skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, that's OK, it's a free country, someone wrote their ramblings (using tools created in the context of the culture they criticize), but having Google and other companies use these for their internal training makes no sense to me. Especially for programmers and people with formal training in logic. You can basically take any paragraph and prove it's not true and, often, also incoherent. Imagine sitting through this kind of "training" and knowing you need to have to nod your head otherwise you risk losing your job.
It's a mistake, that (any) crypto would solve any of the issues at hand.
Gitlab public live stream of the entire IPO listing day at Nasdaq
Are the cheaters having fun? I don’t understand why it’s so rampant or what they get out of it? It seems like winning without trying would get boring really quickly.

As a thought, one could make a game I imagine that actually encourages cheating and have the entire thing be an arms race in cheating tech, that sounds pretty fun .
It would be more accurate to call it “Digital Electronics Academic Exercises”
So swc is faster in almost all scenarios
I'm impressed as well! It's exciting to see folks so enthusiastic about the game.

I took a deeper look at the github project. It's been a long time since I worked on the Space Cadet code, but the decompiled github code is pretty familiar. It's formatted differently of course, but I think it's actually better than the original.
And, nice! Check it out David and Kevin: k4zmu2a got the quotes in! https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/master/Spa...

Now I'll never live down how long I spent working on the flippers.

Bonus points for anyone who knows why the classes in the source are prefixed with a 'T'!

-Mike Sandige (Lead programmer on Space Cadet)
Regarding backups... Syncthing is great for propagating changes to all devices, but does not offer much in terms of backups and previous versions of files. (And I'm fine with that. I consider that to be out of scope for Syncthing.)

I've been thinking about solving the backup part by letting one of the devices perform btrfs snapshots on its storage. Does anyone know about any write-up that describes or compares such solutions?

Setting up a cron job / timer unit that commits the synced folder to a git repo is also an alternative, but has some disadvantages: stores contents twice (once in the sync folder, once in the git object database), and pruning older versions is difficult (git is mainly built to keep all history).
NPR did a podcast where they setup a shell company and where they look into the top countries for this.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043746410/we-set-up-an-offsh...
This is exactly what I found when I tried esbuild a few months ago. I gave up and went with Parcel 2 at the time as I found it easier to get going (although there were teething problems with Parcel being beta at the time).

I need to give esbuild another go I think.
I'm not affiliated with the channel in any way, but Lawrence Systems did a really good overview. It's what convinced me to switch to it and use it for LAN sync with my server keeping everything from my phones, laptops and desktop. It's also good for those who might have trouble understanding how it's supposed to work. I think my biggest difficulty was with the fact that normally it doesn't necessarily have the concept of a "server" per say, but once I understood this and organized it in such a way that my server WOULD behave like a server, the rest was pretty easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5O4ajGWZz8

And same url on an Invidious instance - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=O5O4ajGWZz8
YAML vs. JSON: What Is the Difference?
This isn't very different from existing forms of meditation, but the scientific/secular focus here changes things.

If done for science and the discovery of truth, this practice could be a great way to bring old-school spirituality into modernity.

If, however, this is practiced for the acquisition of power, I can see how it can lead to psychosis.
Why would I prefer such a venue over a traditional coffee shop which seems more like a flatrate venue compared to a pay-per-minute place (there's only so much coffee I can drink...)?
> It's much, much easier for the government to exert control over the financial institutions

Citation needed. Europe has been rolling out proof of vaccination at high speed and with low costs associated.

Oh and yes, most business do bother and check thoroughly (scan of QR code which is proof of vaccination/recovered/negatively tested status, check ID matches name on certificate).

Control through financial instituations is not even possible, how so?
How to win at CORS
I downvoted you because that's not what was said.
So how exactly are they going to that? Im very skeptical about their ability to detect fake reviews. It sounds like when governments all over the world trying to force people into paying the TV License Fee and saying this can be detected with "special equipment" which was usually some fake antenna, because its just not something you can detect
FWIW I find useful info in many reviews on Amazon. It's still better than everything else I've seen out there. It sucks to have to spend so much time trying to find the nuggets of honest info, but they are there.... unlike most non-Amazon sites I have had the misfortune to use in the past.

On Amazon it's easy: if it's got hundreds of reviews, it's probably mostly fake reviews.

Even for those products if you spend some time you'll find some nuggets of useful information in there.

Contrast with some furniture site I went to some months ago, where there are only like 5 reviews per product and all of them are so completely fake. They assured me the desk was "very stable" which should have tipped me off already ... Later I noticed this "brand" is all over Amazon and each of their products has hundreds of positive reviews.. they are so easy to spot on Amazon... not so much on other sellers where they rebrand the product, have ten times less product info in the description, less photos etc.
I access radicale via an nginx proxy with proper HTTPS (LetsEncrypt) and an HTPASSWD over that, so the setup is secure. However radicale default setup is not secure, I agree.
Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
I'd like to understand if I'm missing on any new developments since 2015 or so. Here's what I'd like to have:

*. Goes: preference and alternative, deal-breakers:

1. SIM preferable, WiFi acceptible, but Bluetooth has to be good

2. Spill and dust resistant keyboard that doesn't feel like typing on nothing

3. Trackpoint or trackpad, that works

4. Stylus or touch-screen that doesn't glare

5. Good power management, lasts through the day, done charging in 2.5 hours

6. Runs the hacky-mac or Slax, has a head-set jack

7. Good GPU, fast storage, two fast external storage ports

From my understanding I fit a kind of profile, and am very much not alone. But I'd like to know what the HN crowd take on this is.
It's interesting. There _is_ a monoculture here, perhaps even an echo chamber, but it doesn't break down along the usual lines.

I like good conversations, like most. Not arguments, but folks simply talking and asking questions about things that they have massive internal disagreements about. I find such conversations useful to understand better both others and myself. (And I don't mean necessarily politics. Anything, really, except perhaps for that tabs-versus-spaces thing. Ain't going nowhere near that one)

In that spirit, I remember posting links to essays I've written like "Does God Exist?" (It was a recap of a Summer spent reading and listening to essays and lectures on the subject)

I would not do that today. In a big way, the site has gotten more, well, mediocre. It has somewhat unwritten standards and dang and the bunch do a great job of helping us keep them. But there's this huge list of rules and topics about content that are strictly enforced by the mob, and they wax and wane throughout the day. For instance, I am more likely to get a lot of traction on an interesting article if I post early in the morning, when my European friends are starting their work day. I get better traction on comments later in the day, when my California friends are finishing up their day. Beats me why and I haven't looked into it.

About every month or two I get a comment downvoted. The last one was back in March when I pointed out that types can completely replace unit tests for pure FP code.

I used to consider such downvotes an indication that I had misread the room, I was venturing somewhere I shouldn't. I would delete them if I could. Then I noticed some getting downvoted a lot only to come back with a positive score after a few days. There was a big element of randomness to it and not much useful signal in all of that noise. Now it's about 50/50. Half the time I delete those comments if I can. The other half of the time I wear that like a badge of honor. I meant no disrespect and was only trying to move the conversation along. Hell if I'm going to read a lot into what's mostly noise.

I've been on the net since it went public. I'm a slow learner, and it's taken a lot of time, but I no longer worry about all of the wrong people on the internet. I still wonder where the guardrails are, and how groups of people solve problems, but I'm much happier watching than I am adding to the noise.
Yep. Becoming better and maybe doing better.
Sadly often not honored. But I try to keep with this approach :)
There would be far fewer of them, and the consequences may not be worth it. That is why trust in a Target or Costco vetted vendor is higher than a small time seller named “eBizValue”.
My point is not exclusively advertising but that it is wishful thinking that companies always make sensible decisions. Often enough, useless or even harmful things continue to be pushed through, simply so that one doesn't have to admit to oneself that one has made a mistake.
They would rather try to achieve a positive result with larger investments after all, which usually fails and leads to even larger losses, than to exit early and get away with smaller losses.
Therefore, the statement that a reasonable company would not act this way is not covered by reality. Companies should not act this way, but they do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
Call me crazy, but if it’s called “hardware engineering problems”, I expect at least 1 of them to deal with AC..
Every Korean game already does this and most people really don't care. For example: League of Legends, Valorant, Black Desert Online, all have very intrusive anti-cheat already and is the norm.

You always see huge backlash on the internet, but you never see low player counts.
"It is the same algorithm used to secure the internet."

I didn't realize the Internet is secure now. This is a technical question, and so I'm taken aback by the vagueness of comparative examples that are provided. Especially given how big the conclusion is.

The part about Manhattan Project is just baffling. What is the significant connection between 21 billion dollars and 21 million coins with inflation? Is that a reflection of its worth at some unknown point in time? "then you know why" just trailed that off to nothingness.

Like the math teacher used to say: show your math. Otherwise this doesn't sound all that different than the claims of many people out there who claim they are the real Satoshi.
The explanation is pretty simple actually: you created unbacked paper Bitcoin. Not a single new real Bitcoin was produced. The initial depositors no longer have the BTC they deposited, you loaned it out to somebody else. Yet you count their deposits as if they still own it, which they don't. It's a paper lie that does nothing to BTC supply.

You can write anything on a piece of paper, it doesn't affect Bitcoin supply. Miners mint new coins, nobody else.
Thanks! I will use the enable-linger on the NAS running 24/7, and configure it using a remote browser (probably via SSH tunnel). This way I can always sync to NAS even if everything else is off, and the laptop/desktop will sync from the NAS when required.
Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers
and he's building tools to optimize his teams.
People still get that. They just also get reviews from others online. Forums have been invaluable to me for finding out information about niche fields where I do not have a person familiar with that in my social circles.
Just 68% of Fortune 500 CEOs are on social media
Why are 32% of the planet's most powerful people avoiding social?
This is more like pay-per-hour coworking with free food, not a coffee shop. It works because it takes away the decision what do you need to order and how long you can stay and work without ordering anything.
You get uneasy because this is written in a very ego/control driven way. I get the feel from the text that the individual who wrote it is interested in dominion over himself and perhaps others.

This is diametrically opposite to how Buddhist/Hindu texts sounds and feel. And I think the way those aforementioned religions approach the subject of personal practice is healthier for both the individual and the world
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Ask HN: Why is there no Django/Rails equivalent in JavaScript world?
To be more specific, some exists, for example Sails (MVC architecture), Nest (gathering best tools and providing an architecture to use them together), or Blitz (Full stack React).

...But why none of them are getting a real traction while node.js is popular for many years now? Does people in the JS world usually prefer picking and connecting tools themselves?
While I admit this philosophy can have benefits in some cases, it has true and obvious downsides too IMO.

I mean, in Python, you are able to chose your philosophy by picking up Django (all batteries included) or Flask (pick and connect tools of your choice). Both framework are kind of equally popular.

But I have the feeling if you decide to pick JS/TS language (a good reason could be: you build a SPA and want to use only same language for back and front), the only viable option is the "pick and connect tools of your choice" philosophy.

I'm wondering why this is NOT a problem for most of developers I talk to. I think some of them has never deal with full featured framework like Django and don't get all the benefits. But it can't be the only explanation.
State Machine for Python
All ThinkPads up to T420/X220 (2011) have a proper delete/home/end/pgup/pgdown block at the top right. And then the 2017 ThinkPad 25 anniversary edition, which is what I'm using right now and hoping it lasts until there is a proper replacement on the market.
Appreciate the explanation.

But:

> Consider TypeScript like a linter
Central planning was indeed common in the 20th century (and previously), however "to each according to their needs" (an old anarchist principle) was rarely applied, as most of the world lived under capitalist rule.

Most notably, USSR and China were "never" (at least not for more than a few months) communist utopias, but rather State-capitalist economies.

I believe an egalitarian society is fundamentally incompatible both with central planning and with private property. Some level of coordination/cooperation is required, but central planning means a higher authority gets to decide who needs what which sounds just like capitalism all over again. Or, as some USSR critics have put it in the past, "we're all equal, but some are more equal than others".

On the topic of (lack of) Communism in Russia, you can read Emma Goldman from 1935: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-there-i...
A lot of hiring decisions. I particularly remember being strongly against one candidate for cultural fit reasons because he was quite introverted (well past normal introvert - likely bordering on a condition).

He turned out to be one of the best devops people we had. Just a wizard with infra stuff. He definitely didn't integrate into the culture, but it didn't really matter.

In my defense, it was early in my career and early in the SV years so I thought cultural fit should matter a lot because that's what I was experiencing. It was an eye opening experience to say the least though.
> (= by not consuming all the power you produce).

This is a bit of a nitpick, but this is a physical impossibility. On a AC electric network, if the power input is higher than the power output, the frequency of the current goes up quite quickly, until the grid collapses (because there are security to avoid frequency deviation). You cannot “not consume all the power you produce”, all you can do is not producing as much as you could.

Btw, I'm interested by the sources of your “1.6 GWh of storage for your 1000 MW nuclear” because it sounds really low to me. I did a simulation[1] a while ago based on French data, for a 100% RE scenario and my calculation arrived at around 250GWh per GW of installed capacity. For sure it's not the same country, and a 60% vs 100% RE is a huge step, but the differences between those two results is a lot more than what I would expect.

A mistake I've frequently seen with people discussing wind power storage, is taking the average capacity factor and calling it a day. The storage need for wind-based power generation is enormous because (at least in France, but given the geography of Germany I'd expect it to be even worse there) you can have severe wind deficit which can last for weeks!!

[1]: https://bourrasque.info/images/20180116-moulins-%C3%A0-vent/...
This is neat, and seems fairer than the working-at-a-cafe where you have to consider how often to order snacks and drinks to be a worthwhile contributing customer :)

Are there any websites that lists good anti-cafes by city?
I remember periods when I made it a point to avoid Starbucks and get my coffee drinks at a small cart near work which appeared to be family-owned. They were nice, but the product was so inconsistent in quality -- and in general -- that I finally understood that part of it.

But the rest of the reality is that you need to consider the relationship. Buying from a local-owned store doesn't really count if you're just doing a transaction and walking away. I didn't feel like discussing the drink quality, or asking for a refund, would have been appreciated, so I stopped going there. Local stores that you can't develop a relationship with might as well be megachains. Local stores that you don't WANT to develop a relationship with, making yourself a little vulnerable in the process, are another matter. America didn't just want cheap and/or consistent goods, they didn't want to have to interact with the people they were buying them from. And that's the real sad part.
> Fact is that even today (13/10/2021) Germany is still running its electricity production at 51% on Coal,

And one day later it's 38.7%, which shows that daily fluctuations are quite high. Therefore my link to the 2020 average, which was 23%.

> taxes are close to the same in France with close to 31% of the cost only in Taxes [2]. That along does not justify the 2x difference of price.

Here it is in detail, the net energy prices in Germany vs. France are about the same: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Some section titles from the FAQ[1]:

> Why is esbuild fast?
> - It's written in Go and compiles to native code.
> - Parallelism is used heavily.
> - Everything in esbuild is written from scratch.
> - Memory is used efficiently.

> Production readiness
> - Used by other projects
> - API stability
> - Only one main developer
> - Not always open to scope expansion

1: https://esbuild.github.io/faq/
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HN the best place to be a fly on the wall especially on topics i dont know a lot about. I always learn a lot haha.
You can read and see "Software Engineer" literally everywhere nowadays; It feels very strange to see "Hardware Engineer" in the title.
Democracy is a farce, authoritarianism is a tragedy. Take your pick.
India funded a starving kids' app, but not food
Former director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Viktor Bryukhanov dies
In contrast, simple HTML, CSS and JS can be safely expected to work for decades at the very least.

'make' is older than html by almost 20 years.
this is why I prefer the 'conservational' sync option from Google. If you delete a file it prompts you if you also want to delete remotely. Sure, it doesn't prevent bad overwrites but that's what git is for.
Unions are for people in the Union, aka the people still working there, not for those getting fired with cause (failure to get vaccinated). This sounds exactly like something a union wouldn't care about.
I saw just now that there are also system units (started with "systemctl enable --now syncthing@USER_NAME_HERE.service", note the lack of --user). If you use those then you don't need to activate linger. Using those is probably considered the more standard way of doing things on an unattended server.
Many of the large companies will say "we have a complex sales cycle" (and they often do) and leverage multi-touch attribution models which removes the direct ROI calculation.