skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Web Proxy Servers
Proxy servers have a few unique options that make them a little different from some of the other anonymous web proxies. You have the freedom to disable or enable OS and browser user agent identification plus the option to remove ads from web pages, limit animations to two iterations, and block all cookies.
A charitable theory would be that a large amount of their stock comes from restaurants, many of which (but obviously not all) were closed, as opposed to takeaways, which largely continued operating as normal.
Totally agree. I advise all of my clients away from "password less" because it's a terrible UX.

I recently moved all of my email forwarding away from ImprovMX and a big reason was the obnoxious passwordless system. There are a few others I've bailed on as well for the same reason.
Why not have Congress pass an amendment striking down Prop 13 or the Supreme Court rule against it?
What about the danish NemId, how is it governed and owned, does anyone know?
About ten years ago a contractor lowering the floor of a garage in San Francisco found a 6 foot diameter pipe made of redwood and iron bands.

It was still in use.
Wow. Who are these people’s customers? I can’t think of a single enterprise company (or really any company using SSO to manage their applications) that would find this acceptable. It would be instantly dead in the water for my small IT department.
Nice counter-example from 1890 from article (condensed and paraphrased by me):

Johns Hopkins University wanted a medical school. It could not afford it, but had said they needed $500k.

Garrett, a lesbian, collaborated with her partner, M. Carey Thomas, and they successfully raised $100k and offered it to Hopkins on the condition that the medical school admit women “under the same terms as men.”

Hopkins’ trustees accepted the gift and the conditions the donors imposed and said they would invest the money until the rest of the $500k was sourced.

Hopkins president Daniel Coit Gilman then frantically tried to return the money. Although he never explicitly said so, Johnson suspects that was because he wanted the medical school to only admit men. “You do not realize Mr. Gilman’s grim determination,” Thomas wrote to Garrett, “it is with him a death struggle & money means nothing to him.”

In December 1892, Garrett made a second offer. She noted the fund given in 1890 had risen to $200k, and said she would donate the remaining $300k, provided the school would admit women on the same terms as men.

In 1893, the Hopkins trustees caved and accepted Garrett’s donation unconditionally. The Johns Hopkins medical school became a national model.
Great article. But if you look at the videos, it is even more amazing. Chemical engineers dream. The microscopic view of the slime, appearing as thread in a bundle, is phenomenal. How? So much? So fast? What can we make with this knowledge?
I’m sure there are many interpretations of the motivations behind this. Regardless, the resulting reduction in carbon emissions can only be a good thing.
Regulate the shit out of everything, because why not?
That is all public data. You can get that through open channels like birthday.se as well. I've been at BankID and I know for a fact exactly what information they store. They store only what is necessary from a regulatory standpoint.
As a Swiss citizen (my age range is 40-50), I can only provide my own witness account about what you just wrote: I think you're completely wrong.

The fact that some Swiss were able to contribute immensely to a "positive impact all around the world" doesn't magically turn us into a nice and warm population, open to other people's cultures. A large part of the population hates foreigners, considers them as opportunists and job stealers, if not criminals. This is not a "Swiss", it's the same everywhere in the world.

The difference is that Swiss are educated and law abiding xenophobes: a foreigner will rarely feel insecure in Switzerland and discrimination will mostly be silent. As opposed to a country like the USA where racists are empowered with a low likelihood of criminal charges.

But that doesn't mean in any way that a foreigner is more welcome in Switzerland than elsewhere. If you sincerely believe this, it could only indicate you don't share a significant part of your life with foreigners who actually visually look like foreigners.
And people have different definitions of successful. Some might think a business is not worth bothering with if it's not going to make them rich, I'd consider it successful if it could pay my rent.
ok - I was being dumb. Thanks for pointing this out. I have updated the desktop nav links and footer links so now it can be opened in a. new tab :)
Not always. I now have 10 upvotes. That likely means more than 10 people voted me up and didn't see that the following reply renders my statement completely incorrect.
> I don't know what it is about gaming

Gaming tends to attract a population that is tech-savvy (means), competitive (motive), and has copious leisure time (opportunity). Combine those three things and you have the kindling.

The spark, I think, is due to the fact that the crowd was historically quite young. That means three things. First, impulsive. Second, nothing/less to lose (someone with real assets they Worked Hard For wouldn't Risk It All over an in-game spat). Third, might not've learned how to handle competition in a healthy way.

A DDoS attack is a crime, but the sort that most law enforcement don't really care about at least in the context of a small-time game server. It's kind of the modern equivalent of knocking down mailboxes or shooting out traffic signs with a shotgun. Both things that cause actual damage that costs actual money, but which teenage males have been doing probably since the advent of mailboxes and shotguns.
> "Rather than any fancy safe resource management scheme, I used mutable globals. YOLO:" Made me chuckle
The simplest answer is to move people towards the various networks already operating with very little energy consumption in comparison to bitcoin or ethereum. Cardano and Polkadot both operate on a proof-of-stake mechanism rather than mining.

It's like HN doesn't realize there's more going on in the space than bitcoin and ethereum.
No, it doesn't. One can oppose (religiously motivated or not) genital mutilation on purely humanistic grounds, completely divorced from any religious concerns.

Banning building minarets has no such justification; just blatant xenophobia.
I've updated the code now - so you should be able to navigate it better!
I believe you’ll like it: “Passion of Spies” (Шпионские страсти) 1967
With the amount of these kinds of posts/articles we're getting, I'm starting to wonder if there's someone who has a serious financial motive for spreading them.. kinda like how the sugar industry or the tobacco industry was doing back in the day.

Doesn't seem out of character for the coal industry either, just saying...
EE does not put an U in EUT.

EE stats that in EUT the U term must equal log (Wealth) otherwise EUT produces wrong results.

EE uses a completely different formula. It has an open space for a (slightly restricted) function (similar to U). An example of EE with this open space filled is Kelly's criterion, which of course looks nothing like EUT.
On the same note, you are better off making a few large donations instead of spreading a bunch of small ones around that get eaten up by overhead.
Does this cover just CSS, or is there more?
But surely if someone has your person number then they can retrieve all that information from companies like Ratsit and the like. Is there specific information you can get via BankID that isn't generally available from other 'open' databases?
While browsing through internet there are many instances when you want to protect your privacy. Using a proxy server can help in safe and secure internet browsing but selecting a server which is good to do its job is difficult. Reviews about there servers can help. I have read this article on https://hackernoon.com/12-best-proxy-servers-review-top-free... which has best reviews about these proxy serveres and which can be used according to your network.
Physical goods have a counterfeiting risk. Is it possible to use NFTs to prevent counterfeiting by verifying that a product is genuine? If not then they really have no use. Physical goods need verification but digital goods can be replicated perfectly. A "bootleg" is just as good as the original so no verification is needed.
Yes, that's one of the tools in the shed. The other one is to look at my free time as a function of money. If the choice I am facing can somehow be correlated with money, too, then I decide if the time I'd spend on perfectioning that choice can otherwise be mitigated with throwing some money at it. Surprisingly it often is.

Need a new MacBook, one with a best price/performance combo? Or should I build a PC myself instead and Hackintosh it? Will it take me 15 hours of research to find the answer and another 10 to build and set it up? Well, my 25 hours are worth a lot, so nowadays I just get one that is way better and more expensive than I'd normally fall for and be done with it. Knowing I saved so much time is enough to rationalize the choice and thus avoid buyer's remorse.
Yes this would also defeat the government's own ownership database/archive.
It’s because people get a dopamine hit from reacting emotionally to stories.

On the other hand, reading before reacting requires resisting going after the dopamine hit and actually works the other way. You have to get sadder consuming time and attention to read material that may or may not be informative.

A large percentage of Hacker News is the reaction (probably a majority). And if you point out that they haven’t read the article, some people treat it as a personal attack because it shows them in bad light. Then they start arguing.
Arguably true.
> the non-profit would have to repay the loan

Only if they ever strayed from their mission. That ought to put a limit to how much corruption they think they can get away with.
> I'm unclear on where you got 104x78.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Hot-sale-small-pitch-...

Module Res Size
P1.923 104*78 200*150

I went ahead and counted... 128x96 (12,288 LEDs)

https://imgur.com/a/4qdY1Pr
Thanks for the blog post, was an interesting read
GoatCounter is great.
Your assumption is wrong. China is still rolling out long distance high voltage power lines, but even then transmission losses would mean that proximity is advantageous.
> You solve the “refugee crisis” by fostering peace and prosperity in countries that don’t have it, not by spreading lies about it.

That's really not an actionable goal.

Fostering war and misery is really easy, you just have to bomb some places. Fostering peace and prosperity isn't something you can actively do.

Even if you refrain from participating in abroad wars, they still happen. People still rise up against governments they don't like, the governments still violently crush uprisings, etc. The only difference if you get to say it's not your fault.
What would you use it for? Some IoT project?
It's a good question. There are few things that are eaten in the West that aren't eaten in the East. Perhaps there is more readily available biodiversity in warmer lands / waters.

Perhaps food taboos did not evolve as much in the East because fresh food is readily available and food taboos are primarily in order to protect from parasites, etc.
> an acknowledgement of the insane power that would inevitably accumulate

That's overthinking it. "Don't be evil" is just the kind of slogan that could emerge in the '90s, when it became clear that good and bad were not linked to a specific organizational form or trait - you could have bad capitalism and good collectivism as well as the other way around. There was a feeling that "big business" was bad but "medium business" could be a force for good, you only had to stay decent and things would work out. And of course the 'net would have rejected any clipper-chip and not replicate the historical corruption of the real world.

Those were very naive times, in retrospect, but I don't blame the original googlers for believing in a simplistic view of the world. I blame Eric Schmidt and his sponsors for hiding their evil behind that line. Modern Google is basically all Schmidt.
It's possible I didn't know the difference between winning and losing and it was an attribution error. My experience with people in business who lie about data and bullshit about crypto suggested even though the players were way more experienced, they could be persuaded they needed to be cautious by someone with a "deeper" background.

Anyway, I ended up splitting the pot in that tournament, so lucky for sure, and maybe the guy I split it with was so good he could use a beginner at the table against the others as a shield, but in a game of confidence and perceptions, bringing in data points nobody else has is destabilizing.
I assume he hired one or two people from overseas and paid them the bare minimum to keep the business just operational so that he could pocket as much as possible.
The Firemen's Ball (1967) is a czech comedy directed by Milos Forman, also worth a watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firemen%27s_Ball
What's the problem with hidro + solar + wind? Why do people here insist so much and engage in flamewars being pro nuclear?
Just boxes. Sure, ok by the same logic, singing is just air, writing is just words, movies are just light and sound. Code is just directions. You can reduce anything to it’s elements and it’s hard to argue, the basic truth of that, but the art is being able to do beautiful things with those elements can vary quite a bit with each medium. And with css, it is quite complex to be able do it well.
But if the gasoline evaporates, doesn't it just rain down again later? It still has to go somewhere. Or do we just have ever-increasing gasoline clouds?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for the informative responses.
Currently, when it comes to Dorsey's tweet? Yeah I agree. But there is more going on and it will not always be "imaginary goods".

https://medium.com/treum_io/on-chain-artwork-nfts-f0556653c9...
Train breathing through your nose. It'll be uncomfortable at first but you'll get used to it. After some time I was able to do tempo runs with nose breathing only.
and Sweden. But these are largely outsourced to private companies iirc. There was a scandal in Estonia where they had to recall all the ID's because the main private key which signed them all got leaked (and that key was held by a private company)
One of my favorite movies of all time is Kin Dza Dza. It's a low budget comedy sci-fi movie with amazing ideas and a surreal aesthetic, and is quite funny and gets better with each watch. It's a subtle criticism of the soviet union in the era before its fall. You'll be saying "Kuuuu" for days after watching it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-dza-dza!

Edit: just noticed a critic quoted on wikipedia called it "Mad Max meets Monty Python by way of Tarkovsky", which is a very accurate description.
Ghost Station Has Been Broadcasting Same Traffic Report for Obama's Inauguration
"Here’s something that you’d normally see in a post-apocalyptic, zombie TV show, only instead of a mysterious radio message luring Rick and the gang to a group of cannibals, it’s a road closure notice from Obama’s second presidential inauguration. According to The Drive, the same AM radio station in Washington, D.C. has been broadcasting the same message for the last eight years, and apparently, no one noticed."
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If you use N sites which all adopt this authentication mechanism (i.e. widespread adoption); and if I can access your e-mail, then I can access all of those N sites. Furthermore, yes, because all those accesses look normal, nobody would detect it as unauthorized.
Isn't visa the main issue here? H1-B is a lottery with unfavorable odds, O-1 requires being exceptional (I guess you can try gaming that with a bunch of bullshit conference talks and hoping the immigration officers do not catch wind that, in tech, most conferences are low-status careerist bs fest).
I never had any of the classic 8-bit home computers. I built a CP/M system from an Ampro Little Board, connected to the Heathkit H19 terminal I put together. The downside of that was little commercial software, but I mostly used it for accessing the University VAX 11/780. I follow a bunch of retro-computing Youtubers now and I feel like I missed out on something. My best friend had an Apple II and was always suggesting I get one. He still has it.
OK I think I like the sound of that.
Yes, NYC has an identical problem: most of those pipes were not documented or the documentation is lost. They're there, they know they are, they just don't know where.
First time coming across them after following Plaid/Truelayer/Nordigen for a while. Thanks!
I'm sorry, I don't have a good understanding of license minutia like this. What makes AGPL problematic for self-hosting?
IT services companies that work on government contracts in Switzerland are much smaller.

And they're usually pretty competent, especially the few ones that work for the federal government.
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> No it isn't. It is 628 GB. This comes out to about $11.50 USD of hard drive space, which is about the cost of a single ethereum transaction.

These are not full nodes.

> There is no point in making sure everyone can run a full node. Even so, it is trivial. A few of the biggest steam games are the size of the entire chain.

Not trivial when you take into account that to assure decentralization the nodes must also broadcast the whole blockchain. Compare the costs of having to broadcast a 6.5tb file for an average of ~30 nodes per month. It will probably cost >$1 thousand. Not very acessible.

> They aren't instant, your transaction doesn't make it to the main chain. You might as well use a different cryptocurrency instead of a hacky second layer.

That is why I pointed that there is less clearance certainty. But you can still be pretty sure that it is settled. It is about trade-offs. Sure, you could use another crypto that incorporates the same trade-offs as Lightning Network. But why would you bother if the network effect is already building around Bitcoin?

> What numbers are you basing this on? I see people repeat this but they can never back it up with numbers. Bitcoin right now is 1.5KB/s. Watching a single low resolution youtube video ends up being 100x the bandwidth of bitcoin. The average transaction value of bitcoin is over $50,000 USD right now. That's not a network that everyone is participating in. People are buying claims on exchanges because the transactions are $12-$32 USD. That's centralization. Sending more than 1.5KB/s is not centralization.

I don't run a full node. That's up to the community to decide. There is no easy answer as you are seemingly implying.
It's odd how we talk about something like centralized identification without the other areas of privacy limiting changes we are experiencing. Online we are tracked, logged and categorized like no other time in history. Even the basic means of conducting a business transaction leaves a digital trail whether it's a wire transfer, credit card transaction or bitcoin payment.

Authoritarian countries have combined a cashless society with 24/7 surveillance of all kinds to create a black mirror style social credit system.

None of this would be possible without first having a form of centralized identity.
This will likely be coming soon to a democracy near you due to the level of state control it invites. Someone needs to get working on an ad blocker we can use in real life. I suspect it will be built around aluminum foil.
One additional "car with solar panels" option is the upcoming Aptera car that can charge (ideally 40 miles per day). https://www.aptera.us
Amusingly, this headline is ambiguous: are they giving their customers £50m worth of shares, or 50M lbs of food (that they have in stock)?
What do you mean by “dollars that are rapidly losing value”?
Fair point, but how frequently do you see recursive implementations that also pass information to track recursion depth and various other information to limit resource usage?

Have you ever seen a recursive call that also tries to detect/break cycles in the data structure?

I suspect the reason these things get left out the moment the developer decides on a recursive function is because it doesn't look nearly as much elegant then.
What I meant was that I hope that it would evolve into "what Coursera originally promised to become".
Xbox test brings Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser to consoles
'Evangelical' has become so tenuous that it doesn't really identify much anymore, e.g,

https://ftc.co/resource-library/blog-entries/carl-trueman-th...
I've heard it said that first day beginners on a wood saw will almost never hurt themselves. Their fear of it, combined with their known ignorance of it, makes them extra cautious.

Veterans of many years are the ones who get too comfortable, and too complacent. I guess the confidence of many years leads them to work a little too closely to the blade.

This might be a universal human trait, across any industry.
I only stop by to add that "xenophobia" is not inherently a bad or evil thing. Every culture should have the right to exist, in the land its ancestors built up or conquered - we can argue all day about the correctness of how a given culture and people got to a point where they were able to settle, but the point is that today they are settled and stable. Why attempt to force unsettlement and destabilization through unnecessary "diversity" processes? If you do not fit in to a culture as an individual, but you do fit in to a different culture, why force the one you do not fit to accommodate you when you can be part of one that already accepts you?

Current day exceptions like Donbas, Hong Kong, and Gaza (to name just a few) certainly exist, and there is room for discussion there. There is also an argument that can be held regarding the human and economic cost of getting to a place where the culture fits you.

But to call all attempts to maintain a culture "xenophobic" and therefore associated with a negative... I don't think this is the right way to be.
The whole last year has definitely been 'the right time' for something like it again. And especially across timezones.

These days, I would probably only offer it as a white-label/SaaS model rather than an 'open' social network. Possibly something private/invite-only.

The past few years have made me think that I'm extremely glad to have not been involved at all with it any more. I'd had some extremely lucrative offers from political parties for them to use one of its features, which I'm glad I turned down. The effect it would have had on the incumbent beta-testers at that stage would have been catastrophic.

I would also stick to 'organic growth' rather than outside investors, who could absolutely destroy your vision for the product, for their own ends, without a care in the world for the users and community. Lesson learned the hard way.
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