skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it’s really dubious how hard ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, and others are pushing their closed source binary clients. They are not just a convenience wrapper to download config files, there seems to be something more involved. The paranoid in me wonders if it’s some sort of phone-home mechanism so they can identify you if needed or if they are trying to inject ads at layer 4. It really stands out compared to the VPNs that invite you to download and review all of their client and server config files.

I can understand that a couple hours of support can really eat into the margins - but in the same breath the vast majority of users are down to just download the binary client and be on their way - it’s only a small percentage that want to do things low level and we probably aren’t going to need help from support beyond downloading the configs if they are hidden on the website.
Random walk diffusion model running on an Intel Loihi neuromorphic platform
I have seen tens of attempts to do this in a past decade, and it never seems to work.

People say they want this, but in reality almost no article seems to be worthy of eg. $5, even though you would be absolutely ok subscribing for $5 to a newsletter with 2 posts per month, one of which you won't read ...
Each step of decoding a PNG
In Poland, there was a relatively famous historian of philosophy recommended to people interested in philosophy, Władysław Tatarkiewicz and his three tomes of Historia filozofii.

His chapter on Nietzsche was also just disastrous, while reading this, I had wondered whether he even knew who Nietzsche was.

So it's not just one time thing.

I remember reading that chapter - though I wish I had forgotten it. It made me look at Russell in a negative way.
How does it compare to other illnesses?
Here the full article:

“Neuromorphic computing widely applicable, Sandia researchers show”
https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/neuromorphic_hpc/
What is right? To enable russia to commit war crimes with western technology?

Why is the sentiment "poor russia, they are victims."

They have no supply chain integrity. Embarrassing logistics failures. Critically corrupt government, and are actively conducting an invasion of a sovereign nation. All self inflicted losses.

Where is the demand for an equivalent proprietary OS from Russia? Why does America have to export its operating system? Why does Russia deserve to run western designed computers and western code if this is what they choose to do with it?
Another option is that companies (mostly Google) have different offerings in different countries. In Germany, for example, they need to apply NetzDG filtering and I assume it's similar for countries all around the world. So my assumption is they don't redirect you for the language, they redirect you to the (slightly different) service for your current location, which happens to be in the local language.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1626069-4chan

I just can't help but share this meme from 4chan about Nietzche here.
The article talks about Microsoft, and boy, it's even more terrible in some respects: for example, language of some Office tools like Excel is bound to the organization!

I worked for a French company, and I was forced to use web Excel in French, including keyboard shortcuts being FR-specific ("ctrl-g" for "bold" - "grossir").

I had my language set to English everywhere in browser, OS, MS profile, Office profile etc., not important.

(FWIW native Windows Excel didn't have this issue, so I sticked with native Excel).

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Re: location based on geoloc: I remember some HN user from Switzerland saying that IIRC either his IP is being moved around in geoIP databases between Swiss regions, or getting slightly distinct IP each time; as a result, he randomly gets all kinds of websites in French, and sometimes in German. Imagine this.
"Let's discuss Russian economy."

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501360272442896388?s...
RegisterFly, back in the day…
Immediately what I thought -- when your users become successful, they will churn. Ideally you want the opposite of that (expansion from successful users).
Oh thanks that means a lot to me!

I would say it was partially sorted -- I eventually dm'ed their PR person (once they hired one) and somehow she pretty quickly figured out how to pay back part of the money, but refused to send any documentation of what she was paying back or answer questions about various discrepancies, which made it a big hassle on the bookkeeping side. And I never got an explanation or apology from the Substack guys, or any thanks from them for giving them a chance to make it right for more than a year. Truly one of the weirdest life experiences to me -- aside from the moral aspect, I would have thought screwing over one of your biggest customers for no obvious reason is bad for business. But it seems to be working out for them so far, so, what do I know!
and some stuff that sounds so simple but cron can't actually do - like "every 2 days".
Why do you think nazis are so despised, because they write nasty things on twitter?

Arming literal nazis with weapons and letting them loose in a lawless context is a criminally stupid thing to do. These guys have no problem harming civilians or anyone who they feel like, that’s what makes them bad guys.
Yeah the worst part about either deflation or inflation is the positive feedback loop.
You can buy Windows OEM in box through retailers or MSPs, and I'm not just talking G2A style grey markets. e.g. newegg: https://www.newegg.com/microsoft-windows-11-pro/p/N82E168323...

These are effectively locked to the a limited number of hardware changes per time period before they force you to talk to someone at microsoft to transfer the license to new hardware.

The alternative is to buy a Windows license from Microsoft direct, but the only direct option they offer to consumers anymore is an account-bound license, so you'll need to set up with a Microsoft account for initial activation on new hardware (of course, if recent Insiders builds are any indication, soon everyone will).
Which language Google uses is different from product to product. In Google forms, they use the language set in the Google account (neither location, nor browser language), which is frustrating, because as a designer of a survey you have no way to control the language the UI elements in your survey.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632695
Russia moves to declare Meta “extremist”
Even evictees are evicted subject to a due process, and not cut off on a whim of the landlord.

Even if this were so, software is not a service, despite the current trend to make it so. Nor is software scarce. Rental of scarce retail space is a service, and a totally different scenario. This analogy simply doesn't relate to the issue at all.
I think that case is roughly covered by at(1)
Ken Thompson was around 49 years old when Plan 9 was first released.

Not sure about other people on the Plan 9 team. But presumably they were all highly skilled and experienced engineers.

The key question is who were their disciples? How much of their knowledge has been passed down to the next generation?
McKibben 'Heat Pumps for Peace' Plan Gains Traction with Biden
Borland C++ 3.0 for MS-DOS supported templates in 1991.

https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-c/30
I'm not very well read but this writing seemed extraordinary. Turns out he won a Nobel prize for literature.
Good idea. Here are some URLs that have failed to archive for me in the last few months (I suspect none are close to being that large):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467597

http://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/2022/02/27/a-univer...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232660

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_%26_Dixon
How about we reframe this to “no country has high crime rates as large as the US”. Because that’s actually the problem. Not a bunch of people being in prison. What would you prefer we do with people that want to commit crime? Not lock them up? Because that’s what is causing all big cities to turn into catch and release garbage pits.
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
Yes, because only Gazprom and Rosneft exist in Russia, and not a hundred thousand smaller companies.
Arduino, Espressif, Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM and ARM are perfectly confortable defining such C++ subset.
Some people like notifications. If you don’t want them, they are easy to turn off.
tl;dr RSS cannot delete entries. This is fixed in Atom. <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6721> If you care about Web feeds, you use Atom, not the laughably inferior RSS.

https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&query=atom+rss+chrismor...
Truly impressive. Reminds me of Google’s (failed) attempt at modular devices.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
> How about we just stop electing people who are going to use power against their own citizens?

You have too much faith in humanity.

> If you think that's impossible, then how about we change the system such that it is.

Because that's impossible too?

It's like buttered butter. The system is made of humans.
> and the recommendation system seems far worse than the old days

That's partially also because they lost or let expire the licenses to so much content.

Maybe governments should, in the interest of all people, mandate that all owners of IP/content should fairly license them to everyone who asks to operate a streaming or purchase service... that way we'd get competition on service quality and features between streaming providers instead of having to pay more for all the "content islands" than we did for cable TV.
If you're on Apple devices, you can do this with Tweetbot.
It's not "a simple question", it's a simpleton question. Either in the sense that it's posed by a simpleton, or that it's posed by someone who hopes that the recipients are simpletons.

Either way, the reason it can't have a simple answer is that it's an invalid question, since it presupposes something which isn't true. (As further explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30539775 .)

And IMO it's a bit suspicious that so many of the "simple questions" on this subject just happen to be couched in Putlin propaganda terms.
Interestingly, I just don't think about it in that way.

For starters, search is just critical to me (and I think pretty much anyone who does anything around development / design / content / ...actually any modern day desk-based work...) - so in time terms, no, I probably listen to Spotify more but in touchpoint terms I can't imagine how many searches I do in a week. I would imagine it's thousands.

Two things then follow: firstly, the quality of those results is totally critical. If (as is starting to happen with Google) I'm really struggling to get past the endless ad-based SEO'd b/s to get to the site or nugget of information I need, and each of those searches is taking me much longer and longer, then this really does become a genuine value / cost proposition. With a tool like Kagi I can say "just don't show me site X" or "boost Stack Overflow" - then this plus there are no ads taking up screen real estate becomes a viable value proposition.

Secondly: there's something to be said about supporting a viable non-ad based model for services on the web. I would argue that basing everything around clicks in an advertising way has degraded basically everything about the modern internet. It's lowered content quality, drowned out real voices in favour of bots and algorithms and causes major large scale issues with "truth". Where organisations / companies / individuals can afford to pay X and get a bigger platform with their made up b/s about vaccines / war / the opposition / guns / whatever), then this drowns out the viable, real, truthful alternatives from people who actually know what they're talking about.

Plus, of course preaching to the converted, but the tracking model being used by Google is pretty terrifying, too.

Plus... I mean, $120 a year is $0.3 a day... I think I can manage that ok...
That's how we did it and so far as I'm aware is the most common answer to "How do we keep Tor while keeping the abuse mitigation efforts required within the resources available?" for services in general.
"Electoral votes" appears to be a term you've created to mean "the smallest number of votes it would be possible to flip to change the result of the election, if allocated perfectly", rather than what most people would assume you mean -- electoral college votes. Given your definition, you are basically correct.

Trump won 306-232 in 2016. With faithless electors, this became 304-227. He lost the popular vote. As you note, 77,000 votes in the three closest states could have flipped the election.

Biden won 306-232 in 2020 (the same margin, or better if you allow for the faithless electors). If he lost 42,000 votes it'd have been 269-269, which would have led to the House of Representative contingency, which might have elected either Biden or Trump (or ended in a different outcome, frankly). It'd take another 33,000 votes to give Trump an unambiguous win by flipping Nevada.

This is an interesting curiosity -- but for Aunt Maria getting the flu, the election could have been different! But we're in increasingly silly hypotheticals. Knowing what we know now, it's clear Clinton would have done more to target the states she narrowly lost. But the problem is that state votes are correlated with one another and so the number of hypotheticals you need to sustain to "flip" exactly those votes without turning out any additional votes or affecting the campaign strategies is pretty weird.

Even if you take the prototypical version of this question "Did Ralph Nader 'cost' Gore the 2000 presidential election by 'taking' at least 500 of his votes in Florida?" it's sort of a rabbit hole of absurdities. The answer is surely yes to the question, because the answer to any hypothetical is yes when the margin is that close. But beyond that not super productive.

In general I think most people would, collectively, analyze Biden's victory over Trump as somewhat more decisive than Trump's over Clinton or Bush's over Gore, though less decisive than either of Obama's or Bush 2004.
Thanks for the ArchiveBox suggestion - from the demo, this could be extremely useful!
The problem with Keynes is that he dismissed Silvio Gesell's idea of having expiring bank notes. Yes, a modern implementation will probably look very different, no stupid stamps but the principle is much better than attempting to eliminate liquidity preference with inflation.
And docs.microsoft.com pulls the language unchangably from the location: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/feedback/issues/462

It's so annoying. There is an option to change the language, however I have to change it every time I search for something, because the language doesn't get saved
Basically what Arduino, Espressif, Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM and ARM are perfectly confortable defining their C++ subsets for drivers and bare metal development.

But Linus being Linus that is "impossible".
Richard Guy said that he "began to think of [himself] as possibly being something of a research mathematician" after meeting Erdos in his 40s, although he did get degrees in mathematics when he was younger. He went on to publish over a hundred research papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy#Mathematics

Raymond Smullyan got his BSc in his late 30s and went on to write highly acclaimed textbooks and teach at universities, although I'm not exactly sure about his research accomplishments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan

EDIT: see also this list https://mathoverflow.net/questions/3591/mathematicians-who-w...
This is extremely annoying, especially when you're in a country with high level of English proficiency and a small population. In that scenario, you're not going to have a lot of local language results. Something like Wikipedia, which has decent quality in English, will tend to look like it was edited by high school students. Yet Google will force-redirect you to the local Wikipedia language over the vastly superior English article, even when searching for something in English.
hey! Sorry, there's a lot of history here, Hamish has been very unpleasant to me and many writers I love, as well as wrongly continuing to bill me after I left his platform -- I realise otherwise I might have sounded unduly hostile, sorry for that.

The benefits I'm talking about are not the advances or guarantees, there's basically a ton of secret programmes at Substack where they give favored publishers special in-kind benefits to effectively pay back some of the 10% fee. Hamish knows what I'm talking about, but can't mention it publicly because their business model is reliant on a pretense that every publisher is paying 10% and not a hodgpodge of subsidies and kickbacks. Does that make sense?
Somehow Arduino, Espressif, Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM and ARM manage to do it.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Yes, technically, they're a Czech company. However, their founders as well as most of their R&D staff are currently located in Russia and hence probably paying taxes in Russia rather than the Czech Republic.

I don't know about the company's exact structure and where their profit ends up but given their rather small headquarters in Prague in contrast to their huge offices in Saint Petersburg, it's probably fair to say that a significant share of that money is invested - and taxed - in Russia.
google.com/ncr (no country redirect) was the panacea until Google broke it.
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> None of those are compiled.

C# as well as Python are compiled at build time. Python is a hot garbage for other reasons (just look at how dog slow the OpenStack CLI is, which is written in Python), but there's no need to pile on C#.

C# itself is actually pretty resource efficient - just look at StackOverflow, they use ridiculously few resources.
The best registrar would be a registrar with no customer support or human intervention. Customer support agents are always the weakest link for domains when they get tricked into granting unauthorized access.

I would be wary of using any German registrar because of extremely weak privacy laws in the country (impressums etc)
You can buy oil and gas with rubles can't you?
Who gets to see the telemetry?
Well find, then I counter "store of value" is a largely evil concept :D. Unit of account != store of value.
I have 7240 bookmarks, which is apparently using 26.55 G of space.
Expressvpn actually has the openvpn file as well on their website (for devices their client doesnt support). Although using the IP (instead of the url) in it lead to problems for me since it switched regularly in the subnet. So every few weeks i had to update the file as well as my IpFire config.

In all fairness they also do some reasonable stuff with the client, like blocking your internet connection if you get disconnected from the VPN. But yes, didnt use the client either.
They even chose "socialized medicine for the Army" to further drive the point home.
Actually, 2008 was supposed to be the end of the economic system. It should have resulted in a great depression and a massive increase in political polarization and violence. Yet for some strange reason, we are merely limping away from it and that event is becoming a faint memory in another decade.

People didn't take on massive loans due to interest rates, banks were handing out massive loans and this forced them to lower interest rates.

People save first, then the money must be invested, either directly in stocks or indirectly through loans where the borrower invests in his company.

If there is a flood of savings, then there will be a flood of loans as well.
bold of you to assume we have a comp review cycle.

i haven’t gotten a raise since 2019.
If the idea is to transmit a planned time to initiate an offensive, or some other orders that will not be carried out immediately, then it certainly makes sense.
Soon you will learn what happens when Americans don’t choose a great army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y Toasters were IMO a basically solved problem.
There is a rule [0] which forces Russian companies to sell at least 80% of currency revenues (including all new incoming payments).

0: https://cbr.ru/eng/press/pr/?id=35755
And in Office there is even worse to be found: Depending on that locale, that it chooses despite browser settings, you also get different behavior, when trying to open CSVs with literally a _comma_ separator, because Excel thinks, that it must interpret that as a character for making numbers more readable or other shenanigans.
I think painting also benefited early technical advances. Glasses were invented quite early, so many artists that otherwise would lose performance to bad eyesight when older could keep going on. I wonder what other technical advances could help people in other activities to keep performing well despite getting older. Perhaps automated calculation tools will be the "glasses" to help the current generation of mathematicians keep their edge as they age, given the ability to do hard calculations is one aspect of work that appears to take a heavy hit in old age.
PSA: Tweetdeck still exists and is the superior way to Twitter IMO:

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
ha! Yes I definitely think the original overbilling was incompetence not malice, but not just saying "we're so sorry we overbilled you, we're not sure how much we took exactly but please let us give you $x to definitely cover it" was more like malice than incompetence (in practice my guess is something closer to pridefulness than malice, but I can't pretend to understand what's in their hearts etc)
It's bound to the version of office you buy. IIRC there are some hacks which let you change it.
Big companies could also simply include their own networking equipment and data plan.

My understanding of the fake/non-mmWave 5G is it dramatically decreases cost for network operators. If that is true (please correct me if I am wrong), what stops tv manufacturers from including a tiny modem with its own gsm Internet connection that can do things like see if there is an update available or fetch weather information (based on included gps module)? Or the real reason, ads. They could even be simple text ads if network operators decide to charge a lot for data.
So very many applications! One is it will make lashing up an approximately-OK control system easier early in a project. There are five or six machine designs in my past where having a rudimentary control system was needed for initial testing. This would have saved days or weeks on each one.
Aeschylus wrote The Oresteia when he was 65. I believe Sophocles wrote Oedipus the King at age 68, and continued writing through Electra (probably) and Philoctetes (which took first prize in Athens) in his mid- to late-80s.
You can talk to "these" people. It's a number of factors. As with anything in social media the more extreme views get amplified.

I mean everyone talks about their "bubbles" but very few acknowledge how cognitively hard it is to be open. For that it is best to talk person to person without outright throwing facts around.

I once talked to someone who really believed Hillary Clinton is at some center of some devilsh things eating babies and shit. Well, it turned out it to be a more desperate emotional expression (a personal thing), of course she didn't directly admit it, but it was nonetheless very interesting and insightful. I wouldn't have found that out if I didn't go through the first uncomfortable and awkwards moments of actually leaving my bubble. Someone could dismiss that as only emotionally unstable, I didn't.

So, when a POV seems extreme to you and is held by seemingly 50% of the population: there is really something rotten in the state of Denmark: Leave your bubble form time to time, dude.
No, my gripe is that it's a little too sensitive. I keep meaning to look up how to ignore small movements of the wheel in QMK.
And the technology connections video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y