skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing this. Any reservations I had in siding with the blog poster have been erased.
The connections need to pass through the US just once in order to give the US a chance to attack it.

Since they created the internet, they have field advantage. It's almost impossible not to use a US based provider, it goes as deep as ipv4 distribution.
I'm building Starboard, https://starboard.gg, maybe that fits your needs? It runs in the browser itself and is open source.
I don’t mean to be rude, but is HN a refutation of the Lispy vision it was meant to demonstrate? There has been a bug where comment pages can only show a limited number of entries for years, and the wonderful mods like dang continually report it is being worked on. It’s hard for me to believe it wouldn’t be fixed much faster if it occurred in a more practical language.
I've noticed that 12V lithium iron phosphate car-battery replacements tend to be very expensive. I figure part of it is that they need a built-in BMS to keep the cells balanced, but still it seems like there should be cheaper options.
> 1. Check out their toilet if it's on-site.

This! It’s a distillation of the whole group you’re dealing with from top to bottom (pun intended.)
That's the color burst. NTSC faced the problem to add color to an existing monochrome broadcast system while a) staying compatible and b) using the same bandwidth as the previous signal.

The solution was to modulate the color difference signal (two, actually, through quadrature amplitude modulation) to the existing signal, which was from then on called "luminance" (basically the "brightness information" of the picture).

The color burst not only indicates that the signal is color, it is also what the receiver locks onto to determine the phase of the color information modulated on the luminance signal. Quadrature amplitude modulation is "carrierless", so you need the color burst as a reference.

In NTSC, if you watch the signal live on an oscilloscope, the color burst usually appears as a static shape. In PAL, it's a blurry mess, because it purposefully not only flips 180° with every line, it also gets shifted a bit. That's the result of some schemes added from NTSC to PAL to make the picture more palpable. Since the color signal (mostly[1]) occupies the same bandwidth as the luminance signal, there is noticeable crosstalk between the two.

It also works against phase errors: People who grew up in the US will know the "tint control" on the TV used to correct the hue of the picture. In PAL-land, that was not a thing anymore.

[1] The color signal tries to occupy the gaps in the spectrum of the luminance signal, which in most realistic images are the result of the line-based nature of video signals. However it can never be perfect, there will practically always be overlap such that luminance and chrominance cannot be fully separated.
If someone accidentally didn't scope the change as region bound, what makes you think they couldn't accidentally scope the test wrong the same way?

Human error knows no bounds.
One of those tweets prompted me to type "cat /dev/random" to see what happens. Mild panic as I was assaulted by a million lines of rapidly scrolling random text. Not sure what I expected.
A lot of companies have half-assed migrations from AWS to GCP to save money, so beware:

- all docs still refer to AWS, so worthless

- server logging disabled

- untrained admins

- few SSD options compared to AWS

- live migrations causing outages

- broken terraform scripts.

Give them a year to sort out their new cloud.
This is demonstrably false.
WhatsApp is so bad it makes my eyes bleed.
I think Swype could rely more on repeatable patterns. Eg if you're swyping in a straight line and want a letter included from that you should do a little loop on it. Eg with "our" I do a little loop on "u" and it doesn't pick "or" anymore. But it does then also pick "out"...

It should be way more accurate on the starting and ending characters. If I'm starting with "i" I'm not going for "orange".

One thing that frequently trips me up are names. I'm swyping a regular word and it thinks I want to use a name I've never used before.
They send it to another wallet/account that they control. Not hard to understand.
> Further, mrustc is only capable of targeting x86. Performing this reduction is thus impossible on riscv or aarch64, and for bootstrapping on these platforms, one would have to build every single version of rustc.

That reminds me.

Couldn't the bootstrapping problem be solved by making an official, certified wasm build of the rust compiler, and distributing a signed binary of that build?

That way your bootstrap chain only needs two steps (wasm interpreter hand-coded in local assembly, running the compiler binary -> actual compiler). It's safe, assuming you trust the source producing the wasm binary, or run a bootstrap chain to produce the binary yourself. It can target any architecture, provided you can get/write a wasm interpreter for it (not too hard).

It certainly doesn't see like a problem where the most cost-efficient solution is to rewrite an entire compiler, frontend and backend, in a different less-convenient language.
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It looks like Apple will have a native package tracking widget (at least for iPad), which will kill likely other package tracking apps.
Check out https://makepad.dev/ and then hold down left alt key.
Poor Capcom! If only there were somebody, anybody, they could have asked about what might happen if they ignored copyright terms and also the photographer's request that they pay up. If only they had ever heard of possible trouble from lifting others' work.

After all, they have always been happy to let anybody at all sell jailbroken copies of their own games, online!
> I'm asking you to specify exactly which laws

There are a whole lot of laws related to intellectual property, employment, and contracts. It is a very wide field.

When talking about this kind of stuff, most people have not memorized the exact line number, in the exact paragraph, of laws that cover all sorts of things.

We are talking about hundreds or thousands of pages of law here. There is a lot to cover.

But the point is that there are a lot of laws, related to all of that.

And it is should be pretty clear how there is a risk to run afoul of something having to do with intellectual property, contracts, or the like, if you do something similar to what this kid did.
It's a D-Link and has only been used with a Linux laptop.
Swift is currently reference counted, which is more or less GC but worse because it’s not tracing/cycle-detecting.
> Automatically build, test, and distribute your apps with Xcode Cloud to verify changes and create high-quality apps.

I'll still count this as "called it" since 2020 disrupted every timeline :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21942520
Art is my day job and Patreon is working pretty well for me. No lawyers required.
FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
No. If anyone had the ability to crack bitcoin addresses, they would not spend that technology on something as inconsequential as this. It would be saved for national defense issues
U.S. recovers $2.3M in ransom paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers
Thanks for sharing this story
> Have you ever lived in a state of fear, wondering which thing you've been putting off – the toothache, the weird noises coming from your car, the surprise bill, will bring you over the brink into homelessness?

Assumptions are funny things. It might surprise you, but I actually HAVE been in more or less this situation. For me, it was in the years of the Great Recession. I graduated in 2010 and nobody would hire me, not even for service jobs like Starbucks/Walmart/etc. My parents had no ability to help me, and moving back in with them in the podunk town where I grew up would've been an economic dead end. At my lowest all I had was a $300 netbook computer to my name with maxed credit cards and an empty bank account; net worth -$60k due to student loans and credit card debt I acquired trying to make ends meet during my extended unemployment.

During this period I would've been on the streets except I was able to rotate among friends who generously let me sleep on the sofa for free. I stole about 80% of my food from a nearby university by pretending to be a student on the dining plan and spent my days applying for jobs from the library while starting to learn how to code Python. What little income I had during this period came from ghost-writing papers for rich college kids--$10 per page!--and one-off tutoring gigs I arranged through Craigslist. I tried making logos for people on 99designs using a pirated version of Adobe Illustrator but never won any design contests and gave up after a couple weeks of trying to focus on the writing and coding which seemed more promising.

When I managed to get my first paid tech job in 2014, I spent my first $20k on dental work I'd deferred to the point I needed a bunch of root canals and crowns. Only after my teeth were fixed did I understand how much of my mental bandwidth had been occupied by thinking: How are my teeth feeling today?

It was difficult being poor and I considered killing myself at times because I felt like such a failure. But I'm glad I saw these as problems for myself to solve because if I was waiting for a government program or social revolution to make things fair, I'd still be waiting. Or homeless. Or dead.

> Do you think anyone in this position can simply get out by choice? How many people do you think live in conditions like this?

No, I don't think ANYONE can. And I don't think it's simple. But I think many people can. I wouldn't advise waiting on somebody else to fix your problems if you're able to attempt self-rescue. I'm tired of people who have never been poor infantilizing those who are by pretending they have no agency in life.
Yes but a lot of YC's value derives from their reputation which is given to them by people like us.
France and Britain declared war on Germany, and I'm glad Germany has shown more restraint than what you are describing here.

It's absolutely wrong to attack civilians, like the allies did in numerous bombing campaigns in Germany and Japan.
I just tried to use both to look up pharmacies via navigation.. With Dmoz after my second try I was able to find CVS, but I wasn't able to find it with Curlie..

It's not a bad idea to have a curated dataset of information. But clearly there are much better ways to navigate said information, which would include search, but also dynamic filters, predictive text, sorting algorithms, context awareness, etc. All of which... is built into modern search engines.

So perhaps what we really want is a Wikipedia/OpenStreetMaps of curated, indexed, semantic content/links, that anyone can consume and write their own search interface for. Basically, an open data warehouse of website information.
Well, it is the developer conference — the focus is always on software.

I read on one of the rumor sites that 65% of WWDC keynotes also introduce hardware. I don't know if that's true, but it could indicate why so many people thought new computers were coming today.
So, Richard Spencer, deeply committed white nationalist passionately advocating for fascist reformulation of the nation's policies, and the man who personally coined the term 'alt-right' and led the marching at Charlottesville, crying out 'you will not replace us' and 'blood and soil'? This guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer
It’s the third footnote. Direct link may obscure it slightly due to top bar.
That's some schizo shit right there
Sounds appropriate for New Shepard
Lawyers can do immense damage to your life even if you've done absolutely nothing wrong. Go ask DevinCow on Twitter.
> There are a lot of laws, related to all of that.

Which are you referring to? Explicitly. As in, cite the USCC or similar statutes.

You have failed to do this when explicitly asked twice now. If you don't know, then don't pretend there's some IP boogeyman and then handwave it away when people ask for sources.

You're the one claiming they're running afoul of "IP laws" so I'm sure you should also be able to say exactly which laws he's running afoul of, right?

It is in fact not clear which IP laws you're referring to, especially when the ones meant to protect this very thing are not being used by replit.
There's a big difference between hard-won technology (worthwhile protecting with patents, or trade secret law) and "this is how we designed this iteration of the project." Of course your implementation is secret (because it's closed source). That doesn't make it valuable enough to sue over, unless you want to be in the same camp as the asshats at Oracle / SCO.

If you didn't seriously consider obtaining patents for your efforts (and then decide to keep them as trade secrets, for whatever reason) then they're probably not valuable enough to jumpstart lawyers.

At the moment, I think you've done a fair amount of damage to your company's reputation. If I were on your board, we would be having some hard conversations right now.
The strangest part of this to me is that I've never once had this happen in the Willingdon Park office park near Brentwood in Burnaby. It is absolutely covered with crows overnight, at all times of the year.[1]

But the one time I walked down the wrong sidewalk in Point Grey (so Vancouver 'proper') during springtime, the back of my head gets smacked.

[1] Perhaps the Burnaby/Willingdon crows consider the absurd amounts of crow shit on cars, sidewalks, buildings, etc. to be adequate warning? The stench after a rain is... eugh.
Thunderstorm Asthma
What would you have the author do? Market his business or build it and let them come?
I think it was the RSA hack where the second (and presumed more elite) team had gained access to the first group of hackers and just followed their APTs. Noone really found out about the second group when the story was reported on.
Cool name! However, I never had a situation with Goland where speed was an issue. In most cases, I'm waiting for the code to compile. Page rendering speed is an issue in things like web browsers. Besides, my main 4k monitor has a refresh rate of 30hz, so scrolling will always be janky...

For me, the killer feature of any IDE has always been integrated debugging and able to inspect the data. Integrated testing has also been another feature I cannot live without today.
page 22 of their 2020 impact report
https://blacklivesmatter.com/2020-impact-report/

meanwhile families of those who died in 2020 still haven't received help from BLM despite promises
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/breonna-ta...
https://www.complex.com/life/michael-browns-father-ferguson-...
"It is unethical and would be obviously so to outside observers as well. Feel free to consult with your mentors or people with more experience than you in the industry."

Wow. Amjad basically invited Radon to post about this online.
Fast.ai cheat sheet: Click class/method names to go to the fastai docs or code
The irony being that 20 (more like 25?) years Yahoo search was ripe for disruption... by Google :)

Halt and Catch Fire [1] (As a nerd, I can say it's one of the few TV series that got the hackers spirit correctly) had a few episodes about the Google disruption.

Like some people often say here, things come and go in circles...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...
Exactly.

The HN crowd, in general, is a funny one. Pretty sad, actually.
Plausible theory on how they did this here: https://twitter.com/brucedkleinman/status/140204474591697305...

tl;dr: The hackers used the same full node wallet more than once, and the FBI was able to narrow in on an IP address because the first relay of the transactions was the same across multiple transactions. This server was in California, which allowed the FBI to seize it.
Lvh.me no longer resolving to localhost?
This morning I found that lvh.me is no longer responding to localhost and is instead resolving to 34.98.99.30

Looks like the domain has expired.

Anyone know who the owner is or how I can help in sponsoring getting this set back up again? It's a free tool, but it's used by a lot of developers.
Unlimited SMS allowances are common in the UK, but people still use WhatsApp instead of SMS.
SwiftKey definitely notices if you do an extra movement on a letter—it's quite easy to differentiate between "to" and "too" with that strategy, even when it doesn't have the rest of the sentence for context.
What site / app is that ? Looks Really good.

And I dont see those on the front page of HN either .
Yes, in general humans often do everything they can to escape from freedom. Or, as the serpent said to Eve: "Here's Looking at You, Kid."
Does anyone have an example of a videoconferencing mobile web app that performs well ?
Not sure about insurance but I think it is not a coincidence that he does this after stepping down as CEO
Not sure if you've censored that auth token preemptively, but if not, you should consider it :)
Note that MS did implement this in DOS 2 as AVAILDEV. With AVAILDEV=FALSE special device files only existed in \DEV. They still existed on all drives but at least they were constrained to a special device directory. With that setting the console was at \DEV\CON, first serial port at \DEV\COM1, and so forth.

I can only assume IBM pitched a fit and made MS remove it like they did with SWITCHAR.

If you didn't know about SWITCHAR it allowed you to change DOS to use Unix's "-" switch delimiter instead of "/". This is why DOS/Windows also accepted either "/" or "\" as path separators (and still do).
Just going out to say the amount of speculation on this thread combined with character assassination is pretty shitty.

This is one side of the story, we don't have much evidence either direction, and it's not clear there was any "cheating" involved in anyone's past.

HN should do better.
Used Amp, used Pre-amp, used Speakers:
$4650 cdn

DAC, new: $2400

Power conditioner, used. Linear DC power supply, new. Low wattage conditioner/vibration platform 2-in-1 used:
$3550 cdn

Speaker cables, used. 2x RCA cables, used. 4 power cables, used. 1 usb cable, used. 1 toslink, new:
$5000

6' tall, 16" round ASC tube trap, used. 6' tall, 13" round ASC tube trap, used.
2x 6' tall 1/4 round ASC tube trap, 8.5" (full would be 17" round), used.
5' tall, 11" half round ASC tube trap, used.
6 pack Vicoustic multifuser DC2 diffusion, new.
2x 18"x24" homemade cedar skyline quadratic diffusions, 8" depth, used.
7x equivalent 2'x4'x2" 6lbs/sqfoot rockwool (Owens corning 705?) Absorption treatments:
$4650

5x various platforms, used:
$750

5 sets various carpet spikes: $300

Many various vibration control devices, including one used set of Stillpoints SS ultra: $1750

There are other things not currently in my system, but they represent minimal cost.

That's about $23,000 cdn..... Throw in a hifiberry, $150. Lol. And a laptop, I don't count that cost.

There are small things I'm sure I'm forgetting that would get me up to $25,000 cdn which would be $20,000usd.
I wouldn't recommend attempting a rebuttal when you've just hit the top 30 HN posts of all time. Pretty much your best option is to apologize.
> They predate iMessage being end-to-end encrypted

There was a time when iMessage was not end-to-end encrypted? I thought it launched like that on day 1.
Don’t forget to account for the differences in engine and drivetrain efficiency. a gasoline engine gets way less of the gasoline's energy to the wheels. The engines of today are 30-40% efficient iirc, and then you lose more in the tranmission, differentials, etc. Electric motors are ~80-96% efficient and there is less transmission losses involved after that too.

also energy density of cells and packs continues to improve and has improved a lot since 1991
i'll put in some money to build out this open-source vision.
Yes hugo is great. It breaks compatibility from time to time, but other than that it has worked perfectly for me for many years now.
> The connections need to pass through the US just once in order to give the US a chance to attack it.

Less than once if the US were, purely hypothetically, to have a well-funded foreign sigint operation that might cooperate with domestic law enforcement on priority issues.
This. The number of sites you see following pretty much none of Google's suggestions or industry practice, but dominating search results due to a combination of content and links, is massive. If people stopped and thought about what they're looking at, the "selling technical SEO knowledge" industry would pretty much die.
GoDaddy are now showing the domain name is expired and parked. Having a bad actor take control of this domain would not be a fantastic outcome.
Thanks! We definitely do need to put up more material. This HN post caught us a little unprepared on that front; our focus for the past few months has been on our lambda-DAG reduction system (essentially a Rust implementation of https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/bubs.pdf, extended with a type-system), which is the sine qua non of the whole project.

This was really tricky, and involved a lot of unsafe Rust, pointer manipulation, etc, but the upshot is that we now have a performant functional programming runtime that can run anywhere WASM can.

The project absolutely is still a little experimental though, and while we do have a full-time team on it, most of the work is happening beneath the surface. But we're definitely planning on having docs, tutorials, a web repl etc. in the near future!
> I know it may be a little nitpicking, but viruses are not technically alive.

this is not a settled argument...

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questions/are-viruses-alive
I agree with this so much and I have my own blog already. It's hard to come up with unique content and I think my writing excels when I'm replying to something - when someone else has written something and I feel like I can contribute to the conversation.

I guess I could link things I want to reply to in my blog, sort of like Daring Fireball, but without an existing readership it seems really lame to try to force it when I can reply in an HN or Twitter comment instead.
Social media is gamed the same way? Sharebots, etc