skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In $current_year, I kind of want to go even further and just ban the Internet.
The ESR idea of "a hacker" has nothing to do with someone running illegal markets on darknet.

ESR was thinking about ppl like Daniel: https://twitter.com/bagder
I was going to say Fiverr. I can highly recommend my First Wife as an excellent source of cheap voiceovers (6000 five-star ratings?):

https://www.fiverr.com/actressellen/record-a-professional-vo...
Already existing gem works for both MySQL and PostgreSQL https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations
I agree . I thought it was a excellent article with good research and problem solving. It may motivate me to get my even older palm out of my storage and rabbit around for several books and other doc I have some where. Thank you to the author.
> Until some perfect thing comes along, fusion or whatever

Fusion won’t be perfect. It will also require resources, and generate waste.
The truth is that you cannot have something from nothing and any energy extraction system will need materials (metals, rare earths, concrete) and change land use patterns.
Google is pushing to have the browser itself track your interests and share them with whoever asks. The first attempt FloC backfired rather quickly as it was an all around privacy nightmare. The second attempt Topics promises to fix a lot of the problems FloC had but that is not a high bar and Google left itself a lot of room for future changes.
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The answer below mentioning explainshell.com doesn't explain the `-Pn` parameter. This one makes nmap skip host discovery and immediately start the port scan. The developer of nmap discourages using this parameter: https://twitter.com/bonsaiviking/status/1286024550241767426

Only if you know the host is alive and at the same time does not want to be seen, then it may make sense to use it, otherwise it messes with nmap's rate calibration.

The website also doesn't really explain why those switches were chosen.

And it's not clear to me either: unless you lack permissions or you find yourself in some other special circumstances, `-sS` is superior over `-sT` (as the man page explains). The latter creates a full TCP connection, while the former sends only a SYN packet and waits for the response: SYN-ACK means port open, RST means port closed. Then it moves on, leaving the half-opened connection dangling.

`--min-rate` was chosen to increase speed, but it comes at the cost of accuracy. `-T4` is the better switch to increase speed. See the man page for details.
How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think of You (2019)
Can these be serialized? One of my main uses for partial is passing things to multiprocessing pool.map. People often reach for lambda but it cannot be pickled/serialized so it fails.
GDPR has been a massive win for user/consumer rights. Its a piece of legislation law makers in the US are trying to mimic.

Surprisingly the UK are trying to rid or weaken GDPR significantly after brexit.

The only way to fix this problem now is through strong legislation.
Yes, I feel the same, at least for a lot of things. Certainly, all externally facing websites should be designed and maintained by gov't staff.

From time to time, HN features high quality UK gov't websites. In the last five years, the UK gov't has made dramatic strides on "digital gov't" initiatives that benefit regular citizens. As I understand, most of those sites are built and maintained by gov't employees. This runs counter to the normal, all-prevailing attitude in UK that "any gov't is too much gov't" (or "any gov't that does not directly benefit me...").
Pumped hydro probably isn't the answer to energy storage.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/

You need a large reservoir at the top, another at the bottom, and as much vertical separation as possible. There aren't all that many places in the world that offer the geography necessary. It can be a good solution in places that do have the correct geography, though.
Yep, I'm forever 'amazed' (read: not surprised) that this type of content continually makes it to the top of the front page of this website.

With the way the author described Overwatch, it sounds like the equivalent to 95th percentile for chess would be more 50th percentile for chess, because in order to reach around that level, one would have to put in that type of work as described to purportedly reach the 95th percentile in Overwatch.

Based on my understanding with the Lichess's blitz rating system (which of course can't be directly mapped to any other rating system), I expect that players rated 2175 Glicko in Lichess blitz could roughly be getting close to 1800-2000 Elo with FIDE if they played FIDE classical tournaments and were rated accordingly.

For comparison, FIDE's rating floor is 1000, but newbie players would likely remain "unrated" because they "aren't (yet) good enough" to be 1000 after 5 rated games. Meanwhile, GM Magnus Carlsen currently has a "live" FIDE rating of 2863.9 Elo (live, as opposed to published monthly rating).

As a further comparison, popular Twitch chess streamers WFM Alexandra Botez and WFM Anna Cramling have FIDE ratings of 2020 and 2057 Elo respectively, and Chesscom blitz ratings of 2195 and 2084 glicko respectively. I think they would simply wipe the floor at most (but not all) chess clubs that exist in the world.

There really aren't a lot of players who go through my chess club who are at or near this level. It really takes a lot of work to get anywhere close to that standard. The amount of work it takes for most to get that good would require chess to be their main hobby, if not something more. That, or they have to start it from a young age and also be quite obsessive about it.

Exact numbers aside, this level strength in chess isn't to be sneezed at, and requires significant investments of time - often over a "lifetime" (where lifetime = 10 or more years of a high level of dedication, focus, and good guidance), which for many young players, it is most of their lifetime. Most chess players will never reach this standard of chess, despite following all the basic advice as per the post. So I just find top 5% / 95th percentile being bandied about to be applicable for any field as somewhat laughable or fabricated. Maybe the figure is real for Overwatch, but for things like chess, speedcubing, and instrumental/vocal music, it just doesn't quite work that way as much as many would wish it did. Yes, the overall message of practising and learning is good, but when extraordinary claims such as "95%-ile isn't that good" get thrown about with Overwatch being used as primary evidence, the substance isn't much more convincing than typical clickbait. Survivorship bias?
It was a GoPuff order.
From the screenshot at the top it looks like they're using unitymedia. The funny thing is, at least in the past, that thing resets entirely if you disconnect it from power for some time, booting up with some old firmware revision afterwards. If you power it on then and quickly access the web interface, you'll see the option for bridge mode. Then it magically updates, and the option is gone. (this was a few years ago)
> “Don't set up an illegal dark web operation."
Sadly, most publishers are not interested in developing their own proxy solution just for the sake of data privacy. They vastly prefer a ready-made solution that they can just use.

Much of the power of the advertising space come from people (publishers, consumers and advertisers) generally choosing the path of least resistance. They don't have the technical know-how and they would only acquire it if there were enough benefits. Sadly, privacy is not enough on its own.

I think the solution that can solve all that is when a company acts as a "wall" between consumers and publishers/advertisers. Then, that company can protect the consumer while keeping the user experience as simple as possible.

"Sign in with Apple" is one such solution. But of course, it brings its own (different) downsides.
Haha, yeah, I got kinda bitter after learning the hard way that Dilbert wasn't a parody

You make good points, about that 90% figure and that I shouldn't imply salaried life as exploitation. There's a reasonably healthy free market and the means of production (a laptop) can be fished out of a trash can

I came at 90% since Google had 135k employees in 2020, and $209B in revenue. That's $1.5M per person, and then my mental math went off the rails.. obviously revenue isn't profit, and who knows if $150k/year/employee on average would be enough to provide the same benefits/take home pay on average. There are economies of scale at work too

PragmaticPulp has a fundamental belief deep in his soul that some people are good engineers, and others are "people who really just hate doing anything that resembles work". That, in my opinion, is wrong and leads to bad things*. I believe that anyone can succeed in the right environment.

* like Amazon/Microsoft giving hundreds of good employees the "unregretted attrition" axe because it's easier for upper management to do it that way
Only available in .NET ecosystem, got excited after I read the title, but forgot Microsoft is Microsoft.

"YARP is a reverse proxy toolkit for building fast proxy servers in .NET using the infrastructure from ASP.NET and .NET."
Oh I know. I get it. It just sounds weird as F to a European. Imperial scales don't increase in nice multiples of 10/100/1000. I remember Imperial weight measurements as grain, ounce, pound, stone, quarter, hundred weight, ton. In Ireland back in the 70s/80s if you were asked your weight, you'd give it in stones, pounds and ounces (and of course, you had to remember how many of one was in the other). I don't remember "old money" but I'm old enough to remember adults talk about how much something cost "in old money" (£,S,D) and being a child of the 70s, I laughed and wondered how the hell they calculated anything back then when a shilling was 12d and there were 240d in a £. It's why I've always found it odd that the US stuck hard to measurement systems that are inherently difficult to remember and calculate because they don't use multiples of 10/100/1000, and easy type of measurement uses its own words and multiples.

So kilopound... Sounds weird.
It is convention on hn to tag non-current articles with the year in the title, and this tag is missing, so the comment was likely not meant to be dismissive of the content.
Curiously, Webster's [0] doesn't include the word cruel. Possibly the Americans and the British use the word differently. I suspect the British are working around the fact that they have a monarch; the US definition is closer to my understanding of the original Greek tyrants.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyranny
Full-text search now exists in ProtonMail: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/search/
>The problem imho isn't GTM (Google Tagmanager) running as proxy. This would (or at least could) be a data privacy win if done ethically. At least under one imho essential condition: I could be able to run the proxy on any infrastructure that I like. Not only one Google's cloud offering.

Yup that is where rubber meets the road. Would like to offer google as little data as possible. And use as little google products as possible on the web and internet.
So this is basically reciprocity. The American Department of Homeland Security has a similar program for Europeans.
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov
Europeans need to register since ... many years through ESTA. So what?
As someone in a community where NVC is highly valued, I agree with this. I think there are some standard good principles out there that are non-specific to NVC, but many of the people who study NVC seem to have their equal share of problems those who don't, and those who don't still have their fair share.

There are many "systems" of communication. Another one is the book Crucial Conversations and many online courses. Similar, there are some things that will work everywhere, but a lot that doesn't seem to go so smooth.

There are certain other things that pretty much universally help (listening to another person, for instance). Not being aggressive with your words, keeping yourself calm.

The best luck I've seen is learning a style of communication and then sharing it with those who matter.
For sure, guess it's why Brave block it.
Why do you have to express your opinion in the form of a personal attack? Been a long day? I hope you have a better one tomorrow.
I'd argue learning programming is a different skill compared to memorising laws or biology, it's math more than anything else (especially logic, set theory).

Lawyers and doctors basically need to memorise facts, apply rules and make deductions. Developers need to do that + math, hence why starting early helps you out, exactly like kids who did math or chess early on are better than their peers who started later.
Presumably the intention of the GP was to mention it so that the year gets added on the submission’s title, as is usually the case with older articles.
Are you really suddenly not going to spend $500 on your students because now only $450 of it goes towards goods instead of the full $500? That doesn't really make any sense to me. Especially if the standard deduction grants you an additional $1k that you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
I think this is basically true when looking at most skillsets. 95%ile is a grind, but it's mostly one of error reduction and vocabulary building. Most people can build vocabulary just fine given time and attention, but observing and correcting errors is much harder.

When a game is just outright complex like SC2 in its decision making(hundreds of units and structures that could be individually commanded), all the skills needed to reach 95%ile boil down to rote technique: "good builds", "meta strats", etc. This is where most video games sit, since this kind of overt complexity is something you can learn in little nibbles: A is more powerful than B in situation X.

In comparison, games like pinball have relatively little going on in their vocabulary: there are plenty of techniques and rulesets, but much of the good strategy boils down to "hit accurately" and "recover successfully", and those are entirely sources of error, reduced only through many hours of play to find methods of hitting and recovering with good expected value and low risk - sweet spots on a playfield and a deep understanding of the physics to enable combo setups. If you have accuracy, you need only have a small layer of rules and shots knowledge to smoke tournaments. With little to consciously memorize to overcome the skill gap, casual players conclude that pinball is "just random".
Wow. I've been talking about this for 15 years. I guess they finally got painted into a corner enough to implement it.
"Prospective visitors will need to complete an online application and a €7 fee will be required from those between ages 18 and 70.[10] The system is expected to process the vast majority of applications automatically by searching in electronic databases and provide an immediate response, but in some limited cases it may take up to 30 days.[11][2] If approved, the authorisation will be valid for three years or until the expiry date of the travel document if earlier.[2]"

A short video about the reasons (I'm not really convinced)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orrBJiXAcSU
About a year ago, I came across a book printing service [1] and didn't realize until that point, how accessible and cheap high quality book printing was. So I collected all the (poetry) content I could from my blog, had my partner take care of the drawings and published a book [2] with a proper ISBN and everything in two weeks. It was a great experience, learning about all different terminologies, layout design, color profiles, etc. The color profile thing was specially tricky.

And once we started giving them away to friends and family, I realized how much more effective print media is in the world of endless online content. They all read and talked about it while the same content had been on online on my blog for the past decade or so without it receiving much attention.

[1]: https://mixam.com.au/hardcoverbooks

[2]: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Duoverse.html?id=Qco...
Seems fair. I am EU citizen, can go to US visa free, but ESTA is required. It should be the same from the other side.

And US limits countries I can visit. Iran is great holiday destination, but after visit I would need US visa.
That's just incorrect. Children have increased neuroplasticity and will always outperform an adult in terms of language learning - not to mention you lose the ability to learn to make certain sounds after a certain age.
Unfortunately I don't see a good solution either. Large direct to consumer business models like SaaS or subscriptions are really only sustainable at scale, and even then it's dicey. In a SaaS model, the big fish win and we lose the democratic nature of the current internet.

Society has driven the perceived price of content so low that the content itself is worth less than the aggregate audience. Really, in what other space does the average consumer set their price expectations at free AND balk at paying $5/mo for unlimited access to a product?

The only thing that seems to come close to moving the needle towards privacy is somehow pushing advertisers into in-market advertising (think early internet-style site banner ads) and out of programmatic/user tracked ads. There is some evidence that these programmatic ads don't really perform as well as they claim but from what I can gather, the data is still unclear.
I wrote the least-C C program I could
I don't know what cartoonish depiction of shareholders you are alleging here but they probably wouldn't be very happy to have a sudden 50% drop in profits without any prior planning or intimation.
Violate an explicit request for privacy.

I would love to leave all of the blinds on the windows in my home open all time, but I live in a neighborhood. The price I pay for privacy is the cost of the blinds and the action of closing them when I want privacy. When those blinds are closed, it is not in any way acceptable for anyone to come along and try to find a way to see around or through them, even if they're trying to sell something.

Nobody would be harmed in the above example any more than they would be by having their privacy violated online. Nobody is physically harmed, or had their property stolen. They wouldn't even be inconvenienced in any a way, so long as they are unaware of the intrusion.

Now for a personal experience that stuck with me and helped shaped my views on privacy:

Many years ago I walked in on my girlfriend in the bathroom, and she asked me to leave. I was going for something in the medicine cabinet and thinking she just didn't want me to see her on the toilet, I replied "I don't mind" and continued toward the cabinet. She exclaimed "But I do!".

Of course, she was right and I was wrong, because privacy is about respecting the individual's desire for it.
There are such partnerships, they are called dev agencies. Usually good for partners themselves, less so for rank and file employees.
I previously researched that USA does not allow private citizens to operate their own nuclear power plants. Why doesn't Amazon lobby against this law, and then build their own energy generation to offset their carbon footprint and reduce power cost? If it really is a big factor of their pricing model, it can be worthwhile, no?
Or, one could be like Elizabeth Swaney or "Eric the Eel", or "Eddie the Eagle" and be the top competitor from their represented country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Swaney

Compared to the best in the world, they were all still not very good. But on the metric of being able to make it to the Olympics, they were all geniuses.

And meanwhile, there's Steven Bradbury who 20 years ago, legitimately won a gold medal in short track speed skating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bradbury

It seems to me that that "top" is often a nebulous term.
I'd suggest to visit places outside of your usual circle. It doesn't necessarily has to be India or Vietnam - try to visit local churches if you haven't done so yet, local communities, areas where homeless people live, something like that.

Try to see different people and communities.

I'll risk and say books will not help you develop those qualities but teach you how to look like you have them. It's not the same. To feel it you need to see the world outside of comfortable shell.
In practice, for digital production backgrounds like the volume they actually set the part of the screens that intersect the camera frustum to a green screen in case they want to change anything in post. The main benefit you get from digital volumes like this is immersion for the actors and lighting conditions that match the CG environment.
And what would they find?

The hardest investigation to defend against is the rubber hose investigation. Gotta give them what they want, without them even suspecting you could be that mysterious founder. The only way people suspect you’re someone is if your k is small, eg how many people could be Satoshi?

If you’re efficient, you can retire the mysterious founder identity and simply have multiple “early adopter” addresses that generated rewards early, among actual adopters. Make an exit from your projects as early as you can after they gain momentum with the wider crowd.

There is no way to stop people from starting open source projects, accruing the early rewards and then selling those rewards to others in a decentralized exchange or async OTC deal. If every country worldwide ever closes down all such anonymous mechanisms (maybe by 2050) and makes register in order to sell your rewards, you simply sell your private keys to the wallet in an async OTC deal. The buyer will have to trust that you won’t move the money after they register the address and before they move it.
> on yet another terrible societal harming technological implementation

As much as we all hate NFTs (and it seems it's still difficult for most to ignore) it is just plain false that every single NFTs is like that. There are those that exist that are useful and environmentally friendly.
The kafka-esque part is that they're well aware of the issue, because many of the lens companies (hoya, zeiss) have come up with "myopia control glasses" which are basically just minus lenses but with reduced power on the periphery, which they'll gladly sell you for added markup. It's no surprise that these are better than full-on minus lenses for close work, but you know what would be even better? Telling children to remove their glasses when using the computer or reading. But that doesn't bring in any profit.
WORMHOLES

No there are not giant arctic worms here at Thule. What happens is the sun melts the
top layer of snow and ice during the day, and then freezes during the night. You can’t
tell from looking whether there’s snow, water, ground, or just open space underneath it,
or how high it is. Sticking to the roadways is your best option.
A Ruby on rails shop like fly.io would use .net?
Of course, but you are not likely to speak like a Japanese person - maybe you will, after practicing for a lot of time and assuming your native language had matching sounds to Japanese (I don't know about Japanese but there are some guttural sounds in Greek you won't be able to learn as an adult unless you've been exposed to them as a child). Meanwhile a newborn would learn to speak like a native Japanese speaker in 3-5 years.
Yeah, I get it. The employees should be living paycheck to paycheck on the verge of poverty so the shareholders can rake in that extra 3.5bi.
These employees are such crybabies, they just need to budget better.