skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is remarkably close minded

No, building a reality based on a dogma is the most close-minded thing you can ever do.
Reading your comment, one thing that stands out is:

> I, I, I, I

A conversation is a 2-way street (N-way in a group setting). Ask yourself the basic question that is relevant in any dialogue:

"What is in it for the person I am talking to?"

Someone reading your comments has to decide if it is worth his/her time to respond. So ask yourself: Is it? Why should someone engage with you? What will they get out of it?
Out of luck if you wear glasses.
The orgs that succeed imho have a lot of direct outreach happening below the surface. They are building relationships across the sector, meeting with politicians, business people, subject matter experts etc etc.

You see a website and think, the website is doing the work, but it isn't. The organisers are working super hard, grinding away.

Your Reddit community might be a piece of the puzzle but just a small one.

There are many books on the theory of social change. Start reading. Your specific issue here (housing affordability) is at least defined in scope and on political parties radar. But you need to find out why they talk about it but never fix it.
> In a forthcoming book, I call this idea platform socialism – referring to the social ownership of digital assets and the democratic control over the organisations and digital infrastructure that have become so critical to our everyday lives.

> Platform socialism is about reclaiming collective self-determination through new forms of participatory and decentralised governance that ensure we no longer put profits over human needs. It focuses on how we can foster citizens’ active participation in the design and governance of digital platforms rather than relying on top-down regulations by a technocratic elite.

Not sure that I could come up with a worse name for this (at least for this side of the pond)
While I understand that it's the title of the document and the hip way to read it, I would've preferred the "crypto" in the title to be expanded to "cryptocurrency". I read it and got excited that it might be about cryptography... :[
That early image of Internet Explorer is very advanced. The page has a white background. When I first got into web design the page background was whatever the default color of the window control was. Usually light grey. I don't remember being able to change it?
You might want to know, in aggregate, which paths users take through your site so you can make it better. This requires cookies, and the cookies are not, in my reading, essential for the site to function.
A lot of newer, fancier cg in movies and games is deep in the uncanny valley for me. I can’t watch/play for more than 15 minutes without realizing I’m in a game that doesn’t look right, it’s distracting.

I suppose the tech can’t get across the valley without first passing through it
Another theory floating around was that the publicity was good PR for the attackers.
> Globally, given an at-least-middle-class lifestyle (and any other years than 2020–2021), "not travelling outside [your home country]" is actually rather abnormal. It's mostly an American thing.

Japanese people don't leave Japan much either. And between those two countries we've now called half the developed world "abnormal". It may be just as accurate to say Europe is the outlier, especially when you consider all of humanity and all of civilized history. Also it obviously depends where people travel to, developed or otherwise.

Either way though, the vaccination recommendations in the US (as I'm sure every country) vary depending on whether you plan to travel or not. There isn't a fixed policy for everyone, at least when it comes to recommendations.
> I don't really want to go there right now.

Markets fail when they are government by bureaucratic rules instead of free choice.
One camp is referencing the max. The other camp is referencing the average. The max does not refute the average and vice versa therefore both are misleading. A distribution would be more clear.
Contact Backblaze support and see what they suggest. They may be able to point you to log files that offer more information on the reason for the safety freeze.
That was so funny and clever.
Lack of competition is due to regulatory capture. Local governments often disallow competition in the ISP space.
I don't think that releasing that tool was a mistake. The mistake was worrying about providing support for it, beyond what you needed it to do.

This is the same as the poor log4j devs, getting bashed and still trying their best effort to please everybody.

Lost and lots of open source authors release some work to the open, and then start to worry about everybody's opinions and complaints. But that's a very unhealthy thing to do, IMO.

In essence, this is your own garage project and you've taken it out to the street for people to enjoy or admire. You should care about people's complaints as many f*cks as stacks of money they are putting on your table. Anything else, will end up deteriorating your mental health, one way or the other.
The photino birds got clobbered by the Xeelee in that galaxy.
Does anyone knows a cross platform tools that can map keyboard keys to mouse button? Preferably in a layer?
Mobaxterm comes with a few extra goodies, like having a local xserver to run remote programs locally on windows, and it works out of the box. It also supports VNC, mosh, and others, so its a handy all in one. I purchased once to support, and i flip between putty amd moba for no reason.
I’ve especially enjoyed using Hammerspoon in combination with the prebaked config “Spacehammer” (https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer), which takes a lot of inspiration from Spacemacs (and, of course, enables a systemwide “edit this text field with emacs” workflow).
What a disgrace of a company. I hope the bro culture gets purged over there and people get dumped on their ass.
> But since it’s Elon doing it, somehow it’s okay and makes his company worth a trillion dollars

Most comments on HN and Reddit (even the largely pro-Tesla subreddits like r/TeslaMotors) are people complaining about how bad FSD is and how ridiculous it is that it's allowed. Missy Cummings, who has a history of publicly calling out Tesla on their unsafe roll-out of FSD, was just made a senior safety advisor for NHTSA. So I disagree with your idea that somehow this is a case of everyone loving something because it's Elon.

I'd also disagree that this isn't an impressive feat. If Tesla has been able to build a pipeline that allows them to incrementally improve FSD up to the point where it's almost as good as a human, then it indicates that they could probably continue to incrementally improve the performance past being as good as an (average) human, at least up to a point.

On the trillion dollar valuation, obligatory reference to Efficient Market Hypothesis. FSD is not the sole thing driving the stock to that price.
There is audio of this. Ralph Leighton has it.
Well, sure, we don't know for sure that they did not kill deformed newborns, but we also don't know for sure that Spartans were not magical invisible goats, either. After all, there's no proof they weren't, am I right?
The real world is like this but people come here to get into a bubble.
web3 is BS

everything runs on centralized servers, where are the peers in these p2p networks?
Did some, but the syntax wasn't my cup of tea. The _really_ great feature of AHK to me was having the triggers and the actions all in one place though, which is something I couldn't really replicate with AppleScript that only has the actions, with the triggers in Automator.

So with that runtime you could easily just write whatever would happen if you press which key combo (or do cronjob-like things managed by the runtime) and then write what happens inline.

Write it all to a single script, copy it to a coworker's computer, run it, several dozen key combos just work now.

That's something I couldn't manage to pull off in AppleScript or Automator, but then again maybe I was just too dumb.
Animation Tech Intro Part 1: Skinning
Ok, I was under the impression that the white room scenes were a mix of filmed and digital assets, not 100% renders. In this context it is very impressive. The later scenes are very good, but in as others put it still in that uncanny valley area. We are on the up-slope however!
There's a good shout out to the ActivityPub ecosystem here (more commonly called "the fediverse", or "Mastodon" after its most popular implementation).

A quick reminder that the public sector doesn't need Mastodon to adopt this space, they can simply shoehorn the necessary publication protocols into their content management systems like WordPress or Drupal to be direct participants in this ecosystem from publicly run infrastructure.

- https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub

- https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
I already did. They literally told me to manually cross-reference my hundreds of millions of files (edit: seems like it's "only" about half a million. I was mistaken).

I did follow up, but haven't gotten a response yet. Will update as I get it.

Edit: New update:

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I apologize, but this would in fact be the only sure fire way if you are concerned about any deleted files.
There wouldn't be a way to compare hashes the way you describe in this case as that mechanism is simply not implemented into the Backblaze software.
The Backblaze software is intended to prevent data loss. It would not be intended to be able to automatically cross reference local and server data against each other to display what is and is not backed up on our servers.
You could make the argument that cheaters are trying to "have fun"/"win" as well, albeit in a way that negatively affects others.
When I visited Varanasi there were literally bodies and ashes being put in the river right upstream from thousands of people bathing, drinking, playing, and worshipping. Wild.
“The Control Revolution” by James Beniger
I see. Would that mean that it will be just slightly lower? As in, overtime the problem will be the same.
I see. Thanks for the update. Having TODOs is not a great experience for the students. If you'd like to list it for free, I suggest you, at least provide a first version of it that can teach something meaningful for the students. And then, you can still add more sections/lessons to it over time. I'll review it tomorrow morning and we will work on it together.
Assuming a 150lb person it takes an hour of moderate swimming to burn 400 calories.
Especially if you were doing anything clever with Javascript. You pretty much had to code from scratch for several versions of every browser. Some you could do client-side and others would have to be rendered server-side. As poster above said, you would spend half your design time on getting the thing to look/run the same everywhere. Things are a lot closer now.
You seem to be missing the point the parent comment is making. Of course asking for money makes sense from your side, but the question here is about the content creators. Why would they choose your platform over competitors, many of which are free?
HN is best when at least some of the commenters have domain expertise or experience that is relevant to the main topic of that thread.

A topic might seem interesting, but if everyone here is just coming at it with whatever random facts and biases they’ve picked up in normal life, then the discussion has a low chance of being valuable. It’s just going to meander until it scrolls off to deep pages and everyone gets tired of fighting.

I don’t think HN needs a discussion on every topic that hits the zeitgeist. There are plenty of other places on the Internet to power discovery. My personal favorite is Twitter, but Reddit is good too. (Both require curation, though.)
OK, I'll buy that. But why is the first link hidden behind a login? https://suppliers.fiscal.ca.gov/
Jobs are not the sole way to distribute resources. In fact they are a rather recent way (in human history) to do so.

And they're going away anyway soon enough, as automation develops.
I don't understand this stupid assertion or why it remains current. Show me all the fat athletes then. Where the fuck are they?
I still use web safe all over the place, because OCD.
The Electron app wouldn't be an issue if it didn't churn away uselessly even when Dropbox is in the background. The company doesn't care though, their advice was to open a topic in the support forum, to which their response is "This idea will need some more support before we can share it with the team." You can lead a horse to water.
At the very least, you don't need to do the first two steps. Backblaze can ship you your backup on a hard drive, which you can then return for a full refund.

https://www.backblaze.com/restore.html
Predict civilization collapse with Python and World3 model
Is there something like this for python?
> Having children is a voluntary choice and I am not sure why the rest of the employees and company have to subsidize that choice.

Because we live in a society. A society that values perpetuating itself more than it values "voluntary human extinction" bullshit.
I'm looking for a new cloud backup service, one that works on linux/MacOS and with multiple machines. I've heard many mixed things about Backblaze -- ranging from "It's amazing!" to "Use their [pay per GB] buckets unless you are using a single Windows or MacOS computer", to "Other providers are cheaper". Certainly the best in terms of $/GB seems to be OpenDrive's "unlimited" option, which only includes 'no NASes' as a rather nebulous condition.

I'd love to know -- what do other HN users for this? The story author's point about backups only being backups once you've used them to restore really* rings true to me.
I fell briefly in love with Hammerspoon, but stopped using it.

My MacOS automation is now my QMK keyboard calling Alfred workflows; I use Yabai for window management.

I admire Lua, but ran into some sharp edges learning to program in it. Still, one can get up to speed quickly if one knows other scripting languages.

Hammerspoon window management was deathly slow. Yabai is close to instantaneous.
You could equally be accused of pushing an agenda by quoting an average to refute the max without any further context. Both numbers are misleading.
Actually coding theory and modulation formats in communications are essentially very closely related to packing theory (in particular sphere packing)
>> The fastest way to achieve this change would be to make a vast fortune

The irony is that had I made a vast fortune, I would likely not care about this issue.

I've noticed that people who own houses don't give a second's thought to this issue, or they don't see it is a problem. In fact, the opposite - if you own a house then you want to opposite of what I am campaigning for - you want prices to keep skyrocketing to infinity.

The only people who own a house who care about this issue are those who have kids/grandkids and are concerned that those kids are forever renters.

Put more simply: if you own a house then you don't give a ** about people who don't own a house.
MOX isn't without issues though. Plutonium is kept until we can use it to start breeding reactors IMHO!
I'm in Australia as well, and so I've seen this housing issue first hand. I have two ways of looking at this.

I am complete agreement with you btw, and I don't think your idea is that deeply radical. I've been saying this for years.

I'm not concerned. I don't own a house, I've never bought into the "everyone must own their home, it's the greatest investment possible" mentality. To all the people who say "but real estate has gone up 30% in the last year", that's fine. You can send your condolences to my crypto account (or stocks which are also up more than 30%).

If you look at the people who REALLY did change the world, was it really those who created a social movement? There were a few, Nelson Mandella, Gahndi, etc. But you can also look at those who provided an alternative, or a new way of looking at the world. Of course, our current hero in this realm is Elon Musk, he didn't lobby to put a cap on fossil fuels, he built a solution.

Millennials are purchasing houses at a lower rate than any time before in history, AND people are becoming more mobile (well, before the pandemic anyway). With population collapse, will housing continue to be a good investment over the next 50 years?

I personally believe the real estate as investment will decrease in popularity. Why? Because you can't really sell just part of your house, I can sell a bit of stocks if I want to go on a trip, or buy a new car or something. If all my money is in my house, I have to sell the whole thing. I can only sell it to somebody who wants to buy the whole thing, and that person either wants to live in it, or wants to rent it out. My house is of less value to somebody in Italy (as an example) than it is to someone in Australia. With most other investments, it doesn't matter where geographically the person is, it's the same value. Lastly, a house, has upkeep, taxes, maintenance, and the design goes out of style and needs to be updated.

So, I'd suggest that rather than try to lobby to change society or create a "social movement", you figure out a) what you can do for yourself to improve your investment position without real estate, b) how you can help improve the lives of others.

Some people have said to me that housing in Australia will always be valuable, because as the population shrinks, immigration will just let more people in, but I believe this is also a flawed argument as it ignores the improvements to quality of life that are happening in the places that would normally be the source of immigration, and the fact that these countries will also likely see decreased birth rates as they continue to develop.
Why did you think the question was about rulings about GPLv2 and not GPLv3?
Right, but even in that circumstance I doubt the police (or any part of the justice system) is going to punish you for it. At worst you'll be asked to leave and the police will only show up if you refuse to do so. You're not allowed to bring your own snacks/beverages at a movie theater either, but the police isn't going to arrest you for it unless you refuse to leave.
This comes up in the movie Okja but I didn’t know it was based on a real thing
I really wouldn't know... wasn't advocating anything - just clarifying the deal with that software.
Except people don't only use Redis for caching or having a fast key-value database.

Redis is also a very convenient way to share a state between multiple instances of our software that need to have access to the same data.

Just like we would have some dicts/lists/sets in RAM (in the heap) during the runtime of a single instance, we have that stuff in Redis so we can share data between multiples remote processes. That's it. (And it makes sense to keep that stuff in RAM, I guess.)

We wouldn't use an SSD/long-term storage to keep heap memory of a running program, right? ;)
If I were in your situation with my personal data, I'd spend the money to get the restore hard drive shipped plus get hard drives/arrays for working space to do hash comparisons with the BB data. At this point, for some files, you may only have one good copy.
woaw i don't know what is this and i don't understand anything
> (Wodan is the Germanic/celtic version of Odin.)

[Wikipedia:] The Old Norse theonym Óðinn (runic ᚢᚦᛁᚾ on the Ribe skull fragment) and its various Germanic cognates – including Old English Wōden, Old Saxon Wōdan, Old Dutch Wuodan, and Old High German Wuotan (Old Bavarian Wûtan), – all derive from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic masculine theonym Wōđanaz (or Wōdunaz).

My personal favorites, missing from this list, along with improbable etymology, are Wudan, Wudang, Wutan and Wutang.
I don't like Backblaze because they require you to hand over your encryption key to their website to restore which kills any hope of it being a 0-knowledge solution.

Right now I'm using Arq Backup + S3 and have been happy.
A lot of people sing BB's praises but I never had a good experience with them. The client was always slow, buggy, and resource hungry, and its UI is terrible. They got shirty with me for reporting bugs when I was using a macOS beta. And finally, at some point even though nothing about my computer changed (it was a Mac Mini, what was going to change), I got a message saying some security/copy protection system had detected that my computer was "different", and I had to un-install and re-install the entire app to fix it (there apparently being no easier way to unset a flag). I uninstalled and skipped the second part.

Instead of using BB, get a Synology/Qnap/FreeNAS box to backup all your stuff locally, and back that up to another service (e.g. Glacier or Synology's own C2).
So your complaint is that developing for the latest and shiniest tech requires a relatively recent computer? Looking at this thread my only opinion is that you’re not understanding the things you’re complaining about.
Maybe I’m missing something, but as far as I understand the simplest course of action is to reinstall Backblaze and inherit the existing backup. Or is there something that’s preventing you from doing that?
It was odd to see Orion doing a handstand!

And I got lost on a car trip, thinking the midday Sun was in the south. Good thing I was a back-seat passenger.
These are specifically known as cutting stock problems [1].

Example of a possible application: I used to work at a home improvement retailer, and one of my responsibilities was to cut plywood boards for customers, to the dimensions they specified. I'd often wonder if the cuts I was making were optimal. The constraints were that any cuts I made had to go all the way through the entire piece, and that the blade itself was 1/8" thick.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem
With “Copyleft” licenses the license terms automatically apply to derivative works. So if you fix a bug in some GPL licensed code, that bug fix is also licensed under the GPL terms. The “deal” is essentially “everyone benefits from everyone’s work.”

The difficult part is enforcement: How can we even know if a user has made a modification?

The older licenses assume that a user can’t really get more than personal benefit from a modification unless they “distribute” a copy of the modified software to someone else. Clearly the recipient of a copy of commercial software can look and see if any Copyleft code was included.

With the rise of software-as-a-service, however, the modified copy never leaves the user’s computers. This seems like it violates the spirit of “everyone benefits from everyone’s work”. This is one of the issues new Open Source licenses are trying to address.
No they are just getting cheaper with their CGI...not better, i would bet that if someone would invest the money and time as they did in the 90-00 we would be absolutely astonished.
Ask HN: What’s most challenging in development for AWS Lambda (and serverless)?
Lately, I’ve been working on a serverless development kit for Go. The goal is to make the serverless development experience as smooth as the local. Write, build, run - that’s all.

While working on it, we found these things the hardest in serverless:
* complex setup and deployment procedures
* hard to debug
* need to change thinking about the system architecture
* management tools (AWS console) made for admins, instead developers

Have you been playing with serverless? How was your experience? What’s been hardest?
This passes my person smell test (dad joke)
So you draw the line at hardware/software? Why there? Can you not treat iOS as a bundle of software + hardware?
Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous
Ask HN: How are you holding up with this Log4j madness?
Seems most of the industry has been rushing out deployments this weekend.
More information about "safety freez" from an backblaze engineer: https://old.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/hvcbpw/safety_fr...