skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll never get frictionless money transfers. Stop asking.

Not trying to be glib, but it's a political and law enforcement necessity that not every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Jane be entry points to the financial system.

I'm not saying I agree with the justification for it, but as someone who has seen how it works... It is alas, an incompatible outcome.
I've never heard of firearms being used in an IT workplace. I guess it's possible that somebody working in IT could carry a gun, but I can't imagine how it would become a necessary part of their job to use it.
Session persistence can be achieved on top of IP.

E.g. for ssh, there's mosh (uses UDP to work around the control part of TCP).

Come to think of it -- everything I use is either stateless (http), or can use ssh for transport (ssh, sftp, sshfs, rsync, ...).

I'm sure some other protocols still break, but I haven't felt that pain in years!
The clock is ticking on PHP 7.4 security support, one year left:

https://www.php.net/supported-versions
Fixed, my apologies
I am one of those people. Driving a decade old Toyota Yaris with 210,000km, have performed <$500 in unplanned maintenance (had a ground fault that affected the wipers, cost ~$250).

I'm planning to upgrade to full electric sometime in the next three years, whenever something compelling comes up. If I had to switch today, it'd be a Leaf (doesnt suit my distance needs), a Model Y (doesnt suit my budget), or a Bolt EV (doesnt suit my no-active-recalls-due-to-fundamental-fire-risk requirement). Hyundai and Kia are out due to bad past experience with them (engine totally died just outside warranty, known issue, no option other than a $9000 engine replacement with no guarantees the same thing wouldn't happen 31 days thereafter). If Toyota or Honda had a compelling option I would buy in in a heartbeat
MIDI Manufacturers Association should have come up with a standard "Official MIDI™" namespace for naming OSC messages and which works nicely with regular "MIDI" devices. Instead of trying to make their own new spec (that is unlikely to be widely adopted and which is not physically compatible with "MIDI" anyway).
As someone past their partying days, the only time I typically use them is at the airports.

And at the airports, I'm always blown away. Taxis as far as the eye can see, ready and willing. Yet most people are fumbling with their phone, walking around lost trying to find the Uber lot.

As a data comparison, it cost me 10 seconds of my time and $33 to get a taxi ride home. It cost me 7 to 10 minutes of my time and $31 for an Uber. Doesn't make sense to me.
That’s nuts. Does that mean he went from 400 to 2800 in six years? Who is this?
In 2019, in a very different situation, I was worried about the hospital bureaucracy that almost killed my mom. My mom was struggling with pneumonia and the antibiotics were not yet having any effect, but they scheduled her for surgery on her eye, and once the surgery had been scheduled, it was very difficult to try to stop it, the momentum to stick with the schedule was incredible, even though it seemed unlikely she would survive the surgery. I kept asking, can't we wait a week and do the surgery when she's recovered from the pneumonia? But there was a feeling, no, we must operate on her eye now, even though there was nothing to gain from the surgery, as they said they were unable to restore her eyesight. But I was able to stop the surgery and my mom is still alive today. I wrote about this in some detail in Regarding The Death Of My Father:

https://www.amazon.com/Regarding-Death-Father-Lawrence-Krubn...
Look at the chart. "Computer and mathematical occupations" is male majority, but not male-dominated like say train drivers or mechanical engineers. Some subfields (web and interface designers, notably) are pretty balanced.

We study diseases by (first) looking at people who have severe forms. Ie it would be tough to come up with an understanding of autism just by studying the brains of people who are "a little aspy". If you can figure out what causes the gender segregation of train drivers / pediatricians, maybe you can apply that knowledge to relatively-mildly-imbalanced tech fields.
...nobody...

Who are you trying to convince?
My wife's 85 year old grandma lives on a small dairy farm (less than 20 animals) and farms it pretty much the same way it was done a century ago. Actually today it's more of a "homestead" than what you'd thing of as a "farm", but this is what "farms" used to be.

During summer there is always a lot to do, as they need to tend to the fields to grow feed and food for themselves, and they are often working from sunrise to sunset. But during the winter it's just looking after the animals - they stay in the barn as it's too cold in our climate to be outdoors - so it's mainly feeding and cleaning which doesn't take too much time.

The idea of such seasonable work seems somewhat appealing to me, as you work hard to get things done for one part of the year, then go into maintenance mode for another. It seems like it is a good chance to recharge and reflect on things, instead of just picking up the next Jira card and forgetting about what you've just done. I imagine places that have holiday code freezes must feel a bit like that, but this is a longer period.
Not my blog but looks like HN traffic took it down. Here's archive:

https://archive.md/2sOOm
Why's the font so tiny?
Mishaps involving test/production environments happen a lot
Yea, HN traffic took it down.
Lack of organisation has affected other areas of software too. An example is the gallery in Ios. It used to have an album called "camera roll" which would contain all the photos and videos taken by you. Now that is gone. You have absolutely no way to restrict your view to items that you captured. Instead it is a big jumble of random crap from whatsapp groups and screenshots and your captures all in one feed called "recents".
> Windows 11's start bar makes accessing settings and files easy

No, it does not. At least, not for me, it doesn't.

Remember that programs are "files" too - and my Windows 10 desktop has a nicely personalized Start Menu with probably about 30 app tiles added to it (roughly 50% are the small size, the rest Large. I don't have any Live Tiles: these are all normal shell shortcuts that exist as basic tiles. I've also employed some tweaks to allow me to have tiles for non-program-shortcuts and document files to my start menu. I have the Start Menu double-wide as well, as I have a large (43-inch) main desktop display. I also have the All Programs menu always visible because I do actually use it a lot.

I know I can simply pin more programs to my taskbar, and I can move the icons back to the left, but I simply cannot use collapsed taskbar buttons because their hit-target is tiiiiny (Fitt's Law is important, which is why it's insane that the Start button isn't in the bottom-left corner, crazy). I also run programs that generate a LOT of open windows - with ungrouped buttons (and thanks to my huge desktop monitor) I'm able to have instant 1-click access to every window - if I was using Windows 11 I'd have to click twice to switch between windows in a taskbar that is somehow both cramped (due to needing to pin more icons for non-open programs) and wasting space (as buttons won't expand to fill empty areas).

At least I'm not one of the unfortunate souls that needs to have their taskbar on the side or top of their monitor (this includes people with disabilities who prefer to not have to glance down so-much) - there's a lot of pain amongst those users right now.

Your uncritical praise just seems so-off when juxtaposed to all of the sincere negative feedback about Windows 11. Yes, people will always complain about change, but the fact people are complaining about the capability-reduced taskbar and start-menu and not the enforced rounded-corners on every window[1] is saying something.

[1] I'm actually offended by the rounded-corners thing, I'll admit: because I thought that there was solid agreement and understanding between the OS and programs that the OS would not impose itself onto the client-area of a window: programs get a perfect rectangle and users should get to see all of that rectangle - with rounded corners (and without thick non-client window-borders to absorb the curves) it means users are being short-changed on their pixels. Serious question: what if a program displays critical status information in the corner pixels of a window? It just makes me feel uncomfortable.
"dogs really don’t bite for no reason."

Back in Russia a neighbour's pibull would regularly attack and bite small children playing on the playground, drew blood, left scars. They refused to believe there was anything wrong with the dog's behaviour. Only when the dog attacked their own kid at home, they finally accepted the fact and, sadly, put down the dog.

Some people are crazy, some dogs are too. Indeed, nothing happens for no reason, but the reason might be screwed up chemistry in the brain. Or it might be traumatic upbringing, or something else totally unrelated to the person that suffered.
Do you want to be stuck in a local minima forever? Increased competition will lower prices in the long term.
Make BCP38 mandatory.
> What does wokeness have to do with military preparedness?

This are 100's of military memes everywhere on this so what's your real question?

It's a 100% logical thought process, people are learning to kill other human beings, how is that compatible with Wokeness? The Woke can't even code, they can only bikeshed other peoples time away.

RT comment on pretty girls who love their parents and beaches and weddings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnxmzqXJN8 Any idiot can see the point here.

Russian soldier leaks on social media are them killing civilians. The USA 'leaks' on social media are soldiers complaining they have to remove their nail polish. These meme's are common.

It also follows the corollary, that unlike the Cold War where countries tried to outdo each other, now they try and put the other one down. Play down Chinese space tech rather than improving our own.
> Plenty of reasons why a home should not increase in value,just because.

It's not just because. It is because the cost of a brand new identical house is higher in the future (more expensive materials, higher labor cost), so that will pull up the value of the existing comparable houses.

Older houses are often more attractive so may price above the new ones. The new house comes pretty bare (unless it is a luxury builder but then you're paying that premium), often with zero landscaping etc. An established house gets you a nice yard, mature trees, etc.
Maybe I'm just assuming incorrectly, but wasn't that the point of the story?
People would just buy some fake identity from some poor island somewhere, and governments would spit out a few billion fake people for espionage and propaganda.

And need some sort of identity management for all the automated processes to assume, which would be a huge nuisance.
Yes, it’s known as the Russian reversal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia
I'm more referring to the trend in "smart" consumer electronics to violate privacy. For instance:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21657930
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20206536
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/lifestyle/downside-connected-...

And it's not practical for your average consumer (or musician) to try to block it, or even detect it. Also, there are less and less options to buy "dumb" devices and appliances that won't spend their operating lives trying to exfiltrate data about you back to their manufacturers and their corporate partners.
Ok, we've changed to the Reddit thread from https://twitter.com/Coding_Career/status/1454293034179317764. Thanks!
I don't know about Ithkuil specifically, but I know that lojban is a constructed language that has a small community around it that actively write/speak it amongst each other.

But regardless, the whole exercise of creating a new language from scratch is definitely informative.
You would not give up your (hypothetical) bitcoin wallet password even if mafia put a gun to your head?

https://xkcd.com/538/
DHCP-PD for IPv4 would eat up all the addresses on day one. It only makes sense to automatically delegate prefixes when those prefixes are an abundant resource.
Oh yeah I forgot how revered he is. Which is why he's hiding in oppressive regimes, lol.

Even in the tech community, the most sympathetic group possible, half the people revile him as a self-serving traitor.

Nobody takes him or his supporters serious. Hard to hear, I know.
Text is mightiest; but you should use "video" instead of "image". Video is the natural visual medium to convey an essay, not a still image.

Let's consider a philosophical essay as something highly abstract, then its video counterpart would be mostly audio (transcript of the essay). In other cases, e.g. a scientific report, video might be easier content to consume but producing a proper video for that take much more time than writing a 6-page text. The video as the visual medium counterpart has lot more complexity and not always worth it.

Consider a presentation: text+visual+audio, it's more capable to convey the essence of the material. So all these boils down to what is the perfect combination for a particular use case. From short to long image/video, from Instagram, TikTok to YouTube, each multimedia choice lead to different use cases.

And text is the mightiest not because that it necessarily convey better, but because it can:

1. produced/maintained/transferred with the least complexity than others, it's much more efficient representation in this regard.

2. It can represent with most rigorous detail (e.g. consider a math paper)

3. It has the easiest retrieval and mining

4. BUT It usually needs more effort to consume

It's always nice to choose the proper combination of text+visual+audio+interaction. AR/VR only add one ingredient (if you consider it a new one) to this whole toolbox we as humankind are building. It makes our communication much more complex, and much more powerful. However, at the end, the most basic one which is text will remain the mightiest. We may need to wait for some bizarre telepathy technology between brains to change the status quo.
pollute our way to a better tomorrow
Ask HN: What userscripts do you use to enhance your browsing experience?
Also, what userscript manager do you use and why do you prefer it over the others?
Very Online people complain about social media censorship, but the entire internet, overall, has gone downhill and is full of censorship, not just social media sites.

The problem is spammers, trolls, and opportunists ruined and squandered any good will and presumption of innocence, so everyone pays and is presumed guilty.

Forums have very strict registration and posting requirement, unlike 10- years ago.

Many sites req. phone number to do anything

Reddit subs have very high comment and post karma thresholds in order to post, tons of censorship and ghosting, especially for popular communities. And also arbitrary rules that get your posts auto-ghosted, sometimes without an explanation.

Twitter also ghosts posts and users too even though the liar CEO and said it doesn't.

Youtube allows blatant crypto scams to run, but bans accounts and removed vidoes for arbitrary and automated copyright claims or 'misinformation'.

Low trust=worse quality internet experience.
It's been over 72 hours now.
https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/toys-games/six-mill...

A quick look on ebay shows they're typically selling for less than $100.
You do know Andy Ngo literally posts mugshots of antifa arrested right?

I’m not taking any sides here but the notion that antifas activities are somehow the right is laughable. Just as laughable as the j6ers acting like antifa had a hand there.
Theft by insiders includes inflation, for me. The US alone is creating how many trillion how quickly? This will likely not end well. :(
Look, I hear what you're saying but it all just sounds like hypotheticals to me. If you want to take that approach, hypothetically the other vendors could have chose to standardize the feature, it could have become standard, and all the other browsers could have implemented it and it wouldn't be a problem. But that didn't happen. And I have seen plenty of other features that were gated behind Moz or Webkit prefixes.

I'm not trying to be a downer here. Realistically, there will always be a browser out in front that is going to iterate on features faster than the others. That's normal as long as you have more than one browser. If we want to criticize Google for practicing anti-competitive behavior then let's do that, but it just really doesn't make sense to me to put "they shipped a feature that someone else didn't" in that category.
I understand 1 and 2; I just don’t understand why his passport is relevant. The threat is what made them withdraw the offer of asylum, not the revoked passport.

Related, I also don’t understand why, if the US was able to pressure other countries into withdraw their commitments, they wouldn’t just wait until Snowden was in one of those countries so they could pressure for extradition.
Technically tls is end to end encryption. Between you and the service provider.
"I am entertained by a half-baked editor." should be highlighted in green.
A weird observation for myself, sometimes I wake up at around 3AM for no apparent reason and can't get back to sleep. Sometimes I reach for my laptop and figure why not play a few games of chess. Weirdly, my strength of play is 400 - 600 higher than normal. This observation is a little off topic I know, but just made me wonder if anyone else has a similar experience.
God bless all of these activists. They've made it possible for this family to visit their son, whose death is so capricious, and so capriciously scheduled. I'm in tears.
Per-note pitch bend is a big deal, and it could impact the kinds of music people use MIDI for. Right now, it's pretty awkward to use MIDI with controllers that aren't piano-like or to play music that isn't in twelve-tone equal temperament.

That said, I'm kind of pessimistic about MIDI 2.0's prospects. Maybe it'll be adopted by most of the manufacturers, but it's not looking like anyone is in any great hurry to start making compatible hardware.

There are also some problems that MIDI 2.0 just doesn't address (as far as I know), like the limitation of 128 notes per channel, or the difficulty of expressing a volume swell in a way that a synthesizer will play in a predictable way.
What's EGL?
Improve physical fitness and get professional coaching and you'll improve faster than any other way.
Just another victim of the ultra-polarising US media machine that's halfway between dumbed down mass entertainment and media wings of political and commercial interests. Some more, some less, but it's increasingly forcing people to choose sides, however stupid or radical they might be.

The saddest thing is that there's no way it's going to get better, only worse.
> I loved what people could create in those early days of Flash without the restrictions of html.

I still remember the first time I discovered http://eye4u.com and watched their incredible flash intro. At the time I thought it was one of, if not the best flash intro on the web, and it instilled a sense excitement for what was possible with Flash.

I agree it was refreshing and exciting to see all of the creative designs and ideas one could express using Flash. If only they hadn't added those pesky "skip intro" buttons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOUw2tF7agM
> […] why limit yourself to representations that can be made in air by normal human beings?

For a constructed language using non-human forms of expression, you can check out Rikchik language, created by Denis M Moskowitz [0].

> No one is going to ever speak this language except the creator to himself.

Well, it’s a hobby and an art form. Do you ask someone drawing still life compositions, why he/she is doing this, when photography is a thing? Besides, people DO use the language in this particular example, although more as an interesting pastime activity than a regular language.

Granted, constructing languages makes an extremely niche hobby. Still, without it there probably wouldn’t be The Lord of the Rings (for Tolkien’s opinion on language creation, check [1]). There are still people learning Klingon, Lojban, toki pona, Dothraki, and so on.

Esperanto and modern Hebrew (to some extent) are also more practical examples of this art.

For a more elaborate insight into this hobby, there is the book “In the Land of Invented Languages” by Arika Okrent.

[0]: https://www.suberic.net/~dmm/rikchik/rikchik.html
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secret_Vice
i don't think it's hard to game the system. Recently, unemployment checks were sent out of country to foreign scammers, the identities of incarcerated felons were used to make fraudulent claims (successfully)... so i can't imagine it's much effort to fool the agencies involved
Cognitive sharpness is often best not long after waking and as well as after light exercise. You can use these to your advantage when trying to climb rank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#First_and_last_subnet_add...
Specifically, it would take 927.27 gigatons of tephra.

That said, a quick google suggests tephra is about a ton per m^3; so a 100100100 metre cube of the stuff would be 1 kiloton.

a 111km cube would be a gigaton. So we need less than a thousand of those a year :-)