skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relay is very cool but it took me like 24 hours since discovering and adopting it, to being unable to use it for an account. So I cannot recommend it to my family and friends who are much less tech literate than I am.

In my case I was trying to create an account on the Linux Mint Forums [1]. The confirmation email never arrived, which was very confusing to me.

[1]: https://forums.linuxmint.com/

After a couple emails with the admin, they told me this:

> The forum tried sending you the activation email but it'd rejected by the Firefox relay with this message:

<...@relay.firefox.com>: host
inbound-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com[54.240.252.212] said: 550 5.7.1 TLS
required by recipient (in reply to RCPT TO command)

> This is a known issue of the Firefox relay: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/757. I'll check but I think TLS is not under our control, same as in the linked issue.

> For now I think you'll have to use a different email address.

So while it looked promising, sadly the next day I was already back to using gmail addresses...
Ready for Thousands of Dollars of Value for Nothing?
I do sometimes like to be called a flaneur. Thanks.
the internet has given narcissists an unfiltered voice.

in print publications, at least content has to go through an editor (usually)
In my opinion, the main crux is this: there are moneyed interests who are motivated to generate mistrust and otherization based on political parties. In the USA, Fox News has a strong incentive to inspire hatred and fear of Democratic policy, and MSNBC has a strong incentive to inspire hatred of the GOP. The same is true for Twitter, FB, NYT, WSJ, WaPo, literally any media outlet. Hatred, fear, outrage, worry, anxiety: they all drive viewers to advertisements.

One major example, these media groups facilitated making a huge rift on climate change belief. The fossil fuel industry saw in the GOP, and some moderate Dems like Manchin, an opportunity to create doubt and slow the transition off their fossil fuel products. Now, the GOP has leaned into anti-scientist, anti-elitist sentiment, fed by Fox News and others. They're not totally anti-science, they still use abortion science, ivermectin science, and all the wonders of modern life...but they ARE anti-scientist, anti-elitist, anti-university.

And Why? We're hating each other so media companies can make a few measly cents.
Does your country have a small claims court? This is the exact situation you should sue them for reputational damage.
International Olympic Committee announces new framework on transgender athletes
People will do all sorts of ideological gymnastics to justify screwing the public out of money when they money lands in government coffers ad the end of the day.
I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)
So long as it is a challenge to provide air, water and essentials of life there is going to be "big government" and probably harsh government.

In some place like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(novel)

they throw you outside if you can't pay your air bill. We've shown people who contaminate the atmosphere on Earth a lot of forbearance (e.g. it takes 100 years of CO2 emissions to create a crisis), but if you contaminate the internal atmosphere of a space habitat you can endanger other people immediately and it won't be tolerated.

With the right kind of technology base it might be different: say you had some kind of self-assembling machines that could build small habitats that are autonomous. You might find small groups of people who go there own way and assemble with likeminded others.
>Everything's locked into a platform

The quick ways are generally locked into a platform. But if it's a text file, does that matter? If you don't want the lock in, there's some initial setup, but after that it can be drag/drop.

There's also some middle ground, like serving from a local NAS box. Still locked-in, but more under your control.
I should've also added lobbying. Like Microsoft trying to stop Munich to switch to Linux:

https://www.information-age.com/ballmer-lobbying-fails-to-pr...

Although that's from 2006, in 2013 this article says the migration was finished: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-munich-rejected-ste...

But I'm not sure if they've stayed with Linux or returned to Microsoft in the last 8 years... EDIT, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux#Timeline, in 2017 some politicians said they're switching to Windows 10 by 2020, in 2020 other politicians U-turned on that decision.
Can confirm that The Economist requires you to chat with a human to cancel. The representative will basically try to get you a "new" deal to prevent cancellation and the whole process took about 5 minutes (with me just saying no to everything).

Still better than the Globe and Mail though, had to call and talk with them for 10 minutes while they tried to sell me a different subscription.
Tesla's Musk exercises more options, sells $973M for taxes
> the companies that pull this type of nefarious BS find their way into the dumpster of failed ventures

What are some examples of companies that failed over this? All I’m seeing here are very large very healthy companies being named like NYT, WSJ, Sirius, etc.

Seeing anecdotes of a few people trying to avoid being scammed doesn’t demonstrate a functioning market. If anything, the evidence here is the opposite of what you suggest: that dark patterns are working on the public at large and companies can easily get away with bad behavior indefinitely if allowed to.

> Would a law, in effect, force companies to mask their unsavory dispositions?

How would that work here, exactly? If there’s a cancel button, then there’s a cancel button.

Regulation has worked well for many, many things. Companies sometimes do need to be told what’s not acceptable, and they have in the past complied once told.
> Windows group is living in the 1990's and still thinks you can make money on a desktop operating system.

I can't speak for others but I'm more than willing to pay good money for a version of Windows that isn't actively user hostile and full of garbage. Like, give me a Windows 2000 UI on top of modern Windows underpinnings and I'll give you $500/year. They can even keep putting out the shitty version of Windows and just make it explicitly ad/creepy-data-harvesting supported. That might still not be enough to actually make them money, I can't say.

What I can say is that I feel like Window's current strategy is less about making money and more about actively trying to kill off personal computing for the sake of pushing everyone to subscription services.
Confusing... there are two howtogeek.com articles covering this. The other is on HN's front page today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210

Why not... here's a third one!

https://www.howtogeek.com/768188/windows-11-will-soon-block-...
Tangential, but it reminds me of GNU parallel's man page example one-liner for regex-matching giant texts, which goes on to say:

> If the problem is too big to be solved by this, you are probably ready for Lucene.

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel.html?highligh...
This has the same feel as "CashConverters Arena". Something about cryptocurrency brand names screams "scam" to me most of the time. Perhaps it's because you often see a lot of crypto related ads on the less wholesome parts of the internet.
https://simplenote.com/

Simple, clean, gets the job done.

I often publish notes for others, using markdown syntax
the major difference is that so far, if a company provides the honest service, they are at a disadvantage. But since the law equalizes the process for everyone, they are not at a disadvantage anymore.
To be fair, almost all of the keyword-ish things Java's added have been done such that they rarely can change the meaning of any existing programs. Assuming I didn't miss any, all the keyword-ish things which have been added, ever:

Java 1.4, 2002: assert
Java 1.5, 2004: enum
Java 10, 2018: var
Java 14, 2020: yield
Java 16, 2021: record
Java 17, 2021: permits, sealed

Almost all were added in such a way that the extent of the breakage would be that a program which previously worked would now fail to compile (i.e. fail safely.)

(The only exceptions I can see are for `assert` and `var`, and even then only when some parts of a program are compiled with older versions of the compiler, and even then only when various other conditions are met.)
This needs more votes, and more attention in the world at large...
I do what OP does and your comment gave my cause for concern. I just checked with my email provider and, luckily, it seems I can create Send Identities to solve this issue. Thanks for bringing this to my attention though!
The other Netlify story includes this news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253069
Access to the page is denied
Along the same lines as the Individuals Matter conversation from yesterday.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29235257
Oh cool, she’s Moroccan! Thanks for the link.
How will natural selection act on parasites if there are no parasites in the animal?
Show HN: Instant link sharing in Clubhouse rooms
Interesting, anyone have a feel for how big crypto.com is vs coinbase or binance now?

I'm follow the crypto world moderately closely , but never really hear about crypto.com except in expensive brand advertising like this
Years ago I applied to Netlify and went through a pretty lengthy interview process and at the very end it was between me and one other guy.

He got it. Now I'm really bummed I missed out. Hats off to him though. Really happy for Netlify's success, still use them for many projects/clients.
Previewing Nokia's Mobile Web Server
In the US, financing is also a lucrative profit source for car sales, but I think prepayment penalties are less common.
In 3, mine sweeper and solitaire where added to teach people how to use a mouse. Ads, slow loading and what not would have gotten in the way of doing their jobs.

Once computers (especially windows) became ubiquitous they had to pay for themselves since user training wasn't picking up the bill anymore .
Sure, that part is straightforward. But it's also tied to the mechanism by which a repair shop would get parts... which gets us back to the business decisions at the heart of the conflict between AASP and Right to Repair.

Therefore bringing up Apple attaching their name to the repair as a justification when someone is criticizing the AASP's design is a deflection.
Geoff here from Gitpod. I agree.

> Gitpod has created an open-source sustainability fund and allocated an initial amount of USD 30,000 towards securing our open-source supply chain by paying open-source maintainers. I often wonder what the future would look like if these high achievers that our digital society is built upon were empowered to become independent artists. If just one of those people can help more people better understand a technology or improve the developer experience for an entire ecosystem what is the worth/value of that and why isn’t our industry doing that yet?

https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-open-source-sustainability...
It’s true that there are cool groups within the organization but I don’t trust the people above who can guide via budgeting.
Apple Judge Calls Out Nobel Winner's Math in $10B Suit
First of all, it is vastly more likely that a car will still be in active use after 10 years than a computer, let alone a phone.

Second of all, if a 10-year-old computer crashes and burns, its user loses some data. If a 10-year-old car crashes and burns, it *crashes and burns*. Its owners' and other people's lives are at risk.

Suggesting that computers (and related devices) should be subject to the same kinds of regulations doesn't have much of a solid foundation without the same dangers.
The "average credit card debt" is a bit difficult to really measure. That isn't necessarily the amount of interest bearing credit card debt which IMO is the real concern.

I've have some credit card debt, none of it carries any interest. When I buy appliances or furniture I usually take the interest free financing despite having the ability to pay. Why pay a few grand today when you can spread that out interest free for 2 years and let that value appreciate? I would have lost out on tons of money if I had sold investments up front to buy those goods. So instead of getting rid of all that money a year ago, I got 30% gains in the market.
Lark 1.0 released – a parsing toolkit that is friendly, production-ready, and C
I meant from previous generation iPhones of the same form factor - it used exactly the same screen and camera
Very nice, after your original article I started using Emacs more and more on my Linux Systems (I dabbled with it before). And in 99% of the time I prefer Emacs.

On OpenBSD there is one nit, and googling only suggested 1 fix. I am a heavy RCS user, but Emacs RCS package fails on OpenBSD due to its Base RCS. The only fix I can find is to install GNU RCS and disable OpenBSD Base RCS. I tried to find and fix the Lisp package, but it is way beyond my skill level.

OpenBSD people seems unconcerned about correcting their RCS to work with Emacs (maybe a security thing). I believe the same seems to be the case Emacs RCS people, I think they would prefer the use of GNU RCS (understandable).

I would prefer to use OpenBSD Base RCS but I am caught between two projects. So on OpenBSD I stick with vim until I can find a workable solution.
Don’t think this should be downvoted as it’s an observation tangential to the article: for a company that puts Design amongst its highest priorities, how can they casually roll out these tiny-headed monstrosities?
The NYT crossword subscription gets you full access to their app which has every crossword they’ve ever published, and a bunch of other crossword-like puzzles.
Speedb – Revolutionary replacement for RocksDB – 100x more data, 10x faster
Thank you for helping me through this, I'll play with it tonight!
That is a particularly annoying thing. The good news is that you can fix that, even though you shouldn't have to.

Open Edge and go to Settings > Profiles > Profile preferences and toggle off "Use Microsoft Edge to open links from other Microsoft apps".
Ok, it's not a lie. It is deliberately misleading to the extent that the reader interprets that sentence in a way that in untrue.

Somehow that doesn't feel any better than a lie though.
Gitea is cozy, I like to s/Organization/Folder/ in the html templates.
> The more interesting repairs people like Rossman, ipad rehab, and others do can involve IC replacement or circuit trace repair and some of their complaints around sourcing ICs

Asking manufacturers to stock and sell the individual ICs they use to build products is completely untenable. The number of people who can actually execute such repairs is vanishingly small.

The reason the independent repair shops would want availability of the raw materials is so they can capture the profit of doing intensive manual repairs instead of swapping out a main board in a few minutes.

I have all of the equipment to rework dense PCBAs with small SMT components, and I’d still rather buy a replacement main board in most cases than do a hand rework operation myself. Machine assembly and factory validation is best.
Looks like it, but it's dressed up in so much filler that it's hard to tell. Probably targeting the insecure modern man.
> More paleo-carnivore rubbish?

Probably. It always amuses me that people automatically associate "paleo" with "eating mammoths every day", when a simple glance to other primates shows a heavily plant-based diet, on top of which, how many mammoths do they think our ancient ancestors were killing? Even well into the 20th century, meat was not an everyday food, and it's completely unnecessary (some argue harmful) to the human diet.

Books like "How Not to Die" opened my eyes.
It could also risk death if it exposed anyone in the field
It’s improper to invent a custom scheme that specifically opens a URL in a browser the user neither uses nor wants. I think some Microsoft employees should check out their own Wikipedia page sometime for an interesting history lesson.
J&J was the initial vaccine planned, as its weaker effectiveness against spread of Delta was discovered, they moved to favouring Pfizer and Moderna. While there was a decent rollout of J&J prior to that, the biggest group of J&J vaccinations was after they made that decision, they gave young people the option of going to a chemist to get a J&J vaccination ahead of schedule to deplete their stock while the regularly scheduled rollout continued with Pfizer and Moderna.

I think people who originally got J&J did get the option to get Pfizer later.
What happens when two people want to watch the TV?
You know, I'll admit that this is ignorance on my end, but I honestly thought that Streamlabs was the owner of OBS, in that OBS was just an internal project that they open sourced.

Clearly I'm wrong but I doubt I'm the only person who thought that. Seems like they're being douchebags if they're just taking the offensive and filing predatory trademarks.
Magit is the thing that keeps my tied to emacs. No other tool gives me such a good experience interfacing with git.
Beanie Baby Arena
I'd agree but there seems to be an epidemic of baby-duck syndrome, as people refuse to even take the first step to learn anything other than Windows.

Additionally, there is a lot of legacy Win32 applications still in use by gov't and institutions.
"Paltering"

Here[1] is a discussion about how Exxon uses paltering in NY Times ads in contravention of NYT's claims that they prevent misleading ads.

[1] https://heated.world/p/how-exxon-duped-the-daily
Quality on vintage Lego is usually better than what you buy today. They claim they haven't made many changes to the process, but a yardsale batch of Lego usually has less color abnormalities (aside from the age yellowing) and brittleness than a box right off the store shelf.

Perhaps QA isn't as rigorous anymore.
It's really exciting to see Cloudflare Pages keep progressing!

Any plan to eventually offer drop-in support for Next.js? (Not just static builds, but the backend server/serverless functions too, like Vercel... maybe mapping certain APIs to Workers?). It would be lovely to be able to leverage the power of that framework on Cloudflare infrastructure.

Edit: Next and frameworks like it solve the "I love the idea of serverless, but don't want to reinvent the whole backend from scratch" problem. It's nice to have a framework abstract away problems like routing, caching, invalidations, buildchains, image transformations, etc. Cloudflare Pages and Workers can do almost all the same things, but requires more coding and configuration... that's the only reason we went with Next + Vercel instead of Pages.
Either the VAERS data is broadly accurate, and the COVID vaccines are the most dangerous vaccines ever released (which is not to say they aren't helpful in some populations); or the VAERS data is all just useless unverified anecdotes like you're saying, and so there is no useful system in the US to monitor patient- or doctor-reported adverse events at all, in which case nobody can effectively claim that they are safe for any event that happens more than 1/(number of people in the trials). Which is it? If the VAERS data is all garbage, and someone claims on Telegram that the vaccine gave them lupus or cirrhosis or something, I guess I can't go on VAERS and see that there aren't reported events beyond population baseline, then, and I'll have to take them at their word?
Good point! If you'll allow me to provide a bit more background, when we started talking to users, a merchant of record set up was certainly a fit for some, especially those that didn’t want to even think about tax, but it wasn’t for all.

Some users didn’t want to forgo control over the checkout experience, others didn’t want someone else’s name on the statement descriptor, and others pointed out that merchant of record meant their buyers were paying more than some competitors as they were collecting tax everywhere from day 1, (vs. if you handle yourself you may not need to collect tax in a state or country until you reach a threshold, e.g. California is $500k).

However, one pain point in common across all users, was around the integration and maintenance aspects of handling tax during checkout, so our focus really became how do we abstract away tax at checkout…which is why enabling Stripe Tax really comes down to `automatic_tax[enabled]:true`.

All that is to say, we’re definitely not perfect and always want to hear how we can improve. We’re optimistic that we’ve built solid foundations such that we can now add much more functionality to meet any and all user’s tax needs, or even taking on all liability.

All and all we very much rely on user feedback to prioritize what we build, so if merchant of record would, to quote Patrick recently, be the thing that makes you say “FINALLY”, do let us know!
Interesting. I do think some of my forms of synesthesia are from colors in my childhood, but not my sound-color experience.
caffeine irritates the bladder, inducing urination (often urgently). But the total amount of liquid expelled after drinking coffee is not higher than after drinking an equivalent amount of water. In this sense it is not a diuretic and does not dehydrate you.

Separately, enzymes in the coffee bean (not caffeine) also act as a peristaltic.
In NPM's minor defence, I don't know of any contemporary registry that does.

If I had to guess, the registry operator probably either sees this as friction to onboarding, or if they do support signatures, they'd probably rather sign it themselves.

These are both stupid. The author should be responsible for signing, the registry should never see the key, and the registry should require 2FA to log in and set the public key for a package for users to discover.
The path to the better destination is sometimes the bumpier path.
Its the online version so they have my cc on record and charge me monthly. I guess I could have changed my cc to an invalid one but not sure if they have some sort of authentication process before accepting a new one, likely. If that was possible likely they would cancel it after a couple declined charges but you always run the admittedly small risk that they will just send you to collections which is no fun at all. Even if you are in the right you still have to deal with a ton of annoyance and try and get your credit restored if they report it to the credit agency.
I agree, but I think that’s a social safety net question rather than an economic performance question.
Yes, as a Spaniard who has been exposed to AZERTY in the past, I simply cannot understand the logic behind giving é, è, à, ç, and ù such arbitrary individual key allocations, which then make them explicitly untypeable as uppercase letters using the Shift (= "Majuscule") key... which as a result is required to type digits (majuscule‽). However, somehow the diaeresis ¨ and circumflex ^ diacritics deserve their own deadkey to be able to type ê and ï. I see this "improved" AZERTY leaves most of these issues untouched.

Meanwhile, in a Spanish QWERTY, reinforced by its requirement to support Catalan and Galician, ç and ñ have their own keys which can be uppercased as normal, and the acute `, grave ´, circumflex ^, and diaeresis ¨ all have their own deadkeys which can be used with any vowel character, uppercase or not.
Every single document “page” humans index has three “interesting” dimensions: the height and width of the page the words appear on, plus another for the font size.

So, what is a document anyway? Is a file handle just another type of dimension? Or, is a picture on the page part of the page document, or is it its own document?

Humans use arbitrary dimensions to tokenize the document’s bits, so to speak.

My dad could read a book (a big document) in blocks or chunks. In thinking of it that way it become apparent that groups and positions of data may constitute their own document boundaries and that info may be used in both the indexing and search pipelines to build relevance and relatedness.