skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect in the future we'll see more animated films with a 2D aesthetic but created with 3D software.

The Arcane series has that look too and it's gorgeous.
How does a radio station even send an image file? What does that mean? What is suppose to happen when a radio station sends an image file?
Hard disagree. Helicopters are much less safe and not have redundant batteries or propellers. Joby recently provided acoustic results with NASA that show magnitudes less dB, you can look it up and hear for yourself. Having witnessed hundreds of Joby flights I can say from experience that it doesn’t seem any louder than a distant vacuum cleaner, I could hold conversations nearby without strain. Living by a highway with motorcycles was worse. I learned a lot about aviation lately and having also been in a helicopter and I sometimes think back that it was a stupid risk to take without having my affairs in order, never mind the aviation fuel, what disgusting fumes!
TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
High bandwidth protects you against basic DoS attacks that just fill up the pipe with garbage traffic.

The other problem is that bandwidth is usually harder to scale than let's say CPU or memory, so having a large buffer there is helpful.

Let's say the aforementioned VPS is suddenly under a lot of CPU load and legitimately can't keep up - Nginx can be trivially installed on it to load-balance between many downstream VPSes.

Now let's say you are running out of bandwidth. You may need to switch to a different connection with a different IP, change DNS records and wait for them to propagate, etc.
Soon made much more convenient by your QR passport.

I, for one, welcome our new QR overlords.
I have one main Nginx server that all other services are behind, regardless if they're internal or external. This box is where NAT port forwards 80,443 to.

I also use only subdomains of the domains I own, even for internal stuff. This means I also run a small bind9 DNS server with minimal zones to direct traffic to the proxy inside the network, and most of the records just don't exist outside, ie. they return NXDOMAIN from my public DNS provider.

On the nginx box, I have a snippet like this:

deny all;
allow 10.x.0.0/16;

Then, when I configure something as 'internal only' I just add this line to its config file:

include /etc/nginx/private.conf

This means that I can decouple the certificate status from the internal/external status of the site. All sites get valid certs, and most of them get 401's from outside the network.

In reality, I manage the nginx config with ansible templates, so what I really do is set a boolean "public" flag to "true" on sites I want accessible outside, everything else is private by default.
How does the type system knows the bytes are utf8 and not CP850?
The Fed is most likely about to start a cycle of interest rate hikes. Historically, such cycles result in a recession about 85% of the time.

Maybe this time is different. But your default assumption should be that there will be a recession in the next year or two, and you should be prepared for that.
> You don’t follow an account because you want to read their tweets. Twitter is “social media”, and following is a social signal. When you follow someone you are declaring that you approve of that person. Whether or not this is what you intended, this is how your decision to follow someone will be interpreted.

This is horrifying. Believable, and understandable, but truly disturbing.
Friendly reminder that 1.1.1.1 is a real, valid, public IP.
Seen plenty of networks that don’t recognize this, use it for some internal purpose, and break https://1.1.1.1/
The pillow stuff was fraudulent, sorry. You can't hold up a bed pillow and say all these regulations cover pillows when almost all of the uses of the word "pillow" were from engineering safety regulations (pillow blocks etc.)

The Syrian immigration thing was based on a lie (and about specific fearmongering concerning Turkey's supposed accession to the EU -- a process that has entirely stalled and is even in reverse because Turkey cannot join the EU until it satisfies the EU's demands). It was backed up by one of the most despicable political leaflets in British history:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum...

(I received this pamphlet and it remains the only thing I have ever ceremonially burned while cursing people)

They were vile, populist-oriented slurs. It was awful, disgusting politics.
Hopefully, those same customers will know better when coming to buy their next car after that, therefore reducing desire for touchscreen controls and hopefully, their extensive usage
Wouldn't this also mitigate the problem of residual pharmaceuticals in wastewater, at least for aquatic life? The article doesn't say.
"Such 'energy-only' markets rely on investors to anticipate demand for all conditions and build appropriate resiliency into the system. They allow prices to soar during extreme events to incentivize preparedness."

Surely any such incentive is self-limiting? The more preparedness it creates, the less likely it is to pay out. The article talks about the uncertainty of there being a payoff, but not about how the incentive itself affects that uncertainty.
Stealing is the wrong word, but then we've had this conversation for 30 years so clearly you know what you're doing. If you must, "freeloading" would probably be a better term.

> Artists are paid by exposition I guess!

If it allowed them to pick political candidates and set the nation's agenda, yeah, I guess they would be.
One loose idea that I like is local community (the smaller, the better) hiring a journalist (or even better, a diverse group of journalists) directly. They would cover the local events and politics and maybe give some digest of the national/world level from other sources. Apparently in the US officials like sheriffs and school board members are elected, so maybe it could work in a similar way. This would probably need a bunch of stringent rules to ban collusions with politicians (which has been of course a problem even with commercial journalism).
I haven't left my house in over a week. The insulation is real.
I guess the real question is, will a dollar spent on wheelchair ramps in buildings across the USA give a greater quality of life improvement to the average american than a dollar spent on medical research that tries to repair spinal nerves?

Obviously "average american" is not intended to reflect the 'typical american', but instead be an average across all people, including those with mobility requirements.
100% agree as a user of 12 years, and I'm getting pretty close to quitting because if the shenanigans they're pulling recently with making links not work for old reddit by inserting slashes.

If I wanted a Fisher Price styled social media thing full of user avatars and giant gifs, I'd use Facebook.
Maybe. What's your question more concretely?

If you want to just figure out how to call some functions and get an output from them - yes, of course you can. Do you care about getting useful results? Do you want to do this as a full time job or is it just a one-off time series problem?
How did you get through the earlier parts of life un treated? Did you do well in school? If you don't mind me asking, what made you get the diagnosis in your late 30s?
For the dice roll example that is true. But other examples it isn’t. For example the MTBF of a device that has run for x hours approaching the MTBF is probably more likely to fall in the next x hours. Or if there is some cyclic behavior. Like waiting outside for a hot day.
Wow, twitter went full pinterest now and refuses to let me read tweets without an account ...
Not “low” expectations – reasonable expectations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27061860
> Used to be, near any event that generates news coverage, there would be a bar where the journalists hung out

Just curious, how old are you and what year do you believe this “used to be” ended?

I’m 40 and my guess is that this time is 25+ years gone by?
I was in Japan for a student exchange in 2016/17 and the amount of detail I remember from that time is astonishing. I can barely remember how I spent my day yesterday (in general I feel like I don't have a very good memory), but I can easily list all the trips we've taken during that semester and remember details that I would usually forget.

In general, I feel like most of my memories are structured around my unique (mostly travel-related) experiences. Oh 2015, that was the first time I ever left continental Europe and flew to Iceland in the middle of the semester to visit my friend. Things like that.
I wish there were a way to reorder the habits and search habits. rather than have them all expanded on screen.
That's a usability nightmare though. Imagine a user who clicked the wrong thing, then they complain that their mic is broken and plays analog TV hellscape sounds on conference calls.

Edit: Not saying I wouldn't use it myself, though.
> I mean for $1,000 I can have effectively a 1990’s supercomputer in my pocket. The government didn’t do that, greedy capitalists did.

Heavily reliant on research funded by the government, ambitious funding for things the internet, the financial stability and access to markets supported by the government, etc. Neither side of this is doing it on their own — it’s like trying to decide whether the wheel or chain deserves credit for making your bicycle work.
> They all degrade eventually. By following what the money wants from users , not what the users want.

I wonder what would happen if Twitter said "OK, we are going to charge $5 dollars a year" to use it.

Maybe it would not only be an improvement, but also viable from a business perspective.
Exactly, and I would be remiss to leave out in an absurdly short period of time on the scale of human history. It's so far beyond coincidence it's laughable to contend that it might be.
Yes, your comment is spot-on. Most programmers will view WordPress with scorn because they see it as a bloated mess, comparable to seeing Word as a bloated mess compared to TeX, Markdown et al. But most of them don't believe - or worse actively deny - that Word's "bloatedness" is simply a consequence that some might use it as a simple document writer, some as a templated document (for use in receipt printing for example), and some will use it for things that I haven't even heard of. Actually, dmje, the grand-grandparent of the comment, has said it succinctly: HN seems often incapable of thinking about how audiences and use cases differ.
Oh there's clearly status to being a published author--at least in many circles. And I would say also an NYT or WSJ journalist.
Better not drive close to cliffs then!
At ZeroTier we are working on a solution for this that will implement ACME. Not ready for release quite yet but getting close. Could be used on ZeroTier networks but doesn't have to be.
That's not really ideal either...one copy of the cert that isn't protected well becomes a master key of sorts for someone already inside your internal network.
It wasn’t just one but look at Balaji Sirinvasin’s timeline starting around summer 2020. He was a big proponent of the idea.
Duolingo to shutter their discussion forum
Might I point out that 'hypothesis' is no better than 'guess'

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypothesis

In fact, the lipid hypothesis having used to be a theory and being downgraded to hypothesis probably makes it far less than a hypothesis.

The wikipage uses a single source for this 'consensus' and look again that magical date of 2017.

What does this 'consensus' really conclude?

>Consistent evidence from numerous and multiple different types of clinical and genetic studies unequivocally establishes that LDL causes ASCVD.

The 'consensus' is that LDL causes illness. I dont believe that's in contention. What we are discussing is what causes LDL to cause illness and we are discovering decades of bad science.
WOW! I hope this technology will help us resurrecting DVD/BR|BD-R drives! If we could make lenses to replace old blurred ones... That'd be a life saver!

PS: The page so heavily depends on JS that it literally gives me a blank page unless I disable JS in browser :D :(
Is this really a high status job? Or is it the journalism industry relies on internal status?

If it is about general status, then these individuals should be able to leverage that status and connection into better jobs or wages, including outside of that industry.
> Really nobody has any motivation whatsoever to change the system besides the student.

This is not completely true. I have long avoided using any textbooks the students have to pay to access. The only exception currently is my intermediate macroeconomics class. I have not found a suitable no-cost supplement that covers all the topics of the class. My motivation is that it's easier to teach a class if you can offload certain topics to a reference, and you can't do that unless everyone has access to said reference.

Beyond all that, universities have an incentive to reduce cost as much as possible. Whether university administrators ignore that incentive is left for the reader to determine.

My employer offers small grants to support the creation of open teaching materials: https://lib.k-state.edu/services-support/scholarly-communica...
That is part of the strange
There was an academic fellowship with something like a $40 application fee and it got like 1000 applicants so the fellowship was funded by the application fee! That is literally a circular prestige economy.
I hope your address bus is three nonads wide (3^3 bits = 128MiB address space).

It would be thematically even better if you used ternary logic, but I’m not sure that FPGA can handle more than two voltage levels.
The bigger problem occurs when the high perceived status/low wage folks decide they deserve a lot more than they have and foment revolution. Academics and those steeped in academia are more likely to lead this, but then the journalists quickly follow and amplify. Also applies to people getting degrees from universities then being unable to get a job much better than barista.
> so a good client-side pool implementation should easily suffice.

There are some architectures that tear-down all resources at the end of every requests, e.g. PHP, or lambda-like things, so you can't use a connection pool, because the "pool" would only exist for that request.

pgbouncer can be used locally too, however.
I'm pretty sure the mutex_lock and mutex_unlock are bugged, as they take a mutex int by value. Would be unfortunate if somone copy pasted those.
> Your googling would also show that the article dates from more than a year ago.
> A lot changed.

What changed? The UK participate in ITER still, via F4E. ITER is not just the EU, it's funded by China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.

Frankly, I don't see what Brexit has to do with HN. There are better places to "discuss" Brexit, and politics, than on HackerNews.
For me recently it hasn't worked at all for example -

I'm signed into reddit on the webapp,
I click a link on the front page,
it renders the page, then overlays a popup saying "this page is only available in the app"

and despite having the app, clicking "open in app" takes me to the apple store, so really I can only reliably use reddit if I start my reddit "session" in the app
> Some encrypted backup and file sharing services provide client-side encryption. The encryption they offer is here not referred to as end-to-end encryption, because the services are not meant for sharing messages between users[further explanation needed]. However, the term "end-to-end encryption" is sometimes incorrectly used to describe client-side encryption.[23]

This is reasonable, but it's not describing any weakness of encrypted backups. It merely points out that "E2E" isn't the right term to use when there are not two E[nds], but rather only one client and their files.

However, our conversation was about storing chat history. There are two parties to the conversation in that case.

The key property of E2E is that only those parties can read those messages, and nobody else, in particular not the agents running the server. That property is not affected by the existence of backups, as long as those backups are client-side encrypted, because third parties cannot access them.

Therefore, it is possible to have both cloud-stored chat histories and true E2EE. QED.
In this context, people born in the US who circle Caucasian when filling out their college applications honestly, and this Brooklyn white journo caste is typically middleclass+.
> well, that's like, just your opinion, man, and rather ironically an opinion that depends not on any honest attempt at assessing the prevalence of the problem but is constructed for the sole means of pandering to an in-crowd.

Fully agreed. Markets exist to convert the various forms of capital.

For example, you participate in the labor market, where you convert your education and know-how into liquidity.

Cultural capital is already exchange for financial capital: art is sold, and people pay to visit prestigious museums.

What's missing here is a market where social capital can easily be converted into financial capital, at low cost and with as little friction as possible: the elusive "micropayments".

Remember the old idea of "commoditizing your complement": for web2.0 (social media), tech companies have commoditized the participation that create their core value. They benefited tremendously through network effects, sending these profits mostly towards the shareholders, with a few crumbs sent to the tech workers (I know a lot of people think developers are "highly" paid because they get paid low 6 digits wages, but in a company with over $1M in ARR per capita, I politely disagree)

I believe NFT/cryptos/etc. will pave the way for inverting this commoditization: well known authors/influencers will want to commoditize the tech companies, who'll have to respond by offering deals.

We are starting to see that: look on the gaming forums where people say they use Bing... because it pays for their free gamepass every month!!! Bing is good enough for what they do, so people react to the incentive and switch!

If you have the choice between, say instagram and tiktok, and it's essentially the same thing for you, you may decide to share content on instagram if they can compensate you in a way that's meaningful to you. It may be hard for them to give you cash, but it could be easier to give you something else that's essentially the same to you, or that can be traded for cash.
IMO, climate change needs to be higher on the list since it is a major cause of water scarcity (and hence war).
...no the surface lesson is that lazy heuristics produce habits that provide the illusion of certainty without any rigour backing up those beliefs; the outcome may correspond with reality but the process getting you there isn't rational or dependable, because it always produces the same output regardless of input.

The "deeper lesson" if there is such a thing here is that experts are people too, and just as fallible, only in ways that are generally invisible to everyone but another expert.
On a theoretical level, all these fertilizers get added just so the soil doesn't get depleted by what gets driven away to the field and eaten by city-dwelling humans, so it kind of makes sense that they get delivered to our bodies and then expelled.
Lots of ways to get even better cardio benefits with much less risk.
Boris Johnson plans to lift England’s last Covid rules a month early
If my music was in an ipod it wouldn't randomly decide the songs are no longer available offline just as the plane's cabin door was closing like certain other green themed streaming music services.
Working on Multiple Blockchains
This is exactly why people who do high risk think it will never happen to them.
They don't seem to check whether the hostname you're requesting a cert for resolves. At least with certbot, it requests the cert, creates the challenge record, then removes it after receiving the signed cert.
> This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.

The experiment produced

> 11 megawatts of power

and at Jet

> two 500 megawatt flywheels are used to run the experiments

log_2(2*500/11)*(2022-1997) + 2022 = 2185

At this rate we will have fusion by 2185 I guess?
Geothermal is very location sensitive and requires huge outlays upfront. Maybe it’d be a clearer choice if energy storage were better solved. It also requires political support to cross NIMBYism.
I experimented around using an old iPod for podcasts, but the one thing I like about this modern world and that I missed during such experiments is the easiness of inter-device synchronization.
There exists several solutions on Linux that will sync podcasts to an iPod as well as sync some data through gPodder.net. However unfortunately not many other outside this ecosystem can use this service for synchronization (even some of the more modern Linux apps don't!). If at least Overcast were to support gPodder at some point, that would fix it all for me.
Rust – What's new in SeaORM 0.6.0
The New York Times wrote article about the blogger in the same exact way articles about people in journals have always been written. Just because the blogger is generally in tech does not mean the New York Times has to treat him in some complete different way then any other subject.
Run software from vendors who have demonstrated they are trustworthy -- or, at a minimum, actively AVOID software from vendors (like Zoom) who have repeatedly demonstrated that they are NOT worthy of trust.
How is bitcoin more ponzi than any other asset? Less demand will decrease its value, more demand will increase. The supply is predictable so no surprises here.

Bitcoin has a value because people believe it has a value, exactly like the US dollar. No inherent value for either. In contract to the US dollar, at least formally, no one can create more out of thin air, unlike the US dollar, it has an integrated, digital and remote exchange mechanism guaranteed to work (if implemented correctly).

We can have an open discussion regrading other cryptocurrencies, but even there, their value exists because it's being assigned to them. The problem is the expectations and the lies being told by the main stakeholder of that blockchain and that's a different story and not intrinsic at all
Regarding NFTs and money laundering, see the inimitable Matt Levine here (second story, Oh by the way):

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-19/washin...

> This is called “money laundering,” and the essential component of money laundering is generating fake taxable income. If you take $13,800 out of your (legitimate, previously taxed) bank account, and you use it to buy cryptocurrency in a wallet that you tell your accountant and the IRS about, and you then use that cryptocurrency to buy a Meebit, and then you take $50 million out of your sack of illegal money, and you use it to buy cryptocurrency in a wallet that you don’t tell your accountant about, and then you use that cryptocurrency to buy the Meebit from your declared wallet, and then you take the $50 million of cryptocurrency out of the declared wallet and put it back in your (legitimate) bank account, and then you write the IRS a check for $20 million saying “ah I’ve been selling NFTs, what fun I have had, but I have to pay the IRS my fair share,” then … I am obviously not going to give you advice on crime but it’s possible you’ve got something there? Like, nobody has any idea what a Meebit is worth, so this string of outlandish numbers is somewhat plausible? It’s possible that some number of NFT wash trades have a purpose other than pumping up volume on NFT platforms?
Definitely, when I managed to get my old dreamcast back online after 20 years it felt great! Live stats right now: https://dreamcast.online/now/ (Small and passionate is dead right).
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I use the desktop site on mobile because it may be garbage but it at least works