skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh right! Yeah it's pretty neat actually (for anyone interested[1]). Unfortunately, it does require physical presence/labor (i.e. $$$) by whoever has the master reset tool. For Airbnb's or even self-tours, that's kind of a non-starter.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5MQz3JjZl8&ab_channel=Kwiks...
Yay I get to be a distinguished engineer!
Little toy tool I made to sim out various known propulsion systems for a crewed interstellar mission: https://redskyforge.com/interstellar/

Only nuclear is really interesting. Chemical rockets are useless at this scale.
> Roosevelt confiscated gold held in banks

Not just the gold held in banks. Roosevelt made it illegal for American citizens to own more than a trivial amount of gold (with a few exceptions like jewelers and coin collectors).

Afterwards, as you said, dollars could be redeemed for gold at the new price, but only by foreigners.
> The mess in Afghanistan/Syria/Libya etc is just one of the recent examples.

Isn't the Libya mess started by France?
That's very clever. The video needs more video game screen and less neckbeard talking head. Is there a paper?
Time preference? Putting aside the question of whether it should exist or not, there's a limit to FDIC insurance.
> Clearly brokers are doing something or else people wouldn't pay for them.

Just like the real estate agent business. Sellers have the option to sell it themselves, or use an agent. Agents do better and more organized marketing, handle the paperwork for the transaction, and offer help in prepping/staging the house. Etc.
Thank you for putting me out of work!
Commiting a felony seems to be a life sentence in the United States even after you have served your time. The algorithm can easily just disqualify them with no nuance.

The description on this was even funny "When you rent a place for 1 or 2 years". Just wait till it caretakes rent collecting, rent raising, and eviction services.
It was rampant with teens, but then we "fixed" things.

They went back to cigarettes.

Mission accomplished I guess.
Breather tried to do that out of Montreal and went bankrupt this year, not sure how much overlap there is with your system.
The Last Sword Maker

by Brian Nelson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38642886-the-last-sword-...
If TLDs are signed (which they have been for a long time), and if the browser checks DNSSEC, you can't typosquat, because you can't spoof the TLD server's signature on the typo. That requires no cooperation from anybody but the browser and the TLD.

WIth DNSSEC enabled, somebody can still impersonate an unsigned domain, but the whole reason that there are so many unsigned zones to begin with is that nothing checks the signatures, so there's no incentive to sign. By actually doing the checks, browsers, including Firefox, could have created an incentive for widespread DNSSEC signing.

So they could have both unilaterally gotten a lot of benefit for their users, and encouraged wider DNSSEC deployment that would have produced further benefit.

Add in DANE, and it would also have given a much more satisfying fix for a bunch of CA issues that they've chosen to band-aid with stuff that only half works. You could probably even have gotten to a world with zero-cost TLS certs well before enough pressure built up to make Lets Encrypt come along.
Suppose Copilot was Composer and it generated personalized songs for you after being trained on Spotify's library. If you started performing the resulting song and it contained recognizable clips of others, I guarantee you'd have lawyers coming after you.

I don't see this as fundamentally different. It's unlikely that the Free Software Foundation is going to track you down for including some GNU code in your single-user repo. If you used their stuff in a popular commercial project and they got wind of it, you might expect to receive a cease and desist at best.
I think you are confusing legal protections for intellectual property with plagiarism. (At least that's what I think you're doing if I read your comment as sarcasm and guess what you're trying to say non-sarcastically?) But they are entirely different things.

You can be violating copyright without plagiarizing, so long as you cite your source, but if you copy a copyright-protected work in an illegal way when doing so.

And you can be plagiarizing without violating copyright, if you have the permission of the copyright holder to use their content, or if the content is in the public domain and not protected by copyright, or if it's legal under fair use -- but you pass it off as your own work.

Two entirely separate things. You can get expelled from school for plaguriism without violating anyone's copyright, or prosecuted for copyright without committing any academic dishonesty.

You can indeed have the legal right to make use of content, under fair use or anything else, but it can still be plagiarism. That you have a fair use right does not mean "Oh so that means you are allowed to turn it in to your professor and get an A and the law says you must be allowed to do this and nobody can say otherwise!" -- no.
Plug and Play Abandoned Cart Email Series Toolkit for E-Commerce
Long Page with practical regex advice for programmers, most likely not useful for command line warriors

Lookbehind

Lookahead

Advanced handling of tags

Replace before matching

the best regex trick ever:

"Tarzan"|(Tarzan)

The whole site contains useful regex advice
Yeah, I didn't mean that they would kill someone over this, just was giving an example of what they are capable of.
Nope - as Kevin points out all you need is a new key and their tool that basically "blanks" the lock, then the next key you insert resets the lock to operate with that key. It's pretty slick.
IoT pressure sensor on toilet. Make agreements with cleaning and maintenance companies to service your buildings.
The Mozilla page on the topic (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...) notes that:

> The use of this domain is specified by Mozilla, as a limited-time measure until a method for signaling the presence of DNS-based content filtering is defined and adopted by an Internet standards body.

Presumably that'd be the IETF, and I have no idea which committee would be working on this, if there's a draft RFC in the works, etc. But it's clear the expectation is some sort of standard mechanism will eventually replace the canary domain that yields the same functionality but in a less hacky way.
So he is outraged by this and the worst thing is… not in this legislation but in a potential follow up legislation that might contain those bad parts?
Aren't people obliged to minimize their own and the other part's loss in contracts in the US?

In my country, me moving out and saying I won't continue to pay, while the contract end date is still far in the future would of course be a breach of the contract. But that doesn't mean the landlord then can let the house sit empty for the rest of the contract time and force me to cover their loss. Landlord would instead have to try and minimize their losses by finding a new tenant, and what I would owe the landlord would be their costs to do so and the time the apartment stood empty.

Edit: "mitigation of damage" might be the US term for it. From Cornell: The mitigation of damages doctrine, also known as the doctrine of avoidable consequences, prevents an injured party from recovering damages that could have been avoided through reasonable efforts. The duty to mitigate damages is most traditionally employed in the areas of tort and contract law. To me that reads like if you want to void the contract, and the landlord doesn't accept a reasonable tenant to take over, the landlord might have to carry their losses themselves. My guess (given laws about renting being very in favor of tenants) is that there most places even might be explicit laws allowing the tenant to do this.
I thought a bit more about your question. There's surprisingly not much unbiased research out there that correctly points out the pros/cons of each system. I'll try to write something soon and post it.
Bleach, I come back and realize this is just shot-full of typos. Shows me for typing on my phone.

Tesla selling rights
long since bankrupt without that income stream.
I really think it comes down to having empathy for the end user, which requires some level of caring about the product.
So by fascist Germany you mean the current govt. Wow I'm falling behind on my current affairs. Did they really abandon democracy again?
Microsoft would be the manufacturer.
rust_ipify: a Rust client library for ipify API
> Note, however, that there is no world-wide principle of fair use; what kinds of use are considered “fair” varies from country to country.

Exactly the point I came to make.

The Authors’ Guild is a US entity, and so is Google, so only US law applies. And thus, we have the Fair Use exception.

But developers sharing code on GitHub come from and live all over the world.

Now, Github’s ToS do include the usual provision stating that US & California law applies, et cætera, et cætera [1], but… and even they acknowledge it may be the case, such provisions usually aren’t considered legal outside of the US.

So… developers from outside the US, in countries with less lenient exceptions to copyright, definitely could sue them.

Identifying these countries and finding those developers, however, is a different matter altogether.

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
The same company that provided the lockboxes from the original article has smart locks that use the same rotating one time code mechanism - and the locks don't require internet connectivity. A huge plus!

https://www.igloohome.co/en-us/

I have had zero interest in using other smart locks - especially ones that require network connectivity of any sort, but this might be one that would be worth considering.
fails to work often enough
I haven't done the calculations (which would be hard to do without knowing how big/heavy the ship needs to be), but I'd assume it's going to need something well beyond our current technology.

An aircraft carrier is powered through the water (horizontally, of course) for 25 years on nuclear power.

Now imagine the power it would take to make it hover for 25 years, and that's your 1G ship.
Stop posting this. It is wrong. Read this first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762145

Page 35:

> “Requiring someone to host another person’s speech is often a perfectly legitimate thing for the Government to do.” So wrote Justice Breyer, and the cases he
cited (PruneYard and Rumsfeld), as well as Turner, fully support that view. PruneYard expressly rejected the claim “that a private property owner has a First Amendment right not to be forced by the State to use his property as a forum for the speech of others.” Turner and Rumsfeld rejected similar claims.
Yes I spoke to Julien (their founder) back when we started the company. Nice guys. He gave us a lot of insightful tips and frankly wished we would have existed back when they got started. Their business legitimately got killed by covid.

ps: your personal site is really interesting.
Jsonbin.io has released DOT Paths for JSON
Semi-coherent and very subjective thoughts about my favorite book follow. Sorry, I just have to gush.

Eh, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was more about empathy, the meaning of humanity, how we justify segregation, etc; its perspective on the human condition was at a much more fundamental/introspective level than the issues discussed in this thread. Though I suppose there might be parallels between the empathy box and the Mountain-Dew (TM) greentext in the top comment.

The subjugated population--the andys--were used not to critique subjugation itself as much as the analyze the implications of the justifications behind that subjugation, especially given the the fact that andys don't feel empathy and had to break the law to be where they are (and the protagonist + POV is a law enforcement officer). It wasn't about the what as much as it was about the why and its implications.

Books that critique the existence of norms/institutions are great, but my favorites are books that choose to accept their presented status-quos but analyze what the implications are and what accepting that status-quo means about ourselves; readers can then look inside themselves and make their own calls. It's the epitome of "show, don't tell".
Hello HN! I made this tool to hopefully help computer vision and robotics folks play around with camera parameters and compare different commercial depth cameras. This tool was inspired by another, similar tool:
https://www.smeenk.com/webgl/kinectfovexplorer.html

Also shoutout to three.js for having an incredible variety of examples and great documentation to learn from. And credit to mixamo for the android-esque robot model.

Feedback and suggestions welcome! :)
Sorry, I didn't mean to mischaracterize what you said.

It sounded like you were saying you wanted to change the interface somewhat. The reason that I thought that was because if it was a 100% transparent interface identical to an existing fax experience, then there are already solutions like that, but we just don't notice them because they are so transparent.

Regular consumers sending faxes over copper already have their fax calls digitized, encrypted, and compressed. And offices have pretty simple solutions to manage fax numbers from their servers. I think Exchange server might be able to do it out of the box now.

The reason I compared it to the "dropbox" comment was that I think that it would be a case of needless over-optimization.
When Trump was trying to ban Chinese TikTok because he didn't like the young users making fun of him I supported TikTok.

You have to realize that your government uses anti-American feelings to push their propaganda.

A lot of Indians trust Twitter more than Modi, especially non-Hindus.
It hasn't.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/politics/tsa-whistleblower-ai...

In 2015, agents with Department of Homeland Security posing as passengers snuck fake explosives through the security lines of several of the nation’s busiest airports. During the test, TSA officers missed 67 of the 70 fake weapons that went through the checks – a failure rate of 95%.
The concept of "publicly owned" is interesting. When a company is listed on an open stock exchange and anybody is allowed to purchase a piece of ownership and be able to vote as a shareholder, that is "privately owned." When a "company" is controlled by the government and the public has no say in who is appointed to make decisions for that organization, the company is "publicly owned." For a publicly owned entity, the public can, in theory, vote in a politician who can appoint somebody to appoint somebody to control the entity.

So privately owned companies can be directly controlled by their owners in proportion to the amount of ownership. Publicly owned companies cannot usually be directly controlled by their owners, but can be indirectly controlled in proportion to the political power of the owner.
Assuming it's 50MB compressed, about 0.1c per month to store it, 0.4c per view for bandwidth, plus cpu cost to stream it(unsure of how much this costs), plus transcoding costs on upload.(based on gcp storage costs)

Then there's also the non-dollar cost of the access to the very sizeable YouTube audience that google curates.

Comparing the cost of the actual hosting is silly though. Nobody thinks the value of hosting the nyt cooking site comes from the engineering behind the website, it comes from the content stored. The exact same. Thing is true here, the value of your video being on youtube is it being in a storefront.
Personally I’d miss the discoverability that YouTube provides. Actually I miss it already since they nerfed their algorithm. Maybe we should be building better directories and searches?
In my experience I haven't bought into anything like that. The most I've done is paid for a hosted DB which is a complexity I could offload to many different companies.

I haven't used any services that have lock in, I've been able to ship services efficiently and meet deadlines, and have an abstracted compute layer.

I've also multiple times spun up demo environments with docker-compose on a bare metal machine to demo clients without networking.

Kube abstracts the compute and load balancing capabilities to a bare level. Everything else can be implemented within kube for at-cost prices.
That seems counterintuitive. Do you have any data to support this?
I’m a little confused. Are you proposing to Save this world, or build/settle others?
I have "HTTPS-Only Mode" on in FF, and it connects HTTPS to CoffeeShopWifi.com but not to http://neverssl.com

Most people won't have HTTPS-Only Mode on, and those that do probably understand the issue, but if FF changes settings in the future this could be a problem.
Welcoming Symmetry to Gusto
That's a good point - words/min isn't a great way to measure code typing speed. Right now I use whitespaces to delimit "words" - maybe I should also delimit by parentheses and punctuation? e.g. "Object.create(http.IncomingMessage.prototype)" is a very long word :D
There's definitely a segment of people for which GSuite access and cloud storage of notes is a non-starter, but in many cases those can be mitigated even when it comes to early adopters in larger enterprise companies (eg SOC-2 compliance). On top of that, you get a lot of the usual benefits when using a collaborative tool: others can help take notes for your meetings so that effort is shared, agendas can be prepared beforehand, contributed to by all the meeting attendees, and easily accessed via your meeting invite.
Let me correct myself. Phil Lubin (the author) is on the Starshot Advisory Committee. He is so listed in the Bidder Briefing slides for the Starshot Sail RFP.
You can aim it with reaction gyros which rotate the telescope and require only electricity. What you cannot do with electricity is translate the telescope along a vector to compensate for orbital decay and keep it on station. That's what fuel is for.
With antimatter propulsion you'd want to use it as its generated rather than the messy business of trying to store it.
Visual Studio Code June 2021
These systems here make pretty bad ass router/firewalls:

https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

I've been using them for years w/out any issue. I just run standard Debian stable as well, with a few tweaks to make it more friendly for a read-only operating environment (to prevent wearing out the flash memory).
That’s funny, because the bedrock of copyright - insofar as software is concerned - is entirely predicated on the idea that a computer copying code into RAM to execute it is indeed a copyright violation outside of a license to do so.
So they are migrating to an internal Atlassian Cloud and the production deployment (after 1 year of development) is hitting some performance issue.

Seems to be expected. Things rarely deploy flawlessly.

Sadly BitBucket isn't what it used to be ever since they dropped Mercurial and Microsoft acquired GitHub (and introduced the super generous Actions / build servers). I see no reason nowadays to recommend them.
Ask HN: How do you pick your Kubernetes cloud provider? Azure vs. GCP vs. AWS?
Hey HN, I'd love your experience on how you pick which cloud provider to go with for your Kubernetes needs?

Specifically, what do you look for when you're on the online portal playing around with the service? Like the Azure/AWS online console for example.

Specifically, what do you like about the current online portal you use, what options do they give you, and what are things you hate in the online portal?

At the end, what makes you pick a service provider over another after you test the water with the online portal for Kubernetes at AWS, Azure, or GCP for that matter.
You could always check out AIDungeon for some ideas about how AI story generation goes. It works alright for story generation as long as you don't mind editing or retrtying , but as an actual game, not so much. They added some game like features in there, but they don't work very well.

As far as actually writing a text adventure game goes these days, there's lots of options for languages and libraries that are specific to making text adventures.

There's Inform and TADS for making parser based games.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TADS

There's renpy, Quest and a bunch of others for making more visual novel/choose your own adventure style stories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%27Py

http://textadventures.co.uk/quest/

There's actually still a fairly large text based game community out there these days.
Preventing the developing world from accessing cheap energy will hinder development.
How did you reach this conclusion? Was it with the help of the same govt that you'd rather not trust?
TikTok didn't end up being banned and Huawei was much more about national security when a foreign adversary controls information infrastructure (5G.) You are making a false equivalence.
JPEG XL Will Replace JPEG – Save Energy, Improve Quality
I've seen this claim that Copilot is "just a search engine" repeated in multiple places now. It's wrong; as anyone familiar with any of the GPT variants or other similar autoregressive language models can attest.

Copilot isn't a search engine any more than any other language model is. It can sometimes output data from the training set verbatim as most AI models do from time to time, but that is the exception not the rule.

Whether modern autoregressive language models can be called "inteligent" is debatable, but they're certainly far beyond what you'd get from a simple search engine.
Of course Trump didn't write it himself. There are good arguments and examples in there.

I think this example is particular important:

> Jennifer Horton, a Michigan schoolteacher, was banned from Facebook for sharing an article questioning whether mandatory masks for young children are healthy. Later, when her brother went missing, she was unable to use Facebook to get the word out.

Facebook is not just a place where people post opinions, it serves a basic utility function in the current society. It truly is an important way for people to get help. After social media made themselves important services in the modern life, they become common carriers as smart phone companies and land lines.
You know that you can pay the same that you pay for Netflix and have no adds right?
This seems to be the upstream source article: https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-...
They couldn't necessarily block all DoH, but they could destroy its prevalence by just blocking all of the default resolvers and all of the resolvers that the browsers suggest to users. Those are public lists.

I suspect you're right that they don't get that much value from messing with DNS, though... not enough to deal with the user complaints they'd get. So they probably wouldn't bother unless pressured.

However, they might decide to "play chicken" with Mozilla and other sources of DoH apps by seeing who yielded to the user complaints first. There'd be a big temptation for Mozilla to fall back to "regular" DNS if DoH failed, and then the ISP would effectively win.
A project I started, aosp-build, makes it easy to rapidly customize and compile Android images for Pixel devices where you can lock the bootloader.

I have had a few different, sometimes anonymous, groups reach out trying to hire me based on this work or use my build system for unusual use cases. One, for instance, wanted advice for their own private fork of my project where they disabled the camera and similar things to supposedly meet requirements for a high security environment.

It is weird considering my open source project might have been used directly or as a reference by the FBI.
A similar project is the Retro Computing fonts from KreativeKorp[1].

[1] http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/index.shtml
It looks so well made, machined block, wow
First Public Working Draft: Internationalization Glossary