skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In school, we had a teacher who as famous for making jokes at the expense of others. One time during chemistry in front of the class he said to his most-liked pupil: "We have enough poison here to kill everyone in class. Well, except me and you, of course."

And that was the time the class decided to go to our head teacher and tell her that his jokes were not funny at all and she reported back that our chemistry teacher was surprised about how someone did not appreciate his brand of humor.
Irresponsible, even if in jest.
Maybe for a weekend trip or just an overnight camping trip sure. But when your life is living in the camper you need internet.
>>Mind you, this is nothing compared to what happens if even a mere pebble hits a neutron star!

What would happen if a pebble hit a neutron star? I'd like to imagine the pebble would vaporize at contact or even before it(temperature/radiation etc)?

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star

The neutron star's gravity accelerates infalling matter to tremendous speed. The force of its impact would likely destroy the object's component atoms, rendering all the matter identical, in most respects, to the rest of the neutron star.
OT/meta, but I love those handwritten style diagrams. If the author notices this, I'd be interested to know how he made them.
The site looks nice. I recall the previous version also being nice. Is the current version better in some way?
Facebook does this on the post dates as well and elsewhere.
I'm not sure I've ever heard a story where a manager attempts to fire someone, but HR decides to replace the manager instead. Is that something you've seen? I only hear stories about managers being protected as hard as possible by HR.
The problem is that in early 2000s you could find child porn, gore and the rest of “NSFW” stuff on the Web. It is also not wrong to assume that almost nothing you (or anyone) saw on Freenet had originated on Freenet (which also was a fresh tiny project without significant bandwidth or storage capacity back in the days). So, using your own logic, you had to disconnect from the Internet, and never touch it again. But you did not do that. It seems to me that you chose to shoot the messenger here, and remain in sweet ignorance provided by armies of third world grunts scrubbing “normal” services clean from all the unpleasant interactions.

Also, if we talk literally 20 years ago, Freenet was at infancy, still used arbitrary human-readable content keys that were supposed to be shared externally —

https://web.archive.org/web/20000817234626/http://unicast.or...

— and web pages were only a proposed option (with Javascript!):

https://web.archive.org/web/20010405191438/http://freenetpro...

You are probably thinking of more mature days of Freenet version 0.5, which, in its turn, was a network independent from Freenet version 0.7 (2008—present). I've seen 0.5 when it still ran in parallel, and can't remember the content being way too different in general. Still no child slaves for sale.
Was going to say, I've only ever used Arris modems and really haven't had any issues with the Surfboard line in ~15 years of using them. They used to be part of Motorola, not sure when that switch happened, but I've used them in some form or another since getting cable internet back in the late 90s or early 2000s. Time flies.
The argument discussed here was first published by Lucas in 1961 ("Minds, Machines and Goedel"). What seems to me a conclusive refutation of it was published by Hilary Putnam in 1960 ("Minds and Machines"). Putnam's point is much the same as simonh's in a comment here: the Lucas(/Penrose) argument makes assumptions about human mathematicians that do not in fact apply to human mathematicians.

[EDITED to add:] Contra simonh, though, one can refute the argument without going so far as to say that human mathematicians are definitely inconsistent. (Maybe a sufficiently careful human mathematician is consistent.) All that's required is that we not be able to prove that we are consistent, and I think it is extremely clear that we can't.

In other words, the Lucas(/Penrose) argument was refuted before it was ever published.

(Penrose's version isn't really any improvement on Lucas's.)

Note: The video is 2 hours long and highly technical. I haven't watched anything like all of it. The speaker is _not_ endorsing Lucas's or Penrose's conclusion that Goedel's theorem shows that minds cannot be mechanized; he makes observations similar to Putnam's, simonh's, and mine, but clearly makes them with more subtlety and intricacy :-).
Rethinking ‘Civil’ Rights with Marx
Running all of that separate network equipment seems particularly power hungry when not plugged into a campsite.

I wonder why the author didn't consider a Peplink router which can handle redundant cellular/wifi connections out of the box. That's how I recreate a setup akin to this while I'm on the road in a single device.

Not to say this isn't awesome as is and I'd love an excuse to install a full Ubiquiti stack in my own camper!
Sudo in system()
The Essayist as Public Intellectual
no way man, webrings
The patent doesn't mention the term "transistor"; but obviously the patent office came to the conclusion that it is a patentable invention, and the cited by list confirms that it is considered a relevant invention by Bell Labs and other notable institutions. Prior art by Lilienfeld did even stop some applications of Bell Labs from going forward. The transistor invented in 1947 was a point-contact transistor, which is not the concept applied in micro processors as the article confirms.
It's about the service existing going forward. If all these are gonna be used for is remote medicine delivery, then that's hardly any missions, thus hardly any money in it, and thus it wouldn't attract investments. The only reason these autonomous drone delivery companies exist is in anticipation of high demand, being as commonly used as Uber/Amazon/GrubHub.
Yes, I'm lucky enough to be able to afford to live in a city.

Both in Switzerland (where I live) and in Germany (where I grew up), more rural postal offices have always struggled to be functional and not complete money sinks.

They have had to either reduce hours, reduce services, or close offices altogether in favor of subcontracting a local mom-and-pop shop to also handle package pick-up and drop-off.
I really enjoy The Browser[0] newsletter for this reason. They find very very good articles that often also end up on the front page of HN. I’ve found a lot of great new blogs / magazines this way.
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0: https://thebrowser.com/
“Most books should have been an article, most articles should’ve been a tweet.”

Blogging just for the sake of blogging is what caused their decline in the first place. If the blogpost can’t be easily understood within first few lines, it’s a wasted opportunity. The a reason Morgan House, Derek Sivers are still relevant.
We’re all trying, mate. Sometimes one of us writes down their experience to see if it can help anyone else. I am not sure if there is any advice that is truly “for everyone”.

It either works for you or it doesn’t. If it does - great. If it doesn’t - I hope you find something that does.

The only way we’ll know is if we share our experiences. I don’t see any value in critique here.
The most disappointing thing about this article is the absolute apathy from the NYPD. At this point the police writ large are practically sabotaging their reputation with absolutely no self awareness whatsoever. What are we going to do as a society as it becomes increasingly obvious to every citizen that the police, in fact are not here to protect, NOR to serve?
In any remotely sane company, HR does what management says. The manager may well be replaced, but it's the manager's manager or someone even higher in the food chain who makes that call, not HR on their own.
Yep. One of the first issues you'll encounter when learning to dive is getting your body to sink (that's what all those lead weights are for). I also don't think an inflatable goatskin has enough air capacity to be relevant.
Young kids get over poor or no internet, but it’s not instantaneous. It’s part of that whole actually being a child thing rather than simply childish behavior.
I don't think our average Carl will use a blog instead of Instagram to share his thoughts.

Yes, inferior products prevail from time to time, especially when those negative externalities you mention help consolidate a dominant position.

But social networks do not charge money. People are free to open as many blogs as they want. If they didn't when they were raging in the early 2000s there must a reason.

Reality is complex, especially human motivations. But to argue that blogs are a superior for the mainstream public to share themselves to an audience is a bit intellectually unfair.

Like... distribution?
Self-hosting my Instagram profile
OP lives in Australia. Which means that functioning telecommunication is an absolute must given the number of living lethal things that are out to kill you.

For what it's worth it's interesting (but possibly explained by the ridiculous cost of anything not SpaceX) OP doesn't have a satellite internet uplink too.
If all the labor shortage did were increase prices, then it wouldn't significantly harm society. The problem is that for a lot of things, even though (for example) I'd be willing to pay a higher price, not enough other customers would be, so sales drop to the point that the business can't cover its fixed costs and shuts down.

Also, I think "reduced your choice of restaurants to go to" really undersells how bad that is. It's a bunch of small business owners losing everything they've ever worked for.
Wow! Russia is just like the US!
I remember channel bonding from my ISDN times and it made sense since both channels led to the same ISP over the same ISDN card/phone line.

How does channel bonding work across multiple ISPs/NICs?

Edit: This seem to be it:
https://speedify.com/blog/featured/speedify-protocol-mptcp-d...

"The way Speedify used to work is it opened one TCP socket over each Internet connection it used - e.g. one TCP socket over Wi-Fi / cellular / wired Ethernet / etc. With the new protocol, Speedify opens up multiple sockets over each connection (for example 8) - 8 over Wi-Fi / cellular / wired Ethernet / etc."

That seems a bit wasteful towards the server destinations.
No problems with mountains, bridges, cliffs, planes or gondolas but I prefer the luxury basement thank you very much.
> Imagine if google could just make whatever internal changes to chromium and nobody knew about it.

If you use chrome, they do. Chrome has a lot of changes and additions that are not in the open-source chromium codebase.
Old English/Norse.
Motion Design, for the Web
All depends on the cost and the timescale. You can do both of those things, and while neither could be built at a scale to be a complete substitute overnight, they’re probably both faster to build than modern nuclear plants.

(I’d go for these and nuclear myself, but nuclear isn’t generally popular and I don’t see that changing).
Geoff: some of the photographs have blur spots to conceal something you don't want to be public. Just an FYI that malicious attackers could bypass this blur in some cases by starting with a generated version of the 'before' content and blurring it and iterating different inputs until it matches your blurred photo. This matters for things like a document with an account number or some other secret. It may not matter much for your network adapters (mac addresses, maybe?). Just a heads up.
At one point the mobile phone turns into a Skinner Box?
It is my claim that the amount of hours vested on Internet
consumption is directly proportional to the inability
to interpret in person body language, verbal cues and in person room reading...among other things.
From the high score but low placement on the HN page, I’m guessing this is being heavily flagged.
teapot spotted!
That's insanity to me. How much are they paying?!
> I've already managed to block access for normal users to several sites, several times, by running too old certbot versions, not integrating things properly and whatnot.

To be fair, I've done that on my personal site a few times too, and if HTTPS is broken, I consider the site broken (the same as being offline). It's time for fixing it, not for hacking around an HTTP version.

That said, I never cared about HSTS and CSP. Those headers are a joke. The correct way to force HTTPS and certificate verification is on the client, not as a hint by the server. Yeah, I will put them there if I ever bother to customize those webserver settings, there just isn't much of a reason either way.
And yet sub-standard and fake products with fake reviews dominate search results.
Given the size of cutlery, coupled with the fact that multiple bowls will fit inside eachother, is this overcompensation for an extreme maximalist lifestyle on the electronics side?
Perhaps, but that is beside the point when discussing religion, since religions does not say their claims are purely "subjective experiences". Rather they tend to be adamant they are objective truths bigger than any individual.

A few exceptions exists, like the Church of Satan which worship Satan while at the same time openly stating that he does not exist except as a symbol.
More TikToks? Consumer Apps Developed in China Find Customers Overseas
> I have a single bowl, fork and knife.

And soon 7 (!!!) internet links! Anyway, I just find it interesting how individuals (including myself) describe themselves and rationalize their descriptions.
Rust Lands Support for the Motorola 68000 Processors
Problem is you only know the max potential input, not the actual input, which depends on your gut bacteria.

And also you're not directly measuring the output, which is different for everyone, and adjusts based on the input.

It's useful for making you think about everything you eat though, shall I eat this thing? Well, I'd have to record it in my spreadsheet, won't bother.
Other countries don't have nuclear weapons and can't unilaterally turn off Europe's gas supply. This makes Russia less ripe for "regime change".
I’ve found the opposite: Switching to a paid/subscription model has ruined some of the writers I previously enjoyed.

When they wrote for fun, not profit, the writings came out whenever they had something interesting enough to share. Now that it’s for-profit, the content is forced to come out faster and more frequently with posts that feel unnecessarily long to justify the cost. One author I previously enjoyed for well-researched topics that debunked popular opinions has been firing off un-researched posts with claims that can be debunked in 30 seconds of Googling.

The topics feel like they’re being chosen to produce the most interesting teaser (to convince non-subscribers to subscribe) or SEO juice. It feels like the clickbait factor went way up overnight.

Much of the magic of the past blogging era was that people were writing because they wanted to, not because they were fishing for clicks or subscriptions or pandering to future employers with every word. The move to paid takes some of that away.
And make the experience worse?
Anyone who has spent any time trying to get into shape (losing weight, lifting weights, doing cardio) knows that you will be bombarded by conflicting and downright dangerous information. Few industries are as loaded with misguided information and scammers than the fitness industry.

That said, I feel bad for anyone that struggles to lose weight and has to deal with all of the information and is trying to figure it all out. My recommendation is, calorie counting IS important (most people underestimate by 30% how many calories they eat in a day), but don't kill yourself over it. Focus on eating healthy foods, getting enough protein, and lift weights. Cardio is important for overall health, but you aren't going to burn enough calories for it to be a major source of weight loss. Lifting will make you feel better (fewer achy joints, easier to get up) and it's a lot more fun than cardio. If you are still gaining weight, cut your calories more. Weight gain is very personal and you'll need to spend time figuring out where your calorie intake needs to be. Age, genetics, etc. all play a role so there is no one-size-fits-all number to aim for. I used to be able to eat 3500 calories a day and not gain weight. Now in my 40's if I eat more than 2500 I put on weight.

Also, don't beat yourself up if you "have a bad day" and eat too much. Fitness is a lifelong goal, and eating a bag of chips one day isn't going to erase all of your work. Just try to have more good days than bad.
> The converse isn't necessarily true: if you eat less than you burn, you might not lose weight but instead your body adjusts how much you burn.

Depends how you read "eat less than you burn" One way you can interpret the quoted section is that you haven't even eaten less than you burn, you're still eating more or equal to, since the amount you burn has gone down.
Improving transportation of mining site employees in Tanzania by telematics
Sure. It’s also a good way to filter out advice that’s less applicable to a larger audience. Perhaps it’s aspirational advice of sorts for those who can attain the material conditions of the one bestowing it.
Blogs were never mainstream when they were a healthy ecosystem. Before search engines, the only real way to find new blogs was to follow links from other blogs — either people talking near each other, or webrings, or whatever. This was swell, and served as essentially a perfect defense against outside abuse. If we'd kept that model then we wouldn't really have trouble with spammers and scammers.

Google downloaded all that curation effort and then claimed we didn't have to do it anymore, and that we just need to "be indexed", but that opens the door for spammers and scammers, and there's no fix for it. Without curation, blogs are no better than strangers on a street corner.

I think the only way to restore the health of the blog ecosystem is to go back to webrings, except with an RSS accumulator added^, so that we can follow everyone in a webring and report abuse to the webring curators.

^ OPML subscriptions would be a workable model, except that many feed readers only support "import OPML one-time", not "poll and refresh".

EDIT: It isn't sufficient to implement RSS or OPML support. The missing piece is webrings that curate their membership lists, with a human sanity limit of 25 or 50 sites per webring. That was a real limit back in the day, but it's still worth keeping to keep humans honest. You can't replace this effort with technology, but you can support it. We just choose not to, because search is lazy and somewhat effective, and so blogs suffer.
> Inferior products prevail all the time. The free market is far from perfect. Especially when one product exploits negative externalities.

Exhibit A being the QWERTY keyboard most of us are typing on right now.
It's one point I make whenever I get the chance to talk with students who ask me on how to work on portfolio to demonstrate skills. I tell them to try and solve a problem for real and make a product. They'll learn so much more than playing house. Databsases, the language, front-end, sales, getting users, killing hypotheses, product design, product management, prioritization, making tradeoffs, etc.
Oh, I also disabled Active Desktop. :-) But in retrospect, had I been a power-user at the time, I would've used it for all sorts of cool stuff.

It's mostly the UI I remember fondly. Technically, of course, it was a garbage fire.
firefox comes with yt plugin that adds buttons to yt interface that allows this
Nothing is out to kill you. It might do it by accident, or if you startle it by trying to use a toilet or wear your shoes, but there’s no malice in it.
US to lift travel ban on EU citizens
I’m not sure if the desktop browser is any less of a Skinner box. At least mobile devices are more limited by screen real estate.
I always have appreciated the fact that EVs are future proof- older model vehicles can benefit from clean energy advances in power generation. Today my car may be partially coal powered but tomorrow it could be ???
Compare that to ICE MPG improvements like start-stop tech, while it is a neat development it does nothing for older vehicles
There’s absolutely no way that this could have happened in Philly and Atlanta. Absolutely no way. The pipes burst. They had to stop counting.
Rendezvous hashing is simple to understand. I'm surprised that the article didn't mention the skeleton-based variant which provides O(log N) lookup (same as consistent hashing).

Based on my experience implementing the skeleton-based variant, it does add a fair bit of additional complexity compared to plain rendez-vous hashing but IMO, it's still much simpler to implement than ring-based consistent hashing (with optimizations).

The main downside of skeleton-based rendez-vous hashing compared to ring-based consistent hashing is that when a server (aka 'site') leaves the cluster, you need to iterate over all the keys in order to do the re-mapping. Skeleton-based rendez-vous hashing minimizes the number of keys which will need to be moved when a server leaves the cluster (at least as well as consistent hashing does), but you still need to go through every key in order to check whether or not it has moved; there are no shortcuts to check only a subset of keys. With consistent hashing, if a server leaves the cluster, you only need to check keys which fall within the affected 'sector' of the ring so you can completely ignore all the other keys.

That said, I find that skeleton-based rendez-vous hashing is simple to implement and maintain, it's fast and it spreads keys pretty evenly (especially in the long run). Consistent hashing can become uneven over time if multiple nearby severs/sites leave the ring; that's why some solutions make use of 'virtual sites/servers' which never leave the ring (but this adds complexity and overhead).
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I just stumbled onto Speedify a few minutes before I noticed this article surprisingly. I wanted to try it but unfortunately it doesn't take crypto and has no free trial
> You can't do this natively on a Kobo, Nook, etc.

That's correct but there are other e-readers that support a similar technology, such as Pocketbook, or the Arta Tech Inkbooks.

While not supported by the plugin (yet), many readers support syncing new content via services like Dropbox, therefore you could use a service that uploads file via e-mail to Dropbox.

Overall the workflow part of converting an RSS feed item to an E-Reader format (i.e. ePub or Mobi) is covered, it seems viable to add more delivery mechanisms. Due to the market I am in (Europe) I've investigated the possibility to deliver to the Tolino platform via libraries like https://github.com/hzulla/tolino-python, but also adding Dropbox might be a possibility.
Missing that Irn-Bru taste? Crack open a battery and suck out the paste inside.
"Dad, can I use the bowl today?"
The Tenth Watch for the Tenth Pitch Drop
Locality Sensitive Hashing Explained
I don't see how using a BMP would've taken a hit on RAM; it needs to decompress the JPEG to display on the screen anyway, after all.
Fixed: Having NO internet is especially important when going camping with young kids.
On my reading I thought - no need to justify this obviously cool project! I think sometimes people feel the need to have a good reason to do something, even when they are doing it because it's just intrinsically awesome. I've totally overengineered my home network, and have spent more than I probably should have, but I don't think it's a waste at all because there is something deeply satisfying about it. But when I defend my purchases to others I am tempted to say, "I need good internet for work", or "we run many IoT devices" and those things are true, but could have been completed with much less time, money and effort.
It’s less about the submission itself and more about the quality (or lack thereof) of the comments below it.