skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always the case.

Dying now and cashing out is better than burning money for a few years and cashing out for less then.

They paid down their debt on the cars, but they have lots of other financial obligations and operating costs that will be ongoing if they continue to operate, and they now have a hugely diminished capacity to make revenue.
It's existed since 2014 (first alpha release). This is the first time we've had anyone find anything.
Good to see!
I think the internet evolved around and past blogs. They still exist, but much more entertaining forms of content, which use a lot more data and tech to host, have come to dominate. Think of the percentage internet mind-share web blogs had in 1995 vs. 2021, this seems to be mostly what folks are nostalgic for. Now there are hundreds of online news sources, hundreds of forums and games and billions of hours of video content.

The old Internet, the way it used to be, will survive in its niche, but we can't kid ourselves that 99% of people want to read technical blogs.

And even so, while I'm in that 1%, I find blogs overly simplistic, too focused on self-help, DIY, end your procrastination, here's why my chosen tool/kit/library is the best -- these are profoundly uninteresting. Every time a Paul Graham post rockets to the top of HN, I roll my eyes. Out of all the writing and profundity of the history of civilization, this is what we worship?
In India, Jupiter is called as "guru" (Sanskrit:बृहस्पति). बृहस्पति roughly translates to "guru" of the gods.
Inflation calculator says that a workstation computer package of hardware (PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse) selling for $5500 USD in 1988 would be the equivalent of $12,718.67 today.

That sort of money (except for ridiculous non-linear GPU prices today) would build one hell of a threadripper workstation.
> federal gun control checks are prohibited from being automated

There is an automated system behind it.

> Effectively this neuters federal background checks

That is incorrect.

https://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/gun-background-check-nics-g...

As the article mentions, there are people that slip through the cracks, but the foremost problem around keeping weapons out of the wrong hands has little to do with the FBI.
It's a lot easier to do in an application that's easy to boot up locally. A lot of software in web-startup world grows out of that stage once the k8s/distributed architecture earworm burrows in.
There are some astronomers who believe that the converse is also true - Jupiter also flings in Kuiper-Belt Objects into Earth-Crossing Orbits. The results are complicated, https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/49/1/1.22/306978

Relevant quote,

> The flip side of the coin is also true, however — for an object to threaten the Earth, it first has to have an Earth-crossing orbit. Were Jupiter absent, there would be far fewer short-period comets, and it is likely that the asteroid belt would be far less heavily stirred, though it is also true that, without Jupiter, the asteroid belt would no doubt look very different! Every encounter between a small body and Jupiter is random — it throws objects inwards as well as outwards, and can just as easily place objects onto an Earth-crossing orbit as it can remove them from these orbits. Therefore, it is clear that at least some of the objects that hit the Earth would not have done so, had Jupiter not played a role.

> Whether Jupiter acts as a friend or a foe comes down to the balance between the two effects discussed above — does Jupiter provide more of a shielding effect, or is the contribution to the terrestrial impact flux so enhanced by the objects it throws our way that this outweighs its defensive work? In order to examine this balance, we are in the process of a series of detailed integrations, following the behaviour of hundreds of thousands of potential impactors in a range of theoretical solar systems. Given that there are three reservoirs of potentially hazardous objects (the Oort Cloud, the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, and the asteroid belt), our study will be looking at each of these reservoirs in turn.

It is currently unclear whether the net effect is harmful or beneficial. But what we do know is that the fact that we are dyadic system (i.e. our moon is arguably the size of a planet - and we exist in a pair with it) has protected us during Sol's younger and more active days. More specifically it protected us from ending up like Mars with a stripped away atmosphere. This hypothesis is fairly well studied and is held to be very likely to be true.

Our moon, along with Jupiter, may also act as interference for the Earth w.r.t. Earth-crossing asteroids. There are arguments against this because of the smaller size of the Moon, but there are also some analyses for this - given that the asteroids are affected by the Moon's gravity, and even though the Earth-Moon Barycentre lies within the Earth, the combined system may afford some protection. (i.e. asteroids are more likely to have more near misses given the displacement of the barycentre from the centre of the Earth). But this is a guess, and more study is needed.

Papers,

When the Moon had a magnetosphere - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abc0865

The timeline of the Lunar bombardment - revisited. - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03756.pdf

The Late Heavy Bombardment in The Inner Solar System: Is there Any Connection To Kuiper Belt Objects? - https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61...

Bashing holes in the tale of Earth’s troubled youth - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01074-6
I did the same thing to someone after they just joined, figured it'd just come off as a joke and no harm would be done. Pretty soon in the following conversation I got the nagging feeling that it didn't come off as a joke.

I still feel terrible about that to the day, and that guy's been working here for years now.
I wonder how many corporate networks have end users using things like Zerotier or Tailscale without the admins being aware. Especially running self-hosted where you can use well-known, allowed ports for the control pieces.
I misinterpreted this as an "electron" being stolen in realtime. Sadly, it wasn't that.
But they also said non-interactive, so I'm assuming no forms of any kind either.
Ethiopia’s Tigray war: The short, medium and long story
Substack is free for the author vs. Mailchimp etc. f
I also thought it was pretty nifty little OS, courtesy of an A/UX office file server that I was tasked to set up in 1993 or so I think. And yes it was a very expensive file server at that.

My recollection was that internals of A/UX emulation were reused to enable the PowerPC transition from Motorola, but I might be wrong about that.
Oh wow, even the year checks out.
Non-paywall link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.29.361402v1....

Link to the language itself: https://seq-lang.org/
We can for a lot of systems. The shorter the orbital period, the easier they are to detect, however, and to detect Jupiter from a nearby system we’d need to be very lucky.
I think that's the key dissonance here - that from the perspective of employees (which it looks like you're channeling here) managers have the power to fire people so it sounds like a real threat, but from the perspective of managers it's just making a fictional exaggeration because they know that they don't really have the power to unilaterally fire anyone without an excessive reason - in most organizations, unless they're the founder-CEO of a small company. They have been delegated some day-to-day administrative power from the corporation and HR with respect to their team, they have a voice and vote for hiring and firing, but they don't often have a veto vote for saying who is or isn't going to be in the team they have been assigned to manage.

Not helping you advance or making your life difficult, yes, managers can do that, but in general in all the organizations I've seen (in IT corps and finance; perhaps industries like e.g. fast food are very different) if a manager would really want to get rid of someone, it would take them months of "political effort" to try and do so (and they might still fail), because they really did not have that power to just fire someone.
> If you want to build trust it has to work on the agents producing the content...

LinkLonk's algorithm works that way. It builds trust in sources of information (including users who rate content). And it does not and will not try to understand the individual pieces of content.

Unlike the social media feeds that are powered by black box neural networks, LinkLonk's algorithm is transparent. You know how your interactions with it will be interpreted. I hope that this transparency will help build trust in the system and in the sources of information you are connecting to.

Yes, bad actors will try to game any system to gain the attention that they don't deserve. I'm not claiming that LinkLonk is game-proof, but I think it has better feedback loops and incentives than other systems such as popularity based ranking (please don't take it as a challenge).
> If our first choice for a server goes offline, we simply move the key to the second server in the list (which becomes our new first choice).

It doesn't make sense: how do you move the keys from an offline server? The pictures in the post suggest that keys are not redundantly stored on other servers.
I've been running my VM superhubs in modem-only mode ever since I got them; with OpenWRT on my own router behind it.

I've been blocking traffic to RFC1918 ranges (all of them) that attempts to egress the WAN interface for just as long.

It's almost like I knew that eventually, someone was going to find a vulnerability in their web panel, and I wanted to make sure it wouldn't be exploitable.

Oh wait, I didn't know. It's just common sense.
Did people treat me differently after I sold Twitch?
> how would you refactor JS's fetch()

as @flavius29663 said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593669) you can use the builder pattern

FetchBuilder()
.withUrl(ur)
.withMode("cors")
.withCache(true)
.withHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
.accept('*/*')
.post()
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => console.log(data));
Most developers aren't most users. A little over 50% of developers use some variant of desktop Linux; total desktop Linux userbase is about 2% worldwide. The closest most users get to "using the Cloud" is checking their Gmail accounts or updating some shared company Google Docs.

Here in the rarefied air of HN, things look different than they do on the ground. Granted, developers have an outsized impact on what users will end up getting... But not by pretending PinePhone is anywhere near "ready for prime-time." I have one sitting on my desk right now; it's not. Rather, we should recognize the vast gap of work that needs to be done to get there and put the time in to get it there if we believe it's the right direction (and also recognize that if it's going to succeed in the marketplace, a lot of users are going to want something in PinePhone that's as easy to use for discovery and app maintenance as an app store; app stores introduced to users the concept "There is one simple and effective way to put apps on your phone," and they don't want to go back to the DIY days of yore. On the plus side, nothing about PinePhone requires only one app store).
To me "native desktop app" means "written for that particular platform", i.e. something that integrates well with that platform. And for GUI apps, also something that uses UI libraries provided by that platform.
I wonder if they got rid of that massive bezel...
> the reason for Burkean democracy

As David Mayhew has shown, legislative bodies, regardless of country and system, all end up doing kind of the same thing, over the long haul.

The Imprint of Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=394KcetPJHY

That seems about right to me.

Over time, I increasingly consider policy work and parliamentary work as separate jobs. (Campaigning and governing are yet other distinct jobs.)

Policy work is the discussion, lobbying, discourse, rhetoric, etc. Culture and consensus. Whatever that is.

Parliamentary work is the knife fight around the implementation. Winners and losers, struggle for power, who gets how much cake and ice cream.
great advice, and I'd add that it doesn't even have to be a particularly intelligent question. I found bret devereaux's excellent blog by googling "game of thrones historical accuracy" and got far more than I expected.
I meant no need for yuppies to pay for coffee delivered by done in order to accomplish the goal of researching how to deliver medicines in hard to reach places. They may coincidentally have to do with each other (emphasis on “may”), but not causally.
Funny aside: I 100% agree with you on the GP thing, but I find it hilarious how you hope to even move away from paper entry.

Here in Switzerland, it still seems to be a 50/50 if you get to fill out a form, or simply hand the receptionist your insurance card which has your national insurance ID on a Magstripe. Usually, all they ask then is "Is your address at Example St still current?"
That sounds decidedly self-inflicted. Windows 10 (minus its LTSC variants) are designed for a much quicker update cycle. "jumping" from versions literally a year apart sounds like a great way to break things
I was specifically talking about noise-pollution.

My ear-devices-pro+ record decent data and I submit that data as verifiable evidence in this matter.
Home hub is a spectacularly poor piece of kit. Long start up time from powering on, high energy usage, really poor software (repeat soft bricking from remote updates at random times of day and night), historically awful attitudes to security (see other comments). Everything was better rub as Telewest/NTL.
Interesting that the article calls out the price point as one of the reasons it didn't succeed. Although a lot of that was the OS only having drivers for expensive hardware and being unusable on the lower end Macs.

That said, high price killed off most of the legacy Unix vendors/products. The world was changing around them and they weren't ready or able to give up the profit margins they had enjoyed for so long. Personal computers were becoming commodity equipment and free versions of Unix were hard to compete against.
Hint it's the internet, mainly social media. It's a poisonous parasitic infection that oozes puss throughout society. If the 2000 election happened in this era, America would have been blown up by now.
At one of my previous jobs, managers would leak information about potentially not renewing contracts as 'person X has decided to quit'.

It used to be quite awkward to meet person X at a bar and ask them why they were changing their job when this was the first time they heard about it.

Turns out that toxification of workplace is better at getting rid of people than going about it legally.
You ever grep the linux codebase for expletives? Give it a shot some time.

I wouldn't make it at a company that frowns upon a 'God Damnit' in a log message.
It's easy to configure Electrum to use Tor or any socks proxy if that's a concern.
Makes for some good youtube videos though (sorry).
"Fundamentally, a buyer can walk away from buying something. There's a contract and it surely has contingencies for these cases, no need for drama.

That said, it does seem like the contract was broken in a really nasty way - apparently the French were told about it mere hours before the media announcement."

You're right on this.

Handling the end of the contract is not a big issue: the whole program is actually a series of contract and Australia simply decided to not sign the next one for the next phase. Agreeing on the exact penalties amount does not seem 100% straightforward, but the first numbers seem to be ~ 250M €

However, this is a substantial contract: Australia required major customization, transfer of technology, submarines must be built on the Australian territory etc.

What France is the most upset about is that they've been kept deliberately in the dark by two of its "allies" (AUS and USA), until the last moment just before the press release.

As an analogy, it's like getting married, making important commitments and one day your wife says out of nowhere: "I'm out and by the way I got married with your best friend today". The same day you see pictures of them with big smiles in the press.

I see in many articles things like "it's just geopolitics, France should realize there's no room for sentiments". I'm unsure how the French and Australian population feel about that, considering their joint history. This seems like a very Trump/Johnson way of handling things: pure opportunism. Perhaps it's the new sad reality and France is definitely not ready for it.
Off topic. Do firings come out of the blue though? I was a VP for a while (not anymore) - but when the person I had to fire was about to get fired, they KNEW it as soon as the door opened. Firing someone is the worst experience ever - the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.
Some things can't be tested empirically [0] and we must rely on our reasoning faculties, that's life.

I'm saying, for some investors (I did say a significant portion, perhaps the quantity can't be verified), IP ownership is a factor in their decision making. Are you saying it doesn't for anyone? It's a different thing to argue that the "aggregate" level of investment across the whole economy would be unchanged. That's a different issue, and anyway the nature of any investment would be affected by changes in the law.

On the second point yes, the argument can be extended to absurdity but the scope of the patent system is a judgement made by legislators, which should (absent corruption) be based on a judgement of its relative benefits/disbenefits.

[0] Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Since I don't have any Apple devices, if you've got any free time, I'd really appreciate a screenshot to see the issue. Thanks!
"To ensure that each key gets a unique permutation, we also have to make the hash function depend on the key. But this is not difficult - the solution is to concatenate the key with each server or to use the server ID as a hash seed."

Did the author mean to say "use the key as a hash seed?" Otherwise, I don't see how using server ID as a seed makes the hash dependent on the key.
Oh.. Networking unit is using "bit" instead of "byte".
The programming language itself and all documentation can be found at https://seq-lang.org/ .
From experience, no, but your 5th-least-favorite post may somehow make it to the front page of HN over many more interesting ones, where it will be nitpicked to death by some guy who thinks the solution to the world's problems is XSLT. That can be a tad demotivating.

The content marketing / grind thing - as far as I can tell, those people are born (decanted?) that way. It's a whole other value system.
This is actually more of a problem with heat than cooling. The system doesn't output really hot air like a gas-fired furnace, it's generally closer to the temperature that the thermostat is set to. If you set the temperature differential more than a couple degrees the system will kick in it's auxiliary heating source (usually electric heater strips) which are so much less efficient than the heat pump that any energy savings you gained by setting the temperature back are almost immediately lost.
Thanks thats genius, it seems the maximum supported rate is 16x
But, https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=x :

As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down.

To see this content, please select another instance,
or visit directly on YouTube.
> Did you see the Nix devs' proposal early on about requiring users to set the option `config.ambee.acceptThatThisPackageIsNotSupportedByUpstreamDevelopersAndIWillGoToNixpkgsToReportAnyIssues = true`

I did see that but it's somewhat irrelevant because the person that would know what that means would already know where to ask the right question. And the person that has no idea what they're doing would just type 'true' and not know why. I'm in the latter camp btw. Things have to be mostly idiot proof for me. When they're not I'm going to ask questions where I think the most experts are. If I have a problem with HA, I dont care where I got it from or what configs I had to do surgery on, I'm gonna post my question in the HA forums.

To be clear if I was trying to use HA on NixOs at this very moment, I would have no idea what questions are appropriate where except that my problem is with HA so thats where I'd ask it.

> That's likely not the impression people get from looking at any of the mentioned links

We're all different, but as a person ignorant of NixOs and HA, it's the impression I came away with.
Irn Bru hasn’t been the same since the formula change anyway.
Self-hosting is possible by adding headscale too: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

It doesn't have all the features of tailscale hosted server, but they seem to be actively working the list of missing features.
Ah you got this in as I was also typing it, well done! Deleting mine now.

Just to make my comment less useless here is the github:
https://github.com/seq-lang/seq
Rogers network in Canada also permits BYO— I've used my own modem for years as a TekSavvy cable customer, and recently upgraded from one owned modem to another (both purchased second hand, though, so who knows— maybe I've been pwnt all along).
Some strategies to find good blogs that have worked for me:

* Starting with university departmental websites

* Starting from records of "shop talk" industry conferences (e.g. Practice & GDC for games, as opposed to "fan service" cons like PAX)

* Looking up the people who worked on some games / products I really like (e.g. found Michael Brough's blog this way)

* Exploring GitHub and similar for interesting repos and looking up their main contributors (an interesting side observation you'll also end up making if you do this is how many of the best projects are essentially done by one person - i.e., 85%+ of the commits are theirs and they are clearly the main/sole driving force. Not really a surprise but cool to see nonetheless)
Because we needed curation. Very large proportion of the p2p content was viruses/malware etc or fake (you thought you were downloading A, but in fact you were downloading B).

With links in centralized websites and fora we at least had a little more confidence on the safety/quality of the content.
Thinking “what an idiot ” about past self is generally a good thing
*Closed source browser.

Flow is yet another project pulling on open source resources, and the browser market created from open browsers, and trying to privatize it. Imagine if google could just make whatever internal changes to chromium and nobody knew about it.
In order to be visible, the flash must have happened above the top cloud layer. The surface is well below that - Jupiter is mostly atmosphere, with a little bit of extremely compressed planet in its middle.
That makes sense. After all, I weirdly had to use their webinterface to even put it into modem mode. Thanks.

Though now that I’m thinking of it, are you sure it uses IP? It’s not as if they can’t use other layers.
One of the luxuries of train travel IS the extra time it takes. Take your time and settle in for a journey versus a cattle-call airport where everyone is angry and cramped inside of a tube 30k feet in the air.
Seems like Gotham is eager to live up to its comic book version. Except in real life you don't get Batman stepping in, you get the mafia. It's easy to see the next step too: these organized protection groups get some members who specialize in being the muscle, and an ambitious leader who'll actually market himself as the protector of the people instead of just a guy with a Facebook page.
Great. My first thought was: The inverse of (dual to?) the infamous Dropbox comment
For those interested, Shoebill※ is an emulator designed specifically to run A/UX and it’s works very well!

※ https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill