidity
> This article also again equates safety with lack of deaths. That’s like saying a neighborhood is safe, because in the robberies there only a few people die.

The 1952 Great Smog of London [0] caused 4000 deaths due to coal burning over FIVE DAYS. Not quite like for like, but the Chernobyl Exclusion zone is about 1000 sq. miles, which is approximate the same size as (modern) London.

The UN predicts that possibly 4000 people may die from Chernobyl over a 50 YEAR period. [1]

> Chernobyl and Fukushima had dramatic effects on millions of people. Contamination from Chernobyl to this day is a problem in Germany for instance.

I'd like to see references for this.

Fossil fuel mining causes far more deaths than nuclear. Fossil fuel burning causes even more deaths from respitory diseases.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
1. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-kno...
LOL, if you don't know why downvote? :)
For us non-Americans, "Little League" is:

(Wikipedia) Little League Baseball and Softball is a 501 nonprofit organization based in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, that organizes LOCAL YOUTH baseball and softball leagues throughout the United States and the rest of the world. (caps are mine)
> strings are limited to 255 bytes

> However, there is no limit on the length of a line,

I'm a little confused by this.. Can someone explain ?
1:1 is also nice.
https://www.eizo.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/
Image Sensors on NASA Perseverance Rover
The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody
Ask HN: What Happened to Flynn.io? (and Others)
Many of the PaaS open source implementations whether built on top of k8s or otherwise turning up dead or getting lower and lower traction. Examples would be flynn.io, for example or draft (https://github.com/Azure/draft) seems also sort of dead. What gives? What's happening? Is there no place for PaaS anymore because there are too many already? Or k8s deployment and operation is that simplified to the point that with Helm, Tekton and Brigade etc - there's a general convergence on a DIY K8s and away from PaaS layers even if they're built atop K8s?
How do you think the bankrupt utility will start up again?

Hint: Socialized costs.
It supports that because it is a constrained system
I think the size of a json string would be limited, eg

{'key': 'string that is limited'}
Hi pchal. We've often been surprised with how flexible Lowdefy is. One can easily build everything from simple websites, public webforms, to complex multi-tenant web apps - which is very exciting.

We decided to limit what we currently market it as to first try and get some traction in a smaller niche for now. However, since resources are limited for an early days startup, we also made this decision based on the following technical considerations.

When designing internal tools, the aesthetics often takes less priority than functionality, thus it's ok and maybe even great if most internal tools look the same, which makes building a great component library a whole lot easier. Also for internal tools you mostly have repeat users, so browser caching helps a lot and thus we can be more lenient on bundle size. When building consumer apps aesthetics and load time is often a high priority, although we have a few ideas to improve on this as well in the future when we have more resources available.

However, if you are building an app where these two constraints is not a high priority, Lowdefy can be a great fit! We really tried to design config schema which can really scale as well.

As far as auth goes, that number 1 on our roadmap. We will be adding OAuth/OpenId Connect authentication, and then you will be able to use services like Auth0, Okta, or any OAuth provider.

We plan on providing our own user service, with group based user authorization that will integrate easily with Lowdefy apps, and offer different pricing tiers to support the needs of business users and SAAS apps.
> Batteries will be the long term solution to energy baseload needs, not nuclear.

Viable baseload battery storage is science fiction. Nuclear works now, in this century.
I have been speaking with family, and if you would like, I can pass your condolences.
Can you recommend any particular references for his work in the foundations of physics?
Websites that use CNAME to forward their main domain to some tracking company, basically give their entire domain away, I don't see how that is a good secure way to track your users..

DNSCrypt-proxy (and even pihole these days I believe) are actually capable of blocking forwarded CNAME requests. Setting up such system for network wide adblocking is not complicated at all, see: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/wiki/Install-...
It's the TCF 2.0 framework by IAB Europe. It's indeed very questionable whether it's compliant with GDPR and the first authorities have deemed it unlawful (notably the Belgian DPA), so I'm hoping it will die in a year or two.
I often use https://github.com/thevangelist/FFMPEG-gif-script-for-bash for achieving this.
It's a little helper script that does pretty much what is given in the linked blog post.
On a side note, for anyone planning to buy a monitor please spend the extra bucks to get one with adjustable height, tilt and rotation if possible. And if you've missed that boat then grab yourself a monitor stand and a Vesa mount/adapter from Humancentric [0].

[0] https://www.humancentric.com/collections/vesa-adapters
Sensory deprivation is interesting, but you already have a conscious experience when you enter the tank. It even reinforces that your mind is tied to your body.
"Instead of a very understandable, rational explanation, what about this conspiracy theory I came up with? What if you know? Think about it. Do your own research".
Not sure of the details but it's an interpreter, so I believe it executes the wasm bytecode using its own VM, so there is overhead, where instead a compiler would generate optimized machine code linked with a wasm runtime for the target platform which can then be executed natively.
With these things, I have always had the hope that an optimizing compiler would catch this. I think it is an allowed optimization if the count function is considered `const` in C or C++ at least.
Ruqqus is one of the better Reddit clones in functionality and features and the thing is with community based pages people actually enjoy have less comments because your comment may be one of five, not just one in ten thousand.
To cut to the crux of it, the extensive document requirements are almost certainly due exclusively to child protection requirements that are not obvious to the rest of us as we’re not aware of the safeguards in place in the background. Cool. I’d be concerned if they weren’t taking those matters seriously.

How hard is it though to make it clear:

(1) how this information will be handled
(2) how it will be stored/secured
(3) when it will be deleted

.. separately from your sharing of data terms. They almost certainly have no intention of sharing that information with marketers or sponsors - it would be quite easy to make that clear.

I also think we’ll see handlers take privacy a lot more seriously now that the understanding of GDPR is trickling through these systems.

Sensitive data is still treated as a juicy little bonus for marketing departments instead of the radioactive plutonium that it is.
Apple would presumably be reintroducing an SD lot to court the prosumer/professional market with these new laptops just as they have with the revamped iMac Pro and the Apple Pro.

As such they would need to add a full SD slot for people who use professional cameras because that is the form factor that these cameras use -- not microSD.

Think about it another way -- what kind of products use microSD cards? What market would Apple be targeting if they brought microSD slots to their laptops?
> We just don't count the health impacts properly because it is too hard to prove cause and effect.

This also goes for nuclear.
What are you talking about? the performance improvement is showcased in real world and you're denying it?
> actually measure performance and try to improve it

This reminds me that I used to do that all the time when programming with Matlab. I have stopped investigating performance bottlenecks after switching to Python. It is as if I traded performance profiling with unit testing in my switch from Matlab to Python.

I wonder if there are performance profilers which I could easily plug into PyCharm to do what I used to do with Matlab's default IDE (with a built-in profiler) and catch up with good programming practices. Or maybe PyCharm does that already and I was not curious enough to investigate.
Day 5 of the #100daysofCode Challenge. Learning ReactReact Lifecycle Methods
[1] is really interesting, but it is literally burning natural gas with extra steps. How is it better than normal gas generation?
Getting banned for DLL injection seems very likely to me. It certainly is a risk.

Heck, it might be against the EULA, which probably doesn't hold op legally, but is decent grounds for a ban.
Interesting does this mean that global warming will cause the insurance crisis in the US?
I love your app logo and the burgundy colour.

I also had a quick look at your privacy policy, and agree with what oarsinsync mentioned. If you could skip asking users for their details, but still allow them access to the tool, you would probably have a lot more users sign up. Before they sign up, you could store their bookmarks locally. Then perhaps later on, you could ask them to sign in to save their bookmarks to the server to be accessed on other devices.

However, this all depends on what way you plan to monetise the app/extensions?

Can I also ask what framework are you using for the mobile app? It isn't React Native by any chance is it? I ask because I'd love to know how you got on with building the app for the App store. I hope to publish iOS & Android apps for DarwinMail[1] in the coming weeks.

Also, it would be absolutely amazing if you built the Chrome extension with React Native and had some tips.

PS: The site is down ATM, probably because of the influx in all the lovely visitors from HN :)

[1] https://www.darwinmail.app
> It’s not a market decision, but a government decision, as nuclear power has always been built with state guarantees and/or subsidies.

No energy source can survive without government subsidies at the moment, one way or another.
Yes bit shouldn’t that be the role of the application, that decides to either put info too near the edge or not? You should treat your borders as edges and not put letters too near them, leaving breathing space for the fact that who knows what’s beyond.
maybe obvs to some, but if you're on a new fangled m1 big sur, you need to run this with

chmod +x wasm3-cosmopolitan.com
arch -x86_64 ./wasm3-cosmopolitan.com

and then go to preferences -> security -> run anyway, and then rerun it, then it works.
> it does not stop them from using other software to accomplish the same task.

I think that's fine from the author POV. They are not trying to impose their views onto others, they just don't want to be personally contributing.

The "Even if I wasn't doing it someone else would" defense is used to justify all sorts of bad behavior by people. If you think something is wrong and you have the choice, the least you can do is not contribute to it. Especially if it's a hobby project for you where you don't have any incentives to compromise your principles.

It's the root of many cognitive dissonances. "if I wasn't working on this addictive and toxic social media platform for a very good salary surely someone else would do it instead and the only difference to the world is that I would get less money".

This sort of jutification pops up everywhere. "I'm not really doing something bad because if I wasn't there it would still be done.".

Maybe there is a game theory research on this but basically the end point is a situation where everyone think some action is ethically wrong or has bad outcome for the group but they are still doing it because they don't know what others think and they assume one or more have less ethos than them.
"No free work for platforms that only corporations are using."

The opposite is true.

HP stopped supporting hppa 8 years ago.
Intel had last orders for ia64 CPUs more than a year ago.

There are no companies who would pay for anything, today maintainance of such platforms is entirely an open source community effort.
To keep things fair and equal, all that is needed is that other organizations are able to maintain their sovereign status in the same way the Knights Hospitaller did. So the path forward is clear for the other organizations you have in mind. First, gain the recognition of the Pope or some other sovereign entity. Second, spend centuries conquering and holding on to territory with the backing of this sovereign. Third, declare sovereignty and have it recognized internationally. Your organization is now ready to let go of its territory and if it manages the diplomacy just right, it can perhaps maintain its diplomatic relations and sovereign status.
[tinfoil hat] A part of me believes that this was their intention in slowing down their browser site to the extent it has (and there is absolutely zero reason as to why it should load as slow as it does) in order to drive downloads for this application. [/tinfoil hat]

It's funny. That page says "A simple app that lets you text, video chat and stay close to people you care about." If it's so simple, then why does the browser version of the site take forever to load?
I read an article about MySQL enums long ago and the author argued not to use them, since they're bad when values change and all values change eventually. His last sentence was that even continents change.

Well, turns out he was right after all these years! :)
Thank you! I'm anonymous here - can I email you please?
Assuming that's who did it or if they're even from the US. It could just be a red herring. Hell it could have been a pissed off Gab admin for all we know.
I wouldn't deem it wasteful. Monitors have evolved a lot slower than computer parts generally and using a monitor for a relatively long period is quite common with desktop PC users. A midrange 1920x1200 display bought 10 or 12 years ago is quite similar in specs compared to today's low end displays.

A few years old 4K and 5K iMacs have high end integrated displays even from today's point of view, but their CPUs and especially GPUs are outdated for quite a few serious use cases. I think it would make a lot of sense to use one as a display for a new workstation setup.

But obviously my described use case is a "second chance" for an iMac having served as a standalone computer until its EOL.
> An entry on the blockchain associated with a hash is hardly as "cool" (if we want to talk about social constructs) as showing a picture with the thing you own

You don't get to decide that for everyone else though.

You and many other people can think it's silly, but it's highly likely (If not proven) that there is a subset of people who _do_ think it's cool.

I don't really have an interest in NFTs, but I absolutely see why someone _would_ be interested in them.
That's where we are at right now, just stating the energy facts are considered political...

There's no realistic scenario at the moment where renewables can be used alone to build a grid for a full country unless you are betting on future tech which doesn't (and might never) exist.
AFAIK gravity storage is in the works now.
Nuclear works, with large risks, but so does hydro, solar, wind, without the risks of nuclear. And as we're approaching effective fusion, starting to phase out construction of new nuclears makes complete sense.
Coal is replaced by the renewables as mentioned above. If you replace coal with nuclear, nothing changes.
Yes, his blog: https://fexpr.blogspot.com. As far as I know he never published his physics ideas anywhere else.
I'll admit that GPLed Java is much older than I thought, but
open-source C# was certainly not first-class until 2016, and IMO not really until late last year.
> No other fuel has the energy density of nuclear

Irrelevant, unless you want to have a mobile power generator.

> no other source has the capability to run 24/7/365.

First, not true: Geothermal and hydro both can generate power 24/7/365. Yes, that is location dependent, but you set yourself up there with using absolutes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Iceland.)

Second, we do not need a single source to deliver 24/7/365, we need "just" a power-mix capable of delivering the changing power-demand over the day. Yes, that is a technical challenge. But nuclear is facing technical challenges too.

> Renewables are based on the hope that one day we will either had transcontinental grids, which no one has managed to build, or get batteries with energy storage seen only in Star Trek.

Hydro-power can act as energy storage, and it has been here since practical forever: Yes, not an universal solution.
And yes, it puts more strain on the grid and requires more management. But I consider your point rather hyperbolical than factual considering the progress made there.

> Nuclear on the other hand has been here for 50 years and could have already solved our CO2 problems.

Sure, and the only reason we aren't there is because of those hippies. It isn't like half of the research budget since the 50s went to nuclear research, and only 11% to renewables (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/07/09/nuclear-...), most of it after the 70s.

It isn't like there are technical and nuclear anti-proliferation reasons why a new nuclear reactor require huge budgets to build and operate. Or that no insurance company in the world will cover the worst-case scenario, and there is always a limited liability of the operator of such plant.

I would suggest looking at the amount of resources (money and time) invested in both nuclear power and renewables and how the costs developed respectively over time, when doing your bet on either technology.
Here is one being hatched: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1
Brilliant...
It's interesting that even analytics solutions which list respecting user privacy as their main USP (i.e. simpleanalytics.com, plausible.io) support this kind of concealement scheme. I find it at least questionable since a user that employs a specific extension to block tracking requests has clearly expressed an intent to not be tracked, so circumventing this block with some clever DNS scheme is very privacy-unfriendly and invasive.

The security aspect is valid too, though I'm not sure if it's much worse than allowing a third party to put arbitrary Javascript on your website in the first place (as almost none of the trackers support integrity tags or self-hosting of analytics scripts). Of course those scripts don't get access to HTTPOnly cookies, which the server API will get when using such a CNAME script.

A solution would be to have your website on a subdomain itself (e.g. www), which was best practice for a while but got abandoned for the sake of brevity with most sites.
How about photos etc, can you please share what you're using and why? Thanks!
There's a lot of anti-nuclear sentiment on HN. Anyone that's in favour of it seems to always get downvoted.
"In any case, feel free to keep all your wealth away from Bitcoin. It's not mandatory to use it -- unlike the US Dollar, which is actually managed by a mafia, which we call "the government", and which will use force against you if you don't use its currency."

So instead you create and support a system that zero chance of penalizing-swaying known bad actors via financial penalty by things like the Magnitsky Act: how do you propose we implement such a tool otherwise? No one answers this when I ask it - it just gets ignored.

How about we fix the system, build trust, get quality leaders into positions of power? It takes work, and yes, Western society has been degenerating and is relatively weak at the moment due to many decades of industrial complexes' regulatory capture and the duopoly that's been structured via those policies.

I really hope you'll answer this question too: you say "which will use force against you if you don't use its currency" - have you thought through what a global, decentralized currency - where you gain more money, wealth, the more people that are using it - doesn't create a group of people aligned [the "army of HODLers" as many call themselves] who want all of global society to adopt Bitcoin? It's known that wealth is transferred from weighted from the latest adopters to the earliest adopters; I'd love to know how the answer to preventing regulatory capture from continuing via the VC-finance-Bitcoin industrial complex [because the VC-finance industrial complex has started to heavily align with Bitcoin].

Elon Musk recently said "Bitcoin is almost as much bs as fiat money" - he hasn't elaborated yet, and sure, maybe it's slightly better than fiat money currently is - but Bitcoin et al allows tyrants to use and transfer funds freely, globally, to whomever with no way to stop them: don't you think that is an very bad unavoidable pitfall that we shouldn't design into or allow into our systems?
Because you synthesize the gas, there's no net CO2 production.
Alright, let's do some digging...

On 2013-03-21, urllib3 added an optional dependency to pyopenssl for SNI support on python2 - https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/pull/156

On 2013-12-29, pyopenssl switched from opentls to cryptography - https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/commit/6037d073

On 2016-07-19, urllib3 started to depend on a new pyopenssl version that requires cryptography - https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/c5f393ae3

On 2016-11-15, requests started to depend on a new urllib3 version that now indirectly requires cryptography - https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/99fa7bec

On 2018-01-30, portage started to enable the +rsync-verify USE flag by default, which relies on the gemato python library maintained by mgorny himself, and gemato depended on requests. So 5-6 levels of indirection at this point? I lost count.

On 2020-01-01, python2 was sunset. A painful year to remember, and a painful migration to forget. And just when the year was about to end...

On 2020-12-22, cryptography started to integrate rust in the build process, and all hell broke loose - https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/c84d6ee0

Ultimately, I think mgorny only has himself to blame here, by injecting his own library into the critical path of gentoo, without carefully taking care of its direct and indirect dependencies. (But of course it is also fair game to blame it on the 2to3 migration)

In comparison, few months before this, the librsvg package went through a similar change where it started to depend on rust, and it was swift and painless without much drama - https://bugs.gentoo.org/739820 and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GNOME/3.36-notes