skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading about Quake before it was released, and I recall that it was going for a much slower pace. Melee combat and 1v1 fights were the focus, and environments felt very dark and moody.

Not sure if that was a piece of fan-fiction or whatever, this was ~30 years ago so my memory is very fuzzy. It was also passed around in the BBS days so who knows the veracity of what I read. I imagine this document has been lost to time.

I was a little disappointed at the final release that I didn't get the above but it was nevertheless extremely cool.
Yes, because the US does not currently have a Forever War to occupy its massive military and navy. Without a Forever War, the US elite can't justify spending large proportions of its budget on things that can indirectly line the pockets of the same elite.
I agree that wifi sucks and I would take a 100mbps Ethernet connection over wifi any day. That said, a wifi ap on the same band that isn’t in use shouldn’t add too much interference; it’s just going to be the ssid broadcast packets. Unless you are using it? Can’t you change your house wifi to another channel to avoid the interference?

You could also tape some antistatic bags together around the power wall box to act as a faraday cage, and throw in a Pi acting as a wifi-to-Ethernet bridge into the box or inside the f cage to get a wired signal out, if the interference is really that bad.
Inkjet printers have always been a dumpster fire. It is easy to blame devious and rapacious practices by their manufacturers - but these same manufacturers also make laser printers at similar price points that are much more reliable and do not have the same frustrating failure modes seemingly designed to keep you buying consumables.

Is it possible to make a good inkjet printer? Or is inkjet printing just an inherently bad technology?
Most of the good policies the west could steal are perfectly obvious. It's a lack of will, not a lack of ideas or a petri dish. HDBs are nothing new - western governments know how effective it would be to copy - they simply dont want to.
Most use Epson and if you go into really large format HP. Proof printers (best color reproduction) in agencies are 90% Epson machines. If you stray away from inkjet and go into wax based printers most are from a company called chromaline.
Next time something bad happens to you, please post about it here so we can say how amusing it is that you exist. Do you see how condescending this is? Billions of people use smartphones.
>existing documents work surprisingly well

Not really. A passport is expensive, a drivers licence isn't supposed to be a photo ID card and someone shouldn't have to pretend to be a driver in order to obtain one.

>They can get a provisional driving licence instead, it cheaper than a passport. There’s also no requirement to use an in-date passport. Bars and pubs will happy accept an expired passport with it corner snipped, as long as the photo is recognisable.

Some bars might. Others may not. In any case, you've still got to a passport in the first place, so that doesn't remove the renewal cost or the initial cost. It's also a multi-page book.

If we're going to run a provisional DL as a de-facto ID card, why not just have an ID card?

>I’ve seen to many examples private organisations effectively running a shadow judicial system that can prevent and individual from accessing essentials societal services, like banking, with no oversight or appeals process. A national ID would just make it easier to build these systems

If you're verifying someone's ID at all then those issues are going to exist. That's not a problem with having an ID card, that's a systems problem - if you use a DL, there's a URN. If you use a passport, there's a URN.

Not having a national ID card is, frankly, Stone Age. If you want to avoid the spectre of Papiere, Bitte then that is a legislative problem and not a technical one.
Ah! I can kind of see the idea, but crypto seems... kind of overengineered for that?

There was flattr [1] a while ago, with a similar concept, but it didn't really take off. I'm not sure a more complicated solution with a higher barrier of entry would.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr
There is a biome system that solves this issue. You can compute biome borders and use them for tectonics or w/e else.
Fair enough, I'm not aware of all the details of the specific case here.
Bitcoin‘s scripting is not Turing complete and therefore does not lend itself easily to sophisticated smart contracts. It will probably always be limited to variations on money transfers.

However, Bitcoiners consider this an advantage as this makes it less vulnerable to exploits. And the Lightning Network is quite an exciting development.

I consider the competition between the two networks good as they are exploring different but nonetheless useful niches.
Thoroughly enjoyed these.
There is the tv version (not podcast) with nice video alongside each of the current podcasts. Sometimes they release a podcast and it takes a month or two for the tv one to come out.
I think it's absurd we are still talking politics based on ideology, as if it's some religion. It isn't, and it shouldn't be. Most of the countries in the world today have some government-subsidized program, and also have a market. The truth is ideological fanatics don't really have a place in today's world, but somehow that's the easiest way to reason and rally the population. I believe in free market, I believe in socialism, but there is always a lot more to a policy than those seemingly two sides of a coin, and much work need to be done, perhaps that's the kind of thing that most people can easily understand, therefore more slogan-ish than useful.
They don’t even have a Toyota Corolla or Camry in the miniature database.
> Let me tell you my story of independently "discovering" the concept now being called Web3

Alright, listening...

> It will display info about what is on my screen, and most importantly a "truth meter". While I couldn't work out the details of how this would work

You are describing dislikes, reviews, stars and similar systems. They exist. They are pretty universally considered bad and when they are not it is not because magic decentralization. I'd also ask why/how a universal "truth meter" would work. Saying "I couldn't work out the details of how this would work" makes this sorta like someone saying "Imagine if we had infinite power, wouldn't that be nice?" or "What if people could just get along?".

> Discuss Web3 without even mentioning cryptocurrencies

I'd love to! But the Magic Internet Money cryptocurrency people seem to have decided it must involve cryptocurrencies so the term is tainted. I consider web3 a term similar to php6 or ipv5. Something that was but also wasn't, isn't rescuable as a term since it implies something that never actually was.
A former CEO of mine was known for keeping all his emails, forever. For this he needed special email storage arrangements from the IT team, including a laptop with a super-large HD.

If you ever turned up to a meeting and contradicted something you once said in an email, he'd be on to you in an instant.
> Previously, the time-optimal strategy to acquire iron and diamonds was to dig a hole deep into the earth and then bore straight paths. This was exceptionally grindy (fans would say zen, detractors would say tedious), but effective.

I'm not a big Minecraft player, but I'm pretty sure the time-optimal strategy for getting diamonds consistently was to set up a deliberate mine topology which is mathematically efficient, not just dig forward in straight lines. AFAIK diamond mining was the only thing that couldn't be automated; for iron the time-optimal way is to construct an iron farm, i.e. engineering, not grinding.
If you want to make something from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Anyway, I wouldn't count the kind of simple, focused libraries dependencies Widdler relies on as additional LOC.

As a rule of thumb, if it's something that wouldn't make me blink an eye if I found it was in the python stdlib, it gets a pass from me. Only the webdav library might not fit this.

This is subjective, of course. If anyone has a better heuristic for this, I'm all ears.
Watching reinvent on YouTube has been very profitable for my consulting offerings. Thanks AWS!
You may want to do a health check on your filter bubble.
I wrote a similar project this year that runs on my router, in python. I communicates with ModemManager over dbus. I use a Quectel EC25 LTE modem, it forwards incoming SMS to an https webhook as JSON. It listens to http requests to provide an outgoing SMS gateway. It also provides automatic failover for the WAN link, for when Comcast craps out. On another machine I have python script that bridges with prosody, to provide an SMS-XMPP bridge. It works well, receives messages faster than the SMS api services that I have tried, and since it's a real mobile number it works everywhere for 2FA.

ModemManager is great, abstracting away manufacturer specific implementation details. The same script is also working on a Pi connected to The Franklin T9 hotspot that I got for free from T-Mobile, running in QMI mode.

I wish it were easier to bridge voice with asterisk, but from what I have seen it is necessary to run asterisk on the same device and communicate directly with the modem, with modem specific tweaks and custom built modules.
Could as well be folk etymology.
"Mykes" has stem myket- (*mykets > mykes, genetive "myketos") The -t- isn't found in "Mykenai"

There was also "mykon" meaning "I mooed", and if you have enough fantasy you can link it to Minotaurus, for example.
AliExpress then
What on earth is this?

https://www.mouldking.com/faq/

I see

> What Shipping Methods Are Available?

> Ex Portland Pitchfork irure mustache. Neutra fap before they sold out literally. Aliquip ugh bicycle rights actually mlkshk, seitan squid craft beer tempor.

Is everyone else seeing that, or is there some content blocker I've forgotten to disable?
Not all brands out massive logos on things - that’s not an inherent part of lifestyle brands.
”It was a real pain getting the cable to push through [the conduit], so I used whatever lube I had on hand.”

FWIW, pulling can be easier. Put a cotton ball on the end of a light string and grab a vacuum cleaner onto the other end of the conduit. Very fast.

Also, the next size up of conduit doesn’t cost much more. Unless you are some sort of professional conduit sizing engineer optimizing for material cost, always get the next size up conduit from what you think you will need. Pulling is easier and you might change your requirements later.
The article is interesting in general, but this line really needs more than "works like a charm": `usb_modeswitch -W -v 12d1 -p 14fe -K -P 14ac -M "55534243000000000000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000"`

I mean, I believe you, but ... what on earth IS all of that?
It still has its uses. I have a 32 bit version of XP I run on an old Thinkpad for oldskool games that don't run on Windows 10/11 despite people saying old games 'run fine on Windows 10 because of backwards compat'.
Gas Fees Calculator (Multi Currency and Network, Custom Gas and Txn Speed)
Googling “AWS EC2 benchmark” leads to nowhere. Does anyone have a good source of objective instance comparison between cloud providers? I went off one day and created instances on AWS, GCP and DO - and ran Geekbench5 (yes I know it’s not a professional benchmarking tool but better than nothing I suppose) and found large differences. DO was the slowest of all. Do most companies do their own due-diligence before committing large sums of money into AWS?
Linus Tech Tips is unwatchable drivel.
I think there are 2 primary reasons:

First, if they were Minoan that would have been recorded in the annals of civilizations like Egypt and others which kept good records. The Egyptians and others of the Eastern Mediterranean had long links with Crete and the Minoans. It doesn't stand to reason that the Minoan could launch such a large movement (in the sense impact so many areas of the Eastern Mediterranean) and no one notices.

Secondly - the nature of the sea peoples attacks, assaults suggests a group of people moving, migrating - not looting and returning. If the Minoan were doing this - why would they not return with their gathered spoils to their homeland. If they did return - where is the physical and archeological evidence?

Those are the pressing ones that come to mind first. There's also the question why would the Minoan embarknon something so foolish as invading Egypt. Egypt was what a hundred times bigger? If you failed - first you'd expose yourself to retribution and secondly - you'd weaken yourself severely leaving you exposed to others.
Out of interest, why a single large unit rather than multiple smaller ones? I’m using two 5kva janky (~$1500) Honda generators that I modified to have remote start, and use a pair of victron multipluses to turn the garbage outputs into a single lovely smooth sine wave. We run one or both depending on the need - usually just one, as our OPzS batteries will do 20kW. I figured RAIG was better than going for one big genset - that and everything has to be human-luggable, as our nearest road is a few km distant. Also means that if I have a failure, I can go buy whatever junk is locally available and plug it in.

I monitor and automate the whole shebang using a venusgx, mqtt, rpi with openhab. Touch wood, two years without anything exploding.

Other nice element is that the inputs are agnostic, so hydro can run in parallel - and I can do nanogrid coupling with frequency shifting for the more remote wind inputs.

Obviously a different use case to you, but the idea of having a single and expensive point of failure doesn’t sit well with me.
Are you trying to make a statement in the form of a question? It is a video game, take of it what you will.
It's a weird phenomenon though since even though ruby on rails was readible in a small code base, it was still building on top of a ton of abstractions that hid lower detail. It makes me think that we're just failing to build clean good abstractions that make coding for cloud as beautiful as it could be.
I'm hoping that more pre Christian Jewish texts will be found. The dead sea scrolls and similar finds did so much to enrich our knowledge of second temple Judaism, helping to support or undermine existing conjectures.

I read recently an excellent discussion on the Samaritan penteteuch, a masters thesis from 2008 - the first direct to English translation ever done from Samaritan oral language. There are clearly an evolving set pre-masoretic texts in pre Christian antiquity and we can see some of the not-quite MT types being used in the vulgate and others.

I suspect, like how the dead sea scrolls illuminated some factional rivalries in second temple Judaism- if we can find more texts from this period it'll better flesh out when, how, and to what extent Greek philosophy influenced the various sets. there is an old idea that the synthesis of Logos and Judaism occurred in John's gospel but this seems undermined already...
This reminded me of this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25281438
It’s ms, that slow because every protocol conformance in every dylib needs to be checked. When this gets to 100k+ like in many large apps it takes multiple milliseconds
How do "professional" inkjet printers avoid these problems, and what's the transition point (in price, or whatever) at which this happens?
To add to the Gentoo recommendation: ebuilds (effectively, build recipes) take care of pulling in build- and runtime- dependencies. They work with build systems (automake, ninja, meson, etc.) through reusable framework of eclasses, so it's not that hard to write an ebuild to install something that's not in the existing repos. With reference ebuilds and a bit of patience, one can write ebuilds for software written in languages one has no experience in.

To be fair, there's Linux From Scratch, but I found it to be a bit tedious to build out everything and manage the dependencies by hand. Walking through a big dependency DAG manually is not very practical IMO.

There's also Nix, but I am yet to learn how to work with custom patches there. I believe that it's possible, and Nix has a lot of other great features but hasn't been exactly Gentoo-like in my experience.
This argument is as tired and old as the curmudgeonly people that make it.

>With a technology that is extremely damaging to the entire planet for no reason…

Not all blockchains are based on PoW. If you actually read even a brief summary of the basics of crypto you’d know this since it’s mentioned nearly everywhere these days. It seems you are therefore either ignorant on what you speak, or are willfully misleading people to fit your own narrative.

>…come away with the opinion that it's junk tech that roasts the planet, both because it's true and because climate change is a very serious problem.

You’re stating opinions as facts and being far more intellectually dishonest and misleading than any crypto native I’ve seen on here.

> If the end result is that cryptocurrency discourse is effectively run out of HN…

You and you alone don’t get to decide or arbiter what HN is used for or who it is used by. This is gate keeping trash that erodes intellectual debate and discourse into an echo chamber of more curmudgeonly people patting each other’s curmudgeonly backs.

> Like it or not, HN is an important forum. People with a fair amount of influence come here.

HN is an important forum full of important people. On this we agree. My opinion, then, is we should probably be open to discussing new technologies, difficult topics, and unsavory ideas as these are the types of conversation from whence innovation springs. Nobody ever got smarter debating which JavaScript framework is the new hotness on the front page of HN.

> …similar to phrenology or eugenics…

Eugenics is worth discussing as it will once again become a cultural hotbed debate as we move into an era of designer genetics. I find it mostly amusing that you punctuate your point about quelling curiosity by dismissing away another topic that requires thick skin and intellectual rigor to properly discuss and even lump these in with phrenology. This is kind of like saying “discussions of meteorology, astronomy, and astrology should be banned.” One of these things is not like the other…

Based on this comment alone, I’d say you also probably like burning books.
Singapore is very well known for being somewhat authoritarian. It’s not really something that needs to be analyzed.
> Earth has multiple governments. Most governments are highly centralized. No oxymoron.

But you wouldn't say that the governing of Earth in total is centralized (e.g., the UN (with their black helicopters/s)).

Going back to my link:

> As its name implies, decentralized systems don’t have one central owner. Instead, they use multiple central owners, each of which usually stores a copy of the resources users can access.

> A decentralized system can be just as vulnerable to crashes as a centralized one. However, it is by design more tolerant to faults. That’s because when one or more central owners or servers fail, the others can continue to provide data access to users.

* https://berty.tech/blog/decentralized-distributed-centralize...

Or Baran (1964):

> For example, type (b) in Fig. 1 shows the hierarchical structure of a set of stars connected to the form of a larger star with an additional link forming a loop. Such a network is sometimes called a "decentralized" network, because complete reliance upon a single point is not always required.

* https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memorand...
> I was curious to know if something similar exists on macbook/iOS to check on "every" app permission?

You can see what apps have requested certain permissions (like mic, access to photos etc) in the settings. Camera, mic etc are never turned on by default. User has to opt-in.
Why do people go for pottery classes, watch tv, ride bicycles, run, read books, or otherwise do anything other than work? I don't mean to be antagonistic but I find your question to be flawed in the first place; why do we have to always "generate value"?

Also, what is "the real world"? At this point, considering how massively popular Minecraft is, Minecraft __is__ an extension of the real world at this point. It's very unlikely that we will ever lose Minecraft to history. Commit the worldsave to a repo and that world is as good as the real world.
Inside the battery positive ions move to equalize charge. Outside the battery, electrons cause a current in conductors.
You never provided counter arguments. How can I trust you if you’re just an anonymous person online stating something without backing it up? At least the crypto guy had some examples. How about you state why those applications in questions have no utility?
host is also part of BIND:

# rpm -q -f `which host`
bind-utils-9.16.23-1.fc35.x86_64
There's no way to know what price AWS pays for any processor. Having said that, it looks like ARM server processors do have an area efficiency advantage over Intel/AMD.
This competition will mean the same for me as for people in the places where active war was not fought.

I will have problem getting most of the goods, probably will have to pay a lot more for basic utilities.

Life might get overall harder, if this competition escalates, even though there might be not a single bullet fired.

We had "cold war" earlier, now it was "crawling war" in a lot of places.
I think what's driving a lot of the questions is not knowing how much instantaneous power (and startup current) your AC uses when it's on. 80kWh/day is only 3.3kW avg, but assuming most of that is your AC (with 30% duty cycle) and it seems your system is at most oversized by a factor of 2. There is a 22kW model in the same product line, so presumably you had a good reason to go with the next one up.

Given that Texas's electricity problems involved a problem with the natural gas supply, are you not worried about that going out as well? I just got a generator, but aimed for a small one that would be more efficient so that I would need to store less fuel. Although I still need to figure out some solution for intelligent load management so that I can run (fridge,freezer,boiler,etc) sequentially rather than simultaneously.
I'm a strong believer (and investor) of web3 but can be thought in middle ground as I hate all those scammy projects/shitcoins with impossible value propositions. I hate Ponzi/Pyramid schemes disguised under investment oppourtinities using smart contracts. I hate pump and dumps. They all poison the whole ecosystem.

But I love and value actual (sadly minority) projects that solve (or realistically aim to/can solve) real problems in genuine ways. I love how I can use my money that isn't regulated by a corrupted government (I'm from a country between Europe and Asia with an extremely corrupted government so this has extra importance), without a middleperson/controlling entity without trust where I can only trust mathematics and fully public code. Sure they bring their own problems and risks, but I'd still prefer them over current "real world" system of corrupted governments, banks, and evil corporations.
I live in a rural part of Florida, and we have experienced outages as long as 2.5 weeks.

I went with the 26kw air-cooled model, and getting that installed along with a 1,000gal propane tank (and 800 gal of propane) was done for $18k.

Our biggest load is HVAC, to run two AC units (5 ton and 3 ton). During an extended outage, we'd shut down half the house.
It's across the whole social hierarchy. Some mainland Chinese bus drivers went on strike because the official pay scale dictated that they be paid less than Malays for the same job.

They even said "look we understand why locals get paid more for the same job but why Malays? This is unfair"

For their troubles they were arrested, imprisoned, had the shit kicked out of them before being deported.

That's still better than how Bangladeshi migrant workers are treated.

The racism is not as bad as it is in, say, Saudi Arabia or Israel but it's still pretty bad.