skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My stock Debian x86 mini-ITX firewall is now 7 years old. It has been upgraded across three stable releases and will go to bullseye sometime this year. It handles stateful firewalling, IPv6 routing, failover DHCP, DNS caching, NTP... and it has lots of available capacity in CPU and RAM.

It was expensive for a home firewall but not horribly so, and I fully expect it to have a ten or twelve year lifespan with full support. If the NIC fails, I can replace it -- it's a PCIe card. If the storage fails, I can replace it -- SATA SSD. Neither of those have happened yet, but I might replace a fan sometime soon.

These days I would probably buy a tiny NUC-like object with enough gig-e ports.
Who is the “We” in this case?
Actually there is a missing alternative to Mapbox, Google Places and Geocode Earth. As they explain it this blog post, Algolia Places relies on OSM Open Source community to maintain accurate data. Since it's not anymore a business for Algolia, they could Open Source their software (API, user-agents and tooling) and let an Open Source community maintain the software. Not only the data from OSM.

It would be a nice sign from Algolia towards their customers.
> There was a timer counting down, and the website promised participants that they could double their money.

It is amazing how people fall for these scams.

They seem to forget the time tested truth which is "if it sounds too good to be true then it ain't".
I suspect that most of what is coding (ie, logic) is pretty intuitive, and only obfuscated by environmental factors like learning syntax, obscure jargon, and especially learning to execute code in your head.

However, it's been a long time since I learned to code myself and my own learning experience is lost to the mists of time, so I'd really love to hear from people who are either learning right now or have recently learned how to program: what were/are the hard parts for you?

I'm not just asking out of curiosity - I'm trying to build a better programming paradigm (based on visual programming) and a key goal for me is to make building software more accessible to new entrants.
Exactly. Some commenters are here just pushing the point away. But it's actually happening right in front of our eyes.

As I said, i'm not on one side of the other. I'm just noticing the social situation happening.
> those are quite low-hanging fruits, if someone wants to engage in virtue signaling

That's basically what fueled a specific part of tumblr for a long time. People one-upping each other about what is unjust and what everyone should be outraged about. I'm not sure as a whole it had a positive impact on the world.
What about the American right is attractive to black Americans? Which GOP policies really sold the story that black progress was in the air?
>My point was that this website does not explain at all what the website is about.

I understand that part. I don't know that the philosophy of that website is about either. However, I was replying specifically to your "don't know what it stands for":

>I've heard the term "NFT" a lot in the past days. However, I still don't know what it stands for.

If there's an unknown acryonym, it seems the common sense thing to do is google that acronym. That's what I was confused about in your comment. In fact, you've gotten several sub replies to your that restate what the topmost google result says the 'N', 'F', 'T' stands for. And those replies may themselves been informed by google several days earlier!

Whether NFTs make any economic or financial sense or what this thread's website is about ... is a different topic from what the acronym's letters expand out to be. So I guess my question can be put in a more general way: Is running across a random acronym on HN or discussion forums that I don't know and then Googling it a flawed approach?

(Because that's what I've been doing for decades and it seems to work.)

>I actually did duckduckgo it, that's not the problem.

And I just checked the DDG results and top result also says "non fungible token", so I'm still confused as what the purpose of the 1st paragraph in your comment "I still don't know what it stands for" is about. Why didn't the DDG result let you omit the 1st paragraph?
> sms is also on the same security level with email

No, it's really not. Email can be cryptographically signed, SMS can not.
Even if you don't go on retreats and just have a regular daily practice, there could come a point where you experience unusual, unpleasant moments.

The explanation might be difficult for you to accept, if you don't accept Buddhist philosophy (if you don't believe in enlightenment, basically).

If you are a materialist, you don't believe there is anything else besides matter. You are just your body.

Well, at some point during your meditation, you might experience the fact that this world is a construct, a fabrication. But if you don't know how to put it into context, it will feel like nothing, void, nonexistence. This could shock your mind-body system.

There are several ways to avoid this.

First, familiarise yourself with the Buddhist conceptual framework. Entertain the possibility that it is an accurate view of reality. The best book that I know for this is Dreams of light by Andrew Holecek.

Second, look into practices that cultivate positive mental states. Some examples are forgiveness meditation and metta meditation. A relaxed and open mind can more easily hold difficult experiences.

Third, take it slow and don't push yourself if you're having difficult experiences. Find a teacher or a community where you can ask for advice. One community that I recommend is /r/streamentry on Reddit.

I hope meditation is fruitful for you. Let me know if you have questions.
I find it very hard to quickly see which is which, the two versions are so different. It would be nice with a more explicit side-by-side layout.
I think the platform makes little difference. The app store/play store app game is a long tail one: most apps make exactly 0 money and see very little traction.
Can't edit anymore, but ofc the math is off by factor 10: 'tens of engineers over more than a decade' is more in the realm of 300 person-years. Still 10KB per day and engineer, which is maybe 200-500 lines of code. Far above average still, but approaching something realistic. This is if we are talking 6GB with full history and without any compression.
Maybe, but no matter how contrived there always seems to be an argument that Apple are the good guys. If they really want this because of UX they shouldn't charge so much money
This "theory" has been pretty obvious since the 80s. Not really sure who this is written for (probably his clients) but investment firms are always going to buy bonds regardless. It doesn't matter if equities will be higher in the long term, your performance is measured in the short term, and a firm is going to hedge against short-term equity swings.
Because somewhere in my company pipeline there was a hardcoded "master" branch. So no new projects where building. The old guy have quited, so they asked me to review scripts, and only after a few hours It ocurred to me that was because new projects where being created with the main branch.

So... fuck you github. You changed nothing, and annoyed a lot of people. And being all honest, if that is a thing that annoys you because when you hear master you thing of slavery and stuff like that, you probably get too much free time on your mind.

I for example hear naster and immediately thing immediately about kung fu and stuff like that.
Forcing a fiscal crisis is a great way of accomplishing some political goals so I wouldn't be complacent about this risk.
I can’t help but wonder if satoshi did it best by _not_ attaching a real life persona to the thing.

Ethereum is still a huge utterly insane risk because of Vitalik himself. I wouldn’t purchase anything of value as a store of value because of the creator.

Value seen or not.
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.

I’ve seen many Microsoft employees internally comment on how they don’t like the term “master branch”. I believe Microsoft’s renaming (this is my personal belief) was somewhat influenced by that internal push.

It may not mean much to you, but if it made some people feel more comfortable it’s a good change and has very few downsides.
Just wait till the people freaking out about BGP find out what you can accomplish with a fake court order!
It depends a lot if you are putting these on your roof in Germany or whether you are buying in bulk for some grid setup in Dubai. But 3-4kwh per day per kw of solar panel sounds about right for a lot of places in more Northern regions (i.e. not California). I think that is about right for places like the UK. It's more in the summer and less in the winter and you have to account for cloudy days too.

Closer to the equator, it might be closer to 6-7kwh or even better. Places like Dubai or California get a lot of sun throughout the year and a setup like this would have the panels positioned optimally presumably. So, I'd guesstimate at least 3-5 cents per KWH is a reasonable expectation for this setup.

Recent bids are actually closing in on 1 cent per kwh. E.g. there was a Portuguese bid for 1.3 dollar cents per kwh last summer. I'm sure that probably has been undercut since then by someone. And Portugal is pretty far North compared to California, most of which would be at the same latitude as Sub Saharan Africa. So, potentially I am low-balling it. Probably in the next few years we will get sub 1 cent bids happening with some regularity.

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/30/new-record-low-solar-pr...
You can find studies that support either side of that argument. So I guess the answer is: it's more complicated than that.
"he's not the smartest bulb in the block, and also being overly cautious so...."

Being overly cautious makes you a smart banker. You do not move fast and break things in insurance or banking.
https://raw.githack.com/marcinjangrzybowski/cubeViz/master/m...

Visual editor for cubical-agda code, currently I am rewriting it in haskell and integrating with emacs. New version will allow to edit code in 3 and 4 dimensions :)
It's just a different framework for a different use case. The fact that it's http 2 and support bi-directional streams is nice for low latency applications.

I doesn't make RPC over message brokers deprecated and if that works for you under you conditions that's great.

You can say the same about message brokers. Is it LIFO, FIFO or something random? what about acknowledge, is it late or not? Can the queue hold responses (Rabbit advices against using it as a result store)?

In that regard message brokers are complicated, lets just do http calls and let the load balancer take care of routing, it's much simpler and the client is very dumb.
Those two guys from Twitter, are here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhrD5SVo3OU
Well it actually costs the store money to sell a product, for one thing
A year ago, I was intrigued by the fact that Newton whom we know as a mathematician and physicist, is actually an Economist, Theologian, Alchemist and so on. In fact, his greatest discovery was not Gravity, it was the Gold Standard, which was born out his failures in Alchemy. I google searched newton collection of papers and similar things, but found nothing. Hence this is my ode to the genius
Also water heater using a heat pump is 200-500% efficient.
Just to be clear we talk about the same thing: Words have zero meaning by themselves (and this is not my personal opinion, but consensus in cognitive linguistics).

So you can use words to describe things (like we do right now), and thus hope to invoke mutual understanding, but you can't put a new concept into another person's head by inventing a word. You can trigger a concept already there if the other person already associates a specific meaning with a specific word, though.

So if you want to better the situation for e.g. African Americans in the US, replacing "master branch" with "main branch" has no effect, because a) this master is not the master/slave master - the words may have had identical meaning (I don't know, perhaps both meanings have a common ancestor), but today the word "master" in the context (=frame) of source code respositories means something completely different than master/slave. Just as "slave" in the US doesn't mean "person of slavic origin" anymore.

But more importantly you don't change the stereotype of African Americans this way. That you'll only achieve by constantly pushing different images of African Americans in the relevant contexts, like, off the top of my head, a collective day where every github user with darker skin starts to use a real profile picture on github.
Curious why nobody mentioned Turris series - they provide consumer routers with OpenWRT, and with upgrades.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic... you know you only see the VGA one when you hover over it with your mouse? You know which is which because you know which one you're pointing at, right?
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> I don't think it correct to equate Zikr with meditation.

Maybe I am missing something, but Zikr sounds suspiciously like japa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japa), which is a well accepted form of concentration meditation in all Dharmic traditions. Many teachers will ask neophytes to have a regular japa practice, where you recite a mantra a certain number of times often with the help of a mAlA, first audibly, and gradually, mentally (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japa#Degrees_of_loudness). The idea being that it's easier to focus on a gross object at first to keep your mind steady, and later proceed to more subtle forms. Patanjali himself recommends that Om be chanted and its meaning reflected upon (https://www.himalayanacademy.com/saivite-scriptures/patanjal...).

The forms of meditations in dharmic traditions is quite bewildering. Patanjali himself recommends to concentrate on anything that you are comfortable with (https://www.himalayanacademy.com/saivite-scriptures/patanjal...).
Wouldn't more competition be the logical thing to ask for instead?
That requires people to have some trusted sources they can use as a baseline. It’s all well and good to assume objective truth is available, but really it’s the most blatant examples people catch not the more subtle.

Add in biases and people are all to willing to discount the truth they dislike as propaganda etc.
Interesting, their core systems?
Considering your incredibly uninformed stance on NFT's, I don't think you have any real right to an opinion on crypto as a whole unless you go and do some serious reading.
Yes, but I prefer Ubuntu and I'm under the impression that running Linux on Macbook's isn't great ??
Your fridge doesn't have an ARM CPU comparable to a desktop these days though does it?
I wonder if these problems could be fixed by showing only a list of family safe instances by default, but allow adding custom urls somewhere in the settings.

Don't show a directory of instances in your app.

This way casual app reviewers would see the family safe content, and you wouldn't have to block anything.

Or would Google complain about that too?
Yeah, the US is such an exceptional country that you can only have opinions about it when you're actually American - I hope you do see that this view is rather short sighted? Especially given that the US itself has no qualms with interfering in foreign politics all over the world.
And lets be honest. Changing one word that annoyed a few dozen of people because they think of slavery, well, thats a lot of change just because a shit excuse, that will not matter in the end.
You would have to realistically model the subject’s surroundings, which can be quite challenging if the camera only points at one direction the whole time.
How come people forget Critical Thinking?

It's obvious Critical Thinking helps to learn programming.
That seems to put a lot of faith in the claims of these systems. I get the sense that now that you can learn this stuff from the internet vs. going to live in a monastery, you get a lot more mix-n-match, even from teachers who are credentialed in a specific tradition.

Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind has lots of stories of people having positive psychedelic therapy, which does require essentially a spiritual guide.
It feels like the EGA is the original.
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This is as zero-emission as the grid, simply having someone else burn fossil fuels doesn't make it clean (it's probably better but still).

Also gas is a lot cheaper to heat with at current UK prices than electricity. One of the reasons heat pumps are used is that the increased efficiency offsets that.
AirPods are a 10x in terms of my day to day life. I’d say they count.
For context: Tusky is a lightweight client for Mastodon, a free and open-source social network server.

https://tusky.app/
> What do you suppose you can do to give that effect?

To any ISP as I ask them to announce your MX IP addresses.

> There is no central clearing house for email that you can give a few bucks to for my emails so long as you have an LOA to keep them on the right side of the law.

There is, it’s called BGP.
According to the other story on the front page earlier today about this, the messages are encrypted but the firm had access to user information - name, email phone number. That kind of stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488445

On a different note: Has KakaoTalk gone out of fashion in korea? I thought line was mostly Japan and Taiwan and korea was KakaoTalk, China WeChat and everywhere else WhatsApp.

But I have noticed line appearing in some never kdramas.
I am in the UK, which geographically is part of Europe. That not how we think here and that is a good thing. I don't want our politics to become racialised like it is everywhere else. All it seems to do is bring division and hatred and unfortunately it has imported from America.
I find this post defensive in tone.

At some point America's popular culture will internalize that the wage gap was a myth and etc and appreciate that the left has been peddling pseudoscience for ages in the name of intellectual vanity.

Too many generations lost being the lefts rosemary kennedy.
It's just a matter of time
Well that would be the problem with the U.S.A. culture war: — there are two sides, and both consider themselves “fair and balanced” and the other unreliable, and from where I'm standing as a European, both are unreliable, because politics is not about reliability, and truth is not a weapon in politics and never has been.

English language Wikipedia of course has a disproportional number of editors from the U.S.A. and most of them have a particular side in this culture war.

But it touches upon another issue of All voices must be repræsented, proportional to their weight.. — does this mean all voices currently on the planet? all voices that have ever been on the planet? or only English voices on the English-language Wikipedia?

In particular, I find it somewhat odd that, for instance, English-language Wikipedia will speak of the “critical consensus” surrounding a Japanese work of fiction, using only English-language reviews thereof, while there are probably more Japanese-language reviews and fans of the work, and the critical perception is often very different in different cultures, but English-language Wikipedia very often speaks of “critical consensus” for what should be called “Anglo-Saxon critical consensus”, and dare I say that it is often not even that, but chiefly a U.S.A. consensus.
Walmart has been doing this around here (car not bike). Too bad they will substitute a "similar" item when their stock is not correct, which is always.

The "similar" item is not similar enough in my experience.
Charitably, it's less prone to limescale insulating the elements, increasing service life and making the system more efficient as you don't need to run water as long waiting for it to heat up.
Not a buddhist, but 100% agree that this article is very lacking in depth in covering the hard fact that 'meditation' is not some singular practice - philosophical/spiritual/psychological context of the practitioner and intent will absolutely have a massive impact on how meditation 'experiences' will be internalized - is the 'insight' I had actually spiritually beneficial, or simply my own attachments/preconceived notions playing tricks on me?

Christian monastics have written tomes about the dangers of spiritual delusion arising in the course of practice (prelest); Without getting into theological debate about core teachings between various religions, I'm quite sure the same is true for any serious spiritual/religious ascetic discipline; The tendency in our culture to divorce the practices from their philosophical underpinnings to make them more 'consumable' by the uninitiated as seems to have happened here is likely a big contributing factor in cases such as this one, and the article completely sidesteps the point by falling victim to the same thinking ..

In a similar vein I also find it quite ironic that the article attempts to reconcile 'meditation' as one monolithic topic that is either 'good' or 'bad' within scientific literature, while at the same time ignoring that 'scientific literature' itself has many studies of differing results from differing psychological treatment modalities, many of which could be viewed as 'meditative' in some casual sense (e.g. CBT, so called 'mindfulness meditation', schema therapy, etc)
beeple is for sure not unknown, I think you need to dig a bit more. Like my mental model is "does this sound ridiculous but many people go crazy for it for long periods of time? Maybe I should try to understand instead of only critisize". Do you think Sotheby's and Crhistie's are victims of a mania and are selling beanie babies? Did they sell beanie babies during that mania? Nope.
> There are always alternatives, like "leader and follower"

Which is a worse analogy, because "following" is a choice and doesn't have to be strict, unlike slave (execute commands or get killed).
I guess that already exists so can't launch as a new product. I think it's called 'immersion heater' in the UK.

Most homes have one already in fact, as a backup for when the boiler breaks.
Think of all the delightfully higher upfront costs vs standard immersion heating elements plus also the ongoing maintenance! It's a veritable gold-mine. My guess is that's why.
Far fewer people than imagined even flee to different states within the US because of higher taxes. The notion that everyone's going to go live in the Caribbean and eschew their social lives and their kids' fancy schools seems unlikely.

Consider: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-10/wall-stre...
If we'd believe the slanted tone of the post you're responding to I suppose we should at least take solace in only one of Americas two parties having all the right answers.
Speaking of swapping, I switched from android to iphone last spring since my old android phone croaked on teams and I couldn't get a new xperia fast enough.

The switch was actually relatively painless when it comes to the apps themselves, the biggest problem I have is the phone itself. Iphone has inconsistent UI/shortcuts and lots of hidden gesture based inputs that you just got to know to be able to use. I'm really tempted to switch back but the google tracking keeps me away for now.

So there are some who are in the market for both :)

The developer cut/price of apps is really low on my list of reasons to switch from one to another though so you got a good point there. I'm actually trust an app that costs 100 NOK (€10) more than a 10 NOK one since they will have less incentives to do shady things.
It's possible that his technical abilities are now sufficient to do the work but he hasn't yet learned the language commonly used for describing the technology.

This is a pretty common thing amongst self-taught people.