skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Host here.

I knew of joeyh from hn and a previous hn post is how we ended up talking[1].

The episode is a lot about the experience of being in the Debian community in the early days and the experience of being a free software developer, or at least that is the part of of his story that was most interesting to me and that I tried to highlight. How communities form and how they build up a shared understanding and culture is something I'm trying to understand.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721883
Haven't you heard? The enlightenment is racist! We've moved beyond such outmoded ways of thinking.
My only quibble with this excellent article is on the self-reinforcing nature of learning loops. Organisation learning has a spotty track record. Without the right goals, support, and attention, it so often runs out of energy.
This is the first I'm hearing of using code 2 myself. Been using bash casually for years now.
Sex is one thing, but porn isn't sex.

It's like comparing coffee and meth.
> That's about all lately.

Checkout the The Expanse.

> ignore the source material and do ... something else. Blade Runner for example.

Blade Runner did not call itself Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Contrast that with the Will Smith movie I, Robot.
It is relevant. It tastes good and it's food. I know that it's food because it's sold as food in the grocery store. It's sold in the grocery store because my society has deemed it as edible food. It would be a strange world if human meat was somehow for sale in the grocery store.

If I own a pet chicken and it lays an egg what do I do with it?
Knee jerk reaction here because I’m a layperson in this area…

> anything cheap starts to get expensive. This certainly applies to bandwidth.

This breaks the basic supply-demand rule. It’s also happening more often. Why are our business models so messed uo?
Therefore no one is allowed to use it, ever. This thing runs in the web browser so it clearly marginalizes people who don't have internet access, as well as people who disable JS for security reasons, among others.
They are not the problem with residential real estate prices. The real problem is people that prevent additional housing from being built.
I assume there is an option
VHF Directional Antenna Made from Measuring Tape
This is a great initiative by the team to revive this kind of concept. This will help the young ones feel and immerse themselves in this concept.
Settings → Privacy → Address Bar.
They promised a proper package manager and repositories way back in the day before Windows 8 was released. You probably know the crap you got instead.
America's most widely consumed oil causes genetic changes in the brain (2020)
> When I was a kid, I found out that serious game programmers used C

Ha, when I was a kid, my father tried to teach me C and I found out that the serious game programmers used asm! C was wasteful; a few years later it was what everyone used but not on systems I liked; starting with the MSX and then moving to then Amiga, I was writing games on both and even for the latter, C was a very dirty word in the time I worked on it. Even if it was 'C', it was chock-full of inline asm. When I moved to PC software, indeed it became C and then C++.
Why does the language change when demonstating what "modern" solid is. Changing the language also changes a bunch of properties independant of what they are trying to show solid is, unless they are saying you need to use javascript to do modern solid.

Can I do "modern" solid in Java or C# ?
I love the technicality of this. So satisfying to hear him talk about it in these terms. Very little of the technical skill is talked about in the TV coverage, etc. Just not the focus for individual "sprinting" sports like this. I wish Usain would do the same.
Exactly. I have a few build tools on my machine but any service installed locally has been long gone. Even the apps I work on - I just have the code locally and compile/package it up for testing within a container, which resembles the actual production landing spot. No more "it works on my machine".
It seems the update messed with some (randomly) of my settings (homepage, default search engine...). You might want to check yours just in case.
Many businesses use Oracle DB too. Many businesses also write their internal processes on papers that they keep only one copy of in the same location. Don't fall for the bandwagon effect.
Apple sacrifices new iPads to boost iPhone 13 production
I suppose my objection is that calling it "ethical source" implies that the practice is ethical, which I disagree with.
Yes it is. We have decided that we have an obligation to protect people from themselves even if they do their due diligence.
I wonder if any of them read HN or feedback from the feedback page or anything?
I prefer

C:\> perl -MWin32 -E "say Win32::FormatMessage(1303)"

No encryption key is available. A well-known encryption key was returned.

You can put that in a batch file:

C:\> type %USERPROFILE%\bin\wm.bat
@perl -MWin32 -E "$e = shift; say defined($e) ? Win32::FormatMessage($e) : 'Need exit code'" %*

so it's always available:

C:\> wm 2450
The user accounts database is not configured correctly.

I am not sure what the right way to do this in PowerShell[1] is, but this batch script has served me well for almost two decades now.

[1]: https://geekeefy.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/powershell-import-...
> Checkout the The Expanse.

That doesn't count because the books read like a film script (the authors are professional script writers). And yes, I've read them. Before they were made into a movie even.

> Blade Runner did not call itself Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Contrast that with the Will Smith movie I, Robot.

"Note that they aren't named as the books that inspired them." i said :)
I don't care as long as they don't track me. (They probably will)
Projected population of US in 2050 is 458 million from the current 330 million. Given that underlying reality, housing is going to be an investment.
I've been using Whereby for the last couple of years, and I do like it. It works well for small calls, but for calls with more than 5 people I found that it started to use a lot of CPU. If you're smaller than that, it's actually one of the most frictionless videoconference tools around.
I didn't think there actually were sexier laptops than ThinkPads from that era.
> Firefox no longer warns you by default when you exit the browser or close a window using a menu, button, or three-key command. This should cut back on unwelcome notifications which is always nice--however, if you prefer a bit of notice, you’ll still have full control over the quit/close modal behavior. All warnings can be managed within Firefox Settings.

I'm going to re-enable that. I appreciate choice, but just because I use three-key commands, doesn't mean I'm infallible. That dialog has saved me several times from having the wrong window in focus and accidentally trying to kill the whole browser.

One could argue the only controversial decision here was changing existing user's settings without post-update warning. Since in the previous version this warning was always "on" and now it is "off" after update, and you aren't notified of this unless you're in the demographic that reads Firefox release notes.

In general though still appreciate more choice/control.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-configure-close-tab...
Where I work allows full-time employees to get their PHD and also gives some paid time to write your thesis. You can also propose research projects that align with your thesis topic.

Edit: Also tuition is free.

https://careers.gtri.gatech.edu/en-us/listing/
There is under Settings General FF Updates.
It still asks for confirmation on Command+Q - and provides a way to disable that behaviour if you're not prone to that typo
This is exactly why regulation is needed - not to ban ads, but to curtail the noxious effects of them (privacy invasion, lack of liability for malicious ads) to tip the balance back the other way.
It's a great solution, but it has a big limitation: you can't use it with the official YouTube apps for phones and TV's. You end up having to resort to 'hacked'/third-party clients like Vanced, with all the risks to your Google account that entails.
> they can put any conditions they please on how others might use it.

Yeah, and that's not called free software, Free Software is about empowering end users, not the creator.
When I read the title, I thought about ads being shown during calls. Looks like this is about ads on the final browser screen only:

> For this initial program, ads will be rolled out only on the browser page users see once they end their meeting. Only free Basic users in certain countries will see these ads if they join meetings that are hosted by other free Basic users.
My first real job included system administration on a pair of SparcStation 20s (which were replaced with a Sun Enterprise 450, which was then replaced with two Sun Fire V250s). The screenshots bring back fond memories.
We're on the tail end of 50 years of policy to make single family homes into a perpetually growing investment vehicle to finance baby boomer's retirements.
I do wish there's technology to dispute obvious lies on the fly, because politicians are getting away with spewing sooo much bullshit.

E.g. whats-his-name from Texas blaming windmills for the big freeze in February. The problem is, lies are easy to regurgitate but the truth require paragraphs of reading...
There should be something like /etc/cron.daily in windows. The jobs run sequentially so don't overload bandwidth and other resource (hopefully).
Social media just gives people occasions to talk about everything, and then everyone can see what they talked about.

While in real life you e.g. just never give your neighbour the occasion to talk about politics with you.
Nutrition isn’t poorly understood. If what you said was true, vegans wouldn’t need to take tests to check their micronutrient profile or need so many supplements. You have no evidence to support your claim, there has been 0 vegan civilizations; for good reason. There is no dimension where a vegan does not need to check their iron levels and supplementation is a must: if you care about your health and getting what your ancestors did from meat.
Zillow's attempt at flipping was certainly not helping. Even if it doesn't improve things, at least it is not hurting anymore.

The trend of big companies buying single family homes and attempting to flip them is demonstrably bad for individuals trying to purchase a home.
$400k seems very affordable. I could easily buy a house today if that’s what FHA-grade (i.e. something more than a burned out shack) housing went for. In my county the median house goes for over $1 million.
Agree, recently changed jobs and went from Zoom to Teams and it's a complete dumpster fire. Never had a single issue with Zoom.
There really needs to be an alternative "close all tabs now" command to replace this.
Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship
Ah, thank you for explaining. I assume the idea here is that the borrower of the stablecoin is then using it to make a bet on the continued price appreciation of some other currency, making it a leveraged bet. Crazy risky. Who is supposed to enforce the terms of the borrowing? Or is it done programmatically somehow?
> streaming services, the rationale is "we can still call it ad-free, if the only preroll ads we run are for our own shows!"

At least on my services, they are just short trailers, never annoying ads like Progressive's. And if I'm not interested, there's always a Skip button. I'm paying for this service, I want to know what upcoming shows are coming. I don't mind if this helps with their internal metrics.

Now I do object to the actual 5-10 min of ads I subjected to in the movie theater.
Good job with motor admin!
We're doing a Show HN right now too and we're in the same space. That's so random
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081054
This is a good example of the fallacy of youth: buying too far into hype and being all "the sky is falling" with negative news.

It wasn't long ago that we were reading how Zillow et al were going to buy up all the housing stock and keep millenials and Zoomers homeless forever.

The people saying this have obviously never gone through a "bust" cycle. This is unsurprising as we've now been in the longest bull market in modern history. It's not always like this. It won't always be like this.

History is littered with the corpses of those who tried and failed to corner a market. Real estate is no different. That's not to say we can't make the system better. We can and we need to. But serfdom isn't imminent either.

Zillow shouldn't be taking real estate positions as it's going to end badly and will likely hurt their core business (ie transactions). I'd love to know who signed off on this idea. They need to be fired.
I'm (counts on fingers) 33 now and am a few years into doing exactly what you're thinking of. I'm working full time and am probably going to finish within the next year and a half.

My advice is to look at advisors who have a record of doing what you want to do or placing people where you want to go at schools that are a little bit down the rankings from the best possible place you could get into.

My email is in my bio if you want to talk about it.
> The license makes no such distinction. The website had no warning that it was a private test, was hosted on the presumed official domain and looked like it went live.

That is true. I mention that in my last paragraph:

> The fact that it’s a public web server (with no access controls) does throw a wrench into things, but it’s not as simple as many here make it seem.

However, simply being accessible is not akin to authorization. If that company tool is accessible to the public through a misconfigured DNS, the courts probably won’t side with me asking for the source.

The law is not black and white (despite what many here think). Judges are humans and will apply judgement as to whether Truth was meant to be accessible or not.

There’s also the fact that the CFAA is a broadly worded law and could easily be wielded by Trump against the people accessing Truth prior to launch. Just say they weren’t authorized and were hacking. They’ll probably lose in court with that argument, but we won’t know until the ruling would come out
That's bullshit and you must know it. If, say, Donald Trump were to use the software to save puppies, the steering committee would find a reason that this is actually worse than Hitler.
Crawling insects (let's call them 2D navigation specialists) on land are prey to flying insects (3D navigation specialists). But these 3D specialist predators require more energy to navigate and maintain flying ability.

Spiders invert this relationship -- they are 2D specialists that slice a 3D space with a trap, capturing 3D specialists without expending energy to navigate their prey's space.

Not quite a free lunch -- it takes some prep work in the lifetime of a spider to survive. Losing your web makes you suspect to getting wrecked by robber flies until you build a new one.

On a more science fiction note, I've wondered about generalizing this 2D/3D existence relationship into humans interacting with a hyper-dimensional entity. Will we also have to evolve to build traps against the perception weaknesses of our 4-dimensional invaders?

Anyway, I've thought about the level of fidelity of information a spider could get from vibrations on a web. It's probably a function of nervous system ability and sensitivity for the spider to discern frequencies of forces impacted unto it by the web, as well as the frequencies filtered by the web itself. Looking forward to reading the paper.
Great Depression as ALL about deflation, we see inflation right now. Which will be painful, but since all countries are seeing inflation its likely just driven by costs in production.

If we huge inflation, then all these expensive mortgages people stretched for the last few years will be super cheap, so all of a sudden majority of Americans will be out of debt, for example.

All those empty commercial properties instead of foreclosing will simply rent home out for "low rent" purposes like gyms, but that low rent in inflated terms will cover the cost of their lease/mortgage.

It could be messy, and will need support from many players, but I don't think we are looking at a Greater Depression.
The Treaty of San Francisco arguably granted Taiwan independence. Then the Republic of China came.
I've been trying to get so many of my friends/family to use Jitsi instead of Zoom throughout the pandemic. Usually the response is, "Oh this is great!" And then they're back to using Zoom the next day because they're used to hearing "zoom" as a verb. Zoom did an incredible job marketing itself into a trend.
They're not selling them to retail buyers, they're selling to institutional investors.
Ask HN: What happened to the Trump Mastodon article?
Web3 Episode 4 – A New Hope for the Internet
https://anirudh.xyz/web3-episode-4-a-new-hope-for-the-internet/

Talks about how Web3 will shape the future of the internet.
Well, yes, but look at the increase in length of baseball games over the last fifty years.
Shutting Down Historical Debate, China Makes It a Crime to Mock Heroes
Just had a look at the linked page out of piqued curiosity. The "get started" link on the homepage points to a GitHub release page (https://github.com/AdaPlusPlus/gcc/releases/tag/0-2-0) with a 908MB "adapp-for-linux.gz".

I'm presuming this is real (908MB would take a tad too long to download today), but if it isn't, that's definitely up there in terms of execution. I completely believe it.

Edit: Oh.
> alot of the online vitrol dissipates when you have a chance to see them as a full person

But remove the physical proximity and the vitriol often re-animates.
What you see over time is that as products mature, they add advertising and then saturate it. The reason is filling your product with ads kills retention, so you can’t do this early on.

The interesting part to this is that once the competition is heavily saturated with ads, having no ads gives you a distinctive edge over them.

The thing that interests me the most is how ads can significantly degrade the quality of the product itself. This is really apparent with Amazon, where their ad platform not only pushed up the visibility of very low quality products but also made their seller ecosystem dependent on them. Amazon’s search results are their content, which are now ads. In order to outbid competitors, you need to increase your margins, which you do by selling a shittier product. I suspect we will see a similar thing happen to Apple’s App Store over time.
Massive (Joinmassive.com) just raised over $10M of seed funding to provide an internet without ads. Reputable, strategic VC firms involved (not announced yet) and run by a team of successful founders and advisors (ex-Google, ex-Yelp, Disconnect.me). 100,000s of users.

The team is fully remote and growing fast.

Head of Operations: https://jobs.joinmassive.com/head-of-operations

Senior C++ Developer : https://jobs.joinmassive.com/senior-cc-developer

Director of security compliance: https://jobs.joinmassive.com/director-security-compliance

Feel free to reach out directly to recruiting@joinmassive.com
The Notability fiasco.
>With radio, all of the story needs to be told by a person, converted neatly into words and expression

Funnily enough, in the early days of radio, the presenters were not actually present at the game - they would read the raw numerical progress of the game off a telegraph ticker, and invent all those sights and sounds and tension for the benefit of their listeners.
I really hope the government stays out of this. We need alternatives to their monopoly, and regulating stablecoins will ultimately limit people's choices.
> society does not recognize in terms of existing

The hell with this. Society nows recognizes Early Retirment as a status to aspire to. People look up to joung retirees, and this provides a pretty big identity.

The FI movement now put a name and label on it, so the belonging part of meaning is covered.
Using Cell Phone Metadata to Catch Jan 6 Insurrectionists
A T91 in every Taiwanese home!
Even more people are happy that this scam failed
George Bush still should be dragged to the Hague, this "The Election Was Stolen" idiocy is still dangerous. Both can be true.
'matter-of-fact' - what is more important is that the after effects/side effect are eerily accurate so makes it hard to dismiss it as mere imagination.

In the Hindu thought, everything is cyclical including the birth and death of the universe. It is not human or earth centric, talks about other planets or worlds requiring space travel, space-time effects of travel. Nagas - advanced reptilian people who precede humans and in some stories come to the aid of humans sound alien or a parallel species.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/hacker-trump-truth-social/

> Armed with the app developer’s name, the hacker told the Daily Dot that they were able to utilize Shodan, a search engine that locates servers exposed to the open internet, to track down the company’s digital footprint.

> The hacker was able to locate numerous web domains as a result, including one that appeared to be running the mobile beta for Truth Social.

> News of the public website quickly spread across social media after making its way to Canadian hacker Aubrey “Kirtaner” Cottle, who was able to set up faux accounts for numerous high-profile individuals such as QAnon guru Ron Watkins.

Whether that counts as misconfigured idk, but these are certainly not normal users doing normal user things.
Bitcoin Is Mathematical Purity, Says Steve Wozniak
It does not, it does need the "command line tools" installed. Certain ports require full Xcode but not too many.
They could always work on making the system peer-to-peer. You will never get 100% of the way there because of some overly restrictive networks, but you can get the majority of users (especially those on home connections without enterprise firewalls/etc) to connect directly making it sustainable enough (the last 10% can just be subsidized by paying users and/or by ads - it could literally be a "fix your network for P2P to work, or watch ads to pay for TURN relays).
It's sad that mainstream publications only seem to post about random scamcoins. It's like if Bloomberg posted exclusively about penny stocks.

There's a lot of innovation in Ethereum that seems totally ignored!
Brave New World Revisited (1958) by Aldous Huxley
All the other similar stories have turned out to be nothing, maybe tenths-of-a-percent of workers are willing to lose their jobs over the vaccine.

What might happen here is that some companies may fail to give their employees time to get vaccinated by the government deadline. That is, time to overcome their denial by letting them know there will be consequences. So it may end up in a situation where many people get fired who think they won't be when they would have just gotten the shot.
"We heard you were talking about deliveries on your Zoom call. Try USP for fast deliveries, 10% off if you click here nowwwww!".
Ask HN: What unprecedented measures could be taken to stop climate change?
I'm wondering what measures, given sufficient resources, could have a meaningful impact in quickly reducing global emissions. I'm especially interested in what would require the involvement of a large group of people (millions) and/or the use of large quantities of money ($ billions).

Some examples:

- Assist governments in accelerating the ecological transition in their countries, giving access to additional resources when needed

- Institute funds to reward individuals who contribute to the environment, for example by installing renewable energy systems or consuming green energy

It would be great to learn more about the root causes of the slow reduction in emissions, the main challenges and why they haven't been solved yet.
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