skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't write that IRC was devoid of drama. I wrote it's the first one I'm hearing about. As in, know what it's about. Vaguely knowing that there probably was some drama in the past is another thing entirely. There is a lot more drama in more mainstream parts of the Internet, which is where my surprise at the mention of it comes from.

I also think you're taking it too seriously. Internet drama is a relatively unimportant thing in life. Wars on the other hand... Internet drama has the importance of celebrity gossip.

> Have you never taken any interest in the history of the tools you use or the Internet generally?

I did take interest in the history of some of the tools. It doesn't mean I explore the history of all of them, or that this history is particularly valuable knowledge. What you learn this way is mostly just shallow trivia. E.g. knowing why strncpy works the way it works with regard to '\0' isn't knowledge that deepens your understanding of anything; it's just trivia. But sometimes it's a pleasant way to mindlessly, idly spend your time.
If you don't talk to your kids about quantum computing, someone else will
Hetzner have always been picky about who they allow as customers, and I can't even blame them for it.
Imagine still repeating the same “tether is about to collapse” fairy tale in 2021

Personally I don’t care - let it collapse if they did anything shady, but this zerohedge-esque “broken clock” strategy is extremely amusing.
Yes, humor and laughter is a coping mechanism.
Why FLoC is a FLoP
If you think you'd like TAOCP, but with just the math, not the programming (hah), take a look at Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik. I haven't read anything else by Graham or Patashnik, so I don't know how much their voice comes through, but Knuth's playfulness and joy in the material comes through strongly. It's a blast just to read for fun.
fwiw we've just added stuff to the IRC bridge to let the pastebin, edit & reply behaviour be configurable on a per-room basis so that if folks have strong opinions they can enforce them.

In terms of abuse reports; Element hires a fulltime team of folks to man abuse@matrix.org on behalf of the Matrix.org Foundation and chase down the tickets as they come in. Please ping abuse@matrix.org if we've dropped stuff.
Smart business decisions driven by profit considerations are virtue signaling now I guess?
I think it's negative because I think it focuses on the negative. It's just my opinion and my opinion can be like the author's—my interpretation of something based on my experiences. And it certainly doesn't have to advance the conversation or be about how "she got here", but I wish it would have because I think that would've been more useful. I'm OK if we disagree.

I was primarily responding to the parent who intimated those irritated by it can't relate. I was irritated and CAN relate. That was my primary point.
That might be a bug in your window manager. Window resizes, whether automatic or manual, should send the same notifications to the software about the need for a redraw.
A few years back I tried to set up Android’s TalkBack for my 90 year old blind grandmother, but unfortunately it was impossible to use. Even as someone who’s very familiar with the Android UI (and can see what I’m doing) I found it very difficult. I’ve heard iPhones are a million times better for blind users, but is their accessibility technology good enough that I could teach my grandmother to use them?

The problem is that she has very little tech experience, so things are confusing. Imagine being 90 and blind and feeling your way around a brand new user interface, full of acronyms and words you don’t understand. What’s a SIM or a VPN or a JPG? Then again, all she needs to do is send texts, Google things, and make calls. Taking pictures would also be nice.

If anyone here has a similar experience helping an old blind person with tech, I’d love to hear it.
Of course a blockchain record has no authority under the current legal system.

Authoritative in terms of how easily one vs the other is to forge. Property deeds are more easily forged than a record on the blockchain.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/what-is-home-tit...
Sadly that version only seems to work in Chrome for me while the original works in Safari and Firefox as well, but the alphabet overlay is a fun idea.
Thank you for summarizing. I wasn't even sure I wanted to read this, but now I'm sure I do.
Not sure if this is of use (since submissions should link to english content in the first place), but here is a rough translation:

Joshua:

> @Hetzner_online has silently changed their T&C and banned entire IP ranges this morning around 9:20 am. [I] cancelled and moved 50 AX41 in the past 36h. Deeply disappointed, even though the change does not affect me.

Hetzner Online GmbH:

> Yes it's true, we have amended the T&C and forbidden crypto mining. We received many orders for servers with large hard drives. But increasingly large storage boxes are also being rented for this. For storage boxes this leads to problems with the bandwidth of the host systems. For Chia mining, the disks are additionally extremely taxed due to the amount of read and write operations, causing them to break quickly.

Joshua:

> I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24/7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.
Seconded, Lobsters is good. Now, my perception has been that it's beginning to have its Eternal September, including a significant uptick in political content, but as it stands it's still much more technical than HN.
It may sound crazy but I’ve seen something similar happen at a startup I used to work at. The founders (Muslim) very clearly preferred to hire people of similar backgrounds. All their recruiting efforts were focused on Muslims and they went so far as to hire clearly incompetent developers over much more qualified applicants simply because they were Muslim. I’m talking about hiring someone fresh out of school vs someone with years of experience simply because the new grad was Muslim. One guy on my team dared to speak up about it and was accused of being racist. He had to do cultural sensitivity training as a result.
I've also seen Firefox freezing and swapping heavily when real physical RAM is depleted.

I was able to reduce RAM usage by reducing the number of content processes, so that might be helpful to you also.
Is medicalization of despair the wrong approach?
Most of HN isn't aware of the non-BTC, non-Ponzi protocols and dapps being built right now.

There are some very cool things like decentralized lending/borrowing, exchanges, cross-chain swaps, synthetics, etc. These protocols are revenue generating (via fees) and are actively used with billions in volume.

99% of crypto will die off, but the small part that survives could be the backbone of a very robust internet-native financial system.

Whether these DeFi primitives will ever be plugged into TradFi systems remains to be seen, but if nothing else, the ability for these protocols to easily interop is a huge win over existing systems.

Even if everything uses stablecoins and all "altcoins" are ignored, there is still value here.
The first time I saw CloudFlare Pages do a preview it was a little magical. Really impressive stuff.
> irrespective of their backgrounds, to devote two years of their lives to serious study

I don't know how you can make such a statement with a single digit rank.

JEE offers the middle and upper middle class an opportunity to leap into the rich class. What percentage of India is middle class?

How many lower middle class and poor folks can send their kids to kota to study for JEE?

How much would it cost the Indian government to develop detailed coaching videos by IIT professors and upload it for free to YouTube? Yes JEE is a good entrance exam, but let's not romanticize it as something that can cross boundaries of caste and class. If so, we can also claim that capitalism doesn't care about your caste and class either! The harrassment faced by students of lower caste who get in through affirmative action is also well known.
It costs them more to serve these resources to you. They're not obligated to deal with customers whose use of the resources goes beyond the ordinary or regular.
Cox should be next.
No it wasn't.
> Energy used for PoW per transaction is a dumb metric.

Cars monitor energy use through MPG. Datacenters monitor it as well. Why should crypto currencies get a pass?

> Satoshi actually made the most efficient decentralized money that can ever exist and prevented more externalities in the world than potentially any human ever will.

[CITATION NEEDED]
I took the average cost of a new car in 2020 or 2021. Make it a $28K new car instead of an $8K used car and you're still saving a ton of money even with a few repairs along the way.

I know plenty of people who owe money other than a mortgage who are driving $50K+ cars/trucks and sometimes have more cars than drivers in the household (and both of those blow my mind for people with non-mortgage debt).
Wait, is tiramisu really that common that everyone knows what it is?

I think you're expecting too much from others. I didn't grow up Amish, and although I did grow up in a non-assimilated insular religious community I've been living in Western secular society for about 10 years now.

The only Italian foods I can think of are pasta (I can name spaghetti and macaroni and lasagna and that's it) and pizza, which I knew of since childhood. Lately I've seen the word tiramisu around but I have no idea what it is. I think I saw it on a cake in a bakery and I assumed it was pretentious for chocolate but actually I don't know. I certainly didn't know it was Italian.
Against being a “real” person online
Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 Are Possible
I agree! Cryptocurrencies can be a useful tool if you have the right mindset. The trick is to think of them not as a means of replacing consensus, but a tool for achieving it.

Because once you have that mindset, then you can start thinking about how it compares with other consensus-making tools (like the state and banks), and you can think about hybrid models that combine those in interesting ways.
> I've learned the hard way to never ruffle feathers by trying to think or solve problems at full power on a job. Just do what's expected and move on.

This might be the saddest thing I've read recently.
Nobody moved to remove the cost of trades until after IBKR in 2019.

The large brokers more or less did not care when robinhood did the same thing years and years and years ago.
Very happy with my M1 MacBook Air (16GB RAM) so far. Web programming is a breeze. Xcode is great. Surprisingly good at running games.

However Android development is still a ways off. Android Studios is not officially supporter, neither is Flutter. Hopefully google adds full support soon
> It's an interesting design, in someways the ramp is a deceptively simple concept but I'm not sure if it's safer than the US approach.

I think its closer to the Sojourner rover approach. It works fine for lower weight rovers but at higher weight you need a rocketpack or something.
Future AirPods update may enable lossless audio via AirPlay
> One of our conclusions is that not everything on Twitter is a good candidate for an algorithm, and in this case, how to crop an image is a decision best made by people.

This seems like it should have been a foregone conclusion. What was the driving force in the first place to think cropping images with an AI model was desirable? Seems like ML was a solution looking for a problem here, and I'm glad they've realised that.
> it is also super easy to find information on the stock that you're trading, so it's not like they are making the UI dumb.

I don't agree with this. It's been a while since I used RH so maybe the current UI is different, but when I used it the stock price charts literally had no numbers on them. It was just a vague line that went up and down.

The options UI was also similarly dumbed down. It gave very light descriptions of different kinds of trades when purchasing, but very little concrete information about prices or risks. Plus the functionality was awful, you couldn't even sell options you held, outside of sending RH an email.

Stock and option flows are clearly designed towards appealing to users who know very little about investing.
The new responsive: Web design in a component-driven world
I didn't think of art before. I guess that shows my class status.
We're just jealous you don't have to listen to ads :)
Frontier is on another level. Even among their slow speeds, they had a 1.5, 3, or 7mbit plan. They would gladly charge you for the 7mbit plan if you could only get 1.5 and refuse to drop you to the lower plan. I have never in my life dealt with an ISP whose core culture seemed to revolve around lying. From sales to customer support, every time I had a reason to call them I would catch someone lying about something. The only remotely upstanding individuals were the field techs who seemed as disgusted with corporate as most customers were.
I fear this is still horribly incomplete. E.g. if a picture shows brand A next to brand B, which brand will be cropped?
Women?

You do realize that men are more often victims of violent attacks and murders than women? Many (most?) of us are always vigilant for signs of potential violence, particularly when surrounded by groups of seemingly violent and/or armed people.
Real title: "The Talk".
RSS is kinda old hat these days. ActivityStreams can express everything that RSS is used for, and more - the whole Fediverse ecosystem is entirely built on the ActivityStreams standard. This move from the Chrome developers just feels like too little, too late.
I broadly agree, I wouldn't say RH are without blame though. They actively marketed themselves towards the WSB, Yolo, "gambling but on stock" end of the market. That's not the same as pushing misinformation, but it's pretty scummy...
Art Blocks has everything on chain. A few other projects do as well.
> If I pay for data centre resources

The biggest reason it's banned is credit card fraud.
Just so you know, Pokemon Trading Card Game is still alive and it has a pretty good online client[0] (that runs well on Wine). Poke me if you'd like a game someday.

[0] https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/play-online/
I love the idea of technology as a tool; and the idea that "success" as viewed by how long someone uses that tool to be perverse in nature.

Something to keep in mind while building the "tooling" of tomorrow.
I don't know what the German tweets are saying, but it's an interesting thought experiment.

If all the major cloud vendors were to make it so regular consumers are unable to spin up a server and participate in mining, then what makes it 'distributed' and fair?

I don't even know to what extent mining is prevalent on Hetzner. Is this more of a statement or are they having shortages for non-crypto applications?

A similar case could occur with GPUs where the ones effective for mining are not generally accessible to the public and only those who can get them, a small subset of people in some position of power, isn't that different than a non-crypto-distributed currency. The 51% is really being tested by China. How many countries have governments/citizens with the capacity to be represented at that scale?
You didn't ask me but I share this sentiment exactly. I think a digital currency is a neat idea. I think banks suck, their customer service sucks, their security sucks. I think the niche of a digital currency that's really like a more distributed Venmo is really cool.
hehehehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gx_jRfB-Ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txGd0CxCPq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQVhppRP4Wo
The outside might not give you retro-vibes due due the case/keyboard design but inside it's still pretty retro. It's running an 8bit CPU and Microsoft BASIC.

Nothing is stopping you from buying the board and 3D printing a retro case/keyboard for it.
There are many alternatives to Feedly. Bazqux is probably the best of them. The old reader was back then very similar to Google Reader and still looks similar. FreshRSS is a very nice option to self-host.
Downvoting is fine but I'd take a gentleman's bet that in 10 years either crypto has <$1bln market cap or price per transaction is cheaper than credit card systems when incorporating operational costs.

Given the entire argument seems lost on readers given the downvotes it's simple: proof of stake and increased use of crypto both drive down energy cost per transaction. The more people use crypto, the cheaper energy use per transaction assuming currency prices stay the same. (This is lost on most commentators, but it's reasonable to expect price stability in the post-speculation phase of crypto adoption.) And proof of stake and side chains stand to drive those costs down by several orders of magnitude.
So poor she claims to "skip on meals", but is simultaneously morbidly obese.
That scenario happens so often as a programmer.

You could read the docs or find the right person to talk to but its just faster to poke the black box and watch it's behavior.

Aka the scientific method of debugging
I grew up in rural West Virginia and Frontier's DSL offering was (and in most cases) still is (aside from satellite internet with ridiculous throttling limits) the only option for internet connectivity. As a teenager I was always frustrated, and as an adult with a fully remote job, I am still frustrated because I cannot visit my parents for any extended period of time due to the abysmal internet. Not only is the speed exceptionally bad (often between .5 mbps and 1 mbps for paid service of 5mbps) but they have regular outages and issues with the supplied routers and modems.

To top that off, I've heard from my old friends and family, that the lines in some neighborhoods are so overwhelmed by the current load, that they are have begun to turn down new customers because they do not have the infrastructure to support them.

West Virginia and Frontier have a long and troubled history and it seems like it's going to continue for a long time. I can only hope that StarLink is a real and viable solution for people who don't have good internet access.

Some details about WV's past with Frontier
https://www.wvpublic.org/government/2020-12-10/frontier-has-...
The launch of the Tianhe core module was live streamed on Tiktok and possibly other outlets. Not sure about this one though.
Congrats on shipping Gabriele and all LLT team and colleagues :)
That's not how things are supposed to work AFAIK. I go buy a book, DVD, CD, video, etc for $10. I can then resell it for $8 or if it becomes rare for $20. The original creator only gets the first $10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
There is no fiat contract to enforce. There's simply a legal trust (the DAO) that holds property in perpetuity. All contracts and liabilities exist in crypto space.

The only way a fiat court could unwind the structure is if they declared the trust structure itself to be invalid. That's extremely rare in common law systems, because very few parties will have standing to challenge the trust formation. Moreover the risk can be minimized by making sure the DAO is incorporated in a friendly jurisdiction, like the Cayman Islands.[1] Since US law allows foreign entities to own domestic property, you're not tied to the jurisdiction where the property's located.

[1]https://www.ogier.com/publications/the-foundation-company-as...
I like your analogy. If people came into the crypto space (and other spaces) with some kind of fan fic about how it works, they wouldn't fall for so many scams or have such a negative attitude about the space's potential.
> blockchain is allowing many Russians to move capital out of the country while the state locks down foreign currency transactions.

Like it or not, this means it's breaking the law. So this is just another way of saying that it allows you to break the laws you don't agree with. (also the ones you do agree with, of course)

> That's a real problem that's getting solved

On the flip side it's a real law that's being broken.

So your "on the one hand, on the other hand" is "it allows people to commit good crimes, but also commit bad crimes".

The law isn't perfect. Absolutely not. But the solution to bad law isn't "no law". That's not the path to a good future.

There are people out there who think all taxation is theft, and that tax evasion is as moral as smuggling money out of Russia. Of course others say exactly the same, but mean that they are both immoral.
Which part of them declaring bankruptcy, no bonuses, not able to hire quality replacements (due to salary) makes you think Frontier is bad?, What exactly do you think is bad about Frontier specifically, exact details?, not abstract faults. Do you think somebody at Frontier stole the bIlLIONs of US gov money and bought yachts?

This hand waving and calling companies "bad" because they failed financially while at the same time complaining about monthly fee or speed or support is oxymoronic.

Try this as a experiment, call a local insured commercial digging company and get quote to lay cable from alley to garage under the driveway/pavement WITHOUT damaging it or any other utility lines and restore all plants/grass/sprinklers after they are done. Ask them quote for the neighborhood, oh if there is any HOA get some lawyers to play HOA politics and write up documents to convince HOA to allow digging/construction.

Now try to make that money back at average rate of $40/month while maintaining those lines, paying electric company for renting/sharing the posts/properties.

>I gladly pay ~$100/mo to MetroNet for gigabit, they are about as no-nonsense as you can get in my book.

You is NOT everybody on the street, not even remotely are people willing to pay $60/month for gigabit, even if you lay gigabit line, people in general are only wanting to pay $39.99 or $49.99 and get 50 or 100Mbps.
> It would be a statistically unlikelihood. TRUST ME, they do the math on this.

Is that really how it works?

I was working for a small-town ISP and our approach was: Boss link A is at 50% and will fill up within a month. Shall upgrade the converters?

I mean, you could argue that we did math, i.e., linear prediction on statistical aggregate values, but this was not synced with sales or marketing, rather done out-of-band.
A polarizing figure with polarized reviews. Nearly everything I scrolled by was either 5 stars or 1 star.
FTC needs to investigate Spectrum Communications as well (Charter + TWC merger). That merge did nothing to increase capacity for their subscribers.
I'm more forgiving about corporate jargon than most. A lot of it really does help optimize communication for the situations you encounter in corporate work.

But "learnings" is literally, exactly, just a synonym for "lessons." Can we not?
Same here... I very rarely see Firefox crashing or a tab crashing on Linux. It happens once in a very rare while that I see a tab crashing but the whole browser never crashes.

Memory leaks can be bad indeed and here are two tricks that work fine for me: either run Firefox inside a Docker container... Docker container on which I put CPU and RAM quota. It's IMO way easier than try to put resources quota directly on Firefox. The other one: Firefox has zero issues reopening all my tabs, so I simply kill it from the terminal when I see that it's going wild on memory. Now I've got 16 GB and Firefox rarely eats it all and it's usually not sudden: it's a slow bleed over the course of a few days... So when I get to something like 10 GB of memory used by just one Firefox instances (I typically run several Firefox instances, from different user accounts) , I just kill it and restart it, while choosing to reopening all the tabs (usually tens of tabs).

I'm sure there are other methods too but this works fine in my case so I haven't looked much into it.