skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All cultures have anti poor sentiments as well as empathetic attitudes towards the poor. What is "interesting" here is prejudice attitudes from people like you towards america.

Also stop calling Americans "interesting." Using a term like this is a deliberate insult on a culture or a person. You are examining the culture like it's a lab rat and commenting on how the behavior is "interesting."

You are not an idiot. People do not talk like this in real life by remarking on how behavior is "interesting" to the subjects face. You and others only use these terms behind the anonymity of a forum. Therefore you are aware this is insulting. Stop.

This is a common tactic used to get around the HN rules. You say "interesting" posing it as an innocent remark. It is not, you are conducting a deliberate and insulting attack on American culture here.
>it doesn't in spec, that's just the win32 API

NTFS filename length is limited to 255 Unicode chars.

You may be thinking of full path lengths of 32,767 Unicode chars but the filename component is still limited to 255.

If you look at the NTFS data structure "$FILE_NAME (0x30)" at byte offset 0x40: https://www.google.com/search?q=ntfs+%22%24FILE_NAME%22+byte

... there's only 1 byte used to describe the filename length. Hence max of 255 chars.

Wikipedia page about NTFS also mentions 255 max length for filename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
MuseScore/Audacity employee theatening to destroy a Chinese developer's life
HN seems to strip the URL fragment. Direct link: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...

Edit: the comment contents were deleted. They are still visible via the GitHub edit history. Here's an archive, just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115639if_/https://github...
Then why can't i stop working on it for free? I've never been so passionate about working on open source; it's a compulsion at this point.
You want the sort interface to have call-backs for loading/writing stuff from/to disk. But most sort interfaces don't have this. They only support memory.
Sure. Comparatively, I find it far less ideological and more cerebral than most places. Nothing's perfect.

I think society these days is divided into three. The ideological left, ideological right, and the people who are more interested in reasoning through difficult problems. As it happens, the less dogmatic are people who gravitate toward hacking solutions to things. People might deride that as seeking technological fixes to intractable problems, but it's essentially apolitical - and critiquing logic in the form of code is immune to emotional arguments to some extent, even though those arguments arise around the borders of what code is used for.

I have a kind of similar view about Judaism and Buddhism. You can argue endlessly about the state of the universe but you have to agree that logic is logic. Weirdly, we live in a world where that agreement is vanishingly rare in everyday discourse.
> Don't CPU compilers in general, not just ARM ones, avoid using FMA for normal arithmetic unless you use -ffast-math?

Doesn't seem o be the case: MSVC avoids FMA, while GCC prefers it: https://godbolt.org/z/e9EcfjdeY
A better analogy would be, if you were a company selling doors - after a string of break-ins involving some group casually walking through your products like they weren't there, somebody would eventually start asking about your responsibility.

(Maybe "cyber insurance" needs to be a thing in the SMB world? As much as I feel it's currently mostly nonsense, maybe it's serviceable. In the physical world, it seems the driving force behind buying security measures is not the (unlikely) possibility of being a victim of a break-in, but the (more likely) possibility of not getting insurance to cover it.)
Microsoft will be accused of inserting backdoors that are accessible to non US-affiliated actors /s
Are the Roaring 20s Already Here?
"But I assert before you all, that anyone who trembles - that man is guilty, because innocence never trembles in e the face of public vigilance" - Maximilien Robespierre (via Buchner)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOW6OfeOW10
The gold standard did fail. The main problem with a fixed supply currency is that an economy can't grow - GDP can't increase. Things like the Internet created wealth by growing the GDP and "creating" money. If you have a fixed-supply currency you can't create money. Globally, GDP would be a zero-sum game, someone's increase would mean someone's decrease. Wars have been fought for less.
It's not even JS. I'd argue a HTML + inline JS page is a lot more self-contained than one with external images, videos and fonts.

Note that PDFs can contain JS too.
By the time we harness 100% of our energy from the sun there will be little reason not to use it. It’ll just be wasted otherwise.
Show HN: A visualization of how humans pick random numbers
pdf a major attack surface too.
> He does not expect relativity in its present form to last many decades, and hope that further work will soon go beyond it.
How to quickly change the number of replicas setting in an Elasticsearch Index
Some references for reinforest vines benefiting more from CO2 fertilization leading to reduced tree growth...

- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature00926

- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1461-0248...
Show HN: Build your crypto trading bot in minutes with Java
From the linked resource:

"Without bitcoin mining, solar - an intermittent
energy source - could supply only 40% of
grid power before utilities would face the
need to fund significant investments with
higher electricity prices. With bitcoin mining
integrated into a solar system however, energy
providers - whether utilities or independent
entities - would have the ability to play the
arbitrage between electricity prices and
bitcoin prices, as well as potentially sell the
“surplus” solar and supply almost all grid power
demands without lowering profitability."
> continuing to use Insecure Brand locks wouldn't be advisable.

Agreed. Microsoft should clarify how this happened and what measurements will take to prevent this incident from happening again. Still, the problem is with robbery and it should be condemned. Why changing the subject to Microsoft? I don't think whataboutism is the valid argument here.
Basically, crypto and especially Bitcoin is exchanging generally well regulated (central) banks with shady parties operating from extremely power hungry ASIC sheds in China or Iceland.

To be honest, I do not spot the upside for crypto here.
This just isn't true. There aren't new mushroom species popping up in the night with any regularity. In the US we have a very good survey of what is out there.

I have never heard a story of someone making a positive identification based on the resources available, then getting poisoned because they had discovered a new species which had total overlap with their positive identification. Doesn't mean it's never happened but I would say if it has it is exceedingly rare.

In the same way we don't not drive because it's possible to crash, I'm not going to stop foraging because of the possibility of super outlier events.
> it's totally possible to make a self-contained HTML page without using a JS framework of the day. It's going to be way easier to consume than a PDF.

Completely agree. For instance, NASA's APOD site[1] is a good example of something that'd be nontrivial using both an offline PDF and modern lightweight alternatives like Gemini, but works really well even without fancy modern design. Under 300kB including the image (HTML's under 6 kB) before gzipping.

[1] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Naming or framing things in a difficult or obtuse way can be a good way to limit your audience. However, if it works others will follow and it will no longer be effective.

I had a similar experience with a Meetup I once hosted which I specifically put in a location that was difficult (but admittedly becoming trendy). It worked for a bit but eventually attracted the crowd I was trying to alienate.
I find it quite amusing that the author is railing against HTML at least in part because it's practically impossible to build a new web browser at this point, and then moves to PDF instead.

In my time working with PDFs, I've found that generating them in ways that can be read with the most popular PDF readers is cryptic and difficult, and even parsing the ones made from the most popular creators is hard.

I would definitely not pick PDF over HTML in regards to how easy it is to implement a good reader or writer.

And there's plenty of authoring tools for HTML already, so the "ecosystem already exists for PDF" doesn't track either.

Even the complaint about churn makes no sense to me, because there's no need to upgrade your tools constantly. If you're using something that produces good HTML today, it'll produce good HTML in a decade, too.

OTOH, if you have a problem that could be automated, you're a lot more likely to be able to create that tool for HTML than PDF, and it's quite likely that someone else already has for HTML, but not PDF.
This is mostly because we don’t have small wind farms everywhere. We have one really huge one in a central location.

I feel like solarpunk leans more towards decentralization.
The government will literally arrest people who try to avoid using a fiat currency. I mean, you have to admit "this is in your own best interest" is a suspicious argument when it involves printing stacks of cash, giving it to big business/asset owners and prosecuting anyone who seriously tries to use a consistent stick to measure wealth. It looks like a bunch of people believe it isn't in their interest and need to be bought into line by force.

I don't mind if you want a steering wheel, but given that we seem to be driving something of a money printing train I'm not sure what you expect the wheel to do. They're following an exponential curve of money creation. The only surprise is that they keep pretending that at some point they will be able to stop printing.
Counter point, what gold really fixed? From a google search:

"Between all of the gold sources in the world, current estimates suggest that roughly 2,500 to 3,000 tons of new gold is mined each year. At present, experts believe that the total amount of above ground gold in the world stands at just over 190,000 tons."
You're confusing the filename length limit with the limitation on the entire path length in the Windows API. NTFS allows paths to be up to 32k characters long, but each path component tops out at 255 characters.
> This surprisingly doesn't mean repeatedly adding 1 will exhaust all natural numbers -- there are models for the natural numbers with elements that can't be reached this way!

Isn't that just true for models of a first-order axiomatisation of the natural numbers? As far as I know, if you write down the Peano axioms in second order logic (as is required), you do get the natural numbers uniquely, and applying the successor function over and over again does exhaust all the natural numbers eventually.

The reason why you get non-standard models of arithmetic in first-order logic is the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem, but that isn't available for second-order logic.
Its comical, but links to the founder of Adobe. IDK what the date alludes to.
Of course it's doable, but citing Signal for it ... you don't get old messages, only new ones. Might be a security "feature" but then again, let me export/import the history manually.
> PDFs are universally understood by most people and can be read on phones, desktops, laptops, and eBook readers.

PDFs need a proprietary app to use, most of which are loaded with spyware & trackers. I may be mistaken in this but MacOS/iOS are the only OSes I know of that read them natively? There's absolutely nothing universal about the format.

HTML is truly universal: not only does every OS come with a built in HTML viewer, but it's a plain text file. You can read the source using anything.

> Once you’ve downloaded a local PDF version of the site, there is no risk that it can be changed or removed by the host.

Once you've downloaded a local HTML version of the page there's no risk that it can be changed or removed by the host. Yes, there's caveats to both: people can create PDFs with remote embeds or HTML sites with ajax content but both of these are the fault/responsibility of the individual author. It's as easy to make good downloadable HTML as downloadable PDF.

The so called "churn" is the responsibility of the individual HTML author. If you're making bad HTML, the fix is to start making good HTML. Not to switch to a closed inaccessible format.
Non-interoperability of a journal isn't a massive downside. It just means after a system failure, you need to plug it back into the same OS first.

Obviously that needs to be enforced with some kind of "do not mount" option so it isn't accidentally used on another OS.
Terrorist Police in London just hit a little different. Machine guns, 5 police to 1 person, all separated apart. Refusing to do so was just not worth the back and forth, generally speaking we would have given them a hard time.

But essentially we were out for a road trip and a friend of mine happens to be a videographer. We were around St. Paul's later at night with 2 cars a few guys and a couple of ladies. My friend was filming the Cathedral and a patrol drove passed and turnaround. They asked to see what was on video, they saw it, a couple of friends turned into deer in headlights with their responses and that's when they called backup.

I tried to keep the producer which they gave me with all the details etc but haven't been able to find it. Odd experience. I couldn't be any lesson 'terrorist' looking if I tried.
I agree with what you wrote except for processing instructions: I’m using them in an XML tool I’m developing for my own use, and while I could devise ways to encode them in other ways by abusing other syntax such as namespaces or (ugh!) comments, I prefer to have them available, indeed to be used sparingly.
I think you can still modify the title of the submission to fix it.

Edit: Your post is 1 hour old. Perhaps you can't edit it now. I'm not sure where is the threshold.
Japan sets internet speed record by transferring 319 Tb/s over 3,001 km
Not the OP, but this has been my experience as well.

* "This will decentralize ownership of a currency." Nope, it will move from having government control to having oligarchic control.

* "A strict limit on the number of tokens means that the value isn't stolen away by inflation." If the supply of currency doesn't keep up with demand, the price skyrockets. This discourages investment, since you get more value just by holding onto it.

* "These are anonymous transactions." On a public ledger, the most you can do is pseudonymous. Just like TOR, you only need to monitor the exit nodes to map pseudonyms to actual people.

* "Irreversible transactions are a feature." They're definitely a bug. If I buy a TV with a credit card, and receive a box of rocks, I can do a chargeback. If I make that same transaction with cryptocurrencies, I'm SOL unless a fraudster suddenly decides that they really want to make good on it.

* "We don't need banks anymore." is absolutely hilarious when coupled with "Off-chain transactions solve the throughput limits." If there's an organization that holds money in their on-chain accounts on behalf of others, manages a balance of those off-chain accounts backed by deposited assets, and facilitates transactions between those off-chain accounts, that sure sounds like a bank to me.

* "Sure, there's a high electricity cost, but compare it to the entire banking system that it's replacing and it's minimal." This one manages to be both inaccurate and false. A proof-of-work cryptocurrency must at all times expend energy proportional to the value represented by the cryptocurrency, or else be vulnerable to attack. As such, the more it expands in usage, the more much be expended to secure it. We've seen how Bitcoin alone now dwarfs entire countries, let alone the banking sector. And even if the statement were true, it is misleading to compare a payment processor to the entire banking sector. Even if the entire banking sector ran on cryptocurrency, you'd still need somebody to underwrite loans and mortgages.

Overall, every single time I've looked into cryptocurrency over the past decade, I came away thinking that it's a really neat idea, but there are so, so many downsides. In practice, cryptocurrencies are worse than Ponzi schemes, because at least Ponzi schemes only screw over people who invest in them. Cryptocurrencies also screw over anybody who wants to use GPUs for productivity/entertainment, anybody who has higher electricity costs due to increased demand, and anybody downwind of (or on the same warming planet as) coal power plants being reactivated to run transaction validation.

Bitcoin delenda est.
Journaling can have significant downsides when used with external flash storage including reduced performance and increased wear of the flash memory.
What we are seeing is a problem with the very fundamentals of software written in non-memory-safe languages. Everything we do is a bandaid.

Any sufficiently funded group will find the zero days they need to exploit the users they want. It's not even a question of if they will find it, or when they will find it. They will find it and they will use it for unethical means.

This whole situation is hopeless until we go back to the basics and build systems from the ground-up with security in mind rather than trying to slap band-aids on architectures that were developed when computer security didn't even exist as a serious concept.
Yeah but it's a decent subset. Most of the complaints of the author should be significantly better
I made Hasjob and Hasgeek, which are separate, but seeing as how everyone refers to Hasjob as Hasgeek, they're going to be merged in a bit.

All feedback and ideas welcome.
A sibling comment linked https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf which claims that it creates a whole-device FS which works across all 3.
> The difference between magic internet money and USD is the word internet.

And the fact that one has been the de facto world currency for the better part of the last century, but that's just a detail for crypto enthusiasts

> At least Bitcoin has a cap

btc is slow as fuck and nowhere near fast enough to even remotely come close to replace any other system
It's about 30 years old - it's creator however is said person.

The actual quote was from JFK iirc regarding the Apollo missions...
It's especially important since FUSE's ntfs-3g is essentially dead - last release was 4 years ago [1].

[1] https://www.tuxera.com/company/open-source/
Th author has a point in that many people want an online presence but the way the imagine it is more akin to a pamphlet or poster than a hyperlinked website.

If that is the case, then pdf or a resizable image makes sense.
The danger of surveillance is that it changes the power dynamics, which creates a risk of discrimination, blackmail and persuasion. It also interferes with our intellectial freedom. It hinders us at experimenting with new or controversial ideas. It can cause us to not exercise our civil liberties.

Not exactly a wonder that autocratic regimes are among the worst offenders of state surveillance. The recurrent purpose of surveillance is to control behavior.

Intellectual privacy is an important part of intellectual diversity and individuality. Basically it allows culture and values to be generated from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. The fear of being watched causes people to act and think differently from the way they might otherwise. Surveillance fails to respect the line between public and private actors as well.
Learn free JavaScript tutorial part 5
Perhaps... not color blind, but that choice for blue and blue-greenish (or is it greenish-blue) is not a good one.
Webcam-fractals: Make realtime interactive fractals with your screen and webcam
I wonder: Is creativity and innovation reduced in strongly puritan areas because of this?
This spells out where it’s appropriate and where it isn’t:

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
So, neutrality supports the entities that have more resources. Since it is supporting them, can it really be called "neutral"?
The part of the interview before this is great too but I've never been able to find it again. All the clips I can find are just this segment.
Plenty of working class people didn't feel the need to vote for a piece of shit like Trump and the cry about the economy to excuse their own stupidity. Hilary Clinton was absolutely right - if you voted for Donald Trump you're a deplorable piece of shit. The fact that there happens to be 10s of millions of them doesn't change that.
I've used it before for a USB drive and honestly I have had nothing but problems with it. I don't remember exactly what kind of problems but I do remember that I was frustrated enough after some time to switch to something else.
You can't sell doors unless there's clear low enforcement that prohibited criminal activities. You need an environment to operate.
I bet 30 years from now, Square's pro-crypto whitepapers will be seen in the same light as the pro-cigarette ads from yesteryear arguing that, actually, smoking is good for you and second-hand smoke is not harmful.
> It's like a US citizen being extradited to Saudia Arabia for watching porn on US soil.

Its not the same.

Regardless of your feelings on Assange, and regardless of your feelings on what the US had been doing in those cables, had this been a russian/chinese/british/french spy, they would have been treated far more aggressively.

Again, this isn't a justification, or indeed an endorsement of either Assange, or the US & UK.

but, it's clear by UK standards, Assange has a case to answer.

The moral case is entirely different, on that I am not equipped to answer.
Yeah but how hard is it to get a guidebook and figure out if Morels are a safe pick in your area. If you already know morels have look a likes where you are, then don't pick them unless you have put in the time on your own research and feel you know how to make that particular ID.

Especially after I've picked something, it is really easy to move backwards and say "is there uncertainty with what this could be?".
Dont forget the advertisements for games and the usual privacy policy you have to accept to allow them to take whatever data they want.
It is bad regardless what fuel you use. Bitcoin uses a proof-of-waste system which scales to any amount of resources available. If some day we had nearly limitless energy from fusion reactors and ran the economy on Bitcoin, there would be a race to strip mine the planet to build more reactors whose output would be wasted to capture the same fixed slice of the mining pie.

If this conclusion sounds absurd we should reconsider the premise that Bitcoin deserves any kind of place in our society.

> Armored bank vehicles are bad for the environment too.

A negligible part of the traffic on the road are bank vehicles, and they don't carry a large part of global wealth. Dollars can be efficiently transferred over the internet now, because the banking system, however slow and fossilised, actually has incentive to reduce waste, unlike Bitcoin.
/dev/null as a Service (SaaS, PaaS)
Any organisation that claims to be defending people's interest needs to do so with completely transparency.

Otherwise we end up with the "who watches the watchmen" narrative over and over.
That's the case with all "bad AI" stories.
Remember, an AI can't make a mistake until we have true AI.
Until then, there's always human error - either the operator, or the programmer.

In this case, it was obviously a mismatch between how the different operators treated the 'name' field - one operator put in an uncertain ID, and another one trusted the system to be correct.

These stories are IMPORTANT. They might help someone think twice before either using or blindly trusting these systems.