skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only joined Prime for the free two-day shipping. While Amazon halted that during the pandemic, they have claimed that such restrictions have passed.

Two-day service still has not been restored for me; my purchases usually take a week to arrive. From what I can tell, this seems to have been intentional on their part for rural addresses. Notably, their competitors have no problem getting parcels to us in a timely manner.

So for over a year, they have not been delivering the principle benefit that they promised to me when I signed up. Now, they have the gall to ask me to pay more. What phenomenal hubris. Couple this cash grab with their diminishing ability to hire and retain top engineering talent, and I think that it's time for me to get off their ride.

Goodbye, Amazon.
Good timing, I just set up a RaSCSI to use with a PowerMac 5400! There was certainly a charm that Classic Mac OS has that was missing in OSX-onward.
The report [1] the article is referencing is talking about housing units so it's not just homes but apartments (and possibly rooms that can be rented as a unit?). Furthermore, the very same report gives the distribution of the vacant units, of which only 21000 could be possibly considered "hoarded" (this is assuming nobody does repairs and renovations, all rentals go up for rent as soon as the previous tenants move out, there is no corporate housing, no housing is involved in legal proceedings and the buyers move to the new house on the closing day), which makes 5% of total housing in SF. Does not look like a huge hoarding problem to me.

[1] https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&amp;ID=10441217&amp...
UK's JCVI declined to recommend vaccines to children on risk/benefit basis. That was prior to Omicron, probably even less useful now.
The planned lifetime of Starlink satellites is more like 5 years. The 30k constellation will be launched by Starship. Starship's cost per launch is planned to be significantly less than Falcon 9 (due to complete and rapid reusability) with 10x the payload. With so much extra mass the satellites can likely be cheaper. That $250k number is totally made up, and I'm sure the actual cost has dropped or will drop dramatically as they really ramp up high volume mass production of the next generation, which has never been done on anything approaching this scale for satellites before.
It's not "random people". The convoy has white supremacists in leadership positions.
While I don’t mean to compare apples and oranges, I did get a chuckle remembering the message embedded in the genesis block:

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
And obviously it's "his fault" if he agrees to it, knowing it will happen. How could it possibly not be "his fault"? Blame can be shared you know.

If I order a lion skin knowing that someone will kill a lion to provide it, obviously I am morally responsible for this, even if it's legal and even if I didn't do the killing. And obviously that would be different from killing a lion in self defence, or for food if you're starving.
The hardware is the easy part. It's the software that's the tricky part. That Apple II software was something a 5 year old could have fun with, which a REPL would be hard to do. It had enough rails to be usable but enough user input to be creative.
They seem to be upset about Dorian Abbot not being able to give a particular lecture. This is the last paragraph of the editorial he cowrote that seems to have caused all the trouble:

> Then an ideological regime obsessed with race came to power and drove many of the best scholars out, gutting the faculties and leading to sustained decay that German universities never fully recovered from. We should view this as a warning of the consequences of viewing group membership as more important than merit, and correct our course before it is too late.

https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-16...

The stated goal of the programs he was opposing here is to increase diversity at universities. You can reasonably disagree that it will do that (and he does in the remainder of the article, some of the points are very good) without invoking Nazi Germany. It's incredibly disrespectful and unlikely to convince people who aren't already on your side. And if the consequence of this is that you can't give a lecture one time, well, I'm having a difficult time finding the Zylkon B cans nearby.
While we may have evolved good practices to prevent satellite based espionage, it was just last September when a TikTok video revealed some secret aircraft tech while on base.

https://warisboring.com/secret-military-aircraft-possibly-ex...
Daily user for over half my life...
FWIW I read TFA and came to much the same conclusion. I would have appreciated a lot less subjective “X is bad” type content and a lot more objective explanation.
Sure, but what is that software?
It's interesting to see that specifically in HR, which in my experience has a strong female majority including the leadership.
We built a project and we decided to go with anything but google analytics. For the average indie hacker we focused on -

- Size; needs to be unusually small
- No prompt for analytics authorization for users
- Some API support
- Tracking click counts

We went with goatcounter. Even though we don't have any traffic but it is very nice to see how much good work is being done when it comes web analytics. It is really surprising tbh because I wouldn't imagine something like Google Analytics would face competition as it is more or less seems like the standard of the internet.
Because the far right have always been nuts and society is somewhat inoculated against them. The far left seem to be able to penetrate far more deeply and are actually successful in suppressing free speech and scientific wrongthink.
I don't see how that problem can be solved, especially in fields where you need lots of money to do research. There are limited funds, and nobody knows what is good science and what is bad science by just judging the science in front of them, especially if it is new and original science. Even very good scientists, experts in their respective field, will not be able to tell great science from bad science when reviewing a grant application or a paper. Because usually, such a review would take too much time and effort. If the reviewed paper claims to solve a famous problem, and is done by a famous researcher, then reviewers can justify the resources for a proper review. Otherwise they most often will not.

So in the end it is up to the researcher themselves to come up with the funds for their research by convincing someone with money. That can be the government, but doesn't have to be. Actually, it is probably NOT going to be the government, because they are just playing some sort of game in which they have no skin, and the money will go to people who play the game better. So it will be easier to find someone else who has some intuition about the problem, or about you, or both.
If someone lives in Brazil, was born in Brazil and speaks Spanish though there is a reasonable chance that they are in fact not a Scotsman.

If there are consistent breadlines, that means someone is giving away a resource at below its value - free markets sort that out very quickly. They turn up for a few days then go away as prices adjust. Persistent problems only crop up when something regulatory is keeping prices down because the seller has huge incentives to raise them until people go away.

I'm not arguing the situation would be rosy, but breadlines just are not how free markets deal with the situation. Markets use price signals to allocate, not long queues. Not a controversial fact, although people do sometimes get very unhappy about it.
Sure but I’m also free to not go to that business. When the government mandates it, now I have no choice.
Also my first. Feel like it was included with some book/magazine, but then started buying copies from Walnut Creek software.

Can’t tell you how exhilarating it was to build a new kernel by hand, or how horrifying it was to f-up libc or some other mission critical library.
Salaries mean nothing if you don't take into consideration cost of living.
Undoubtedly someone somewhere is doing that, but I believe this is largely a form of social projection bias.
I’ve already seen countless comments about Slackware being a lot of folks first Linux distro. For someone like me who didn’t get into programming until the last 5 years or so, can you guys explain what was it about Slackware, that was so appealing or inviting to new users?

As a primarily Ubuntu user in my time, was part of it that the Linux landscape was much less mature back then? Was it the principals/ ethos that the project stood behind? The community? All of the above? Haha, I’m very curious. I’ve always knew of the distro, but never had a good reason to use it these days. It still clearly has a cult like following, and I don’t know the history of it honestly.
Not mentioned there (only hinted by "Phoronix benchmarks of ext4 vs zfs in 2019 show that ZFS does win some synthetic benchmarks but badly loses all real-world tests to ext4"): bad performance if you have a raid0 or raid10 using very fast NVME drives.

For most of my usecases, I typically default to xfs over mdadm raid10 in f2 mode.
Iceland and the Faroes are also connected via ferry neither are in the EU but I think they also have the cap-over as the more common design. However I don’t know how common it is for semis to board the Norröna as the voyage is 1-2 days.
Instead of insisting my logic is flawed, look at the interface where communication and commerce are happening. Apple owns most of it. Google the rest.
Such datasets have been demonstrated to exhibit Simpson's Paradox.
Ask HN: Help for Instagram to restore the IG from my favorite thai restaurant
My local thai restaurant's instagram was recently hacked, and the only reason I really knew was the hacker tried to phish for my account by sending me a DM.

The timeline of the hack was

* Jan 12, 2021 - hacker got access to the account and change the e-mail

* Hacker immediately enabled two factor authentication.

Instagram's support page says
'If you did not make the request to change your Instagram profile email:
You'll need to deny the request from the original email associated with your Instagram account. The email will come from security@mail.instagram.com with a special link you can click to reverse the email change and help secure your account.
Keep in mind that we only initiate this process after an email is changed from the Instagram Profile page and that we won't change your Instagram email without your permission.'

I went to the restaurant (they aren't that tech saavy so I was helping them out), and searched for e-mails from security@mail.instagram.com and saw the one where the hacker changed the e-mail. I clicked the link and I was unable to revert the change. I helped the restaurant submit a video selfie.

A couple notes

1. Hackers seem to be exploiting a loophole where if they get access to the account they immediately are turning on 2fa locking out people.

2. The revert e-mail option definitely doesn't work .

Can anyone on instagram help out as this is a small mom and pop restaurant suffering from a myriad of instagram bureaucracy for doing something simple like account recovery.
As Kubernetes Matures, the Edge Needs Containment
We should be honest with people and talk about the root causes of problems, rather than blaming people coming here in search of a better life.
Gameboy Emulator in ARM Assembly
And Riemann and Gauss. Non-euclidian geometry for the win.
The Number Devil is great! I used it to help several students engage with math in a new way, to the point where they overcame anti-math feelings and started to play around with numbers.
Not commenting on the particular issue/article, but can we dispense with blind faith in pre-prints as gospel and final instance of truth?

"This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice."

Consider all pre-prints complete bunk until proven otherwise. Anyone can publish whatever they want to support whatever conclusion they want in a pre-print.
Not the actress, but the novelist of the same name, who is really worth a look if you don't know her.
what do you have to lose?

Slack is easy to pick up and easy to maintain.
You may want to consider trying sbopkg or similar if you find the package manager lacking, but it's worth noting that Slackware comes with a ton of great software in the base system (libraries and daemons)
Glen said this to me about them a few days ago: "They're expensive, finicky, and not readily available. 5 to 10x the price of their surface mount and through hole competitors."
What do you mean attempted? Boeing successfully slaughtered 346 people with their negligence.
You wouldn't have paid for Lichess but you can donate to keep the site alive (and get some neat wings). You can also view their costs over at https://lichess.org/costs
I admire you for fighting the good fight, but I think I've given up on it. I tried. Ponzi scheme in the vernacular now just means any sort of speculation. Tulips, crypto, whatever, it's all Ponzi schemes.

Which makes it harder to describe frauds like the one Charles Ponzi perpetrated but oh well.
This. What we currently call “nuclear waste” is just a fuel for a type of nuclear reactor that we could build, but haven’t yet built due to over–regulation of the nuclear industry. If we had extracted all of the energy from it then it wouldn’t be radioactive any more, and if we had reactors for doing that then we wouldn’t need to store anything.
The thing is, is that those technical people will build the tools to make it easy for everyone else to block your ads.

As for me, I won't use your website.
It's astonishing how bad people's risk assessments are.
That was my first guess. Its not like we don't mess with our adversaries. Why did I think this? Because that's what I would do if I worked there and could.
No I wouldn't, because there's no human meat actually involved. If a store sold something they say tastes like human, but doesn't actually contain human parts or harm humans in any way, then there's no moral dilemma, I'd buy that substitute and eat it just fine.
Weird. I edit a lot of videos but this is basically not something I have ever needed. The natural cadence of speakers is more valuable to me.
Probably the best way to care for them is to ask how they want you to care for them. Everyone handles grief differently.

I went through this recently - for me I want to talk about it, over and over again. And I want hugs. And I found it helpful to have people check in on me from time to time to see how I was doing.
On the Hacker News website, "hack" retains its original meaning.
The annoying thing about this is that, if the new California metering rules do end up passing, I will definitely not be installing solar on my roof, because it will end up either costing more in the long run, or the break-even point will be so far out that it's not worth it to me.

Now, as the article says (or at least hints at), maybe there are better things we can do as a society to reduce carbon emissions than have individuals install solar panels on their house, to the point that it doesn't make sense to subsidize it quite as much as we do today. I don't think I've heard regulators and utilities make that argument, though.

I do agree that the generation and transmission infra needs to be paid for, and if I'm giving the grid excess power instead of money, that reduces the utility's ability to maintain their infra (and PG&E is already lacking in that area). And if I do get much lower utility bills (from a solar installation), then that means that eventually utility rates will have to go up. And then essentially lower-income folks, who can't afford solar panels, will be subsidizing people like me who can... which is not remotely fair.

However, if we do believe that residential rooftop solar is something that we need to be promoting and incentivizing, then the current/old net metering rules need to stay. And to make up the difference on the infra side, one of two things needs to happen: 1) utility prices should go up, and the government should offer subsidies and credits to low-income folks, or 2) the government should just fund maintenance of the grid directly.
I think the problem stems from that reducing redundancy and squeezing your labor is the easiest way to reduce costs. Then, when things 'blow up' you get to jack up prices and pocket the money for fixing the problem you created.

With the amount of consolidation we currently have, you can't switch to a vendor that does not do this as the easiest way to rise to senior management is to do this.

Probably the most comprehensive way to fix this is to tie a significant portion of managements compensation to how well the company does over 20 years. You would also have to make it so if you have a significant stake in a company, you can only exit that stake over a 20 year period to keep shareholders/VCs from forcing the company to have a few amazing paper quarters so they can exit big before the company implodes.

I don't see this happening though, and it would be hard to keep existing players from adding loopholes (eg: 'loaning' their holdings out) that remove their accountability.
Slackware is a no frills distro and arguably the baseline for all linux distros. It’s appealing because of the lack of magic or distro specific customizations. If you want a distro that just lets you do what you need to do without getting in the way, it’s very appealing. If you want a distro that prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot, look elsewhere.
This is all fine and dandy but these people aren't protesting the correct part of the government that has authority to enact the changes they want. That is, if we are talking about mask, and vaccine mandates. They need to protest their provincial governments for those changes.

The Federal demands they have are for our democratic government to resign and instill a dictatorship made up of people of their choosing...

Why the fuck should anyone listen to these people?
Bipartisan Bill to Eliminate Taxes for Small Bitcoin Transactions
Yes it would. "Access to operating system interfaces, development information, and hardware and software features shall be provided to developers on a timely basis and on terms that are equivalent or functionally-equivalent to the terms for access by similar Apps or functions provided by the Covered Company or to its business partners."[0] means that anything a native app can do should be possible to do from a third party app.

[0]https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/271...
> The question is at what point hospitalization rates are low enough (from vaccinations and prior infections) that we can stop staying at home.

The reality is that most of the response policy has been driven by protecting infrastructure rather than directly trying to protect people. The goal of lockdowns as well as other preventive measures is to smooth the curve and keep hospitals, food production, child care, mass transit and goods transportation, etc from collapsing.

Once the estimate is that hospitals have a healthy margin of ICU space available with less restrictions, restrictions have often been immediately dropped.

Personally instigated restrictions, such as someone choosing to stay at home when here is no mandate, is much more nuanced.
Chrome versus safari is ignoring the much better choice of Firefox with extensions.
True, not ideal for hobby stuff. Not sure the best hobby alt for USB stuff, seems like an opening there for something cool maybe in the Arduino realm? Could be something out there on that front, but I am not super up on that space, but I bet Sparkfun has something, those guys are awesome for hobby stuff IMO.
I swear, I don't know why people keep doing this. Are there any benefits to highjacking scrolling behavior that I don't know about?
how common is that?
The ability to read the opening pages of the book is really cool. The results were pretty good for the searches I did, like a search for Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes bringing up a number of Dean Koontz books. It would be nice to have a little blurb with each title, so we don't have to judge by the cover alone.

Did you have to create the previewer yourself, or does that come with the Google books API? And how do you determine which titles are similar to a specified title?
Of course not, I also wouldn't pay 20-40% more for free two day shipping or 30% more for free food delivery over $12, but nonetheless Amazon and DoorDash are able to take that much of a cut from sellers and restaurants.

You miss the fundamental thing which is that the charge is specifically for publishers for a reason. It's because it absolutely is worth 30% to every business who wants to reach a lucrative market.
No, the most efficient way to solve climate change is for people to consume less crap; this reduces far more wasted resources. There is no need to give up your privacy and no need for corrupt middlemen to track you.
Initially, back in the early 1990's I think it was the only "distribution" of Linux out there. It was either download Slackware to 3.5" floppies, or else hand-roll your own distribution completely from scratch.

I think RedHat came along in the mid to late 90's. I jumped ship and never looked back, because RPM packages were so much more convenient then Slackware's hodgepodge of configure scripts and makefiles. Ubuntu then came along in the 2000's, around the time that RedHat got bought by IBM and became less cool, and that's been more or less the state of things ever since because Ubuntu-based distros tend to have better hardware detection and support.
The Arch Wiki is a treasure, I used it when setting up Slackware on a MacBook Pro because it had the most comprehensive description of the caveats and gotchas for the laptop of anywhere on the WWW.
Just be around. Dont force an outcome. Just be around.
Same here, I tried bringing a 'lost' tile with me on the Barcelona subway. It took a month for one ping (it was paired with a smartphone I left at home with the Bluetooth off)

Also tiles don't rotate their BT address so they're an ideal method for shops to track you.

Apple's method actually works because it doesn't need an app installed and they have mitigated the third party tracking problem.
I was already just assuming nfts operate the same as the real art world, mainly a vehicle for money laundering and weird tax stuff. Why wouldn't celebrities be paid to pretend they bought them at absurd prices.
"Note: The following is analysis for professional level subscribers only."

Also it will have microsoft pluton so I don't care
I don't want to publish packages to a binary cache. I just want to install a package somewhere other than /nix.
Show HN: Just Some Burds
Well it did, because facebook bought companies with that stock at that higher price. So that 'value' is now within facebook. There's alot of companies on that list, but one such example is Kustomer, Inc.

Infact you could go back a bit too, since Whatsapp was bought that way too. I very much doubt the original facebook has much value - it's all in this new stuff. But there was very real value acquired.

If there was no value before, then they got all of that for free - and with it very real cash flows and very real money. Mind you too, facebooks revenue hit above $117bn and profit actually went up.

Also i'd love to be on the other end of a deal where I got something like that in exchange for 'nothing'.
Looks like much of the effort is working around basic Go language limitations. Coding the virtual machine interpreter in Go seems like a mistake.

Compiling straight to Go, and then compiling that the normal way, seems like it would do better, and be simpler. Assuming you really wanted to keep it all in Go.
Um….not sure if you were joking but even compared to Amazon, in no way, shape or form can Walmart be considered a small retailer.
I love this story only because you must be me. BitchX wasn't the most secure was it?