skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's cool but it's not going to be that uncommon a story around here! I also switched my parents from Windows to Ubuntu 20 years ago. However, I subsequently switched them to Mac 10 years ago. They'd have been mostly OK staying on Ubuntu but various annoyances would have come up over the years; their hardware wouldn't have been as nice; they get their daily paper "delivered" to their iPad, etc.
I understand you may have had your challenges, but I completely disagree with that opinion based on my personal experience and from what I've witnessed of countless others.
Many years ago, my mother (in her 60's) called me to tell me she had dumpster-dived an old laptop that she wanted to get working but it needed a reformat and she didn't have the Windows install media nor product key. What should she do?

I really didn't want to deal with walking her through this so in an attempt to brush her off I said: "I dunno, I guess you could install Ubuntu."

Didn't hear anything more about it for some time. Many months later I asked what happened to the laptop. She said she installed Ubuntu and it was working great.

Wait, what!?!
The University of Minnesota spam filter might have just cost me Summa Cum Laude
This takes the cake for the most damage any bug has ever caused me. You can find the full details here, https://letrosswrite.com/, but that mostly focuses on the bureaucratic side of things. I thought it might be interesting to discuss the technical aspect of the problem.

For four months now, the UMN email system has sent most of my outgoing emails related to my honors thesis directly to spam, but somehow every email that I've sent to another student or to any of my instructors went through without a hitch. When I reported the lack of responses to the IT department, (I wasn't sure if it was an email problem at the time), they told me that if my email was blocked as spam I would receive a bounce-back email notifying me of the issue. I had not. So far I've confirmed with three separate professors that me emails were being blocked the whole time.

That makes several layers of failure. The system failed to deliver my emails, it failed to notify me of the failed delivery, and it failed to notify anyone on the IT staff of the failed notification (which I would hope they have). Worse than that, students at the UMN are assigned emails which we are required to use, which means that the UMN email system knows that my email is attached to a specific student, and there are a limited number of emails in circulation. Google, Facebook, and and Twitter have to deal with open registration, but not UMN.

I've been a dedicated bug fixer for a large corp before, and I've never seen a bug this bad, but I might be too close to the situation to stay objective. What do ya'll think?
Is IPFS really web3? IPFS is a slight upgrade to bitorrent, and p2p tech was popularized by Napster over 20 years ago. It's been a part of the internet longer than "web2"
Here in Norway a service called "Vipps" is pretty much the standard now. No fees for transfers under 5000 NOK or something like that...around $600. It's pretty much instant.

I think most countries have solved this problem by now - i.e instant transfer through apps. Seems like every country has their own service. Would be nice to get some larger unified version - that'd be cool.
Not sure its about power, more about access to a demographic that is pre filtered. Could be lucrative for certain advertisers who want to target the group who is attracted to parler.

Although the crowds booing trump after he announced he had his vax booster shot should give advertisers in this space some pause, sometimes the messages and disinformation create a life of their own that doesn't follow the script.
I've been a gamer for 25 years.

I never bought into microtransactions / paying for cosmetic skins... Until I came across a game on steam that released limited sets of items which could them be resold.

It changed it from being an expense to an investment. Some of the items I bought 10x in value, and I sold two for more than I spent on everything.

I also enjoyed using the items in the game.

If steam and the game company both got paid when I bought/sold the items then I'm happy.

These were cosmetic items that didn't give me an advantage... So they didn't make the game less fun, just an outlet for expression.

If GameStop executes well on this and brings in the big publishers, this could be a cash cow.
How does this work in law?

Can't I just own and use both lots at the same time? Would I need to technically 'reunite' them? Can't I just use both of them at the same time?
That’s a tad bit non-specific. Do you claim walled garden ecosystems are acceptable if a state government controls it? Save for possible science fiction AI administered states, this would disproportionately empower state executives, no?
Absolutely. Even with highly profitable global megacorps, technical debt is an issue, but eventually they have to pay the piper. I'm not sure if it is true in this case, but my image of governmental agencies are that they are perpetually underfunded and short-staffed, so it must be an even greater difficulty to choose between what should be done and what must be done.
Python was never supposed to be a language for anything more complex than basic scripting and prototyping. Use proper languages with static typing (and better speed) for anything serious. And no, JavaScript isn't a good language either.
This is what I don't get - what is it doing? What is possibly more important than responding to user input as fast as possible? Computers serve us as a tool, why should humans have to wait on them as if they're asking another busy human for help?
Put another way. If there are 10 levels between him and those who are at the lowest level of hierarchy (assuming the median employee is somewhere in the lowest rung of this org tree), this equates to roughly your comp doubling as you get promoted each level.

Then is it fair to question whether this ratio of comp between successive levels is ok?
Have you heard of public transport?
That sure doesn't seem to be an endorsement of mongoid.
So I don't doubt that "modern Fortran" is a nice language, but last I'd heard, it also effectively didn't exist in the wild; Fortran remains king of numerical computation by virtue (largely if not exclusively) of having a vast number of packages already written spanning decades of use... but not, generally, spanning to new versions of the language. So is it good enough to use the language in spite of its ecosystem?
look your grandson getting his purpose?
Flamewar like this will get you banned here. What a horrible thread.
No more of this, please—it's totally against the rules and spirit of what this site is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please let me know if this already exists, but: video games are becoming huge file sizes in part due to HD graphics. Why not just generate say the faces of pedestrians on the fly? Is it important that some character in my copy of the game looks identical in all copies of the game? I would argue it just needs a unique face to go with the name.
The link man
it doesn't work
As an alum of the little red schoolhouse, I have to assume you were a
special admit since the CS program there, while not as prestigious as
MIT's, was still world-class. And even if you're inexplicably
sandbagging about your raw intellect, one thing none of our brotherhood
lacked was arrogance, thus casting further suspicion to your recount.

If you were a special admit, then that should be obvious to your
colleagues, and there's nothing you need to do specially since you've
made a career of trying to meet expectations.
Indeed, and the "single hospital" is actually multiple business entities that are all billing one another for service and trying to maximize the return on their own capital investment.
I use windows 10 for a gaming PC that I turn on once every few weeks. Almost every single time, windows update and defender scan bring disk and CPU usage to their knees. I can’t game until it’s done, sometimes an hour and one or more reboots.

I’ve spent significant time trying to turn these off and allow me to run them manually. No luck. I think I was able to turn one of them off but not the other, don’t recall.

So it might be stable but it’s not usable unless you leave the device powered on 24/7.
Telsa has been lying about their full self-driving product for over 5 years now:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

But I suppose there are always more suckers to fleece.
Flamewar like this is not ok on this site. Please stop and don't do it again. We ban accounts that keep flaming like this.

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How can they reliably show you the door that doesn't have the prize, if they don't know where the prize is? They can't, which means the host must know, which means it must matter what the host knows?
If you have equity, you could also refi and build w/o the lot split to rent the completed building. With current interest rates and construction costs coupled with rental prices in California, this should pencil out nicely and home owner keeps 100%
40 years ago today: the Commodore 64 debut at CES
Never seen that before, looks good!
Many NFTs are hosted on IPFS. If someone hosting it pulls the image, you can just start hosting it yourself instead, and since IPFS urls are based on the hash, it will never be "lost" so long as at least 1 person still has the content pointed to by the NFT.
Until GIMP fixes its UI to be usable to an average graphic designer, it's a complete non-starter. Until it gets CMYK editing and color separation, and nondestructive editing, it's a non-starter.
On the Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch
Well I own Polygon too, so guess I'm covered both ways.
Changing your RPC url will make no difference because you’ll get the same result either way. Any service that lies about the state of the chain will quickly be jettisoned like so much carbon dioxide.

The bare minimum for a reputable NFT is to publish the contract source code and use immutable storage. That’s the first step of due diligence in the space.

All of this stuff is super fluid and non-standardized because it’s still super early and everyone’s trying to figure out how it ought to work.
Some neighbourhoods are historical and cultural artefacts and should be preserved for future generations. That's not NIMBY-ism.
Like a good FOSS nerd (and cheapo), I tried to steer my daughter towards Gimp rather than shelling out for Photoshop. She dug in her heels, and eventually I was able to divine that the reason was, the internet is chock-full of tutorials on using Photoshop to do all the kinds of art she wanted to do. The number of equivalently-useful Gimp tutorials was effectively zero. That's when I gave in.

I guess a variant of the network effect?
Yea, but TDD! :eyeroll:
> Your intuition is wrong and it doesn't matter what the host knows before showing you the door that doesn't have the prize.

This is not correct and your source doesn't support your point

From your link:

> Monty helps us by “filtering” the bad choices on the other side

Monty knows which door holds the car and which holds the goat
I could've written your comment word-for-word, to the extent that I did a double take and checked to make sure I didn't write it.

Personally, I say that ADHD stands for Awfully Described Human Disorder for that exact reason.

Many more thoughts on why it's poorly named here: https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Awfully%20Described%20Human%20D...

(Someone complained I'm linking to my blog too much, but I haven't posted this link yet, and I don't want to needlessly copy-paste something that I already wrote)
I don't think that's a reality yet though. ETH 2.0 hasn't happened yet.
I’m questioning the good vs evil narrative. In my lifetime I’ve seen it used to lay waste to entire countries, and I helped do it.
I’m a little more skeptical now.
Please don't use this site for ideological battle—especially not generic ideological battle. It's against the rules because it's repetitive, nasty, tedious, and not what HN is supposed to be for.

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That is insane, I pay right around $100/mo for myself, my spouse and 2 year old. My employer pays less than $1000/mo as their part. Our health insurance is pretty damn good.
It is scanning for viruses (windows defender), and downloading and applying updates. It sucks. The only solution I’ve found is to leave the device on 24/7 so all this nonsense happens when I’m not using it.
The problem is the technical debt you acquire this way.

Eventually you're going to need to upgrade X for a security fix, but the new version of X isn't compatible with the version of Y you are using, and upgrading that would break Z, and Z would break your app here and here. Now you're spending a couple weeks trying to do the upgrade to get a security fix that was 0 day two weeks ago, when you should have been writing things that actually advanced your app instead.

I keep my dependencies up to date, and consider it technical debt when they are not, and would never want to go back.
> “why not just keep using <monopolistic centralized surveillance ad platform>”?

The question, for me, is actually "how is this any different than <monopolistic centralized surveillance ad platform>”?

Because I still remember high school and how every single one of these monopolistic centralized platforms sold itself to me as "Come to us, we represent a new free and open society unencumbered by stodgy authorities!".

You know, the exact same rhetoric these new web3/crypto companies are selling. Sounds like Animal Farm all over again to my skeptic ears.

Remember when Twitter was the future of decentralized discourse free of government tyranny where you can organize political protests free of oversight and manipulation from your local govt? Hell it's a big part of why arab spring worked!
So basically, "I bought hardware designed to work with Win10, the suppliers of which decided only to make it work with Win10, and it worked better with Win10"?

Weird that no one starts with "I bought hardware designed for the Linux distro I installed" and nothing worked.

It's like "I bought flip flops and live somewhere really muddy, flip-flops are obviously not ready for walking in yet; I'll stick with welly-boots". But if you'd bought a house on the beach to start with then the flip-flops would be better and you be complaining that welly-boots are bad!?!1one
And what kind of testing was done prior to Prod deployment?
I describe the game change as going from hard mode to moderate/easy.

Same game, entirely different experience.
U didnt answer my question at all. Also running a public facing server for any commercial out of your house is not recommended and may not even be allowed by your ISP
> >How about quarantine infrastructure?

> Yeah no thanks, man.

It’s going to be fascinating to see how New Zealand fares with Omicron and future variants. Quarantine has served us well (it was setup in hotels).
So if the chain doesn't store the binary data of the file, does it at least store the hash??? How can it prove anything otherwise?
> "Neighborhood character" is a historically unprecedented concept

Nonsense. For example the UK has been protecting our built environment since Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882. The movement to strengthen protections it is a reaction to cultural artefacts being irretrievably lost in the 20th century.
To be sure, fish runs external processes in parallel. It's only internal functions which are serialized against each other. I'm hoping to lift this restriction eventually.

This SO answers a bit about the issues with FIFOs and fish shell. Basically it comes down to evaluating redirections before fork instead of after, which is because fish uses threads. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61946995/ls-fifo-blocks-...
> I'm pretty sure you don't actually understand the Monty Hall problem

What did you disagree with? Their understanding of the problem seems pretty solid to me.
Dutch government to pay million Euro fine over racist data discrimination
This was known Democrat policy for awhile. Why is everyone acting surprised?
Probably Gamestop, AMC theaters, and Dogecoin.
It’s not about jobs; it’s about entitlement. Some years back our governor at the time tried to change this and the vast vast majority of residents (not me) raised hell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/nyregion/on-politics-outc...

Me, I’m too type A and impatient to wait for attendants and I wish we had self serve.
> If ranges are immutable, referentially transparent, those problems go away.

Do they though? Ultimately you need to store them somewhere. And oh look where we’re headed, choo choo last stop ownership semanticsville.

Though it would be interesting to just yeet it into the global static ether and leave it at that. I wonder if such a thing would’ve been possible in rust. It’s kind of funny when you think about it, that all this fuss is just to track two integers aka 16 bytes.

Still, at that point it wouldn’t be be a “global static” pool so much as a global pool.
But one of the main points of article is that people don't want to run servers, developers included. Even being easy, letting someone else do it will always be easier.
But that's the point. So many people hyping web3 like it's going to be fundamentally different which is why it's worth all these resources (both people and energy), when it appears already heading down the same path as web2. Consolidated companies growing very large and getting a bunch of already known VCs even richer.

It's like a populist movement whose goal is to enrich the existing rich.
> All of this stuff is super fluid and non-standardized because it’s still super early and everyone’s trying to figure out how it ought to work.

I understand this and I'm certainly sympathetic to it. Folks are also trying to figure out how to actually stuff art on-chain which I'm a fan of. I'm very familiar with the NFT standards because I was involved in some of the discussions with it. The amount of money this space is seeing though given how fluid representation in the space though, leads to Moxie's other critique, that this is being fed with a gold rush trying to find liquidity for hoarded crypto. I know that builders can't control what these speculators do but it certainly adds pressure for builders to either take the money or operate at a disadvantage to builders who do.
Ask HN: Degoogling and personal search engine results management best practices?
A friend of mine is trying to take more control of search engine results when you Google him. He doesn't have much social media presence but still comes up in people search directories like peekyou, mylife, spokeo, and Whitepages.

1. Does anyone have experience removing themselves from such sites? Is it even possible?
2. Are there other general best practices that can be followed, aside from not using or anonymizing social media, setting boundaries with friends and family about posting about you on social media, and reaching out directly to smaller sites that have content about you?

If it's helpful, this friend is in California. He's specifically worried about former employees of the company he works for, since he is involved in terminations sometimes.
I think its much funnier, but also completely different. It’s a sketch show, not a narrative.

But I tend to watch it the whole series every month or so. It’s fun to put on in the background.

I feel like the brain surgery sketch is very close to the perfect sketch. It’s a simple joke, you can see where it’s headed before it gets there, but it’s still executed well.

Anyway, worth it to me.
>Outlook has a search that works much better than Thunderbird. //

I can never find anything with Outlook search, but Thunderbird gets me what I want straight away. Maybe we're holding it wrong?
I'm not disputing the ecological affects of predation. I'm disputing its use/applicability as a rhetorical device to further an argument about how to live a "good life".

After all, this isn't an essay on ecology. This paragraph wasn't simply added because ecology is cool. It was added to further an argument.
I was concerned because I couldn't find the specifics on what payment tags would lead to income reporting. Here's a better article that addresses that clarification in specific terms [0]:

> It’s important to note that this change — which will be applied during 2022’s tax year and moving forward — applies only to payments received for sales of goods and services, and not to friends and family payments.

[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tax-law-sell-more-600-1548205...
I think it's good to remember that bitcoin and ethereum were the very first cryptocurrencies. They are flawed, bitcoin in particular failed at everything it was idealized to be and will probably never improve. Ethereum seems to be moving forward at least. Slowly, but still.
My mom, now 87, used Linux as her daily driver from 2010 to 2019. The only reason she changed is because I moved to a different country in 2016 and my cousin set her up with a newer PC running Windows and manages it as part of her corporate fleet - she’s a total Windows fangirl. She also can get to my moms house about 100 times faster than me.
I feel like I'm the only progressive that wants a decrease in taxes.

Seriously I don't want anyone making under 100K to pay taxes. Heck maybe under 150K.

We have so much fucking money in this govt that we seriously don't need more taxes. Let's use the money we have to make shit better for people first, before we ask them to give up more of their $€£¥
It is not the fault of the private banks. The US government wants to hold banks liable for their customers transferring money, which is the reason all the abstractions exist.

The US government has always had the opportunity to come out with a digital equivalent to cash, that they policed rather than selectively hold private entities liable.

Supposedly, this is coming out soon called FedNow.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...

Electronic money transfer should be a government utility, subject to courts rather than private business’ whims. Although, the US government does like sitting on the sideline and maintaining plausible deniability.
Despite the various claims about how the worlds smartest most talented developers are working on web3… that’s not true. It was a significant oversight and I think technical leadership in the space is lacking. You have people who know lots and lots about crypto stuff but they are focused like a laser.

It’s like that crypto thought-leader on Twitter who didn’t know his NFT’d pfp was being served to various web clients over http.

It’s also why web3 startups are throwing huge cash at engineers from “web2” companies because, while they may not be crypto experts, they know how to build scalable systems, how web tech works etc. That knowledge is sorely lacking in the crypto space.
Flamewar comments like this will get you banned here. If you'd please review the rules and stick to them, we'd apprecaite it.

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Why not test with a stub? Issue would have been picked up in testing even without Stripe integration.
I think the question is fine, and a good one, but the motivation should have been made explicit, certainly no later than the end of the meeting.
I didn't even mention any of that, so yea lets not talk
A minor quibble: The article leaves out the commands needed to actually run the program. Also, just for grins, the first language I learned:

10 INPUT "Height above sea level(m)", H
20 D=SQR(2*6367.45*(h/1000.0)
30 PRINT "Distance to horizon", D
RUN
Obligatory HN angle: I’ve often hypothesized that if credit cards in the US were chip and pin (like the rest of the world), NJ would support self serve in a microsecond. Eg no way would customers be comfortable handing their card over then shouting out their pin to rue attendant.