skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanna say .. don't do it! But it has been a lot of fun for me. Ebay and craigslist/kijiji are your friends. Pretty much all major cities have computer systems refurbishers that recycle old data center hardware. Find one of those and build up slow.

I got a sound proof quarter rack a long time ago but that has been more pain than it was worth. I just stack up my machines using ikea tables now.

These systems are heavy, noisy and power hogs. Those are the major things to look out for in my experience. If you can get systems with BMCs, that is great. I have my systems setup in the basement so I can just turn them on/off as needed. I don't keep them up 24/7 due to noise and other issues.

I got into this as a hobby because the duckduckgo person wrote a blog post on his early home rack. Serve the home is a good site but seems pretty dead these days. I was debating whether to expand my home lab but feel no good deals to be had these days. In the old days when I set it up, my cluster was a beast .. C6100 from DELL and C6105. Bought those off of ebay for a steal. What systems are you thinking about now? And where abouts are you?
A comprehensive list of failed projects
I don't feel this way. It's clearly nobody's fault and I have yet to see a convincing chain of reasoning that faults any particular person or group of people for an ongoing natural disaster. Any attempts at doing so assume a nearly infallible vaccine. Stop watching so much news if it upsets you this much and fills you with hate for healthy people.
> a person that understands the topic should immediately understand we are talking about relatively close galaxy.

Sure, but a person who doesn't would receive the message more clearly if it were stated as "Supermassive black hole eruption near milky way". Otherwise I could write "Supermassive black hole eruption near New York" and be equally correct.

I suspect the potential for misunderstanding was the reason the headline was chosen in this form, however ...
> Most of my classmates are doing quite well, and I'm working at Google - with a fellow classmate, literally in the 1% now (both of us, out of a class of only 8).

What happened to those who didn’t study CS? How are they doing?

We far too frequently look into our bubbles as if they reflected the world around us. They don’t.
I've read people saying they do that in 70s 80s 90s.. it's probably an unavoidable phenomenon of solution space exploration. Even car makers use gradually more precise models before selling something.

The type gathering from use would be nice.
"science journalism" is almost always more confusion than enlightenment
> I recommend Daniel Yergin's The Prize (1991)...

I'd like to learn about realpolitik. Henry Kissinger, Jean Kirkpatrick, etc.

Much as I despise that world view, I'm not sure they're wrong.

At the very least, I'd like to understand them better. Like how the Know Your Enemy podcast surveys modern conservativism. https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy

I've got some books about Kissinger in my queue. I figure I'd start there.

Other recommendations?
Can we just stop the shitshow with DRM? I have NEVER encountered a TV show/movie that I could't rip using a torrent either on public p2p sites or a private tracker.

But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. It was either because they were using a browser or device which was deemed unworthy of full quality streaming by the mighty DRM authors. And now the poor users of the TB-X505X will also have a degraded experience.
Stop using. This will "fix" it instantly.
Unfortunately, there's a pretty straightforward way around legislation that requires that people have access to games they've bought, and companies are already moving in that direction: Just make every game have an online component, and make it not run if it can't properly authenticate with the server.

Banning this type of practice gets into much thornier ground, because plenty of games legitimately do run only online (MMOs of all types, for instance), and for plenty of others, there's a legitimate reason for them to at least have an online component...and just how deeply embedded in the game that online component has to be is rarely going to be a simple matter to determine.

I don't really see a good solution to this at the moment, sadly.
Ask HN: Advice on building a brand as a freelance developer?
I have been working as a freelance developer for a few years now. All my customers come through a middle-man, typically a consultancy agency.

I believe I am good at what I do but I dont have any strong brand per say.

What would you do to attract better clients and get a higher rate?

Any thoughts on things like starting a blog, being a conference speaker, or working on an open-source projects?
it doesn't suffer a weight penalty, but it does suffer a volume penalty. it's also not that light since you need a lot of metal to keep hydrogen at the type of pressure you need.
How does your correct implementation force Ubisoft to do something against their will? If they want to block someone, opening another account will work only to the extent that they don't really care — otherwise their terms of service would be meaningless since everyone could just crank out sock puppets.
Ask HN: Easiest way to code AST transformations
When writing macros the main idea is to convert the tree that represents the code into a modified tree.

What is the best way to describe such alterations in non ad-hoc, more declarative manner?

The only thing that comes to my mind is something with a functionality of XSLT.

Do you know of some more light weight libraries in any language with similar capabilities as XSLT when it comes to transforming trees into other trees?
On my phone so can't respond fully but if you select the <video> element in chrome and Firefox, you can control the .playbackRate attribute. Extensions can be useful but also abused, this is simple enough to do with a bookmarklet or manually
I wonder if a low-performance version of a carrier catapult would work. Perhaps a simpler / cheaper version would be a specialized winch at the end of the runway.

Obviously it would limit the airstrips from which an electric plane could embark, but maybe that's an acceptable trade-off.
For a beautiful mix of hardware and software, see the Nord Modular G2.
Today I would recommend checking out Teal: https://github.com/teal-language/tl/
I'd consider it the spiritual successor to Typed Lua.
They are advertising it, that's what this is. They're just not in a position to bargain though; Apple has proven time-after-time that they won't make changes to their policy unless faced with significant legal backlash. If you're a big developer, pulling iOS support would threaten your userbase and create a vacuum for lookalikes to take over your place, which is especially bad considering how Apple has no policy for curating "clone" apps. If you're a small developer, you're basically shooting yourself in the foot by not offering cross-platform support of your content, and losing out on a chunk of the revenue that you need to continue development. It's a catch-22, and a fairly well-engineered one at that.

Apple won't care about this unless legislators do. They defended their 30% cut as a necessary and inexorable part of the App Store experience until the Epic case, where they announced that actually they can make do with 15%, and maintain the same level of quality. I think we're forgetting how much of a bargaining chip Epic had, too; Fortnite, at it's apex, could not convince Apple to bend their rules regarding app distribution.

The only solution here is sideloading, the only question is how long it's going to take before the government lays down the law.
It would have been weird if they had been unenforceable. As that would mean there is no license to use it at all. And copyright law generally doesn’t work so that if you don’t have a license you are free to do whatever. It’s the opposite. No license, no use whatsoever.
> Pop goes Ganesh

I don't know but now I need to know
> But when describing an experience, and particularly when trying to provide advice to others to do similarly, or when trying to glean information from your experiences that might be applicable to others… yes, check your privilege to see how said privilege may not apply to others’ lives.

I teach people how to do things and "privilege" doesn't come into it. It is neither necessary nor sufficient.

There are always lots of folks with "privilege" yet the only thing that actually matters is whether you can do the work and actually do.
Whalewisdom.com
As a counter example, I watch Bullitt just for the car chase.
Yes, and I'd build on that to say that the author is anthropomorphizing the subjects in an attempt to give the story emotional resonance; the choice of the female pronouns also seems to be specifically aimed at eliciting empathy from the reader.
Thank you for the example, that helps a lot. So for example, when you write a library that need capabilities, you would write it using dependency (capability?) injection, and then the main program would have to pass an object with that capability for the code to work? And I see what you mean by "they are just plain values, and require nothing special from the type system", as long as you restrict what part of the program can produce a System or a FileSystem, you can just use plain typechecking.
As I recall, it was like that before they started charging for checked bags. Now, to save $20, tons of people who have no business lifting 30lb over their heads bring their big heavy bags on themselves and struggle to get them into overhead bins while everyone else is waiting to board.
What other requirements do you have? Wireless? How fast is the connection? How many devices will be on it, and what kind of performance do they require? Is this for you, or your Grandma?
Exceptions to every rule, right? The car chases in Baby Driver are crucial to the story. So good.
Hi, I would not call myself a full on nihilist because I've never read any nihilist literature. All I know is the most basic definition, and from discussions with friends who are more knowledgeable on the subject, but I do feel like this aligns with my way of thinking.
I don't expect it to be an app. Why do you direct me to the webpage? Is it because you think I'll use your service more if it's an app? That's something you are doing for *you*, taking advantage of my addictive behavior, not something you are doing for *my* expectation.

It's not a partial truth in a tautological way. I'm saying something meaningful - please assume good faith and engage in good faith.
I haven't seen anyone mention Hinduism. I am a Hindu and belong to Advaita Vedanta school of thought.

I begin my day my saluting to the One and the Only Brahman reading Bhagavad-Gita.

meditation on the mantra 'Satyam Jnanam Anantam Brahma'

and trying to realise that everything is Brahman, there's nothing apart from Brahman
I have fond memories of learning to program on the TI-83 and following that same example!
It's such a chain - even if a distributer didn't want to use DRM, the buck will stop with a lawyer for the content owners who's job it is to do everything in their power to make sure their clients get paid for the content. Why would one of those make it easier to pirate?

Corporate drone logic man.
Spanning 8 degrees, 12 million light years away? That's insane. A feature that's 1.67 million light years across? That's insane. That's a sixth of the size of the entire local cluster.
I read Bible sometimes and pray sometimes.
I realised I become a very bad person (not thinking of others, being unfair), when I'm away from Christianity.
This credit system sounds like another form of currency.
I really enjoyed listening to Dark Net Diaries - The Spy https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/99/
> In other words, you tell people "no, you don't get to go to college/university".

Why would you say that?

> And yes, there are free and/or very low-cost colleges in the US. (https://www.sjcc.edu/ is under $1,500/year.)

Clearly seem to be a problem of either US-ranking of universities or their general availability. Otherwise this wouldn't be a problem?

> It is interesting to look at what many of the people complaining about not being able to pay choose to study.

That sounds just like the reactionary whine about non-STEM education.
Makes sense, and I know a lot of people are like "4K ultra or nada" but I grew up in a world where 480p was watchable and good enough that you would invite friend over and have a freewatch party. So I guess it depends who is watching right?

I tried a couple of screen recording tricks and it appears that Netflix is easily captured on Chrome....
Currently the satellites don't have intersat links. There is a ground station in each geofenced region, which makes mobility difficult. I'd expect it to start working once the intersat links are functional.
It was my impression that you can't do it even in unsafe because ownership rules still apply. But apparently I was wrong and there is a way to do it?
My entire spiritual practice, if you must call it that, is just living life.

I think of the afterlife as the life of people (and other sentient creatures) that will live (or live on) after me, and every day I try to do what I can to make my life AND that afterlife better.

I won’t be there for that afterlife, because I will be very dead, but I believe it is real :-).

Thinking about things this way makes life meaningful and fun.
When I was an active Windows user, I always used the server editions as my desktop OS.

Eg, I ran Server 2003 (instead of XP), Server 2012 R2 (instead of 8.1), and finally, Server 2016 (instead of Win 10).

Much less bloat. Not sustainable for an enterprise deployment, but for my home use it worked quite well.
I don't know why the assumption is that animals don't understand death. They deal with it a lot more than most of us ever will.
In AoC it's completely fine to conflate a character and a byte. Neither your daily input nor the provided tests will have anything beyond ASCII.

Which is fine for AoC, good choice, but it means the language needn't get this right, or even provide any help to programmers who need to get it right, in a similar way to how "big" numeric answers in AoC will fit in a 64-bit signed integer, never testing whether your chosen language can do better if the need arises.
That's the average. Some brain cells don't churn as fast (or maybe at all?). The memory-of-a-memory thing isn't on a 7 year scale either, but does happen. I don't remember the exact science, but I do remember the metaphor I came up with (evidence in my favor!).

Remembering something is like pulling a note out of a cabinet. It gets saved from the back, where the papers tend do degrade. Then, it gets put at the front. The trick is, the original note isn't put at the front. A copy is made. So remembering tends to reinforce, but also can change during this lossy copying process.
Not a lawyer, but based on the last paragraphs of the press release here: https://www.dynamic.ooo/press/groundbreaking-acknowledgment-... it seems that they have been ordered to comply within 7 days, so going over that would probably mean that they would also be in violation of a court order, along with the fines.
An IPFS Mirror of all the repos of the GitHub account.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmWPo4VqWwrdU3A7fm9Ze3Qm31D...

For example:
```
git clone http://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmWPo4VqWwrdU3A7fm9Ze3Qm31DH...
```

To pin and help seed on your local IPFS node
```
ipfs pin add /ipfs/QmWPo4VqWwrdU3A7fm9Ze3Qm31DHBz4bZPNeFPojS8huSg
```
Cloudflare IPFS can be replaced with other ipfs nodes like dweb.link or your local one.
If they didn't face a tough haul, we'd all be flying in them already.

I'm very bullish on electric flight, both eVTOL (Joby, Lillium, etc) and normal planes (Eviation, etc), and these things will revolutionize transit the way we can't quite appreciate. Not only will they displace any notions of HSR in developed places like North America (it is already a non-starter, but too many people still have illusions around it), it'll also connect places with HSR-like transit which would never even be considered for a line. By being able to connect a multitude of smaller cities, it'll allow even more out-migration from cities by people with mobile jobs.

Number one risk is not technological here, it is likely plain old NIMBYism. I'm sure we'll see a set of contradictory and impossible to meet demands done in the name of "safety" but masking plain old greed, selfishness or just being a reactionary.
I am Muslim and pray 5x a day. Prayer is the remembrance of God (Allah) and expression of gratitude and love.

Every morning I spend some of my wealth in charity. The Quran puts great emphasis on helping others and on being a good human being. My father used to say it's not the amount, but consistency that matters. I try to keep to that.

Apart from that, I read / listen to the Quran. This is what makes me the happiest spiritually.

simple translations of the Quran:
https://beta.quran.com/1

overview of Islam:
https://www.javedahmedghamidi.org/#!/mizan (English on top)
Recent convert to Anglicanism here. It’s a lot more formal than the Baptist tradition that I grew up in.

There are a lot of rote prayers for every occasion - morning, night, etc. When I was younger I would have found this inauthentic, forced, and fake. But now I find that it sort of fills a gap. It provides some of the ritual and meditation that I had admired/envied in Eastern traditions like Buddhism.

I’m still sort of easing my way in to all this. So far I’ve been enjoying listening to morning prayer on The Daily Office Podcast [1] with my morning coffee. It’s a great way to start the day.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-office-podca...
> I don't really see a good solution to this at the moment, sadly.

Preferring games that don't do the bad thing and being willing to pay a premium for (or accept lower production values from) them is the market solution. I think you’ve outline why there isn't a legislative solution that doesn't adversely impact lots of genres of games where online is fundamental to the game and not an abusive control methods with no other purpose.
It depends. Today there are APIs which allow the actual decryption to be done directly on the GPU, while requesting the GPU to not allow the sharing/capturing of those decrypted images.
Nice way to use divine command theory to reconcile theodicy.
There is no reason to assume that the meatspace Congress is dead. It's no more dead than any other event with large crowds. The demand is there and the will to organize it is there as well.
I think a lot of people don't realize that they're never making just one simple dice roll.

> Parents often can and will do whatever they can to protect their child...

I'd adjust that to "parents can and will do whatever they think will protect their child based on whatever the current wisdom (or scary headline) suggests".

Consider parents not letting their kids go trick or treating because they don't want to roll the dice on someone putting a razor blade in their candy. As a result, their kid will never eat a razor blade (though really they almost certainly never would have anyway), but what's the cost of missing out on that experience? Even if missing the experience is costly, maybe it ends up being a win because the kid now has a better relationship with sugary garbage food as an adult? Seeing the whole picture is difficult.

The furniture thing seems straightforward to me. I'd feel relatively confident that we won't learn anything surprising in the coming years about pros/cons of anchoring a book shelf to the wall. You can make that decision today with pretty good confidence that you understand the risk profile (and it seems like all upside, especially since its reversible anyway).

What are the odds that we don't learn something surprising in the next year about covid, the vaccines, the interaction between the two, any new variants, etc? It seems reasonable to me to make the same "even from low chances of danger" argument about skipping the vaccines for kids.

Everyone is going to do their best, and some people are going to be wrong. The confidence that I see people having that they're the ones who are going to be right is baffling to me (edit: in general, not talking about you specifically).
Windows Store is kind of useful, as it manages the installed software and keeps it updated, same as a *nix package manager.

And that’s about it. It is completely infested with low quality apps, almost as bad as the Kindle App Store.
I agree. There's a lot of buzz about how "it's never been proven in court" and all that, but open source software licensing is so cut and dried at this point that it just ends up sounding silly. If having a license.md file in your source code isn't enforceable, then how do multi-billion dollar apps get away with hiding their terms of use behind several clicks and thousands of lines of incomprehensible legal jargon? It would certainly be fun to watch Big Tech hire their gold-medal mental gymnasts to fight it in court, if nothing else.
Michael Barnsley has two books that discuss this in greater detail.

https://maths.anu.edu.au/people/academics/michael-barnsley

and

http://superfractals.com/wpfiles/
I'd like to restore some old faded color photos. Any advice on software/techniques?
I just brought up the uniforms point because:

A) It didn't solve the issue, people looked at other signifiers such as jewellery or shoes instead (or if the uniform required "a white polo" then they'd have a name brand polo instead).

B) It forced the parent to buy (in some cases) expensive Uniform(s) (because you can't have just 1 and kids grow quickly too).

For the second point I was fortunate enough to have really good grades when tested, so I was allowed to go to a more prestigious school that required a tie and blazer.

The total cost for everything was more than my Mum received in cash for an entire year. If it wasn't for my granddad stepping in I wouldn't have been able to go to the school on those grounds alone.

(EDIT: just so I'm clear, Mum got about 48~ gbp per week but rent was paid directly by the Government)
> I guess the most obvious reasons are the myth that "nerds" can find sex partners in Japan more easily than in their own culture

I believe that is part of it, honestly. But I wouldn't present it exactly that way. I think instead that there are many American males that feel threatened by the assertive, independent American woman. Perhaps beginning with "women's lib" in the 1970's?

Asian culture appears to paint a picture of a submissive female role that is non-threatening, in fact deferential to the male. Even in terms of appearances the stereotypical Asian female has long hair "befitting a woman" and wears traditional feminine clothing.

But I think there of course is another kind of interest in Japanese culture that is not defined by sex roles, a fascination I have myself about Japan.

I think it is other-worldly to this Westerner. Food is foreign but delicious. Society is structured in a way that keeps order. Strict social rules but flexibility toward foreigners who are unused to these rules (and apparently allowances for the behavior of drunks as well?).

I think too many of us see modern Japan as a foil to our own failing societies as we head into an unknown future. Tokyo with public transportation and, as I said, strict social rules, has kept a mostly sane and functioning metropolis together. As we look to our own cities in the U.S. growing to Tokyo-like proportions we can hope that there is a way forward ... if we can only be more like Japan.

Anyway, that is my take on it.