skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But again you can apply that argument do anything.

Are you worried about bathrooms? Must not be a climate emergency. Do you want to cook breakfast? Must not be a climate emergency. Do you have a light turned on? Must not be a climate emergency.

Really, you're just making an argument not to use the word "emergency" for this kind of geopolitical problem. Okay, whatever, sure.

But let's go back to the original argument, not your strawman tangent.

"We have some massive societal problems to deal with relating to wealth inequality, housing, and public health, but none of it seems to matter as a large segment of the population is convinced that, e.g. transgender people wanting to use the restroom that matches their presented gender is the largest ongoing attack on our collective well-being."

Being able to use a bathroom and not be harassed or have to defend your identity is on par with the rest of that list. The protection of rights is on par with massive societal issues.

Complaining about someone coming to pee is not on par with that.

Neither one is an "emergency" the way you're using it, but nobody was saying that.
All researchers should become entrepreneurs
It’s a long time since I used scala and none of this was ever a direct problem, but it was all extra complexity. I think there’s a split between people that appreciate sugar and people that find it not worth the additional complexity.

That problem does lessen with familiarity, but knowing a lot of complexity makes me wary of unknown complexities. It adds an overhead which takes energy that could be better utilised elsewhere.
Huh, this is weird!

The DNS record is no longer in the root zone itself (I think it used to be?) and some recursive resolvers seem to filter out the bare-TLD query or response. But the A record still exists inside the ai zone... so I'm not sure who is right, so to speak!
Global menubar is indeed a big part. The biggest issue with implementations of this feature on the Linux desktop is that support of it varies wildly between apps (which is where some of the mentioned modifications come into play).

There's also a huge pile of small features that go beyond the scope of a comment to list, which are either implemented inconsistently or not at all. For example, in GNOME and Pantheon, window minimization is disabled by default and even when enabled lacks integration with whatever dock you may be using.

GNOME generally is rather odd, even if it's one of the more polished options. It strikes me more as a somewhat-desktop-adapted iOS than it does macOS.
> I wonder in the discussions surrounding these sorts of things (Right to be Forgotten, etc) if the issue isn't that there should be a right to be forgotten but rather that culturally we should be far far more tolerant of people fucking up. It feels like the perception of how much the average member of society transgresses its rules is totally out of sync with reality, though this may be by design to create space for exploitation.

That's "perfect being the enemy of the good" logic. Your solution might be more ideal in some sense, but it's also not realistic to implement. It's not too much different than saying the real issue is that we have crime in the first place. After all, if we didn't have crime, we wouldn't have police nor mugshots being albatrosses for some people.
It seems to me that forcing the user to go through captcha is a big negative user experience.

Google must be docking points from websites that employ captcha then, right?
That's very weird!

How did you even find this?
Pretty much, and last tennant mix was about 20% EV, 80% ICE.
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-late...
It's here, but you'll need a PowerPC Mac, it won't work with m68k hardware.

https://www.maconlinux.net/
Rather than the instruction set, I assume he's referring to the lack of a standardised boot process, which wasn't addressed until recently. Lots of single board computers out there that don't have upstream Linux support due to badly made firmware, device trees, and other weirdness.
Editorialized title.
Taibbi had something to say about this situation.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...
Ferrofluid is was used in disk drive motors to seal bearing grease from wandering out so it has reasonable life span of greater than 5 years from my experience
The reasons to use HTTPS on a blog or everywhere regardless of whether there is data that needs to be secured are mainly to fight against things like censorship or ISP surveillance.

If you really don't think your website is going to be censored, that leaves the problem of ISPs injecting content. Maybe he doesn't feel that is a big problem, or that there is another way to fight it.

The big push for everything to be https is about making it hard for governments or ISPs to say that some site or another should be an exception.

It's kind of like, wearing masks.. before the policy was that everyone should wear a mask, best to keep it simple and not try to make exceptions that way we will get the most adoption.. except for sites like this, it's like you never actually talk, and have been vaccinated so you are not worried about catching anything and don't wear a mask.

The other part of this is that for people like me who have been serving http for so many years, the campaign for https just doesn't hit as hard as for young people who really grew up with that mindset being preached to them constantly.

But in the end, I think that it is better if everyone does it. Just maybe not quite as severe a problem as you think if a few people slip through the cracks.
Sometimes local mobs force you to pay them protection money. If you don't pay, they will take your property or even commit violence against you, exactly like the state. If you do pay, they will provide valuable services to you such as making sure you don't get robbed. Do you feel it would be reasonable to call this a "subscription fee"?
Show HN: A Windows 7 web desktop recreation
You may already be aware of the options, but fly.io can do it in a clean/simple way right from the command line. Google Cloud Run can do it if you‘re willing to wrangle the cloud console.
Battery packs, car dashboards, your shopping bags as well as gasoline is made from oil, but only one of those is above 1% of world green house gas emissions.

Creating graphene from gas instead of mining does seem cleaner, as methane can and probably will use green sources in the future.

For NG -> graphene conversion, I don't see a problem, unless you're using it to smelt aluminum. OTOH, if batteries displace fossil fuel use, that seems like a huge positive, even with moderate amounts of aluminum smelting.
No. The marketing of all that extra crap has gotten better.

It's just like Windows - just because 95% of the Internet does something one way doesn't mean it doesn't suck, isn't more complicated than it needs to be, and doesn't cost more than it needs to cost.

Anyone with a little bit of bandwidth and a Raspberry Pi can run a web server, even with dynamic content.
> I've never booted to a black screen when upgrading macOS.

I never had Linux physically damage my hardware after an update, MacOS sure did.
So you wrote a whole SSG SEO Svelte Framework for a guide for elderly people and released it as Elder.js? I love it :)
I agree. I think the font looks awful. It is almost painful to look at.

The rest I am mostly indifferent about which I think is usually the best I have to say about a rebranding.
I actually kinda wonder the same thing. It looks kinda tacky when Discord does it, and honestly the rest of Medium is so hard to use that it kinda strikes me as a little predatory. I guess that's the nature of the internet, though.
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I agree with the general premise that there's no reason to ever use gzip anymore (unless you're in an environment where you can't install stuff), but interestingly my experience with the tradeoffs is apparently not the same as yours. I tend to find that zstd and gzip give pretty similar compression ratios for the things I tend to work with, but that zstd is way faster, and that xz offers better compression ratios than either, but is slow. So like, my personal decision matrix is "if I really care about compression, use xz; if I want pretty good compression and great speed -- that is, if before I would have used gzip -- use zstd; and if I really want the fastest possible speed and can give up some compression, use lz4."
> A lot of what you suggested is kind of silly. Contagiousness is not the same thing as virulence or pathogenicity, and you can look at things like the common cold (contagious but mild) versus ebola (harder to transmit but severe) to disprove the proposition in your second paragraph.

This is actually related to the stuff I'm referring to in my cousin comment. Existence proofs are not evidence of certain behaviour. An analogous situation might be "If you see a car slow down approaching a pedestrian crossing with a Stop sign it is likely to stop". Most pedestrians will consider this statement true (as evinced by how they behave - placing themselves in range of bodily harm). However, many pedestrians know that at least one car has not behaved in this manner. Responding to someone who agrees with that statement with "Cars certainly do blow through stop signs even if they're slowing down. Here are some news articles of that happening" only marginally moves the evidence-o-meter.

Some things need empirical understanding. "Related counter-examples" do not set the likelihood of the statement to zero, but only downgrade it somewhat.

Personally, I've found my performance on COVID predictions pretty decent. My biggest failure was that I believed outdoor masking was necessary, and it currently looks like that is not the case.

We shall see if Long COVID is any sort of true long-term disease that is particularly unique or merely the identification of other symptoms that previously went untested simply because most illnesses go untested.

And of course I have no problem with anyone sounding small alarms on small studies. A sufficient number of independent such instances is how we identify common patterns. I, obviously, weight each individual such instance low but corroboration increases likelihood. Still, we'll see. Currently, my method of acquiring knowledge outperforms public CDC statements about the disease¹, so I'm at least better at this than they are.

¹ Assuming, perhaps naïvely, that they prioritize dissemination of truth over public health objectives that may temporarily be better met through carefully told untruths.
Polished Square deck for $100M Series C round in 2011
Kinda fair, but "duty to intervene" is heckin' vague. A nation can easily claim to have tried but failed. In any case, with all due respect to the Irish military I don't think they are quite up to invading any of the usual suspects when it comes to harboring extensive cyber operations.
On iOS, the location bar animates scrolling through the aaaaaas when you navigate to the site. Someone had to design that animation. Thank you, anonymous designer.
The CEO of Moderna has a rather obvious conflict of interest. If he overestimates future vaccine need, he can't be blamed for being 'cautious', but enjoys a potential stock boost anyway.
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Ask HN: What do you think of NFTs? Are they the Future or a fad
All this NFT Hype going around seem to be hitting numerous levels, According to google trends the search volume has been dipping.

Is this a cause of it reaching maximum exposure and stabling out or just a sign of a market crash?

Link to the google trend graph : <https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=NFT%20hunt>
Oh, I thought the ferrofluid was going to be the speaker. Like plasma speakers [1].

The helium plasma speaker was only good for high frequencies, and needed something else for the bass. Using a heavy liquid for bass might work.

[1] http://hillplasmatronics.com/
>weasel words like may and suspicion

On the other hand, do we want law enforcement to NOT use words like this, as though everyone they suspect of committing a crime is definitely guilty? I personally think it's preferable that they keep those "weasel words" in there until the whole "due process" thing has run it's course.
> The Grammy's nixed The Best New Female Raper.

That seem unsurprising lol. This is why proof reading is so important.
So, I know that this letter was apparently a draft and wasn't meant to be published, and the people involved have not made any decisions yet—I'm assuming this just means they wanted to sync up their resignations and someone accidentally messed up, and it's not like the content of the letter itself is wrong or untrue. So with that in mind I'm curious if anyone here knows more details about these things that are being alluded to:

> Sadly, some time ago, a holding company, Freenode Limited, was sold or transferred in some way to a third party by our previous head of staff

Apparently the third party is called Private Internet Access (PIA), according to other posts. Who's the previous head of staff, and how did they have the authority to sell Freenode Ltd.? How long ago did it happen? Was this ever announced or discussed among other staff, and are the exact details of the deal even known by anyone else?

Someone else also asked this, but, what are the "recent changes"? To what end is the third party company exerting control?

It feels to me like someone was at some point put in charge of Freenode, and then decided they could make a buck off of it. If that's the case then the "hostile takeover" already happened long ago the moment that person decided to sell it. But there are so many unanswered questions here that I can't be sure of anything. It's a totally vague and confusing letter, and it alludes to all sorts of troubling things without ever clearly stating exactly what they are.

Maybe in a little while all the drafts get published and we'll actually learn exactly what's going on. But then maybe there's something I'm missing, so if anyone knows please let me know.
Cloudfront, the aws cdn, is not equivalent to the part that's showing a captcha. Only when it would have hit your server do you see the captcha, because it's proxying it, not serving cached results.
An entry concept for example: https://www.warmmachine.org/map/NW7DngGQlRZz3eEA
I can see plenty of governments doing exactly that.

https://xkcd.com/538/
Ask HN: How well maintained is the documentation in your company?
Writing documentation is hard and we all know it's not really incentivized to do it besides knowing that it will save us and team members headaches later on or stop a system from falling over when some poor eng has to take it over months or years later. I also know every boss I've ever had wanted documentation, or at the very least paid lip service to the idea.

I've only worked at one company now where the documentation was meticulous and not half done or just not done at all and I'm curious is this normal for everyone else or have I just been in some minima where this stuff doesn't happen?
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You have this inverted. The bar isn't that legal behavior must be circumscribed by law, it is that illegal behavior is specified by law. Actions which are not prosecutable under the law are very specifically what you say they are not: legally meaningless.

> "no evidence was ever found to substantiate Trump or his associates or campaign ever working with Russians to interfere with the election"

Parse this again and again. What does this mean? Who would be "interfering?" In what? Is there a legal obligation to conceal factual information? Is there a legal obligation not to seek it? It's telling that they tried to proxy a value under campaign FINANCE violations, so desperate were they to find a crime.
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The grandparent, jgrahamc, you're responding to is the CTO of Cloudflare.

If this doesn't at-least meet your definition of "reach a human at Cloudflare", I'm not sure what will.
Like the flu. Or even Tetanus requires boosters. I don't know why that makes it a dealbreaker.
This is an associative study and thus can't really tell us anything about the causal impact of working from home.

A recent properly-conducted randomized controlled trial found that WFH improves productivity: https://www.nber.org/papers/w18871
Let me ask you this: If in scenario A the US (or EU) uses X billion dollars to lower pollution by tweaking an already high tech industry or in scenario B uses the same amount of money helping China getting their older technologies upgraded, which scenario do you think lowers the pollution the most?

If I could donate money and remove X amount of CO2 pollution from the US or X+10% from China with the same amount I would not care at all about national borders. Pollution doesn't. Nationalism does. Technology transfer for greener technology at a discount would help a lot more than trying to get some newer SUVs on the road in the States.

Btw. stating that China is "increasingly going in the opposite direction" is not fairly stating the situation. China is doing a lot better than most in many areas if you compare apples to apples. The main drive for the increase is the increase of people having access to something akin to what we have (smartphones, cars, etc). That a population being lifted out of poverty is polluting more than earlier isn't a surprise. They pollut more because they need more powerplants, more cars are on the road, etc. Not because the don't try to build efficient powerplants and don't try to tax old dirty cars.
This is nonsensical; if they're not following the law they will simply ... not publish the mugshots.

Besides, the police have no need to "disappear" people when they have guns and an almost impossible to challenge right to fire indiscriminately into dwellings (Breonna Taylor).
I'm actually a long-term contributor to Wikipedia (in my 14th year) and, as you can imagine, therefore a huge fan. However, Wikipedia does not attempt a synthesis of knowledge, preferring to be a repeater of what is publicly currently believed to be knowledge.

i.e. if CNN, the WSJ, and the NYT report X is Y, that will count a lot more about X being Y than X actually being Y.

Wikipedia is a wonderful resource and it definitely partly scratches this itch, and I appreciate your sharing it, but I am looking for something that occupies a slightly different space.
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Yes, they absolutely are. Hell just getting a few random bots scraping stuck in a loop or being overly aggressive on your site is enough to double your bill. So yeah it's 100% required.
Lots of companies haven't moved on.

In my company the default shell in the UNIX accounts is csh, and tcsh is recommended as a "nicer" csh. They do have bash if you want to use it, but they only "support" csh and tcsh. As a result, many important scripts by engineers are written in csh/tcsh. People who've never used bash. Very annoying, as for those who choose to use bash are often told they have to go into tcsh to get a given program to work, etc.
> Multi- and highres monitor support out of the box with proper scaling and readable fonts

My M1 mini has all kinds of issues with 2 4k monitors attached. Sometimes waking up from sleep, the monitor plugged into TB scales to default setting (200%?) instead my config (125%). And don't get me started on Ultra Wide support.
That's all wonderful, but what does it have to do with taking an annual covid vaccine? Does contracting covid or the flu somehow make me more free? Based on my experience with fevers, the hallucinations can be fun, but overall I don't think it's worth it. Even salvia is better.

One specific thing I do find freeing about the vaccines is that I don't really need to worry about being asymptomatically infected and passing the disease onto others who are more vulnerable. I guess I could simply say "fuck those people", as many have done, but I guess for me, responsibility is a counterpart to freedom.

FWIW, Stephen Ilardi appears to support vaccination, so you may want to dig a little deeper into his thoughts around them.
You know those completely useless files (.DS_Store, ._foo.bar, etc.) that you see whenever you expand an archive or clone a repository from a developer who uses a Mac? Finder drops those turds.
What is missing in Safari? According to the chart on this site Safari is stable:

https://www.webcomponents.org/
It feels like they tried to do Dropbox style and failed
I mean the fact that you can do funny stuff with the syntax rules and the type system doesn't disqualify their usefulness. Rust's type system is impressive as it enables enforcing powerful constraints over how the code is allowed to execute, eliminating whole classes of bugs, and enabling elegant, zero-cost abstraction over swathes of algorithms and data structures, which in turn lets you have high quality libraries that provide to-the-point solutions for so many of the common tasks that a developer will deal with day to day.

A more elegant language that solves the problems that Rust solves, with a production-ready implementation and a good ecosystem hasn't been presented to the world yet. It's to be expected that if you want to benefit from its advantages, you need to pay the cost of dealing with a more complex language. On the other hand paying the cost of being exposed to more concepts pays off by giving you more flexibility to craft simple solutions. Complexity of a project can vastly exceed that of the language the project is written it. In that case the cognitive cost of using more advanced tools to manage that complexity is a boon in the long run.

This is analogous to any kind of more sophisticated technology, e.g. you can argue that a scythe is easier to use than a harvester, but with a big enough field, if you have the option, you'll go for the latter.
This concept made my sleep deprived morning just a little better, so thanks.
The throttling in dev tools is meant to represent that latency...
Some companies still don't mind long domain names.

This one launched very recently: https://www.hardrockcasinonorthernindiana.com

Nearby, the Chicago Botanic Garden went short: https://ohwow.org
So I'm planning to start a blog for my project and decided I'm going to go with Medium.

The reasons are:

- allows custom domain, e.g. blog.site.com

- very little hassle to get up and running; created the account and set it all up including domain in maybe 10 minutes (most of that waiting for the cname to go through)

- mature product, easy to use, clean presentation

That said I was a bit thrown off by the UI for writing the article. It feels maybe a bit too minimalist?

What other options would you suggest?
I learnt C programming and a lot of stuff about UN*X systems from my Amiga 500 and later on a heavily expanded 1200, thanks to a wonderful "Geek Gadgets Version 2" project. I even ran GCC on my Amiga back then. After that, in 2001, I switched entirely to GNU/Linux (RH7) and I knew quite a lot about how to use it since day one, thanks to my wondeful Amiga computer and Geek Gadgets.
Developers sneering at other developers is relevant to a discussion about gatekeeping.
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Although I agree that this is the likely reason, it is a bit outdated. ARM made a standardized boot requirements document last year, it's now up to the SoCs to implement it.
Kubernetes was precipitated by the development of containers in the kernel while the industry was focused on virtual machines. The next iteration will be whatever foundational technology is introduced that requires more abstraction, usability, and distribution.