skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a fan of galactic settlement simulations mostly because I think they simulate the wrong thing which is rate of diffusion. This treats the civilization as a static thing that simply spreads out at the edges. Compared to the history of human civilizations this is clearly unrealistic. The question to answer is what happens within the already colonized systems over time. How often would breakaway civilizations appear, wars, extinction events, mind upload cults, Luddite revolutions, stagnation, etc. Filters abound. The great civilizations of Earth’s past have succumbed to similar fates and we’ve only progressed by starting over again and again.
I found out about forced obsolescence from my dad. He had an old LCD screen of mine that didn't work anymore, capacitors were bulging. Turns out they were (intentionally?) under capacity, made to fail after the 3 year warranty. He replaced them with over capacity capacitors and iirc the screen still works just fine. Pretty sure that if it's not the capacitors, the tiny switches that don't feel sturdy at all would be the ones to break.

Mind you, since then I've gotten some more expensive screens, I have one from Dell that's been going daily for ten years now and is still fine.
MA law is fairly similar. My concerns around transparency are mostly individual privacy concerns rather than believing that employees (or even regulators) can’t understand generally why two people could justly be paid different quantities of the local currency.

No place is (yet) mandating perfect sameness of the latter and I don’t expect that to be policy in my lifetime or while we have the concept of money as a society.
I’ve spent thousands of hours on pro|e and sw. the past few years it’s been mostly onshape. Their implementation for version control is the best I’ve seen, and is continuously improving. Def check it out if you haven’t
It directs to an Apple server, then CloudFlare, so considering it’s basically a double VPN speed decreases have been reasonable.

The fact they can see unencrypted HTTP data is a downside with all VPNs. At least you have the double hop going in your favor.

As for turning on by itself, it’s annoying, but it is the very first developer-only preview so I’m not complaining yet.
The kids spilled over their Lego box a few days ago - so many unusable and pointless 1x1 round pieces, special weird shapes, etc. Its all the sets which are fun to build but seem more like a puzzle than a Lego set which you can really reuse, rebuild, etc. I'm not normally nostalgic, but my box as a child used to be all real blocks and I could build great stuff. Now its more marketing to sell more and more branded sets. Worst is the Lego city stuff though.
Which are what? How does hardware isolation protect against them?
> but eliminating them entirely is a bit silly.

What's silly is the fixed working time and not allowing and training our bodies and ourselves to accommodate the temperature. There's a reason for siesta, and a reason for Mediterranean people being active at night.
Have you been checked for any autoimmune diseases?

Sounds like it could be something like Celiac disease.

From what I've seen, most of those are potential Celiac symptoms. But I imagine other autoimmune diseases could also cause these types of symptoms.

This graphic [0] shows some potential Celiac symptoms. A guy surveyed a bunch of people with Celiac for their symptoms and listed the symptoms given more then once. The orange ones are the most commonly given and many of your listed symptoms would fall under the orange ones.

The abdominal pain is especially what makes me think it could be Celiac vs. other autoimmune diseases or something else.

[0] - https://glutendude.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/celiac-dis...
Biological systems are really wacky from an input -> magic - > output point of view.

The levels of gene expression (as in, how much of that sweet transcription and translation is happening) on a certain sample may change based on the presence or not of external stimuli, and even the genetic expression may change based on other genes' expression (see gene regulatory networks).

There is a lot of "intelligent" biological behaviour out there that is not conscious.

Now if only we could come up with some decent definition for consciousness :/
> The annoying and confusing cookie banners are a feature.

Not just that, but I’ve never seen a cookie banner that does anything. Cookies get sent down with the page on the initial load. Whenever I’ve opened an inspector to see if cookies get unset by JavaScript in response to my “opting out,” I’ve never seen an effect. The same cookies get sent after I opt out: no change. Has anyone seen a cookie preference banner that actually does something?
Do you think having dozens of channels pinging at you all day is a solution? I’d just snooze the channel if it barks too much at me.
> This breaks DNS resolution for company-internal domains.

Is this not the case for any VPN or proxying service? In fact, it could even be a security flaw if your internal domains were accessible on external VPN style endpoints?
NBA NFL etc honest corporations. Lol.
Where are these fictional Europeans who want strong enforcement of privacy laws and complain about geoblocking?

The whole point is that either you follow our laws or you lose access to Europe. Geoblocking is just self-regulation.
Not sure what you mean. You were reminded that our historical record of exploration was written by, and mostly features, Europeans? Not exactly a controversy, that in particular.
Tiny Bank – A simple explanation of how Bitcoin works
A simple explanation of how Bitcoin works.
This title is wrong.
100 million years ago, grass didn't exist, let alone technology.
Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona
> I'm sure that's a youtube thing

That's a human thing. Has been happening for centuries.
Author here, any further info, clarifications, logs etc. is welcomed. I've worked off memory and my own logs but times etc. might be a bit off.
At a guess, the ships who _did_ pay the entry fee are incentivised to report freeloaders, who take part of the catch from them?
I have an Nvidia Shield, and ran PiHole for a bit. It didn't block youtube ads for me, but might be regional ranges not being blocked. Eventually I stopped using PiHole since it broke some payment processors at times, and there was no easy way for family members to temp disable it and it became unmanagable.

Loved the concept though.
I think this is great, if only as a way to kill the bullshit consumer VPN business, which sells snake oil.
Thanks! Sounds like we share similar experiences.
Come to think of it are medium sized high voltage capacitors really that much of an electrocution risk in the first place?

I mean sure as anything they can throw you back into your seat and cause a relatively decent burn but in practice are they really an electrocution risk?

You're not going to get trapped and unable to let go.

Edit:

Looks like the biggest risk from a high voltage DC discharge is myocardial depolarization, and that's dependent on the current path and the timing of the heart rythym, but that's typically at energies an order of magnitude more than a charged typical motor capacitor
There's not much of a consensus on what "ethics" should mean, even less thought on how to build it in those automatons. So if we're not holding even ourselves to those ethics, I don't think we can have any expectations on the behaviour of those "advanced slaves". It's gonna be all over the map...
Easegress: An all-rounder traffic orchestration system
Powershell is a pretty neat scripting language, especially if you manage Windows boxes or have lots of .net stuff around.

It's not a good interactive shell environment though. The commands are way too verbose and the syntax feels clunky for keying in.
Ooh, how long until someone inserts a Teensy microchip and a USB cable to make this a functional computer keyboard?

Either way I really want one!
Hi, do you have a concrete example of your unit tests / code in a repository, and how you execute them in your CI/CD pipeline?

> I want to be able to instantly see the route cause of the error.

If you're using JUnit test reports to collect the failed tests, I'd recommend adjusting the unit tests themselves and their failure output. Happy to help with code suggestions, if I know the language.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/unit_test_reports.html

You can see the failed jobs directly in the MR, similar to the screenshot in this presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jZYHIXjL6CDBQVblDvxU...

> Is it possible to instrument tests with APM agents to see traces?

I'm not sure how traces with spans, context and start/end time could help. You're probably looking more into raw job logs and their output. Can you elaborate a bit more on this idea?
Shellcheck is nowadays a must for writing decent shell scripts. it is like a centralized knowledge base of all those brilliant minds that did the sanity checking for you in the old days :)
Have you read any other countries gun crime stats?

Last time a school kid showed up at school armed and killed a bunch of classmates here was, ummm, never? I’m pretty sure?

From outside, it seems like that’s a thing that happens every few weeks there.

Kids in Australia do not do “active shooter drills” in school. My sister was horrified when my nieces came home from school in SF and told her about those.
They're also less economically productive than people in cooler climate or with air conditioning.

Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore: "Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."
I previously submitted the same article 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27483457
Generic does not mean Simple
There still are lots of classic boxes of "normal" pieces:

– https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/bricks-bricks-bricks-1071...

– https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/classic
Also it’s developer preview 1. People like the OP who gripe about bugs on such an unfinished product are the reason why Apple doesn’t make those first builds available to anyone but their registered developers for the first month.
The possibility of entering nonsensical data does not break old software.
Ask HN: What should I do as a loser in meritocracy?
I think I'm objectively a failure of our systems of meritocracy in education and in the workplace - I didn't go to an elite institution, and don't work at an elite institution now. It does seem like all of the pathways to upward mobility have been exhausted for people like me, and a reason may be innate. What should losers of meritocracy like me do in society?
...that was the joke
Props to Apple for the design of this service. It doesn't hit all the privacy targets that long-time personal VPN users might be looking for, and it doesn't get into the game of trying to circumvent region locked content*, but otherwise it's likely to be a solid privacy improvement for almost all users in a careful and deliberate way.

I use a VPN for other reasons (downloading Ubuntu ISOs mostly) but I'll probably turn this on and leave it running on all my devices because of how transparent it appears to be. I trust Apple's onion-routing design more than I trust my VPN provider not to log things.

* I'm actually glad they don't try to get around region locks. I consume a lot of BBC content and live in the UK. I'm constantly struggling with my VPNs (with UK endpoints) being blocked because others outside the UK could be using them. It would be nice if the BBC didn't block like this, but UK residents do typically pay for the content whereas those outside the UK are unable to.
My dad complained about modern specialized lego bricks 30 years ago. I got some of his old bricks from the 50's. They got some weird shapes too. Nothing changed.
That's a pretty wise take on meds and skills.
Robots for a Greener World: an autonomous lawnmower
nah, that was the hypnotoad....
'A "directive" is a legislative act that sets out a goal that all EU countries must achieve. However, it is up to the individual countries to devise their own laws on how to reach these goals.'
"Transparently" is the operative word. The guns aren't for consumers, in any case. They're for competitors.
I don’t really mind paying few bucks for privacy. But I think Apple in the process is gonna kill a lot VPN providers. While I don’t care right now I hope it doesn’t make Apple a monopoly.
When you scale, your basic solution is "I take this job done by one person/machine, and I split it to multiple people/machines".

Sometimes you can't do that. Either because you're "outsourcing" part of the solution to someone beyond your control, or because the data relationships of your system require a "synchronizer", someone who works with this data in a serial, specific way.

For example we have some government agency. Long queues, lots of waiting. One office for registration. What do we do? We add more registration offices, so people's forms can be processed in parallel.

But every person needs to get a unique ticket number let's say. Now they still need to go through a single office to get this number, because the independent offices can't guarantee global uniqueness as they don't synchronize between each other. You need a "synchronizer" whose only purpose is to provide unique numbers.

And this works, you have 100 offices and 1 "number" office. You scaled 100x over having one office for everything. But when you get to 200 offices, suddenly the queue in front of the "number" office starts to grow. You can't scale this office, because there's a "data relationship" in there that you can't split up and scale.

You wanna identify and avoid such bottlenecks, and when you can't avoid them you want those bottlenecked systems to do as little as possible (so they can run as fast as possible) and to be hit as rarely as possible (by having someone in front take care of common cases: for example you can have a front-desk before a "number" office that checks you have all needed documents to get a number, before you get sent to get a number, now the "number" office has less to do).

Sorry that's very abstract, but without specific examples it's hard to explain anything.
I’ve struggled to find an explanation for tulip mania, but there are some hints at it.

It’s important to realize that the Dutch monarchy was spending themselves into incredible debt for these explorations, and the lenders expected them to return with huge amounts of gold and silver like the Spanish. They came up empty on that, so the monarchy and the financiers had to find a way to convince the world that what they did have was even more valuable, and an efficient mechanism to offload the debt. They created the most advanced financial system the world had ever seen, including a futures market that allowed for cash-free asset purchases without violating usury laws of the church. The asset was a new technology by which one could replicate precious minerals in their own garden, and of course selective breeding would eventually discover a way to mass-produce petals of gold. The alchemists had it all wrong, killing themselves with dangerous chemicals. And you didn’t even need any money to participate. All you needed to do was ‘buy’ a lucky bulb future, and then sell it to somebody else before the bill came due. The church blesses it, and the king demands it.

I had some early beanie babies. They were cheap, well-made, and safe toys for toddlers, a real hit. Then Ty cut supply and the first free market for collectibles ever, opened on this mysterious technology called the Internet. Normal people sold their baby toys for double (still a shipping loss) to new parents, and then double again to eBay reselling businesses, then speculators and criminals blowing their PayPal, a new self-sovereign internet currency that was air-dropped to any new email address, and only a tiny fraction going to the weirdo collectors featured in magazines.

There will always be people that will bet more than they have, if you let them. If casinos started offering loans, would we call it a blackjack chip bubble?
Prior discussion on illegal prime numbers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26776949

And an older one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084731
I often used to say (somewhat in jest) that it takes a million microservices to build one service.
Companies who track your information, including FAANG get regularly investigated and often fined for violating antitrust laws when they use the data they've gathered to limit or outright kill competition. I find it disingenuous to ask for evidence of some kind of vague "companies controlling people" when it's obvious that they do it on a larger scale all the time.

No, companies do not mind control people on an individual level, but what they do has all the traditional effects of monopolies/oligopolies that are not democratically controlled by the people affected but a handful of rich executives.

I'm not even going to go to the "advertising controls people" dialog tree. If 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.
Were the pets not declared on the listing? If they were, then why did you book it anyway?
Wait, is this like ML models but instead of generating the models by repeating inputs to get a “best guess” engine, you put in the intended outcome and it.. Magically has an engine?
The simpsons was pretty on spot too, but it was easier to just laugh at homer if the satire was over your head
Same, but I don't get too much from it. If its not there I really don't care anymore and never ask for it. Whats the point of showcasing your github profile today? Little to no experience (entry level / jr) makes sense but for anyone else - don't fret.
> if you want to program software that people use, it's using web technology or it's a video game or it's a tiny tiny niche.

Or it’s a mobile app (though that can overlap with both video game and tiny niche if you want to make an app that covers all three bases at once).
Millions Choose Simple Privacy Protection with DuckDuckGo
It obviously doesn't scare them enough, even if it should in theory.
Or use HomePod and Siri and you don’t have to worry about your trading privacy for convinience.

Really when people talk about nefarious smart speakers, they are really saying “Google, Amazon, Facebook.”

It is possible to have a smart speaker that isn’t spying on you or trying to sell you stuff.
Related to #2, I'm still recovering from high school AP English. We had to meet quotas for a certain number of underlines / notes written in the margin per page. For the better part of a decade I haven't been able to pick up fiction without the feeling that I'm working through a textbook.
BQN: Implementation of ordering functions
BrowserStack Closes $200M in Series B Funding at a $4B Valuation
I guess so, but but in much lower margins then expected

Maybe I am wrong but if I am above average for a Swede and have a relatively high quality of life then my American parallel should be rich, isn't she?
So far the two different third parties I’ve seen are Cloudflare and Akamai. Has worked relatively well here, besides the fact that some bug has made it so it turns back on randomly, which isn’t a big deal.
Android is reporting your GPS location along with visible BSSIDs, that's how this database is built and updated (so does Apple on iOS).

Both have location privacy controls that govern that, and there's no particular reason to believe they ignore them.
That would be 2% each year for ten years of infringement though, and very expensive lawyers to pay for at least that duration.
I have some on here: www.trinity.moe/stickers

Many of those are hotlinked to WayBack Machine backups of this page. 88x31s are still in use on the better parts of the web, particularly hobbyist neocities pages. I made two myself on the root of my site. There's a certain creativity necessary to work within <3000px that's mostly gone from the corporatized web today.
> One thing I'd like to mention about being "fine", you'd be fine, but you could be extremely well off if you are able to find the engineers that go way beyond.

Really? Because that’s not what our data shows on it. It shows specifically that regardless of what we submit applicants to won’t matter. Maybe we’re just bad at hiring, but with 25 years of data from a very broad range of job types (public sector) we can at least be comfortable with the knowledge that everyone else sucks as much as us.

I get your point though. Some engineers are more valuable than others, but the thing is, that it’s not a constant and there are no real way to make sure you both attract and keep them.

We employ an engineer who just might be the countries leading techie on ADFS and how it plays into our national and EU vases strategies for NSIS certifiably authentication. With a background as a bouncer, I’m not sure how many places would have guess that when he was first hired.

I’m another such story though in a different manner. I used to be real rockstar developer, and a real workhorse. This was way before I got into management and long before I had children. Because when I did have children it turned out that may undiagnosed ADHD could no longer fit into the responsibilities of adult life and I worked myself into first a nice range of stress, then anxiety and then a depression. Now I never work more than 37 hours a week unless there is a big event, like elections, and when there is, I make sure to not-work the extra hours after wards. If you had hired me the year before my first daughter was born, you would have gotten the workhorse with a very high degree of both creativity and getting things to actually do something useful for the business end. A year later you would have been sitting with a depression stricken employee who was on partial sick-leave for 9 months.

I understand the dream of course, but unless you can show me some data on someone who figured out how to actually purposefully hire the dream employee, I’m personally going to consider it a dream. An unhealthy one even, because almost nobody is ever really irreplaceable in an enterprise organisation. Sure the loss of some employees are felt harder than others, but the truth is that IBM could stop selling consumer PCs and still trundle on. So in my opinion it’s much better to create a team of people who work well together and who have a good culture, because that means it’s also easier when someone moves on to other things. It also means that you’re not as effected by the life changes of your employees.
"yes, the IP is hidden, but not the data"

Using TLS it certainly should be.
Does Apple preserve the client source IP in the request (similar to Cloudflare's VPN) or will the server only see the IP of the exit node?
I don’t say necessarily that we need to make sure the criminal is scarred for life, but what time, money, and attention is going into rehabilitating victims of crime?
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".

The best you can do is Ship of Theseus into a more robust medium, but that further highlights that there was nothing special there to begin with. The preservation urge is not rooted in reality.
It seems like it would be trivial for a civilization to have a policy of no electromagnetic emissions so no signature at all. 10km/second is absurdly slow. Who would want to make the trip, and condemn thousands of generations of her progeny to bizarre ship life and culture?
Why do you use a VPN to download free and publicly available iso images? (Ubuntu). Just curious.

Do you download directly from a mirror or use BitTorrent for this? (If the latter I think I kind of understand the rationale for the VPN)