skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a real analogy, it's more like a pub where most drinks are free because they're served by other customers and the owner makes money by auctioning ad space on the glasses. Anyone can go there to hand out free drinks, provided they follow the rules, like no alcohol in the kids' corner and no coca wine. If someone's drink is very popular, they get a cut of the pub's advertising revenue.

Now someone walks in and starts offering Corona. It's not everyone's favorite, but still decently popular, and the owner has no problem with that.

Until a few hours later, when a new line is added to the list of rules on the door: "no Corona". Then the owner tells the person handing out free Corona that they're breaking the rules and kicks them out.

Is that fair? Not in this case, says the court. Everyone agrees to the rules when they walk through the door, but the owner can't just willy-nilly change them after the fact.

(If you want to really understand the decision, you'll have to read the original instead of relying on analogies.)
> Add another layer on top (or below, like Kubernetes, OpenShift, whatever) and you should be getting a prescription for anti-depressants from the very beginning, because you WILL need them.

I guess this is the current zeitgeist's version of "stock up on $PAINKILLER" or even "keep a bottle of $LIQUOR hidden in the bottom drawer of your desk".
> 4 TB CMR HDD is ~$140

And that's with bad pricing! Last year, 4TB was $120 and 6TB was ~$150.

Building out a NAS for $1000 ($600 in 4x hard drives, $400 for other components) is very reasonable. Last year that was 4x6TB == 12TB storage + 12TB redundancy, but this year prices are worse so you "only" get 8TB + 8TB redundancy.

$400 can afford a Synology or various NAS devices. It can also afford a new desktop that you can install FreeNAS or whatever onto.

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Eventually, when the 8TB is not enough, just buy a new HBA card and shove 4x more hard drives in there for a 2nd storage on the same NAS. Maybe 8TB x 4 == 16TB usable + 16TB redundancy.

Except no need to copy everything over, just keep the old 8TB cluster working, and just start writing to the new 16TB storage.
IIRC the argument that they use for "rigged" machines like this (including most claw machines, Stacker, Key Master, etc.) is that it's not technically random. But for all practical purposes it is random for the average player who walks up to the machine (or worse if non-sucker players are exploiting the machine's algorithm) so such machines really should:

1) be advertised and regulated as games of chance (e.g. being required to disclose the odds of winning, etc.)

2) be subject to FTC rules about deceptive advertising
There was no attempt to manipulate here - as the author stated, they didn't find out about the mother's crying for a long time. It was never made known.
We're focused on search. Devs spend most of their time reading and understanding code, not writing code (Copilot) or following stack traces (Sentry). Things like Copilot and Sentry are super interesting, but our role is helping devs read and understand code better. We have a lot more work to do there. Sourcegraph does show Sentry info overlaid on code (https://sourcegraph.com/extensions/sourcegraph/sentry), and we will probably experiment with more "AI-for-reading/understanding/maintaining code" stuff in the future.
A few people have raised this question in the thread already, but why are we compelled to store such unreasonable numbers of images?

I'm definitely not immune and I find that the satisfaction I get from my photo collection is inversely proportional to the size of my collection. At this point, I'm just lugging around this huge mass of data "just in case". There's no way I will ever have time to sort my images. There are probably 2000 wedding images alone, let alone the tens of thousands thousands of random snapshots that may or may not be something I ever care to see again.

At this point, I would almost prefer a smart solution opt-in solution similar to what Google photos provides for smart albums: "We found these images that would be good long-term. Save them indefinitely?"
Wasn't the dream of holographic displays to get rid of screens? I mean, granted, that's sci-fi, but the marginal improvement of depth inside a screen seems minimal at best?
Microsoft is a B2B corporation. Anything B2C only exists to prevent competition from rising up to take on it's real cash cow.
Yeah, the last round of Stacker is rigged/random.
I decided to reject Citrix or Remote Desktop dev contracts on matters of principle, because you never know what irrational workflow they're coming up with next. If your customer/employer values their control-freakery higher than dev efficiency or sanity, I'm out. Recently, I had a contract where they used Citrix to work on a stupid Windows VM, only to execute Docker containers, winbash build scripts, and git (plus cross-platform IDE). Madness! A friend of mine even has to endure web dev via Citrix. Have fun doing CSS transitions on Edge in a VM in a browser tab. Or attempt to get Teams meeting invites from Outlook-in-VM out to your native or web Teams client on your local machine (as required, you know, for audio/mic). It's terrifyingly stupid.
Interesting that "Linux" is the platform with the lowest observed adoption of HTTPS ... implies some kind of bias in the way Linux users use Chrome. ChromeOS, which is also Linux but I assume not included in the data with the Linux label, has by far the highest fraction of HTTPS.
So what about regulating it between three individuals? Or four? Or four hundred? At what point does collective social behavior become (y)our concern?
You have gone to very different churches than I grew up in. The secular groups I was in at public school, college, and then as an adult were all MUCH more accepting and diverse than the churches I was in as a kid, and the private school I went to for the first 9 years of my education.

"If you stay Catholic you're going to hell" was a memorable thing one of my teachers told one of my classmates...

They really didn't like me much when I started asking questions they didn't have answers for other than "you just have to have faith," either.
My understanding is that for any given age the average IQ is 100. Are you seriously suggesting that you would score 100 on an IQ test? I highly doubt that considering that your manager is so motivated to hire but simply can’t.
Thanks for your comment, it's appreciated. These anecdotes are what came to mind as I read the fine link.

I originally posted diary entries to kuro5hin.org (RIP). They started out as 'these were my passengers today'. Later I picked themes to write about... I re-posted the diaries to my own domain, https://www.TaxiWars.org/ (Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193273 ). My comments on the Show HN picked out some of the more important pieces.

There are some other stories in my HN posts. Maybe I'll mine those for a memoir. That reminds me: Michael Crawford (not a passenger) greatly appreciated my efforts on his behalf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570 . Michael was a member here, but couldn't abide by the HN rules...
Anyone who needs storage space for pictures cares about backup, they just may not be aware that they care about it or they may just conflate the two needs.
No more zero days.
https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_ju...
I don't understand the holy war against http. Let those who want https use it. Forcing the additional friction of certificates on every site and use case is dumb.

Not even touching on the fundamentally flawed trust model behind https, here's a sample of recent stories about expired certificates:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25132182

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24237400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24187920

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22227266

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18649932

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16541235
Thanks for your feedback. I guess I should clarify Patreon, OnlyFans and possibly even Gumroad were built with creators in mind. But, the platforms I listed are just now realizing the “value” of creators. I read today that Facebook is planning on giving 1B to “Influencers” https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2021/07/14/why-faceb...
I didn't downvote you, but it's certainly fine to pass on something you think is a fad. It's another thing to jump directly to the end of the emotion spectrum by saying "hard no". My comment wasn't about skipping shiny things, it was about being so vocally firm about the negative. That doesn't leave much room for reconsideration later.

What if the project turns out to not be a fad, and a month or six later more people are using it and loving it? How does a "hard no" person back down from their bold rejection? This is what I was talking about.
Well yeah, but it's often because the trade schools make pretty strong claims about employability to prospective students, which courts found to constitute fraud. Top Ivies don't make these claims.
AFAIK Windows kernel is advanced enough to implement fork if necessary. WSL 1 uses it.
Isn’t this the business model that Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive, etc. are based upon?
If I read the EULA first I might still be reading it by the time the product is discontinued.
https://archive.is/vFtPR
I would argue that in order to prevent users from leaving your platform or from developing a reputation for being a stagnant platform (e.g. Internet Explorer/Edge, Windows, IBM) you need to be sensitive to new trends. Meaning you'll occasionally need to preemptively try new features before you can be sure they're a move in the right direction. Obviously, not everything you try will be a hit but the constant experimentation is key.
> It's not always good to keep going. Sometimes you're throwing your life away.

That's a conditioned response. "Throwing your life away" is subjective.

Edit: https://nav.al/kapil <-- Worth listening to.
I did not. But I see what you're saying and I edited it to make it more chill.
For some people this is what's most effective. Many ways to approach life.
People on HN speak their armchair sociology with such confidence it astounds me.

Even the idea that resentment can be "deserved" or not seems meaningless to me. People don't resent people because they think they deserve it, they resent people because things happened to them. We obviously can't assign blame for such infinitely complex causal chains, hell we can't even assign agency. Who's fault is it that someone's grandfather got brain damage in the war he was conscripted into, then went on to be abusive to his children, who went on to become addicted to alcohol. Who should say if these people then deserve resentment for being bad parents?

Life seems to me too random to comprehend, yet everyday I find people to tell me I should or should not condemn or condone people for their actions.

Maybe shit just happens and we look for reasons afterwards?
at this point you're far beyond the intended use for a widely used package manager. install a stable python somewhere by hand and keep it there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I use HTTPS on my blog, which is a static website with no comments, because my blog contains information that I want people to be able to trust, and so I don't want an MITM to be able to modify it.

There are a whole bunch of says that they can do that. The obvious way is that a lot of my blog is about programming, and so I have code on my blog people can copy/paste. If a MITM can modify that (perhaps by injecting something with font-size-zero), that directly harms my readers, and selfishly, that reflects poorly on me - it makes it look like I'm trying to harm my readers.

I also have prose blog posts where I express advice or opinions. If I write about, say, security advice, and that advice has been modified to be bad, that also harms my readers and reflects poorly on me. Why would someone do that? I don't know, there are lots of trolls on the internet. More interestingly, I also write about my religious beliefs. If someone modifies a post to make me look like I'm one of the most egregiously bigoted people of my religion, that would also be harmful to my readers and reflect poorly on me, and the casual reader might not notice that the post is out of character, and there are a lot of people on the internet who are angry at my religion.

Also, even if I didn't have any such information, a MITM could add a cryptominer or something to my blog - something that accesses no private information but still consumes my visitors' CPU and battery - would harm my readers and reflect poorly on me.
This will be significantly interesting to follow from a revenue generation perspective and how they are going to abuse users and then ask for forgiveness. Monthly billing will need a valid payment instrument "on file" and over time they are certain to nickel and dime users for features. So you want to print on your home printer from your M$ cloud hosted Window$ in$tance, that will be 5¢ per page or we can send it to your local Staples* for pickup at 1¢ per page. A microtransaction chargeback for a failed print from a paper jam will be interesting to review. This is certain to go in the direction most know it will and has the potential to redefine the term pay-per-click. Just look past the security implications and the die-sasters that are certain to occur from making Windows available from anywhere "easy" for the non-technical crowd.

*By agreeing to any savings through our third party vendors you are hereby informed that we SharE aLL your information with these vendors in order to recoup the savings extended to you.
>YouTube and other technocrats believe that can tell people how and what they should think.

If you go to youtube to be told what to think then you're probably using the internet for things it wasn't designed for lol
Tesla addressed a fire risk with a software update for thermal management.

Recall is only needed for hardware fixes or if there is no 100% deployed software update network for the cars.
Had an idea when I saw one of these on a cruise ship.

Every time we spent time within eyesight of the machine, I timed it and counted how many plays went in. After a couple of days, I had something resembling an average number of plays per hour. The machine was one where the prizes were visible, so you could tell how many had been won.

Now I had a bound on the number of plays per prize.

Estimate number of plays based on amount of time passed. Check if prize has been claimed. If not, it's due.

You don't have to be too accurate with your numbers. Just get within ~50% to beat the vig.
You’re absolutely right it really does depend on the content they create. I plan to start meeting with creators in the product review space to speak with them about what model would better support the work they do and value they bring.
It is what the bill and Melinda Gates foundation does in the third world.
Store the checksums? You still need local storage but way less.
Also appreciated by those who prefer to work in torrents, rather than consistently. ;)
People aren't supposed to sleep in garages, so it's not required.

What wouldn't a normal smoke alarm work in a garage?
I'm just a hobbyist but I routinely get compliments. This is what I did/do:

1. Cook what you love

2. Continuously sample stuff before/after adding spices so you get a feel for what each spice does

3. Follow the recipe closely the first time. Make the same thing again several times and make small tweaks that you think will be better

After a while I gained a really good intuition for what worked and what didn't, how things would be affected by stuff, etc.
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> It's criminal because it targeted an American citizen, on American soil

This is not true. It's in the article.

She's an Iranian (dual) citizen and no kidnapping would have happened on American soil.

USA does do what you say and kidnaps non American citizens not on American soil. Not sure if Iran ever has.

But both off topic to my point.

Kidnapping is cool or not. America does it all the time. You can be against both countries doing it. Just don't pretend what Iran was going to do was unusual.
When probing my Android phone's output in an oscilloscope, I also saw that it was not linear, and the volume increased more per level when louder. However I have not attempted to compute the exact curve. And I suspect it also differs between different versions of Android or different phones (my Android 11 phones has more volume levels than older phones), or with different audio APIs (some phones use tinyalsa, some use XML files to configure hardware volume gain, some don't).
I had no idea that terminals and Rust projects were such highly charged emotional territory, nor that either were danger zones which commonly ate your time, your money, or your attention.

Kind of seemed to me like just another project.

I guess the kids these days have to start at volume 10 with "hard no!" or "best ever!" to be heard. THAT is a fad.
I’m aware of that. But the compiler is limited to using the architectural register sets.
How do I do this with MacOS?
Electric airplanes are increasingly just gadgetbahns of the sky. None of the are even remotely feasible, and reading the comments here it's clear that even if they did exist they'd be immediately disrupted by existing airplanes. I think it's time we stop giving them any more thought as they simply cannot work.
No man can tell anyone how God will judge him. You seek forgiveness of sin through Christ and try to live accordingly. If your church is telling you you will go to hell (or guaranteeing you will not) you should find another church. That's not the same as condemning sin and trying to guide people away from it though.
> The real question being, of course, given that your life is finite ... how often will you actually look at any of these pics.

> The more pix there are, the less likely it is you'll ever even open any of these.

Well, there are also future generations to think about, but their interest will fall off too (until you reach the genealogical profile level, which maxes out at a few portrait-type pictures of any regular individual).

It's pretty essential to aggressively curate and organize data like this.
It's difficult because some people do face horrific abuse and are very justified in cutting off contact. Others seem to be narcissists themselves who enjoy being cruel to their parents. It's impossible to know who is who as an outsider.
An attacker could email you an unobfuscated link to a website which contains obfuscated links and the threat model is exactly the same. Both require only that the victim 1) trust an email enough to click a link and then 2) trust the destination of that link enough to do the unsafe thing. Unless your computer propagates the "untrustworthiness" of the link from the email client to the browser and continues to prevent unobfuscated links, it seems like you've gained very little.
I played this in a cruise casino as well, knowing full well that the odds were stacked against me in international waters. I didn’t win. Near the end of the 10 day voyage the machine was mostly empty, I wonder if anyone actually won or they just removed the cash to make it look like it’s a winner.
Which, incidentally, also removes the last fringe benefit of those free "JavaScript CDN" services. They are a strict net-negative now.
Why do you think banks don't have vested interest?

And I don't expect my cleaner to service my car. Banks have DBAs, network and physical security experts on tap (just like cloud providers do).
That may be an accurate technical meaning but lay people still just meant "harmful" well before it started being applied to behavior.
It is technically possible to encrypt VM in a way that even host can't decrypt it. AMD Epyc CPUs supports encrypted memory.
My son went off to college a few years ago and we've established a pattern of having him call us every Sunday. TBH I don't have a ton to talk about (and am not really a talker), I just want to make sure he's ok and everything else is pretty inconsequential.

I would recommend setting expectations early around weekly calls so they become a habit. Even if you have nothing to talk about you can small talk for a few minutes. I suspect you will have a lot to talk about if your child is starting university.
Chrome identified the ZIP download as malicious. It was sheer luck, otherwise the user would have opened the ZIP and executed the obfuscated VBS inside.
I've been smoking daily for past 5 years, it cascaded into smoking from morning until I fall asleep. Decided to stop on my 25th birthday 3 days ago.
It's really hard and even though I love this devil's lettuce I wish I never started smoking it. Any tips for a fellow smoker ?
How real are these laws at all, by the way? Is it really a case when one company has to store their data separately and (inaccessible from other places). What do these laws enforce, networking-wise only?
Unlocking the 'gut microbiome' – and its significance to our health
I have had some who pushed the upper bounds of the salary range for me.
Satellite view of the atmospheric conditions of tornado in Czechia
Most cities that had relatively central airports have closed them (due to noise and pollution) and built new ones further out.

Cities continue to build new railway stations and lines, usually underground, to improve access to the centre.
Newspapers and persons obviously should choose to express their own opinions.

Twitter is different: It is close to a common carrier, and you can't just shut down one side of the political discussion. If you do, you'll have the appearance of free discussion, when in reality you are exercising totalitarian control.

That is more harmful for democracy than occasional idiots dressing up in Viking costumes and entering the capitol (of course, riots of the opposing spectrum can be safely promoted on Twitter anyway).
It's a self inflicted problem. The reason this content is so popular is because it feels subversive (and, separately, trolling is more fun than virtue signaling).

The way we measure political alignment is so weird. Maybe instead of "left vs. right," the scale should be "reactionary vs. contrarian" – how do you consume and perceive information? A second axis could be "lurker vs. contributor" – do you mostly consume information, or also produce it?

These seem like meaningful differentiators in the context of online discourse, and how it ultimately shapes real-world opinion.
Huh... Suddenly I want “comment code folding” up in here. I mean generally speaking, of course.
For me it cascaded to smoking daily and doing 0 health related activities. I could still code tho..
> people tend not to appreciated being accused of mental illnesses when they consider themselves sane

Working for a store that sells a product is not the same as being accused of anything, and it really makes no sense to pin the responsibility of quitting your job on the fact that your employer has one item out of a catalog of billions of products that for some reason you've decided to single out.

Also, the concept of mental illness doesn't depend on appreciation or acceptance from the patient. Some people suffering from morbid obesity might not appreciate being called overweight or more vulnerable to health problems, but that doesn't mean the issues vanished.
I generally agree, although it seems like Tesla service might be the problem, not the design. The article states that the depot the car was sent to only had the option to replace the battery. In other words, they don't have the tools and/or parts to remove the broken part and replace it. The repair could be done by Tesla if they wanted to, which means it's not necessarily bad design, but certainly bad service at a minimum.
This is the actual definition of empathy, yes, not the currently trendy use which is much closer to sympathy in the way it is used.