skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"rules-based order" is one of those phrases like "rogue state" and "international community" that is usually though not always used by mouthpieces and fellow travelers of the American hegemony for propaganda purposes. There is a certain social group of bureaucrats, journalists, think-tankers, and various other sorts of nomenklatura who swirl around Washington D.C. and seem to suck these loaded terms into themselves along with their mothers' milk. They do not necessarily intend to use these phrases as propaganda - often they use these terms because they genuinely buy into the ideology behind them - but the ideology itself makes those terms propaganda nonetheless.
Quotes Daily: Inspirational Captions and Motivation
Ask HN: What external print server do you recommend?
I would like to add a print server to my home office setup, to be able to print from every possible OS on my trusty HP LaserJet 1015 printer.

What print server do you recommend? It would be great if I could get it on the secondary market for cheap. I would like the solution to be future-proof and open source-friendly.
Corporal punishment is banned in many countries, such as New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Ukraine, Israel, Denmark, Brazil, Kenya and Congo, amongst many others. These nations don't seem to have a particular discipline problem amongst their children, so I don't see why more countries wouldn't legislate against a behaviour that is clearly not better than other discipline techniques, and is also known to have plenty of negative effects.

What is everyone else waiting for? This research reported has been consistent for over two decades — nothing is going to change through waiting, except that more children are harmed by their carers' behaviour towards them.
Europe: Non-Competitive Power Prices Derail Growth
Nothing new about flying cars. Technically the only new development is making them electric and drone-like.

I agree with belter that the main problem is not that but the fact that unless we have working sci-fi level auto-pilot that allows full operation without human intervention and regulations to evolve then these are regular planes that need a qualified pilot and have to abide by all the same flight regulations as all other planes.
You missed my point.

Cannabis is way more restricted and controlled than tobacco or alcohol in most places. If you buy cigarettes or alcohol, cops won’t bother you. If you’re caught with cannabis, you are potentially facing criminal charges.
> I miss the excuse to ride my bike on a commute every morning

Commute halfway to work, turn around, and ride home.

I no longer ride my bike to work; but, when I did, on the days I worked from home, I had my "commute to nowhere" every morning. (I admit that if the weather was nasty, I'd skip it.)
'Edge of chaos' opens pathway to artificial intelligence discoveries
I think the analogy is that software engineering used to be like carpentry and woodworking, but now it's more like assembling Ikea furniture. Sure, the final result is the same from a purely practical point of view, but if you learned and loved the former, then it definitely feels like something has been lost in the latter.
I believe one of these birds ended up at my fathers garden in North Lincolnshire. The bird spent the best part of a week in his garden, showing no signs of injury, nor any sign of wanting to fly off straight back off.

After a week of food and water, the pigeon finally took off again. Hopefully it got to whereever it needed to.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/roebuck06/51278515733/in/album...
> Opening statement is doing a disservice. Most parts of the world racism is defined

But this was written by a journalist. You have to translate Journalistese into English as you read it. For example "in most parts of the world" means "here where I live". In a similar way, "everybody" means "a cousin of mine", and so on. Once you get used to their language, newspapers start to make more sense. A bit less interesting, but definitely more informative.
I don’t get the point of this question. Obviously criminals? The expectation is that regulated avenues will serve to divert.
Like hearing and balance are both in the same sensory organ, and consist of sensitive hairs in liquid-filled chamber? Or the pancreas, which consists of separate endocrine and exocrine glands in one wibbly wobbly visceral organ? Nature would never do things like that.
Gaming does use a lot of power because GPU are very power hungry. The Nintendo switch is one of the best gaming platform, peaking at about 50W when gaming PC requires about 500W to 700W PSU.

For video, most of the carbon is emitted while building hardware, so the question is mostly about hardware durability, which would be a good question. Another interesting question is the carbon cost of bandwidth:

* wireless antennas takes a lot of energy, especially 5G which requires a lot of new hardware.

* I'm curious about the energy cost of wired internet, optic fiber installation.

Generally, the problem with IT is mostly hardware and quick iteration of software that requires new hardware. It's a very chaotic and vicious cycle. Fixing it might obviously reduce profits of IT companies.
I've been practicing Russian on Duolingo almost every day since February 2020, and before that I had a few 30 to 100 days streaks over a few years (can't remember 100% for sure). Making you force yourself into learning a new language is what makes Duolingo stand out among all the other tools I've tried.

I think that the tool that is the most efficient in teaching you a new language is the tool that makes you force yourself into learning, at least a little, every day. I'm quite sure that consciously practicing 10 minutes every Monday-Saturday for a year [1] is more efficient compared to practicing two hours every day for one week every three months [2], even though it adds up to approximately the same amount of time spent yearly on learning the target language.

[1]: (10 minutes * (365 days - 52 Sundays)) / 60 minutes per hour ≈ 52 hours and 10 minutes
[2]: 2 hours * 7 days * 4 quarters = 56 hours per year
If you're self hosting at work, then this is probably your low-hanging fruit for freeing up time by outsourcing that headache. And as you mention, there's risk involved. Why put yourself in a position where people will point fingers at when things go wrong? Why stake the reputation of your product on something which isn't core to the business you're working for?

My answer to the original question. One big difference between work and home is that I have more choice on what I can do with my time at home. I can't waste time at work, but I can waste time at home. So, I setup my own personal stuff.
The Death of the Festival
My memory from the time of the initial lockdowns in the US was that we saw hospitals in other countries being overwhelmed, that scared the crap out of our public health experts, and that drove our response. I don’t know how close any areas in the US eventually came to that scenario.

In some ways this is similar to the response to the issues around Y2K. Did we need to spend as much as we did on that? We don’t have an alternate universe to compare with.
I‘m visually impaired and QR code menus have been a real boon to me. I‘m gonna be using my phone camera to read the menu either way, It‘s great when I don‘t have to keep the autofocus steady and illuminate half of a dark restaurant with the LED light.

Previously I would often try to find the menu on the website instead, but the QR codes are way more convenient. A direct link to the menu on the google maps listing is also pretty good.

Most importantly it has normalized my previously "weird" behaviour socially.
Vanier was my instructor for CS 1 at Caltech, a couple years before it abandoned SICP and Scheme. A more dedicated lecturer is impossible to find.
Because they are two completely different things. One is the environmental cost of manufacture, and one is the environmental cost of usage.

Electric and ICE vehicles both have both of these costs. They are all different. If you want to compare things, you need to actually look at all four numbers, not take two unrelated numbers and comparing them for dishonest reasons.
LLVM Logo Redesign
What's HN's opinion on this logo suggestion for LLVM?
> My car is an important part of my life and the lives of most people I know.

Meth is an important part of my life and the lives of other people I know.

You know we're fucked when being slave to a machine is viewed as an immutable fact of life
The problem is people keep thinking WireGuard is a VPN when it's more of a network tunnel + routing, like OpenSSH's -w option. A "real" VPN has a ton more features to provide the user experience needed for typical VPNs. I believe OpenVPN is still king here, probably one or two others as well.
The combination of dhcp, magic metadata servers, and cloud-init feels so awkward way of managing VM provisioning. I'm thinking would having a proper virtual device or maybe something on uefi layer clean up things?
Do taboos around bestiality make sense?
Whataboutism.

People complain about Google and Apple too.

Though, not even Apple applied such dark patterns to force you to create an account with them. There's still time though!
You can already do this (unofficially) on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Windows 10 [0]:

It has also now been done (unofficially) on Windows 11 and it works. [1] Obviously not for the faint of heart and is completely 'unsupported'.

[0] https://www.worproject.ml/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLb0d7zTsRY
Excessive screen time linked to obesity in US preteens
Ask HN: Effect of dual-class stock structures on society
Many technology companies use a dual-class stock structure, where the founders and VC investors have voting rights over the company, and the other class has no voting rights. On the whole (especially now that we can draw from examples across so many companies), do the benefits of this structure (leaders are insulated from the shortsightedness of public markets) outweigh the downsides (leaders can ignore the wishes of their shareholders)?
Most content/courses lack that 'real world' feel where students learn by doing something that interacts with the real world in a way that's meaningful to them.

Even project-based courses don't really give students 'real' feedback: paying customers (or users paying with attention) tinkering with creations, asking for things, breaking it, etc.

This online sales dynamic you described feels 1) 'real' in that the interactions occur outside the course with customers and 2) scoped and digital-first as to make it easy to curate or coach the student (inputs/outputs seem easy to gather/parse as they are chats/emails/prices/copy/etc).

I'd imagine something like:

1. Students select products or themes they are interested in outside the course (example: computer peripherals like, mics/cams/headphones for streaming).

2. Set a budget to get started (real skin in the game!).

3. First purchase, make approach using course tips/tricks.

4. Get feedback from course instructors on form/copy/negotiation tactics

5. Rinse and repeat

Would be awesome to streamline like a guided tutorial/checklist as you see more and more cases and can solidify best practices with data from student's results.
The GDS, even today, has an intrinsic beauty to it. It's really a marvel of engineering, though not the prettiest.

A big problem is that now a lot of designers, particularly among the contractors, who are several generations removed from the creators, simply don't understand it and don't follow the guidelines.

Shameless plug: I wrote a template pack for Django Crispy Forms so you can get fully GDS compliant, fully accessible pages with zero effort, https://github.com/wildfish/crispy-forms-gds
I spent years living in Asia and I found the streets to be incredibly noisy.

The main problem was two-stroke scooters. Not only are two-strokes inherently noisy, but users often remove the mufflers to improve the power (two-strokes hate back pressure).

However in recent times there's been a big change to four-stroke and even electric scooters. Which means that the noise levels have improved somewhat. Still terrible though.
After 20 years of web, I still see commercially printed URLs on signs/buildings/cars/etc that do not understand redirects.

I saw http://www.ourcompany.com/sub/registration.aspx on printed on a glass door the other day - looked like etching at first, but may have something else? This was at a local theater/event space, IIRC.

"ourcompany.com/register" is infinitely more understandable, and unsure why no one in the chain of command for that decision didn't press for something simpler. But they often don't (still). I remember seeing an email printed on a service truck back... 2002? 2003? "Email us as www.myservicename@yahoo.com". I never tried it - perhaps they actually had that email, but I suspect people were still in the habit of saying "www dot" before anything that had to do with "internet".
Note realistic measures. Has there ever been a case where the Federal government can fully restrict travel ? Does it even have that power over the citizenry?
"I would ask when you ignore a problem does it go away?"

Where did I say, I am ignoring it? For personal reasons, I am very aware it exists.

I said my personal solution is simply to not treat people different based on race.
I rather change the world by giving a good example, than trying to impose my fix onto the world.

"No one should be asking you to hire someone simply because they’re of a different skin color. "

But people are promoting the idea to push positive discrimination - meaning exactly this, employing persons based on their skin color to meet a percentage of minorities - and not on their qualifications. And I believe this is very wrong and not helping the cause.
Nice post.

For permanent storage you should check out https://www.arweave.org/ rather than IPFS + centralised pinning services like Pinata. With Arweave you pay a small upfront fee to have the network store your file forever.

It's the promise of IPFS+Filecoin but actually live and being used (eg by the Internet Archive). There's some decent tooling & docs for it too: https://github.com/ArweaveTeam/arweave-deploy

Edit: Filecoin is also live and being used, I was out of date. https://docs.filecoin.io/store/
The more concerning security finding here is that Google sat on this for 9 months. Assuming the claims hold, this is a serious problem for any security-conscious GCP customers. What other vulnerabilities are they sitting on? Do they have processes in place to promptly handle new ones? Doesn’t look like it…
Where does one start when wanting to self-host a DB?
> How would a restaurant refuse both credit and cash?

Might have been at a Czech place. ;)
Ethereum’s Most Controversial Proposal Ever Goes Live in Testnets
He reported the issue first on 2020-09-26 [0], nearly a year ago.

[0] https://github.com/irsl/gcp-dhcp-takeover-code-exec#timeline
classy downvoter.
How secure is tinc?
The servethehome blog reviews small form factor PCs for business use. These are always going by on ebay. Often you get a Windows license with the machine but if you prefer Linux that’s a great option too.

If you go to something that is not a mainstream PC you risk paying 90% as much for 10% as much CPU, the certainty of having at most barely enough RAM, software you can’t upgrade. Don’t do it it’s suicide.
So they don’t even try to explain why splitting it into two steps works better? I wonder if anyone tried splitting knowledge distillation optimization like that.
Ask HN:Which is the simplest CMS to Integrate?
Consider I m a front developer ( ReactJS or similar ) who is building a custom portfolio website for my client, I need to provide him with an interface to update his upcoming projects/works, etc. Which CMS would you suggest?
- Easy integration
- Affordable
- Less code
- Framework agnostic
- Headless Preferred
I do it for my own projects. For work, where cash is not a constraint I use managed options (mostly AWS RDS)
The Complex 50-Year Collapse of U.S. Public Transit
I have a Pixel 3a as well. I just point the default camera app at the QR codes and it pops up the relevant link every time.
Have you ever walked in a city ?

I live in the center of Berlin and I can hear cars all day and most of the night even though the closest street is ~100 meters away, behind a huge building and limited 30 mph. It's a constant hum and I can guarantee you most of it is from passenger cars

A simple test is to go for a walk in the woods, the loudest noises are tree branches quietly snapping under your feet and the wind on leaves, going back to the city is torture after that. If I'm not listening to music I use earplugs
> Is that applicable to other languages

It could be, but I don't see it as too practical as dependencies are very likely quite transparent and don't themselves rely on many dependencies. But for JS?
I was thinking the same thing. Does anyone know if there's any recent data on Earth's magnetic field, and which is publicly available?
Why not add a --open-firewall-ports option and let the user decide? Maybe print a warning without that option if the port is not open if you really want to make it easy.
> I also found it's insistence on doing certain things reduced my flexibility. We thought it was kind of dead for a while where there were no releases for about a year.

It certainly was dead in that time
It's hostile to your experience; others (me included) find QR codes quite handy and saving time and efforts
Intentionally Making Close Friends
It’s Finally Clear Why Amazon Bought Whole Foods
One thing I don't understand is why supermicro server MB don’t come with TPM out of the box.
This is well worth reading. It describes how, through a series of well meaning steps, you shoot yourself in the face.

It all starts with:

"Note that the last 4 bytes (0a:80:00:02) of the MAC address (42:01:0a:80:00:02) are actually the same as the internal IP address of the box (10.128.0.2). This means, 1 of the 3 components is effectively public."
It's so strange to me that they have a process for adding a root key that involves no authentication at all. These are VMs with their images running their pre-installed software, it's not like this would have been a hard problem.
Berlin recently started using 100% electric busses, they're still loud as fuck
Well he may not be saying his reasons timing wise. But if you look at the long term bitcoin graph it looks like it had a peak in may around $62k and could fall to something like $15k based on past peaks https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

Also if you look at trading volume, here on coinbase but it's the same for other exchanges, it also seems to have had a peak in may and be going down which also in the past has lead to falls in btc https://nomics.com/exchanges/gdax-coinbase-exchange
Perfect for those who've always wanted a camper that looks suspiciously like a London taxi!
Not parent, but at {work} we made a similar move, from Azure managed postgres to self-managed postgres.

I elaborated a litle on why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607664

but boils down to;
- enormous performance difference
- advanced/fine grained user roles (+default permissions, not settable without superuser)
- use of extensions (productivity boosts for us come from; Oracle FDW, TDS FDS, TimescaleDB)
- private network endpoints
- lower cost
Most bars/restaurants I've been to have menus but no ordering system, you order and pay as before.
Watching that for 10 minutes was really irritating. I saw nothing but red and black flickers the entire time.

I learned about six months ago that Aphantasia was a thing, and that I seem to have it. For me, this was a cool (if massively annoying) confirmation.
what I did was

pip-compile production.in

then use the pinned production requirements and a dev.in to produce the dev environment.

Key point being that the dev environment needs to have the very same pinned versions for all packages that are part of the prod environment.
You can’t thickness plane plywood reliably. The laminations are often too thin and will tear apart in low spots, or uneven glueing on the laminations will cause it to delaminate. It’s likely to make more of a mess than a usable product.

Then of course there’s the issue that not everyone owns a thickness planer, or they own small planers which can only feed in materials smaller than, say, 400mm wide which adds likely too many constraints for these projects.
where in germany are you? in HH it's about 50/50 these days on paper vs QR menus.
It can support what I want but then I am writing shell scripts...
If you could find the links and videos you want. An unmoderated IOU to the work kid be overrun with porn in seconds because 1. It’s YouTube and to upload porn at what was once a forbidden place is very appeal 2. Where porn can fit , porn will go.
I could not agree more.

Additionally, if you are going to use a QR code and web page as opposed to a physical menu, there's no shame in just statically hosting a PDF of your menu.

It's so frustrating that some bars/restaurants use some third party App that wants me to store my email address and credit card. Also janky UI that's totally unnecessary, considering a static page totally suffices.
But there's a big difference between a system where you are unhireable once you disappoint someone, versus just living with a risk that someone where you apply might know your last boss personally.

I can't think of any case where someone left a job in tech for any reason (fired for cause for getting in a fight, bridge-burning angry walkout, etc.) and didn't emerge someone else better off. I've always assumed it was because hopping around just pays off, no matter the reason, while sticking around (especially when it's not working out) tends to be bad for your career.
I like it, the gif showing how the letters are incorporated is very useful. One criticism is that the first L is at a totally different angle/position to the rest,which are all slightly slanted to the left. The first L looks like to has fallen over.

As an aside, I think where you have written 'rational', you may mean 'rationale'.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rational...
I'm surprised they didn't do this in 20Q4 or 21Q1. it's going to be heard to sustain these growth numbers (revenue wise) as the economy opens up. They can pound non G-7 for user number growth, but that won't help with revenues (much).
Passive Aggressive Password Machine