skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but that is nothing new. How many people do you need to run a mine today compared with 40 years ago. Or cutting down lumber or run a steel mill. So most communities far from cities are already gone.

In addition, trucking et c. will not disappear. The moment the economic incentives are there, there will be hydrogen fuel cell trucks on the roads in almost a blink. The technology is there.
It would be very interesting to see a chart of decline in the size of the catalog over the last 15 years.
I wonder how small you could make TLS1.3 (or 1.2) implementation if you only supported bare minimum like single ciphersuite, no negotiation, no fancy features, no weird cert formats, but without skimping on the crypto parts?
It's a tech problem, as much as tech problems can be disgusting or racist.
It won't prevent serving HTML with GET forms (although POST forms won't work, and neither will cookies), although a client may very well not understand the document (or any other HTML document) and not display it (and even if it does understand HTML, it might restrict HTML with Gemini by default, in order to avoid tricking the user into thinking that one kind of document is a different kind, and/or in order to avoid doing things which are undesirable with Gemini; HTML is probably mostly undesirable with Gemini anyways).

If you need an interactive system, then SSH or Telnet might be better, rather than Gemini or HTTP(S). For other things, other protocols will be better, e.g. for communications, IRC or NNTP would help (depending on the kinds of communications). They also mentioned a Titan protocol, for writing to Gemini files.
These claims seem pretty far fetched. Do you have any evidence that American's mostly only care about Asians because of porn, or that there are 100x more searches for Asian porn than other Asian topics? Seems pretty unreasonable to me
That would require maintaining priority for every page in the cache, or even to process-if a process using the cache page ends, priority should be adjusted. Too complicated. Better simpler option is that the backup process says "do not cache this". That option is already implemented in kernel and available to userspace.
شات العرب – شات عربي – دردشة عربية مجانية بدون تسجيل
I think my issue with audio/video is i often finding myself skimming articles for content i'm interested, before i deep-dive in the content and consume it fully.

I don't mind video or audio if i _know_ i want it. But it's obscenely slow to verify if video/audio content is worth my time.

So much content on the internet is shallow or misleading. Text is easier to filter for me.
> I'm working with a few hundred backend engineers who all have a hard time with thinking infrastructure is always available and can handle infinite throughput.

Could you clarify this statement? Are you saying you work with hundreds of backend engineers:

- who all believe infra is always available and can handle infinite throughput (???)

or

- who can't wrap their head around an environment where infra is so scalable / high availability that it might as well be "infinite" and so they are always looking designing for tradeoffs that don't exist in your environment?

If the former, where do these people work? If the latter, where do these people work?
I use 10.9 because out of all the OS's I've ever used, I like 10.9 the most by far, and I consider that worth the security risks. I browse the web in an up-to-date version of Chromium[0], I keep my computer behind an up-to-date router, and I trust my local software. An experienced hacker who wants to spend a few days getting into my computer will succeed, but they'd probably succeed anyway, and that's why I take measures like keeping backups in cold storage.

This was the first time I've actually backported a security fix. Apple Mail is easily where I'm most vulnerable, because it's not merely an outdated app which opens untrusted content—it opens untrusted content which anyone can push to me!

0: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
This is not a story. Bees swarm, usually when the weather starts warming up. There are probably tens of thousands of swarms in the US every year. They are harmless. Some of them end up on public infrastructure. We had one hang out on a bike rack near our office a few years ago. (No one from the New York Times came to report on it.)
A better term than Luddite may be obstructionist. Hackers object to new technology due to their disagreeing with everything Cloud, Tracking, limited user rights, DRM, etc.
I wasn't expressing an opinion on the validity of UBI for specific groups. I think that's less crazy than some might think, after all most proponents of UBI suggest at least initially limiting it to a city/state/country. I can even understand wanting to call the Oakland progr UBI, as it is similar and that's a known term. I find inventing a new term "Guaranteed Income" when it plainly isn't to be absurd.

(By the way, I didn't know it was necessary to note quotes came from TFA if not attributed)
The problem with that is, people (usually rich people) will stop buying expensive stuff in the country, and they start buying them from another country that does not have any sales tax. Rich people avoid taxes and poor people are now stuck with the VAT on their daily needs.
The Scalability Myth
I'm a Deist, personally.

I do however believe that IF a Devil or a God or a Thanos were to show up and try to kill most of humanity (Which... if it's an actual divine being, incidentally would mean that I'm wrong about being a Deist, but I can live with that!) it would be a moral imperative to prevent them from doing so.

In that sense Avengers Endgame is a better Rapture movie than the Left Behind movies...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7KTOLbyfQ&t=1s
> The rise of ICOs

The rise of this scam ecosystem is proof that regulation is useful. Maybe there are rare cases of ICOs that were not scams. And maybe some of few remaining and were not utter, complete and predictable failure.

But it was a good demonstration how gullible people are and how evil people will readily exploit it.
Could be, but who's to say it’s never the less representative of those local preferences?
You make an estimate based on weight. There are about four thousand bees in a pound of bees.
From the article ...

> ACC has reduced global agricultural TFP by about 21% since 1961, a slowdown that is equivalent to losing the last 7 years of productivity growth. The effect is substantially more severe (a reduction of ~26–34%) in warmer regions such as Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01000-1
This really is a wonderful series...
Wow. One time in highschool I ran Rainmeter (a harmless HUD program: https://www.rainmeter.net/) from my flash drive on a school computer to show a friend. The next day I got called up to IT because they apparently had software listening for any foreign executables (but not actually blocking them?), and policy was to suspend me from school computers for two weeks. I was taking a CS course at the time, so for two weeks I just had to sit there in class doing nothing.

When the IT guy talked to me, he even said he'd seen Rainmeter in a magazine and tried it out at home and thought it was pretty cool. But the admins had watched Hackers too many times, it seems, and thought it appropriate to treat me like a delinquent :P

Edit: Looks like Rainmeter is still alive and kicking! Maybe I'll give it a revisit
Recaldent gum used to be widely available in the US. I was a big fan of the trident gum variety, which had recaldent and was sweetened with xylitol.

It was a solid product but it just disappeared one day. And unfortunately the shelf life for that gum was a bit worse than usual, so hoarding isn’t a great strategy.

I think last time I was able to get it was around 2010.

Edit: something is going wrong in American regulation of dental products. I should not have to illegally buy smuggled toothpaste and gum from Europe and Canada in order to maintain my dental health. I don’t understand how that makes anyone safer and regulators haven’t said why Americans are at risk in a way that Europeans aren’t.
Am I the only one to read like an acknowledgement that Waymo didn’t achieve what it was supposed to do and he was asked to go for lack of performance?
Why does defi imply higher interest rates?
Sorry, this is bad code. In the original version it's clear that there's only two possible outcomes: either you can drink, or you can't. Your version uses two different conditions, which makes four possibilities, which makes the code harder to reason because every reader must stop and think "Wait, can someone be underage and still allowed to drink? Or vice versa?"

Eliminate edge cases, especially those that should not arise in practice.
Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet
Another issue is at grade road crossings. There are limits as to how long you can close a crossing preventing road traffic from going through. The longer the train the longer the crossing is closed.

I think the vast majority of railroads have at grade road crossings [exceptions might be high speed rail.] Does anyone know?
Well... msft was already pretty big, but they hadn't been for very long. It might have been ok 3-4 years prior. Maybe like Tesla now, at least for elon. I doubt "PR flacks" had much sway at the company, if you go back to its formative years. Also, this seems to have been related to some sore points at that particular time.

Also, the world was more naive before "re:all" emails from hr.
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Hah, that's a good one, well done. (:
I think it’s the same process, just at a higher velocity.

Jobs have always been at risk of obsolescence. Jobs either require continual learning (typically the “professions”, e.g., physician, lawyer,...) or were at risk for being irrelevant. In the past, the pace of irrelevance was often slow enough to span a lifetime or multiple generations so people could still make a (slowly dwindling) living. Now the turnover just seems much faster that irrelevance can come at multiple times in ones career.

What’s the quote? “There future will belong to those who learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Hah, you should see the comment threads in some of the European nation subreddits on Reddit, whenever an article mentioning FAANG / Big Tech comes up.

They really want to burn them.
I'll name nine: Ethereum, Cardano, Chainlink, Filecoin, Maker/DAI, Augur, the Brave browser, Funfair, and Monolith/Tokencard.
If weeks are to be considered as a unit that exists "in" a year, then there is no non-surprising solution to this notion of the first and last week of the year.
My girlfriend had a MacBook Pro 2012 and broke the screen. While waiting for a new one I gave her my old Yoga laptop with Elementary OS.

About a month later I replaced the screen of the mac, threw in a fast SSD and reinstalled OSX, it was better that new. ..but she won't use it xD She likes the Yoga with E.OS better!

Thanks to the team behind this distro, your work is awesome :)
Have you moved on to accepting what will happen? I'm coming to terms with it. I had a long conversation about the thermodynamics of the situation with an oceologist and it set me straight on what will happen.. all I recall was her emphasizing I just mix dyed blue ice water and dyed red warm water in an aquarium and voila, witness the turbulence. Scale that to oceans, and concede that thermal mass governs the global weather patterns high and low.
"The gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not recalc"

So true.
> I'm not on the outside of medicine.

Fair enough, I didn't mean to suggest you were I was speaking more generally but worded that poorly.

My comments come from systems supporting thousands of clinical neurooncological procedures (i.e. tumor resections) in planning and execution with very little interest or utilization of fMRI beyond a handful proponents and their sites. Quite literally barely on the radar of most of the neurosurgeons apart from occasional papers, and some of them are quite negative about it also.

I could have an inaccurate picture of the breadth of clinical practice, and it's certainly a couple years out of date, but I would be very surprised to find a huge upsurge of usage outside research had happened.

It is certainly the case that the articles claim of "transformation" hasn't happened in that space.

If the article had instead claimed that some of the trickiest cases tend to have fMRI done (true, surgeons will take all they help they can get trying cases that otherwise might be inoperable) or that they are a feature of high profile academic sites (also mostly true) I wouldn't have objected.
NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This
I personally like go very much and use it for many small internet facing services. Being small and quick (for the compiler as well as generated code) simplifies so many complicated ways to deal with big and slow programs and compilation. But I get the feeling that go is quite uncool and not a definitive hit on its niche (many java based backend still). Do you think Go growth potential ? Id love to but im not so sure.
Interesting since the platform seems to go down, be unaccessible to users, most times that the price of Bitcoin starts to skyrocket - preventing many from impulse selling.
Yes, but you also need linux/windows and a c compiler...

The point is; the single file .c server is a toy, with my server you can make something real.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/63
What's up with people from NZ constantly spamming every post about covid with an "I DoNt uNdErStAnD wHy YoU dIdNt jUsT lOcK dOwN"

Absolutely infuriating, look at a map dude

inb4 vietnam

Yeah, it's landlocked. Great job Vietnam, we should learn from how they did it. Doesn't change the fact that it's a major outlier.
There was no "nsfw:yes" in the search box. It was literally just "asian". I am using the search feature on the new reddit design on web: https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=asian&type=sr%2Cuser

Other ethnicities, also show up with some porn results, but not nearly as extreme as for "asian". e.g. for "white" and "black" it was about a third of the top 20.
The Luddites also objected to new technology for their reasons. They weren't reacting on religious grounds that it was inherently evil.
You can check what any URL does, actually; unfortunately, the browser does not make that easy.

A gemini:// link can't set cookies, but it doesn't prevent serving HTML or any other type of file. However, a browser may disable HTML with Gemini by default, or not support HTML with Gemini at all. Doing so may be useful in order to more easily answer the questions you mention.
You're probably aware that there's a sizable section of the population that would emphatically disagree with such ideas and would feel that if we'd be implementing what you're proposing we'd truly had horribly regressed in our understanding of what humanity is about, only to nudge us ever more closely to a Great Filter type event.

The idea that we're just machines, if plumbed to its depths, can only lead one to self-destruction. Sure, most people never go that far in contemplating the consequences of such a view, instinctively knowing the danger that lurks there, but it still poisons their lives to some degree.

But we don't actually know that all we are is machines. There definitely is a mechanical aspect to us and to the world, which science is tasked with discovering and describing, but what we know is very little and so many of the answers we find only raise a multitude of new questions. Also worth checking out is Stephen Hawking's stance on the impossibility of finding a TOE on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything
The Barriers to Decentralisation
Mass extinction of species, both flora and fauna.
Workflows Are Coming to Supabase
Checked when it came out and it was definitely still the 31st across the world; it was the 30th in my timezone!
I never said their seed investors did not buy Bitcoin?
If You Build It, They Will Bike: Pop-Up Lanes Increased Cycling During Pandemic
While I agree with a lot of this, some of this is just juvenile. Like the repo of “your Tesla”. It’s not “your Tesla” until you have fully paid for it. Your monthly payments are paying for the use that you have incurred to date. If you stop paying, Tesla will take THEIR car back.
I hear Anthony Levandowski is available, having been pardoned by Trump in his last day in office on January 20, 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski#Criminal_c...
It's not because you're white.

It's because you're not poor, and you're not in Oakland. You have absolutely no facts about the situation, but you're here anyway, "just worried" about hypothetical people you don't know and haven't even gathered statistics on. You've got no idea why they're offering this to poor blacks in Oakland, and you're just gonna take a guess.

And you're promptly validated in that by other non-poor non-Oaklanders who tell you -- and I'm quoting here -- that your lack of experience is "100%" equivalent to those who do have experience.

That's the problem here: not your whiteness, but the outrage you feel at being excluded from a decision in which you've got no information and no stake. That stems from all of the things at once: your whiteness, your maleness (go ahead, tell me I'm wrong about that), and all the other dimensions along which people get excluded from things and simply never happen to you.

And instead of saying, "Tell me more", you tell everybody that your opinion is devalued solely because of the color of your skin, so that all of the other people in this room full of middle-class white men will tell you that it's wrong to exclude you.

I know you've long since stopped listening to me, but I'm nonetheless going to make a suggestion: the next time you're "just worried" about something, consider whether you've done anything to assuage that worry. Without that, it looks like you're just trying to inform the Oakland City Council of something that it already knows -- because it's literally the only thing you know about it.
I can't help but miss that delicious unassuming 90s design language.
Not to insult either discipline, but I bet the crossover of trained anthropologists and trained journalists is smaller than either one on their own.
It looks like Australia, or Arizona.
Would you have the same demand for video?

Why not? Not everyone is in a room by themselves and can turn up the volume. Not everyone can wear big gamer headphones at work.

Posting a video on the internet and not including a transcript is like posting something on Instagram and no other platform and thinking, "That's good enough."

If your goal is to communicate your thoughts, you make them available to as many people as is practical.

You don't publish a book and slip it onto one shelf at one local library and then wonder why nobody reads your work.
Even better would be to use the fullscreen api and mouse capture api to trap the mouse for real. Then you could render fake browser UI and do whatever you want when people try to click on it. If you really wanted to mess with people.
Earth Temperature Timeline for scale

https://xkcd.com/1732/
FWIW I don't want candy twice a month but I would be interested in something that came every six months or yearly. Twice a month just seems like a _lot_ of candy.
Yeah, Google would never shut down internal dissent:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-its-tgif-and-en...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/27/googles-thanksgiving-four-pr...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/23/google-...
you're also an island. there's a strong multiscalar correlation between being an island and having good covid outcomes. NZ, Taiwan, South Korea (not technically an island, but might as well be), Australia, Japan. And at subnational levels too: The best us state is Hawaii. The best city in the bay area is Alameda.
Maybe these people do have a sense of humour but your jokes just aren’t as funny as you think they are?
The CEO lists several accomplishments in the press brief. It doesn't appear to say that he's being let go specifically for performance concerns.
I read it as a state of self-driving cars in general. The technology isn't developing as fast as people had hoped. Waymo is still in the lead, even if this guy failed to deliver (he announced Waymo would be a public service for 2018, and that obviously didn't happen).
Fedora Council Statement on Richard Stallman Rejoining FSF Board
In reality, I think a lot of art these days isn't created by the artist, at least not mostly - it's created by their technicians or students or other people they employ and then just given their blessing, maybe with a few last finishing touches. The thing that makes it not a forgery is literally the artist's blessing; in principle you could even have a "forgery" that was created by the same person as the genuine article. This isn't widely advertised for obvious reasons but it isn't exactly a secret either, and it's not really a new thing - the actual creation of some of the classic, famous fine art paintings was a lot like this too and it makes verifying authenticity very interesting.
I am asian but I never use that to describe myself. There's always a narrower adjective that doesn't lump culturally distinct groups like chinese/korean/japanese/etc together.

Except when I am describing how I look.

So I don't see this a bad thing. I basically expect the same results when you search for other descriptor of appearances like blonde or big boobs. There's no other reason for subreddit communities to form around appearances other than look at gifs of them. (though there are exceptions like when you want to form communities specifically to complain about problems caused by said appearances: /r/bigboobproblems /r/ABraThatFits)
ISO 8601 recurring intervals are very nice and well thought out. Sadly, they are a corner of the standard that almost no one supports completely.
But can you believe them on April 1st?