skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is not wasting time playing games the same as wasting time browsing stuff online? it's all mindless entertainment and distraction.

That was why younger me used to think this:

> When I was younger I often felt I had played too many games and bemoaned the time lost.

Present me realized that if, 20+ years later I still have such fond memories of playing those games, then no - they weren't a waste.

Now it does probably depend on personality and the types of games you play. I don't think I'd think so fondly if all I did was play Tetris for hours and hours.

I'm not suggesting this is true for everyone and everyone would do better playing games. But I do realize that whatever I replaced games with was not even close to fulfilling.

Same with novels, TV shows and movies. I'm fairly selective of the ones I watch/read, and so I have good memories of them as well. If I can't find any interesting ones, I don't watch. Whereas if you just browse Netflix and pick whatever is appealing to fill the time - yeah, probably not a good idea.
DNSCurve
It's so much easier to fill out a form than it is to talk to a human. I read faster than most people speak, and I can scan and review much faster via sight rather than voice. Talking to someone is valuable if I have questions or there is some uncertainty. Assuming that I know what I want and have no questions, it's much easier for me to order food online than to call a restaurant.

Chat bots can only really search a database of documentation and frequently asked questions. Making one that has the benefits of talking to a human might be tantamount to AGI
/me waves from Leeds Uni. Hello fellow RSE.
Performing has always (and should always, if you ask me) be the main avenue to make money for musicians. Music can be copied, can be covered, can be mixed etc. Chords can be guessed, copied and stolen.

But the musician herself is irreplaceable. If you want to make money by making music, be sure to develop a relationship with your audience rather than police it in order to ensure you're getting paid.
also if you make prisons really really ugly, psychologically, then people are more likely to take your "offer" .
> It's usually far easier to build and test a UI than integrate the same backend code with multiple vendor's chatbot SDKs as well.

I’m guessing that’s often not true if you’re running a Wordpress blog or some white label e-commerce platform or similar. You can probably just pase some JavaScript into an admin interface somewhere to add a third-party chatbot to your site.
My first guess was this had something to do with legal nonsense, and I guess I was right:

> If provided, icons are preferred to be parodic or humorous in nature for
legal reasons, however there are no restrictions on the quality or style of humor.

https://gitlab.com/woob/woob/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
You could find textbooks from the 50's maybe. It's been discredited for a long time.
I've developed a routine of walking to my local grocery store (Metropolitan Market) and getting a soup from their lunch counter / deli area and sipping on it while I work.
Remember how Stallman et al complained loudly about "Trusted Computing" technology like SGX, and everyone ignored them and accepted it anyway?
> nah, you're excusing

You can put it that way, if you like ad-hominem attacks based on forged "quotes". I'm actually pretty angry with Russian military incursions into their neighbours, and I'm glad they withdrew quickly from Kazakhstan.

But I think NATO should have disbanded when the Warsaw Pact disbanded. It has no business operating in e.g. the Middle East. The West has acted provocatively, and it's no surprise if Russia is provoked.
> if Europe and Russia aren't allowed to integrate their economies further.

"allowed"? To a large extend Russian behavior scares the EU away.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, you're right! It's REvil, from "Ransomware Evil", bunch of different sources confirming this, too many to link. But Wikipedia keeps a good list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REvil
Human customer support is a regularly annoying experience, even (particularly?) when done online.

There's probably always going to be some level of animosity towards it.
Can DC power an entire home?
This essay had a tremendous impact on me when I first read it. Deleuze died in 1995, and so didn't really get to see the rise of the web, but I've always wondered what he'd write about it...
Though you don't mention this particular issue, it often comes up, and as someone who used to work as a DoD research scientist, I will say this: I think academics are largely under the impression that they should be worried about people "taking their idea" and building something amazing with it without compensating you in some way. In reality, it is vanishingly rare that a published paper gets used for anything, by anyone, and it is even rarer by an additional order of magnitude that someone successfully tries to use something without consulting the author and/or trying to bring them along. You are the expert on the thing you have made, so if someone sees massive potential in it, they will likely bring you along. Publishing some quick and dirty research code that is able to reproduce the results of the paper can only help you in the long run.

If you want real protection of course you can always try to get a patent, but then I've got you because 90% of the people I have this conversation with are worried about people stealing their idea but don't think it is patent-worthy.

A similar analogue exists in startups: ideas are really a dime a dozen. Execution is what matters. There are millions of great startup ideas floating around -- I bet almost anyone could come up with at least a few that are viable -- but actually having the follow-through and dedication to execute that idea, that is what is challenging. I can't tell you how many people I've had calls with where the exchange is basically "I want your thoughts on this amazing idea but you have to sign an NDA first". 90% of the time these people aren't willing to go all-in on their idea and stake their career on it (hence them seeking second opinions), so it makes no sense for them to worry about me "stealing" their half-baked, unrealized idea. I say to them "would you take $3M in interest-free debt to develop this idea right now" and they say "no!" to which I say "then why should I sign an NDA?"
I had no idea they individually manufactured those blades on the steam turbine... the number of parts that little factory had to crank out was astounding. I can see why the Russians simplified it to a bent piece of sheet instead.

Considering all the manufacturing, precision manufacturing involved the V2 effort, it's astounding they could do it at all.
Once upon a time, the landscape in hadoop and bigdata had something like this. Projects, companies and startups with weird animal names. I miss those days where you couldn't tell a difference it was name of a bigdata project or pokemon.
Ask the people who can't afford their property taxes.
Researcher finds AWS Privileged Access to any resource across tenet boundaries
I would also recommend "Britain's Great Cathedrals with Tony Robinson".

https://www.channel5.com/show/britain-s-great-cathedrals-wit...

And anyone into church architecture should also watch "Churches: How to Read them", which I believe is on youtube.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tnp8f
Most cases which come to the supreme court aren't particularly partisan. The purpose of the Supreme Court is to clarify what the law is, and many ambiguities do not fall along a conservative-liberal axis. Someone can be a conservative and still agree with liberals on many things, and vice versa; indeed that's how intelligent people with well developed opinions ought to behave. Even on partisan issues, there is still typically an element of degree - an extreme conservative may see something as reasonable while a moderate conservative may not. That conservative and liberal justices in some cases vote with each other is in absolutely no way evidence that they are not conservative or liberal.
Thank you for this perspective.

I wonder if we have something like this in the US.
I sure hope it stays around in servers for a long time. Some of us at Intel are actively working on expanding the existing kernel support: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1638381245.git.reinette.c...

Intel's equivalent of SEV-ES and SEV-SNP is called TDX: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... . While you could probably put both under the "confidential computing" umbrella, they do really different things well. As far as I know, SGX and TDX will both be around on the same hardware.

Also, just to be explicit about it: I work on Linux at Intel, including on SGX.
Who was wondering if they are gonna be extradited? Why would they? Unless they are obviously American (which they obviously aren't), I don't see why anyone would expect or even wonder if they would be extradited.
Seems to me that "sharing changes amongst your team members" is much more about process than it is about tools; and the process (whatever it is) must be followed by everyone every-time.

(With the benefit of hindsight) seems to me that many teams made their mistakes with vanilla Smalltalk and avoided those same mistakes when they moved to ENVY/Developer.
I didn't see the links in here, and couldn't easily find it on the site, but did find the link in my email:

Newsletter:
https://blog.humblebundle.com/2022/01/11/humble-choice-is-le...

Link to their FAQ on the change:

https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/441112762...

Which games do I get to keep forever?

https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/441112762...

"All Humble Choice members receive a selection of hand-picked games redeemable via a key for select platforms, when available (Steam, Epic, Origin, GOG, etc.). You can find these games at the Humble Choice Hub after unlocking the current month of Choice. Games in the Humble app for Windows PC, including the Humble Games Collection, are only available to active Humble Choice members. New Humble Choice games are available on the first Tuesday of every month."

Which is good, because I have, ~20 pages of keys to redeem since I've been a long time humblebundler and usually only grabbed things as I was playing. I was worried I'd have to redeem them all before Feb, which doesn't sound like the case. So, business as usual for me? though it might be good to get most things I want redeemed over to steam fwiw.

It does sound (from reading this thread) that Linux/Mac users who want their DRM free d/ls will need to grab them before the switchover.
I've got an XPS that I never turn on, an S21 phone that I use sparingly, and a USB-C to HDMI adapter at home that lets me turn my phone into my desktop computer (Dex).

This is me typing on a work computer, but I don't count that. My computer is a phone.
I thought the same while playing this game. When I reached 200 points I wondered how the play experience would change if by losing I just lost 100 points or so.
> Russia's naval base at Sevastopol is in the Crimea. That's a very large naval base, and provides their only naval access to the Mediterranean

This is incorrect on several levels. For starters there's the route you mentioned from the Atlantic through the Straits of Gibraltar. Maybe you discount that because it goes through NATO-controlled waters, but to get from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean you have to go through the Bosphorus, which is controlled by Turkey, also a NATO member. Second, Russia has several other naval bases on the Black Sea. The port of Novorossiysk, for example, is the largest port in the entire Black Sea, and one of the largest ports in all of Russia, and is not in Crimea.

> It would have been smart for Ukraine to negotiate something with Russia giving them the right to continue using that naval base.

They did in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Pact . Ukraine gave Russia a lease on the facility until 2047 in exchange for a discounted contract on natural gas. Russia unilaterally left the treaty after the annexation of Crimea 4 years later. As far as I can tell, the Russian Black Sea fleet has always had access to a naval base in Sevastopol, and at no point was this access threatened.

> In order to station an old carrier off the shore of Syria, they had to sail it from the Baltic, through the English Channel, round through the Straits of Gibraltar. That must have been pretty humiliating.

Their carrier is deployed with the northern fleet, and while it was built in Ukraine during the Soviet area it doesn't seem to have actually ever performed operations in the Black Sea, though it certainly could be moved there. I also don't see what about that is "humiliating".
I'm calling BS. People definitely communicate like this, but no one types this into a chat window
Was the research funded with public money? If so, then the public interest would be a reason to publish the research code.
There is a difference between holding a view that isn't "in vogue" and inciting violence. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous and ignorant.
Apparently most self-identified leftists in the US didn't get the memo because they haven't been anti-corporate since corporations rainbowed themselves after Occupy Wall Street ended. The 1999 WTO protests in Seattle could never happen today but a celebration of the WTO and global corporate power certainly could. That's simply what the left in the US has become: another wholly owned subsidiary of Corporation Inc.
> Via TLP on Linux, I've been capping my laptop's CPU (i7-8665U) to 800Mhz whenever I'm on battery.

in most cases, on modern hardware, limiting the frequency significantly below its nominal maximum will reduce battery life. for a fixed amount of work (e.g. parsing an HTML document), it is more efficient to complete the task as quickly as possible then return to a low-power state. the picture gets somewhat murkier when considering increased voltage requirements at higher clock speeds and certain fixed-wakeup workloads, but the majority of scheduler tuning for battery-powered devices over the past decade has been towards going to sleep as quickly as possible, even if that requires a high peak frequency.
Should be fixed now. I think it was caused by having flexible SSL enabled in Cloudflare.
Nim is very attractive to a previous CoffeeScript user like me. I used it to build my own [ClojureScript clone](http://calcit-lang.org/), but finally found I really want ADT and pattern matching, which drove my to Rust.

Object variants could support this need. But I was already amazed by those Haskell features.
This energy miracle may be a bit of a short lived illusion. The shift to fracking also resulted in a much lower EROEI (energy return on energy invested). Quote from [1]:

> Two aspects of shale production make it radically different from conventional production. First, it takes a lot more energy (including many miles of steel tubing per well, for example) to extract energy out of these wells. Traditional wells have a ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) of 10- or 20-to-one, or an energy cost factor of 5 to 10%. The EROEI with fracking is in the range of 5- or 10-to-one, or a cost factor of 10 to 20%

The oil from fracking also runs out very quickly. From the same article:

> A conventional well’s production declines at about 5-8% per year, and it can remain productive for decades. By contrast, the first-year decline in shale wells is over 60%, and about 90% of a well’s production occurs in the first five years. That creates a "drilling treadmill," as new wells are needed simply to replace production from wells drilled a few years before.

[1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-01-07/is-fracking-a-...
There is. They look like they're coming from a ground station to geoip.
Generating wealth is separate from how you divvy up the proceeds after. On that second step is where many people have an issue with how it's done today.

And, not to put too fine a point on it, intentionally confusing one with the other is a basic tactic to defend unfair divvying. "Well, you must hate business, then!"
Income security spend was much higher in 2020 than prior years:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55343 - 2018

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56325 - 2019

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57171 - 2020
He mentions the companies he has worked for at the top of the article. "I’ve worked for and advised a wide variety of companies including Waymo, Zoox, Cruise, Starship, giant car OEMs and many others."
When phrased like this,

> 4) You recognize that any request for support for the Program will be discarded with extreme prejudice.

There is no way I'd even make a request for support.
The NC10 was/is a great machine. Considering the dimensions, it had a remarkably good keyboard. I also liked the "fanless mode". It felt quite sturdy, and, iirc, you could open the screen all the way down, to 180 degrees. The one I had for some time did suffer from its symptomatic "white screen" issue, though.

I did some writing on this machine, and I always felt really concentrated, quite possibly because of the small screen.
Even though the world is deterministic it is beneficial (or even necessary) to treat people as though they are responsible for their own actions, both in good and bad. We send people to prison even if the chance of further crime is ~0. We get mad at people when they act like assholes. We don't just blame it on "society".

It's all about incentives. If people think they might get punished for a certain thing, they tend not to do it. If people think they might get rewarded for a certain thing, they tend to do it.

If we want to be the kind of society that creates people with useful skills, we have to incentivize people to attain those skills. Think of this as us controlling the environment that shapes people a certain way.
Right, but my point is this code, in and of itself, really isn't malicious. It's only malicious in the context of "version XYZ used to do X, now it does Y". If you make versions indelible, you eliminate the potential for this to blow up as an issue.
You got me thinking about minimal pairs of /p/ and /pʰ/ in English (at least my British English anyway). I'm not a linguist, but is this not a minimal pair?

Mice pour (water into a jug)
My spore (as opposed to your spore)

Or can minimal pairs not cross word boundaries?
Let this be the joke thread.

I snack on fresh bits from HN.
The funny thing to me is that you can't always even pay money to the government itself without involving some middleman parasite that takes 1 or 2% for themselves.
That sounds like a lot of money, but that's just £52.27 per person. Not really much money when you put it into perspective.
If you use Tor, you should stop. I believe that it is mostly used by criminals and that it is largely ran by law enforcement agencies. I cannot prove this but I believe it is true. Simply using it makes you suspect.

Also, if you have a need to use Tor for work purposes, get written permission from your senior management and describe exactly what you will do while using Tor (scan our hosts externally, test our firewall rules, find exposed services or mis-configured systems, etc.).

If your goal is to be anonymous while surfing the Internet, find some other way, but stop using Tor for that.
SolidJS 12k Hackathon
I don't understand how it's possible for anyone to believe this "Biden caused inflation" nonsense. Do you really think that inflation occurs immediately? And if it does happen so quickly, couldn't it be undone just as easily? The current price inflation is the result of all that monetary inflation of March 2020 finally hitting the wider market. The new money was injected mainly into the banking sector and took over a year to fully cause asset inflation - this was its goal, to keep Wall St's Potemkin village running happily during the Covid recession. Only now is it being fully "invested" into real goods and services and distorting prices in the consumer market. How is this hard to understand?
Ask HN: Best Data Lake, Data Warehouse, BI Stack
I'm looking into building out some reporting from various systems and replace our old reports that fed from the transactional systems as those are in the process of getting replaced.

It has become apparent that the data needs to be shuttled off to a Data Warehouse and reporting should be built on top of it.

What are the best current tools for a Data Lake + Data Warehouse and specifically for building out reports on top of the metrics housed in the Data Warehouse.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I’d appreciate something along the lines of who they are and why the reader should invest their time to read on.
You're correct in this subtle distinction, but I still mourn the fact that – for all intents and purposes – we live in a world that looks nearly the same as the one where the concept literally does not exist.
Morally and ethically there's no issue though, and the risk of prosecution seems incredibly low if you're just ripping your own discs for private use, so I don't think this really matters.
Ask PayPal
Its pretty cool how active open source communities are getting, I would love to see what people come up with. (Full disclosure: I am involved with SolidJS and wanna see OSS projects thrive!)
Show HN: Celebrate - pop some confetti
I think Nim would really take off if there was a good and actively-maintained SDK for a major cloud provider, or even for one of the larger VPS sellers.
GGP is asking about pronunciation, not spelling. Saying "it's REvil" does not help clarify pronunciation at all.
Unregulated monopolies do not have to uphold constitutional rights.

The phone company used to be regulated so even if you were a hated Republican they still had to provide phone service to you if you lived in their service area. Those days are over and monopolies in practice will never be redefined again as "legal monopolies".
On a serious note, that's something I value. These days, on automated voice calls, the magic cheat code key sequence to invoke this is getting harder and harder, and "0" often doesn't work. Almost always, if I'm calling, it's because I have a question not already answered online.
You either take something in return, or claim it's free. You can't claim that you're giving a free service if you're expecting something in return.
Plenty of individuals have had significant penalty for torrenting, including settlements [1] (search for singapore), and being blocked from accessing the internet [2]. The RIAA also sued a large number of individuals in the US [3]. And that's apart from the large number of companies that have been sued for supporting torrents.

So, yes, people easily could be sued for torrenting and plenty of people have suffered significant penalty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_BitTorrent

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-39961502

[3] https://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-five-years-later
Nor does it give NPM permission to tamper with his code and pretend it was he who published it. I firmly believe what they did is in violation of the underlying open source license, and if it isn't, the major licenses should be updated to account for this concerning scenario.
I've never used their subscription service or their game store, but I did buy many bundles over the years. However, they made a UI change in the last year or so to remove the button that would register that you wanted to be reminded by email shortly before the bundle expires. Removing that button has reduced the amount of money I spend on HumbleBundles enormously.
Do they though? All of them are financed via debt at some point in the chain. Healthcare through insurance providers, education through student debt, and housing via mortgages.

If our monetary system is broken, and debt is artificially cheap - then you would expect price of these goods to rise above what consumers can pay.