skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As part of a single person household it feels weird that there is a norm that you are allowed to share logins "within your household". Effectively this means people in the same household are paying a lower price than others - so people living in single households are effectively subsidizing that usage by paying more per person.
Paywall or somrthing (its in german)
DMCA takedown for tweeting Adobe Acrobat MS-DOS edition
I've been using Fraidycat for a year, and its totally changed my relationship to social media. Namely, i dont connect to social media. I connect to people through their own sites.
I’m just starting out in Discworld, and I have trouble interacting with the NPCs. For instance I’ve just signed on as a thief, but when I go to the guild building to train, I cant get OST the initial interaction with them.

I’ve also been blown away by how friendly everyone I’ve encountered has been. It seems like a great community
>Why even build all those intermittent electricity producers in the first place then?

Because they're the cheapest. All else being equal, you want most of your grid to be dirt-cheap, and the last 10% can be crazy expensive and you'll still end up ahead.
Webex gets more abuse than deserved imo. If you like Zoom you should be ok with Webex.

I’ve worked with it for years, and while Cisco is glacial with improvements, it’s probably the most secure enterprise platform and is better than the Microsoft and Google alternatives. Zoom has better UX, but the security story isn’t as good and their future depends on how they can pivot into more lucrative business.

It’s a fast moving target though, and if they don’t get their shit together, Microsoft and Zoom will close the security gap.
Wind energy also kills people, more direct deaths than nuclear power by any estimate, actually.

Windmills fall over and kill people.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

The interesting thing is that nuclear power is at 90, and Windmills at 150, but only if accidents in undeveloped nations be included, if they not be, and only developed nations are included, then the death toll is 0.1 from nuclear.

The overwhelming majority of accidents with nuclear energy happen in undeveloped nations.
Air storage is actually a thing, drying included. it uses salt domes, or other large underground structures. You can do this when you have the facilities, just as people with thermal can do thermal. Doesn't work everywhere, can work where you have the right conditions.

Same for CCS: It can work, with huge if-but-maybe, and is well known to work for oil & gas field injection to increase production. The downsides are fugitive gas release. All attempts at CCS for "clean" coal have turned out to fail, AFAIK (economically, if not practically, but mostly practically: its hard)
Tinychain, app host with automatic cross-service transactions, releases to beta
Or buy two or more put them on the same subnet and let them replicate. More money!
I struggle to see Netflix existing in its current form in 5 years. Their content is just awful, and the continuous price hikes just aren't justified. If they also start cracking down on shared accounts, I can only see it hastening their demise.
I'm kinda hoping they'll publish some specs about at least part of their transmission data, I mean given that it's not encrypted either means it's not critical, or encryption is too costly. I can imagine that commands the other way do have some kind of encryption.
Yes, multiply and add, or any set of operations necessary to create an arbitrary Boolean function, which then would have encrypted input and output.

From that you get "Turing completeness" because, for any computation you want to do, you can unwind it into a static Boolean circuit that computes (some appropriately sized version of) it. Note that this means you're limited to primitive recursive functions i.e. all loops must be compile-time bounded.

The use case is stuff like, "add up my numbers without knowing what the numbers are or their sum is". I think there are also end-to-end auditable voting systems that preserve privacy.
I dont really know why civil engineer projects of all kinds have gotten so expensive but they have. One would think that the more we learn from our failiures the more things we have to make sure we do right and that should take more time, on the other hand we should also learn to streamline and use technology to speed things up, but apparently not enough.
Denmark pauses use of AstraZeneca vaccine to investigate blood clot reports
Interesting. Why the warning tho and not just a "please relogin" screen?
Sorry, you're right! Ironically, I remembered the high level problem, but filled in the wrong concrete details. I also made the mistake of talking about Try/Future, and then switched to Iterator/Future.

> is a subtype of

Rust does not have subtyping. (except for lifetimes)

The point is, we don't actually have an existence proof that this is possible, and a lot of evidence to the contrary. It may be possible, but it's not a simple "just do x." There is a lot of handwaving in this post that would need to be hammered out, and details that would need to be fixed.

(Another point here is that "impl Trait in traits" isn't currently implemented in Rust either; this one is more feasible, though I am less sure about it when parameterized.)
Sounds like your clients might benefit from reading this essay :P
Just FYI, .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory, which has a less than savoury history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
The Netflix I pay for is currently used by:

Me, Mom, Dad, Grandparents, GF, GFs Mom.

Other than myself and my GF, most of the people on this list watch something on Netflix every couple of months, when I or someone/something else recommend them a movie or show.

I don't want them to use my profile, because we then obviously can't watch the same things, and it'll break my recommendations.
I get why Netflix wants to split up accounts. Currently, they get approximately $240 per year from me and my family. If everyone has to create their own account, that number goes up to $1200.

But that's how my family lives. Parents are separated, grandparents live in their own house, my gf at home with her mom and I alone.

My dad in turn pays Disney+ for me, Spotify is paid by my GFs mother, grandma cooks me a couple of Lasagnas every year. We just share these services.

Should my grandma pay $240 per year, to watch two movies I recommend to her (and are ONLY watchable on Netflix)?

In the end, these streaming platforms are probably right that you shouldn't be allowed to share accounts if you don't live under the same roof, but it still kinda pisses me off.

Don't really know what I should think about this to be honest...
I remember getting to the midpoint and thinking "Man, all of these PowerPC-isms really takes me back to the Wii modding days!".

Imagine my face when I read this line: "m1n1 traces its past to mini, which is a minimal environment that I wrote for the Nintendo Wii’s security CPU".

As if there was any doubt: Hardware reverse engineers are a very special breed of dedicated people. There aren't many of them, but those that are around tend to stay around!
It’s official, Ontario has a list where you could get the vaccine
Nah... if you can't justify $10-15 a month, but you spend 10+ hours binge watching, maybe you should get a side hustle or drive uber/lyft.

Peanuts cost argument doesn't hold any water.
I’m one of these people. I use my brothers account (in Canada) and I’m in the UK. Got the pop up on my smart TV just 2 days ago.

Netflix really doesn’t have much for me anymore... not really sure I’m going to use their service.
Things that I like about her account: it is sounds like a modest success story with an end that is within reach of more people and places more emphasis on the value of work instead of getting rich quick. The part about her product being open source will also appeal to a certain audience.
This kind of effort (presumably the verifications will be constant - one location being verified will trigger re-verification on all other locations) will just make people realize that piracy isn't that difficult to set up either and might make them reconsider using streaming services entirely.
I'm not a fan of Steam simply because it is a form of DRM (and I hate the way library sharing works) but this is such a bs comparison it's hard to take seriously.

Steam is not remotely equivalent to the Apple Store in terms of anti-competitiveness. For one, I do not have to jailbreak my computer to install games outside of Steam and neither does doing so violate the TOS of Steam. In fact, steam literally lets you add non-steam games to it's library as well as let you access features such as the overlay and Steam input.

If anything, Epic Games is the one who is practising anti-competitive behaviour here by trying to force their way into the market by buying out developers over providing a better service.

If they ever took the dominant position in the market over Steam, I would be shocked if we don't end up in a situation that is worse off for both the customers and developers.

Also, "the laws of competitive pressure" only really work out well for the customers unless we have many truly viable competitors. What is far more likely to happen here is an oligopoly and we know how well those turn out.
> They lose domain registration revenue.

I think only micronations have a significant revenue coming from tlds (e.g. Tuvalu)
Yup. Easy to do for most adversary nation-states as well, but the NRO still doesn't allow the SpaceX livestream to follow stage 2.
Are you saying if you have a wife and kid you should pay 3x the price?
Split Screen: How Different Are Americans’ Facebook Feeds?
Huh? Their content is far better than any of their competitors. I have no idea what you're talking about. They've been pumping out amazing original series and movies.
> Perhaps an unconscious bias of literate cultures

It seems like a quite conscious decision. That's how categorizing things works. You have to have a definition, however vague and exception ridden, otherwise your words don't refer to anything.
> and huge containment structures.

If you want to build huge reactors. If you want to build small modular reactors, not so much. For example, the US navy is not flitting around in giant concrete domes.
I only see in Austria and they only ship to... Austria.
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Would assume on that it’s because many people probably have the password memorized or written down somewhere as opposed to having to proactively ask someone for the verification code.
You can boot the RPI off of an SSD nowadays, or boot off an SD card with the root file system on an SSD.

I also used to be concerned about persisting data on a RPIs because of the SD card problem.

But this setup is quite comparable to a standard Linux box with no replication. From there you can setup ZFS if you care to, or be satisfied with daily backups to the cloud.
I hadn’t appreciated that Saturn is almost twice as far from the Sun as Jupiter is, or how far out Uranus and Neptune are. Here’s another representation (although obviously the planet sizes are way wrong): https://fineartamerica.com/featured/solar-system-distances-t...
And if amateur astronomers can do it, a well-funded national space agency can do it even better. I'm 100% sure that any launch is picked up via radar and sattelites and the like when they happen, and various properties extracted and extrapolated to determine their target orbit.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if some known launches also contained some unknown payloads. Stealth technology on a satellite would probably thwart detection in space well enough.
This is my approach as well. The UX isn't as good as pure-TV apps. I specifically have to use the screen zoom functionality when trying to select what to watch from the couch. But after the selection process, it works great.
If you look at who their competition is I would think they have a long ways to go before being considered the bad guys
A related paper is the delightfully titled "Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly"[0]. It won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature but it could've won the Economy one just as well in my opinion.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.1178
The usage on MAGA/Q sites is entirely a consequence of the huge cultural influence that boards like /pol/ have exerted on the online far-right. After all, the entire Qanon movement basically sprung out of a /pol/ fairytale.
Note also that using async/await should be used with the new, non-default ORC garbage collector.
Agreed. Simple writing is perfectly valid in the right time and place. Rich, dense writing also has a place and value. The real answer is understand what type of writing serves your intent and write with deliberate intent towards that style for that impact.
(a) FORTRAN used ‘DOUBLE PRECISION’ since the '50s, so ‘double’ would be immediately obvious.

(b) Many important machines had word sizes that were not a multiple of 8.
Is there some new rule on HN that headlines need to include the word "fuck"?
> Do they? Given that you later claim we don’t have the necessary criteria to determine repairability, this seems like an unsupportable claim.

They absolutely do. We don't have objective legal criteria, but Louis Rossmann's channel and business is a testament to how component-level board repair is not only viable, but very profitable. Apple (or most other computer manufacturers, for that matter) will never offer you something like that.

I think that criteria is necessary for legal action. Otherwise, right-to-repair could be dead on arrival (eg France's implementation) or go way too far (eg requiring a CPU's L1 cache to be replaceable). However, even without that criteria, it's plain to see that manufacturers are minimizing repair options as much as possible to extract profits.

> I hear just as much from people obsessed with repair that confuses people in the other direction.

Okay? There isn't any issue for which I can confidently claim to agree with everyone in the same camp as me. Right to repair is no different. I can only defend my own thoughts and statements.

> Repairability may not be better overall if it comes at the expense of durability, or more use of materials.

> It’s not at all obvious, for example, that we have the numbers to support say, making iPhones more repairable vs simply designing them to neeed fewer more expensive repairs and then recycle them when failed.

I agree completely. I do not want us to enact legislation which forces manufacturers to sacrifice quality and progress just for the sake of repair.

That said, there is clearly a lot of room for repair to become more accessible without changing designs or adding hardly any cost to the manufacturer. That is what I'd like to see addressed with right-to-repair.
The traditional model of application installation gives the application total control over your user account, including your browser.

Installing an RSS reader as a separate program would in fact be more dangerous than one as an extension.
That made me curious. From section 2.2 of the 2nd edition of K&R, 'long' is not a type but a qualifier that applies to integers (not floats though), so you can declare a 'long int' type if you prefer.
amazing idea
Tell HN: My contact form is being spammed by bit.ly links
Over the past few weeks, my contact form has been non-stop spammed with bit.ly links, alongside text telling me that my domain has expired.

I've tried complaining to bit.ly through their contact form and through Twitter, with no response either time. It seems pretty incredible that a Silicon Valley venture backed service could let a scam run through its service, but maybe they need the revenue.

Regardless, I'm hoping I can publicly shame bit.ly into shutting down this scam, or at least their use of bit.ly .
It's science-journalism. They needed a tag to wrap up the article.

For a lay reader, it would give them an overall concept they can tie the just-read article to, increasing the likelihood of retention.

For an astute reader, yeah, it smells like bullshit.
Not a fan of "this"-like comments, but I find your analogy very elegant in explaining the impact of money.

The concept of money mapping 1:1 to value/produced utility (note that I haven't defined what a unit of this is) is a difficult concept to grasp.

It's very common for people to trivialise money as a printed piece of paper and miss the higher level value as a currency that "benchmarks" the value of one's impact to another.

Society pedestalizes healthcare workers for their immediate, physical and observable impact to the lives of individuals; and it is understandably justified. However, this often raises questions to why nurses only make marginally above average salaries. Unfortunately the semantics of the supply-vs-demand economy is often lost here - any individual nurse is generally not difficult to replace should they leave (of course, depending on the market). On the other end of the spectrum, people making significantly above the market financial trading are commonly seen as negative-value producers when most do generate a significant amount of positive value, simply because it's hard to reason with a non-physical form of value. (I don't work in a field related to financial trading)

It's unsurprising why there's communities formed to demonise the concept of currency, trade and markets; and why some of them advance further and push for the breakdown of modern society.

While I don't mean to be pushing the message that "Capitalism is perfect and the utopia of reality" - I can't imagine alternative systems not involving a free market, that would achieve similar or better levels of quality of life and advancement in society (at least in current modern? times), while balancing around the imperfections of humans.
>Netflix has borrowed billions (and billions) of dollars to get where they are. As a private entity they've gone bust seven or eight years ago.

Netflix has been profitable since at least 2005... they may not have grown as quickly, but I'd need some data to back up the claim they'd be bankrupt without billions in investment.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/gross...

>but Netflix's terms literally always said that accounts could only be shared with people living in the same household as you.

I never said anything to the contrary. But it's no secret to netflix or anyone else that account sharing happens. This wouldn't be a news story otherwise. It also doesn't change the fact it's customer hostile and clearly an attempt to increase revenue.
> The most common area by far was web development (68%)

68% is a lot and I hope it lead to have more mature web libraries in the future. I'm comparing it to other languages Java(e.g. Spring), PHP(e.g. Laravel & Symfony), Ruby(e.g. Rails), NodeJS(e.g. NestJS & NextJS) and I think Go community has a long way to go.

We had a discussion recently about building an internal web app and I had no chance to even defend Spring against Laravel yet alone Golang (My current team mainly uses Spring). It's just crazy how much scaffolding they have in place for web development. You get clean authentication with email verification and 2FA, and profile, team and roles management running in 5 minutes. And their collection library has most if not all of the Java Stream features. Then you spend another 5 minutes to add a scaffolding for building administration panels. And they are together just 3 months of development work if you ask me.

So as much as I love the idea of building your own stuff, I can't defend it when it comes to raw components for web development like authentication and admins panels.
Reading that paragraph, 20-30 percent could be removed.

Reading for pleasure should be entertaining. Reading for knowledge should be simple/concise.
I agree wholeheartedly with the author. Not a lot of things irk me more than the Medium era of blogging. Aside from the shady practice of Medium itself, I feel like with it came the meme-infused blogs, which I personally dislike a lot. I don't mind diagrams, of course, but I feel like the memes are to pander to the "kids" of today (I'm not that old, but memes weren't until I was 21).
I think simplicity is overrated and often an excuse for dullness.
I'm hoping maybe some experience MUD players can help me out with this: every time I try to get into a MUD, the text just moves past the screen too fast and I feel like I miss important parts, and then I can't see it again. Or if I run a command, before I can interpret the output it flies off the screen in favor of some non important text. I can't imagine combat in text mode, trying to figure out what command to type while also trying to race against the buffer.

I've tried several different MUDs over the years because I like text based games, but they never stick.
http://archive.is/l7AVV
It always depends on the use case and how much vendor lock-in you are willing to accept.
Doesn't the "colors" concept also apply to concepts like error handling? E.g. Result, Option, exceptions...

You have to "add colors", e.g. special map()s or wraps.

A Result<a, err> cannot be chained with a pure fn and an Option<a> without adding colors. Or a fn that throws cannot be called from a pure fn that never throws, without adding colors.

Js promises do wrap try/catch in most cases, but I recall some unusual constructor that doesn't.

Rust doesn't have exceptions, so Result<> is standard. It's painless to mix .map() with .and_then(), however I do think this is a case of "coloring". You also have to "color" when chaining with Option<>, which sometimes is conceptually between a pure fn and a Result fn.
This is the ultimate click-bait for me, because it resonates so badly.
You're right, ORC does look interesting, I was too dismissive. Their conventional GCs are way behind the state of the art though (e.g. in HotSpot), but I don't really blame them for that, implementing a cutting-edge GC is an mammoth task and extremely technically demanding.

From your linked article:

> it turns out there are lots of ideas that the GC research overlooked. Exciting times for Nim!

I wish them luck, this is a field where great progress has been made over the last decade, hopefully more to come. If they really can beat the JVM head-on, that would be very impressive, especially if they do so while using C as an intermediate language.
Seems like this whole essay argues for clarity rather than simplicity — probably a better goal to aim for, too.

He opposes simple to "fancy", but the opposite of simple isn't just "fancy", that's, well, a simplification. The opposite of "simple" writing may be: "rich" writing, "complex" writing, none of which are particularly problematic for Graham's goal provided that they're paired with enough clarity.

That "simple" writing lasts longer is disproved by many works of literature that have made their way to us through history, most of which, by the standard of this essay, could be considered complex.

As someone with a modicum of experience in the philosophy of language, I must also say that I do not look kindly on people who take for granted that there even could be such a thing as a thought without language, a "pure idea", since for all we know such a thing has never been observed.
To check if a written sentence is truly simple, just ask yourself:

"How would it sound if somebody spoke it out loud?"

I've found that to be a very accurate way to check sentences for too much fluff.

Complex sentences just sound "off" when spoken.
So many broken features - whiteboards and rejoining breakout sessions for two.
I sell my MIT open source Video Hub App for $5 ($3.50 goes to a cost-effective charity - it's charityware). Over the 3 years it's resulted in over $9000 donated to protect people from malaria.

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GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

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