skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the old way of ripping original Xbox games was to use a modded Xbox that would serve the game disc over FTP. You'd connect to the Xbox and copy the disc contents off of it. You could then burn them to a blank DVD and your modded Xbox would happily play the xex executable. You could have quite the library of games by borrowing from friends or renting from Blockbuster. The next upgrade was to drop in a larger HDD so you could play games off the HDD instead. Games loaded so fast and could load even faster with a high speed ribbon cable.

Now you can pull almost every retail Xbox game off of internet archive and throw nearly all of them on to a massive multi TB HDD.
Is that even open source anywhere? Seems a PoC was never released.
I'm uncomfortable with having to create an account and be connected to a cloud service in order to have a working home voice assistant. To be fair, Mycroft does say that if you're willing to do some work, you can get local processing of speech recognition, but they don't seem they're very encouraging about that option.

I made my own home voice assistant [0] that's pretty primitive, but runs entirely locally on a Raspberry Pi (except when, e.g., I ask it to tell me the weather forecast, and it goes to a weather website to fetch it).

I'd like to see more development that's truly privacy-focussed along those lines.

[0] https://7402.org/blog/2021/diy-home-voice-assistant-privacy-...
I agree with most of what you are saying, except for:

> to end up a slave for the rest of your life to one of the predators

One of the best parts of the US system is that you can always file bankruptcy and live to fight another day
I don't know the ins and outs about the DNC stuff. Here in Europe all that news got lost in the turbulence around Trump. But I thought Russian influence in that case was certain, the Wikipedia page also mentions it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committe... and also the NYT article you quote is all about Russian involvement in that case.

And evidence in cyber security cases is super hard. There's just too much misdirection and ways to obfuscate traffic. Especially for state sponsored actors. Attribution to threat actor groups is often based on methodology and toolsets (also referred to as tactics and techniques) and not on hard traceable evidence.

However I have no political stake in this as a European (who never even visited the US) and it's just what I read. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I know in terms of capability as an EDR product crowdstrike is very highly regarded. I agree the secrecy around this testimony is very weird.

And like I said I do agree with most of his points. Something is brewing there.
Well, isn't it the binary representation of the PNG already?
I thought the first question in the FAQ was amusing:

FAQ
Is this an Electron app?

It's a few MB, which is a two orders of magnitude below Electron size, but still seems rather large for what it does; especially the CLI version.
> nobody wants to live next to radioactive waste.

It seems irrational as sealed high profile waste doesn't leak any radiations beyond the natural ambiant radioactive noise. The problem may arise in a very long time due to water molecules progressively entering and exiting the enclosure during thousands of years.

One could live and sleep every night in a nuclear waste storage building and nothing will happen to them. Similarly, one could swim in nuclear fuel cooling pools everyday and won't have any problem either.

It's way more problematic for health to live next to a coal power plant.
Thank you!
And I can venture a few more hypotheses (from least to most likely):

1. Altruism

2. Already committed

3. They have a pessimistic view of future gas prices.

4. They have solar.

5. They're in a long tail/corner case/different use case from the one you computed.

I'd put my money on 5, depending on how big a % difference. Eg. I've noticed more and more people switching to solar as prices come down and hit an inflection point for them in their use case. Wouldn't be surprised if heat pumps are the same.
There are subreddits and yt channels dedicated to people buying Glocks and ARs with their Biden bailout money.

That said, when do 20 year olds have agency but should still be infantalized? I’m good with shades of gray, but the HNaleriat seems filled with absolutists.
one path: Solidity+web3js

steps:

1. create a MetaMask wallet and and add funds to it with your friendly neighborhood Bitcoin ATM (they do ETH too).

2. learn the Ethereum stack on eth.build and create a program in the language known as Solidity.

3. create a javascript app that talks to your Solidity contract, using the open-source javascript library web3js.

4. People with wallets installed as Chrome extensions can then navigate to your web3.js app (which can be hosted on a regular webserver), and send funds to/otherwise engage with your contract.

https://metamask.io

https://eth.build

https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js
I mostly use a real mouse and good mechanical keyboard for work, and a PS3 controller for play. This is why the laptop’s keyboard failure is even less excusable.
> Wasn't it the new Finnish nuclear plant that cost 11 billion Euros?

Olkiluoto unit 3 is a pretty extreme outlier in construction costs. The same amount of power generation capacity from CPR1000 plants (widely used in China today) would cost closer to 2.5 billion Euros, and construction times are about 5 years.
> The data provided included their ID number, name, father’s name

I am curious about the "father's name" part. Is it a security thing in Albania, kind of how "mother's maiden name" used to be a security question for my credit card in the US?
When I first came to the U.S. it was shocking how spread out everything is. Each store is an island surround by a concrete lake of parking. It’s absurd. Americans mostly don’t understand what they are missing. We have criminalized aspects of walking. Congregating in groups outside is frowned upon and likely to garner harassment by police. We are a nation of people using cars to go from one building to another while spending as little time as possible outside.

https://www.illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-cr...
I really doubt that at any appreciable scale eVTOL is nearly as cost effective as HSR, no matter how expensive that is
> I don't really understand why they view us and NATO as such a t[h]reat. We'd never invade Russia.. Nobody would ever want to.

I guess it's a paranoia which he's supported with cherry-picked info from history. Someone else better has written that world politics is about who has the most influence, e.g. USA and Europe used to be able to decide almost everything everywhere ("we'll give you development loans, in return you'll have to buy our products"). China is doing that in Africa now, and from Putin's perspective Eastern Europe now has "puppet" governments controlled by USA/Germany (in the guise of EU), I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks their democratic elections are as rigged as Russia's ones, with the media under control of the rulers.

I guess Putin is worried that Russia could fall under that sphere of influence, although I don't know how missiles pointed at Moscow would make the country more democratic... Maybe he sees them as a persuasion tools, after all that's also what he uses his forces for.
The milder it gets, the less it is able to spread because disease symptoms are what help spread the disease in the first place. Also, there are selection pressures that select for increased virulence, otherwise all viruses would have evolved to be completely benign billions of years ago.
If you are excommunicated (sort of) by the US, who you could cling next? Only Russia and China at this point.
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Box can be Irish slang for vagina. Not sure if its the oppocite of Bollox.
Of course, I'm referring to a person who is not eligible in the other minority categories; someone who can only play the race card.

I do not intend to pose a puzzle question in which a logical short-cut provides a correct answer based on nothing but the syntax of the question and trivial surrounding information.
Lack of a DVD drive killed the Dreamcast. People saw much more value in a PS2.

I had a Dreamcast at launch and still love the games that came out on it. If it had a new revision with a DVD player in it announced at the same PS2 price point to compete with the PS2 and XBOX then Sega might still be in the console business.
My guess is the non-uniform nature of the graph of human contacts, which is probably made up of several densely-connected clusters each with relatively weaker links to other clusters.

E.g. let’s say there is an office where everyone works in person and a bar with a group of regular customers. If someone in the office gets Covid, everyone in there has some decent chance of getting it. Similarly, if a bar regular gets Covid, each of the others has a decent chance to get it. But if only one person who works at the office is also a regular at the bar, then for the infection to hop from one cluster to the other, that person needs to get it from the initial outbreak, and they need to continue going into the office during their infectious period, and folks need to catch it from them, none of which is certain.

So, my guess is that after enough of these clusters get seeded to start a wave, “R” is initially high, but R decreases massively once enough of the infected clusters are saturated, possibly low enough to make the growth visibly non-exponential, even if the entire population infected rate is nowhere near the point where growth rate would decline in a simple logistic model.
Can someone share how is then any different from another company like Affirm? They are a public company and this seems very similar to them at high-level
> Applying English rules to Chinese words is the ultimate folly.

The more I think about this, the less I understand what you were trying to say.

The first problem is of course that a(n) is an English word. But more than that, every sentence of English must apply the rules of English to every part of itself. If instead of "scare" we used the Chinese loanword xia, we would say things like "you xiaed me". We would not say "you xia me" with the past tense present but unmarked, nor would we say "you xiale me".
If someone manages to steal money from a crypto wallet (hacking, social engineering, whatever), does that make it theirs by the ancient universal truth of numbers?

Money is a fundamentally human construct.
Not really. This is overly simplistic since it's not accounting for reliability/predictability of supply. Natural gas can be turned into MWh on demand, at night, when there's no wind, during consumption anomalies, etc. It's clearly not interchangeable with renewables MWh for MWh like you're suggesting.
If you make student loans easier to discharge, you make them harder to get. That might be part of your plan, but it does make it harder for the less wealthy to afford college, so there's a trade-off here, not a straight victory.
Like everyone else in this thread. You changed the trajectory of my life for the better. Came across your website as a business major fall of 2013 and never looked back!
With proof of stake, a complete chain history is not strictly required by validating nodes.
You don’t want everyone to delete it, but it’s not required for consensus.
Virtual PC and VMware did full virtualization on commodity hardware at the time (Macs and Windows PCs, respectively). But it was slow enough that it was mostly used for development and testing back then, and certainly not viable for any kind of routine sandboxing.
Yeah, the apex of the history of some entity happens some time after it stops doing the things that made it grow. That's almost by definition.

The US has been losing influence for some decades already.
God, think of how expensive the internet is, in human time costs.
https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#5DataRep

2GB like all the other chunks.
Bad example. There's a free option in the market, so the paid option is for rich people only.
I somewhat agree, but it turns out the details are extremely tricky.

For example, how do you prevent people from finishing college, immediately declaring bankruptcy, and then getting a high-paying job with their degree? Unlike a house or car, the education can't be repossessed so the holder retains all of the upside.

It would be the ultimate financial hack to get a medical degree, declare bankruptcy, and then immediately start practicing once the bankruptcy went through.

So obviously there would need to be a lot of protections against abuse. Perhaps a provision that the student loan could only be discharged after a protracted period (many years) of too-low income.

Ironically, there's a huge resistance to this idea from within humanities departments. They fear (rightly so) that such provisions would make it harder to get loans for humanities degrees because they pay significantly less. I don't think that's really a bad thing, but you'll find some outspoken arguments against this from people in the academic world.
What are you adding gradually, specifically? Like, a concrete example that names a namespace you may want to use. I'm trying to figure out what problems a half sandbox solves, and a vague "I just want to enable some capabilities" doesn't help here.
If that's true then I'd expect there to be personalized and well-funded counter-measures, for tracking and prosecution coordination with local law-enforcement and court system. Considering that one service could be worth many millions, and that can be destroyed by one person, it would make sense to spend the money.
To be fair, "a lot of obvious cruft that has built up over the years" also describes old-school Unix as a whole, FreeBSD included. It's just that we got used to many of those things.
I'm not worried about someone 'punishing the system'.

My point is that there's an obvious legal and moral conundrum with identities that are entirely self applied, which is made evident by someone making a claim to said identities and being rejected of those claims.

Try it: Identify as Two Spirit, get rejected, sue on the basis of discrimination that UBC would not recognize your (completely arbitrary) claims to Two Spirit.

Then force them to make the argument, in court.

It'd be impossible other than to demonstrate the absurdity of the reasoning:

"I define myself as this kind of gender, which is my right, therefore I deserve this privilege"

"But that person over there cannot define themselves as this kind of gender, because their ancestors are from a different continent"

It's Monty Python all the way down the rabbit hole.
Amazon Yankee Candle reviews are mirroring the Covid-19 surge – again
It's not just the library. It's the entire culture surrounding Java. The language itself is fine, but Java culture is brain dead.
Chinese people don't believe the US system is inferior solely based on improvements in their own country. I think this discredits them. Chinese students study English and America in school, many have come as exchange students, they consume American media - they are comparing things firsthand in a way that Americans mostly refuse to do.

Believe it or not, Western ideals used to have a good amount of traction in China. I suggest this translated firsthand account of how American values lost their luster: https://mp-weixin-qq-com.translate.goog/s/erCJHZVLEtnZ4wWbkg...
"In Albania a complete name usually consists of a given name (Albanian: emri); the given name of the individual's father (Albanian: atësia), which is seldom included except in official documents; and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname (Albanian: mbiemri)."
I am still waiting for it to dawn on people that unaccountable power corrupts, becomes authoritarian and capricious, regardless whether it's wielded by corporations or governments.
I think in this case velociraptor is correct. The parent comment is not talking about the real dinosaurs, but rather making an analogy to the fictional creatures in the movie, which means the terminology of the movie is correct since that's the context.

The pedantic point would be "the movie meant Utahraptor" or such, but not that the parent commenter did.
I recently watched 'Jallikattu'[0] again. The statement on being desperate to be incited matches one of the main themes of the movie so well. Worth a watch.

[0] - https://youtu.be/ItcQNybOOHM
Contrary opinion: all this is good, actually. School should be a safe place for LGBTQA and questioning kids when home is not a safe environment. The teachers quoted all sound like they are doing a great job.
TLDR: this is a brand of scented candles that get more complaints about missing scene, when COVID infections are high and people can't smell stuff.
This. Many People in urban centers don’t understand any of this.
Not 100% sure its the same in Albania, but in Serbia it's the de facto middle name for most people.
So you need it on most documents.
Mother's name also works, but most people still default to the father's name.
There's a reason many religions have a lot to say about usury. Abrahamic religions have debt jubilees in their religious texts during which slaves were freed and debts were forgiven[1].

[1] https://theconversation.com/the-debt-jubilee-an-old-testamen...
Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch from fossilised egg
Pretty much every first-world country other than the USA has at least partially solved it. Social safety nets, regulation of utilities/public goods (education for example), and a guaranteed standard of living.
Square meter / person has only gone up here - and the population too.
Seems like a cultural thing where the father's name is part of your own name in official documents.

"a complete name usually consists of a given name; the given name of the individual's father, which is seldom included except in official documents; and a family name"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_name
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Ok, but why carry water for that or them?
I mean, there’s a lot of mathematics that are social constructs to me. Like, I’ve never sat down and “proven” the calculus I learned in university.
Yes, I read what was published by Lichess and the other person.

If by 'they' you are referring to Lichess (I'm assuming you were since my post speaks for itself), the published report has holes and doesn't account for the reported site-wide service interruption that occurred some time earlier before they were forced to suspend the tournament.

Specific holes include, there isn't a timeline with any kind of useful supporting documentation or detail (metrics, logs between services) etc. The graph that was provided is worthless beyond showing a correlative spike in traffic when the issue became noticeable. It does not inform the cause in any practical way other than to say there was an issue at some point before the spike which culminated in an outage.

They carefully don't mention any useful, supporting, or practical detail about the architecture, logging, load shedding, etc, that would support that what they say is what happened.

They say it wasn't overloaded, when it was clearly resource constrained.

In my opinion the communication is an assurance article, a table with no legs. We can only guess at what happened, unless they share more specific details.

Also, annoyingly, they say load testing and simulation can't be done at that scale. It can, but to get usable results that accurately model and inform, requires competent engineering and resources. It is not simple, but neither is it beyond the pale either.
I've seen the mods take a pretty hands-off stance when YC (or its companies) are being criticized. I think it's a stated policy and I've generally felt they live by it. (If they didn't, I suppose I couldn't necessarily tell for sure, but based on what I see them "let stand", I think they do.) They're human and imperfect, but they don't seem to do much "home cooking" from what I can tell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27438258

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400556
Why not just use an interface for this?
> However I have no political stake in this and it's just what I read.

Sorry about my tone earlier. It was uncalled for. I edited my comment.

> Wikipedia page also mentions it:

The "talk" section of the page shows vigorous exchanges, as various editors are constantly fighting to erase or put back that part of the story. As the whole case was central to the fight around Trump being an orange but also Russian menace for 4 years, you can easily divine the editors are probably operatives of both parties.

> NYT article you quote is all about Russian involvement in that case.

Yes, that was the first time they publicly lied about it.
Conservatives say they're against "cancel culture", and then go cancel teachers online for not being conservative enough.
This is a great report, thank you.
It confused me as well, but I think the “one of them” isn’t bound to the same specific one as “any of them”.

E.g. “I’m from New York. If any of New York, Chicago, LA, Atlanta [etc.] shut down, I’ll move back to New York and [etc.]”
I would not want to stop these people. As an engineer, I find the technology very interesting and cool. And it is electric, so it is relatively less harmful than normal jets and helicopters.

I do think that there are big challenges in people transport (mainly around cars and planes) and this does not solve any of those challenges, as it does not scale. So I see it as a gimmick: cool tech to show off.
Nuclear fusion is.

Nuclear fission is definitely not environmentally friendly, and will probably be obsolete in 30-40 years. Then the future generations have to deal with the problem that comes with nuclear fission power plants.
Google doesn't "keep trying", it rewrites replacement products frequently. The nearest Microsoft equivalent to Google's (lack of) strategy was Skype being replaced(? Complimented by?) "Skype for Business"
I don't think "all" is appropriate in the title; a quick search confirms that Albania has far more than 600k citizens.
It’s a fun and different language. I enjoyed playing with it from the Seven Languages book.
My two favourite FOSS projects are having a baby together?
They already rate limit popular files that match these patterns.

They don't actually block the file though, and there were (and still are) ways around the rate limit. (Which presumably they knew about to some extent, given you now cannot make copies of said files.)

They could easily start taking action on obvious copyright violations using Drive, but it's unlikely they would want to, unless actually mandated to legally.

I'm not sure what they would do about massive encrypted collections that have been rcloned onto their servers though. Aside from "please stop breaking our de-duplication".
Sometimes I wish there were a more modern replacement for Graphviz. There are things that it doesn't handle very well (e.g., nested subgraphs) and I feel like there are good (albeit proprietary) algorithms which could make their way into a general package.
This is what I'm amazed that nobody seems to get - if the population of people infected by Delta is 80% unvaccinated (I'm making that up for the sake of an example), and the population of people infected by Omicron is only 20% unvaccinated because it's so much better at breaking through vaccination, then of course Omicron's going to have a lower hospitalization rate (unless it's vastly more severe, which it clearly is not). That's offset by the fact that it's infecting a much larger number of people because it can infect vaccinated folks much more effectively.