skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a third of Australia that's gone insane. The rest have checked out and completely ignored it. It's like a long holiday where you get paid to pretend you work.

But you can't say that in polite company so you just have ~40 percent compliance with whatever insanity is going on now. Hilariously enough the compliance from police is lower than from the general population so basically we have politicians and the terminally online talking about masks, jabs and sign ins and the people who are supposed to enforce it not being bothered with it.

Standing in front of the super market something like one in three pull out their phone, unlock it, point it at the check in qr code and not log in.

I'm reminded of the latter days of the USSR where no one took anything the government said seriously and just did whatever they felt like. Which does not bode well for the current incarnation of Australia long term.
It doesn't work for me neither on Brave desktop.
This is pretty amazing. I don't mind Reddit ads, but the official interface leaves a lot to be desired.

This one is so very smooth, and solves all the issues I have with official reddit.

Very well done, I hope the project continues.
How many EVs has Ford sold so far?

Ford has delivered a total of 12,975 electric vehicles year-to-date as of fiscal 2Q 2021, or the period ended on June 30, 2021.

Can non Tesla car companies make enough EVs?
> Since it has to be in the sun, it needs a huge shield.

I don't think there's any place in the solar system you can put things so that they won't be in the sun. If you're going to be in the sun anyway, better use it.
That's true. But it is also true that, in some of those countries, people fail to follow those rules. For a worst-case example, the Delta variant in Argentina was traced down to a man [1] who ignored the self-isolation rules and visited shopping malls and a restaurant.

I can be probably persuaded that some specific regions can do well with voluntary quarantine. But I'd rather trust the local authorities to know what the best approach for their people is.

[1] https://en.mercopress.com/2021/08/23/case-zero-of-delta-vari...
> absolutely don't want this on the same machine you use to browse the web and run untrusted javascript

100% agree, I said it in my comment :)

There's no chance you can get away with unrestricted memory access on a machine that ever talks to any other unknown machine ever, on any protocol and for any reason.

> It's never been easier for kids to get into programming.

I honestly don't know about that. Some things are easier, others are harder. There's no question the amount of quality information out there makes it much easier for someone who wants to learn, but even setting up a development environment is a huge blocker for a complete beginner. Hello world is the hardest program you're ever going to code, it's all downhill from there. And that's where the layers of abstraction are coming back to bite you.

Of course everyone who wants to learn how to program is going to overcome that, most people are just not interested in the first place and it's kind of dumb to assume they'd learn if only the environment were different, etc.

OTOH I wonder if the layers of crap aren't just making it harder for those who are interested.
I have a similar story where I reduced the memory used by a script from 1TB (yes, TB) to a few megabytes. The runtime was massively reduced too, from something like 1 day to a few minutes.

This was for a genomics project and they ran it on a supercomputer. When I looked into it, they were reading the entire input into a giant array before doing one pass and dumping the result out to disk. I made a tiny change (it was a Perl script) to make it stream the I/O instead.

This is the most extreme example I've come across of people using computing power just because it's there. Nobody questioned why the script took so long to run because the data really was in the TBs and other stuff also took that long to run. Waiting a day for the results was considered normal. I see the same thing on desktop apps etc., on a much smaller scale, of course. When I run an electron app it takes several hundred milleseconds to do anything at all. But nobody questions whether it should because everything takes several hundred milliseconds.
Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite?... use of archive.org?

I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity.

What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own server.

Now, I know the IA are perfectly happy to let you do this, and of course part of their mandate is to make content accessible, which necessitates having low-friction ways to download it. But still, I would hate to see IA become a CDN-first, archive-second.

Maybe a compromise would be to suggest that users make a donation?:

https://archive.org/donate/
This is not what the author has said.

He is against the twitter attacks on “Hustle culture”. He is not against people warning it's not for everyone. He is not against people giving alternatives. He is against people calling it toxic and degrading people who are into “Hustle culture”, often these people degrade others for their own personal enjoyment, see Twitter -

https://twitter.com/search?q=hustle%20culture&src=typed_quer...

> That is, if you aren’t killing yourself trying, then you aren’t trying. This is obviously awful and not a culture I want to live in. I

This is not "obviously awful"

Having kids kills people (In the same non literal sense). Is it "obviously awful"? There are good arguments against, but it's not "obviously awful" and it's close to implying the people who do this stuff are awful.
Consor Brand Identity Case Study
Continuing on your analogy, I would argue we have less diversity due to the all-encompassing three major OSes.

Similarly to how you don’t really get competitors to eucaryotes and prokaryotes, the initial investment (device drivers) to create an OS (organism) that is actually usable is so high that one basically can’t overcome it when others are available.
I don't care.

Hear me out. Why is the entire IT culture trying to do whatever Google and the FAANG companies are doing? Its ridiculous. The rest of the world have completely different needs, completely different skill levels, and completely different management. There is literally nothing the rest of the world has incommon with FAANG.

What they do will not work for the rest of us. I'm super tired of hearing about what they do. I do not look up to them and I'm not impressed by them.

Remember tech before FAANG? If you don't, you probably think I'm a raving lunatic because today, it sure seems every single engineer loves whatever FAANG does.
nslookup spiceai.org
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
** Can't find spiceai.org: No answer

docs.spiceai.org and blog.spiceai.org do work.
I think a big portion actually comes from image-hosting for other websites. Stack exchange, for example, uses Imgur for image hosting when you attach an image with your answer.
how is sparring any different from just "playing" jiu-jitsu?

the wikipedia page on BJJ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_jiu-jitsu ) claims that live drilling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliveness ) plays a major role in training and development, which suggests that it should be part of BJJ classes, but the way it is described, suggests that it is more similar to "playing", which, apparently is not part of BJJ classes. so how is sparring done that it doesn't have the desired effect?

i also wonder why other sports (in particular other martial arts) should be any different.

ps: i take it that BB means Black Belt?
Mongo, MySQL? Yeah, sure. But: DB2, Rdb, Interbase, Oracle, Ingres...

Bah, I can't recall them all. Just go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab... and click the table header to sort by "First public release date".
> When the alternative is thousands and thousands of deaths, most of us are willing to temporarily give up a bit of civil liberty.

Don't worry, you'll be doing both and it won't be temporary.
remoteok.txt
You're still hearing whistles? Are you sure is not tinnitus?

Good luck trying suppress the news further. You may find temporary success. But dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And as long as men die, liberty will never perish.

We're done.
Apps for daily needs part 5: video editors – Fedora Magazine
It would be even cooler if you derived the random numbers from a lava lamp visible through a window of the Swiss embassy.
Cofounder of Budibase here - an open source low code platform.

I feel if you are going to do this, you should leave it to an independent party. The fact you work for DronaHQ makes me feel there might be biased in the tools evaluation.
You learn over time to encapsulate and insulate to avoid other's crap code to infect your code-poems.

Less jokingly, programming has so many pain points that you learn to avoid. Simple things like reformatting a file, while a simple thing and seemingly necessary, can later end up being transformed into some of the less enjoyable mergings you have done.

Like a binary butterfly effect.
One Day–and One Night–In the Kitchen at Les Halles
> I'm not aware of any Western European political dissidents who have had bank accounts cancelled

It’s not the same but it’s on its way there - in New Zealand Nicky Hagar wrote Dirty Politics - shady deals and hatchet jobs being performed by a sleazy blog at the behest of politicians (primarily the current leader of New Zealand’s largest opposition party, Judith Collins).

Under political pressure to act, police asked Westpac bank for 10 months of Hager's bank records and received them, falsely claiming he was being investigated for fraud. They did not have a warrant.

The whole disgusting episode was made farcical by the later revelation that police had searched Hagars house but missed documents leaked by Snowden.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-pay-nicky-hager-substan...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Politics
Great post, very fun project.

A while back I wrote a blogpost[1] about using PNG chunk functionality to "hide" a arbitrary data in PNGs without it affecting the way a PNG is displayed. I'd love to see this being used together with this project.

[1]https://blog.brian.jp/python/png/2016/07/07/file-fun-with-py...
WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the war on drugs, the war on terror, now the war on covid.
And how many years did HTML exist before JavaScript was invented?
Under One-China policy there is just one China which consist both of Mainland and Taiwan. Thus affairs inside these areas are internal affairs.
It’s not a wikipedia format, but I see an easy(?) solution: include the change and make voting for it, where every voter is categorized by some set of ideas and affinities^. Then a reader could see that a specific statement was voted for and against a number of times by people who are after this and that, with some meaningful aggregation. Then very uncommon opinions could be hidden and only seen in 100% mode, except obviously immoral/illegal ones. Another thing to watch for is high community standards, so that heated discussions never make it to the article itself.

A community wiki will always be opinionated and there is no reason to present only one of the sides. And 11-1 is not a sign of anything, because 11 came at their will, but no one was invited to support 1. Maybe it could be 11-5000 if they were. These numbers have no meaning.

^ e.g. centrist, high edu worker, historian.
You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically.

[1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...
The Australian Constitution is heavyweight on the mechanics of federal government, and how heads of power are divided between the state and federal governments, and the role of the court to adjudicate, but quite lightweight on peoples "inalienable rights". There's no "bill of rights" - though there are certain principals like "natural justice" and "customary law". Parliaments are empowered to legislate, and that's what they do. So it's comparatively rare that the court will discover some basis to neuter legislation - though it does happen.
> We all get it, Americans with their imperial units, ha ha.

It's really very tired.

Americans don't even use Imperial units. We use United States Customary Units [1] which are more like siblings to Imperial units than offspring.

United States customary units have been based on familiar Metric units since the Mendenhall Order in 1893.

School children in the United States have studied the metric system for generations.

The United States was one of the original 17 signatories of the Metre Convention in 1875. As far as I can tell no commonwealth countries were early adopters.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
Stanley wrote on his greenhouse gas powered device from the comfort of his greenhouse gas powered office environment at his greenhouse gas powered employer that his favorite greenhouse gas powered transportation vehicle had brought him to, while slacking of from his day job which was to significantly increased the life quality of millions of people while emitting greenhouse gases.

I think you’ve found a great solution. Unfortunately it only works for spherical cows in a vacuum.
We need a labor government to call a royal commission into Murdoch's influence in Australian politics. Truth in media laws and the immigration minister needs to revoke Australian citizenships of a few people in those orgs who could rightly be considered malicious non stat actors.
The YubiKey plugin uses the PIV applet with P-256 keys, not RSA. FIPS 140 compliance is not a goal.
The two launches in 2020 saw excessive vibrations on the payload after fairing separation though, which would be pretty terrible for JWST.
Structuring and _deciding_ your own learning, materials, books, projects etc. is time consuming, but it makes everything more pragmatic, focused and tailored. And over time we can leverage that skill in of itself to teach others:

Learning for people who have work experience is really different. We have context, clear goals and so on. Teaching other 'adult' students is really fun, because we get to figure out what suits them instead of trying to hit measurements predefined by some committee. Ultimately it is just about giving guidance and ideas, kind of like consulting to learn, what to learn and so on.

"Education is wasted on the young" - this was exactly my experience. I didn't know it then, but I first needed to build up confidence, make 'real' mistakes and learn from them. I was also completely unfit for the type of scheduled and predetermined learning that happens at universities. My mind wanders too much and I'm driven by answering my own questions that I feel matter or are interesting. Also a reason why I don't work in large/streamlined orgs.
> What I know is we're born to this world knowing how to eat, breathe, cry, and a couple other things

Something I found interesting about having kids was the realisation that even some of those things had to be learnt to some extent. Babies have natural drives that lead them to feed, but they often still have trouble in the early days with breast feeding. Even the first breath doesn't always happen as automatically as you might think.
Are there examples of it being used for other things? Not that I doubt you, I just haven’t read about that.
Well, that settles it then.

Without the help of some detection tools, we can no longer trust if what we see on screen is real.
If JWST was designed today, with F9 reusable and Starship on the horizon, would/could it have been cheaper to have multiple launches and assembly on orbit, rather than the super complex unfolding system and all-eggs-in-one-basket launch?
I wish to compile python from source in a way that will work in every $HW_ARCH Linux userland.

What are your advices?

What does your setup look like?

I'm really inexperienced with compiling software, but I'm playing with the idea of automating the creation of stand alone python distributions every time one is release to have a repo of it.

It looks full of gotchas though, espacially when you need to deal with ssl and tkinter.
I'm an avid qutebrowser user too! Thanks for introducing me to Nyxt. I'm curious, why are you using qutebrowser if Nyxt is _at least_ as powerful as QB?
Most consumers don’t pay for software at all, though. That’s why all the “pay once for this software-in-a-box” companies basically died except for TurboTax. Saas started in B2B and is still largely a B2B phenomenon.

Consumers buy content subscriptions like Netflix or Spotify, and hardware like phones and laptops, but they largely do not (and will not) pay for software tools. Google/Facebook/Microsoft/etc has trained them this way. And no, HN readers are not normal people, so just because you do, doesn’t mean most people do.

For business customers, a monthly subscription is highly advantageous due to it turning capex into opex on the balance sheet. It reduces the need for onsite IT staff, offloads data security onto an expert 3rd party, and allows for cloud based collaboration and continuous updates—-which “buy it once and use it locally” products never could do.

Saas is a model designed around the needs of B2B, and most big Saas companies make the consumer version free, so I wouldn’t count on consumers caring enough to push back.
donations are a fine thing, so is discovery, anything that helps to surface quality will long term perhaps help the archive prove its worth and ensure a positive attitude towards their endeavours.
The plan is to use the big dishes of the Deep Space Network to receive the signals, so regardless of encryption, you're probably not going to be able to receive its signals.
It depends on your privilege. Coercion comes in many degrees and kinds as well. Both are required reading.
.. you mean that the dependencies aren't downloaded as binaries but compiled from source every time ? damn
That ship has long passed.

Edit: shouldn't it matter to the user anyhow, that they need rust? There's no world in which the user can just ./make given the existence of dependencies - the user needs to read the README.
And this is why companies want passionate people. They work more for the same salary. And because they have that passion and love their job, they don't ask for more money, because it jeopardises the job they love.

This is why people in healthcare work long hours too, because they care about patients. And it's why salaries stay low, because of this passion.
No.

Calling someone Amish of the internet because they refuse to be tracked, refuse to take part in voluntary remote code execution or just do their computing on a computer from 2010 on a poor internet connection is just sad.

If you want to live in a world where everything is a SPA by all means go for it, but be prepared to be criticised for making a blog post or a news story that is literally a bunch of text paragraphs interleaved with images require Javascript.

Doing so is not progress.
The use of the decimal system is kind of funny because for the longest time large parts of Europe used a 20 based system for a lot of common math. You can still see this in French, where 99 is spelled out as "four times twenty and nineteen". Even in English you can find the remains of the 20-based system, because of the way numbers are expressed: twenty-one, but not tenny-one or even one-teen; twenty-five but not onety-five but fifteen.

The foot is directly based on a person's body part (which caused major issues when bordering jurisdictions used different sizes for a "foot"). The denomination used for meters is a lot more disconnected, its basis focused on the planet instead of on a body part. The choice for the decimal system is much more akin to the choice of 3/12/8/10 in the imperial system.

You can also quickly run into issues if you assume a meter is almost exactly a meter, there's a 9% difference there. The difference can quickly add up, and plenty of international orders have been messed up that way. The distances are similar enough that they serve the same use in day to day expressions, but they're certainly not "almost exactly" the same.
Good find! Unfortunately, the file has since disappeared..!

Did you download it by any chance?
Everything is screaming, and yet there is silence.
- A helpless human.
But in this case, we get "Libre"ddit, right in the name. The wordplay is irresistible!
Will it cost 10 billion to build it again?
I'm a layman when it comes to this but doesn't that mean the amount of "channels" is still severely limited? Someone mentioned 220million transactions annually. Even if those channels only open and close the balance once a year that's very little it seems.

Or can there be more than 2 owners of a channel?
What Kafka's “Metamorphosis” Reveals About the Dark Corners of the Human Soul
Presumably the so called good apples will get hired by the newly formed police force. Though I would argue there are very few good apples. You aren’t a good cop when you allow and fail to report on your fellow officers meting out non judicial punishments.
Show HN: A simple habit/task/goal counter, for your progress every day
I worked with someone not so long ago that was on a 750 KiB connection. I myself remember that speed at being blazingly fast at one point - so fast that we could start listening to a song before Kazaa finished downloading it.

3 megs of unnecessary data meant that he would sit 3 unnecessary minutes waiting for a page to load.
ByteDance in talks with banks to borrow over $3B