skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's again the questions that I hope we can discuss together :)

- If you could create your own search index (which you can redistribute, resell as you please) for let’s say up to 200 domains, updated weekly, would you pay $100 monthly for that?

- Do you think someone could run a 10000 subscribers x $1 monthly Patreon to maintain a search index of mainstream news websites?

- Would you rent and set up a $20 monthly VPS to host your own ad-free private federated search engine for yourself and your friends and family?

- Would you consider hosting a public search engine with ethical ads if you had free access to the necessary software and an affordable way to subscribe to the data?

- Do you think it is possbile to set up a company which will be financially self-sufficient (i.e. no dependence on ads) and produce the necessary data?

- If the opportunity was there, would you set up such a company to populate an emerging market of ethically uncompromised search data providers?

- This seems like it would benefit the greater good. Are there any government subsidies for this kind of stuff?
Looks like it's promo codes. Which authors can generate and sell/give away outside of audible. Technically, so can producers too.

So, still sketchy, but for different reasons.
Isn't that how the different Matrix servers work already?
It's funny that right now there isn't a single comment that mentions something positive about the new interface.

It's either completely terrible or - more likely - people hate change.
It wasn't as early as mid-to-late '00s, but it has definitely been a few years since I've used the Javascript version of Gmail. It used to be snappy and responsive back when it was introduced (when Gmail was the cool new thing), but in recent years it has been a resource hog to a level that its features cannot justify. HTML-only Gmail for quick update checks/read-only usage, local email clients for anything more complex I need to do.
DOD needs to release those 175 million addresses back to the US public.

That blog mentioned it but still, the timing of when it happened and who got control of them is odd af.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/penta...
Google Duo, Google Messenger, Google Wave, Google Answers
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This was suggested as a possible solution to tracking the use of a stolen SD card. I have tested with it and it works well. Haven't had any real life experience with it.

Would the police even be able to use the IP and timestamp to request ISP records to get the user's identity? It would have visual evidence of an individual committing a summary offense, misdemeanor, and the card itself would be evidence of the theft (misdemeanor).

In theory I would think so. But in practice I wonder if they would even bother.
Like if you could build something awesome on Mars it would pretty much universally be easier to build it in North Dakota.
Rhapsody was a fairly ugly and distorted copy of the Platinum theme if we’re honest.
I suspect the answer is "a whole lot of us".
I ran across this service while reading a blog post from Corey Quinn about AWS security. It turns out that CanaryTokens has a AWS IAM token generator that alerts whenever someone tries to use it. That's a great idea and I can see sprinkling credentials around would make a great tripwire.

https://blog.thinkst.com/2017/09/canarytokens-new-member-aws...
This is a very flippant comment, but I will try to respond anyway - we simply haven't achieved a post scarcity society yet. Maybe we will at some point, but we just aren't there yet. So right now our time, money and natural resources are quite simply limited. So maybe it's not that we shouldn't have a base on Mars - it's just that maybe that shouldn't be the first step in human habitation in space.
Well, I do have backups. This is India, so I even have a backup for the backup. I have three ISPs load-balanced, and not experienced any downtime since the beginning of the Pandemic (early 2020). I do realize them going down but we never realize until I looked them up.

It runs almost all the time, but sometimes I need to update settings, etc. which needs reboots the load balancer that distributes everything from.

:-)
If i go ousode in winter, the bsttery dies around zero degrees. Keep in mind that you laptop could be in a bag in sleep mode or idle
Because conversations have lifespans. If I want to see said answer I can visit my profile and check. But I don't want the website constantly pestering me "someone responded to that thing you said a week ago!"

If I'm still curious of the answer a few days later I can check my profile a few days later
There are a lot of games which looked much better on CRT's ( MDK, Blood, Doom). The fact that early LCD's could not represent many colors (they claimed 24 bits but the image looked like 16 bits - especially visible in gradients)
Tropes exist for a reason. Bitwarden is perfectly fine and functional and does its job very well. As you mentioned, there's some hiccups but for the most part it seems like a much better alternative to LastPass
Anybody can run their own platform right now without involving any cryptononsense. That's how the net used to work after all. Anybody failing to understand what lead to the centralization is bound to reproduce the same mistakes. It's not a technical issue, it's a social one.
Right, but I know that to be false. In the extreme case to prove my point, if you write your stack in Brainfuck on top of Oracle, you're going to have a much harder time than if you write it in JS on top of Postgres
In my social media profile image I use a Saint Augustine maxim for friendship:

Ubi amicita est, ibi idem velle et idem nolle.

"True friendship is in, same likes and same dislikes." [1]

Is the best radar (sonar?) I've found to predict and sense how shallow or deep a friendship with any person you'll have.

Now you can use it as a generator of the types of relations with individuals that you company has/wants to have: founders, developers, marketeers, commercial, support, partners and customers.

[1] So the dislikes part you might take it as the anti-value notion proposed here but is still a value.

PS: about the anti-value notion, I think we're still talking about values. Like a value matrix you have in your deep psychology that is symmetrical. It has the values of the things you're attracted to and the things you are repelled from. Like all the cells in the matrix being little vectors that will eventually synthesise a final position on everything you input.
It looks like promotional codes are indeed the cause. That said, promo codes are also be sold through third parties. I think that's what's happened in my case.
>>I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this.

I read this as: I am currently a happy apple customer. I do not buy apps on other app stores because they do not exist.

>>What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree. The intense planning on their part to mess up a thing I love just because they couldn’t make their money… Oh. Nevermind.

Apple's practices as a company are things that, historically, have more or less gotten other companies into a lot of legal trouble. The whole world is watching and waiting for a legal system somewhere to step in and say, "Ok, enough is enough."
That’s about the worst stretch I’ve ever heard. I guess I should shoot the next guy who tries to give me a parking ticket?
OpenBSD solved this problem long ago. Is the reason behind Linux' hesitancy/opposition to their solution of technical or philosophical nature?
> If the kernel aims to have 2 ways to get randomness [...] and there's two device files why not map one to one and one to the other?

Because both these files come with preconceived notions from various stages in the life of Unix regarding what guarantees they provide, and "best effort" works for neither of those.

If this change had come in, say, 2005, they maybe could have gotten away with /dev/random = blocked until initialized and /dev/urandom = best effort, since that was the common wisdom at the time. But for the last 10 years, more and more people have switched to using /dev/urandom for everything since it is actually good enough for everything once initialized (and most application devs only care about the "once initialized" phase since they don't work on early-boot stuff). Switching /dev/urandom to GRND_INSECURE now would therefore be a potentially bad idea.
The biggest thing is the battery. The CPU doesnt get too cold, but batteries degrade or stop performing when they get too cold.

Edit: For actual temperatures, in my experience its when the device is in use for a sustained amount of time in under 10f weather
How did they solve it?
I think there is multiple stages in technology.

A quick growth stage, typically when the subject is still new and being explored, and where a continuous or very regular upgrade is the best strategy.
For example, smartphones or computers were evolving so much still not that long ago, that keeping one for more than 3 years was rare, and costing a lot in term of usability.

And then, there's a cooling down phase, when the evolution is much slower, and gains are few and far between. In this context, a consolidation strategy is better, and if one keeps the previous strategy, you can end up with changes that feel forced and are not actually evolution, but just something pushed because one has to push new things constantly.
Yes, in general "free speech" platforms seem to quickly turn into Alt-Right platforms that are, ironically, heavily moderated. (Looking at you, Voat)
How are those 8 billion starving people getting into a base 10km below the surface of the ocean which requires a specialized submarine to get to? How is this any more realistic than 8 billion starving people getting to Mars?

And finally - I hope you aren't suggesting that the base on Mars is a way to escape "8 billion starving people".
> Some science really can't be done as well or cheaply by robots alone.

I'm struggling to imagine how a "lab full of equipment, life support, beds, bathrooms, comms, and return rocketry" doesn't ($-wise) translate much better to "many, many more teleoperated robots with miniaturized labs operated from orbit or Earth with frequent sample return round-trips".

Boots on the ground is a moral victory, but I don't see the science victory until you get enough equipment / personnel there to get a thriving ecosystem of thought in-situ. Not to mention: Astronauts are rarely the scientists that study the place they are going.

Now an ISS around Mars? That makes a lot of sense to me.
Sweet, now I can get the worthless Meet tab directly in the web version. Can't wait for it to only be GMail and Meet and have no other apps, because their enterprise offerings (with other worthless apps) cause changes to everything else.
> Assuming it's configured correctly. Most devices are not.

Aren't they? I've never seen a home user fight with IPv6

> Why would you ever want publicly routable addresses on devices inside your home?

Because that's how the internet is supposed to work. It's what protocols are designed for. IPv4's shortcomings have led to many stupid security issues (SIP ALG, FTP ALG, all the other ALGs, all allowing anyone website to punch a hole straight through consumer firewalls). I don't know what insecure-by-default devices you use, but all routers I've seen come with a firewall enabled by default set to deny all incoming traffic.

If you don't want that for some reason, feel free to NAT66 your network into your own chosen ULA.

IPv6 is no more of a flaming security dumpster fire than IPv4.
Remix also supports client side React rendering so those redirects will be client side history and general routing logic applies just like using React Router. No page reloads will occur when using the Remix Form and Link component so the state is preserved according to regular React/React Router behaviour.
Fascinating to me that Gmail is not an app platform yet. Could be huge.
My preference is using isync (IMAP) to a local folder, and interacting via mu4e (inside Emacs).

If I don't have terminal/SSH access, I'll use the "basic HTML" view.
> local

> central
The part that I don't understand is that the Dark Stores have no reason to pay any more than necessary for rent; so they must be in the cheapest places possible that are close enough to deliver to affluent neighborhoods. So what are they replacing?
For "open terminal here", nemo includes this as a right click option.

`gammastep` is a good tool to change colour temperature at sundown. Works on wayland.

`darkman` allows handling dark mode transitions (it's a bit more technical).
I think it is more that tech (and tech companies) become more subjects of political debate.
The only reason this story exists is a bunch of conspiracy theories. If it happened any other time (and it does) it would be a normal network failure.

EDIT: sigh
We can do both. Even Musk’s plan is aiming at 10s of hours of 2020 global GDP spread over the best part of a century.
My response to any Google announcement these days is "What's in it for Google?". I used to love Google when it was a scrappy startup with amazing tech, now I just assume they're trying new ways to shaft me.
For most real-world applications of ML, yes. Of course, what happens in ML-research is different (where e.g. new networks for new modalities are invented).

But back to the topic, I bet the kid didn't even invent their own neural network topology, but just pulled a predefined network from a library, perhaps without even knowing it. Which is ok, because that is how most people use ML.
I’m usually a fan of Rachel’s writing, but this one just sounds like normal unfamiliarity with a language ecosystem.

Yes, Node.js programs have a lot of dependencies. That’s how the ecosystem works. Code is shipped as source and there’s a culture of code reuse. Nothing about this is bad or wrong.

ESLint is a good tool if you’re developing JS. The typical approach is to install it as a project dependency, using ‘npm install eslint —dev’ IIRC.
sounds like he is pretty pissed at Amazon selling counterfeit versions of some of his 7 books. And he should be.
That's what I think too
I always thought the "but look at all the science we got out of it" line was rationalization. The Moon race happened because it was a contest. The reason I would buy for either Moon or Mars colonies would be access to resources in the belt.
Every Time Columbo Asked One More Thing | Season 1 | Columbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB-jlomZhHU
The 60% cut is egregious and deserves more condemnation, especially with how much people gripe about Apple, Google's, and other parties 30% cut of payments.

Plus, I have yet to see a single retail price purchase. The biggest price someone has paid for a book I've seen a royalty payment on was $4.50.
Thanks. I never played the original.
The point is that even for boring work (e.g. a janitor) it’s better to hire one really good worker than two average ones.
For every towing company that refuses to help, audit them, run surprise inspections, make a new law that requires to comply with legal city requests in order to maintain a license to operate.
Robot grocery delivery now live in this East Bay city (Pleasanton)
Nice to a see a friend of the family. :) There's a build step we take care of in the background, so that we can use git as the underpinnings instead of anything proprietary. (The logs on a project show you all the stuff that's happening under the hood.)
I've seen more outages (or worse - silent data corruption, inconsistency, or deviations from the intended business rules) due to home-brewed, horizontally-scalable engineering playgrounds having a flaw than a good old Postgres on bare-metal hardware suddenly going dark.
So what magnitude of gravitational difference is this method capable of detecting? Is it good enough to use as a gravity sensor to detect seismic shifts, trucks passing by, storm fronts moving through, the moon?
WebGL 2 was fully developed five years ago. What happened now was Safari finally exposed support, and reused a lot of implementation effort done by Google in the form of ANGLE (which Safari was already using, just not exposing WebGL 2). This was not a from-scratch implementation and development of a new API, it was a collaboration and adoption of an existing API shipped in all other major browsers for years.

The Metal ANGLE backend work done by Apple was a large chunk of work, but a lot of it needed to be done anyway to continue to support WebGL at all on Apple platforms given Apple's deprecation of OpenGL.
I agree going to Mars is never going to be a useful for evacuation, but it could help if we where already there.

Most plausibility the long duration space flight should prevent the common cold from making the trip which would also prevent many hypothetical super plagues from doing so as well. In theory you could do the same on earth, but it’s unlikely for a self sustaining underground colony to consistently maintain that level of quarantine for new arrivals.

However getting a self sustaining population on Mars that could survive indefinitely is currently just science fiction and making the trip is the least difficult hurdle for changing this.
I hate the apple App Store, if you want my money, don't be on the Apple App Store.
Speaking for myself, not parent, but one of their key justifications for the subscription was their cloud storage, which is a feature I do not want for my personal password store. I would actually be okay with a subscription (as long as I didn't lose read access on cancellation), if it didn't have that forced misfeature.
As someone that's been here since the very beginning I think that tech has begun to be responsible for a larger portion of the world as a whole and this community has moved a small amount towards that direction as a result.

I distinctly remember reading articles about major world events in the beginning as well so it's not entirely new, but it has grown a little.

I don't think it's a problem, and this is coming from a centrist that typically doesn't care for political discussion on any medium.
Do you seek the truth unconditionally, or only truth that fits within your pre-conceived notions of acceptability? Can you imagine a society where an objective truth was unacceptable, and denial of that truth was harmful to themselves or others?
> React makes sense for FB's bloated, complex web app. Your CRUD app will do fine with far simpler dev tools.

And that would be what? Exactly?

I did a personal project last year that was vanilla HTML/CSS/Js, with some templating in Go (I know it's templating isn't the best, comparatively). By the end, I wish I would have done it in React. I ended up re-inventing the wheel for a lot of things, and ended up with something that was decidedly messier. All while attempting to be more simplistic.

I wish Web Components would have taken off. When Polymer first launched, I was totally on board. I loved the idea of writing vanilla frontends, and using Web Components where I needed extended functionality (vs a full framework). But, it didn't, and unless your site is super simple, and mostly static, React et al. are the best ways to create frontends.
Depending on the day and situation I go up and down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

I get some self-actualization and transcendence, enjoy a lot of aesthetic pleasure. Right now I am thinking about the physiological need of hunger and will go eat after, feel pretty safe, I feel good about myself in most respects but have a certain hole in my self-image that needs some worth.

Unlike a lot of people I see my current job as a solution rather than a problem and side projects as a answer to growth.
“… rules are coordination mechanisms that carry the capacity to destroy value”
Excellent phrasing :)
I think "political" content being so heavily suppressed is the community abdicating responsibility; and also is a sign of how much users here aren't able to emotionally regulate to have civil conversation [which is a signal of strength, of health - physical and mental health, mastery of oneself, self-control] - so much practically everything important - including the Emergency Act (war measures act aka martial law) being initiated in Canada for the first time ever by our Prime Minister who is more and more clearly acting as a fascist.

When I tried posting a technology angle to this - "Ask HN: Do we care about our captured systems?" - to point out that it's the design of platforms like Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, etc. that's allowing propaganda and ideology to easily get to the top, while easily suppressing the truth - and where on HN it's easy to suppress perfectly valid, well-written, articulate comments to prevent the majority from seeing ideas that may actually be the truth.

It's a problem.

Edit to add: Thanks for all the fish, enjoy your lazy dopamine hit.
Funny thing is when you live just outside of the most populated part of the city, where the density of stores within walking distance decreases, the number of these services available quickly drops to zero as well, leaving you needing to use public transport or drive to go pick things up.
Are you multi-cloud because your customers need you to be multi-cloud?
At which point SaaS stops being cost-effective for businesses?
“The Mapmakers Wife” is an interesting book that tells the story of how explorers measured arcs of latitude and longitude around the world to figure all this out. The audiobook version is good too.
I don't know what impact that partitioning pattern has on s3, but it has some obvious benefits if your app needs to revert to write to a normal filesystem instead (like for testing).
Read a little further down and the description has a different character: the Imperial Japanese Army showed, at best, an indifference to the lives of Japanese and indigenous civilians in Okinawa. Worse than the indifference, they propagandized civilians to believe that the Americans would rape, murder, and torture them and encouraged them to commit suicide or to launch suicide attacks and otherwise tried to maneuver civilians into harm's way.

At the time it probably did look like civilians were being turned into defensive soldiers- in the fullness of time, I think it looks more like a desperate and cruel army brutalizing a civilian population, sometimes pushing them into harm's way. I'd also presume that the treatment of the civilian population was worse for indigenous Okinawans-- maybe even today Okinawans can find themselves treated as 'not real Japanese'.

It's been a while since I read 'Embracing Defeat' but I recall its summary of the state of Japan towards the end of the war and a lecturer saying, in effect, that nobody had to invade Japan to cause the deaths of millions, the supply chain (Asian mainland colonies collapsing) / labor (men at all near military age gone to war and many of them dead or captured) / agricultural situation was so dire that the U.S. could have set a blockade and millions of Japanese would have died with 0 fighting.

The counter-argument to the necessity of the bombs is basically that the U.S. knew Japan could not effectively resist and though the U.S. might not have had a way of guessing, the highest levels of Japanese government were already in the process of discussing when and how to surrender right around the time the bombs were dropped. IIRC about the emperor's message of surrender, the bombs may have made it easier for the emperor to preserve face when surrendering, as such weapons make it easier to justify a surrender as a positive action.
Developers and consumers really need to rise up against walled gardens in computing. Sadly we have a whole generation of young people who don't even know what they are missing.