skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. NextDNS and Pi-Hole serve DNS requests and are mainly used for ad blocking and content restrictions on your network. They don't tunnel or redirect your actual internet traffic the way a VPN does.
> If someone knows how to use something they can explain how it works at least in their mind

Can you explain how this squares with your other comment about how I couldn't possibly know how it works if I wasn't on the team who built it?
A pastel green Olivetti Lettera 32 cost about 100€ used, so that's totally true
I figured it had something to do with editing, but didn’t know about the “delay” option. So when @samschooler commented, HN Replies[0] contained a link to itself, and that threw me off.

Reminds me of the videos on YouTube that contain their own ID in the content, except you can’t replace your video post upload (unless you’re a major record label…)

[0]: http://www.hnreplies.com/
The rust in this case is the iron oxide coating on the inert platters.
> Who

Civilizations aware of imminent extinction-level events may choose to do that, similar to how shipwrecked sailors may fashion a raft and "risk it" in the off-chance they survive.
If that lifestyle suits you, you could do both: immigrate to the US to maximize your earning potential, and keep your EU citizenship for retirement and safety net purposes (e.g. major health catastrophe, …). That’s the path I took and I am fairly happy with it.
Doesn't it mean that each time you resize your browser you get a different fingerprint? Sounds good to me. You just shouldn't make it full screen.
I think this is conflating two separate effects. One is pay transparency, and the other is legislated pay equity.

Legislated pay equity will always result in lower wages simply because the employer is legally unable to raise their bid for talent. No surprises there.
Hyman Minsky had a concept he called Ponzi financing:

"Minsky distinguished between three kinds of financing. The first, which he called “hedge financing”, is the safest: firms rely on their future cashflow to repay all their borrowings. For this to work, they need to have very limited borrowings and healthy profits. The second, speculative financing, is a bit riskier: firms rely on their cashflow to repay the interest on their borrowings but must roll over their debt to repay the principal. This should be manageable as long as the economy functions smoothly, but a downturn could cause distress. The third, Ponzi financing, is the most dangerous. Cashflow covers neither principal nor interest; firms are betting only that the underlying asset will appreciate by enough to cover their liabilities. If that fails to happen, they will be left exposed."

-- https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2016/07/30/minskys-m...

The crash that occurs when people realize that an asset class is not going to keep going up is a "Minsky Moment". His conclusion was that stable growth led people to take on more debt - that stability itself was destabilizing and financial crises are inevitable.
> Which is something we came to accept and assume for interpreted languages (Python, Ruby, Node, etc.)

Tangential, but:

- "Node" isn't a language, it's a JS runtime

- There's no such thing as an "interpreted language", whether something is interpreted or not is a property of the execution environment, not of the language itself

- The commonly-used runtimes for JS at least are JIT compilers, not "interpreters", and this can be true for some Python/Ruby runtimes too
I use Markor for plaintext notes and TODO.txt files as well, synced with Syncthing. Markor itself is open-source under Apache License, and you can disable network access via permission or firewall if you don't trust it.
Oh, that's interesting. What convinced you to switch? Not having to host it yourself or some specific features?
We don’t need new science at this point. 0 CO2 from cars + 0 CO2 from electricity + 0 CO2 from heating is a monumental improvement and we don’t need to tech to get there just building infrastructure is enough. Few people will want an ICE when 80+% of gas stations close down, that’s a huge tipping point.

Any discovery that take 20 years to go from a lab to production isn’t fast enough to make real change. Avoiding CO2 pollution today on the other hand gives us time to find better solutions.
Idiomatic Powershell is definitely verbose, but you get used to it (and you can disregard if you want). The verbosity can be used to make it more human readable, if done right. I use Powershell on a daily basis - the biggest thing that people have noted is passing objects, instead of text. At first it was weird, but now I find it really helpful. It makes it very easy to tie components together, without having to slice and dice text.

Another great feature is named parameter support. It's so much easier to deal with parameters than with other languages I've used.
Filipino man called Mac names newborn son HTML
But the description of rash around Anus was kind of odd, unless the child specifically asked their parents to look. Buttcheeks obscure that area so the other scenarios don’t make sense.
It just re routes traffic to your nearest Fastly pop and mixes traffic up with everyone else nearby.
Yes. I was wrong. But there's also not conspiracy which is what I was trying to rationalize. There's so much BS on the internet these days that are the modern day versions of astrology. Trying to find patterns in randomness to justify crazy beliefs. Most anti vax "information" is such
True. But taking an overnight trip from NYC to Chicago is something you can do right now that is just as pleasant as the experience you described. There's definitely fewer options for destinations or schedules but the experience is there if you want it.
Quite a prime example of how a private entity can and is using its financial and political power to censor the public.
That's not how ideas work, except in a capitalist system. New ideas about how to better run the world are not allowed because they compete with private interest of the ruling class. The same is true in pretend-communist States like the USSR, which are just State-capitalist systems, not actual communism (where communism is according to Marx abolition of class, property and privilege... none of which were abolished in Leninist States).
They are definitely not “solving a problem”. That’s for sure.

Instead, Legos is obviously fulfilling/creating a need.
It's a different object with different functionality. You can't use it to actually type, but you can use it to easily and conveniently create something unique to your liking, mixing and matching pieces from any LEGO set in the company's history.
Incorporate a LLC and put the whole period as "Founder, XYZ Widgets LLC"
We've had a lot of requests for Vue. It's not going to be a walk in the park, and we want to make sure we support React well before we add more surface area. But we're not super tightly coupled to React, so (hello, Dunning-Kruger) it shouldn't be impossible! If you're technically minded & want to have a chat about helping us explore that, would love to chat more!
Get some contracting work then don't stop interviewing and use it as a stepping stone. Problem solved.

However, first principle question, why is an employment gap "bad"? Realistically, you are at a disadvantage if you are unemployed so you will take a below market rate, and the skills you applied to your adventure are at least slightly above average. You are basically gold from a SMB or mid-stage startup perspective.

Do you think you have sinned against some convention? If you think it makes you seem unreliable, unreliable to what? To forego opportunity, or believe your wage is your place? You haven't challenged the gods, you took risks to build a product and have learned more first hand about that than most people whose job is to manage someone elses. Imagining these barriers is just inventing reasons not to do it because you don't want to. Just take a 3-6mo programming or QA contract somewhere and improve your bargaining position so you aren't desperate.
Here's the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJ9T_IJOPE

TLDR: Linux has had a good run, but change is coming.
> Who would want to make the trip, and condemn thousands of generations of her progeny

Presumably the people that do this do not think ship life will be that bizarre.

I’m frankly more concerned about the sustainability aspect than how daily life will work.
"No, it's not"

The root's observation is that it doesn't use the machine configured DNS. The overwhelming majority of VPNs also don't use the machine configured DNS. Maybe not "any", but if you're using a VPN you're generally going to want your DNS going over it as well.

But it is worth noting if you're on a corporate network, or if you use a DNS solution like NextDNS -- when you turn on PR those no longer play a part, at least to Safari traffic.
I feel like this speaks more to the lack of enough of an ad-blocking movement though.

The real disaster of the TV-age was that we didn't have the internet to allow enough dispersal of the tools and technology to mute ads on demand, or distribute key-frame data for spotting ad breaks.

What we do today with things like ublock origin is pretty incredible and very effective.

In the marketplace of ideas, you actually need competition and competition means we need to be pushing back on ads always.
Problem with python is that async doesn't confer any performance benefit because of the GIL. You cannot actually run async functions in parallel. Each function makes forward progress independently but in serial.

One problem I have is that the performance of computation is tied to performance of the storage, hence bringing computation to the storage for performance. If you have to communicate to get storage, then your solution will be slow.
But also, and mostly, in reverse. The BBC is the producer and license owner of a ton of programming, and rather than offer that to the world for a subscription fee, they choose to offer it to select partners (previously mainly PBS, now Netflix and Amazon) for a licensing fee, or sometimes in a coproduction arrangement.

This is big money, up-front, with no need to build out a global delivery system or deal with millions of customers.
That is cool; it was discussed on HN, submitted by the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790486

I think that is like wearable computing input devices such as the Twiddler keyboard: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=twiddler2&iax=images&ia=ima... and the DataEgg was intended to hold notes inside it and be a standalone device.

Related, the classic MicroWriter AgendA which was a PDA with chording and normal keyboards from the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MicroWriter,_AgendA,_and_...

I think it should be possible to build that pattern into a multitouch web page on a tablet and take chording notes on a flat screen.
Thank you. All too often we found ourselves having to pick "Do I design this in a design tool or do I just prototype in a JS playground" - all the while looking somewhat jealously at Xcode, Unity etc.
Ask HN: Tool for ad-hoc collection of answers from clients?
I have a wonderful client at the moment that I'm enjoying working with -- but in my 20 years of freelance work, I've never had such communication issues.

I try making it easy by asking questions one by one in a numbered list and keeping it to no more than 5 questions per email, but inevitably, I never get all of them answered.

This is taking a huge toll on my time just trying to wrangle getting answers to simple things I need in order to complete my work.

I think email is just not working for this client, and I believe there must be a better way.

I'm wondering if there is something with a user flow not unlike survey sites such as SurveyMonkey but is specifically targeting to ad-hoc answering. My client may not have all the answers available at a given time, so I want them to be able to revisit the page and edit previous answers and provide answers to questions they have not answered yet.

The important thing is that I believe just having a wall-of-text list of questions is what is not working for my client, so a more expanded workflow with a tally of # of questions answered vs not answered would be ideal.

I've also tried just asking one question per email -- does not work either.

Is there an existing tool that the HN community uses?
Visit https://gdpr.eu or https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en "The Official website of the European Union". Look down. Both have cookie banner.

The emperor is naked. The GDPR law is broken.
The "conventional" Lego builds are meant to be a non-functional miniature of a real-world or a fictional object, with some playing features. This creation crosses this boundary because it tries to replicate a real-world object in its original scale, with its inner mechanisms, and yet it doesn't achieve the purpose of the original object. Seems somewhat wasteful, cynical and purposeless.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it a two-hop onion network is still trivially breakable with (two) warrants, especially since both Apple and Cloudflare/etc., are US companies. Which would make it a VPN in the duck-type sense.
So far, partners of Apple I’ve seen the service forwarding to are CloudFlare, Akamai, and Fastly. There may be more but those are the ones I’ve seen and heard.
Ghost Knowledge – a new business model for funding quality writing
A better way to fund knowledge.

1. You suggest ideas for essays you'd want to read from authors that don't normally publish.
2. You pledge $ to support the suggestions you like.
3. Ghost Knowledge collects payment and coordinates with authors to make the magic happen
A much better option is Consent-o-Matic, which will reject cookies for you automatically.
Yes and HVAC prevents people from dying due to heat waves. It's been an increasing problem in the Mediterranean region because of climate change. HVAC is needed more in those areas than ever before. I can't imagine you're seriously arguing against HVAC and it's more an argument that we need to build more efficient houses and commercial structures so HVAC works more effectively.
If you cloned yourself perfectly to cheat death you wouldn't think "I cheated death", you would think "I just made a copy and I'm still afraid of death".

I the copy would certainly think I cheated death, I the original not so much. You are assuming your conclusion, you are assuming the continuity of your self is tied to the matter of your brain, so the original is you while the copy is not you. If the copying happened while you were unconscious, then two copies of you would eventually wake up and both would be unsure if they just cheated death or if they are going to die at some point.
Spring Cloud Microservices on Kubernetes the Easy Way with Platform9
If you want to give context, a link to the story would be nice:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/fake-dmca-takedown-n...

Importantly, OpSec (the company doing this torrent-dmca-for-hire stuff) says the DMCA itself was spoofed

> OpSec Security’s DCMA notice sending program was spoofed on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, by unknown parties across multiple streaming platforms.
The apartment and food issue is actually a consequence of rigid logistics. Stuff doesn't just magically move. Yes. Food is thrown away. Why? People aren't buying it. Why? Not enough buying power/willingness to do so/capability. People are not naturally static. They have urges. They have tastes/desires etc. Industry is however, static.

The Apartment issue is perverse incentives (housing as "investment vehicle", and not everybody wanting to live where the Market assumes they want to).

The funny thing is, from the advertiser's point of view, they think they are solving both these problems by reaching out to that poor uninformed consumer to pull their attention to what it is they need. It completely discounts the tendency for natural damping of aggressively constant stimuli as an adaptive response. It also discounts the enormity and disturbing nature of the infrastructure implemented to further that pursuit.
It boggles my mind that people use a language where

x = 0 doesn't work
and x=$y is a security flaw
I get a lot of mileage out of BrowserStack. When it comes to QA, I probably spend more time in there than in my actual local browsers. I like it a lot.

With that said, I'm on Linux, so here's what I would _pay_ to see in the future:

- More solid local testing support. It's been a very inconsistent experience (no doubt due to the fact that the Chrome extension isn't a thing anymore. Presumably changes in the browser API made it impossible to keep doing things a certain way). I can still make it work, but it feels hacky.

- Your video compression is aggressive. I'd probably even pay more just to get a bit less lag / artifacting. It's actually bad enough to make testing of timings / animations and visually dense content nearly impossible.

- Connections drop regularly on a variety of devices, but not others

- First-class Firefox support
Maybe they wanted to be conservative, because if they use the actual numbers the galaxy would go red in just a few frames?
> initial fine is much, much lower and companies have so long to dabble in wilful ignorance

Another diluent: the maximum fine is practically the lesser of 2% and the NPV of business in that European country, or, expansively, in Europe. If you have little business in Europe, it’s cheaper in some cases to simply close shop.
The Wolf Pack Tactic for Monitoring Slow APIs
Only if your response is to continue. If your response is to mark the processor pair as faulty and take it out of service, two is sufficient. I worked on the kernel for a fault-tolerant system in 1991 based on this model plus checkpointed memory. The sales story was that such a design was more cost-effective than the "pair and spare" approach used by competitors like Tandem and Stratus.
Access, remove, correct, or move your data
Pretty sure that Amazon is not a company that needs to use tricks like that to look good on paper. Considering their current growth.
Oh, that goes without saying, Battlefield 6 will pre sell 10M copies sans doubte.

My takeaways: gamers are still looking for that genius architect to build them The Metaverse. Open world RPGs like Elden Ring and Starfield are getting gargantuan in scale. And I think that's the way people see it: an all-consuming world into which to escape.

I also think the Diablo 2 re-master is interesting. AI assisted upscaling and procedural expansion of classics. I hear a lot of: "I never played X because I was too scared as a kid, but can't wait to try it out now" ;)
> it's not obvious why having the power of putting anything you want in front of billions of people is powerful, then I don't think there's a discussion worth having

There it is. It's not about tracking per se. It's really about control over advertising and information dissemination more broadly.

Motte: preserving user privacy by blocking cookies

Bailey: let's tightly control who can put messages in front of the general public
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Someone posted this which breaks down the results of the study. I wasn't speaking to "The Righteous Mind" specifically, but the study it's based on.
totally agree. I had no end of shit trying to watch BBC News channel from abroad. I'm a UK national, I own a house in the UK, I pay UK taxes, I pay your stupid TV licence fee, you're broadcasting live over 3 separate CDNs, just let me watch the fucking news. I eventually subscribed to an illegal IPTV service for that one sodding channel. I don't even need the other 17,000 channels. the BBC drove me to it
Would we expect the sailors to have survived as well? Or would they have run out of water like halfway across?
It depends, whether they do no logs. There are many VPN providers in the US which don’t have logs, so that if they are subpoenaed, they have nothing to give.

The beauty of Apple’s double hop is that if one partner was hacked, secretly wiretapped, or had lied about not keeping logs, your connection would still be private.

But, that assumes that nobody on this network is keeping logs. If they are, then it could be theoretically possible to piece them together. However considering Apple’s marketing with privacy, it would be interesting to see whether they keep logs on each endpoint or not.
> A small number of communities initiate most conflicts, with 1% of communities initiating 74% of all conflicts.

This reminds me of an old episode of Radiolab (I think?) in which a New York cop started doing data analysis on petty crimes and discovered that some particular crime waves (for example, “purse snatching is up 120%!”) it would turn out to be just one guy who had turned it into a sort of career.

I think about that all the time. Sometimes what appears to be a widespread problem is really just a single bad actor (or software bug, or leaky pipe, etc.)

Unfortunately that cop’s data analysis turned into a computer system which was then abused as a quota system for arrests, but I still appreciate the original idea.

[Edit] I think it was this episode of Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2hx34
And those sellers cannot go to Target or Walmart or Home Depot or advertise their own website?

We have Apple Pay, Google Pay, Paypal making it very simple to pay for things with a simple click, just like Amazon. Amazon has inertia, but it’s not exactly in a high barrier business. Walmart supplanted Kmart, and Amazon was able to gain share from Walmart.

The switching cost is visiting a different website. If you have a good product at a price people we willing to pay, the internet makes it very possible to survive without any big retailer’s help.

The bigger problem is probably someone cloning it but with 50% cheaper materials and selling it for 70% of your price, one that I’m sure many sellers on Amazon’s flea market are aware of.
What's wrong with plain old stdout? Lots of people do this with JSON (jq, etc.) and CSV or TSV (csvkit, etc.), XML/HTML, and more.

That's how I generate much of the https://www.oilshell.org/ site. It's just a tree of files and various shell commands, some of which I wrote myself.

I do think we need something better than CSV and TSV for tabular data though. They both have serious flaws (not being able to represent values with tabs, etc.!)
It specifically goes through an Apple proxy first and fastly (or other partners like Akamai and Cloudflare) don't see the incoming IP address.
This assumes README.md lists all the command-line options like in a manpage, which is not often the case. Also, manpages follow a conventional structure. You can expect the content in a manpage. Most READMEs are free-style. You don't know what is there. md2man doesn't solve the problem.
Doesn’t matter if they actually are or not, I wrote “generally ascribe”. ;)

Personally, I would certainly be surprised if they turned out to have any process that can be considered equivalent to all bar one of the dozen different things that consciousness has been defined as, that one exception being the broadest possible definition of awareness of self such as to include the capacity for homeostasis… but given how poorly defined “consciousness” is, I would not rule it out.

That said, from an information processing perspective, the “Sentience Quotient” of most plants is about -2, carnivorous plants are +1, and all neuron based intelligence is about +12; this scale being log10(<bits/second>/<mass in kg>) [0] suggested that even if the limited ‘intelligence’ of plants that allows them to find ‘down’ and ‘sun’ directions could ultimately cause sentience, it still isn’t unreasonable to suggest that the scale of intelligence to reach sentience would be on the scale of entire forests rather than single organisms — a nematode worm with 206 neurons, assuming they fire 1000 times per second, is likely get as much thinking done in one second as one kilogram of petunias gets done in its lifetime.

[0] This scale has been criticised for various reasons. For amusement value only, an iPhone 12 mini is something like 14.5-15.5 depending in how many bits per operation the neural engine coprocessor uses.