skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Fake Attack on Environmentalist Criticisms" is more like it.

>>"Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are terrible for the environment," declares Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.). "It's an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions," pronounces former Federal Reserve Chair and current Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. "It's a way to both hide dirty money and destroy the environment at the same time," says Daily Show host Trevor Noah.

>>Such environmentalist attacks on bitcoin are best understood as a strategy by economic, media, and political elites to undermine a powerful new form of money that they can't control.

No, they are legitimate criticisms of a protocol that uses orders of magnitude more energy to accomplish the same task as other systems, and for which squandering energy is THE POINT OF THE PROTCOL - it is not called "Proof Of Work" for nothing - someone has to do the work.

It is a legit criticism that stands on it's own — no need to impute some fabricated ulterior motive as the article does. Occam's Razor says cut it out.

It does go on to criticize some of the more outlandish extrapolations of BTC power usage, but does so in quite hyperbolic fashion.

Strikes me as a fanboy article not even close to worthy of a publication named "Reason". Save your time
solid. devops person here - these guys know their stuff.
SEC Investigating Cassava Sciences, Developer of Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug
Regulation may help, but companies can blame themselves for cloud lock-in, not shareholders, engineers, or complexity.

Prior to being a SWE or SRE-SE I worked in Network Engineering. Seeing how most companies ran their DCs and treated the devs that were required to use them was illuminating. Everything was a "service desk" staffed with generally ticket handlers. It took ages for them to get things done, and you were almost always hunting for the person on the desk that just "got things done". I worked nights and my engineering line would get clear day-time-appropriate requests at nights because the most qualified engineers were in school and ended up on the night shift. Compute scheduling was no different. You now have APIs for both of these jobs.

My point being that the real innovation that made developers turn to the cloud was APIs. All these "availability zones" didn't exist in most company DCs, usually someone had a lever to throw to switch DCs at best, and even then they really weren't used. Downtime was expected. Those very same APIs could've been made by a coalition of those small and medium companies using the same technique Google used with Kubernetes: open source. By the time such a project started, it was already too late, and public clouds had built what they'd built. Not having open hardware also contributed to the problem, but again, nothing a coalition couldn't overcome.
The Second War on Terror
I don't think QWACs are at all the same as state controlled root certificates. Browsers aren't going to show EV certificates.
Cynically, I wonder if what Apple will do here is make it difficult/impossible for independent repair shops to take advantage of this. Thus, Apple gets good press ("See! We support right to repair!"), but in the end, they know most consumers won't feel comfortable effecting these repairs themselves so it won't eat into Apple's bottom line much.
Interestingly there is a version of this font for programming (OpenDyslexic Mono) for some reason I find it harder to read in that context. This font honestly works the best on my Kindle, where I'm reading large chunks of text. On the screen it never quite looks right.
Also worth noting that it's ~37kb over the wire, applies to the whole site (where it is much more thoroughly used), and contains a bunch of svg icons that don't need to be loaded in separate requests. If anything, that reinforces to me how well considered it is!
8 year old and 5 year old.

Same for both of them. No TV. 25 mins each of video games every other day. We occasionally (maybe once every 6 weeks) watch a film together at the weekend. No tablets. Perhaps once a week they might ask to use the (Windows) laptop to go to a website they use at school, such as Mathletics. We'd normally let them use this. 8 year old has a Kindle (not a Fire but the eReader type) that is used just for reading books from the Kindle Kids subscription that is age limited.

Perhaps once a week we might watch a YouTube video about something vaguely educational, so for example a Tom Scott video.
No. I must be doing something differently. To be fair, Edge is not forced upon me, as I am using Firefox, but the only thing I do not like is that Windows 10 is updating itself whenever it wants.

Ah, and I installed Windows 10, that does not use Microsoft account(you might had to disconnect internet cable for that), so it might be the main problem.
We (reclaim.ai) have a fairly advanced Slack integration. Custom actions, modals, Slack status, interactive messages, custom bot home screen, etc.

I truly can’t tell what this is. I also had never heard of Deno before so that context didn’t help.

At first glance it seemed to be a next gen way to build interactive UIs in the Slack app, compared to the callback nature we built our app with.

But digging a bit deeper, it seems to be more narrowly focused on their “workflows” feature, which is one of the few things in their platform we haven’t used.

I’d love to learn more, but also if anyone from Slack is reading: your platform is pretty complex and announcements like this don’t help folks like me.
I am sometimes uncomfortable developing features which I feel arent 100% kosher. For most users they understand what they are buying, but there is a certain segment (lets say 1 in 5) who dont. As the company needs to grow at all costs u can imagine they won't be quick to rectify the situation. Kinda sucks that this is prevalent in our industry.
What was the super easy method that didn't require FTP, SCP or a manual upload from ten years ago?

From what I remember, everything always had a few steps... Perhaps you're suffering from "rosy retrospection"?!
For GNOME I guess you could say it's the same way but they are more after volunteer contributions, not money. So they will make changes that tend to increase the contributions, sometimes it's a trade-off i.e. do we make this change to lose 5 contributors but gain 10 contributors in other areas. They're tough decisions to make, and nobody likes to be the one to tell angry users that their workflow is breaking.
The GNU software ecosystem can be described as "culture of small dependencies that do one thing but import 100 other things to do that thing..." Installing, say, GIMP for the first time using `apt-get install` pulls in about 50 packages and many, many megabytes in total.

So the issue is probably something other than using bazaar-style code design. I think as other people in the thread have noted, the distros have centralized, managed, and curated package libraries that get periodically version "check-pointed" and this is not how npm works.

I may have my answer to the original thought I floated: the way this problem has been solved successfully is to centralize responsibility for oversight instead of distributing it.
We're certainly not on an equal footing.

Trade deals are about power and taking the one for the EU as example because we (UK) need access to their markets more than they need access to ours then they always had the leverage

It'll be the same with US, China etc.

Even in the trade deals we've achieved with countries like New Zealand we've not been able to take advantage of being a larger economy and we've allowed lamb imports just to get a deal
This doesn't have anything to do with Rossmann. In fact, he's probably a little pissed because this is going to bite into his business model.
not sure if its the same for you, but for me each arrow up/down is equivalent to about 15-20 scrollwheel notches of my mouse, which is enough to see the other parts.
It's actually not too expensive, $49 or $69. Cheaper than some non-Apple shops: https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...
RPython programs can be compiled to a standalone executable without a Python runtime - it's what PyPy is written in, for example.
What does any of this have to do with WASM? WASM is still a second-class citizen on Cloudflare Workers and Javascript is still the only really practical choice.
You do know that there's one in London at the Science Museum (the one that was¹ in California was built at the same time for Nathan Myhrvold).

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1. It was on loan to the Computer History Museum from Myhrvold and returned to him in 2016. It's unclear whether he did re-loan it or if he's busily calculating the values of polynomials with it.² The Computer History Museum website makes it sound like it's currently on display but I can find no news stories about it going back to the museum.

2. Just kidding about him calculating polynomials—it's (I think) on display in the lobby of Intellectual Ventures.
I also used to tick that preference when a choice was provided, but have stopped doing so after encountering too many cases of text/plain versions being broken one way or another. Not that common, but still too much of a hassle.

Sometimes they are "empty" like here, or contain placeholders in place of the actual data, or just break random features (e.g. eBay prevented other users from sending me photos).
Convenience blinds.
Zero trolling here. You wrote: <<representing nearly a billion people>> My rule of thumb is about 500M. (Google says 445M.) Where is the other 500M?
I honestly wonder which came first, the viewer preference or the algorithm.

Like are there people out there that see a whacky face in the thumbnail and think "Oh that's a video I want to watch!" and the algorithm just got trained on that?

Or did whacky faces just resemble something (from the algorithm's perspective) that was briefly popular and then a positive feedback loop of algorithm recommends it -> gets popular -> algorithm updated to recommend it more often.
But why is view count the only metric you care about? How about getting fewer views but more engagement, with viewers that want to see the content but are turned off by the stupid thumbnails?
Any chance we can see performance with a more realistic build with say 5 x 1TB/2TB spinning rust disks?
> I thought mushrooms dissolved ego, but what you are saying strikes me as filled with ego

This is the case with everyone I've ever talked to about this. If anything it seems to be an ego boost more than an ego death, though I doubt thats as much the mushrooms as much as it is the person
Beauty Benefits of Honey
Does Pages now support multiple deployments from a single git repository? When I looked a while back it seemed like there was no way to host multiple domains on CF Pages from a monorepo. GH Pages has the same limitation, but Netlify does support monorepos.
2010s.
How many news articles and recorded interviews repeat the phrase "safe and effective"? Maybe the "effective" part was a little misleading? Especially when these vaccines were explicitly billed as a solution to containment of the virus, to the degree that mandates were supposedly justified...

Maybe you could argue that there was a disconnect between what virologists/epidemiologists were saying and what media, pharma, and government talking heads were saying, but it absolutely was sold as effective in preventing infection and spread. Hence the term "vaccine" which has since been redefined by the WHO and/or CDC (I forget which one changed the definition listed on their website).

There is too much political momentum for our institutions to acknowledge that they may have made a series of significant errors in their assumptions.
Seeing what a Raspberry Pi can do still has me clicking through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google

> To date, Google has been found guilty of antitrust behavior in the cases related to Google AdSense and Android, and has been fined over €8 billion (~$9 billion)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

> In the most recently reported fiscal year, Google's revenue amounted to 181.69 billion US dollars.

So over the course of a decade so far and ~4-5 different cases, the EU has fined Google for approximately 4% of their revenue of a single fiscal year.

Truly "slapping the giant".

*Edit: Conversion to dollars*
A text file is different than somethingin the title, but excluding every platform is what's got your hands tied behind your back as far as seeing progress. Normal people don't want a text file online, they want their friends to know about their pictures and videos, and have them comment on them. It's trivial to get something online these days. I open the user friendly app on my smartphone and press the + button, and my photo/video content is online, with no manual replicating it across servers or even knowing what storage tiers even are. Medium.com if you want to upload long form text vs Facebook or Instagram, but without a more rigorously defined notion (notion.so is another one for text) of what your idea of a platform is, there isn't one - Digital Ocean is certainly a platform, but uploading a text file to a VPS there isn't the same as a uploading to pastebin.com or Instagram.
Fair points all round, but if you specify something as 500 kg/m² I know that you mean 500 kg of mass per m² and so know to multiply by 9.81 to get a force and thus pressure. I know it can’t already be a force, because that’s a newton.

I’m not suggesting that a “mass per area” convention is bad, rather that pounds is so interchangeably used as a force and as a mass that it’s not immediately obvious to the layman (especially international and not familiar with imperial units) which is being used here, because both could reasonably fit in this particular case when using area as a denominator.
For citizens who want efficient, effective access to services that require identity. The need for identity isn’t going away, and a poor implementation doesn’t guard against overreach.
That's one heavy pain point in emacs for instance. Even though it seems trivial to map char classes and syntax switch it's so utterly tiring. To the point where my first reaction is "cli unix tools share most of the syntax, it's so fluid... runs grep"
What you need to land that data job at Meta/Facebook
that is good people finally realize it.
these conspiracies are abundant!
intentionally creating street traffic in this "clever conspiracy way" and no-option to cancel online, both are real, and detected few years ago.
you see, it is green to discourage people from driving, in this way. yet, technically, they merely destabilize optimum good, not actually being evil.
Gods I miss the days when I got so excited for a Windows release. Now it's nothing but a constant stream of "fuck you-s" from Microsoft. I'd give anything to see a Windows install screen and smile again.
Screen time with pop up for all Apple stuff, 15 mins after start. PiHole that I can use as to zap YouTube on non authorized devices. Also it allows me to pretend the internet is down.
Aren't you asking for Windows Server?
Haha, yes, I had the same cousin! We would go play hide and seek while he played Legend of Zelda on his own in the corner :-/
The line between configuration and code is always a little blurry. There are some projects where using a .js file for the "configuration" of another operation is incredibly useful. TS makes even more sense in many of those situations. Lots of configuration files require pre-processing already, like merging shell env vars in with textutil or something like that. So, I wouldn't dismiss this opinion outright.
There are a whopping 4 different AFNOR AZERTY keyboards available in the world. A shame it is not more developed.
You could probably also have let them charge you and then disputed the charges with your credit card company with your email as proof you shouldn't have been charged.
I actually did a double take, turns out today isn't April 1st and this is real. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
How about co-operative like structure for open source ?
That's not true. The largest authorities in the USA prompted headlines like this one from CBS headline in Nov 2020: Fauci says herd immunity possible "reasonably quickly" if enough Americans take vaccine

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-fauci-vaccine-herd-immu...

And in Dec 2020 said things like: "If you really want true herd immunity, where you get a blanket of protection over the country ... you want about 75 to 85 percent of the country to get vaccinated,” Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a live-recorded interview with Rameswaram, the host of Today, Explained. “I would say even closer to 85 percent."

https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2020/12/15/22176555/...

That's very different from stressing that they didn't know how large the effect would be. It was simply billed as being able to stop spread completely, provided enough uptake, with made-up % figures thrown in: https://www.axios.com/fauci-goalposts-herd-immunity-c83c7500...
For what it’s worth, OpenConsole is conhost, and any improvements we make there go right back into Windows. We’ll probably[1] never get rid of conhost; the worst we’ll do is make it possible to update it without updating Windows so that folks don’t have to wait so long to get bug fixes.

[1]: so long as I am the engineering lead. You know how these big companies are :|

(edit to add: This isn’t meant to detract from your point, just to add additional info.)
Show HN: Bee Genius, a multiplayer word game inspired by the NYT Spelling Bee
My friends and family like to text each other every day while playing the NYT Spelling Bee puzzle, trading hints, etc. So I thought it would be fun to build a multiplayer game inspired by the spelling bee where people can play together. You can start a new game whenever you want and you can invite up to 3 people to play with you. You can each find words and you'll see what words your friends have found.

You can try it here: https://bee-genius.onrender.com/

I created a dictionary and generated thousands of puzzles. I tried to reach a good balance of including enough words for the puzzle to be challenging without so many obscure words that it's frustrating.
That was very comprehensive! Thanks!
The kids are now high-school or later and have no general restrictions.

For many years, the rule was simply that the computers were in the living room.

For about a decade, all accounts and passwords were setup by parents. When a kid could successfully keep a password secret from a parent's social engineering attack, they were allowed to maintain those accounts themselves.

Discussion at meals and during homework frequently visited topics like "the school is tracking and censoring your use of their network", "seventy million email addresses and passwords leaked, thanks for letting us know", and "this is why XKCD is funny".
Visual Studio has been top product from the beginning of M$. If it was not open, then it was heavily pirated for personal use.
In practice, I don't really care about those SSD limitations.

Modern SSDs last long enough that I can cheaply upgrade in 5 years to something else before any of the drives likely fail.

If one or even two drives fail, I'm covered by Raid-Z2.

Continuously powering solid-state drives is really not a big deal. The 10 Gigabit ethernet adapter in my NAS would probably have more idle power draw than 6-8 idle SSDs combined. The entire system barely pulls 20-25W at idle.
You’re subscribing for a year or whatever is the fixed period. How is it illegal to pay for it with a physical check?
Yeah I suppose? I think the “git push and it’s magically live” aspect is great. I just wish modern devs understood how the web actually functions so that understanding is transferable instead of thinking it’s all magic.
this is dope! I've been thinking about building something this for a few months now. Glad to see that I don't have to anymore! :D
Just one 13 year old.

No limits on browser usage, but all devices run through a mandatory VPN which blocks all ads as well as particular sites at the DNS level: TikTok, Snapchat, a few chat apps. No limits on screen time. App installs on iOS devices are disallowed.
I recently installed Windows 11 under Parallels on my new Macbook Pro. I couldn't believe how difficult Windows 11 made it to set Chrome as the default. Absolutely unreal.
Absolutely. This happened just last week and it was the worst -- door locked and barricaded shut, would not eat dinner, wouldn't talk to us for hours, just the worst. Terrifying parent moment and all we did was put our foot down. So hard to set the limits and enforce them.
It's a Twitter thing now, but it might be useful to understand that it predates Twitter.

E.g., "Goodwin's Law" is supposed to have been coined in 1990, and of course it was a pretty well established phenomenon to earn a coined term.

I know from first-hand experience it was happening on BBS's and newsgroups in the '80s. I would be more surprised than not if it wasn't happening before then too.

(And if you want to generalize slightly, calling someone a Nazi is simply a current way of demonizing your opponent. People have been demonizing their opponents since well before there were Nazis.)
Equipment costs are capex and amortized over all repairs. Apple doesn’t do them because of economies of scale and the cost of hiring talented repairers.
Something like this can be implemented in Linux's NetFilter quite easily using the recent module:

iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m recent --update --seconds 600 --hitcount 10 --name scan --mask 255.255.255.255 --rsource -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -d 173.165.141.72/29 -i vmexfwbr -m recent --update --seconds 86400 --name instaban --mask 255.255.255.255 --rsource -j DROP
…PUT STANDARD ACCEPT/REJECT RULES HERE…
iptables -A FORWARD -d 173.165.141.72/29 -i vmexfwbr -p tcp -m multiport --dports 21,23,110,1433,3389,5060,8080,8088 -m recent --mask 255.255.255.0 --set --name instaban --rsource -m comment --comment "Instabans port scanning bots."
iptables -A FORWARD -d $YOUR_IP_RANGE/29 -i eth0 -m recent --mask 255.255.255.0 --set --name scan --rsource
iptables -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

The above would start dropping packets from anyone who hits 10 or more ports not previously accepted by an accept rule, and block the /24 of anyone who hits one of the more commonly scanned ports.
I find HN to have quite a strain of absolutist thinking. Even when Scott rethought some of his SSC vs NYT positioning, the mob would have none of it.
They missed out the crucial metric of biscuit consumption along with the tea, for all we know, it was the Hob-Nobs all along.
Latency Based Routing in AWS
Show HN: WaveTheVoice – Tokenize your voice on Solana
This is clearly satire and good satire at that. I’m sorry this site has not recognized this for the great social commentary that it is. You have my vote.
7,12,14.

I find that rules and firewalls and schedules and blocking are a fools errand - it is a cat-and-mouse game that you can't win.

So we just turn off the Internet.

We have a different wifi network for the children that has a very restrictive schedule. Basically just Fri/Sat night and 15 mins on weekday evenings to send messages to friends and check school assignments.

The 7 year old gets his Nintendo Switch on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The older two have their ipods/iphones and can use them anytime they want. They are just offline.

The reason this works so well is that we live in a place that has zero cellular signal. If they need to do homework, they plug into an Ethernet switch and sit at the dining room table with a laptop.

The other reason this works so well is that our children are not our friends. We don't have a peer relationship with them and we don't owe them explanations as to why our family is different from other families or blah blah blah.

Complaining is expensive and they know not to waste that energy.