skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so tomorrow, it is discovered that fedex and ups are opening all the envelopes, reading the documents, and silently throwing some away. They don't say anything to either sender or receiver. They keep your money, which by the way does not silently fail on them 10% of the time. You are obviously fine with this because they are private companies and you are not an odious hypocrite.
that really makes me curious.. so can you retract landing gear if you’re not airborne? is there not a sensor to prevent this?
> The current fiat system (and the Governments that control it) are completely enslaved to the welfare (pension) and healthcare demands of baby boomers.
If we can craft a new financial system without spending 15%+ of our GDP and rising on Pensions, even with some inefficiency its still worth it.
Avoiding sales taxes, platform commissions, and income taxes is a major advantage.

So you think the problem solved by crypto is no longer paying taxes or contributing any part of our incomes to the collective good? I guess you think that child mortality isn't something we should worry about? Or looking after the weak and sick, in general. Why pay for schools, or sanitation, or public transport, at all? And the rules that govern human behavior - we can just rid ourselves of the police in this libertarian-anarcho system where the rich do as they please, and the rest predate upon each other.

Sounds like a great use-case for crypto.
Most do. A number of european airlines require an extra fee to prebook a seat, but at least a year ago, many had maps available.
> Consider the Photopea.com website. The author explained in a comment below that he spends $60/month to host the site without a CDN. Several of us loaded the site and it took 2.5 - 5.0 seconds to load

This is a conclusion i am extremely doubtful of.

Ping time new york <-> tokoyo is about 180ms. So lets say as a worse case the ping time to the single server is 180ms (its probably not that bad), and lets say the latency to cloudflare edge server is 20ms.

So using cloudflare on a cache hit (best case), you save something like 160ms per roundtrip.

Which don't get me wrong is a huge savings and worth it (although this scenario is hugely exagerated).

However say you want to load the page in under 1 second instead of 5 seconds. In this scenario you would basically have to have 25 round trips to bring the site from 5 seconds to 1 second just on rtt savings of having a geo located edge server. If your site needs 25 round trips to load, something else is clearly wrong. (And this is an exagerated case, the real world the benefit would probably be much less)

To be clear i'm not saying that geo located edge caches are bad or useless. They are clearly very beneficial thing. Its just not the be all and end all of web performance, and most people in the demographic we are talking about probably have much more important things to optimize (otoh using cloudflare is cheap and doesnt require a lot of skill, so it is a very low hanging fruit)
> It seems if you want to do crypto things without burning the planet down, you can.

Right, but what if you consider it a bad thing to introduce an economic incentive for other people to burn the planet down?

This is beyond a matter of personal choice, until and unless we all get our own personal planets.
My mom lives in a red state (SC) and works at a hospital... they're going to have to call in the National Guard because of all of the covid cases. If you get in a car crash, good luck getting into the emergency room.
Indeed, and that experience was one of my first exposures to display factors leading to eye strain.

I started on an Apple ][ connected to one of those nice green screen monitors. Never felt eyestrain. Everything was sharp. But green.

Got a machine at home, and it was an Atari. On a color set, the white on blue worked pretty well. Moderate eye strain. Moved that computer to a smaller blak and white TV, and it was all much better. White on grey mostly.

Brought an Apple home, and the white on black was harsh on TV screens, a bit better on the black and white TV.

Turns out the color set was just not sharp and that was the primary driver of eyestrain. The right colors helped. Atari picked that white on blue because it made the most of a 70's era color TV. And it mattered.

After a time, I got hold of a newer smaller color set and tweaked it to the max, going for as monitor like as I could get it. Everything was improved and I ended up using that set for a number of years, until I got myself a green screen suitable for 8 bit computers.

My first PC was a CGA unit, and those were a little rough for text, and it was due to a poor CRT with a coarse phosphor layout.

Life got much better when I could get hold of basically any VGA screen. Was sharp enough, good color selection, good resolution. 640x480 seemed so damn roomy for longer than it should have, but it was the 8 bit experiences contributing to that.

My programming experiences were similar to many here. 8 bit basic, 6502 assembly, and the Apple was luxurious with a fast disk drive and included monitor / assembler. Was great to develop a piece of something in assembly, BSAVE it, then BLOAD it into the main BASIC program.

Compared to cassette it was awesome! I did use a cassette for about two years and ended up making custom tapes, just the right length for programs I used frequently. Could just LOAD, and do the thing, flip the tape over, and do that again. Also used the shorter ones for assembly bits, and a similar process.

Didn't even know what a linker was. I would map out the RAM, plan out what was going to happen, then develop in pieces, each thing written where it's going to live, saved off, and then combined with the main program, until at one point, it all gets loaded in for a master save and then run to check.
> What if doctors just stopped showing up in the middle of a pandemic?

Yeah what if that happened in medicine and related fields:

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/physicians/more-docs-consid...

https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/08/california...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ems-workers-retiring-higher-rat...
Personally, a 4k OLED with its own battery connecting either by USB-C or mini-HDMI

Brand name: INNOCN, they also have some with an integrated wifi so you can connect using the wireless display options of Windows (win-K for Miracast)
Go to the US. TN visas are super easy to obtain if you have a degree. Even most of Europe isn't as bad as Canada right now and there's paths to immigration if you can work remote, or have credentials enough to get hired.

Canada's healthcare is extremely overrated (it's basically bottom tier compared to other countries at our income level or anyone in the EU), our business environment sucks and our economic response to COVID will put us behind for the next decade; it's already showing...
Good point, just had a look at the code. The NF queue will receive packets from all IPs in the /80 and they are all processed and validated by the ghost program that reads from the queue. So it could do the rate limiting there with full visibility.

https://github.com/aidansteele/ipv6-ghost-ship/blob/main/mai...
In France we call the fountain pen Stylo Plume. Which literally stands for Feather Pen. And the part from which the ink flow is called the plume (feather).
To clarify, i don't disagree.

I just think if your site takes 700ms, is there really a difference between that and 650ms?
Washed Up
I certainly understand why various sites, including mainstream and social media sites, dropped their RSS feeds, but it's never made sense to me why browsers did (especially when browsers have so many features). It seems to me RSS is good for the web and therefore good for browsers.

That said, the UX of RSS was pretty terrible compared to social media. I think it could have been different—podcasts managed to make RSS mainstream and with a bit more tuning and standardization it probably could have worked. I really think the issue was that in the 2009-2015 period huge amounts of industry mindshare went into mobile apps and social media and RSS (or its eventual successor) were left half-baked.
Except that other markets absolutely do not show this level of iPhone market share.

So either American teens are very discerning of UIs, or they just try to fit in within a network of existing iPhone users.
Pre Covid history of the QR code
Yup, same here. The difference in quality is staggering
See prior post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29810046
Iphone users are worth more so get more development time.
Scammer never deposit the money into any account, they put the credit card nr straight into the payment-form to buy gift-card.
They are in an interview which is not a normal situation. The way they read the situation, the interviewer was laughing at them. It is normal and very very common to be oversensitive and misread things like that during an interview.

The interviewee is not your friend, he/she do not know your brand of humor or internal jokes. Additionally, he/she may have cultural differences.

You talked with someone an hour in an unbalanced stressful job related situation and you really think you know something about their personality? Behavioural researchers think that you can't know much. I wouldn't be so judgmental of people you've just met. You should be more aware of the limitations of the interview platform and stick to what you can deduce. (Which is not, that a person is toxic, because he/she felt laughed at)
That's a shame. Fortunately, it looks like the archive will stay up: https://twitter.com/aaronlammer/status/1478749874053169154
In a way it was their undoing. BlackBerry never managed to think of phones as more than communications devices.
It sounds like you've worked in some massively toxic teams. That's all I can say.
The Videx was cool. I had one in my Plus for a while, and remember missing that when I scored my favorite machine, which was the Platinum. I have one today, and it's still my favorite. :D

What end up doing was just chain the video together. Run both screens.

The other 8 bit machines with a similar capability ended up being the Commodore 128. It's a real two display machine along with the original PC 5150? One could install both monochrome and a color display adapter and get use out of both displays independently.
> The next step is “backpack funding”, or letting parents get a voucher for education that follows the student no matter where they attend school, public or private. This will drastically reduce the cost of private education, and combined with the widespread erosion of gifted programs and a general sense of mediocrity pervading modern public schooling, a vast downsizing of public education has started.

This, on the face of it, seems like a good idea[1]. I don't understand why it is being downvoted.

[1] I'm not in the US, if that helps.
I figure helping Cloudflare get it's meathooks in the internet offsets all the really big companies that have their meathooks in, or at any rate doesn't worsen the real problem.
SSH blocked by firewall for any connections except incoming from VPN IP address. VPN server is mine and located on separate server.

This has proven to be working solution for years. Any monstrous "security" constructions with keeping it open or partially open will backfire once one attack vector will be discovered.
I agree, but our problem is with proof of work, not crypto. I don't buy/use bitcoin any more because of this. Ethereum is moving (the sooner the better), and the only other PoW crypto I have a bit of is innovating PoW and (hopefully) becomes more environmentally friendly as a result. To be honest, I'm still unclear on if this is even possible, and if energy usage becomes significant relative to what it does, I would drop it as well.
I don't like cryptocurrency.

But charities are there to do a job, if someone wants to give them money, it seems silly to refuse.

Accepting a bitcoin and immediately turning it into USD does not mean you politically support cryptocurrency.
Thaks for the valuable feedback
Let's also not forget that you accused him of strangling you on twitter as well.
Best thing about windows phone was how you could bundle together all the social media feeds for a single contact and see them all in one place or see all the social media feeds for all your contacts in a giant list.

Using contacts as a shell for various contact information feeds was a brilliant idea and other plarforms should steal it. Let me take Messages and Email off my home screen and give unified feeds in my Contacts.
I got here via RSS.
>I'm curious if you've found any GUI frameworks for any OS, in any language, that have ripped out all their legacy code and/or the design tradeoffs and hacks their legacy code required.

Yes, Qt4 is not compatible with Qt3 , Adobe Flex4 was not compatible with Flex3 , I only used at that time this new versions and did not had to work or learn the old stuff. Old projects continued to use the old stuff and continued to work.
Aww. I was all excited for this to be about block ciphers and that type of crypto :(
None of that would not help if scammer puts a sticker on top of all you just mentioned, that says: "To pay, scan this code with your camera app".

It would only deter people who already have the app since before, which is already the case, i assume most people just enter the Parking zone number by reading it from afar or using GPS from app, not by walking up to the machine and scan it.
how is 5M page views a month a lot? I just looked and my tiny old hetzner server serves at least 30M per month. Presumably hetzner gives 1Gbit for free so that should be enough for 80T (0.2Gbit/month, though i dont have that much traffic). It cost $60
Deaths typically lag behind infections by 6 weeks or so. It's a little too early to tell if Omicron hasn't caused an increase in deaths.
Not going to lie, the last line had me almost spit my coffee out. Congrats on the good outcome!
Masks for kids are significantly less issue then you make them be. There is maybe one in 60 kids that acts as if it is punishment and the rest just used to wear them.

And yes, I am in contact with kids. Masks don't bother them all that much.
That 10gbps comes with a 10TB traffic limit. The other poster was talking about a dedicated port with no limits.
I think you are taking the "dark twin" phrase too far. There were plenty of differences between Tesla and Edison, Musk and Bezos, mentioned as examples in the article. The concept of nemesis isn't built upon conscious beliefs, but "repressed attraction" as the article states. There's nothing fundamental about this concept that requires that you be similar in every way to the nemesis. A few similarities in the right areas can be enough to drive the repressed attraction.
> Supporters claim there is some kind of special "structure" that water remembers.

Indeed.

> A phenomenon with no plausible basis whatsoever.

I haven't tried this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+rice+experiment&sxsrf=&s...

I have no opinion about it either.
This is very true. I feel that the modern medicine disregards the connection between mind and body. Especially for chronic conditions, improving the patient's quality of life helps better manage the condition.

I've been experimenting with aromatherapy, music therapy and massage lately and I find that the overall quality of my life greatly improved.
During the pandemic I learned that for me it’s very risky psychologically speaking to live / work / sleep in the same place.

Insomnia is no joke and can easily ruin your life. I wonder if those transforming spaces help or exasperate the problem.

I guess they can very visibly change the space so your brain doesn’t consider it “the same room”, but maybe they don’t…
This. Miss BlackBerry Hub a lot.
Alternatives:

Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/

Aeon: https://aeon.co/

Nautilus: https://nautil.us/

Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
> Round-trip latency has a significant impact on TCP throughput. It's not just about time to first byte.

I've built three CDNs in my career, one at the Tbps scale. Latency only has two factors in throughput: time to scale window size, and retransmits. Modern TCP stacks handle the prior just fine, and the latter is only an issue with packet loss. You can also turn on HTTP/3 and remove your reliance on TCP entirely.

> I don't understand why you continue to ignore the fact that this for running a high-traffic, global, dynamic website, not just a static file server.

Because I actually looked at the site and read the article. The vast majority of the site is large static files. The frontend is a static JavaScript app that calls an API server. That API server is running on a $5/mo VM.

My offer still stands if you'd like a tour of a datacenter and see the sausage being made at scale. I'll throw in lunch and answer all your scalability questions if you like. But this thread is growing quite long and veering off topic.
I think his objections is what the transactions to do this with the cryptocurrency consume a massive amount of energy and there by contribute to global warming.
1. All private startup equity is unregistered.

2. Money talks.
Plenty of providers, depending on how many 10G/40G links you're willing to buy, check out https://blog.telegeography.com/global-ip-transit-prices-decl... to see how much prices have gone down.
Interesting. I tried them multiple times in my life and I don’t know if I misuse them but they always rapidly felt like they are drying and not providing enough ink, if sometimes, at all.

It’s sad because I really want to love them.
Denso WAVE INCORPORATED holds QR code patent
Apparently there are people keeping a clone of Google Reader alive: https://theoldreader.com/

(Not affiliated in any form and not a user of the service, just a random internet find)
Stacker (YC S20) Is Hiring for Data, Product Design, and Product Engineering
This stuff looks really cool in videos but as someone who owns some folding / roll-out furniture it's fucking annoying as hell. You have to have absolutely nothing in a room to make folding furniture work. Otherwise you have one little thing out and now it's in the way.
I just meant it was not printing millions after 14 months hah

well done Joe, I should start following your footsteps!
This is like port knocking except using the low 48 bits of the IP address instead of the port. Personally I'm not into port knocking but some people are.
Then let your site fail, it's your choice.

For the rest of us who would rather not let our site fail, a quick one time $20 tarp over dumpster to handle the traffic in the meantime is good.
If you accept PoW cryptocurrency you are complicit in the environmental impact of it. End of story.
News aggregators are my main business since 2001 and all I can say is that reports of the death of RSS have been greatly exaggerated. Recently launched https://biztoc.com where 75% is still RSS, the rest being APIs and custom scraping. Yes, support is not increasing but drops among established sites are very rare — Even all major crypto news sites sport a feed.
So do container runtimes interact primarily with systemd/init or with the kernel directly?
> One common refrain is that “blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.”

After reading this article it seems that the most useful thing someone has thought to use the blockchain for is [checks notes] a form of social media popularity contest to recover the key to your blockchain wallet.
Man i tried photopea the other day and it runs faster than my old photoshop. You need to slow it down :)
It’s a good thing. Secure money is pretty much one of the most important thing we have invented in this age. The energy today is nothing to the energy can harness tomorrow. The planet burners ain’t the energy buyers // it’s the energy sellers. Fix production to be green and grow grow grow.
My kid is my responsibility but also we collectively pay the teachers and we don't have to keep doing this. We can just defund the entire system and make it an individual responsibility (of course as most things this would fuck over the poor kids the most). If there is a moment to crush the teachers unions it is now. California parents who normally would nod their heads at whatever garbage the union feeds them are probably primed to go Margaret Thatcher on their ass. I hope someone is organizing this; they have my vote.
I appreciate the sentiment, but we are talking about different things. My comment was directed entirely at how hard some companies push their workforce, not what era the technology is from.
My proposal intends to answer the burning question: "do people like ice cream?" Send money now!
I believe that you would lose the Issues and Wiki. Neither are stored in the .git repo in Github.
WebSpec: Towards Machine-Checked Analysis of Browser Security Mechanisms
At least for diesel that's not true anymore. I've build a async connection implementation that will published alongside the next major release.
See https://github.com/weiznich/diesel_async for details
Would have loved to agree, but unfortunately using nvidia.
I feel bad, I tried it but if I'm honest I couldn't focus on long form

Not a good thing
I believed her but don’t find it an affirmative defense. Hope she gives up her baby for adoption —you know, like happened to…

Steve Jobs.
It's a complicated problem. I have the luxury of a tech job that lets me work from home, and forgives a couple of distracted days if my toddler's home sick with me.

Not everybody is so lucky.

Lots of people have jobs where they can't just skip out for a few days. Do our bus-drivers, cooks, and teachers have that luxury? Do their jobs allow them to have it? What about surgeons or doctors?

How many days can somebody take off in a row if their kid is sick? 2? 3? A week?

Sometimes, parents have to make a hard choice about whether to send their kids to school with a cough. It's just another harsh reality of the society we live in.

When my kid comes home from daycare and gets us all sick, you can bet that I'm mad at the other parents. But it's also not my place to judge them, because I don't know what they have to juggle.
I might have to try out that Hacker News thing. Sounds interesting.
This article comes off very biased. There are a number of major problems blockchain solves - most importantly, ownership and control of things. Saying “crypto is for people who love money” is silly. Cryptocurrency is for people who wish to control their assets.

Spending time writing a hit piece on these technologies is silly and I wonder what the actual motive is.
Sourceforge ))
If people pay me to (say) kill puppies, is Mozilla obliged to accept my money?
I handle ~150TB and 26M page views for ~$500 by simply renting a few dedicated servers at hetzner. And if I didn't need quite a lot of processing power (more than average website), it would be much lower. I only need so many servers for the CPU power, not traffic.
It has been stated, but last time I checked it was lie. The flu kills more people of you compare all flu deaths in all categories and add estimated flu deaths (not just confirmed).
What made nearly any publication able to pull of long, intricate, articles?
How about a review of his "strategies"? How many have their been? How do they perform? One beauty sticks with me from 2007: stocks that go to 100 are going to 120. https://www.thestreet.com/.amp/jim-cramer/cramers-mad-money-...
And your situation has no bearing on the violence and abuse that I and several other women have endured at his hands.
The amount of power that is used in PoW is not correlated to the transaction volume. Sending more transactions does not use more energy. The amount of power used is linked to the ratio of power needed to mine a block vs the mining reward.
Last time I got spam from an unwanted social media service (MyHeritage), I logged in, made sure to "unsubscribe" from all communication, and set the interface language to Chinese.

Guess who gets "smart matches" spam in Chinese.
> If I want to write a ray tracer, well... Good bye life for a week or two.

Lookup this book: Ray tracing in one weekend by Peter Shirley. You're in for a treat :-)