skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you even read and think about what I wrote, or did you just do a knee-jerk reply? I said sense of taste and common sense, not lamenting in a blanket kind of way for the past. Jeez. I'm big on innovation (see my work blog, HN comments, etc.), but I don't think that everything newer is automatically better, or that everything older is automatically better either.

And in case you didn't get it, I meant "sense of taste" as in the physical sense of taste of food, because that is what my parent was talking about, not taste as in aesthetics.

And did you know that the entire country of Denmark and the entire Indian state of Sikkim have gone organic, or plan to?

Also search HN (via hn.algolia.com) for my comments about Gabe Brown of Brown's Ranch, ND, USA. Check his videos, about regenerative agriculture (and why he switched to it, and the benefits he found over many years in money and health, vs. his conventionally farming neighbors across the road), nutrient density of food now vs. then, and more. Do some research on specifics, only then talk. Easy to generalize or handwave.

Also look similarly, on and off HN for Jean-Martin Fortier (Canada), Geoff Lawton (Australia), Richard Perkins (Sweden), Krishna McKenzie (India). I wrote about them too, on HN.

All of them have videos of their real work at their real sites. Many of them are world-famous in their field.

Those are just a tiny percentage of people applying more sensible techniques or permaculture and organic farming.

Did you know that the US Dept. of Agriculture has been recommending no-till for some years now, at least in some cases?

Edited for typos and grammar.
“her” products are owned and made by General Mills, not her.
I understand your frustration, but I somehow need to figure out who to hire and who not to even if it can't be done reliably.

I need to ask some technical questions and I need to give simple coding exercise on a coderpad.

You would be surprised how many people can smooth talk themselves through any non technical person but can't do shit when faced with an actual IDE and a small problem to solve.

The real broken part of this is that there is minority of candidates who just can't develop and go to a huge number of interviews looking for one place where the process slips up and lets him pass or maybe be very lucky with the questions. Even though they are minority the constitute majority of interviews just because of how many interviews they try to attend.
> Even achieving just one hour of storage globally amounts to 2.5 TWh of storage. By comparison the entire world produces ~300 GWh worth of lithium ion battery annually

... so if we could increase battery production by just 10x, then we could create an hours worth of storage every year. That seems... very doable.
The NYT makes hay out of the NCAA basketball tournament budgets
DARPA takes step toward 'holy grail of encryption'
it is not up to the Debian community to interpret the law of the United States. The petition is itself harassment. Harassment is a crime.
I imagine they could snap the cable, but that doesn't seem very useful.
You can get a lot more leverage with real estate than you can with stocks, so it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.
The important bits of this are at the end. The guy just doesn't like RMS and thinks since he hasn't made a commit recently he should be kicked off. The author states "this isn't a court of law" as justification for why it doesn't matter if the random accusations are true or not, then says removing him from gcc is "actions have consequences". True, but making a few social faux pas (assuming they are true, despite many being proven false) does not deserve this bizarre punishment.

Can this mob at least try or be intellectually honest? If RMS is a nuisance and you don't like him, just say so. Vote him off the board, don't organize a mob and collect a series of false accusations.
Just recently almost an entire party was willing to hand it all over to a cult of personality. We can all thank ineptitude and lack of planning it didn’t work, this time!
Look, my friend, we will have to disagree on this. What exploits will attack this setup from the front? A Linux networking or other syscall RCE, a Go compiler intrinsic RCE, a vulnerability in the app code, or a vulnerability in a third party library. All of which exist in the common OS-hosted scenario, in addition to everything else, plus you have both your container and your OS to worry about (e.g. openssl).

EDIT: Anyway, I'd like to thank Mr. Bogdanov and his client for sharing this story—it's just fascinating.
I did something similar for a kids coding camp in Bulgaria. It requires 0 technical knowledge, no registration and no captchas, but it is maybe a bit too tailored for their use case: https://bin.gamejs.online

I actually started it using myself, because it is so nice to just zip a folder and get it online in ~10 seconds.
I spent a lot of time in the computer lab with all sorts of Apollo Domain/OS machines.

You could always spot the newbs because they grabbed the first available workstation instead of the nice DN3500 or other 68030 based machines. And then the HP 425t machines started showing up and it was amazing.

I did mostly Spice and other text based "work" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCABBS), but there were some decent EDA and CAD graphical programs.
I think people who actually wrote free software have advanced it.

Why do Foundations have so much imaginary power?
Here is one more new word for you: if you put that riprap in a wire cage it is called a "gabion" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabion
Stallman has also been accused of sexual harassment, unwanted physical contact and verbal harassment for years. But his supporters dismiss every such report as a lie made up by Marxist feminist agitators because that sort of thing is harder to defend than "unpopular opinions."
In the US, the same product is labeled "Kraft Macaroni & Cheese", and in the US everyone calls it "macaroni & cheese" or "mac & cheese". It's the identical product as Kraft Dinner. I wish that branding caught on in the US, because it's so much easier to say "KD".
Perhaps the thing to do is to offer up the government project to an open source initiative.

"We need a school comms platform. It needs to have messaging and scheduling. People need to be authenticated (duh)."

Now ordinarily I'd say "WTF who would build that for free?" but by the looks of it someone has done substantial work for free already.

Heck, you could probably get free work from the kids themselves. There's plenty of people in education who would want to do odd jobs on it.

Now maybe pay up for a few senior devs and a PM, so that someone is at least responsible for it, with their income tied to it. But make it a small group, for the same reason.

If there's suggestions, or something breaks, there's a place to report that. End of the day, it's a platform for the people by the people.

Sounds like a great way to get a community to build its own infrastructure?
It's easy enough to bypass most Cloudflare “anti-bot” with an unusual refresh pattern or messing with a cookie. (It's easier to script this than solve the CAPTCHAs.)
If you want to get into the internals of Ruby then I'll recommend Ruby Under a Microscope.
> have strangled Linux in its early years.

And likely would still do so toady. I mean we are speaking about the kernel internal API (not the
syscall API, which is stable).

Even systems which pride themself for internal kernel API stability do change the API every view years, while often having much less internal (feature/platform support) changes then Linux. Furthermore in android Linux LTS versions are often used which do support a long term stable ABI, potentially longer then certain other more niche systems priding themself with long support.

The problem is when a device is sold the kernel (minus back ported security fixes) is often already multiple years old so even if you use a kernel with 7 years longtime support you still have a good chance to run into problem. And supporting any kernel internal API for more then that time is unrealistic.
Apparently Dan can't spell Porsche correctly.
A model that smokes everyone else
> American's don't have the time or energy to prepare a meal, and they don't know how to.

As someone who occasionally ate mac 'n cheese and top ramen in college, I think it partly comes down to what tools and ingredients are available to you. I did not have access to a stove/pots/pans/colander. I had access to a shared microwave that was in the lounge in my dorm. So making my own mac 'n cheese was not possible (never mind the fact that we didn't have ready access to ingredients, and that cheese would go bad or be stolen from the fridge).

As an adult, I enjoy making mac 'n cheese for my kids, using a yogurt-based recipe and incorporating riced cauliflower to make it somewhat less unhealthy. But college-student-me didn't have access to the ingredients/tools to make that possible.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're making. Automated traffic that isn't flagging itself as automated is deceptive, and that's a negative signal for maliciousness right out of the starting gate.
If Android used FreeBSD...

the only open source part (which is the kernel) will be closed source. No chances for customization and freedom now.
What makes you think they won't drop significantly? PV panel costs have dropped by dramtically due to efficiencies of scale, and batteries are only just seeing production begin to ramp up.
One thing I didn't get is this magical PII thing. How does the author look at a random network packet -- nay, just packet headers -- and assign a PII:true/false label? I think many corporations would sacrifice the right hand of a sysadmin if that was the way to get this tech.

The article just says:

> I wrote a small python program to scan the port 80 traffic capture and create a mapping from each four-tuple TLS connection to a boolean - True for connection with PII and False for all others.

Is it just matching against a list of source IPs? And perhaps the source port, to determine whether it comes from e.g. a network drive (NFS in this case)? Not sure what he uses the full four-tuple for, if this is the answer in the first place. It's very hand-wavy for what is an integral part of finding the intrusion and kind of a holy grail in other situations as well.
Mostly it comes down to their crawler itself and the cost of storing all of that data, it's sufficiently prohibitive.
Humans became the best throwers on the planet
I love this idea, but it seems that in general bureaucracies are not agile or freethinking enough to be willing to risk doing something like this, even though in the long run it might be amazing. Imagine if an easy-to-administer system of this ilk was freely available and was picked up by school districts around the world; that would be an incredible pool of talent to work with. Especially if the product can be a little bit fun and whimsical, being not-for-profit, compared to working on something dry and corporate.
no, https://www.tva.com/energy/our-power-system/hydroelectric/ra...
There are people protesting against RMS, and especially how he's non-inclusive of women. I understand why people want to remove him from his position of power, but I fear that by removing him we would lose one of the uncompromising figures of software freedom. For example, the author refers to "the other open source compiler", which I suppose is LLVM. But LLVM allows Apple to not release some optimizations because it's not copyleft. I fear that by insisting so much on removing RMS we may move from "activist open source" to "corporation allowed open source".

Is this paranoia on my part? Or maybe I'm valuing freedom more than inclusivity because, as a white male, I don't feel the need for inclusivity as much as other people? I'm not sure of the answer, but I feel that there's a tradeoff that is made by removing RMS that isn't explicit and calculated.

I'd like to hear other views on that and what people think.
Largely because RMS gave them that power?

Like I'm not sure what your argument is. Are you saying one should not take board members of the FSF seriously, and one should ignore people whose contribution to the free software movement is more political than technical? Then you've already made the argument against RMS having a role on the GCC steering committee.
That's totally fair, but it raises a followup question because from what I can see, MagicBell has user accounts.

So that's also a unique identifier that they could use to prevent collisions. They could have a randomized ID generated locally for this "promotional" extension, and if a user creates an account on MagicBell at that point they could migrate them over to an official user ID.

If this is being tied to a real backend service, I'm almost more confused why it's important to transmit my session cookies around.
I assume it goes back to the Minsky incident. From what I understand, a trafficked woman/girl at Epstein's island was instructed to sleep with Minsky. Whether or not this was actually carried out is unclear. RMS said to give him the benefit of the doubt, that he likely wouldn't have known that she was being trafficked.

Just another RMS hot take. It was stupid, like a lot of his statements. Not worth canning him IMO.
Completely. No doubt.
Why exactly is the leaky tech pipeline a fallacy? I see it claimed as such frequently, but then I see other SJWs argue it is the biggest thing that needs addressing(I think I recall a big-shot diversity person at FB saying the pipeline needs to be fixed, and a big-shot diversity person at Google say the pipeline is a distraction).

To me, it doesn't make sense how the pipeline couldn't be a major issue. I took an intro to programming class in 9th grade (1999), and there was literally one girl and 29 boys. How can you ever overcome that and hope for a 50/50 split at the end when, for whatever reason, 14 year olds choose such drastically different paths based on their genders. And I know for a fact that no one took the class or didn't take the class because of the demographics of the GCC steering committee.
Relevant related writeup that was just on HN the other day (I think... or I saw it somewhere else):

https://tonsky.me/blog/emoji/

Edit: confirmed, it was on HN just half a day prior. Probably why this article arrived too. Just surprised nobody reference this other one in this thread :)
That sounds extremely expensive and not very green.
What responsive web design is (and isn't) (2012)
I suspect most of the intermittency of wind and solar will be addressed through super-capacity (500% of peak demand, not 100%) and geographic diversity. Batteries will be used for very short-term local balancing and power regulation ... then for those occasional times when hydro, wind and solar don’t cut it, we’ll still burn a little gas but it will be bio gas or green hydrogen, rather than fossil gas. This gas will be expensive, but these plants will hardly ever run.
We just open sourced one of our libraries used to detect PII:

https://github.com/capitalone/DataProfiler

Amazon and Microsoft also have their own offerings, but can be quite expensive for network packets (and pretty slow).

Most projects / teams will use some basic regular expressions to capture basics like SSN, credit card numbers or phone numbers. They’re typically just strings of a specific length. More difficult if you’re doing addresses, names, etc.
Funny thing about that quote- it's taken from a longer speech that Reagan gave, in which he talked about how his government had "committed record amounts" of agricultural assistance:

> I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. A great many of the current problems on the farm were caused by government-imposed embargoes and inflation, not to mention government's long history of conflicting and haphazard policies. Our ultimate goal, of course, is economic independence for agriculture, and through steps like the tax reform bill, we seek to return farming to real farmers. But until we make that transition, the Government must act compassionately and responsibly. In order to see farmers through these tough times, our administration has committed record amounts of assistance, spending more in this year alone than any previous administration spent during its entire tenure. No area of the budget, including defense, has grown as fast as our support for agriculture.

From this 1986 speech: https://www.reaganfoundation.org/media/128648/newsconference...
> You can use the CI to run any code you want to build the static files.

That is Netlify and Cloudflare Pages' defining feature, and GitHub has had that for a few years now.
That's exactly what they are intending to achieve, it's not about protecting women or whatever else. One of the debian leaders even admits this.

Embrace. Extend. And now, extinguish.
The cause is that more people moved into the city than there were housing units constructed. It isn't an either-or question, it's both. San Francisco has more demand than supply precisely because an insufficient number of housing units were constructed relative to the rising population. Had the city built sufficient units to accommodate the new residents there would be no shortage of supply. Had there been no influx of residents there wouldn't be either. But we can't just outlaw people from moving into the city, so the solution is to increase the supply of housing. And NIMBYism is a big obstacle in increasing the supply of housing.
It seems that no one mentioned SourceForge so far. I have used it for over a decade. You rsync your html to their htdocs and that is it.
In Spain this is called a normal day
What about organizing different topics? I like the remarkable because it's like an infinite subject notebook. E.g. I can take notes in a separate notebook for each book I read and can easily refer back to old notes on other books.
Surely this is an older technique? When I took data structures in college I implemented deletions that way, because I wasn't smart enough to invent tombstones. Looking through the wikipedia history, the sketch of it wasn't added yet.

I had wanted to use "better" techniques like quadratic probing, but I couldn't figure out how to perform deletions, so I fell back on linear probing.
How Amsterdam Became a Bicycle Paradise
I remember reading the Ralph S Mouse book, and also watching the movies. I used to think they were so cool. I kind of wish they'd make a new version with better quality of mouse. I recently tried re-watching it but I guess because I've lost my childhood imagination couldn't get past the stop motion mouse.
Gaining Ground Without Generics in Go
Sub-brands like this are a natural function of capitalism. Keep chipping away at the area under the demand curve with smaller and smaller rectangles (i.e. products with narrower but stronger appeal). It's not such a big deal when applied to consumer goods but thinking of the world in this simplistic way is problematic. Advertising leads people to identify with their choices as consumers and it makes it difficult for us to relate to each other as those choices become fragmented.
The US medical system is so bad that it doesn't make much sense to live in the US anymore.
And then we'd have to continue that production for two and a half decades to get to 1 day of storage. And we'd also have to drastically increase our battery recycling capacity to match (remember most lithium ion batteries last 1000-2000 cycles).
I think you overestimate both how much most authors earn as well as how easy it is to blow through $20m.

It's likely also "cash broke" rather than actually bankrupt; it sounds like she still has her house (albeit borrowed against) and other assets.
Can't wait for the first carjacker to be given a free ride to a police station in a self driving car.
I'm Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work (2012)
Stop it with the blind nationalism. You've clearly never been to an American grocery store. Literally everything you describe is available at Walmart (fresh herbs, unprocessed cheese, non-shitty bread), and more expensive grocery stores have even more variety and higher quality.
Or a Windows-style stable ABI with drivers remaining closed-source. That's what Google are doing with their new Fuchsia OS and Zircon kernel, which is expected to replace the GPL-licensed Linux kernel on Android and ChromeOS devices.

Basically their moving away from the copyleft Linux kernel.

Given Google's awful track record with Android and security updates, and their lack of ability to force companies like Qualcomm to provide longer support windows, I'm not sure their new strategy will be successful.

Inevitably they'll be severe vulnerabilities found in the drivers including eg, Cellular radio / baseband drivers, Bluetooth driver, Wifi driver, and the vulnerabilities will never get patched.

Hopefully Google's capability-based microkernel approach with Zircon will stop this ever happening. But again, given Google's atrocious track record with Android and security I highly doubt it.

Even Windows doesn't support eg, i586 and i686 CPU architectures yet the Linux kernel does, so it seems like copyleft drivers are the only way to get security updates decades later.
This is disgusting and a real honest-to-god violation of de Blanc’s free speech rights. Calling for her arrest is downright fascist. Her open letter is not cyberbullying and RMS is a major public figure who should reasonably expect public criticism. Public criticism of public figures is not cyberbullying. If the author really thinks it’s defamation then that’s a civil case. Instead the author is using the threat of state violence to try to silence a critic. This is Taliban-level stuff.

It does take a certain amount of gumption to defend RMS’s “free speech rights” by trying to arrest someone you disagree with. I wish I could say these people are hypocrites, but they know exactly what they are doing. Speaking personally: it’s a lot worse to be arrested than it is to be kicked off the board of a nonprofit!
I stole Beeples $69M NFT
Not in Australia, where we have much more roof-top solar (and which is less than half-the-price installed of roof-top in the US)
Can you elaborate what is stupid about it? Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
> That's exactly what they are intending to achieve, it's not about protecting women or whatever else. One of the debian leaders even admits this.

Do you have some proof of that? That's a pretty big claim. I wasn't able to find anything.
This is a allowed but semi-rare technique in Japan. Rare because of the capital costs to built the panels. Certain high end plants, such as tea, prefer the shade.
This is the reason why it drives me nuts when Apple Book randomly chooses to shift the content of the pages of the eBook. Content that was on odd page number starts appearing on even page number. This is also the reason why I never change the font size.

(Please let me know if there is a way to disable this.)
You can use the Azure blob storage for static websites. Costs maybe 1 or 2 cents. I think you can even hang the free Azure CDN in front of it.
Delightful writeup. Two bits that stood out for me:

- The incremental nature of exploration of this type. Often, the results are shown without the messy bits like "then I made it just teleport the piece to a specific spot to test". That matches how many of us operate, I'm sure.

- The use of a number of varied tools from the toolbox. Falling back to the trusty "sort | uniq" after talking about Rust and emulators with built-in memory peeking functionality? Nice!
Radiance fields are basically photographs that you can move around in (within a limited box). They are especially effective in VR. But, they are huge files. NeRF is effectively AI magic compression for radiance fields.
You'd have to join the private discussions going on to see it for yourself.
> Github pages is fine, but the extra gh-pages branch is kind of annoying.

You can configure github projects to source from a different branch (including your main/master branch if you check in build artifacts directly)