skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct.

But what is the point of even discussing this? I'm not actually allowed to disagree am I? I must agree with the groupthink.

I'm at -1 so what is the point of further discussion?

I didn't post anything inappropriate - I simply disagreed. This isn't a place to meet interesting minds. Its an echo chamber.

Now I know.
Sure, you can be against anything, pro anything, and believe in anything. What I believe is what I wrote, you can believe governments should control plutonium if you want.
Reverse proxying non-http protocols and preserving the client ip back to the backing service involves a terrible hack called Proxy Protocol that IIRC haproxy invented to work around the fact that TCP-directly protocols don't normally allow you to carry metadata (like HTTP does in headers).

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy/proxy-protocol/

It's messy. The tooling around TLS and reverse proxying for HTTP is much more common and easy.
> If I log into YouTube, that requires me to be logged into Google everywhere and I do not want that at all.

You can use Firefox Containers to sandbox Google logins.

Alternatively, you can use a different browser when accessing Google-owned websites.
I think this so called "exodus" is temporary.
Young people will come back to SF, it's the only city in the larger Bay Area which has culture and vibrancy. San Jose downtown area has plenty of potential, and it was seeing a renaissance pre-covid - google buying a lot of land and looking to expand is a good sign.
I miss the SF of the early 2000s, where there was a bohemian quirkiness. Unless prices come crashing down it's highly likely any artist could sustain himself.
There are reports of Lee, or one of his contacts, offering admin roles for money basically to allow for paid harassment. Whether that is true or not isn't clear to me, but that would be a big issue if true.
It's just a defense program with a very very long timeline.
If you want to have a look at the open-source GitHub project, here's the link: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte
When something that isn’t final or certain reaches the FP (such as rumors, predictions, or leaked drafts), the mods will often quash the post for being such, even when for example it’s an Apple rumors post with hundreds of comments. I’ve seen occasional exceptions to this, primarily when it’s lawmaking or RFC-type work, as those drafts are quite often newsworthy. A leaked FYIQ draft from an IRC admin wouldn’t have registered to me as newsworthy, not until it was published, so I would have made the same decision the mods did.
Trust in Mr Schumpeter :-)
This recent article appeared on YC, it expands on the sleepwalking folly of digital ids and passwords.

https://www.aclu.org/report/identity-crisis-what-digital-dri...
Here's an example that still works: https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528?s=20
It's "temporarily being not good at math", which is the point.
Paywalled.

Do they run commercials like "Apple pie and Chevrolet"? Fly the flag in front of headquarters?
I've never seen that in the wild.
I'm not holding my breath. The Linux Standard Base is 20 years old now. That was supposed to get us there. If Canonical and Red Hat cared, they'd probably go through the Linux Foundation instead of creating competitors to AppImage. Speaking of, AppImage is from 2004. So... see you guys in 20 more years.
While I imagine there are a lot of detractors here, I like universal basic income. We could try to slice it and have a system to pick and choose who gets it, but as we've seen, the waste that goes into the bureaucracy when it's not just "give everyone a check".
Would it be hard to transition from that type of role back into a more product-engineering type position? Do you perceive there as being any stigma of engineering-adjacent roles?
100% agreed, and I shared the above only partly to provide an answer, but mostly to flag some major caveats.

Another great example: "The U.S. incarceration rate is 693 per 100,000 residents —compared to 76 per 100,000 in Germany, and 69 per 100,000 in the Netherlands."

There is some real academic research on the topic, but as far as international comparison goes, it's not a solved issue. For example, this paper basically concludes that countries should update their reporting:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/
Has anyone ever tried a "glove" keyboard?

It seems feasible, and it could be beneficial by giving more flexibility for your arms, wrist, and hands position (I imagine myself typing with my arms resting in chair arms or my thighs). Also, it would be great for VR, I would assume.
I heard the man like fat tails
He‘s a washed up former Wall Streeter who failed at getting rich through smart trading, and realised it‘s far easier to get rich by cosplaying a smart trader/philosopher on the Ted Talk circuit and to sell pop-Finance books to gullible laymen instead.
What's a BIG selloff? -90% in 2018 wasn't it?
Undoubtedly. But my guess is that the threshold for blacklisting stale addresses would be noticeably lower than the threshold for any blacklisting based on, well, "governance".

You could even conjure up an argument based on block chain "balance of hashrate" security, which I presume is the best type of argument with that audience: "what if, after mining rewards have run out, everybody is just doing value store? No transaction fees for those selfless miners! (will they still be called miners?) One by one they will close their datacenters, difficulty goes down and suddenly the gates are wide open for 51%. Quick! Introduce mandatory keepalive ping transactions or we are doomed!"

Not that I expect this to happen, but I find these musings far more entertaining than the ups and downs of the market.
It's interesting how the conversation in so many of these threads go from.

Art ownership -> Property ownership -> Digital assets

Only because blockchains somehow work for digital assets, doesn't mean they work for real world assets. In fact the whole blog is specifically about blockchain use cases beyond digital assets (See the initial post: https://schlockchain.substack.com/p/the-statement)
The simple version (the longer version takes more time than I have to write today)....

If 3rd party cookies are blocked, then it's hard for Google to know what people are looking at, and also hard to sell ads at the highest rates.

However, if you connect an RSS feed into a user's google account via a browser button, then you now have access to all the things a user likes (by virtue of the fact that the user has clicked the follow me button, thereby signaling, "hey, I'm interested in this!").

I have no idea how this gets implemented for Google, but if there isn't some tie in to their advertising revenue, I'd be surprised.
It's also why the nimble newcomer can often disrupt and slay the giant incumbent. It's a lot easier to create high-performance environments when you have teams small enough for all members to know each other personally than when you have hordes of people and have to use lowest-common-denominator bureaucracy to manage them in bulk.
And yet when I see a site that asks you to use Chrome I know that the true spirit of IE lives on.
Either defcon or blackhat had as their keynote speaker the head of the NSA. Wtf.

Try that at the CCC conference . Never going to happen.
FL is Florida, so Corvus brachyrhynchos? Someone should do a scientific study of the sense of humour of different Corvus species. It might be worth an Ig Nobel Prize.
How does SF have so many neighborhoods when it's so small, anyway? You can walk across the city and back in a day.
I am actually more surprised that 40% decided not to downsize given the WFH model that is popular now
Possession of stolen good is equally punishable as theft..
That may be true. Maybe instead we could have a menu like

- Copy

- Paste

- No, really, paste the darn text
So what was the integer? 42?
I was an XMonad user during the time that Arch switched from statically linked Haskell packages to dynamically linked and oh my god was that a nightmare. Other than that I’ve had far, far fewer issues with Arch than any other distro I’ve used.
> if you can't do what you want when you rent, and can't do what you when you buy, where does this leave other user freedom initiatives?

Right where they were, given the rather significant difference between owning and renting.
Canada is becoming a police state. Government decides what you watch. Government tells you if you can visit another country. Government tells you how many years you must wait for elective surgery.
This is something that really bothers me - all those billions of dollars of tech money and you cannot find a way to house and support artists. New York billionaires have always found a way to support artistic endeavors. Case in point - Bloomberg, he personally donated a lot.
Relevant on the front page of HN:
https://sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus/
I still don't get it. Sure art work is artificially priced. But if I buy a Picasso original, I can hang it on the wall, show it to my friends, look at it closely, burn it, even. Yes, "bragging rights" might be part of it, but I own something physical and (probably) scarce or unique. What do I actually get when I buy an NFT?
The idea with these keyboards is that very small movements and amounts of force is needed. The angle of that up key does look a little awkward though. On the Datahand those keys are more or less parallel with the finger itself so they only require a tiny flick.

When I first started typing on the Datahand the most difficult part was getting used to the small movements, I kept hitting the keys by accident. But once you get used to it it's not a problem at all.
I think we are confusing the casual term disabled with the legal term disabled. Of course employers should work with legal disabilities. We are talking completely about "functionally disabled" such as your arm being temporarily occupied, or you having a foggy brain and can't to math that day.
This won't have much effect, since xterm is an DEC VT emulator.
> but I want to talk about how insidiously evil it is that NFTs can be coded to send the original creator a percentage $ cut off of every subsequent transaction for all time

This is not accurate.
The side with the resources to pay the lawyers, apparently.
I gave you an upvote on a charitable interpretation, because I think it’s actually a humbling observation: how much money some motivated individuals are willing to spend on objects with no bona fide “value”.

That is, things that are not edible (food) and do not produce something edible (fire, farming tools, soil), that do not shield you from the elements or help produce such goods that do.

We all possess things that are basically irrational to possess. Many even pay for the opportunity to possess and protect things with no boba fide value.

For me, it’s books and records, in spite of easy access to the library and the internet. For others, it’s clothes, exotic food ingredients, streaming services/TV, season passes, and Pokémon cards.

I used to think like this, judging people by their value functions. But as I’ve gotten older, I increasingly find it unfair to knock people for the irrational things they choose to possess, as long as it brings no unreasonable harm to others (i.e. it’s OK to shame the person who invests their life savings in Pokémon cards, using it as a vehicle for speculation, but I still think it’s wrong to say they have no life).
It's really hard for somebody to know what's going to appeal. Maybe "planning on building a hovercraft" looks great to you; maybe it looks like somebody padding their resume. Maybe "had a really cool email thread" catches your eye; maybe it looks like an irrelevant detail.

A resume page isn't very long, especially presented as bullet points as expected. And especially when you have absolutely no idea who it is will be reading it. I can tell you great stories about every project I've ever done, but not in a bullet point.

I have no doubt that most resumes are incredibly bad. But I'd venture to say that a substantial fraction of the resumes you think are very good will be considered very bad by the next hiring manager over.
Note most of them aren't homeless because they did drugs, they're doing drugs because they're homeless because they lost their homes. Ain't nothing else to do.
One fast move or I'm Gone
Jack Kerouac wrote the title of this submit in BigSur referring to the feeling of being stuck and slowly fading but having one last chance at revindication.

Kerouac summarizes my thoughts, what should I do?
I've been debating over this question for months now, the pandemic really took my patience away and I've decided to break into a tech career and develop my skills.

I've been checking MIT Xpro's Full stack coding bootcamp and the University of London CS online degree. I want to combine what I learn with my law background and I really want to be at the front of an exciting, fast moving industry with opportunities around the globe.

Right now Im 19 y/o studying law in Mexico and I get the feeling that if I don't make a quick move, I'll be gone for good. My school is not challenging, the money is short (but I can work my way around that), the need to strive for the forefront of this industry is great but the HOW is very difficult to land. btw BigSur is a great F'ing book you should prolly read it

(maybe I also need a psychiatrist idk)
Talk to Frontier's DSL customers. This is _not_ what other ISPs are doing.

With Frontier, you're not talking "I pay for 100Mbps and sometimes I only get 80Mbps.".

You're talking "I pay for 5Mbps and I've never seen 5Mbps. The best speed I've ever recorded was 1Mbps, and my connection regularly fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.3 Mbps even during off-peak."

This is a cop accepting that people will do 70mph on a 60mph road, but not 120mph.
Everything Is Social
I see that you didn't get the memo. If an algorithm or a mathematical definition is made by a white man, it's by definition racist and sexist because it was made by a white man. Entropy was defined by Claude Shannon who was a white man, so entropy is racist and sexist, because it absorbed all of Shannon's biases.
I think there are other ways to solve some of these problems of virtual ownership in walled gardens, federation, etc. but they're all forms of PR/diplomacy (relations and protocols between virtual worlds, between creators and platforms, and platforms and customers)

Pretending like a technical solution requiring no central authority is the way forward will never fly because no walled-garden owner will adopt such a scheme that cedes so much control; that doesn't let them enforce tariffs, community restrictions, bans, etc. on its own customer base.

It's the digital world and tools it comes with, and a creative player base, that draws people to the walled garden. Not technical capabilities or experiments in federation or an ICO. That's all promises with no substance. People get attracted and want to experience ... stuff. Stuff they can play with and tweak and build. But it can't be all up to them, there has to be something already there to experience and as a point of reference.

I.e. ... Little Big Planet. It's why it was successful. Powerful creative tool and community technology, but it's also an engaging all-ages experience made in said tools.
All the great eras of any city were gritty. You can't have that with a generation of SodaSopans.
In like '00 I got painful carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms after working intensely as a full-time developer for 3-4 years.

The solution was: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro (Photo: http://xahlee.info/kbd/Microsoft_natural_keyboard.html) plus a fantastic heavy-duty "telescopic" keyboard/mouse tray that Ikea designed and sold for a few years.. You screwed it into the bottom of the desktop. The key was allowing the keyboard to be angled slightly away from the body, while also allowing it to be as close to the legs/knees as possible - thereby minimizing the wrist angle.

Is anyone aware of any modern replacements for the above? DIY/mechanical? (Mostly the keyboard itself - would love a mechanical keyboard witht the same 3d layout.)
How is entropy defined in this context?

Clearly there is human-derived input in the system (otherwise... What's the point just crop randomly)
well, maybe my previous team would have finished their migration of IE by then
>If crypto mining on their systems becomes profitable for us, why would they continue renting out their servers? Instead, they could cease their operations and become full-time miners themselves.

Long term vs. short term thinking. It's more beneficial for them to maintain long term customers than mine a volatile cryptocurrency in the short term.
I think it'd be more productive if you engaged with the substance of what I wrote, rather than engaging in whataboutism with USD/Euro/etc. I'll try and do that here with what you wrote.

> What can I get for my rapidly depreciating Turkish Lira nobody wants to take?

A couple of things about this:

- You can get Dollars/Euros/GBP/RMB.

- Crypto cannot solve the "so you're born in an oppressive or poorly-run state" problem. You've gotta trade the currency you have for crypto, and if that currency isn't good, crypto doesn't help you at all.

- There's really no examples of crypto helping people in oppressive or poorly-run states (Venezuela still has horrendous problems, for example).

- The transaction fees are bad enough in USD, but valued in (say) Bolivars they're prohibitive.

- In particular, Bitcoin is super bad for the planet, and people in oppressive or poorly run states are disproportionately susceptible to ecological disasters and climate change.

> BTC seems a lot more accessible than the great and amazing US or EU banks, who have nearly failed and had to be bailed out barely a decade ago. Doesn't inspire confidence, tbh.

I think you don't mean "accessible", but rather you're saying because banks need bailouts that fiat currency is unworkable? My counterpoint here is mostly what I wrote in my previous post; fiat is superior to crypto in every way, unless you're a criminal.

Furthermore, cryptocurrency systems are vulnerable to a whole class of problems central banking isn't, i.e. someone lost the keys, Sybil attacks, developers making changes that destroy your stake/economy.

There is no recourse for this. Are heads of state supposed to join a Discord channel or w/e and lobby crypto devs?
They are under regular audit by NY AG. Do you not think they'd be jail by now for fraud?

They don't disclose details, yes. but neither does your bank, really.

Finance tends to be tight-lipped.
"We began testing a new way to display standard aspect ratio photos... without the saliency algorithm crop. The goal of this was to give people more control over how their images appear while also improving the experience of people seeing the images in their timeline. After getting positive feedback on this experience, we launched this feature to everyone."

So the solution all along was to give users the ability to crop their own photos. Why wasn't this the original way of doing things?

Instead of forcing a complicated algorithm into the Twitter experience, it seems to me that the solution all along was just to let users do what they do best-- make tweets for themselves. This incident strikes me as a major failing of AI: We are so eager to shoehorn AI/ML into our products that we lose sight of what actually makes users happy.
That's not exactly a high bar
Agreed that everything is harder when one doesn't have money. Agreed that with kids, time is a lot more precious.

But in general... walking 5 miles each way doesn't sound impossible? Back before the pandemic, I walked 6km each way to a social gathering every week. I often walk errands up to ~8km each way.

Cycling... I used to cycle to work 12km each way year round, in temperatures as low as -10°C. Challenging? Yes (I didn't have especially fancy clothes and my hands were freezing). Impossible? No.
AWS generally charges based on actual usage, where Hetzner is largely a flat-fee model with acceptable use policies.

Hetzner is also much cheaper than AWS.

Very different companies with very different business models. You can’t really compare the two.
Me and every friend I had in elementary school played with pokemon cards. We never once played the actual card game, just the gameboy game. The cards were closer to stuffed animals than utility items. If you played a card game it was YuGiOh because it was so simple.
Where's the line? I rented a EC2 node to calculate a fractal. It involved running a 36 physical cores machine at 100% CPU for a few days.

I paid AWS for that, but I surely impacted the lifespan of that box compared to someone else that would use it for something more traditional. AWS seems happy to let people use EC2 for whatever they'll pay for, for the most part, but does this mean that Hetzner doesn't want me to calculate the next version of my fractal on their machines?

Or has Hetzner just decided they don't want Cryptocurrencies, and that's exactly the line?
When I was very young my parents got a computer to help my mom finish writing her Master's thesis and for my dad to use for work and to use for home accounting. I learned to program and to modify games, got into MUDs, IRC, Usenet, and all sorts of things similar to that. My parents allowed me to go to an A+ certification course when I was 11 over the summer instead of going to Bible camp, which was motivated by having the middle school IT guy as sort of a mentor. Thanks to that I got into building computers and really focused on desktop hardware, troubleshooting, and the types of things you'd now consider "helpdesk" work. I, of course, helped take care of the family computer as well.

Along the way, I had gotten into the habit of visiting the homes of people in the neighborhood and just sitting and talking with the people that lived there, almost all of whom were older retired couples or widows, and often made food at home with my mom and brought it over for lunch. I noticed that nearly all of these people had a home computer that they used for emailing their grand kids but didn't really have a lot of knowledge about, and many were in horrible disrepair (infected with malware mostly). When my parents told me I needed to get a job at 14, they figured I'd do what everyone else did and mow lawns over the summer, but instead I printed out flyers with strips to tear off and my phone number and posted them around the neighborhood advertising computer help at significantly cheaper rates than usual (I think the going rate was $100 for diagnosis and I charged $20).

The most important tool I made for myself was burning a CD that just had a bunch of free tools on it and a handful of batch scripts I wrote to help me find and remove malware. I'm eternally thankful to all the much more capable people who were kind enough to put the tools they'd made online for free, folks like Steve Gibson (GRC) and Mark Russinovich (SysInternals) made it possible for a lot of small town techs to help real people get actual value from computers in the early days.

By the end of that first summer I was on a first name basis with several small business owners in town and made four times what my school friends made mowing lawns. By the time I was in college, I had retainers for doing IT with several companies in town and leveraged it into a short-term contract through a larger contracting firm in the closest proper city, dropped out of college to do IT contracting full time, and converted that into a full-time role as a sysadmin and from that went into DevOps, and the rest is history.

I credit most of my success to having a handful of mentors and having parents who were willing to let me guide my own education, as well as the wonderful free resources that were all over on the Internet in the early days to learn anything you wanted to know about computers. I'm also incredibly lucky that something I just thought was cool as a kid turned out to create a set of skills that I could build a career on.
So only "standards bodies" should create standards, and you have to create standards to become one? Then standards bodies cannot come into being and therefore don't exist.