skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A portion of the proceeds go towards the Yunakin land tax."

An _Anti Corporate_ organisation adopting a very corporate measure in my view.

If taxes could lead to justice, then native Americans would be far less prone to poverty, alcoholism and depression.

About the product itself, it's hard to see how this is an alternative to goodreads. The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. A great model for decentralised moderation etc. The parallel could be made with reddit, not so much with goodreads where over half of the books in existence are listed, very often rated/reviewed.
You can hackily run vscode via web.. https://link.medium.com/Y7igOLU9hjb
This an exciting release for me. A few years ago, I bought a vastly overpowered (at least, for router purposes) x86 box with a bunch of ethernet interfaces, with the idea that I'd run OpenWRT on it and then deploy a few containers to it for extra services. Until this release, though, many of the kernel options needed to support containers weren't enabled on OpenWRT's default kernel. It was possible to pull off my original plan by doing a custom build, and the OpenWRT build system makes this very easy, but it's even easier to be able to just grab a pre-built release.
NETworkManager 2021.9.5.0 Released
The only bug I recall being reported on BO was in the built in HTTP server (which I wrote from scratch in C), if you shared a specific directory with the HTTP server, on Internet Explorer it would not let you click through to sub-directories because of a missing slash at the end I think. I only ever tested it with Firefox which seemed to not care if the slash was present. I found out about this from people who thought it was a feature, and were horrified to find out that anyone COULD access those sub-directories if they manually added the trailing slash or used a different browser.

.ooM.ooF.
I am a Hong Kong immigrant in Canada. I spent a part of my childhood in HK and the rest of my time in Canada.

There was an era that the parents insisted on communicating with their kids in English so that their kids didn't fall behind in school. Speaking not in English was a taboo at school: Kids raised their eyebrows. Some kids were punished for not speaking in English. (Circa 70s and 80s English speaking Canada)

Now we realized the attitude has been damaging. I've met some adults cannot hold deeper conversation with their parents just like what the author said. In addition, these adults may not know or understand culture subtitles why some trivial matters (such as number 4) being inappropriate.

My high school was great in celebrating all world cultures and the indigenous people. In addition, some of my teachers in Canada spoke other languages at home and understood well how kids would not fall behind by speaking their native tongue at home. Nowadays, many parents would like to send their kids to French immersion school so that the kids can appreciate working in other languages.

I am lucky enough to have enough vocabulary in Cantonese to understand grown-up topics with my parents. Occasionally, I helped the Canadian born Chinese to order proper food in restaurants. They thanked me profusely. I also have early elementary school level Mandarin so I can navigate in many Chinatowns around the world without a hitch. During some occasion, I feel like I have an adult body but think like a kid since I never lived as an adult in any predominantly Chinese speaking (Cantonese or Mandarin) nations.
Even the Maverick looks big compared to the 90-something Ranger my dad drove when I was growing up, though perhaps the apparently-mandatory crew cab has a lot to do with that perception.

EDIT: also, is there seriously now 4WD/AWD option? That's unfortunately a non-starter for me (though if push came to shove I'd certainly take FWD over RWD).
Considering this practice is in widespread use, I think you might be overestimating the vastness of this "community" (community of what? anti pipe-to-shell community?) "More people are saying A rather than B" is not an especially convincing argument in the first place.

Comparisons with flat earthers is just insulting.
>> I legitimately don’t understand how that seems like a more reasonable choice than infill, changing zoning, and public transit improvements within existing urban and suburban areas

That's called false dichotomy. If you took all the land in the bay area that people aren't allowed to build on and you allowed developers to build single family homes on all that land, that's what, a million homes? You tell me. You could do infill, zoning, transit, all that, and still build a million new houses too.

It's a choice. And the choice people are making is let's do none of that, let's do precisely none of that. Which is fine, but just stop with the whining.

People made choices.
> the promise of flying cars

What's the promise of flying cars though?

I'd suggest they're largely a terrible idea, wildly inefficient as a mode of transportation, and should not exist unless we come up with an extraordinary energy breakthrough that entirely remakes the planet. There are plenty of terrible ideas we've chosen not to pursue because they're irrational.

We could make flying garbage trucks. Who doesn't want hovering garbage trucks. So futuristic! It's a terrible idea. We could make buses that can fly. It's a terrible idea. We could all try to live in underwater cities. It's a terrible idea. We could all try to live in orbit around the planet. It's a terrible idea.

The lack of flying cars isn't a failure. It's the ideal outcome (for now).

I don't get the appeal of low quality fantasy ideas that were obviously absurd. I don't get why people dwell on mediocre ideas from the past as an indictment of the present. It seems like a cheap excuse to lash the present for not being good enough. Electricity too cheap to meter was obviously not going to happen at scale, it was an incorrect premise that wasn't thought through at all (as though nuclear power plants, infrastructure, maintenance, replacement, labor were also going to be free or nearly so). I'd call it a very foolish notion by the person that suggested it.

Just because someone comes up with a fantastic premise and floats it out there (what if I could take a pill and live forever!), that doesn't mean the present failed by not realizing it. Sometimes they're just bad ideas or otherwise a false premise, supported by poor reasoning (if supported by anything).
All that does is pull through a year of extra demand. (I’d be more inclined to call it a doubling of annual demand rather than a 52x.)
Because it's cool.
This is great. Looking forward to a few of your "in development" entries of the Croatian banks!
People are taking unsubstantiated therapeutics/prophylactics in response to a single YouTube comment but refusing to take the vaccine for ... reasons.

I don't agree that this is shaming but perhaps some is in order.
You single-handedly made me interested in computers deeper than playing Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. You made a 12th grader who didn’t have a decent computer at home start learning DNS and saving his dollars for a Pentium to start programming on.

I got into so much trouble my Senior year of High School with your software, but it put me on a path.

Your software and NetBus was all I needed. We owned EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING in our town until we got found out. Naive me at the time thought it was really cool, until the Detectives showed up…

Here’s to you. Thank you.
We couldn’t really have achieved this degree of power efficiency on 80’s tech though. Likewise, we couldn’t have gotten to 2020’s tech (always-on wrist-watch displays that last days), without increased power efficiency. Advancements in either one facilitate advancements in the other.

As a fun example, I’ve been simulating core memory at the level of electric/magnetic fields lately. It takes literally trillions of floating point operations to simulate just 1 nanosecond of a single bit of core memory. In doing this, I can identify things like “if we were to arrange the cores like <this>, we could reduce the peak magnitude of the radiated fields when a core flips, thus we could get by with using slightly softer ferrites (which use less energy when switching state) without encountering noise problems.”

But of course, a trillion fp operations was a lot more back then! Having more advanced tech made it substantially easier to optimize the earlier tech. Optimizing compilers are maybe a more direct, but limited, example of this. The faster a CPU can run your code, the more cycles you can have your compiler spend making that code run even faster. I’m not sure there’s a good term for these “mutual feedback loops”, but they seem to pop up a lot.
The point is that if it weren't for judicial activism, there might have been a more moderate middle ground reached, and that the perception of that anything more conservative than the status quo is radical is disingenuous.

More conservative than roe or casey is made out to be radical, and based on the laws of the rest of the world, that's absolutely not the case.
Easy to do when you're backed by Google.
people can really get hung up on jargon like this. the real concept is dimensional modeling which is a whole strategy and toolkit of ideas for doing online analytical processing. you can do it with anything, the data warehouse toolkit was calling it "rowlap" when you did in a regular database. you would be dead lost trying to use a proper "olap" tool with special sparse matrix data structures and MDX queries without understanding concepts like the various types of dimension tables and how they can be nested etc. Claire was basically right but maybe actually complaining more about the marketing of the olap products than any actual gatekeeping.
Ask HN: Device to show calendar events on my wrist?
I've never really been a user of smartwatches or fitness bands (I stick to my trusty Casio F91-W), but recently I've wanted a way to view Google Calendar notifications on my wrist. Is there an inexpensive device that can pair with an Android to do this, preferably one that respects privacy?
The GP said:

> Very rarely do people use Bitcoins to make purchases.

Not that 'no one' uses. Yes there are folks, perhaps like you, that do make exchanges using it. But those transactions are fairly limited (relatively speaking)—even with its growing popularity—and it seems to be technologically limited by its very design:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

It should be note that even though Bitcoin is used as money, all sorts of other things are used as money/currency as well, including ramen noodles,[1][2] spices, tuna fish, and tobacco [3]. Some forms of money are more practical than others, some more stable than others. Just because something can be used, or even is used, doesn't mean it's a good idea in general.

For a quick (272pp) overview of it's history see Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein.[4][5]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/26/491236253/ra...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/22/ramen-prison...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2016/aug/23/wh...

[4] https://bookshop.org/books/money-the-true-story-of-a-made-up...

[5] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50358103-money
Compared to taking the train, if you drive, when you arrive you have a car to get around with. You also get to leave when you want and not have to rely on the train schedules. Combine that with the car being significantly cheaper for that incremental trip and I find it difficult to ever justify taking the train.
And this is why corporations tend to have strict policies of revoking all access before people are informed that they are fired, or perhaps simultaneously while they're being told so that when they go out of the meeting room it's already done.

The vast majority people won't do stupid crimes like this, but the fraction who would can cause a sufficiently painful disruption (even if you have great backups, recovery and verification takes time, effort, downtime and organizational confusion) to justify that.
Being a resilient company only means that when it’s time for an industry bailout you get less than your competitors because you’re doing better.

Private profit, socialized risk.
I've written a series of guides on how to use these tools in practice, here: https://felixcrux.com/blog/ledger-practices
Relevant to the overall thread, perhaps: Fainting couches were a thing in Victorian times IIRC.
Show HN: Remap keys on windows without installing anything
I wasn't super happy with all of the windows remapping software available as all of it boiled down to installing an application that edited the registry, and then lived on your system forever doing who knows what.

You don't need any software to edit the registry! Just a .reg file and call it a day.

So that's what I made. A web based tool that'll generate any re-mappings you need and send you a .reg file.
I’ve never understood the appeal to use an iPad over a MacBook Air for anything at all ever, but especially for this use case. So obviously I’m not the target market for a tablet. But could you help me understand what you would like about using an iPad over an Air for what you’ve described?
Hex-editing Intergrade at certain points allowed you to bypass authentication and go RIIIIIGHT in.

I didn’t know what that meant at the time, but my buddy sure did.

He was kicked out of school a few weeks later for editing his grades.
Yea, same 98,99 window for me doing the same shit. This thread is crazy.
FWIW the sharding at worldborder approach is still the preferred way to shard in CivCraft-inspired servers. IIRC the CivCraft 3 sharding happened in the middle of a continent, so you could feasibly be chasing someone and both would be switched to a separate world mid-chase.
Toyota actually had a large buffer of chip inventory which allowed them to maintain production longer than most other auto manufacturers. But it wasn't enough and they're finally cutting production. There are limits to buffering.
I personally run an OpenWRT Wi-Fi access point and OpenBSD router. The max download speed I get from my ISP is 350Mbps and the router is able to handle that. But yes, WiFi on OpenBSD is something which is not really a good option right now.
Completely agree. Its like a very specific point in time where not a ton of people experienced the same wonder.
The anonymous tip part is not harmless.. I have no idea how you don’t think that.
On one hand the author seems to make fun of the notion that language models could be dangerous.

But then a few sentences down the author complains:

"The company “in charge” of protecting us from harmful AIs decided to let people use a system capable of engaging in disinformation and dangerous biases so they could pay for their costly maintenance."

So the author doesn't even present a coherent position.
Better mileage than a Prius without even being a hybrid seems like exactly the sort of reason why someone would want one. And with EVs coming, kei cars/trucks seem like perfect candidates for EV conversions.

Re: crash safety, I wonder if it's possible to retrofit some extra safety measures on these things?
“IBM Power mainframe”

Power is not a mainframe. Power and Z can both run Linux.
Mtrees.io: Technology Design Game
There's a difference between not taking action that will save someone, and taking action that will intentionally kill someone. Also, parents have a duty of care towards their own children that doesn't exist between random strangers.
> “The team broke into RF communication between the remote and set-top box and listened in on conversations with a basic RF transceiver.”

I just unplug my TV and all of it’s peripherals when they’re not in use. When I turn it off, it consumes electricity, remains partially illuminated, and pretends to be off like it’s a zombie tv that refuses to die.
> isn't the point of steam to carry heat _away_ from the plant?

The point of steam is to turn a generator, these plants are basically steam engines using heat to produce steam for driving a turbine.

Edit: I think I'm wrong in that the steam loop for driving the turbines is isolated from the loop including the cooling towers which is strictly for cooling the closed generation circuit via heat exchangers to condense the steam... you're right.
Isn't this just over the top, perhaps unintentional, method acting?
Votes for women.

It wasn't obtained through asking politely.
> Oh, and the kei pick-up trucks are very useful little vehicles....probably what half of American pickup truck drivers should have instead of their underutilized monster trucks (F-150, Dodge Ram, etc..).

A kei truck (with 4WD/AWD) is exactly what I would buy if I could actually register it here in Nevada.
If you install TrackerControl, no root needed (it pretends to be a VPN to capture your traffic, but is not a real VPN), you will see which apps try to talk to tracking services and thus also which ones talk to Google.

It also as a 'traffic log' feature which, when turned on, shows live which app is talking to which tracker.

Note that, especially if you turn on blocking services marked as essential in the setup, you will need to unblock a lot of CDNs and tracking services for many apps to work including Spotify, your browser, etc. Of course you can also just whitelist apps completely, or temporarily turn all blocking off altogether. But by default it will block trackers, since that's kind of its point. This has the side effect of blocking virtually all advertisements.
Ask HN: How should aspiring founders plan financially?
I’m in-line to receive my green card in 2 years. At that time I’d like to try my hand at a startup. I’ve been saving money to fund myself for the first year (or two, or …?) but there are lots of unknowns financially once you start to get traction. How long until a founder can typically draw a salary? How much is typically drawn?

I suspect the answer is ‘keep your burn as low as possible’ but advice is appreciated. Some details about my situation:
- married with baby
- live in non-BA big tech center
- interested in buying house but concerned about locking in my burn rate
- currently working at a well paying large CO as a SWE
Lee from Vercel. This is not accurate – Next.js will be free and open-source, forever. OSS is a core part of Vercel's ethos.
I lived a very similar story. I fondly remember dialing up to the local BBS on my 2nd grade library computer (92,93) with ATT or ATDT [phone number]. And throughout elementary and middle school getting in tight with the sysadmins, eventually starting a class at my high school of sys admin interns (98-01). What a grand time. So many rules bent via admin rights throughout the entire school's network...so much fun. Basically just helped image and setup/fix like a 300 computer deployment. Def. set the stage of my life's career choices.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421084

Happy to provide more clarity as needed and answer questions you have!
> The internet was a tiny niche...for a year or two

What?

This statement bears no semblance to reality.

I say this as someone on the net since 1991, went through the dotcom bust of the 1990s, the Great Recession & has worked at several Big Tech companies. Basically my whole career has involved the Internet for several decades, and to say it was a "tiny niche for a year or two" is just... ridiculous.
NetBus.

NetBus was the GREATEST Win95/98 remote admin/spying software outside BO.

Network scan? Don’t mind if I do. Huh. So many machines. Let’s see what windows they have open.

alt.sex.grannies (or whatever it was back in the day)

Fire off a message “NO. Turn that off. C’mon, man.”

Actually got a reply back.

“OK. I’m sorry.”

Do the title bar refresh and see it’s closed.

That was my favoritest random memory of NetBus in the wild.
Control Our Lab Color
This 2015 video (25m) is a useful basics-to-examples (20m) intro to Faust (Juce) for programmers. (by Oli Larkin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INlqClEOhak
They started stockpiling key components after the earthquake roughly 8 years ago. You could do this globally if everyone took the Toyota approach and only stockpiled components likely to suffer disruption.
Would make sense; spaces between words are ignored in traditional palindromes.
They're not using someone's name to do this though, so I don't get how you're making a connection.

Yes, they are intentionally deceiving, but that's not the samething
I've been running and doing minor plugin work on minecraft servers for years, getting close to a decade, and I've wanted this for so long. This would be a game changer for some modes I play.
There was also pretty widespread trade between tribes up and down the West coast from what is now BC all the way down through the what is now the Baja.
The fantasy part is thinking that someone in the DOJ is offering up some sort of antitrust amnesty in exchange for reporting potential instances of CSAM to a private organization.
I am in the current batch, and I had similar thoughts that author implied in the beginning - large number of Startups in batch , how remote would work , and how remote would affect fundraising .

I feel remote or some kind of hybrid is here to stay since it is better - work in your home country or hometown , no commute needed for office hours , exposure to more VCs via remote , and flexibility to move out of a session if it is not relevant or you are feeling sleepy.

The real downsides are below and our partners shared the same in beginning .
1. Less interactions with your batchmates and random chat on all kinds of topics
2. Exposure to the SF area that most international founders do not have
3. Parties at restaurants - not shared by partners

I love YC, so my opinion might be biased . YC is best and 10X better than anything I know or heard of.
> The federation is designed in a way that silos communities.

You seem to have taken the exact opposite view of what anyone in the fediverse would consider this as. This is many connected communities. Not siloed. That's what "decentralized" means, their very first major point on the website.

An unfortunately limited & skeptical view. Hopefully you just need to be better informed. If there's real gaps in how federation works to connect, the fediverse is happy to discuss, adapt, & adopt: bring on your more specific complaints! This is supposed to be the cure for silos! Everyone can run whatever, they want, and we can interoperate!
> You can register it in another state without the hassle you just risk getting tickets for not being CA registered.

The trick is to have your license in that state, too. Then the CHP can't prove that you're a California resident (at least not during a traffic stop) ;)
Def. kept a list of us/pws for the local dial-up. Totally was at a good friend's house years later and discovered his dial-up username was one of my list I used often. rofl, that killed me at the time. I never told him!
All of the references scattered through the game "Deus Ex" lead me to buying "The Man Who Was Thursday" - they added a lot of colour to that game and provided hints to how the story was going to play out.
> Let's compare that to domestic energy usage by country [1].

This page actually ranks it for you ("Sustainability"):

* https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

Bitcoin would be the 27th most energy using country: ahead of Argentina (30), Sweden (29), and Ukraine (28); just below and about to overtake Malaysia (26), and below Egypt (25) and Poland (24).

Whether Bitcoin actually generates as much (societal?) value as the entire country of Sweden for the electricity it uses? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would fork it and mainly provide time to arbitrate changes. I would argue that it is difficult to make sense of the community desires though.
Looking at the issues, the path desired by the community for the project isn't clear. If you mind clarifying, I wouldn't mind helping out.