skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are very few, if any Gopher+ servers. And because of that, there are very few clients that support it. And I do see some clients attempting TLS connections to my gopher server, and it clutters the logs with garbage attempts.
You might like lua as a compromise between shell and python for this stuff. Embed any extra libraries you want in the lua executable and put that one file on $PATH.
The open-source TrackerControl does something similar.

https://trackercontrol.org/

It's on F-Droid also.
- Unity Software will hit $400 per share.

- The first serious mass-market VR haptics glove will be announced. By the end of the decade, most newly purchased consumer VR headsets will use haptic gloves instead of controllers.

- At some point during the year, SpaceX's Starship will reach orbit and then land successfully, but SpaceX will not attempt to send anything to Mars yet.

- Another machine learning model will go viral, generating a similar amount of excitement as GPT-3.

- Most people will still be wearing masks in Bay Area grocery stores at the end of the year.

- In 2022 or 2023, a disease that is not Covid will sweep through the world. The phrase "twin pandemics" will emerge and become popular.

- Republicans will win big in U.S. midterm elections.

- US media outlets will identify a surge in far right, nationalist sentiment among young people, with Nick Fuentes being a central figure.

- Crypto will become politicized. By the end of the year, it will be universally felt that support for crypto suggests right-wing sentiment.
Hah - I’ve assumed for years that days weren’t accessible because the section of ASCII art for them is greyed out!
I really wish new GNU/Linux distribution were titled as such:

Discover Slitaz, An extremely light weight GNU/Linux distro

Discover GNU/Linux Slitaz, An extremely light distro

Something like that.
You can drop the GNU part if that is not your thing.

I am always elated to learn about new operating systems.
I am always disappointed when it tuns out to be yet another distro.

Now this one looks interesting and I will play with it in a VM.
I just get my expectations get high when it says new operating system
What do you find bad about it? I've never had any issues. Yes, it's not as scarily effective as Google at answering the questions you ask, but it's operating in a different environment and to a different set of principles. In particular, it doesn't track who follows what links which I imagine makes it harder to sort links by relevance.
state of the art is to put packets into separate queues based on the 4-tuple (src,dst,port) then dequeue them fairly based on packet- and queuesize
Every puzzle comes with example inputs and expected outputs. Those inputs are much smaller than the puzzle input, but if you get the example inputs and expected outputs right then you are probably most of the way there.

Basically every puzzle comes with unit tests that just need to be translated into code.
I'm sorry for you, sometimes being interested in more then you use for daily work can greatly improve you work.
Know your market. There's a substantial number of people who use gopher from older computers (think of retro computing). Also, error reporting in the gopher protocol is terrible at best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...
The classic is Eugene M. Izhikevich, Dynamical systems in neuroscience: the geometry of excitability and bursting, 1967. A lot more work by Bard Ermentrout. Topological methods are pretty well established in computational neuroscience, but there is still little overlap with the deep neural nets that are now commonplace.
AI sepsis prediction algorithm learns to say “I don’t know”
Currently synthesising ammonia requires hydrogen and that comes from fossil fuels (the main process of extracting that hydrogen is steam reforming of natural gas and, I think, the main carbon emitter from the current ammonia process). Green ammonia would be made with green hydrogen which is made from water with electrolysis with renewable energy. These ideas make it more obvious that any viable solutions to climate change will require a massive increase in energy production. Solar and wind require massive scale and nuclear seems to currently be very hard to set up and unjustifiable if unit costs of electricity go down.
And let's not forget:

https://bastillebsd.org/

and

https://pot.pizzamig.dev/
I infer an undercurrent of “politics is about manipulating people not representing them” from Campbell and “Wally is going to code himself a minivan” (Dilbert ref) from Goodhart. So Campbell’s might be Goodhart with a politics context but it has a slimier feel to me.
> I really don't see us ever locking down again.

I wish that were true. But I live in Austria (Europe) and there is a full lockdown starting tomorrow (Monday). Officially it's just going to be for a few weeks, but that's what they said every time before, and it always got extended before, so I don't have any reason to suspect this time will be different. I imagine (but I could be wrong) that it'll extend into 2022.

Perhaps it'll just be limited to Austria, but generally in the past when one country went into a lockdown other countries were in a lockdown a few weeks or a month later...
> Personally I've started with straight machine codes, never mind assembly.

Me too - the first computer I used was an IBM Schools Computer. This was a thing a bit like an Apple I or something, but it had no assembler, no editor, no OS. To load a program, you typed it directly into memory in hex. I think (this was a long time ago) it contained an 8080. It had a TV output, and an integrated keyboard with flat membrane "keys". There was no storage - you had to copy stuff off the screen using a pencil and paper.

I expect it cost a small fortune.

[Edit] Apparently it wasn't an 8080, and it didn't take input/produce output in hex - it used decimal.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2kMIqdfyT8kC&pg=PA242&lp...

I can't find much info about that thing.
The woke foke would lose their shit if they were told to contact customer support.
That might very well be true and as a vaccinated person myself I hope it is true.

But how does that affect my conclusion that the vaccinated still have to be careful and herd immunity is unlikely to be a thing? A false sense of security is a problem in itself.
Looks like the moral rights regime in Australia is pretty similar to that in many civil law systems. You cannot just revoke your license based on the right of integrity. Where do you get that idea from? Based on the introduction, it works just like in most other systems: you would have to show derogatory treatment. And that, considering the nature of the work (computer code committed to an open source project), seems to be hard if not impossible in any conceivable circumstances.
You really shouldn’t get your news from a comedian.
How much does it cost now, after all the R&D and tests are completed? I doubt they need millions to actually produce the drug once they know how to and that it works. So they basically prefer not to produce it at all, than to sell it at affordable prices. It makes no sense to me.
Regarding your first point, why not just run scripts with `bash script.sh` or even better, use shebangs and `./script.sh`?

The standard shell experience is decades old, and makes it cumbersome to keep up with the pace of today. The appeal of zsh/fish is the user experience and extensibility. I have a shell config using zinit [^1] that installs my dev environment for me (fzf, tmux, nvim, and my zsh-plugins) as long as zsh exists on the new machine. While one may argue that they prefer strictly standard bash so that everything is POSIX compliant, you just have to ensure that your scripts are run with bash or whatever shell the script was made for.

[^1]: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit
Lenovo or framework. Lenovo gets worse every year but it's still better than dell or any other consumer garbage.
The shareholders are doing as much as the rest of us to help those dozens of people. It isn't fair to cast the blame on them.

The real culprit here is the system of laws and controls that forbid anyone else from stepping in to fill the hole they've left. The regulations and regulators deserve to be held up as the problem here. If it wasn't illegal to compete then maybe someone would. Maybe even one of the people who need the drug.
This is completely obtuse. Why isn’t your anger at the Guix or Linux-libre maintainers’ supposed withholding of information (‘censorship’) directed instead at publishers of closed-source, unauditable binary blobs, which constitute a fundamentally greater security risk than any auditable code repository ever could? How does it even make sense for Linux-libre to publish notifications about available binary blobs of any kind, including microcode? Why doesn’t Intel just release the source so this can be put to bed?

There is an ideological battle here, and despite the way you frame it, it is between people who believe that users should be empowered to know what the software they run does, and people who don’t. Linux-libre sits in the camp of the former. I don’t know into which camp you fall, but your argument suggests the latter. I personally use the upstream Linux because it works easier for me and the hardware I have, but I have no bones about the fact that I am running non-free software, that that ideally I would have hardware which supported fully free software.

Also, as I said, the Guix maintainers believe that their users are competent. Guix users know what they’re getting into when they run Guix, at least when they get to the point when they would drive it daily or run it on a system they see as critical. We know that microcode isn’t included when we use Linux-libre, because it is non-free - and that’s just the way it is. Saying that the Guix project is withholding information from us is incredibly patronising. It’s not a big conspiracy - the project, along with the rest of GNU, is openly in favour of maintaining repositories of fully and solely free software, to the exclusion of all non-free software. And it goes without saying, it is not the job of people in the GNU Project to educate people about the perks of running non-free software - there already exists a wealth of resources about how people can go about doing this, and it does not align with the clearly stated goals of the GNU Project.
It turns out a better energy storage system than hydrogen, actually. Think it has better energy density, easier to liquefy, and if you’re making hydrogen it seems to be a relatively easy step to add nitrogen (easily available everywhere as well).

And you can burn ammonia in engines that are closer in design to their gasoline counterparts, as opposed to completely new hydrogen fuel cells. And the density is high enough for it to be a serious contender for aircraft fuel.

So yeah, ammonia, assuming it’s made from green hydrogen (renewable energy) as opposed to blue hydrogen (from natural gas or oil with hand wavy carbon capture), has a lot of interesting prospects.
I'm currently in this situation, having seen talent leave and 80% of my coworkers are useless twats. I left this situation at my previous workplace, watching a process of unionization coincide with a merger, leaving behind a horde of useless twats who then had jobs for life, regardless of competence, with management then having no history with those people. This company is now globally infamous for poor service and incompetent techs and sales people.

I've seen this play out repeatedly and inevitably in 30 years of work. Unions are an anachronism, and we need something better.

American unions are an unholy hybrid of faux social activists and lobbying factions who use "the plight of the worker" as a political bludgeon. Locally run unions devolve into cults of personality and high school style cliques, rendering political clout and social prominence to otherwise non-contributing members of society.

We don't need non governmental bureaucracies rewarding the stupid, incompetent, and lazy with pensions, benefits, and job entitlements.
Because the mammals usually take a single breath at the surface, and then descend.

In contrast, SCUBA divers are usually breathing compressed air while at depth, from their self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.

These divers will have lungs full of gas at several atmospheres of pressure. This will diffuse into their blood and then into more solid parts of their body. When they ascend, the stored gas diffuses out, causing bubbles, and thus 'the bends'.

When free-diving, the lungs are full of air at one atmosphere of pressure, leading to very different gas absorption dynamics.

Humans who free-dive (i.e. no scuba gear, just hold your breath) "don't get the bends" despite descending to depths well past the recreational scuba levels.

The caveat is that mammals can and do get the bends from free-diving (humans included in the mammals group) if they make multiple dives to depth with insufficient surface intervals. Because when you get technical about it, the air in the lungs does get compressed at depth, leading to the same absorption/release process as SCUBA divers face. However, the volumes of gas are much less (one breath vs many), thus the total amount absorbed/released is much less.
Do you have any online news site subscriptions?
Thankfully not. Just in a pensive mood. But my programmer friend has been unable to use the computer for two solid months due to some kind of sickness -- possibly pneumonia. I'm worried sick about him, because he lives in some kind of war-torn country with no functional medical system. I didn't realize how much I'd miss him till he was gone for a couple months on the verge of dying.

But that kind of thing can happen at any time. You just don't really notice it till you get older, so you never slow down to appreciate the people around you while they're there. Or at least, I didn't, for a long time. Been trying to change that in recent years.

Anyway, I really don't care about seeming weird. The weirdness is life itself, being a descendent of a monkey on a spinning speck of dust in the cosmic soup, worried about an abstraction we call money just to climb a societal ladder that doesn't really matter much in the end.

Everyone has to walk their own path, but my goal was to get one of you to stop and think about how you want to spend the next few years of your life. I've seen so many people allow themselves to think that work = life, and most of them seem to regret it. So I try to consciously avoid that in my own. Maybe you will too.
Desktops are still a decent means to some ends. The argument made by Strong Towns is that the stroad is not a good means to it's ends.
It serves both it's ends badly.
Do you also update your shell and emacs keybindings to match? Or do you use option as meta in emacs to start with, and forego all the native option chords?
Though after install Chrome, you can always do install uBlock origin and thus have no ads.
- Republicans will win big in U.S. midterm elections.

- US media outlets will identify a surge in far right, nationalist sentiment among young people, with Nick Fuentes being a central figure.

I agree with this first point for the same reason I disagree with the second. I think people are generally done with social media fueled extremes.

I think the Trump brand is done and the progressive agenda will be voted into a minority. I think people will be voting for more Republicans than Democrats in 2022 but the real winners from either party will be centrists/moderates talking about budgets.
Curiosity happens when you are uninformed about something and something seems interesting. Once you're informed it's less interesting so there's no need to be curious.
I would have to respectfully disagree though. Cos like I said, the reason why free trial is there in the first place is to entice users. There are so many products without free trials.

Again, the burden should not be in the shoulders of the end user. There is no reason for the company to ask for credit card other than data sharing, other dark patterns and spam. Like many have mentioned, spam can be dealt with better by other means. These are companies who have tried it out. I don't know what else more to say. :)
I think basically because there is nothing interesting left to discus.

One camp (where I am in) basically believes it is an environmental disaster, unsuitable for its stated purpose and most likely as scam by the "whales" manipulating the price, and with a potential 51%-disaster.

The other camp believes that it is the future of money, untraceable wealth storage and inflation/"confiscation proof" and that all the environmental impact is just a temporary problem, that is solved when proof-of-stake is ready (which IMHO will never happen).

The tech itself is quite simple in concept with a few novel key insights in the old days (which by now are generally accepted).

So all in all, it is back to good old politics and do you believe in "it" nor not.

I think that I see in my network of people that the more technically apt they are, the less they believe in it - but I am not sure whether I just project my own skepticism ...

EDIT: typo proof-of-state -> proof-of-stake
Or Canada, actually.
There aren't many options for Windows laptops.
Anomaly relative to the climate without the extra human forcings, like how you could call the dead forest from acid rains an "anomaly". A simple average of a reference period is used as reference for simplicity but is by the fact that climate change is happening much faster than typical climate variations so it's fine for now: the difference is (still) essentially entirely out fault.
I did find this on the Windows version
I'm more with you, I guess. I find the increasing difficulty to push my brain more and more to its limits. So I usually just do the first few days in my language of choice for that year and there I go. No need to stress.
I'm going to attempt an answer, but as with all things this is only my perspective and I obviously don't speak for all HN readers.

HN is largely for founders who want to build things. That's certainly how it started, and there's still traces of that vibe around in the Show HN and startup-y threads. There's a lot more going on here now, like more code topics, AI, electric vehicles, environmental things, a little futurism, etc, but the core is and always has been startups. In itself that doesn't rule out having a reasonable conversation about cryptocurrency. There are a lot of opportunities around crypto. There are startups to found, and pain points to solve. The problem is that crypto has three significant problems for HN readers:

Firstly, a lot of people trying to make a living in crypto are purely speculating. They're not building anything. They're simply trying to "buy low, sell high". Entrepreneurs, in general, don't really have much respect for that. Founders admire and respect people who go out, found a business, and build something real that solves a real problem, even if it's a problem we don't have ourselves. Leeching off the system isn't a skill.

Secondly, a lot of crypto isn't solving a real problem. It's essentially trying to be "digital gold", but without the usefulness of gold. It's only a store of value. There absolutely are good uses for crypto, and even for things like NFTs, but most of the speculation isn't about those things. It's only the "buy low, sell high" side of things. HN is not a forex or trading forum. Again, we respect people who make things.

Lastly, no matter how you cut it, and even with the latest lightning and taproot and proof-of-stake tech considered, crypto has a massive set of problems to still to solve with its environmental, regulatory, and money-laundering issues. To be honest, to me, they look pretty unsolvable. I have a decent understanding of the tech and I can't see how you can build an anonymous system for transferring wealth around that requires significant bandwidth and CPU and not screw the planet by providing a service for drug dealers and terrorists. The fact people are trying is awesome, but I suspect they'll fail. All of the upsides of crypto are also upsides for people who want to use it for bad reasons.

All in all, cryptocurrencies are an interesting idea, and the tech seems like it could have some valid applications, but the downsides are huge. A lot of the pro-crypto people involved don't want to acknowledge that. A lot of the anti-crypto people can't see that the tech could be useful. There's no middle-ground. That makes talking about it pretty boring.
I think DAOs might be on to something
People on Hackernews tend to be very intelligent and can see crypto for what it really is, so there’s not really much left to discuss.
The Life Engine – Evolution Simulation
I’d say the MacPaint demo was bigger. We had touch screen devices before the iPhone and several failed attempts at tablets (then called “slates”). The iPhone interface felt like a big leap but still an evolutionary one that we all know someone was eventually going to nail. Whereas MacPaint seemed almost supernatural compared to what was sat on people’s desks before it. Sure it drew a lot from Lisa and Xerox but at that stage most people weren’t familiar with those and that had certainly never believed it would end up in an affordable device any time soon. I remember Amiga invoked similar responses for me too. Then first time I saw an Amiga in the flesh it seemed almost magical.

I don’t think we will ever have breakthroughs like that again because of the way how tech is often previewed in public (to drive up hype) and the laws of diminishing returns with regards to computational upgrades. Plus I think people are more used to seeing hardware breakthroughs so expect more these days.
Here in the UK:

> After a lifetime of saving, the average UK pension pot stands at £61,897. With current annuity rates, this would buy you an average retirement income of only around £3,000 extra per year from 67, which added to the maximum State Pension, makes just over £12,000 a year, just enough for a basic retirement lifestyle.

Source[0]. £12K is $16K USD/yr

There are also some sobering statistics on PensionBee[1]

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/financial-services/pensions-advi...

[1] https://www.pensionbee.com/next-generation-of-retirees-repor...
Thanks for the link.
OP video is blurry, and starts at 29:42 of this video.
This video is better quality, also.
I think the biggest factor differentiating the climate on the halves of the globe is that there's more landmass on the upper* bit of the Earth, so my first guess would be that the difference is tied to this overall difference.

*Comment by the North Hemisphere Gang
That should be CTRL+SHIFT+click, not just shift click. Muscle memory, heh.
The newest Macbooks (2021) are looking pretty good tbh. They reworked the design to make the battery trivially replaceable and by the looks of it, they will be selling the battery to end users soon.
It's interesting to see that nowadays reballing has the same exoteric feeling as desoldering your C64 chips back then.
Timeouts, Retries and Backoff with Jitter
I never worked with Flash/AS, but I remember some tools targeting SWF (OpenLaszlo, Haxe).

Did they reverse-engineered the spec? Or was there some sort of Flash specification available in some form?
Appeals to "curious discussion" sound an awful lot like a request to omit any reference to any of the many downsides and known problems and failures of crypto in general, and instead just focus on convenient cheerful angles that pump it up.

It's not possible to have serious, informative, and insightful discussions on a topic like crypto while turning a blind eye to the elephants in the room.