skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen your astro work for awhile now and it is awesome - had no idea you could reliably make anything close to that money wise. Sounds like I need to actually take my processing a bit more seriously and actually create the new site I have been meaning to work on.

Personally I am going to probably focus less on getting the perfect processing (generally I just do a few stacks for noise and sometimes combine with a star tracker) and more on getting to unique locations most people do not have the skills to get to. That is more my personal preference though given I really enjoy backpacking and mountaineering already.

Have you ever messed around with the automated pano heads? I was recently looking at buying a used gigapan (one of the smallest ones) given that mirrorless cameras are so much lighter now. Shooting stacks + a manual pano head can get a bit tedious when you are already far out into the backcountry and tired and just want to relax. I believe Daniel Stein uses them and his work is pretty spectacular!

What I really want though is something that is both a star tracker AND can automate the panos themselves. As far as I know that does not exist and one basically has to put something like a gigapan on top of a star tracker and of course make sure that its all capable of controlling the camera itself.

edit: Now that I think about it you might even be able to make a decent side hustle providing a "processing as a service" type thing to other astrophotographers
> Make a better product and beat them

It's really hard to make that claim when Google is known for anticompetitive behaviour, including crippling GA competitors [1].

We should probably acknowledge that Google is in the terminal phase where only forced split and divesture will help, and in the meantime, every action from competitors is fair game.

[1]: https://forum.matomo.org/t/adwords-campaign-rejected-for-goo... https://matomo.org/faq/troubleshooting/antivirus-program-or-...
Do you need to refresh your ID.me registration every year, or is it permanent?

I file taxes every year, but I file through my tax software or tax preparer, so I don't think I'd even need an IRS.com account.
If the story is true, the most impressive part is that he managed to write it as .bat!
The problem is, I'm not a freeloader despite having my free account for almost 13 years.

I was a proud owner of Nexus phones, Google Fi subscriber, Google Music (YouTube Premium) subscriber, I've purchased apps and tv content on Google Play, and I also started paying for Google Drive storage after they removed the free unlimited photo backups. I had YouTube TV for a time. Having a powerful Gsuite service was a driving factor into the Google ecosystem for me.

I've been slowly pulling out of Google's services as they've been shutdown, renamed, etc. This will be the ultimate drive off of their services for me. By wanting an extra $6/month/user, they are now losing out on a lot more. I'm sure that my situation isn't unique.
Is it possible to avoid this, and similar crap, by never allowing the TV to connect to the internet? Or will they refuse to work at all?
The problem with SSNs is that places treat it like a secret, when it's an identifier. They were not designed to be a secret, and obviously are a pretty terrible secret at this point in time. What with the fact that probably every person older than 18 has had theirs leaked at some point in time.]

If places would just stop treating them as a secret, it wouldn't even matter.
Looks neat. Some alternatives in a similar space (tasks -> time blocking)

- Noteplan 3 - https://noteplan.co/

- DayCaptain - https://daycaptain.com/
Same here, and I'm running it for extended family so I'm not planning to take on the cost (and neither are they).

I need to find a nice alternative for email with my domain that's going to work for us and not cost me a fortune.

I'm not even massively concerned about Play Store purchases, I barely use any paid apps anymore anyway I can buy them again if I have to.

Since the domain was also bought through GSuite, how do I get that out?
I can't blame Google for this

I can. Free forever means exactly that. They shouldn't have made the promise in the first place if they didn't have a plan on how to sustain it. Along with their other behavior these days they are just another lying corporation.

At least give folks a chance to migrate their purchases without forcing them to pay rent to keep what they ostensibly already own.
A regressive opinion not representative of modern PHP.
I was an early "GMail for domains" user, and have felt abandoned as there are services in Google Home I can't use as a "Workspace" account.

I would gladly transition to a @gmail.com account and just do an email forward, which is why I had originally signed up, IF ONLY GOOGLE WOULD HAVE A MIGRATION TOOL. They pushed my family into Workspace as they abandoned us, and give us NO OPTION to transfer 13+ years of history.
Link-local mDNS only works within a single broadcast domain, and a single home LAN can have many broadcast domains. The ask here is to have a reserved TLD that can be resolved by an actual DNS server, but only locally, and that public CAs will recognize as a valid TLD.

Many home router software right now that includes a DNS server will automatically add .localdomain entries for all hosts on that router's LAN, but I think the issue is public CAs won't issue you a cert for something like "wiki.localdomain" because many people would be asking for the same name, so you're forced to stand up your own CA and add it to the thousand different trust stores that all applications on all of your devices use.

It'd be nice to have a TLD in which no one can ever own the names, so many people can be issued the exact same certificate, with a guarantee that no resolver will ever go beyond its own LAN to return an address.
Ultralow-field MRI scanner could improve global access to neuroimaging
> In the great State of California, billions in unemployment benefits were sent to the wrong people.. because their internal systems were designed to delay, deny and deprive, I say.

That may be so, but it's at least in part because, irrespective of what they are designed for because their internal systems were notoriously broken and overwhelmed before the pandemic, and the department is a notorious nightmare hellhole work environment that almost everyone whose been around state service avoids and almost everyone who can get out of (within state service, if they have a reason for remaining there more generally) does, leaving mainly the people that can't escape; it's the most consistent source of workload and working conditions conflicts between employee unions and management, and the issues are usually at best temporarily papered over rather than resolved.
In Clojure, I tend to put pre and post assertions on most of my functions, which is useful for checking errors in the schema of runtime data (very useful when dealing with 3rd party APIs) but it also offers the documentation that you are seeking:

(defn advisories
[config]
{:pre [
(map? config)
(:download-advisories-dir config)
]
:post [
(map? %)
]
}
(let [
dir (:download-advisories-dir config)
]

;; more code here
So what about the 10 millions i was promised in the email last week?
I was required to use it to unenroll from the child tax pre-payments which the the system defaulted me into.

Automatically sign me up for something I don't want to do, then make me use a system I don't want to do (and worked horribly) to unenroll...
Great article, made me think! However, I think it needs to be trimmed down. Making your argument in the final paragraph of the article is not great.

Hoist the "Final Words" section to the top and make it a "tldr" introduction, that way your reader can begin with a high level understanding of your argument, which you can hone and refine as you progress.
Mine bitcoin with the excess energy. That makes it immediately valuable.
However, now what do you sign into your Android device with? Google's products work... poorly... across multiple accounts. I needed to change my email address a number of years ago, which is impossible with Google's apparent use of email addresses as a primary key or something, and my Google account has had to live in a very messy state ever since... the old address has to be the core of the account for all services, even if I'm handing out and sending as a new address... and that account is an extra security vector into it... (Meanwhile, Microsoft just lets you add and remove email addresses from your Microsoft account, including changing and removing the primary.)
I wonder whether it is maximally adversarial.

SPOILER

At first I tried to solve starting with 'raise'. This led me down a path were I got words that fit '_ o _ _ y' which fits way too many words. I managed to solve it in 6 words by following a different strategy: Open up with 'lysin', this gives zero hits and then I played more standard which was easy because I didn't end up in a situation where I can't distinguish between options.
> Isn't by design it must cache for the amount of time specified in the TXT file? So it has to be durable.

Kind of. The max_age in the text file is the max time a cached policy should be used if a new policy can't be retrieved (e.g. it's being blocked by an attacker). If a new policy can be retrieved over HTTPS, it's totally OK to use it even if the max_age of the cached policy isn't up yet.

Thus, tyingq's suggestion is reasonable. In fact, the RFC already tells mail servers to look for a new policy if just one MTA-STS failure occurs (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8461#section-5.1 step 3). The problem is that it checks for a new policy using the ID in the TXT record, which as explained in the blog post is unreliable.
There is no purpose to delineating government revenues since money is fungible.

Even though legislators might label or apportion some source of tax to some specific expense, in reality, they can always move it elsewhere (since they are the legislators). Therefore, it is always a question of which expense has political priority.
Same for me. I wrote a little Python script to copy my Obsidian files into a set of Hugo files, then publish them. Proprietary or not, it's so easy to work with the files that things like this are possible. It's my data in my favorite format, ready for use with all the existing text manipulation goodies I already know. There's not much to improve on there.

Plug: I wrote a couple of other scripts and put them on GitHub[1]. If you use Drafts and its "Quick Journaling" action group[2], then `process-notes` will look awfully familiar.

[1] https://github.com/kstrauser/glassknife
[2] https://actions.getdrafts.com/g/1Sd
Fair enough, I hope you have a good ride. Appreciated the conversation. All the best.
Org mode is very dear in this space (to us Emacs users anyway). I'm an iPhone user and was missing quick access to my content (view/add/edit) while on the go. Org is a rich markup, but I've been slowly chipping at my own iOS app with https://plainorg.com.

Compared to markdown, our non-Emacs org options are few but here are others I know about:

https://beorg.app

https://braintool.org

https://flathabits.com (I author this one too)

https://organice.200ok.ch

https://orgro.org

http://orgzly.com

Karl Voit also has a great effort going to advocate org outside of Emacs and documents some of the tools at https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool...

edit: formatting
Because we make getting an ID cost money, and make it difficult for poor people.

If you live in a rural place, or are poor, getting an ID is hard, it costs money to get the underlying proof of identity, then costs time (which is money) to get the ID itself, because you often must travel vast distances to the office that issues photo ID's.

If we solved the issuance problem, so everyone could get a free copy birth certificate and made passports free (which can be obtained via an appointment at most post offices), then this problem would be easily solved, and my objections to voter ID would pretty much instantly fall away.

That said, as a former polling place worker, the amount of voter fraud is.. vastly overstated, its a basically non-existent problem, and is mostly an issue of people making good faith mistakes.

However, if it makes folks feel better, its a societal good to get everyone some form of free and easy photo ID, so for me its a two birds with one stone policy, I'll give on this issue, to get the other one solved.

The issue is conservatives seem hell bent on passing voter ID laws without doing enough (or sometimes anything) to solve the (ID) supply side of the equation.
Could you recommend a switch and some NICs, along with a thunderbolt adapter?
All of American social services seem designed to delay, deny and deprive from some fear of "welfare queens."
Communication Rules That I Practice at Work
They're not mutually exclusive. Batteries could be good in combination with a partially-electrified train network. Recharge in places where installing a third rail is cheap, discharge in places where installing a third rail is expensive.
lol dude it is LITERALLY the first sentence here:

"The blockade of the Gaza Strip is the ongoing land, air, and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed by Israel and Egypt in 2007"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

What is even the point? Can't you just admit you are wrong and Hamas has a HUGE NEGATIVE effect on Gaza? And peace process in general?
I'm sure they are banking on people just ponying up the cash because they've been with them for so long. It's basically mafia protection payments. Pay us or we'll break your legs (delete all your data).
You don’t need much capital to be a landlord, hence mortgages. If you’ve never owned a house you can put literally 0% down.

The reasons to not be a landlord are plenty:

- potential downturn in the area

- tenants ruining your property

- inability to do maintenance affordably

- provide basic amenities and keep up with legal obligations can and do change unexpectedly

- potential eviction expense and risk

- rent collection, as we’ve seen from the pandemic

- dealing with people

People who think being a landlord is a slam dunk as long as you have the capital and it’s no work don’t know what they’re talking about.

Reminds me of people who think running a website is free money because the computer does everything.
You can do that in static languages too by just parsing into a map
Sure, there are multiple production-grade SFUs. Janus, Mediasoup, etc.
You need to secure the system as a whole (SSH, sudo, logs, firewalls, SELinux) and then each individual component (db access). For example, here's my thread on basic firewalld configuration[0] (yes I know firewalld is not Ubuntu's default, but it's in the repository and can be used).

There is a lot to go through for a comment answer. I think little bit of Google will reveal some decent Ubuntu articles. I'll say at least this. Scratch root access completely, and set up an admin account with SSH-keys auth. That would be a good start to replace password-access.

If you want to be more confident in system configuration, I wrote a book on the topic[0]. It uses enterprise Linux rather than Ubuntu, so I can teach SELinux too (which is actually a big security improvement).

[0] https://twitter.com/strzibnyj/status/1480494670299815939
[1] https://deploymentfromscratch.com
Definitely a partisan issue, but if we look through the fog - why not find the root cause of this argument and make IDs free? It can be done by the states. We can send COVID tests to every American. I am sure issueing IDs (in control of States) would be possible.

This way, you can strike down the arguments about the entire Democracy hinging on fake voting and "lost the election" BS. Give Republicans what they want. I don't see any issue with it.

Also Democrats need to calm down and realize that it is not that unreasonable to ask people for IDs to avoid duplicate voting. It is not anti-democratic and definitely not doing anything helpful by calling people that want IDs fascists. Election integrity should be so good that it shouldn't have gaping holes like not having a fricking ID.
I haven't played with automated pano heads, but I made a DIY scanning digital back for a 4x5:

https://dheera.net/projects/4x5/

My original intention for this is gigapixel images, but I ran into some issues cancelling the CRA correction that the Pi HQ cam does, and also, my newly bought Sony A7R4 can shoot 240 MP shots with pixel shift so it's suddenly less interesting again since it's already within an order of magnitude of a gigapixel, and if I got a shift adapter mount and shot with a medium format lens I could probably easily exceed a gigapixel with the A7R4. I might try to shoot 4x5 film some time though.
Before I used Obsidian, I used VS code and a folder of markdown notes. In general, if Obsidian went evil, I could take my existing note setup and go back to that, much as I started with it when I used Obsidian. I'd lose some of the nice todo list setup I have but I know I could write a custom program to replicate that and if it bothered me enough I could even figure out how to write VS code plugins.

So while I'd prefer an open source solution, I'm not in a huge rush, though I am keeping an eye on logseq's evolution.
> Do you mean to say that you are fine and dandy with your purchasing power eroding over time?

The Euros purchasing power has remained stable even through the worst financial crash in recent history.

So yeah, I think I'll be fine.
Voting is a state concern. It doesn't matter that there is no Federal standard. Every state that has Voter ID will have some form of acceptable ID card that you can get, even if you don't drive.
It kinda does. It means that if we don't want someone to go in and use our accounts for tax fraud, we have to go in and sign up now to prevent someone from else from signing up as us.

From the sound of it, we just need to find a good 4-8 hours where we can do nothing but verify our identity. Then when that fails, we can spend a bunch of time finding other documents, then show those and hope they work. Hopefully the IRS is open on weekends...
No.

The problem is that systems are deliberately designed to be difficult to navigate in order to discourage use.

It isn't money. It is a belief that recipients are not deserving, and so should be made to "pay" for it or denied altogether.
"The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the ad­ministrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft. In almost every case it was a state project, designed to allow officials to identity, unambiguously, the ma­jority of its citizens. When successful, it went far to create a legible peo­ple. Tax and tithe rolls, property rolls, conscription lists, censuses, and property deeds recognized in law were inconceivable without some means of fixing an individual's identity and linking him or her to a kingroup. Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state's exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing. Fearing, with good reason, that an effort to enumerate and register them could be a prelude to some new tax burden or conscription, local officials and the population at large often resisted such campaigns."

— James C Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

(Thanks shoo — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29885742)
> One theory is that youngsters can fall into denial-of-service attacks by firstly playing online games, and then falling into installing mods, hacks, and even remote access trojans to get the upperhand on their gaming rivals.

I don't think online games and mods are the gateway drug to a life of crime.
Do you mind going into where your main revenue stream comes from and how it breaks down? Is it mostly apple users? Google play? Do you get any revenue from the website itself?
Cool, much easier for me than the English version.

It could be nice to treat ending letters the same as regular letters (on the keyboard), similar to the way crosswords work in Hebrew.
This looks like satire from the "Silicon Valley" show, tbh.
The really neat stuff is in the details, like when the elastic rope curls. – We have somewhat forgotten how important these details are, even in infographics. Let's call this "interactive texture".
"you've just mis-matched the quality of your service vs the quality the market (that you're advertising in) is seeking."

I would sort of agree, however the dog-owners clearly expect a very high level of service but curiously don't question the super low price being charged. We have dog kennels in the area, I know and they know what the going rate is.

They choose us because kennels can be rough. But at the same time, they pay us LESS than the kennel.

Also we didn't decide our prices in a vacuum. We looked at the market, and set our rate based on that. "The market" in this case is nuts and unsustainable for providers (IMH0).

I've had two people give us tips who clearly recognized the ridiculous pricing model, but sadly most are more than happy to pay just the low fee.

All that being said because this is a hobby I'm merely looking at it with slight amusement and concern for those trying to make a living.
Big tech is probably best in class due to total engineering effort and data sets devoted to it compared to something relatively small like id.me . FB, Google & Apple are probably some of the best of the world outside of stuff by the Chinese gov't and their contractors.
I wonder if there are any other unforeseen consequences to blanketing the world in high frequency transceivers.
Fastmail was my refuge from google services many years ago. Infinite aliases on a single personal email.
>This isn't a fair analogy at all. Landlords didn't cause the cause the pandemic. If anything, the government did.

If the government bans cigarettes, should the government then reimburse every shareholder in Philip Morris?

>However, they are the ones who are forced to pay for provide a service that the government desires, housing, at their own expense

Someone had to brunt the cost of the pandemic. It would have been bad public policy if the government had let people go homeless.

Regardless, my point isn't that the government acted piously here, it's that real estate is a capital asset class and should be treated as such. If you get in the game of capital speculation you shouldn't get to go crying to the government when things don't go your way. I have the same amount of sympathy for people who all-in on urban real estate and the people who go all in near to expiration SPY calls. The government's primary concern shouldn't be protecting people's capital investments.
In C# I can just parse it to a Dictionary<string, object>, and I can do that without destroying the usability of the rest of the language.
It's even more ironic that you (and the owners of that website, and PiHole) would then rely on Microsoft's servers (GitHub) to store and work on that code and data !
Agreed, although I don't know what "paying a utility bill" means in this context.
I've been working on Newsletterss, a newsletter reader for web, iOS and Android. I'm making about $2k/m with about 30% of that going to ads and infrastructure costs.

You can check it out at https://newsletterss.com
Yup, I find this completely insane behavior to think that you somehow benefit from types not being there.

You just make it way harder for people to understand your code and contribute to it.
Building it is one thing. It's not even uncommon for people to be right about that part.

It's the maintenance, support, training, operations, and documentation that will kill you, if you think you can "just" write some service and then move on to other tasks.