skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me just warn you- running a webserver requires technical skill- you will be providing an open door into your computer and network if you go down this path. But its not so hard if you google each of those sections, at least to get something basic going.

I don't think anyone was lamenting that its not super duper easy to create a freestanding website these days, just that its becoming increasingly difficult to without requiring centralized services- most notably ssl.

web2 also generally refers to web2.0 where we moved from static webpages and webpages that could only really change in significant ways if you hit refresh, to dynamically updated webpages, initially using AJAX, but there are now a myriad of ways to do so- but this allowed clunky web pages to have capabilities that are more or less at parity with desktop applications. Then again with all this web3 talk, what "web2" refers to may get distorted over time.

But yeah- running your own web infrastructure is work and hence why wordpress and other blog service providers, as well as even things like Geocities were/are so popular. While it is a lot more common these days, but even having a computer that was on 24/7/365 was not common and this was reason enough to use a hosted solution. Most of my friends have some sort of media server setup that is on 24/7 these days, but we are admittedly likely still outliers on this, compared to entirely non-technical people.
If I were asked to lend $1.3B to somebody who just lost a ton of money on what is effectively gambling, I would also ask them to rethink their gambling habit before giving them more money.
The "distraction-free" bit reminded me of a similar tool I used a couple of years ago, Ghostwriter [0]. Differences between the two AFAICT:

- use of Pandoc as a converter is only optional in Ghostwriter, and I don't know how well it is integrated

- semi-official MacOS support: Ghostwriter requires you to build the app from source (maybe its authors didn't want to notarize the app?) and it has a few quirks apparently[1].

- more features for the more mature Ghostwriter.

In any case good to see more choices in this space, cross-platform Markdown word processors with Pandoc support were a rare occurrences a couple of years ago!

[0] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter

[1] https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/download.html#macos

edit: formatting
and a mouse!
It's passive aggressive contempt. They're pretty commonly used in leftist online circles to gently insult the original sites.
I'd have bought already if I could checkout on mobile :) I went to pricing, "images & animations" package, "upgrade now" and then I got stopped out because I'm on mobile right now. Therefore, If I were you, I'd focus on getting the checkout to work on mobile.
My bank has a mobile friendly website? I'm sure it would work on PinePhone. Either way, this is goalpost moving. I don't even need to own a bank account. OP said government.
You ignored the part about masks. Leana Wen referred to cloth masks as "little more than facial decoration". Unless there are mask mandates that require better masks, the mandates are effectively useless.
Are you comparing this to fidelity's target date retirement fund?
Simple, heat something up and run a turbine. With D-T (the easiest fuel), the energy output is 80% neutron radiation so a heat cycle is your only option regardless of reactor design.

To avoid a turbine, you need a fuel whose output is mainly fast-moving charged particles.
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sure, but the market wouldn't value them at $40b, is the thing. At least not without a plan to turn that $2b into a lot more sometime into the future.

if you're uber, or google, deliberately running in the red to grow the business, sure, maybe you deserve a higher valuation than your revenue alone justifies. That's not where ARM is, there's huge headwinds to them attempting to monetize more heavily, even if they wanted to crank revenue it's hard to see how they get there without chasing away their customers.

an underlying problem here is that SoftBank really overpaid for ARM (and then proceeded to mismanage it into the ground) and they want their money back. And sure, that's not the market's problem, but as you can see from NVIDIA or Qualcomm making plays here, there's companies for whom the asset is really worth $40b.

If you artificially restrict what ARM is allowed to do - that mindset in this thread of "the purpose of ARM is to be a public utility providing IP at-cost for their customers to monetize" combined with "they shouldn't be allowed to sell to any customer that might see any synergies from a merger" - then no, it's definitely not worth $40b. Because you're not going to be able to grow that $2b and you don't have any synergies that enhance your own business. But that's the market valuation that the asset could generate in the right hards.

It's kind of unfortunate for SoftBank that they've sort of sleepwalked into a de-facto nationalization of their asset. The synthesis of all of this is that they aren't going to be allowed to sell it at a market price, they are going to be forced to either continue operating it with minimal margins, or sell it to a consortium at a massive discount to the true value of the asset, so that someone else can continue operating it with minimal margins. Even an IPO would result in a significantly constrained valuation as a result of the legal strictures that are being applied - the asset very obviously cannot be sold freely at a market price, and assets are only worth what someone is willing to pay (or in this case, can get the government to approve paying/who the government will approve paying). So even if IPO'd, it will have to operate in the same fashion. Effectively, there is no scenario in which ARM isn't going to be operated as a de-facto public utility going forward.

De-facto I don't see a difference between "the government takes your asset and pays you 1/4th of market rate" and "you need to sell your asset, but the government won't allow you to sell it to anyone except one specific buyer who is only willing to pay 1/4th of market rate". The fact that the asset ends up in the hands of (a trust owned by) Google/MS/Amazon rather than operated directly in the government books isn't relevant to the owner, in fact it actually kind of makes the whole thing more odious. Google/MS/Amazon are now leveraging government power to reduce their supplier costs.
What is blind? Would you please provide a link?
EdgeDB 1.0 (launch event on February 10)
Um, I remember McConnell overtly saying they would stop at nothing to block Obama’s agenda.

Sure, Obama might get 50+% support from voters, but it’s not a popular vote and no single Republican Senator would vote to confirm him, McConnell would make sure of it. He’s made a career out of trying to stop Obama.

Plus, Obama’s entire presidency would be used to show political bias. With an unknown judge name, there’s a slight veneer of impartiality. With a past President, there isn’t.
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> I rather think of vaccination as a responsibility toward your fellow citizens

We also have data and prudence and we are long past the point where framing this in that manner is highly morally questionable to put it mildly.

Your idea of responsibility to society is mandating that young healthy people take an injection(s) ostensibly to protect them from a disease they are at no great risk from, negative side effects of the injection be damned?

Do it for grandma? It actually does nothing for grandma, that’s always been a lie, the original study could make no claims about transmission. And now, just look around.

Even if it did something for grandma and grandpa, mandating young healthy people undertake a medical intervention having value trade-off for their own health which is murky, for the supposed benefit of the superannuated or people who have eaten into a state of morbid obesity and premature aging is a horrendous inversion of social order and what is good.

The young sacrificing for the old?
What??
Access is also a larger issue in under-served populations. I'm fortunate enough, as probably are many on this site, to be able to just swing by CVS during some downtime while WFH. A person who is paid hourly for an in-person job and reliant on public transportation will have a much harder time.

I wish there were stats on "want to vaccinate, but haven't been able to."
Chrome runs on OSX too.
PINQ is exactly the kind of python to SQL translation tool I've been wishing for for a while. Thank you!
No offense intended but if that's the worst that happened to you during the pandemic so far, I'd count myself incredibly lucky and be happy about it. People slipping through bureaucratic cracks is unfortunate but happens with literally everything, emergency or not.
For anything remotely resembling a practical reactor, the cooling system for the reactor vessel would have a boatload of heat to get rid of. So maybe the very hot coolant from there gets pumped through a steam generator, which then feeds a steam turbine, which drives a generator.

Or, you might leave a (carefully-shaped) hole in one side of your reactor, and call it a nuclear rocket.
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When I think of what a FinTech darling Wealthfront was when it came out, all I can see this is as a colossal flop.

For what it's worth...

About a year ago I opened a robo-advisor account at SoFi and another at Wealthfront and pitted them against each other with high-risk/default settings and a weekly deposit.

The SoFi one has been outperforming the Wealthfront one all year long (by 1-2%; nothing life changing) which surprised me but it also made me feel that all the magic AI/ML under the covers that WF promoted didn't exist and no one was managing anything.
Technology people make this mistake a lot. They see a problem like "the government might track all of our payments in the future" and create bitcoin. Or "the government might rootkit our phones" and creates an open source hardware phone. Or "the government might want to see who you are communicating with" and create an E2E encrypted chat application.

None of these solutions do anything to solve the original problem, it just allows a portion of the population to ignore them.
Again, this is based on the assumption that adverse effects are being sufficiently reported and/or attributed to the vaccines.

And once again, the real world data shows that the virus is spreading across the globe at record pace regardless of vaccination rate.

I know it sounds like dangerous conspiracy talk, but sometimes we need to think outside of our official sources. Ultimately it is up to the people to hold our institutions to account. The real world data does not line up with the official claims.
Can someone explain to me why we need the census at all? Why are we actively pretending that the federal government doesn't have precise estimates for where people live?
Given the topic of the post, it's funny you didn't mention one measure that does convince holdouts to get vaccinated: mandates.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/22/do-vacci... (https://archive.fo/g2vHF)
Haha, this isn't very hacker news but I bought a usb stuck with a usb-c port on one side and a usb3 port on the other. Copy and paste.

No third party apps, just my version of sneaker-net.
This is 100% correct.

From [0] as 'advertised':

> Launch censorship-resistant decentralised websites with ENS. Upload your website to IPFS and access it with your ENS name.

And from the evidence given here [1] and [2]:

> It takes 4 out of 7 geeks to bypass the blockchain in case of emergency, court orders or kneecaps.

Not even 7. What is the point of the multisig then? At least ICANN requires all keyholders, but this is less than the maximum holders to bypass the blockchain.

> “Moving forward, we want to be as responsible as we can. This includes possibly seeking to register .ETH through the normal ICANN process” - note that the “normal ICANN process” for gTLD regitration requires compliance with trademark law.

So ENS is not 'censorship resistant' and it is basically a blockchain version of GoDaddy selling .eth domains which you do not own and 'can' take your domain away (or redirect it) whenever they want.

Sounds like decentra-lies all over again and foreshadowing the web3 delusion, unless they take away the 'censorship-resistant' and 'decentralised websites' claims in [0].

[0] https://ens.domains/

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/-9zBqWpvNBlekGot...

[2] https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/why-ens-doesnt-...
Still, I think requiring any sort of special calling convention across the language would stray too far from the “JS comfort zone” that I’m aiming for. Especially when it’s for the sake of a feature that was only ever a “nice to have”
That's also why many governments do not accept proof of recovery in lieu of proof of vaccination. Those who do have vaccine-skeptic people catching the virus intentionally and risking death.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8524409/hana-horka-czech-singer-c...
In PGP land it makes a lot of sense to back up your secret key material. That is because the passphrase that the user enters encrypts the secret key material. So a strong passphrase means you can backup that key anywhere and everywhere ... and probably should.

Having a strong passphrase makes things a lot simpler. A classic convenience vs security tradeoff...
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You do not even have to hold a variety of Vanguard funds, just figure out the year you aim to retire in and buy the target date retirement fund.

https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...
The same reasoning can be applied to obesity.
Agree with other dissenters here that this was not a "generic ideological tangent", it was specific and relevant to the OP. And i found it interesting.

I also understand it's difficult to keep a comment on politics, even when it's not a "generic ideological tangent", from prompting a mess, and respect your inteventions to avoid the messes.

But this was not a generic tangent.
You buying software with a revshare agreement 100% does..

You operate in the us? You pay the irs. You operate in Brazil, you pay them.

The price was disclosed, optional and entered into freely. Dude is buying his lawyer a boat if he wants to fight it.
Be careful not to mix up what this echo chamber (and the rest of tech social media) feels about FB vs. what the "general public" feels about FB.
Obama is already 60. They will probably go for someone younger.

Amy Coney Barrett is 49, for example.
You're misrepresenting what a census is and why they are done (yes, including historically since the US began and even before).

You might not like the idea of being accounted for, but that negates exactly zero benefit to society that census brings. How can the rulemakers make informed decisions if they're blind?
I think it was called "Windows Subsystem for Linux" because they were originally emulating Linux syscalls (and some other kernel features) with Windows calls in WSL1. Now that WSL2 is all hypervisor-based with VMs, the name doesn't mean anything. But it has some momentum and name recognition, so they stick to it both for WSL, and now WSA.
We can discuss proper taxation of things all day, but in the end it's way faster to simply outlaw the outliers of wastefulness. And I'm sorry but a "currency" which uses multiple countries worth of energy for a handful of transactions a second is just absolutely atrocious, no matter on what scale of reference you look at it.
I’ve found it most on the 2nd or 3rd page when googling specific but not common error messages.
They can claim it, but they don't have a Senate majority this time around, so they can't do anything about it.
Thanks to another today HN submission [1] we now know that authors of this paper payed 11,390 USD to make it "open access" :)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30081034
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Its probably possible to gerrymander a state without this information? Sure, it would be harder (and probably less effective) but you could use proxy metrics to figure out the distribution of race within a state. I imagine I could use housing data as a proxy for example, given that property values are correlated with race. I don't have exact proof of that last statement, but it feels right.

Also, I did some reading. Apparently the census has been asking these questions since 1790 https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio.... Though, I imagine the nature of the question has changed over time.
Feel the same with the Galaxy Buds Plus.

My SO has airpods pro and I find to be the main thing they have over the GB+ is their talk through is vastly superior and the noise canceling is also very good.

The thing it doesnt have is a decent battery life.
No, I don't consider it a particularly great use of my time, but I'm fine with that. It's my time and I don't always have to be productive or making money with it.

The content and discussion is usually entertaining, but sometimes the people are infuriating, particularly on "political" posts haha. It happens.
Huh? See my comment below, this whole thing will be a non-issue in weeks anyways as we’re changing this list. People think these plugins are “official” and this is one symptom of that, so this is just a temporary measure to reduce confusion
I followed a link from http://planet.lisp.org/ to it, which still works. When I posted this, I tested the link (of course) and it worked for me, but now it doesn't.

Edit: If I cut and paste the link from Planet Lisp, it works, but from here, they don't like us.
Resisting foreign occupation is much easier than imposing a foreign occupation of one's own. The Taliban never had a chance of imposing its rule in the United States. The Butlerian Jihad of the Dune universe eliminated intelligent machines everywhere.
Like the idea.
Reconsider the keyboard.
If we presume the target users are other than first-world, the likelihood of only have one hand or missing fingers increases significantly.

The keyboard becomes very cumbersome.

(source: found out the hard way when brought toys that require two hands or all fingers to play with, in worn-torn countries.)
Point taken, but there's a big difference between saying, "We're going to take hard look at candidates from groups that have historically been passed over so we can get a great justice" and "We're only going to nominate someone from a very specific and small demographic group." I think most reasonable people would agree that the first approach is a good one and the second is misguided.
In what way was that an inaccurate description? Did you read your own source?
> have precise estimates for where people live?

The census is how they have that estimate...
You can do it using basket ETFs. The IRS doesn't consider them "exact" replicas. So if VOO drops, you can harvest using SPY and maintain the same exposure, then switch back to VOO a month + few days later.
Not to be confused with Zim [0], a zsh configuration framework that's generally faster than oh-my-zsh [1].

[0] https://github.com/zimfw/zimfw

[1] https://ohmyz.sh/
Are AirPods safe for audiophiles?
It's a looking-forward statement... projecting current trends 5-10 years in the future. More likely will be a de-facto requirement to participate in society rather than a law. As I mentioned in another comment, many private companies are already requiring it.
They've been reliable votes Biden's on judicial nominees, I dont think there's any reason to think they'd change here.
A couple of links:

https://wccftech.com/qualcomm-prevented-samsung-selling-exyn...

https://www.androidcentral.com/qualcomm-licensing-blocked-sa...
64.7% external

14.1% channel pages

11.7% direct

5.1% Browse Features

2.0% Youtube Search

2.4% Others

Not too sure what to make of it, but it looks like my search indexing isn't providing much value. Thanks for raising the point I need to investigate how youtube search works a bit more
Wealthfront's value is that the unpassionate investor can set and forget it, instead of manually transferring every month
Well after 12 years. At least it ended.
> my hub will only do 100

Oof, that sucks.

5ms per round trip adds up, especially when you add in every other source of latency in your chain. I've also found that, thanks to general RF noise from everything being wireless these days, latency spikes occur much more often over wi-fi than wired.

YMMV, of course. Always worth measuring your own experience.
In the U.S., nuclear weapons get a couple orders of magnitude more government money than fusion, and nobody blinks an eye. So it seems more likely that weapons work is a backdoor to get some fusion research done.
I know who the author is and I'm open to criticism. Bruno Le Maire provided specific reasons why they were first concerned about Libra, I thought they were valid and sparked interesting debate.

The author of this post did the same thing then: summarized the actual article in a blog post, then called Libra "dumb" at the end. That doesn't add anything.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/09/12/france-shuns...
View source on the linked website just now:

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Interesting, so linux was ported to RISC-V architecture, and there's a RISC-V emulator that runs on ESP32. I guess this means all the virtual memory is emulated. I think the more interesting step is if the successors to ESP32 have virtual memory. In the meantime, I found playing with freertos on esp32 lots of fun.
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/abo....

Unless I misunderstood your question and you meant to say that the race portion specifically is not.
> As you've found it is not actually difficult to do that, just tedious and impractical.

That is the opposite of what I have found; I find that it's "the very devil" to remove these components. And my finding is that the presence of these components is tedious and impractical, and that their absence makes my life better.

> You aren't gaining anything here by removing things.

That is condescending.

I've used machines with these services and I've used machines without. I find it's a gain to not have them. Who are you to tell me whether I do or don't gain anything?

FTR I don't have to build anything; there are alternatives, which I use. Unfortunately these new components are more-or-less rivetted-in, which makes it hard to remove them and replace them. Screws are better than rivets.
Interesting, but at least some people seem to have been aware.
The IMF has imposed policy plans through their leverage on countries knowingly the policy would have adverse effects in their economies and population. This was admitted by Christine Largarde and denounced by Varoufakis in the Greece Debt crisis.

In Argentina, the IMF gave a pro-US government unfettered amounts of money to spend politically the face of elections, but with a debt maturity so short (4 years) and an unfeasible economic plan that the country was into default again 2 years later, and is still trying to renegotiate the balance of that debt.

The IMF existence is pure moral hazard, and even though Argentina would suffer greatly from default its IMF debt, part of me wants them to suffer the consequences of bad lending as well, for the which they never paid a price for politically or institutionally.
There are some real gems & genuine insight to be found. But the comments still follow a Pareto distribution and there's a lot that is worth disdain[1], IMO.

Besides, I found it's better when I don't take HN too seriously; I now often enjoy HN the way I "enjoy" Curb Your Enthusiasm

1. Often as a top comment too! A lot of inaccurate, stripped-of-nuance or outright ignorant hot takes get voted up if they confirm the biases of the majority of HN users.