skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is that no such projection is plausible. Could a human being living in 1903, before the Wright Brothers have predicted a moon landing only 66 years later? Could anyone in 1990 have predicted the smartphone, let alone 1922? Only one prediction is worthy of confidence - the world of technology will increase at an exponential rate...and the world will improve.

We lament progress, but few of us would choose 1922 over 2022 (I mean, the sanitation and medical care alone makes the decision trivial on my end). Even fewer would choose 2022 in 2122.
Is it not against the rules to keep calling other users bots simply because they do not agree with you?
Just because kids aren’t actively complaining doesn’t mean it’s not bothering them. My kid is a conformist Asian like me, and we’ve been going along with masking this whole time because her private school is full of democrats. But she broke down crying last fall when she found out that we’d be doing another year of masking. It’s not just the inconvenience of the masks, or the eating outside on the ground, but the whole exercise of disrupting normal life for these kids: no field trips, no birthday parties, etc. We’re into the third year of this reduced childhood.
Sorry, I didn't make this quite clear. At the full hour it first chimes four times, to denote that it's a full hour, and then, after a small pause, the number of the hour.
DuckDuckGo just finished a banner year and looks for an even better 2022
If we fix that and crypto we are up to web 4.0 ...
Wool is known to take longer to dry, while retaining isolation properties even when drenched
Interesting. Maybe I will change my ways in the future. Thanks for sharing
At Netflix we’re doing close to 400Gbps on 1U commodity hardware, and pretty inexpensive.
The Guardian doesn't use paywalls, anywhere... but you might have to create a free account and log in.
Ask HN: I want to use a “Status page as a service”?
To show internally and externally our service APIs status, is there any good site for that?
Facebook doesn't scrap random websites for contact info. They used to rely on connecting to your Hotmail/Gmail account about a decade ago, and parsing contacts from people "stupid" enough to install FB app on their smartphone when such things started to spread. Facebook certainly knows my phone number although i've never had a Facebook account: that's completely fucked up.
> More than 95% of cryptocurrencies are not energy sensitive.

Way more than 95% of the 8900 cryptocurrencies are jokes, like CumRocket.
When I was a young teen my friend moved into a home that was owned by a retired sys admin. The guy had token ring ran through his house (it was 1994) and left an old AT&T PC6300 in the boiler room.

We plugged it in, booted it up, and poked around the hard disk. We found a directory with some files in it, one of which was named finger.com or exe. Upon running it a rather well drawn nude woman (line art) was rendered to screen in a revealing position. Then, a series of "frames" were rendered showing the woman fingering herself.

It was beyond crude and incredibly slow to draw each frame, something like 5 seconds each. the previous frames were not erased so there were numerous arms over lapping the original frame. I dont think we even watched the whole thing as it was taking minutes to render and we were worried his parents would see. At that point gif porn was already a thing and we were trading in school on 3.5's.

(I was later given the 6300 which I took apart as I didn't think it was worth anything back then...)
Blind is full of trolls and you shouldn’t take them too seriously. You should apply to FANG yourself and see how it goes.
They used to at least. Since I live in the city now I can't tell personally but I just called my mother and she says the clock tower in her town also rings during the night.

Edit: From what I could gather in a couple of minutes it still seems to be pretty widespread. There have been some court cases about it, to get specific churches to silence the bells, but not in general.
I'm confused by this question. Russia is one of the world's largest oil exporters, is it not?
You're leaving out a lot of valuable information.

Did you check your security log in github?

Do you have MFA enabled on your account?

Did you check your repository and account and make sure that all of the SSH keys saved are recognized and known to you?

Did you refresh all of your keys and make new ones?

You need to start at the beginning.. starting with the theft transactions is starting at the end.

----

Long story short, there is no way to tell you what happened without you investigating first.

It could be you just not MFAing your account and re-using passwords.. and someone logged into your github account and added their own private keys.

Really it could be a million different scenarios, but whatever happened, you need to investigate first.
If that additional 50ms hits your user's bail-out threshold, yeah.
MS defaulting it to on is pretty much what killed the whole thing and everyone started ignoring DNT.
Your assurance, as a cryptocurrency advocate, has less than zero value.
I had not thought about these ads in forever, but when I saw the ad in the article I had a somewhat Pavlovian response.
I worked at a place which had macho weather names for the Suns: "storm", "tempest" etc. I and another chap who started at the same time thought this was all rather silly, so we named ours "drizzle" and "damp"; this made the greybeards mutter somewhat.
No, these cookie laws are in fact really well implemented, they are just oversimplified in the press (such a coincidence). Cookies are not forbidden neither they require you to ask anything, as long as they are useful to the service you provide.

That's why a lot of websites don't show those banners while however using cookies to store session tokens, user preferences...

But, yes, when you are browsing content without being logged in or without having the need to store something, the law forbids the website to send you cookies. Because they are not needed to execute the service, they are just there to track you. And even if you consider that tracking is necessary to monetize your content, well, in this case, you have to require the consent.

To me it's a totally legitimate law. It's easy not to deal with cookie popup : just respect your users and don't track them without notification.

As a user, you can rant about the law. Or you can just decide that a website enforcing you to accept cookies to read some junk content is totally missing to respect you as an individual.
Kazakhstan government shuts down internet following country-wide protests
Is Facebook anything else than an advertisement company? I mean, apart from being a political police company working with intelligence services across the globe to crush dissent, obviously.
> Do you assume Putin and western corporations are antagonistic?

Please don't try to change the subject. Putin sent Russia's paratroopers to Kazakhstan to use them against Kazakhstan's civilian population to quelsh unrest. It's not the US, Switzerland, Finland, the EU, nothing. This is Russia intervening in Kazakhstan to preserve Russia's interests, and no amount of whataboutism changes this.
What makes you feel that economic interests are always the same as political interests? Why doesn't Russia kill all its Sturgeon so American Royalty can't eat Russian caviar?

Maybe things are not as simple as Fox News makes them.
Holy smokes! I had no idea, but honestly, that makes a ton of sense.

Something that's always fascinated me are drivers -- those lowlevel bits of software make everything so nice. Sucks when something isn't supported. But it's one thing to take a spec and having docs and things to write one but soemthing clearly more amazing to have to reverse engineer something and then write a driver for it.
pragmatic not dogmatic.
Ninety-Nine Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2021
Stallman could have.
What’s the alternative, Sanctions?

What about China, should they be sanctioned too?

[Many make the claim that sanctions mostly affect civilians so for example are against Iran Sanctions, etc.]
It's not about cookies, it's about collecting data. You haven't understood GDPR or the e-privacy directive.
yup -- I want to run on bare-metal.
> The entire team is composed of half of one dev.

Who is on-call 24/7/365, never takes vacation ever, and is always available to fix the website?

It’s weird how much HN hates jobs with on-call requirements, but every time cloud services come up the solutions always involve forcing someone to be permanently on call to save a few hundred dollars per month in hosting costs.
Things go horribly wrong every year or so. The site goes down. It's fine. This isn't Facebook.
> Prison sounds a bit harsh though. Especially for the cookie banner end of the spectrum.

The developer knew what s/he was doing. We're not talking jaywalking here--this person (!!) made it slightly more difficult to make a choice that most users don't understand or care about anyway! And the result is more targeted advertising! How can you stand idly by?
They are punishing French companies.

Carrefour got a spicy +3M€ fine in November 2020.

You can find a non-exhaustive list here (FR) > https://www.nextinpact.com/recherche;q=cnil%20amende

Also, GDPR applies as long as the company runs a business in EU. It doesn't matter where the company is originally from. They will be more than happy to fine the french entity if it made sens. Instead, they fine the Irish entity that performs social dumping. Not bad.
I too have switched from my big hardcover Leuchtturm1917 A4 to using "just" Emacs and org-mode for all my notes and TODO items.

I used to have a really nice system for writing bullet points that described the item: dot for new item, arrow for pushed to next day, check/tick for done, star for important, cross for cancelled, etc etc. I just really wish all that stuff would appear automagically in my Emacs org-journal folder. I haven't tried an iPad pro for writing, I just have the 10.4" normal iPad and don't like trying to write on that. It's compounded by my preference for super-fine pens, so tablet-based writing just feels so clunky.

I'm not sure what point I was trying to make there. Maybe my need for more coffee this morning?
Two hours? Try ten years.
Might as well drop the Y, no one is going to confuse 2022 with anything other than the current year.

Although we risk a Honda or Microsoft engineer showing up and suggesting we drop the 20 as well and store it in the first two positions of 32-bit signed integer.
> Or do they just take a check and keep quiet?

I think so. There are many devs who are against government regulating the web and will happily code around them. HN is pro regulations so it's either keep quiet or get down voted to hell.
Russia's interests are aligned with western companies interests that buy Russian exports.

Also I'm not changing the subject because we have a whole branching forum here, not a single coversation that can talk only about one thing at a time.

If you are not interested in that branch of the discussion simply skip it.
> The EU does not want to say how it has to be done.

This is a massive loophole that the likes of Google can drive a coach and horses though. Doing it per website means that in practice 99% of web uses just press the "accept cookies" button without thinking.
Computer science is more about math than programming.

Software engineering isn't really engineering - it's more of an eclectic mix of things that people have found out are useful to produce working programs.

Sadly our field lacks near complete scientific rigour in figuring out how to actually write programs.

Which is not to say software engineering isn't usefull - it is! But it reminds more of a trade school subject than an academically rigorous one.

Hence prepare for occasional cognitive dissonance when discussing with people from actual engineering degrees.

The only way to learn to program is to program a lot.

Good luck and remember to have fun!
If you don't then a less competent developer might do it, increasing risks even moreso.
Kids at young age are more a thing than a person, so it kind of fits.
I do miss my physical keyboard too, but annoyingly, touchscreens are great for multilingual typing with different writing systems.
Then there's this guy who writes his code as Dr Seuss poetry [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/24g6al/i_have_...
Yes, unfortunately I was in that case where pagination simply wasn't provided by the feed. Push notifications of course wouldn't have worked (if they were even supported, and I don't believe they were), since otherwise I would have just sat there polling the feed itself every 20 minutes like a maniac.
It seems like this widespread limitation leads to the reliance on aggregators, and second-hand it seems google playing the disappearing act with their aggregation service was one of contributing factors to (or a symptom of?) the decline of RSS. Certainly I would have been willing to just shrug my shoulders and use it if it was still operating when I ran into my one and only case of wanting to use an RSS feed.
The entire point of the law is to make those websites with unnecessary tracking annoying to use.
It does sound childish, but I know women in their 30s who still speak like that. For a man it would be very strange / unusual though.
Sounds cool but I dont see this adapting where I live - although I wish I’m wrong.

What we do in Scotland (mainly in small villages or towns) is to turn old non working telephone boxes into libraries. We do a lot of camping with the kids every year and it’s a great way to discover some books. I always take some with me in case we come across any “telephone box libraries” so I can leave some too.

https://minitravellers.co.uk/phone-box-libraries-in-the-uk/
Of all the science fiction things that I knew when I was a kid in the 90s, only one actually happened, and that's handheld devices with touchscreens with all the world's information accessible through them.

Many others, like humanoid robots (that can do actual stuff like independently clean a home), general AI, actual real space travel (where people live on different planets or giant space wheels), flying cars, replicators, fusion energy, self driving cars (those are near though), brain uploads, nanobots, curing many diseases, etc... didn't happen and won't any time soon, and of course some are physically impossible like FTL travel, teleportation, time travel, ...

It's at least nice to have seen one science fiction fantasy come true so far :)
Very similar life story and timeline here.

Going from being a very motivated worker to burnt out can be psychologically challenging, and people around you often don’t seem to understand that your burn out can last for longer than a few weeks.

Some other books helping me in my journey are Upward Spiral by Alex Korb and Feeling Great by David Burns
Websites are free to standardize on a browser extension that provides a conforming interface and use that for users that have it installed, I don't see how the law bans that. Similarly you also don't need to put a full-screen modal to ask people to opt-in for things that require opt-in, you can just put the switches somewhere on the page. But of course many websites don't want to make it easy to ignore opt-in options, but would rather annoy you with. (Although nowadays it's not that unusual to see it done e.g. with social media embeds: locally cached preview image and opt-in button to load the embed instead of prompting on page load)
> Can I run Darling on Windows using WSL?

> With WSL 2, yes! See the documentation for more details.

https://docs.darlinghq.org/wsl-build.html

Darwin on Linux on Windows...spins totem really fast.

Who would've thought this would be a thing 7-8 years ago?
"I just emailed an invitation to my colleague that we were working together on Zoom"

Most likely explanation is that if you didn't drain the wallet yourself then the only other person with access to your private key did.
Shoutout to a very niche Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalheadpens/

That's a subreddit for people who like mechanical keyboards, headphones, and pens. :D

I haven't yet posted there, but only because I need to clean my desk to properly display everything!
We're talking volunteer-run projects, though. Who cares if it's not available 24/7? Best-effort is good enough. Those managed cloud services also fail often, you just have no information and no recourse about it.
Seems apocryphal.
This is generalization without substance is very likely part of the road that lead him develop such believes.

There are cabals among scientists that need to be questioned. On fossil fuel, tobacco, medical topics and a lot of other issues. Germany had a lot of science on why Jews are inferior. Even scientists have an agency that does not have to align with public interest. Your comment suggests blind faith which is certainly not a good idea.

> cabal of people responsible for the misery in their lives

conservatives, liberals, rock musicians, the church, homosexuals...
One big problem here is that really good artisinal manufacturing is quite difficult and often comes and goes based on a small number of dedicated patrons. Fear of fear of missing out could be quite disruptive and eliminate many potentially interesting or even important edge cases.
There's Soylent and similar meal replacements, but that's a diet shake for people who try to min-max their life for some reason.
Things go horribly wrong with AWS hosted stuff as well. And a lot of companies have a single-point-of-failure AWS person. While you're not wrong in general, nothing you just wrote is specific to running on dedicated servers vs AWS.
> how is that worse than the current system? The top 5% are already sending their kids to the best schools currently, right?

Because the taxes that were going to a public school are now going to a private one. School quality is about a lot more than money but taking money away from a struggling school isn't going to make it better.

Vouchers can mean the difference to a few kids between staying a failing public school and going to a successful private school, the money is enough for some motivated middle class families to make that change. But a lot more kids are going to be ones from families who were always going to send their kids to a private school so for them the voucher is a government-funded discount.

In theory, vouchers could be means-tested so the money only went to families truly had an economic need for it. However, means testing has costs of it own, often has loopholes, and can go against many people's sense of fairness, especially when you're talking about something for kids.
You're presenting a false dichotomy. The options are not:

1. Give up your data
2. Be a criminal

There are other options.
Thinking outside the box, that pill could be part of a more involved system where it triggers the release of nutrition that was consumed earlier.

It doesn't have to be a completely self-contained solution.
Nobody is on call 24H.

If the system has a problem during the night, the users will wait until the morning.

The world doesn't stop because a streaming service is down for a few hours. It's not a medical service, or something thousands of businesses rely on.

It just looses a bit of money and users are grumpy for a day because they had to wait until they could access new content.

It's ok.
> They would have ended up bankrupting companies and people who added google analytics or AdWords to their site in good faith,

People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes.

> without understanding the privacy implications.

Regarding Adwords, maybe the EU could've just mandated Google to serve ads based only on the web page and not on the visitor? That would've allowed websites to continue with minimal disruption.

Google's profits might be a few billion less, but frankly I'd count that as a plus.
TOTP = Time-based One Time Password

For those like me who are bad with remembering acronyms.
My model doesn't come with a ctrl key
I still lose sleep over java over 25 years later.

For me it's mostly the unpredictability of the garbage collector and it's magic ability to suffer cascading failures in cases you thought you'd properly loadtested...

Perhaps billG and I are thinking on different levels...
I have exactly the same experience as you. Z10 was absolutely great because of the BlackBerry hub and on top of that I miss the physical keyboard of the older models. I’m absolutely terrible at typing on an iPhone, I literally cant go a sentence without having red line under half of the words.
Jules Verne did a pretty good job.
Depending on how much you access per month, Storj DCS[0] and Wasabi[1] can also be interesting choices.

- Storj has the lowest cost per TB, but charges for egress
- Wasabi doesn't charge for egress, but has a fair use policy where if you egress more than you store they can kick you off their platform[2]
- Wasabi is also a better fit only if you plan to keep your files around for 90+ days (they have a minimum object retention period)
- The bandwidth alliance is only available for HTML related content unless you're on a specific paid plan[3]

[0] https://www.storj.io/
[1] https://wasabi.com/
[2] https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy
[3] https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/#28-limitation-on-serving-n...

*opinion is mine, not my employer's
> Yes. Fantastic. The figures are a bit low

While it's true they are a bit low compared to those companies revenues, they are pretty much higher than what we are used to until now.
> you don’t want to be on the opposite side of this treatment.

How high is the risk, if you make an effort to behave well?
> Browsers have extensions to manage cookies, why force website to come up with their own unique UI for cookies?

You haven't understood the laws. It's not about cookies, it's about tracking and personal data. If you are annoyed with the popups, be annoyed with the companies' disregard for your privacy.

Why does every little site I visit ask for my consent to track me? The problem isn't the law, it's those stupid sites wanting to exploit users.
The RISKS mailing list archive has over three decades of material for you to research.

https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/

Therac-25 was discussed here when the news broke.

https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3/9#subj2.1
And in December, Visual J++!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G5OOIMPJvvQ
Pre-internet, before I had access to a modem at all, we had a disc or two of interesting bits for the old BBC machines. A few full screen bitmaps (displayed using a custom program on the disk using the machine's "mode 0" (640x256 black & white) IIRC), I think using some form of RLE compression to fit more on a disk without taxing the 6502 too much, some were dithered photo scans and some looked drawn. There were also ASCII-art files (mostly too big on-screen without scrolling but could easily be printed).
There was a great picture of I think Manchester before and after a ban on wood / coal and a good cleanup, it went from black buildings to a place that looked pretty decent.
Is this really necessary? Can't other maintainers simply fork the project and start working on it? People will eventually realize the fork is the only version that's still active and it will become the canonical version.

ZBar is an example of this. Nowadays it is maintained by Mauro Carvalho Chehab, a Linux kernel developer. Found out about this fork because it's the source of my Linux distribution's zbar package. Ended up contributing some code to it.
I wonder if we had a similar reaction and controversy over the adoption of money versus the prior convention of barter, way back in pre-history.
Sure the listening one remains owned by root. But the connected one? If you limit packets from/to e.g. 2222 to uid 0, will legitimate ssh traffic work? I don't say it won't, genuinely unsure. Haven't tried and today is a holiday. Maybe tomorrow :)
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13151566 (2016, 124 comments)