skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar admiration of PKD. I used to be an "addict literature reader" and have read most the books in the Classics section of a typical library. PDK is one of my top five authors, an author I've "finished" - read everything they published, and my favorites of his multiple times. I rank him with Joyce, Pynchon, Burroughs, and Hesse - the others in my top 5.
Only in jurisdictions where copyright has expired. For most works, just assume that it is copyrighted somewhere and that you need to figure out how and where before you derive your own work (e.g., a translation) from it.

Project Gutenberg will give you some hints to its status, but it is not exhaustive:

> This etext was produced from Science Fiction Stories 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

That is, there is always a risk that some troll will pop up one day claiming it holds the copyrights for a certain work. If you are not backed by a publisher who can handle the legal stuff, than your safest bet it to stick with much older works (generally pre-1900, but weird exceptions seem to exist in some countries). If you are only concerned with US law, pre-1926 is safe.

See also: https://www.gutenberg.org/help/copyright.html
How to Create a Localized Date Pipe in Angular
I'm a happy Fastmail customer, except there's one major annoyance in the web interface: large images, like screenshots, completely break the viewport.

You have to scroll the browser horizontally for 2000 pixels sometimes, looking at fractions of the image at a time (or download each embedded image and open it in a local viewer to contain it to your screen size).

Fastmail support replied essentially "won't fix".
What do you mean by reproducing JEE? Leveraging OOP in your Javascript programs?

I really dislike this tendency of certain Javascript developers to qualify combining OOP with Javascript as "not understanding the language".
You don’t need to have a nuanced perspective on the truth to be able to spot outright lies and nonsense. E.g. Bill Gates is most certainly not using the vaccines to inject tracking chips on the whole of the world population.

I’m perfectly OK with fact checkers getting rid of that level of nonsense while letting most of everything else true.
It's pretty easy to buy phages in Russia.
It is sold in almost any pharmacy, doctors sometimes recommend it, you can check if bacteria sample is sensitive to phage in almost any medical lab.

I even had an experience of treating infection with phages myself, as antibiotics had interactions with my other drugs. It went pretty well.

But in my case, course of treatment with phages is around 100$, while course of treatment with antibiotics is 5-10$.
Deep in the Google Apps for Work/free G Suite/Workspace ecosphere – what's next?
Hi!

Similar to [0] and [1], but hoping this is different enough to warrant a new topic.

For the last 15 years, we've had Google Apps For Work/G Suite/Google Workspace for our family - and we use Gmail, Drive, Photos, and importantly have spent hundreds on Google Play Store purchases (albeit, 90% of that was using credit from Google Opinion Rewards) - we've all only ever had Android phones, so over ~10+ years, it starts to add up!
We also all use YouTube and oAuth into a good few services with our accounts too.

So, moving to Exchange/O365 or another service that isn't Google means we'd lose our Play purchases. If there was a way we could transfer them to a free account (I've asked them)

I think the only real option is to upgrade, so we keep all our non-exportable (at least, not easily) data. I'd love to move to a self-hosted world of Nextcloud, Mail in a Box, Bitwarden (we're doing this anyway already) and a Photos alternative, but I don't think that's possible right now, at least not with the time restriction Google's placed on us.

Is there really no other option? Seems silly, but I guess it's been free for so long anyway. Now it's £200 a year - incredible!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998659
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432
Nobody's claiming it's "hack-proof", that would be foolish, just that it removes certain classes of vulnerabilities that are the majority of CVEs for code written in memory-unsafe languages, thereby reducing the attack surface. Independent analysis by both Microsoft and Google has shown that's around 70% of vulnerabilities, which still leaves around 30%, but is a big step forward.
> people would dig through the Reddit poster's history and often find conflicting posts (e.g. someone claiming to be a programmer in one post, then claiming to be unemployed somewhere else)

Eh... So unemployed people can't become programmers, or programmers unemployed?
I had the experience whilst being under hypnosis and your comment > it's the most fucked up experience of my life

describes it very well. I was so freaked out by the thought of not getting back into my body, I panicked and woke my self up.

I believe/ heard that it can can recreated at will
I'm watching a government customer take simple, cohesive systems developed by a small team (4-5 people) and split it up into tiny little pieces scattered across different hosting platforms and even clouds.

Governments are generally driven by a set of requirements that most of us have no inkling of. Distributed deployments are often not just for performance or resilience, but also politics and/or playing the vendors off against each other. It seems daft to us mere minions but there's often N-level chess shenanigans going on near the top.
Unfortunately it's difficult to translate sentences between languages in a way that preserves word order and is grammatically correct in the translated language (your example is a pretty good example of this).

Different languages have very different grammar, and even the best translated subtitles won't be able to handle a clever usage of the original language's grammar.

This is one of the many tradeoffs you make with translated works. You always lose something (sometimes a lot) in the translation.
Bad Emacs Advice
The problem: its value. People will steal this.

https://xkcd.com/538/
> thus far there haven't been any [crazy consequences], despite centuries of human-driven weather changes.

which obviously is not true, right?
"reset password" and then set your password instead using google single sign on.

And then remember not to use any single sign on service but generate separate passwords for every service and keep them in password manager you own.

Btw, the above works if you own the domain for your email, assumed yes since that was the whole point of Google for business. If not, buy own domain ASAP and switch to mail provider that allows custom domains.
The free market only works when everyone has full information and a realistic alternative. When the alternative is "freeze to death" and the information is "you'll get a bill next month between $500 and $500,000", it doesn't work, and something needs to step in and protect people.
I’m experimenting a lot and will be upgrading/tweaking a lot more. Here is my current setup.

I have a TP-Link ER605 load balancing 3 Internet connections, and Wi-Fi with an old Apple AirPort Extreme (2013) + a few others as Access Points. I have CAT6 running around, served by a TP-Link Gigabit Switch.

A friend’s Startup shutdown at the beginning of the Pandemic and I bought his 27U Server rack for dirt cheap.

Here is the recent config - https://www.instagram.com/p/CUWeopdPVOp/

I added the 3rd Internet few days back. ISPs are competing and India is one of the cheapest when it comes to Internet Bandwidth/Speed.

Here is the typical speed https://www.instagram.com/p/CU1sAbcvHeY/

Sneak peek of the Rack Setup

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMhcHjEp-ww/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVCRuf3PK-l/
EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capability
My experience with dynamic provisioning has been that it is pretty inelastic, at least at the lower range of capacity. E.g. if you have a few read units and then try to export the data using AWS's cli client, you can pretty quickly hit the capacity limit and have to start the export over again. Last time, I ended up manually bumping the capacity way up, waiting a few minutes for the new capacity to kick in, and then exporting. Not what I had in mind when I wanted a serverless database!
Well, MS is actively working with US gov in fighting ransomeware, spyware, various attacks on infra and agencies + they already went through all the "let's split them up" saga 20 years ago. Time for another tech giant to feel the heat. Google basically owns the internet, FB has info on everyone in the world, maybe time to see what can be done there?
Video conferencing works really well on a $200 Chromebook or $100 tablet.
Autonomous battery-powered rail cars could steal shipments from truckers
This. When you're still, it literally feels like you're floating in space. I've been in tanks many times, and every time I feel like I'm spinning in outer space i.e you don't know which way is up or down.

It's a totally unreal experience (think the highest level of meditation you've had now times it by 100), but sadly I've never achieved the feeling of OOB.
The article mentions they have the same automatic loadshedding, but also implies it doesn't have enough authority to shed necessary load in a situation as bad as this one.
The first time definitely has a novelty to the experience of getting in the tank, settling, then floating. Then towards the end of the first session you really start to feel comfortable. Second time around you really get the max relaxation. Floating like that really lets your muscles settle in a way that they never have before - usually I carry that relaxation for a week afterwards. I never was much for massage but floating is amazing.
Aren't they an Australian company, which is from the data protection standpoint still worse than Google?
File recovery is always possible. Unmount the partition (remount read-only if you have to), use a program like hexedit to open the raw disk partition and search for a unique series of text found in your script files, copy and paste the contents into new file, script restored!
Amazon has a perfect use case for this. You click on a product in the search results, that url contains a UUID, that UUID is used to search Dynamo and returns an object that has all the information on the product, from that you build the page.

If what you are trying to do looks more like "Give me all the customers that live in Cuba and have spent more than $10 and have green eyes", Dynamo isn't for you. You can query that way but after you put all the work in to get it up and running, you'd probably be better off with Postgres.
The iOS app is almost identical to the webmail.
English. Easy choice. I prefer a simple two-language formula for all official communications in India. Local+English. There are plenty of languages that English is swallowing up. They are mostly in UK itself. Like Gaelic, Welsh, etc. Not any Indian language.

Hindi is swallowing up languages too. All those languages are in the so-called "Hindi belt". I am not all that concerned about either English or Hindi replacing other local languages. My bigger concerns are legal and economic hurdles placed by Hindi imposers. I'm OK with teaching and requiring English though. Because whether they like it or not, English has become the world's language of knowledge. Especially in computer science. Ruby was developed by a Japanese person, Lua by Brazilians, Python by a Dutch, the Linux kernel by an ethnic Swede. And yet, the best documentation for these is in English.

I'm not an English fanatic. If I were around a few centuries ago, I would have advocated Latin. A couple of millennia ago, I might have advocated Sanskrit in India.
> If this doesn't describe you, you should carefully consider your reliance on it.

Commercial open-source providers provides same level support as that of closed-source companies. Users fixing the bugs might just be an added benefit.
The article's premise is wrong imo. Typescript is a superset[1] of javascript, so typescript-only syntactic sugar is entirely to be expected.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript (repo description)
Code Hospitality: How to multiply team productivity with effective onboarding
False binary. The BMJ article might not be wrong on pure facts, but it omits critical context. That is not the same as "too complicated to properly understand". Just because we have sort of supposed that medical professionals likely bring enough context on their own doesn't mean the publishing of that article is still not reckless.
With main stream organizations stealth editing the past, we almost need new language to describe this or else the argument around ‘that is not censorship!’ instead of the issue at hand.

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994?...
At 129 RUB(~1.50 EUR)/month, it isn't free but it's drastically cheaper than O365 or G Suite. However i wonder how often it would be blocked by useless "block all Russia and China" firewall rules.
Replacing TS enum with JS objects is really tedious:

type HttpMethod = keyof typeof HttpMethod

const HttpMethod = {
GET: "GET",
POST: "POST",
} as const

It is even worse with int enum:

type HttpMethod = Extract<keyof typeof HttpMethod, number>

const HttpMethod = {
GET: 0,
POST: 1,
0: "GET",
1: "POST",
} as const

My personal "avoid"-rules are:

- Avoid enum with negative integers because it generates code that cannot be optimized by the JS engine

- Prefer ESM modules to namespaces, because the first can be tree-shaked.
In 200 years nobody will care about anybody currently alive in the planet, so why somebody would spend money in a permanent storage media.

If you do something relevant for the humanity, like Newton, Gauss, or Ampere, you won't need to save any kind of information by yourself. Sharing it with other people will be sufficient.
One thing I have learned as a parent is that you grow with your child. I’ve also learned that some people simply should not raise children, let alone by themselves.

I hold much more sympathy for the author. Hopefully all involved have gotten the help they need, but in perspective this person did little to change it sounds like and deprived the author of a loving household. Those who survived violent upbringings from parents understand.
> But, and this is a big one: how much energy will this need?

It's an interesting thought, Australia is in a good position to leverage renewable energy however the boats would be burning diesel. It's one of those "Futurism meets reality" issues, where grand ideas fall apart in application.

Scott Morrison is a muppet, and the Federal Government has their head burried in a pile of coal. We're extremely well suited to curb emissions and we should. Let me preface the below with that.

I have no faith that we will, as a global society, curb emissions. There are too many players benefiting, and newcomers who seek to benefit from the same dirty industrialization the west did. At no point in history have we ever come together as a globe on any topic whatsover, so I don't understand why we think we will now. So I think we should be focusing on developing the technology to remediate this mess, from all the different angles that make sense. Alongside reducing emissions obviously, carbon taxes, carbon rebates, whatever it takes.

But we're way down shit creek already, and our paddle looks like Scott Morrison, so we better start coming up with better ideas than politics.
General Purpose Computing changed my life.

The Network is the Computer.

For some like me it's the Memex, for many it's the Panopticon.
I wish karma represented how experienced someone is with HN. I know users (AFK) who only interact with HN submissions if it's about their company, and they've raked up 5000+ karma with just answering stuff in those threads. That doesn't mean these users know anything about HN etiquette outside of that.
NFTs means the future value of art is zero
Intel will create Bitcoin mining ASIC
Empirical results? Global poverty has plummeted over the last 80 years and innovation is through the roof
> That is why I stress that the Norway situation was so critical. With Norway in Allied hands Sweden would have acted very differently.

Even more so, it was all decided in September 1939. If the French went out and attacked Germans like they promised they would, Stalin would never join the war (he waited for full 17 days before moving into Poland, to make sure the Allies will be the cowards he and Hitler predicted they were), and Germans would be tied with fighting on two fronts. Hitler was actually super-nervous about the attack on Poland - he bet it all on has a hunch the French and British won't do anything about it, which was a massive risk for him.
See this article (by the same author as OP) for a synthetic scheme: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/making-paxlovid
You can't have your cake and eat it to. If you want free, build it yourself. Lots of guides out there.
If the company behind it dies then development on it will likely drastically decrease and it will quickly become a less attractive option. There's probably a reason why you chose Firefox over any number of other open-source browsers that don't have much development activity.
If this is not the only option, what would you suggest instead? How to simplify it?
You mean ES4, the revenge ;)

Proxies and classes were definitely salvaged from ES4/ActionScript/Jscript.net.

We wouldn't be needing Typescript, had ES4 been adopted (ironically Microsoft was against it, because Silverlight...).

Someone definitely needs to write a book about the whole saga.
FAA clears Boeing 777 and other planes after 5G warning halted some flights
Questioning something does not require an opinion.
Because SuSE has already been doing this for longer than CentOS has been around. It's just SuSE isn't a big name in America, it's used more in Europe (and often typically mainland Europe too).

Their distros are usually pretty solid too.
- Ethernet from local ISP that is fed into Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite running OpenBSD (octeon platform) with extensive PF setup

- 8 port managed switch connected to the router with a number of VLANs (IoT network, general/guest Wifi, trusted local network + Wifi, NAS Service Processor, DMZ network, externally accessible services network etc.)

- 3 Apple AirPort Extreme WiFi access points (for various VLANs) + 1 in another room for extension via Ethernet. These run in bridge mode.

- 2 more unmanaged Netgear 4/5 port switches (16 port managed switch is hard to get these days due to chip shortages and also significantly more expensive than the current solution) connected to the managed switch

- another Netgear switch in the closet to connect the in wall Ethernet sockets from several rooms together

- handful of Raspberry Pi boxes running Raspbian (Pihole/NTP server, another for Weather/environment monitoring, another for Docker to host some Wordpress - via Cloudflare tunnel, another for displaying weather information on eInk display, another for monitoring my working habits)

- NAS running TrueNAS in Fractal design Node 304 case with 6 drives, PCIe SAS card (for redundancy/more robust checksumming), beeper for alerting. Backups done to Backblaze and also to internally strapped USB drive.

Some of the stuff has alerting setup via PagerDuty (esp. the NAS and environment monitoring). General monitoring done by Grafana.

Most of the stuff is located on the top of a large bookshelf.

Except the NAS everything is fanless and the NAS was modded to be as quiet as possible (large silicone feet, large+slow fans)

The network is double NAT and there is no IPv6 which sucks.

Would like to buy Intel NUC for learning K8s however these are hard to get these days, at least in the spec I want.
Commercial LTS Qt 5.15.8 released
I don’t know if there’s much of a realistic evolutionary advantage to being Paxlovid resistant. By the time a person starts taking Paxlovid they’re a dead end for the virus anyway. They’ve been tested, told to isolate, and people around them know to stay away or use PPE. The virus at that point is going to either kill the host or be killed by the host.
It's hosted on a machine with 4M of ram on windows 3.11, and specifically uses a web server which doesn't use caching (And I don't think Dos 6 caches files at the OS level, at least by default)
Qt 6.3 Alpha is released
yeah, it's going to happen and someone else will come and win everyone over by acting nicely.

It's a cycle and I can confidently say, working in a company that has used the same approach to win customers over, it's really hard to keep the honest culture going.
US companies are pillaging Latin America’s tech talent
Qt Creator 6.0.2 Released
I have heard folk wisdom to the effect that a can of Coke a day results a pound of weight gain per month. According to this (somewhat dubious) article, 20oz of soda per day results a pound of weight gain per week!

https://abc7news.com/soda-weight-study-on-how-adds-pounds-ga...
So much to point out in this context free article.

> Russia has argued for years against cryptocurrencies, saying they could be used in money laundering or to finance terrorism.

Like banks and cash do?

> the central bank said speculative demand primarily determined cryptocurrencies' rapid growth and that they carried characteristics of a financial pyramid

This is a real issue (that many crptocurrencies make efforts to address). However, if we're talking about financial pyramids, and not mentioning the decades long historic rise in extreme wealth inequality across the developed world, then are we actually being honest at all?

> The central bank said crypto mining created problems for energy consumption. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are "mined" by powerful computers

Guys, not every cryptocurrency is mined. This is well known, and impying otherwise is active disinformation and a smear. Block lattice tech is completely unmined, for example. I don't believe for one moment that either Russia or Reuters are unaware of this fact, so I hope people ponder why they would feign ignorance.

> Russia's regulator said crypto assets becoming widespread would limit the sovereignty of monetary policy, with higher interest rates needed to contain inflation.

There it is.

> It said the long-term potential of cryptocurrencies being used for settlements was limited.

Unless we're using the word limited in the most pedantic possible manner, this is obviously not true. Cryptocurrencies have insane potential, as evidenced by the statements above among other reasons.

> Meanwhile, the Bank of Russia is planning to issue its own digital rouble

Lol.
I dropped my Kindle in water a few months ago and picked up a new Kobo to replace it. Pretty happy with it (and it's supposedly waterproof too) although the plastic does feel cheap sometimes. The ability to add books via drag-and-drop (like a regular USB drive) is super helpful. Otherwise I also recommend using Calibre for book management.
Both things in varying degrees actually
"whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...