skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My SO and me are regularly (at least once per year) watch "The Golden Girls" (or better she watches, while I fall asleep too soon). I now - despite sleeping through a lot of episodes have watched the series many times and I still love to visit old friends.

I would have wished for her to reach her 100st birthday - and for me to not have this year end with another passing away after 3 members of the family already gone.

Stay well out there and let's hope for a better 2022.
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
Why Do YouTubers Jump Cut?
1. Fear (nuclear waste, radioactivity, incidents, association with nuclear weapons)

2. The Green party has been born out of the anti-nuclear movement. Without them, Germany would probably use nuclear energy for most of its electricity needs, like France does. If the Green party would embrace nuclear, they would have to admit that the anti-nuclear movement was a huge mistake and it is actually, for a good part, to blame for climate change.
Just imagine what the world would look like today if the development of nuclear power plants hadn't been stopped in the 80s and countries used nuclear instead of coal and natural gas.
Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures
I didn't down-vote you as I believe views like this should be stated but responded to properly. Your safety from foreign governments is not guaranteed even if you live within the borders of the United States. A perfect example of this is a post by someone else here on Hacker News pertaining to the tools that the Chinese government uses to identify dissidents outside of their borders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/business/china-internet-p...
Alas most Verizon Fios customers are still out of luck.
A new protocol and tool for PNG file attachments
> Years ago I read a rant by someone who insisted that being able to mix arbitrary languages into a single String object makes sense for linguists but for most of us we would be better off being able to a assert that a piece of text was German, or sanskrit, not a jumble of both.

Presumably the person who wrote it speaks a single language.

Just because something is not useful to them, it doesn't mean it is not useful in general. There are millions of polyglots as well as documents that include words and names in multiple scripts.
These goals seem to me like progress towards a life well-lived. Good luck!
Am I the only one that hates IPv6 ergonomics? I have to transcribe IPv4 addresses all the time, I'd hate to try and do it with a 128 bit address. Could they not have gone with 64 bit addresses, was 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 addresses really not enough?
we only need to get to 70% adoption before the rest of us get it via herd immunity. won’t be long now
Ritalin's been used to treat ADHD for about 70 years. Also, we know that ADHD results in reduced life expectancy, so ADHD medication just has to improve that number for it to be pretty good. If your life expectancy due to taking ADHD meds improves by a couple years because you're less likely to crash your car or overdose on recreational drugs then ADHD meds are a far preferable option to not taking them.
Writing an rpm isn’t difficult… is that a commonly held belief? Maybe I don’t know what I don’t know, but I’ve found wrapping my head around deb packaging much harder than rpms.
Web3 is not using TCP and DNS :)?
I’m not confused. I understand the concept of the wireless bandwidth that’s needed for the bidirectional communication when in headset mode vs headphone mode. My point is that the laptop microphone arrays are just not as good as a microphone that’s designed to be right next to your mouth, or at least within 6 inches. The mic arrays on laptops almost always sound worse than headsets.
Rent a cheap place in California or in the EU.

Establishing second residence isn't that expensive.
You can, and it's actually more pleasant to deal with than Rust+GTK on Windows, if only for the compile time.
Because hierarchical structures and names are easy to explain to most people. macOS has supported tagging for ages, but I’ve never seen it used extensively or as a complete alternative to tree structure.
> A factor of three (which is very optimistic)

For cars, the factor of three is not "optimistic", it's simple comparison of the respective primary energies consumed by typical vehicles in their respective categories. 20 kWh to drive 100 km = 72 MJ of primary energy. 6 liters of gasoline to drive the same distance = ~220 MJ of primary energy -- roughly triple of the former number.

> A week doesn't sound totally crazy to me; we certainly want a good safety margin so that society doesn't collapse in a bad winter.

Yes, but that doesn't imply you need the capacity to run the country 100% on batteries for a week. That's just not something anyone would ever do. For example, a gas turbine with a low duty cycle would definitely be cheaper than a battery after a certain period of time. So why would you use a battery for that?
The drugs have been around for decades. Using them daily with increasing numbers of children during a decade or so of brain development, has not.
Scientific method is undergoing intense changes in methodology. I suspect in 50 years the way causal inference is done will in many areas be radically different.
1st sentence:

> The Buddhist games list is a list of games that Gautama Buddha is reputed to have said that he would not play and that his disciples should likewise not play, because he believed them to be a 'cause for negligence'.

By “cause for negligence”, I’m assuming that could mean that you might neglect your worldly / spiritual duties.
In Facebook stats, the USA percentage is even higher (59%)
Python module for parsing Apple Numbers .numbers files
Probably can’t sue for damages if you can’t prove damages, and probably can’t sue for statutory damages if you can’t prove they’ve got your IP (since it’s their database is an opaque box to you and me).
At the time of the comment it was triple, not double.
Agreed; none of the analogies I've seen are really close. I have a couple of attempts:

Analogy 1: the reporter got a letter from DESE, and noticed that there was confidential information printed on the inside of the envelope.

Analogy 2: the reporter got a letter from DESE, and noticed there was a block of intra-office info (document ID, routing codes, etc) at the bottom, and that contained confidential information.

In either case, the critical thing is that the information was sent to him, just in a form/place people don't normally read.
> It seems incorrect to refer to this as "brain damage"?

Some people have car crashes or other traumatic head injuries and receive an ADHD diagnosis after the event, so it is usually from childhood but sometimes from brain damage.
Ask HN: Is quitting social media (Instagram, snap) sign of weakness?
So every now and then I contemplate on quitting social media apps like Instagram and others because of time I spend on them. But I get this thought that am I weak (mind) in way that I am unable to control myself to spend moderate time on these things instead I am accepting defeat and quitting the platform all together . Does anyone feel like this or people who quit did you do that because you were unable to stop yourself ?
And what exactly does that mean? No exploration of that in the article or any particular exploration for each game. Its a list after all. How does that apply to 8x8 but not a 9x9 board game?

I'd expect a passing comment about it at least. A paragraph.
So they have an excuse to not hire minorities and people of color who have lower scores on average.
The `filename-sanitizer` library you have linked has the following comment.

# FIXME: improve HFS+ handling, because it does not use the standard NFD. It's
# close, but it's not exactly the same thing.
'hfs+': (255, 'characters', 'utf-16', 'NFD'),

I wonder what does that mean...
I think in 10-20 years they’ll have this and more. Imagine dash cam videos from cop cars being analyzed and correlated by software so that someone who sped in between two cop cars 100 miles apart gets ticketed because they could not have got from one to the other without speeding.
The problem right now is that forcing the codepage to UTF-8 only works on Windows 10 build 1903+. So quietly forcing this opt-in may result in situations where everything works fine for the devs, but some of their users see breakage for no clear reason.

Long-term, though? Absolutely.
> This is Google Earth and Maps. They're free to users, but make Google billions on ads

Citation needed. Google only recently started showing ads in Maps and there is no way it's near billions at this point.
Why Brahmins lead Western firms but rarely Indian ones
In our Jenkins system, we have remote build nodes return data back to the primary node via environment variable-style formatted files (e.g. FOO=bar), so when I had to send back a bunch of arbitrary multi-line textual data, I decided to base64 encode it. Simple enough.

On *nix systems, I ran this through the base64 command; the data was UTF8, which meant that in practice it was ASCII (because we didn't have any special characters in our commit messages).

On Windows systems... oh god. The system treats all text as UTF-16 with whatever byte order, and it took me ages to figure out how to get it to convert the data to UTF-8 before encoding it. Eventually it started working, and it worked for a while until it didn't for whatever reason. I ended up tearing out all the code and just encoding the UTF-16 in base64 and then processing that into UTF-8 on the master where I had access to much saner tools.

Generally speaking, "Unicode" works great in most cases, but when you're dealing with systems with weird or unusual encoding habits, like Windows using UTF-16 or MySQL's "utf8" being limited to three bytes per unicode character instead of four, everything goes out the window and it's the wild west all over again.
It wouldn’t surprise me much if they still do that. It is a highly diversified company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung:

Notable Samsung industrial affiliates include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology company, consumer electronics maker and chipmaker measured by 2017 revenues), Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's 2nd largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T Corporation (respectively the world's 13th and 36th largest construction companies). Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th largest life insurance company), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea) and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 15th largest advertising agency, as measured by 2012 revenues)

Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_C%26T_Corporation it doesn’t seem they still trade in dried fish, but who knows?
Nope. A sign of intelligence.
As a northern European, I kinda miss iso-8859-1 being used everywhere back in the mid 90s.
Airpods are great the only thing I hate is Apple syncs bluetooth settings to all devices using the same iCloud account with seemingly no way to disable it.

I never use my airpods max with my iPhone. Likewise I never use my regular airpods with my macbook. But whenever I put them on, no matter what options I check like "pair with last device", it pairs with the wrong device. I have removed the airpods max from my iPhone but Apple will just add it back.

Things like this are why I don't want to use apple's account services at all.
> EDIT: if the courts do not recognize this for what it is we are in bigger trouble than we imagine already.

If this goes to court and the judge doesn't reject this and fine/imprison the governor and DA over malicious prosecution then we're in big trouble.
Last year I wished myself to lose weight and and start earning more on a side. None of that happened, in fact it got much worse,so I'll set the same target for 2022. Happy new year!!
It looks like instead of the config option switching everything to use the same normalization it keeps a second copy of the name in a database to compare to. What a horrible kludge, I wonder how they even got into this situation of using different normalization in different parts of the system?
I also put everything in docker containers, and docker-compose for each thing is a must. It usually pains me to see when popular projects have no decent docker-compose files available and I have to make them.

For backups restic is a blessing. And so is Syncthing for getting things to the backup machine quickly (from mobile and non-unix machines).
Might be that more people use Facebook on their phones. I'd guess Google is more representative of overall Internet usage.
I’ve used ipv6 on xfinity for years, but I do use my own equipment. Unless there are regional differences it’s important to make sure it is set up right in your router.
Yeah, Greek alphabet is used a lot in sciences. It's really annoying that we're only starting to get proper support now. (Including on keyboards : http://norme-azerty.fr/en/ )
Note: earrings hare also quite heritable, but unrelated to genetics
I’ll fairly sure that this is illegal, but I guess anybody who pushed the issue would stop getting called in to work
In a flat area, you could imagine designing a system so that it couldn't aim below horizon, and then mount it 10-15 feet up to mitigate the risk of blinding.
Ask HN: Applying for EM Roles at FAANG?
There is a lot of material around about applying for IC roles at FAANG, including materials like this Google video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYUy1yvjHxE

There seems to be a big focus on preparing via Leetcode etc. I've got 20+ years in IC and EM roles and are currently an EM, and thinking about a (specific) EM role at a FAANG. Any thoughts on if I need to think about LC or just apply as any other company?
That sounds like an enormous amount of labor unless you're starting from an empty house.
Half the bits are unusable anyway...
As said in another reply, I've been in contact with IPv6 for like 20 years and every year I have to understand it again I fully agree with you and would even say that even 48 bits could have done something with 281,474,976,710,656 values possible
Is Tencent really a gaming company? I suspect the revenue they get from all of their gaming ventures combined would be a drop in the ocean compared to WeChat.
It is also a pain to learn some of these libraries in Python where they are basically just wrappers
Imagine Buddha played a game and lost to his opponent. This would not happen.

If you want to start your own religion, you would not allow this to happen.
From gemini.circumlunar.space:

"Overview

Gemini is a new internet protocol which:

Is heavier than gopher
Is lighter than the web
Will not replace either
Strives for maximum power to weight ratio
Takes user privacy very seriously" <--- Yet it REQUIRES user to send plaintext hostnames over the wire

With HTTPS, sending the hostname in plaintext over the wire ("SNI") is a problem that can be worked around. However, per the Gemini protocol specification, SNI is mandatory, not optional, even when there is no virtual hosting. That is bad design. Does Gemini provide any workarounds. Why not.

At present, I only need to send plaintext hostname over the wire for a minority of HTTPS sites. Most sites do not require it. One shared hosting provider, Cloudflare, even offers encrypted SNI, which works fine while encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is being finalised. AFAICT, the SNI problem will eventually be fixed in HTTPS.

Making SNI mandatory, i.e., no option to disable it, is against the philosophy of user control. One of the reasons I use links and other non-graphical clients plus a local TLS proxy, instead using of a popular browser, is because the popular browsers do not permit the user to disable the sending of plaintext hostnames over the wire.

Not all HTTPS sites require SNI, in fact most do not require it, yet popular browsers send hostnames in plaintext to every website. From a user perspective, that is stupid. Gemini is arguably worse because it codifies this stupidity into the protocol, thereby ensuring people will write clients that send hostnames in plaintext over the wire to every site and servers that will reject TLS negotiation without SNI. If there is only one Gemini site on an IP address, then it makes no sense to send the hostname in plaintext over the wire.
To be honest, my experience is that criticizing the Chinese Government on platforms such as Twitter or YouTube will quickly cause you to be "shadow banned". It would seem to make this "hunt for critics" unnecessary.
Do you automatically assign credibility because they work at a FAANG? That introduces a bias where you assume someone is smart until they prove otherwise where you might assume the average McD worker isn't until the prove otherwise.

We do it on here where we assume a higher level of conversation compared to a facebook post so we leave a better message which reenforces the standard.
In SV it's rare to pay for commercial OS or other support due to the scale. I have never worked anywhere that paid for anything, whether it's RHEL or Cloudera or whatever, unless it's only available as SaaS/Cloud.

That's why working at FB or Google is like going back in time as far as monitoring UIs, etc.

Some of the clever large companies took advantage of "site-wide support licenses." For example, Netflix paid MySQL AB $40,000/year for MySQL site support so they didn't have to hire any MySQL DBAs. Just keep filing support tickets. :)
Simulating the Williams FW43B(AR), Part 1: All Simulations Are Wrong
Is the domain brand (less than 24h) new? It's not resolving yet for me (I have extremely new domains blocked via NextDNS).
Our minds are wired to wonder, recall previous similar situations , associate and predict what is coming.. some minds are more active at this than others.

If you want to get some control over this, try practicing meditation. It will strengthen your ability to focus.

My 10c advise.
> There is no such thing as harmful information. Only actions can cause harm.

Perhaps in some idealistic model of society this is true. However, in reality people cannot process and evaluate the factual basis of all information that is pushed on them. Otherwise we would not be seeing so wide-spread misinformation campaigning, fake news and conspiracy theories. Harmful information tends to transform into harmful actions (harmful here being subjective - there's often someone benefiting as well).

I don't have a clear-cut answer who should be determining what is misinformation. Also, I don't believe one bit that a free-for-all model is a good one, quite the opposite. Currently it seems that when someone clearly crosses the line, public opinion or perception forces the company to reconsider allowing the violator to remain on their platform. It might not be the most elegant model, but possibly the best we have.
You could spread it to your vulnerable family at home
Betty White was older than sliced bread.
I wasn't drugged in childhood (other than paracetamol?) and ADHD made adult life incredibly difficult until I started medication. Now it feels like adult life is easy, and I can't believe it is so easy for other people. N=1 but not being drugged didn't prevent ADHD for me.
There's a bias against anything new in human circles
Telegram already encourages downloading the APK directly: https://telegram.org/android
Get Farmers if you can. I live near a wildfire impacted area and nobody with State Farm got what they should have (if anything at all) unless they sued for it. Everyone with Farmers got what they should have, and in a timely manner.
I don’t understand the cognitive dissonance. If you believe that they are not serving you, what point is there in keeping them around? It sounds like a smoker who thinks that by not having a pack of cigarettes in her pocket and constantly denying them that she hasn’t “really” quit.

I went nuclear on Instagram and Facebook a couple years ago. I downloaded all the pictures I liked and saved all the posts I thought were worth keeping, and then I deleted everything and I unfriended everyone. I figured if there wasn’t anything to come back to, then there wasn’t any reason to come back. As has been discussed here before, you can’t really delete a Facebook account, but that doesn’t mean you can’t empty it out. Most people just have too much FOMO.

I Got some texts asking if I was suicidal (I was not, but what a sign of the times!) but other than that my life has never been negatively impacted. I text my friends regularly (~10 people ~once per day) and I really enjoy the unmediated relationships I have with my real-life friends and family.
The article is about the practice of dueling and the social construct of honor. I got suckered into reading it thinking it would be about Venezia, but Casanova is only in it for a few paragraphs.
My ISP is apparently going to adopt IPv6 for fixed connections this year, so something to look forwards to. I think they've already had them for years for wireless.
> I don't know why insurance companies don't offer 10gb of storage with someone like Backblaze for their customers.

I agree.
Refraining from the ‘I told you so’ with those you chided repeatedly to sort their shit out is really hard.

I’ve started just doing it for them, as dealing with the fallout is more painful than remaining tactfully silent and trying to restore broken, corrupted or deleted files.
Can you explain what identity based habits are?
I think in that case the idea would either be that you should then have an array of strings, each of which may have its own language set, or that the string should be labelled as "containing Latin and Cyrillic", but still not able to include arbitrary other characters from Unicode. And multi-lingual text still generally breaks on words... Kilobytes of Latin text with a single Cyrillic character in the middle of a word is very suspicious, in a way that kilobytes of Latin text with a single Cyrillic word isn't.

Of course you'd always need an "unrestricted" string (to speak to the rest of the system if necessary), but there are very few natural strings out there in the world that consist of half-a-dozen languages just mishmashed together. Those exceptions can be treated as exceptions.
dammmmm thank you. your comment just triggered a reminder to me to update my personal articles policy for changed computer hardware.
Do you mean Junji Ito?
oh damn, let me check on my router then
Totally agree. And two cents to add. The so called smart bolt adds movable parts in side a part supposed to be inertia and at the same time might compromise the strength in comparison with ones with the same profile and body material. And when faulty, it actually more dangerous than ordinary ones: now your torque wrench and the bolt gives different readings, which one to trust?
Airpod has 3 bluetooth chips, one in each ear and the case. All of these are synced, and the individual ear pieces are synced. Their form factor, battery life, ease of pairing, sound quality, build quality, comfort, and price point were what made them better than anything else on the market. Competitors may have caught up but Apple is still offering the best product.
Maybe if several low power lasers were fired together, to converge at the predicted position, it would moderate the risk of collateral damage. Even a few millimeters away from the target position, the radiative flux (W/m²) would be much lower, likely at safe levels.
That's big news for Haiku OS, isn't it?

Has somebody a resource to learn from how Wine works, at least the basics of that?
It imposes constraints on what's taught that doesn't allow for students who are ahead or behind the curriculum. Growing up and learning are messy processes that demand flexible solutions
Copyright violation is a civil matter, not a criminal one. You don’t have D.A.s prosecute people for civil crimes, you sue them.
Thanks, I'll suggest they add that to https://woob.tech/install
It seems like I misread the original comment indeed.
What's with the cyclical "Ebb and Flow" of IPv6 if you select "IPv6 Adoption" and zoom in?