skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in small business IT, and I literally have to use IE11 on a weekly basis to interface with some shoddy something.

And it's not necessarily just old stuff, either- there are brand new NVRs and cameras going in today that require IE and some godforsaken ActiveX control to work. IE is going to be around for a long time.
Harper's and the Atlantic have been doing long-form journalism since the 1850s. I think the form clashes with modern attention spans and ability to focus, but I still enjoy it. Since it persists, I don't think I'm alone.

Recipe web sites, however... padding, padding and more. Though Dickens was paid by the word, too, and it shows.
I'm trying to understand this. The part where you were saying that you were underpaid and being paid a pittance of what you were worth, that was making $150k in 2002? My understanding is that this is a strong mid-high salary for an engineer even today 19 years of inflation later. Could you clarify what you mean by all of this?
TikTok's co-founder to step down as chief executive
Too bad its all sold out. I like the idea.
Still have the 1st edition! Great book
Evolution is painfully slow. Humans from 1000s of year ago are not very different from us, even in their intelligence. I believe the only trait that has changed recently is height, and there are explanations for it.
You will do as your MUM says. Mum knows best. Yyou will eat the bugs and you will like it.
Delete this sociopathic fintech app. #BoycottVenmo
The big thing I miss in IRC is that I can't just open my IRC client, connect to a channel, type a few messages, close the client again, do other stuff, come back a few hours (or even days) later, and see if there are any replies to it.

I know about IRC bouncers and all that, but I don't want to set up a server just for that, and managing them is a pain as well. I know about IRCCloud too, but I don't use chat often enough to justify $5/month (I'm poor, and I just want to chat occasionally).

I don't care much for Slack for many reasons, but at least I can actually use it. I find IRC to be functionally unusable because of this.

From a quick glance, it looks IRCv3 solves this with the chathistory extension/specification.[1] But AFAIK most (no?) servers implement this (yet) and the specification isn't finished either.

https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory
Of which the only one left is Windows, where you probably have a completely different event loop anyway. The Windows select by the way does not have the limitations on the file descriptor that the article talks about, because Windows file descriptors are not small consecutive integers.
It's good. They've got representatives of all the major array language communities among the hosts (APL, J, K/Q) plus a C++ guy.
Email supports instant notifications, via your provider’s app or IMAP IDLE. I use Fastmail and get push notifications for email the instant it is received.
We have also Newsletter feeds, Twitter feeds, Reddit feeds and soon page2RSS for those who want more sources :)
In so cal there's a rather terrible chain of grocery stores called Stater Brothers. Like (nearly?) all grocery stores they have two entrances-- one that drops you into alcohol section, the other in the dairy.

Theft of alcohol has become such a problem that they've started remodeling stores to remove the entrance directly in front of the alcohol. Meaning, if you now wish to steal alcohol, you have to enter from the opposite side of the building and walk behind or in front of 10 cashiers.

I've witnessed many alcohol thefts in my day. The staff isn't authorized to stop the people (nor should they frankly), and the official position of the police department in my area is they do not respond to calls for anything less than an assault.
I also appreciate how the microcontrollers are not on the bottom, and clearly visible. It's pretty and it probably makes for a flatter keyboard.

There's a logo on there. I wonder if it's a sticker, or a custom package or something.
Yes, you can learn more about filtering out / mute filters here https://blog.feedly.com/leo-and-mute-filters/
The point is if I turned on instant notifications I would go insane because they would never stop. I receive lots of emails and a lot of them are not very important or at least not urgent. While every IM I receive is something I at least want to glance at now.
Look up “camelcamelcamel”, for instance. I used to get RSS feeds from sites like that.
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Obviously individual differenes matter, but OPs ability has a lot to do with practise. If you work a lot with 3D objects you will get better at imagining them in your mind.
This article is different from a great long Harper’s or Atlantic piece. I’m not good enough of a writer to know what needs to be fixed with this one but definitely something is “off” about its pacing.
Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck
He sure acts like donations of servers grants him some sort of ownership.

What about all the other server donors? Have we heard anything from them?
Urban air taxis will be a reality ‘within 3 to 5 years’, EU regulator says
Thanks. I was aware of the hiring system but not the assignment. So basically non core jobs are assigned not by degree, good to know. (I just assume core jobs are, like Tepco hopefully uses EE for power generator and nuclear engineer for the nuclear plants)
Movfuscating works from source code, not compiled binary.
Shouldn't they also check to see how frequently humans crop pictures to favor whites versus blacks, male versus female, and whether or not humans exhibit "male gaze" in their cropping decisions?

Going by the numbers they report all of the biases seemed relatively small. Slight favor for women over men and white over black and no evidence of male gaze - but single digit percentages in each case. I wouldn't be surprised if humans were more biased than machines given the results I saw.
genetic evolution sure but memetic evolution is a whole new beast
As of now, I find `earlyoom` is better choice than `nohang` for three reasons:

1. It comes preconfigured: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factor...

2. Packaging adoption: https://repology.org/project/earlyoom https://repology.org/project/nohang

3. Written in C and unburdened with tangential features like desktop notifications, the daemon's process takes very little amount of memory.
For rare occassions where a numpad is desired you could use a dedicated one. There is even an IPv6 calculator numpad. Which also works great for MAC addresses. There is no reason why you cannot have specific keybinds or maps for such a purpose though, except muscle memory / learning curve.
So, RSS?
I am a little rusty on this but rotations around the z axis on a Bloch sphere can be implemented by either detuning the qubit frequency with respect to the drive field(real z gate) or as a composition of X and Y gates when introducing a phase offset in the field with respect to those gates(virtual z), which is why it takes no time since it's implicitly part of the other operations.
You’re talking to a user with a history of bizarre overreaction — you may not know that. Check the post history.
I think there are too many half baked options on AWS. This seems to have a lot of overlap with elastic beanstalk, amplify, copilot, and lightsail at least.
Good news for you :

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Storing data has low cost versus continuous computing. This is what makes Chia mining have less external impact. Unused storage space can be used to make a little bit of money.

If the "useful" data you're talking about has nobody willing to pay for its storage, is it really that useful? That's where the economical argument is with Chia: rewards are already low, and will get lower with time. So if some data has any kind of value, then there's no incentive to mine Chia instead of storing this data. Just store the SciHub library and rake in donations.

Hetzner decided there's more value in reserving their hardware for other usages. If the incentive to mine starts getting very big, then they can just mine themselves. From a blockchain-security PoV this is the same as customers-managed mining. Crypto mining incentive mechanisms are working as intended here, so as a cryptocurrency enthusiast I don't consider this development negative.

It's easy to look at something new, the use of it you don't understand, and instantly conclude it's stupid. "Why make data use up x10 more space by encrypting it? You should just store it in a secure location to begin with! Disk encryption is a scam!". "Why waste resources to secure some distributed ledger when you could just use Visa and Mastercard? Cryptocurrencies are a scam!"
I think most people in the culinary space spend a lot of time tasting imaginary dishes. Running experimental flavours before trying to make it.

The caveat is that you probably should have a certain level of experience and mastery to make full use of this ability.
> DA Boudin has made it clear that such "minor" crimes won't be prosecuted.

To the extent that may be true that’s DA Boudin, not Prop 47.
Is this the same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27210819
Ask HN: Blockchain; What Is Happening??
I'm curious and interested in cryptocurrency. I've watched the technology grow for the last 10+ years and I can definitely say that there's something powerful to the idea of truly immutable (except if the planet explodes or something).

With ~$10^12 market cap, it simply hasn't affected my life in any tangible way (other than being another form of gambling).

Let's take ETH as an example. The currency can be used in 2 ways; to transact, or to pay for network features. Both have more and in many respects superior alternatives.

I feel like no one knows what makes this stuff so great. So far, what I see is what is on the surface:

- immutable ledger; check, but at what cost?

- global computer; check, but at what cost?

I don't see a world-changing technology. I see a technology who's purity is at odds with practicality. I see a piece of technology that is only useful if enough participants agree and there is sufficient diversity among them.

What do you see?
Show HN: New Tailwind CSS blocks on Wickedblocks ( is 100%%20free) a total of 72
Have you actually tried Google customer support? I had more success out of staring at a banana for half an hour and waiting for an epiphany than paid GSuite support.
IE Mode in edge should keep you living in the dark ages for years to come :)
> And then what about (...)

If seems you've missed the whole point of suggesting the use of Either/Result monads. It's entirely irrelevant if you have legacy code that does not support returning error codes a certain way. The whole point of Either/Result monads , specially regarding exceptions, is that they provide a clean way to handle errors (and not exceptions) in the normal code path by explicitly making them a part of a function's codomain, and without relying on magic bubbling up.

And no, Either/Result monads are only designed to handle expected results, not exceptional behavior. Perhaps your main source of confusion is conflating exceptions with an error condition. In that case, think of Either/Result monads as "I made a HTTP request and the response was a 200 or a 500 status, thus the code path follows accordingly" and exceptions as "I made a HTTP request and I got an OutOfMemoryException".
bring Google Reader back, cowards!
This is from summer 2020 and well known
.NET Blog: Conversation about PGO
I just looked into this following someone else recommending Either and my knee jerk reaction is the same as yours.

The nice thing about exceptions is that you get to take a large block of code and treat it as a whole fail-able unit. In terms of a control flow structure, being able to raise deep and goto nearer the top of the stack removes large amounts of boilerplate code, which, in my experience, makes the code more readable.

I use exceptions sparingly and deliberately. And when used like that, I find them to be a helpful feature that improves the codebase.
Interesting suggestion. No disrespect intended for Dr. Curry but is an 'expert' required (and of what kind?) to merely repeat the implications of the Wells story of the Time Machine from 1895? No additional evidence is adduced.

It remains to be seen how prophetic H.G Wells' story of the 'Island of Dr. Moreau' turns out to be.
There's pyinfra (https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra) if you like Python (disclaimer: I started the project), heavily inspired by Ansible just without the yaml/jinja2 hybrid stuff.
It’s funny Google Search still does good at what they were intended for, searching intelligence by keyword to gain understanding.

Google neither care to confirm or deny but the origin of Google Search is reportedly some CIA/NSA internal program. Imagine there’s a ton of random Soviet documents, and you wanted to know what the codename chikensandwich in Slicebread division might refer to, or which document is referred to the most from other documents regarding the topic. Don’t you think, Google Search as you remember it does exactly that.

And this conspiracy theory explains why Search, Maps and Mail and very few other products built by such a laid back disorganized organization work so well and only those work well, that it’s because those are technology dump from NSA and Google is just an elaborate museum shop allowed to capitalize on their heritage.

1: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
You're aware that Westinghouse quote is probably correct, right? Both then and now. Though it's application to an exceptional individual is silly.
Funny how they even quote it as "may be", but then it's "will be" in the headline.
Does this apply to out of country calls from call centers and online services that provide number blocks that are commonly for cell phones?
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I 100% agree that moderation could be lightyears better.

However i see this as being a bit like the BBC problem: beleiving there is such a thing as being objective, there just isnt.

You can have a group of likeminded people who mostly agree and need a bit of moderation for when someones external bad day leaks into their interactions on the plaform. However if there is an underlying fundamental difference of opinion or goals then the moderators become just another weapon.

We need leaders not moderators. Moderators in difference of opinion just end up punishing the weak one way or another. Leaders show by example what we can aspire to, which in turn guides moderators in how to apply the rules.

If you have global platforms who are the leaders? What direction should they lead that works for china and the US?
I would argue that, regardless of punishment, reclassifying serious crimes as misdemeanors sets a tone that encourages further law breaking.

It's the "broken window" theory. Ignore minor crimes and you just create an environment that encourages more serious crimes.
Tesla always seems to be described as eccentric but his autobiography doesn't read that way at all. If there was one person in history i could sit down and have a beer with it'd be him. I wonder what other inventions/ ideas he discovered and toyed around with whose time has come, but where obscure during his lifetime.
That was an extremely satisfying video to watch. Thanks for that!
> Physical appearance, driven by indicators of health, youth and fertility, will improve, he says, while men will exhibit symmetrical facial features, look athletic, and have squarer jaws, deeper voices and bigger penises.

> Women, on the other hand, will develop lighter, smooth, hairless skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, and even features, he adds. Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people.

Nice.
UK Rail services to come under unified state control
> It's surprising that human society has survived, given that half the population was artificially excluded from many intellectual pursuits

A lot more than half were (and still are), by economic circumstance.
They can be hard to tell apart. Evil people often operate through stupid people because it's relatively easy to lie to, confuse, and manipulate stupid people. And/or intelligent people with stupid beliefs. (Which applies to virtually everyone.)

From the outside, the UI of evil often looks like stupidity.
It's really debatable whether poll() is more complex than select(), for example select() requires you to rebuild from scratch the fdsets for every call.
Im fairly confident it’s because he owns theDonald.win (the community migrated to patriots.win).
What a load of nonsense. Imagine thinking you are able to predict this kind of bunk. Straight out of a Monty Python skit.
I honestly don't see a need for that anymore. Go use an alternative by people that care long-term instead of wishing for Google to get back in it temporarily.
Is there any methodology whatsoever for these conclusions? It sounds like some kind of baseless speculation.
FemtoStar Project lead here, it's really neither an IoT system nor a Starlink competitor, though it could do either. See our FAQ page's item on Starlink and how it's an interesting but indirect comparison.

FemtoStar is perfectly usable as a traditional satellite communications system, but we're specifically interested serving a group of people who have not previously been satcom customers - that is, users more focused on FOSS and privacy, who, we hope, might see FemtoStar more as an improvement on the privacy concerns and proprietary software of terrestrial and satellite networks alike than as a spec-for-spec competitor with other FSS or MSS options.
IMO it’s because he’s the owner of theDonald.win (community migrated to patriots.win).

My bet is his voice triggered the system.
You will never get these laws because they do not benefit the big corporate and state actors. These people need to learn to not depend on a single point of failure and to avoid companies which are known offenders like Paypal for example.
From your sources [1]:

> COO, Scott Gelb [...], as a comedy bit, [...] has repeatedly touched subordinates’ balls or butt or farted in their faces. [...] his punishment—two months of unpaid leave and training. [1]

From OP's interview with CTO Mike Seavers:

> Every time we sat down to go through the past quarter and plan the next one at Riot Games, we came up with a leadership theme for the quarter. For example, we weren’t going to make decisions for others for a month. This put all of us on the same page, and we got everyone to think about it and talk about it. When my direct report came to me asking, “Can I do this thing?” It was easy for me to say, “I’m not going to answer that question. You know the theme of the quarter, so you need to at least think it through before I give you an opinion.”

At least they are consistent.

[1] https://kotaku.com/top-riot-executive-suspended-without-pay-...
"But you are the regulator. I mean, you created these regulations that failed."
> France gets something like 75% of its energy from nuclear.

That's not quite correct. We do get 75% of our electricity from nuclear, but electricity is only ~25% of the energy consumed in France.

So in practice about 18% of our energy comes from nuclear, and way over 75% of it from fossil fuels.
In a word: Hetzner. Dedicated servers scattered across data centers, sufficiently numerous to make IPAM too painful to manually tie them together with wireguard. It's possible that some sort of overlay network or VPN could be made to work, but I could also just expose port 22 with only public key auth enabled, use ansible, and be done.
I missed getting into Pokemon by a couple years, since it wasn't out until 1998. I was already playing MTG and Star Wars: CCG for a while by then, and didn't continue playing after ~2000. I similarly expected SW:CCG cards to grow in value more than MTG, especially with the prequels - but I think the production runs were significantly greater from the beginning and people had a long association with Star Wars figurines/toys/cards as collectibles being valuable before that. One interesting thing for SW:CCG is that the newer print runs can often now be more valuable than the older ones for SW:CCG, since each run saw fewer cards printed as the popularity dwindled.

Before the prequels, it was relatively easy to meet many of the Star Wars actors. I met Peter Mayhew and had him sign my Star Wars: CCG Chewbacca card at a comic convention. A lot of people seem to comment on what a nice person he was to meet, and I completely agree. David Prowse was less obviously likeable, but was also interesting to meet.
It is a good data point.

Ganeshkrishnan said he didn't know any family in India that didn't have a death among their relatives. He didn't say such families didn't exist, just that he didn't know any. It is valuable to provide information that such families do exist.
Indeed. Texas only needs to look to California to see how effective regulation can be.
Pizza I'm not sure but a bag of tulip bulbs was bought for 10,000:

https://github.com/skepticoin/explorer/blob/master/b0099d84d...
Did I or have I done that? I have no political skin in the game here
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What do you mean? Skepticoin is the future of cryptocurrency!
0 Skepticoin = 0 bitcoin!
> Set browser.quitShortcut.disabled in about:config

That's awesome, just did this. But apparently you need to restart Firefox in order to apply the change. (Learned it the hard way)
Let's say your company decides to use AI to assist in hiring. It turns out the algorithm used is biased when it comes to candidates' race. If there is a disparate impact[1] on protected classes in hiring that's unrelated to job performance, intentions don't matter in the eyes of labor law, what matters are the effects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
Edit: to be clear if you cannot afford enough moderators to stop child abuse or murder videos being posted then shut your platform down as its not viable. I am more tlaking about how moderation gets weaponised etc.
SSH can be quicker, I believe ansibles use of SSH processes is more the issue. An old but still relevant benchmark exists in my pyinfra project which uses SSH (amongst other protocols) but a Python implementation, and its significantly quicker and more scalable than ansible: http://docs.pyinfra.com/en/1.x/performance.html
When using a tool like Sentry, you might want to logger.exception(e) instead of a string error message, that way the whole stack trace with helpful debugging information (local variables...) is included in Sentry.
I'm impressed that this old version of the page is still up, perhaps implying that at some point they switched CMSes, but left the old one or an archive of it up instead of migrating everything. I actually appreciate this since it preserves the original context of the page and makes it feel historical.
The problem is that the guy doesn't own freenode. No single person owned freenode outright at the time it was ostensibly "sold" to him.

Of course this isn't stopping him essentially staging a coup by ejecting the original volunteer staff and replacing them with a staff of his choosing.

Freenode is a community project that is in the process of being co-opted by a shady organisation.
I think I've been wasting too much time on the net. I remember this silly article from last time... It was probably on digg.com.
I dont use a mouse nor trackpad. Sounds like a great keyboard for me :-)
Children really shouldn't be driving in the first place.
I want to try a good one-handed chorded keyboard for everyday use, is there any product like that? Couldn't find anything
Okay, fine; call it RSS 3.0
Yes, there was an empirical study done some time back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine#Plot
From a passenger standpoint, if drivers will lose ability to cherry pick passengers and deny rides under lame excuses - I'd only appreciate that.

In pre-covid times armenian Uber mafia in LA airport was notorious for that. Pretty sure not only there.