skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On top of that, there were programs like A-O-Hell which let people circumvent payment

Looked up AOHell on Wikipedia and landed on this interesting tidbit:

>Most notably, the program included a function for stealing the passwords of America Online users and, according to its creator, contains the first recorded mention of the term "phishing"
People will just start to crack the games to remove this rule, and use private self-hosted servers imho.
Every platform nowadays suffers from this. Reddit's admins recently posted saying they intended to continue allowing anti-vaxx content. To quote the admins themselves [1]: "we believe it is best to enable communities to engage in debate and dissent." YouTube is the other cornerstone of the anti-vaxx movement, hosting and (quite sinisterly) automatically recommending countless videos on the topic (see Plandemic).

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/pbmy5y/debat...
> Sounds like the FAA altitude problem all over again.

It's not an altitude (alimeter) issue, it's a bearing (GPS airway) navigation issue.

With GPS, two airplanes can collide while on the centerline of the same airway at the same altitude, going in either direction, since GPS is accurate to about a foot.
The Philippines has some special laws on the books to make the country more friendly to outsourced jobs like telemarketing and support. I know there are specifics for foreign PII protection for example, you might want to see if anything exists for IP as well.

Keep in mind that like many things in the Philippines, enforcement isn't very consistent and probably seriousness varies greatly by the region.

I came across a PH goverment website leaking copious amounts of PII and couldn't manage to get anyone at the National Privacy Commission to take it seriously. I lived there for about 3 years.
if you replace the technologies with tech-du-jour it's pretty much the same thing - kubernetes solving all of your deployment and system managment needs (except for, you know, managing or understanding kubernetes itself), json or yaml being the be-all-end-all for data formats (until you need comments, etc), 'cloud native', 'serverless', etc.

these are all tools not solutions but people keep pretending the tools are the solution. That's the 'astronaut' part - off in space and not grounded to actual user requirements.
Pretty much an inevitability once governments become too big. It’s a common literary topic in the early 1900s covering from Orwell, Kafka, Brave New World just to name a few examples.
The amount of frustration across social platforms feels like it's due for a tipping point yet the value on these platforms for many is enormous. I am really curious to see what "social" looks like in a few years -- not like we'll lose interest in vanity
Sure they might blame it on some of those groups on either side but I think the thing is you can't move on. There's something real there that happened and it will be impossible for people to actually move on until that gets processed and resolved somehow... That's the scary thing, i think. It's like this big item in the karmic to-do list and I wonder what the end game is or the plan to deal with it is
Is the Fed creating a housing bubble by keeping rates low?
Yes, unfortunately even when there is a calendar integration offered, it’s often through a “heavyweight” oauth-style API that requires all sorts of crazy permissions…
one could argue a well engineered system wouldn't require 2000 devs to work on it...
What will you do when DoT+ECH (encrypted client hello/encrypted SNI) is the default? block 17.0.0.0/8?
Okay, if the mechanism by which the government ostensibly makes a policy isn't the thing that makes the policy authoritarian or not ("democracy" versus "single-party" or "communist"), and the content of the policy itself isn't the thing that makes the policy authoritarian or not (restricting minors' alcohol usage versus restricting minors' video game usage), then what is it that makes the policy authoritarian or not?
Isn't writing the pen going for a walk?
Quite. I think they are in the middle ground between domestic cats and wild cats. I don't think you have what I would call wild cats in the US (you have the bigger felines such as Lynx etc). In Scotland there are a few examples and they are being actively conserved. They look like large domestic cats but are completely wild.

The farm cat or barn cat is one that is clearly domesticated but encouraged to do whatever it likes with a few simple rules. It gets fed regularly and apart from a particular species (hens) it can destroy anything else at will.

We created these things and we should damn well look after them. Cats are not complex at all. If you "make" a farm/barn cat then it should be left as such.

Granny and granddad also had Wee White as a house cat. When the chicks were hatched they were stuffed into a tray and put into the house boiler cupboard to keep warm. This was the "airing cupboard". British housing off of the sixties and beyond often has a hot water boiler that was merged with the formal place that you air fabrics to dry them.

Their airing cupboard had a load of chicks in a tray and a cat on another shelf. You walk past a combination of purring and cheeping.
Chicago judge rules mom cannot see her 11-year-old son because she’s not vaxxed
Check out Handshake: handshake.org - they even did a token drop to GitHub users with a certain amount of followers at the time of the snapshot
Says the influential politician being blackmailed for something that happened decades ago. Privacy is the only way to have a civilised society with a functional democracy
Yes, they do. Hold on the music app, click the dash to delete it.
Ask HN: Research on usage of text-only versions of websites?
I discovered the text-only version of NPR today and of course that type of news presentation is nothing new [1].

I’m wondering if there’s any analytics or research on how popular or useful these kinds of pages are? I’d love to make a business case for making one of these pages for our site.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15997349

Previously:
Text-only websites discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23626929
Crowdsourced text-only faves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337948 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544259
That isn't properly engineered code.

And if you dig into all that code usually the designer didn't understand those tricks and patterns as well as they thought they did and were trying to teach themselves along the way.

You can often throw away 3/4 of the code, throw away 3/4 of the "requirements" which aren't being used and wind up with something that is actually simple and elegant and solves the problem, but doesn't attempt to construct anything as grandiose. Of course YAGNI is a whole lot easier in hindsight when you can really look over the course of years and see that nobody ever needed it so it never should have been built and throw it out.
It sounds like both subs took damage around their sonar systems, so it's possible they couldn't use active sonar after the collision even if they wanted to.
That's nothing. If he'd ever published that book of his on domain specific languages, he'd have done billions in damage.
RFP coordination systems to solve this mess

I'm asking as coordinator of Moonshot Collective, where our mission is to build coordination tools. We have builders standing by for exactly this - please give me ideas so I can give them to my teams to build.

What are your ideals for these solutions?
What are the best solutions you've seen?
Gmail does a pretty good job with this, but there are some scenarios that don’t work properly; if I recall right, one is when you get a forwarded invite, you get the “add event” dialog on desktop but not on mobile.
U.S. Troops Exit Afghanistan After 20-Year Military Presence
That’s not what that doc says at all.
Computers have been obeying other peoples' orders since the inception of OS/software licensing.
We restrict both time and what they have access to, and the kids don't generally crave screen time (they're in elementary school).

Aside from watching movies every once in a blue moon, they only have access to specific games (all of which fall in the educational category), so no endless content feeds and no micro-transaction BS.

At one point, they got into one game enough that they'd demand daily screen time, but then the novelty wore off and they stopped asking.

Most days, they just spend their play time doing other things and screen time doesn't even come up.
Sometimes they try to be clever and detect my calendar provider and do it wrong. Sometimes they request oauth-style API permission to my calendar. Sometimes they link to a .ics file that isn’t handled.
In an emergency, I can’t imagine having an amateur radio link available, having a need to comm with family, and deciding not to because the connection was unencrypted and unsigned.

Airplanes are controlled by in the clear, unsigned radio comms every day. I don’t see why emergency comms over AR is a more compelling case for a secure link.
TOS was GEM + GEMDOS on 68k, which was really a kind of ... rewrite of CP/M 68k, but with DOS-ish additions. Many of the internals and source code look identical/similar to CP/M 68k.

(GEM itself had its genesis with Lee Jay Lorenzen moving from Xerox (in Dallas, not PARC) to DR. At Xerox he'd tried to float the idea of a Xerox Star-like interface on PC class hardware. He ended up doing that once he moved to DR, as GEM. It has Mac influences, for sure, but it was their own creation.)

http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html

http://www.deltasoft.com/downloads-gemworld.htm

Kind of wonder how much of that DNA made it into DR-DOS and Concurrent DOS.
Applying the multi-armed bandit to your career
This is a travesty. The French law makes no sense.

The victim of a tort is barred from justice simply for not being expert legal scholars or for hiring a bad lawyer.

What's even crazier, The GPL isn't even in French https://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.en.html
, and French courts don't accept English evidence, so the idea that there was a contract is absurd. (and how can France even allows "contracts" where one party doesn't even notify the other that they agree to it?!)

Also, Orange violated the contractual rights of every user of their software, not just the rights of the author. So why can't other users sue Orange? Or maybe they can? They should!
My golden handcuffs are sooo heavy. I'll wipe my tears with a hundred and then burn it to feel something.
Yes, strict aliasing (or type-based alias analysis?) is quite crazy, and there are some murky dark corners where the specification is different between C and C++..

I think they have a std::launder thing exactly for this purpose of "safely casting an array of bytes into an object".

However, in this particular case (of using char array to hide real implementation), the implementation resides in another translation unit, so I don't think anything is going to break if LTO is not enabled. With LTO I have no idea..
Not sure I've looked at the entire world's road bends.

I do know that with a few exceptions, English roads do what the posted signs say they will do.
I would love to read into the psychology of these people. You know, the busybody, snitchy neighbour type. The type that scrutinizes a neighbours home improvements for the most trivial of infractions (we don't allow this colour of flower in this HOA!), or who threatens to report people for banal things that aren't even illegal (gasp... someone legally parked on the publicly owned street).
Okay, we understand the word “punting” extremely differently then. Active work is the opposite of punting.

And yeah, maybe in an alternative universe where everything is different, things would be different. But that zero-cost C interop is one of the only reasons Rust succeeded enough to be making it to the point where it’s conclusion is considered, let alone re-writing all of the primitives of all the current OSes and waiting until those are widely deployed enough to be able to use only them and ignore all those embedded users. I don’t possibly see a universe where that works out. But in theory it could happen I guess.
What you've posted is a very common misunderstanding of what happened in the mid 00s but unfortunately not at all accurate on any point you've raised.

Pre-capacitive touch screen technology worked perfectly fine with fingers. People had been using their fingers on kiosks and PDAs with infra red and resistive touch screens (respectively) for years before capacitive touch screen technology hit the market. In fact I personally had several PDAs from ~2000 onwards and would often use my fingers for simple operations (ie when precision wasn't required).

Ironically capacitive screens actually have greater limitations over capacitive screens in terms of general usability, as quoted on Wikipedia:

> Unlike a resistive touchscreen, some capacitive touchscreens cannot be used to detect a finger through electrically insulating material, such as gloves. This disadvantage especially affects usability in consumer electronics, such as touch tablet PCs and capacitive smartphones in cold weather when people may be wearing gloves. It can be overcome with a special capacitive stylus, or a special-application glove with an embroidered patch of conductive thread allowing electrical contact with the user's fingertip.

Also capacitive throws a fit if the surface gets wet, which resistive screens didn't, and resistive screens offer greater precision when used with a stylus.

Capacitive screens look nicer though (greater contrast etc). Which is why they eventually won out.

As for the whole finger-orientated UI thing, well that happened around the same time as capacitive screens hit the market (resistive screens can also be made to support multi-touch by the way) and thus would have happened with or without the invention of capacitive screens.

So no, the reason for the stylus wasn't a limitation of resistive touch screens. It was the UI and that would have changed regardless of the introduction of capacitive screens.

Also can we drop the bullshit that Apple were the inventors of multi-touch UIs. There were 3 companies working on the same technology in parallel: Apple, LG and Google. LG even beat Apple to market and then accused Apple of stealing their idea, much like Apple like to claim others did with the iPhone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

Suffice to say, the industry was changing and would have changed with or without Apple's involvement. They certainly were a big catalyst but where absolutely were not the only players in the game.
In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words, so I slowly whisper I love you thirty-two and a third times. After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

- Jeffery McDaniel
This is because Google Docs operates similarly to YouTube in that your signed-in user is determined by a per-tab session. Especially for editing content, a workplace-owned Doc with misconfigured permissions might open on your personal on account when you probably want to sign in with your workspace email.
It's as well supported as x86 these days. It's was phased in somewhere around 2014.
people discussing various other scheduling things -

there is also 'remind': https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

which is very flexible, unfortunately it hasn't really made it into the 'canon'
Pretty good analysis here, just one piece I strongly disagree with: that part about China’s armed forces capabilities surpassing that of the US. In sheer troop numbers, yes that’s inevitable, but total effective capacity to wage global war? Various technologies - especially the ones that don’t officially exist, whatever they are (some Army buddies have told me of a few things that frankly I don’t believe because they’re too sci-fi; if true are cataclysmically terrifying) - will likely negate most of that advantage. Coupled with the allies the US brings to the table - by FAR our biggest advantage - their best possible outcome is to be “close enough nobody wants to find out”.

So surpass? Not happening. Scary dangerous anyway? Oh yeah that’s a guarantee.
That's true in US, but French court ruled that's not true in France, even though GPL does not exist in French.
Thanks for dropping in. Can you explain this comment about Radicale?

> Does not handle authentication by default, needs to be handled by the reverse proxy

My Radicale instance validates users on its own, using credentials in an htpasswd file with bcrypt hashes. Doesn't that count as authentication?
> Number one there absolutely is extensive research on gaming and its potential physiological ramifications.

The parent comment suggested there isn't, and the reply I gave was modulo this assumption. If you say there is extensive research, give it to the parent comment.

> by your logic you could justify restricting anything in the entire universe by stating that there isn't sufficient research

You do a strawman argument here, your interpretation of my argument is self-servingly absurd.

The parent comment wanted to discard one of the alternatives because there's too little research. I objected saying that if there's not enough research, this makes the two alternatives equally favorable (not that it strengthens the other alternative!).
3. You don't have the environment an actual child would have when learning their first language, which has the crucial elements of:

a) constantly needing to interact with native speakers in their language to accomplish goals (obtain food, get them to stop screaming at you), and

b) those native speakers attempting to figure out what you want and telling how to say that.

I suspect that the supposed greater ease with which children learn languages is mostly explained away once you control for those factors.
Dang… perfect metaphor.
> I do not need to put effort into destroying those things [proof-of-stake blockchains]

You originally said you want to destroy proof-of-work blockchains, and were looking for advice on how to do that with ETH. It's already being destroyed on ETH by proof-of-stake. You asked for advice, that's the advice. You don't need to do anything except wait.

Now you are saying you don't need to put effort into destroying proof-of-stake. Why is that relevant here? It suggests to me your goal is different from what you originally stated. Are you looking to see the destruction of more than just proof-of-work? The destruction of BTC and ETH, even if they switch away to another consensus mechanism?
Those documents were public, and central evidense upon which an argument rests.
This way most the assholes get filtered out, but the assholes that are left are goatse incarnate.
Don't forget they bought Time Warner including their cable TV/Internet operation. Say what you will about the service itself, but as a business, they did pretty well.
Seriously I'd rather have a 10x increase in police if it meant no firearms.
> When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen.

What happens if you don't go far enough up, abstraction wise?

You end up repeating yourself - everywhere. You end up with globals everywhere. You end up with God Classes. You end up with epic-length functions nested 15 levels deep. You end up with primitives trying to do the job that well-crafted data structures, named using the terminology of the problem domain, should be doing.

It's odd that the author rails against "astronauts" without addressing the very real motivations that lead to good architectures. Like all design, there are tensions in software development, and navigating the forces pulling you in opposite directions regarding architecture is one of the most important contribution you can make.

It's also odd that the author never calls out specific architectures that are the work of astronauts, just "the stupendous amount of millennial hype that surrounds them." He seems to hint in the introduction that CORBA is (was) one of them, but even that reference is pretty vague.
s/2021/2004/g
I'm not sure if this comment was in jest or not but I've seen both of these things happen in real projects.
Nintendo is licensing its IP to mobile game devs. In their minds, the phone is already the "last-gen handheld game console". I'm excited for Fire Emblem: Heroes ;)
I’m using a throw away account. I will contact you via email as well.

You’re offering 50% of a nonprofit and open source project. So 50% equity has no value. I like the mission but as a non-technical co-founder I think my value will be building a sustainable business as quickly as possible…so I think you should make it clear, you’re looking for someone that can build the business side of things for you?

Did you develop this software yourself?

What is to prevent a company like Tyler Technologies from using their existing relationships to offer this service?
MS Exchange server for tasks and calendar, OneNote for notes, SharePoint to sync these notes.

Closed source, expensive, designed to be supported by professionals, you might need more than 1 server/VM to run them all, requires AMD64 processors.

Well tested (used by millions of people every day), relatively secure, not terribly hard to setup (follow installation guide / best practices documents carefully, and you should be fine).
For those looking to stream their own music, MinimServer is a UPnP music server that specializes in displaying the correct info for Classical music: https://minimserver.com

Not affiliated with it, but I used to run on it on my NAS. It's multiplatform as well (written in Java).
Good point.

Honestly, not sure. At some point i think i will have to run a firewall when these guys won't allow custom dns anymore.

I had in past looked into putting a pfsense but its definitely not a good fit for raspberry hardware, if you have a fiber/gigabit internet.
Yeah, I always get a kick when we deploy containers that don’t do anything other than set up some kernel networking structures and then more or less just sleep. Truly the future of devops.
Urgency doesn't imply value. Time horizons can vary and while there tends to be a correlation of cost and time horizons (higher urgency - higher costs, lower urgency - lower costs) that doesn't mean one is more or less valuable, it just costs more.

ER doctors may provide urgent surgery or medical intervention that's life saving and usually that costs a lot more than say long term chemotherapy or say HIV management with a specialist. Both are life saving, it just turns out that one conveniently has a longer time horizon which makes it easier to juggle to reduce costs while the other requires full attention and makes it difficult to juggle clients.

You would hope management doing budget cuts would adjust budget cuts based on value provided. This is arguably difficult to quantify in many cases but it shouldn't be quantified by how many, likely artificial, deadlines a group has and how busy they look. That's just silly.
>There's screens and screens, they can't be really lumped them into a single content.

Same can be said about TV programs.

I watch Bluey (and only Bluey) with my one year-old daughter, and have genuinely learned wholesome, positive parenting techniques from watching this family of cartoon dogs interact.

That's not to say that there isn't a whole lot of garbage, but, like all media, TV programs follow Sturgeon's Law too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law