skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember paying for a couple of NE2k cards in the mid 90s, as the house I was living in used 10baseT networking for our student computers.

I paid something like £15 to buy each card, and they were found in a cardboard box of "misc. networking cards". Random piles of undocumented, unlabelled cards. Most were NE2K, though there were some 3Com cards - I remember I bought one by mistake, couldn't get it working properly under Linux at the time and took it back to swap it over.

That was around the time winmodems were a thing, and my personal PC had one. My memory is that of the three/four PCs in the house only one of them had a modem that worked under Linux and so we'd use that as the common "internet" machine, setting up routing so we could get internet access via that one for 30-60 minutes a day or so.
> I really wish there was a changelog for headlines.

While we’re talking feature requests, I think each submission should offer an optional second weblink, reserved specifically for the “original” or “source” URL.

It bothers me when the link is changed after lots of comments reference the previous one.
It sounds like they know exactly where to put it based on their white paper. The problem is more materials engineering for longevity and economics.
It's security theater. If I can run a process on your machine under your user account, you can bet I can keylog you, X11 or no.
> How can we realistically boycott the companies that abuse patents?

You mean law firms?

Most patent trolls don’t make or sell anything. There’s nothing to boycott.
FoxyProxy can do something like that for domains, maybe that helps with containers too.
The problem is that there is no way to experiment with other ways of funding health care research, as the cost of doing so is set at highly entrenched monopoly prices. There is no reason for those with capital to consider alternatives when there is already so much money to be made in the existing system.

I too believe that medical innovation would be wrecked by the elimination of patents, but I think that is less to due some inevitable aspect of human nature, and more due to existing incentive structures that have been created by means of policy.
My immediate question when I hear about how plants can capture carbon is: yes, but how will you ensure that it doesn't get released as part of the natural carbon cycle when the plant dies. You need to bury it all before it decomposes or it'll end up right back where it started.

Sidenote: I wonder what this tastes like.
My understanding is that the core issue with US transit is that we regularly let the same firm design and build the same system. This creates some obvious conflicts of interest where the designer decides that the PNW is soooo special that it can’t buy off the shelf parts, and therefore must pay the same company tons for custom stuff.

Apparently it’s the norm to separate design from construction in Europe, which cuts down on such chicanery.
He's clearly mentally ill. Unfortunately, that won't stop a lot of bigots from exploiting this to further their agenda against the far right.
more chemicals, diversion, stress, and mistrust, to name just a few, are harmful, and none of those practices were useful.
I'm skeptical about this "miracle" grain's commerical viability - at least for human consumption, the barrier to entry is not simply edibility, but palatibility. It was only after trying millet - a grain with a long history of consumption and intriguing agronomic properties - that I realized just how agreeable rice, wheat, quinoa and nixtamalized maize really are. They might seem bland, but the moment you "go against the grain" you realize that palatability is not the rule among grains, but the exception.
It’s like social media and looking in the mirror!
five cups milk would make rice soup.
It’s not even clear when the technical problems will be solved. It’s been “in five to ten years” for a while now.
I find this argument comes most often from people who already are so far down the rabbit hole, I had no chance of convincing them of anything anyway. Not always. But often.

If you read the reddit comments, you'd also see ones like this:

-https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

-https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

-https://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/comments/gogzk0/u_shibbole...

-https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

all praising my tone and how I "kept my cool" despite the trolls and sealions. A few similar comments here as well. Sorry it wasn't to your taste. Better luck next time I guess
If you’re going to make that argument, you also have to consider the opposite possibility: I’ve worked on (non-medical) projects with public funding in the past. One can only hope that my experience wasn’t representative for the amount waste of public money in the medical world.
Deigin has said explicitly elsewhere that if SARS-CoV-2 arose from a lab accident, he believes it arose from manipulation of a novel, unpublished virus collected by the WIV from nature. This makes any arguments based on distance from existing, published viruses irrelevant.

RaTG13 was such a virus (collected 2013, published post-pandemic), but it's very unlikely to be the ancestor for the reasons that you note. No one outside the WIV (and thus, no one beyond the physical control of the Chinese government) knows what other viruses they had in their freezer or database. Deigin has recently published an article claiming to have discovered a novel coronavirus in contamination of agricultural samples sequenced at the same facility:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01533

To be clear, the new virus that he "discovered" absolutely is not an ancestor of SARS-CoV-2, and he absolutely isn't claiming that is; but it's (more) evidence that the WIV had unpublished coronaviruses.

The WIV took their database of viruses down from public access in September 2019. They say this was due to repeated hacking attempts. They haven't restored access, or provided their database in another format (e.g., a dump on a flash drive) that obviously presents no information security risk. Do you believe their claimed reason for taking it down? If not, why do you think they're lying?
I feel like an animal trapped on Earth zoo. It’s relative.
Yes, I do. I very much believe that the Wayland architectural decisions are motivated by non-technical reasons (look at who pays them, and who stands to benefit by controlling the majority of commits across the whole fd.o stack).
It's hard to understate Thailand's herb culture. They're salad, they're medicine, they're garnish, they're everywhere.

In many monasteries monks that aren't otherwise allowed to eat after noon can even have a medicinal herb salad.
That’s odd. I would have sworn the flying car problems are technical (failure scenarios, power to weight ratios etc.) and while maybe currently legal absolutely not social.
A convoy of cars is a hugely inefficient use of space. Maybe autonomous buses would work, though.
There are several. But I can't type in Arabic to save my life, so it will be some time before I can find it.
India has managed to electrify nearly all long route trains on easy terrains except hilly regions.

Not only this freight corridor has been setup simultaneously and roads built at amazing pace, all this infrastructure has self funded itself.
Reading commentary on left-leaning sites, I'm amused at the people don't accept the worker's vote as "legitimate."

They either think it was rigged somehow--some vast compspiracy regarding mailboxes(!)--or that workers are too naïve to know what's right for them.

(For example: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/9/2025040/-Amazon-re... )

This reaction seems familiar, doesn't it?
Woke up on the wrong side of bed again, dang?
I think Adobe at least gives you a 30 day grace period of no internet access.
I'm pretty sure the goal is Linux with a single tightly coupled official ui with no extensions or themes with the single point of configurability will be an accent color.

This to be part of a monolithic identical system where different distros are only different in terms of default software installed and logo and the entire os is read only and not user serviceable.

Look up rethinking how we put systems together by leonart poetering and comments from gnome devs about disabling theming to improve brand awareness or arguing about the folly of letting users muck up their work with the horror of extensions.
No idea when banana republic became a "xenophobic slur." It's a pretty well understood term describing a country (or sub-jurisdiction in this example) that is so dependent on a foreign-controlled company or industry that it can be bossed around by that industry.

Pretty ridiculous how the most benign of terms all become slurs in the woke era.
I'm reposting a quote from our guy

"But even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me, I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this world to continue unjustly treating my fellow Americans so disrespectfully."

There are many, many heads in the US, experiencing the same sort of concerns that this guy did. With whom should we have conversations and how should those conversations go?
have you been on amtrak anywhere between from boston to D.C.? What a farce. It might make sense in theory, but in practice right now... no.
The fact that there is not an uproar over a few companies controlling the flow of information here is astounding to me.
www works best with Chromium-based browsers
It's disappointing to see a comment like this get downvoted, especially on HN. The comment appears to find a pretty obvious inconsistency: "why is weed not treated like booze?" and then proposes an obviously off-the-cuff explanation that should stimulate discussion "Perhaps it reduces productivity". I can only assume that is the reason it's being downvoted, because the former statement is extremely obvious - weed is treated dramatically differently than alcohol in many countries.

OK, if it's not "it reduces productivity", or even "it reduces productvity more than alcohol" then throw in your two cents about why, don't down vote someone looking for an answer and just spitballing possibilities.
ClamAV 0.103.2 Is Released with Security Fixes for Four Vulnerabilities
I don't have any prescriptions or chronic health issues. My HSA is another several thousand dollars per year of tax free retirement savings (I max out 401k contributions also). Sure, I can only ever use that $ on healthcare, but when I'm older I'm sure I'll use it.
I live in a rural place in the middle of the USA, but we have a large number of international travelers pass through. I am aware of several local cases that seem very COVID-like that predate January 2020. Two of these I knew about before anyone heard of the outbreak in Hubei. I remember discussing at the time how it was weird to hear of someone in their early 50s to be hospitalized with pneumonia from 'flu'. Anyway I wonder if you have heard any similar reports and your thoughts on the potential for much earlier transmission in the US.
Think 200 years. We will have it but not in our lifetimes.
> we want to move from AWS to GCP

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Though this is only one person's personal experience, to me this was an illuminating conversation on the state of medical device repair as a consequence of strong IP protections:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJG2ODOcXA
Appreciate the work done by the journalists to show these discrepancies to Google. They obviously fixed it as one would expect.

It is worth noting though that this discrepancy would have been much easier to spot by someone on the other side of the aisle. Maybe Google should put a small rotating committee of paid employees to audit these blocklists. It seems a small cost in exchange for avoiding way too much PR drama.
Related: poppy seeds are used in Indian cuisine [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_seed#Indian_cuisine
> Once the workers organize as a union, the company is forced to treat everything as a negotiation with the union instead of the employees

That’s literally the point of unions. To turn the employees into a monolithic block for the purposes of negotiation.
Even if autonomous cars drove full speed in heavy traffic, they are still terrible people movers. For large dense cities that are the economic engines of the modern world, you need public transit.
Are you against buying a license to unlock advanced software features as well, or do you have the same irrational belief that only products that include a HW component shouldn’t be allowed to charge for advanced features?

Would you prefer if companies made 2 separate pieces of silicon designs, one with virtualization support in HW and one without, even if it would reduce their ability to work on advancing the state of the art due to wasted engineering resources?

Or would you prefer that all features are enabled all the time, but with the consequence that prices are raised by, say, 10% for everyone, even though 99% of customers don’t give a damn about these extra features?
Companies Using Rust in Production
It seems to me like losing 70/30 is a sign that they picked the wrong battle.
Faction Paradox stole those days, obviously.[1]

[1]: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Eleven-Day_Empire
No-code publishing platform Shorthand raises $8M
It is a shame that Nvidia is not supporting nouveau more.
What do you think of my meeting scheduling tool?
Hi there!

My name is Ricky and I spent the last month or so building Schedulr, a tool that makes it easy for people to schedule meetings with you.

You sign in with Google (and eventually I’ll add support for outlook and iCloud) and Schedulr analyzes your calendar and finds free times that you’re available. You can direct anyone to your personalized calendar link and they can choose a time and schedule a meeting with you right then and there, without having to email back and forth to find a good time.

I’ve also added some features to make scheduling meetings even easier, such as allowing visitors to overlay their own calendars to see what times you’re both available, or the ability to email a link that’s personalized for them, directly to them.

My hope with Schedulr is to really take the hassle out of finding a good time to meet with others.

Best of all, the basic plan is completely free to use, forever.

I’m honestly just looking for some feedback, as I’m always trying to improve. You can find Schedulr at https://getschedulr.com. I’m also pretty active on Twitter, where I’m building Schedulr in public: https://twitter.com/rickyio7. Thanks!
I wonder how universal the rifts|compatibilities are between, e.g., teetotalers, users, abusers, and gradients in all directions.
All you'll hear from this place is that you "need to contact your representatives" or some nonsense.

We need to rethink society and part of that is dismantling most if not all IP law. Maybe some of you will understand when hundreds of thousands or millions of people in the developing world die needlessly because the vaccine isn't made free, even in cases where it was publicly funded.

"Hacker" News is the last place I'd go looking for real insight.
Is this only for Nvidia GPUs? If so, why not put it in the title?
Overcome the DevOps Talent Gap with Environments as a Service
Comcast and other ISPs who have crazy small data-caps and then bill the consumer 5 times over for used bandwidth and "overages" that might have MAYBE made sense 20 years ago.
I'm confused by this. ELI5?
Seaspiracy Harms More Than It Educates
Interesting..To me, quinoa tastes like cardboard pebbles, whereas something like foxtail millet tastes delicious in comparison. To each his own I guess. Point being, there may be significant number of people who find this new grain awesome.
I think that's probably why the chef mentioned here almost immediately tried fashioning it into flour and pasta, which I thought was quite clever.

Between boiled oats and rice, I would pick rice 10/10 times but if you fashion oats into a flour and make a bread from it, I find it much more agreeable.
We use Lambda@Edge so we can access Cloudfront’s true client IP value as well as geo data and pass it on to the origin
The different Easter dates are complicated and not necessarily the same question as Julian vs. Gregorian (though there is a connection). Churches might go either way on the two questions independently. For example, modern Greece is the exact opposite of what you describe for Appalachia: Greek Orthodoxy has adopted the Gregorian calendar, and celebrates Christmas on December 25 every year. But it uses a different ("Eastern Christian") method of calculating the date of Easter, which sometimes coincides with Western Easter, but sometimes can differ from the Western method by as much as 4-5 weeks. I don't fully understand it, but it has something to do with: secular calendars, lunar calendars, and how you compute the date for Passover.
> Heaviside is pre-Michelson-Morley

I just read the 1893 preface to his Electromagnetic theory vol 1 linked in another comment. It mentions the Michelson and other experiments and talks about how to accommodate them
(in now-unfamiliar terms I don't understand).
You can be sure that the Chinese have been very thorough at destroying any possible evidence of their potential incriminating evidence.
it's hard to take that criticism seriously when you choose to hang your hat on anarcho-capitalism, a system that isn't even coherent in theory, much less in practice (were it to be). democracy is literally about aligning the government to the will of the people. the US is a representative democracy, which is a compromise borne of the founders' uneasiness with direct democracy (partially because it would mean piercing the sovereignty of the states).
This is only a half-serious answer, but some kind of fungal aggregate that outputs calcium carbonate as a byproduct would be awesome.
Oh really? So no increase in crime in Europe with increasing unemployment? I doubt it.
Listening to Lofi Beats is useful for UI/UX engineers, but not for data scientists. One has to seriously think, so better stop the music.
I would not call it cynical. Rather naming things for what they are.
> Florida has a higher population density than France

to simply divide the total area by the total population is completely disingenuous and misses the point entirely. Areas of France where people actually live are obviously much denser than those in florida..
These aren’t your specific odds. Like you’re not 1:6 chance for dying of heart disease.. but across the entire population 1:6 people will die from it.
Hi, I address this idea in this comment over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26758597
Helps with Sjogrens. Stops destruction of organs. improves energy level.

Unfortunately it drastically increases cranial pressure, anxiety. Can’t hold down a job on it.

So slow body destruction it is.
fantastic. just have to make sure society still exists in 200 years and we'll be all set.
There isn't an uproar (except among right-wing activists) because these companies only control the flow of information on their own platforms, not across society at large. Literally every platform and publisher in human history not directly controlled by an authoritarian state has had the power to decide what they will and will not accept, and every site on the internet that accepts user submitted content does so under terms of service which likely allow them to be able to remove any content they want at any time for any reason.

And prior to the internet, fewer media companies than the number of streaming hosts and social media sites that currently exist had much greater control over the flow of information in general terms than Youtube does now.
Pretty strange world where losing 300mil to this lot is a net win to maintain the hostile patent environment against their competitors.

I guess it’s pretty similar to Apple acquiring the patents and then suing competitors.. but without all the ill will that directly suing companies off a weak base brings. Bit sad that it all rationally makes sense.
If 1 person rides a motorcycle and 10000 people drive cars, then the absolute risk of motorcycle accidents will of course be lower, but that doesn't mean they are lower for the person riding the motorcycle vs an average car driver.
> The number of times a site won’t work till I enable third party cookies shows the sad state of the web. Developers, do you only test in Chrome on Windows with default settings or something?

Well, Chrome is removing 3rd-party cookies by next year, and they are disabled by default in Safari already (well, sort of, ITP is weird). So many problems which used to happen to very few users are now being quickly prioritized. There are lots of use cases for third party cookies (example: you have a centralized management platform for lots of websites which have unique mapped domains, and you want to be authenticated against all of them at once), so it’s not surprising that critical features can be broken. It’s very much backwards incompatible.

But I agree, overall removing 3rd party cookies is great. Though, it’s important that whatever advertisers think of next isn’t just as bad.
The hemp that has been used historically in traditional cultures as a fiber and food source isn't the kind that can get you high.

But figuring out which kind is which is too hard for law enforcement, so it's easier to just ban it outright.
Fei Protocol Vulnerability Postmortem
US taxes their citizens or residents on their worldwide income.

If you spend enough time in USA, build business and then decide to move to less tax abusive and freedom restricting environment - you still will be owing a big chunk of your income to US government, every year, forever.
There are some miniscule deductions but they won't really work for 7 figure entrepreneurs.

And with the current administration mentality this situation is not going to get better.

Something to consider.
ACA plan costs go up pretty steeply with age, from what I've seen.
Ask HN: Any self-made software developers?
I graduated College 3 years ago, and am absolutely sick of being a developer in the work force.

I've thought about just going on my own, but I'm stumped on ideas.

Not enough people really downloads apps anymore, and I've started to dread app development (idk about entirely). It always feels like everything has already been done and I have no choice but to rejoin the work force.

Have any of you been able to develop profitable software on your own? And if so, what steps did you take?
Intercity passenger rail basically becomes important only when we properly tax airline fuel.

Intracity (or realy intra-metropolitan region) rail however is extremely important and we should do far more of it in all major cities, depopulating the surburbs except where they are made dense around stations. There are far more commutes than inter-city trips, and the increased density that this rails allows makes for further growth that cars could never achieve.

Do cut and cover subways for cost. The disruption also incentives hurrying up and getting the damn thing done.

Even your autonoumous buses are far less good than rail (though better than electric cars). The lack of grade separation means everything is sluggish and prune to delays. Streets are for public life, rails are for public transport.

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Honestly it's a shame Europe is so nativist, because with tons of immigration and alternative urban cores not stunted to preserve historical buildings (so lots more La Défense), they would easily whoop our asses with much better infrastructure foundation for prosperity.

Instead it's just Asia that's doing the big buildings and big trains among developed countries, but just having all the good growth in such a hot political situation doesn't seem to bode well...
My god, those "wayland folks" were the same people developing X. They were not some unrelated people pushing an agenda. It's always fascinating to see all the arm chair experts saying things how things ought to be done without ever having written a X extension or anything of that sort.