skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to force people into draft here in Colombia.

From my personal point of view the Colombian army is terrible, if one of their own combatants get shot in combat, they kill him and dress him in a uniform that resembles the one wore by guerrilla.

A week ago they bombed 8 kids and dressed them as guerrilla fighters [1] and it is suspected about two million people were killed in the last 20 years by the Colombian army.

My family belongs to a long line military and police men, so I get to know beforehand the new ways in which they are benchmarked. During the 2004 till 2012 administration the military and police men were required to have certain amount of blood liters per month [2].

1: https://colombiareports.com/duque-presented-bombed-minors-an...

2: https://washingtonmemo.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/colombia-the...
A lot of people have Chrome installed alongside Firefox or Edge or whatever and will just try the video somewhere else. So YouTube actually gets more revenue and Chrome gets free advertising. If a major website works on Chrome but doesn’t work correctly on Firefox most users will tend to blame the browser instead of the website and think “I stopped using Chrome because of the memory issues but at least it’s reliable.” The logic even sounds superficially reasonable.
Here is my write up of the security model: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

I need to update some of the language in that. Since the test automation now demonstrates both positive and negative tests against that model.

EDIT: Please note the application is currently using HTTP and not HTTPS. I am aware that is a large security gap. Please see the Missing Features section at the bottom of the readme.md: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...
Careful... referring to banned authors is dangerous. /s
Those who can’t do, teach
That's for its North America DCs, not European ones.
You are gaslighting. These articles are about OpIndia and not Swarajya.

Wikipedia has immense left wing bias just like the NY Times. The NY Times has made colossal mistakes and takens years or decades to rectify them or sometimes just leaves them standing e.g. the Ukraine Famine on 1930 where their reporter just ignored it and took them 50+ years to rectify it.

By your metric the NY Times be black listed on Wikipedia. Newslaundry whom you cite as the source of OpIndia's misdeeds has a huge list of false reporting but they get a pass because of their left-wing orientation.
A lot depends on where you live. In Boston which is fairly northernly by US standards and very far east in a time zone, for example, staying on Eastern Standard Time year round would mean it's sunrise at about 4AM on the summer solstice and it gets dark at 8:30pm rather than 9:30pm like today.

Now, these days, I have a lot of schedule flexibility and at least for activities I'm doing on my own I could just get up earlier in the summer. I'll be a bit out of sync with business schedules but I could largely do it.
Well, not having managed backups is obviously part of choosing to go bare-metal. They do have triple-redundancy backups in their cloud offerings. Nobody to blame but yourself.

Also, if you’re hosting clients’ static websites, you were burning your money, there are way cheaper options out there (and fully managed).
A lot of datacenters provide substantial utility to others. Like the customers of the services that are hosted in those datacenters.

BTC mining makes the miners more wealthy. In service of the BTC network, which has what utility?

There are quite a number of criminal or at least grey market uses for BTC.

But what are the legitimate uses that are not as well or better served by the traditional payment networks?
I had a thought the other day that if Musk got in a time machine with a pile of money, how far back in time could he go and still build SpaceX?

SpaceX can only do what they do because there is no human pilot on those test flights. I know that the Navy pilots argued and argued that you need a human on board but is that really true, or did that end up destroying the space program by making the cost of failure so impossibly high?
C++: Getting an Unmangled Type Name at Compile Time
Does it matter? Bitcoin will never be a currency based on the implementation (a satoshi is not small enough) and just because something else is bad or worse doesn't make what you do acceptable.
To be fair, if Satoshi Nakamoto is still around and has access to 1 million bitcoins, then it's more of a Ponzi scheme.
I still don’t get it. Why can’t the owner of the NFT and real shoe just keep the real shoe and transfer a counterfeit shoe along with the token?
Most languages with automatic memory management also offer language features for deterministic destruction.
I personally prefer auto-hiding scrollbars for my own general use.

But I was recently in the same position as OP trying to make horizontally scrollable sections more discoverable and it’s really a pain.

OP is using JS so there’s a lot of options, but my use case was CSS-only and I ended up giving up on the scrollbar visibility and using a “scroll shadow” instead—where overflowing content displays a small shadow over the content which fades out at the end of the scroll.

It’s not as clear as an explicit scrollbar but it’s a fairly common pattern users do often recognize.
Besides, it's the regulatory environment and the reputation of the airline that provides most of the actual safety. Aircraft failures are in fact very rare. Even the 737 MAX is a profoundly safe aircraft compared to almost any car brand in terms of passenger miles, and usually by passenger minutes too.
Also, why we consider a single human as living organism, but not a society? Single human without society is a pitiful and helpless chunk of meat, who unable to replicate btw.
This is complete fantasy, there is no evidence that iphones are more physically resillient that a $150 crappy android phone.

I asked for evidence, not talking mumbobo-jumbo out of your rear
> plus the batteries lose > 40% of their range in cold weather [2]

The link you cited does not mention cold weather range loss for batteries. Can you provide a source for this claim?
So this means that when Covid is over, the record-breaking streak is over too?
Albedo Effect
VISA alone processes over 60,000 transactions per second [0] and only uses a tiny subset of the world's data centers. Bitcoin processes a whooping 7 transactions per second and consumes as much energy as *all data centers globally*.

I'm curious to hear what dumb use of energy you have in your head that rivals this level of stupidity.

edit: I'll address the "apple to oranges" replies here: you can combine the energy consumed by VISA and whatever other financial service exists that would together match the feature-set of bitcoin (eg. VISA + Bank of America + ...) and you'd still have energy consumption many orders of magnitude lower than the Bitcoin network.

[0] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan...
Yeah, you're right on the definition.
This is quite true. We are building a VBA interpreter and the language is full of problematic practices. Go's much-maligned if err != nil pales in comparison to On Error Resume Next. Good static analysis and linting really helps here.
"Pink box testing"[1] is my favourite variant of this.

[1] https://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/pink-box-testing...
Roblox now more valuable than top traditional game companies like EA and Take 2
Yeah, pretty much expected these comments would appear soon. How come everytime Bitcoin thread is started, 99% of comments are people absolutely clueless about how difficulty is regulated within Bitcoin protocol?
What performance implication?! AES-NI has been standard for mainstream x86 hardware since ~2013 and ARMv8 introduced optional crypto instructions in 2011!

The issue is that manufacturers choose the cheapest possible SoC that lacks these abilities. Given the small cost savings and importance of basic security measures, that really needs to change.

(A quick look at Amazon shows many of the top sellers advertising various "AI" features and streaming video at 4K or better. Given their apparent capabilities, I strongly suspect that such SoCs do in fact have hardware support for crypto.)
Yes, it could have gone bad very rapidly. It helps that they had a 35-year captain in command, and 5 pilots in the cockpit - including 2 check pilots. All accounts are that the decision making of the crew was top-notch.
I don't even particularly care if we standardize on DST or non-DST. Just... pick one. The constant clock changing is silly.
Just to provide some balance, you can add to the bitcoin side:

- Mining metals for GPUs and other devices that run proof of work

- Manufacturing those devices

- Transporting those devices

- Building shiny glass bitcoin cafes.

I'm aware that several of your list items dwarf my items, but it's useful to still remember that producing (and as the article states, using) electronics _also_ has a cost.
I think it is in a good place for simple bibliometric queries. The fatcat elasticsearch API is open at https://api.fatcat.wiki/fatcat_release/ (behind a proxy to filter "unsafe" requests). That works pretty well for jupyter notebook style experimentation if you are willing to learn the elasticsearch query DSL for aggregations and things.

I don't think the catalog has high enough metadata quality today for use in published research. There are some glaring errors and omissions when you actually starting digging in. On the other hand, almost all bibliographic catalogs seem to have such problems. Fatcat, by being open and having an API, does have the potential to aggregate corrections, fixes, and contributions directly from researchers over time.

A particular missing piece today is that there is no categorization or "discipline" metadata of almost any type. This sort of metadata is more subjective, and the catalog currently carefully only includes factual information. We will likely start collecting metadata at the journal ("container") level and can trickle that down to papers. Aggregating, editing, and curating that metadata in Wikidata first, then importing to Fatcat, might be the best and most sustainable path forward.
cough ad-tech cough
Another anti-Bitcoin article focusing on energy consumption, how original.

HN has discussed this to death.
I don't like Oracle and I'm a big proponent of learning new things, but just to play Devil's Advocate:

The Oracle ecosystem is still enormous, with many lucrative enterprise customers that will never ever migrate away. Your friend might consider doubling down on her expertise and simply competing for better-paying Oracle gigs.

That said, I don't think it has to be an either/or. I think people can learn a new tech stack without abandoning an old one.
After a study with the same findings came out the school district my son was in changed it's start time. To an earlier start time. This is in Texas so not surprising.
"There is no evidence of that. iPhones are not thrown away. They are recycled."

Are you fucking kidding me?

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ghana-ewaste-dump-electronic...
Almost all the top cyclists were on performance enhancing drugs, so it’s hard to get a good feel for whether or not what you describe is because of their training or the damage the drugs did.
Sperm cells can be seen as a haploid phase of many organisms' lifecycle, so are alive by pretty much any definition.

In humans, the haploid phase of the lifecycle is single-celled, while the diploid phase is multicellular. In contrast, in mosses and fungi the haploid phase is multicellular while the diploid phase (sporophytes/zygote) is single-celled.

Red blood cells are discussed in the article.
Also, I'm not sure I buy the concern about aws & friends in this space for a few reasons:

-- Now that SaaS for identity is established, the natural next step is OSS versions that come with SaaS, so if you're starting fresh and know that's coming... it seems short-sighted to start without that

-- aws & friends have their own identity products, so given the already-commoditized market, they're unlikely to want to be pushing your n+1 one

OSS seems more like a growth driver here than a risk b/c of the competitive market, though I can see that being unsettling to traditional business/VC types who are out of touch with the market. What the value-add for a managed layer is seems like "a lot possible", e.g., scale, support, multi-cloud, so I'd expect customers to pull you pretty quick if they didn't already.

In our case, quite explicitly, we're evaluating a path where on-prem single-tenant users can bundle & self-serve something (SSO/LDAP/...), while for our saas tier, we can hook into something normal by aws/azure/someone else. Lack of full-featured OSS (w/ no SaaS necessary) for on-prem, or at least a clear way to let us transparently swap something like Keycloak for those folks, is an instant no.
Sure. But I think we've all played games where you keep having to replay the part you've mastered over and over just to get to the part you haven't mastered.

It's like a multi-phase boss where you can do the first 2 phases with your eyes closed, but you die really fast on the 3rd phase because you haven't mastered it yet. The problem is when the first 2 phases take 10 minutes collectively. So basically you pay a time tax of 10 minutes, have a few precious seconds of practicing phase 3 before you die and have to pay another time tax. A lot of games (not just roguelikes) fall into this trap of having unavoidable time taxes.

Games that are conscious of time taxes like Guitar Hero, Celeste, Crypt of the Necrodancer, etc., usually give you some sort of "practice mode" where you can practice the part you are stuck on without paying the time tax. It's games that uncompromisingly force you to pay time taxes that I cheat at.
Yeah I guess I wasn't really sure that would work with commercial airliners, given their probable lifespan/complexity. If the manufacturer goes out of business, who has the expertise to maintain the planes for the rest of their working life?
There's a distinction between being a data controller and a data processor.

The businesses that use these platforms are the data *controllers* and are responsible for implementing consent, "do not sell my information", "show me my data", or "delete my data" flows as required by law. The platforms generally offer APIs to implement these required data flows in a centralized way, which is another major value prop for them.

The platforms serve as the data *processor* and can assume the data is compliantly obtained by the controller until informed otherwise.
This thread has people saying they have sprinklers, don't have sprinklers, have / don't have gas suppression, and have puppies / actually have toilets.

Wait for the misinformation hose to dry up, and decide in a few weeks.

https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/company/security
I've yet to find a good solution on the chrome app on my phone, which is where I do most of my reading
The ElasticSearch language is so wordy and obtuse and difficult to remember, that I just translate SQL to it and go from there.

https://sqltoelasticsearch.azurewebsites.net/
Go on. Suppress the truth. :-D

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
Yeah, instead of pulling the content it’s basically just putting the decision on the parents.
Microsoft will fork Chromium in that case.
i would take literally unlimited action on the other side of that bet
I don’t care if you eliminate DST or make it permanent. One or the other. Just do it.
I’ll admit to being a bit facetious in my comment, but I really appreciated your thoughtful reply. There are definitely cases where the extra expense and inefficiency is worth it because of being able to route around broken centralized systems, but there are also a lot of things where there a trusted central authority is likely (NBA trading card presume the existence of a league), and maybe even necessary (UBI?). One of the early hyped examples of an Ethereum based app was a car sharing system, but there was never really a good explanation about why this couldn’t be done better with traditional brokers and servers.

Too often there is a lot of hand waving around this tech and a reluctance to admit and account for the serious trade-offs. It’s hard to have a realistic discussion because there are too many people talking up their book, either ETH holders themselves or even worse, VCs
Even then it's still not really a ponzi scheme unless he promised returns. Just because vitalik buterin is around doesn't mean ethereum is a ponzi scheme.
Operating data centers makes the data center owners more wealthy. All in service of the data center network, which has what utility?

There are quite a number of criminal and grey market uses for data centers.

What are the legitimate uses of data centers that are not served by traditional pen & paper?
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=OVH
I like this. I've always held a similar view of consciousness, it's not a binary condition but just another scale.
What key did I press?
Application for developers that tells you what key on the keyboard did you press.
It's strictly speaking correct in that the $5B valuation was established purely on the secondary market and only from sales of shares of investors (not common holders), which doesn't give the company any VC funding. Also $1.3M in seed funding is a rounding error to get to $5B.
Bitcoin is a good thing. It's a simple financial system with very few rules that can serve as an anti-fragile backbone for much bigger systems on top of it.

Instead of looking for ways to curtail it (because that ALWAYS works, right?) we should be looking for cleaner ways to power it like renewables and nuclear.
There's also "moreutils"[1] which is a set of useful additional tools. "errno" is indispensable if you're a Linux programmer.

[1] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
But it would change the times people have their curtains closed.

(Not that I think it's a particularly good argument. And no, I'm not in the pocket of Big Curtain)
Ripping myself off from another "bitcoin will destroy the world because climate change" thread:

> But visa doesn't provide most of the functions of bitcoin infrastructure. Visa does[n't] need to hold the balance of my account. Visa does[n't] need to or makes available all of my equity worth of assets for me to transfer. Visa does not custody my assets. This is literally apple to oranges (or visa to bitcoin)
I think we should focus on funding more clean renewable energy sources instead of banning things.
Has macOS changed the default setting for scroll bars? In the past, whenever a mouse was connected, it would switch to always showing scroll bars.

At least on Catalina, the default (System Preferences > General) is still set to “automatically based on mouse or trackpad”
Understanding Long Covid
Circadian rhythms are fixed to the sun, not to the number on a dial. For a concrete example on how permanent DST will mess up people, look at Spain. The entire country should be on GMT+0, instead it's on GMT+1 because of Hitler not wanting separate timezones across the Reich. Spain has a reputation for getting up late, having lunch late, etc. The truth is, the Spanish people do all these things at the usual time, but their clocks are one hour fast. I doubt America will be pragmatic enough to just shift everything one hour forward, so you'll end up torturing school children to rise early to appease some desire for the clock to be showing 6 when you wake up. I certainly don't want office hours to start at 8 all year round. For another example - Russia tried permanent DST but after a year changed to permanent astronomical time because of such problems. DST is tolerable in summer, but awful in winter.

Still, maybe if that's the only way to kill switching clocks twice a year, it might be worth it and we could end up with later hours like Spain.
There was no comment about BTC difficulty. It's a comment about the pernicious impact of BTC on the world with practically no benefit to show for it.
Status update: GHC on Apple M1 hardware
It’s still a problem. And getting worse.
What is the reason for the police to frame bitcoin in this case? In your view everything the police do, which is this case is the special terror cell of the Bangladesh National Police is suspect and tainted. What would be the motivation for them to make this up?

The hatred for law enforcement and tainting everything the do with the "obtained under torture" brush is mindless and zero-value trope.
The use case didn't disappear. If you're looking at a very long list - could be a document, could be a list of files - it's simply quicker to scan it by scrolling than by finger-gliding. Especially with the Magic Mouse.

It's physically tiring to scroll through a long document with multiple finger drags on the surface of the mouse. And knowing how much there is left to look at is clearly useful.

Worse, the default MacOS micro-scroll bars are too narrow even when they're visible. I assume this is to encourage track pad and finger-drag use - but that's not a user-centric decision.
There's another long-standing YouTube space bug too: space doesn't scroll down when the page itself has the focus, like it does on every other web page. It just plays/pauses the video, even if you're way down in the comments.
This was the first "upgrade" I did when I finally bought a 3D printer. And I don't think I could go without it at this point. Can't recommend enough.
and it would absolutely F the state of Indiana. We'd have to switch time zones.
> Dual-income households were always a thing, even in the most gender-restrictive days of the 1950s. The idea that one male breadwinner would provide for a whole household was always an upper-middle-class fantasy.

Source? because this isn't my partner's experience. Her grand parents owned a house, cars and raised more than 5 kids on a single factory worker salary. It would be just impossible nowadays in most of the west.
Personally, I would rather see a reasonable tax on emissions.
There is no real security boundary or privilege separation in that case, the window manager and compositor are getting full access to the screen and the input devices and all the client windows. That's part of the reason why it doesn't make much sense to keep them separated, I know you were joking but it's true: they might as well be threads, it saves you the serialization/deserialization step.
I had to fly to get some official paperwork done, they tried to put me on a 737Max, fortunately they changed my flight at no cost
Yeah, and the truth is Bitcoin doesn't have negative impact on the world. Miners do.
Maybe society is tuning in to the problem more. My parents mentioned it.

If they are going to ban ICE vehicles, crypto mining is worth considering for the same fate, especially when energy efficient alternatives exist
This conversation never goes anywhere because it's apples and oranges. VISA connects other intermediaries. It isn't actually transferring money, its basically getting two parties to agree to a transfer with a huge pile of terms and fees. It's just not the same thing.
All of this is extremely dependent on latitude so if you actually wanted a system that accounted for it it would have to be a lot more complicated than wide vertical bands that go from basically the tropic to the pole.

Where I live these things vary by a lot more than an hour, so DST has a meaningful effect on any of these supposed benefits for about, if I'm being generous, 2-3 weeks a year. It's silly.