skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean I urge folks who have the ability to direct some of their company's money towards Tor. It's directly helping both Ukranian and Russian citizens right now.
New Project Will Unlock Access to US Government Publications on Microfiche
This is not generally true of big-money pro sports in the US. I'm unaware of any child leagues for the NFL (American / gridiron football), MLB (baseball), NBA (basketball), or NHL (hockey).

Pro soccer might have something, but it's also a rounding error in the American pro sports landscape.
> ...I’ve always simply liked web hosting technology...

You are not alone! :-)

Also, thank you for making this!
The previous comment was using the word "free" as if it had a clear and self-evident meaning. But of course it does not - theres a huge grey area where individual liberty conflicts with the rights of others. Where is appropriate to draw the line in this area is culturally dependent. But most cultures agree that there is a line somewhere - for example even the US has certain laws regulating hate speech, and prevents individuals from having the "freedom" to enslave other humans. In this sense, everyone except an extreme few is in favour of censorship. It's just a matter of degree.
I wonder if massive piles of free money could have had something to do with people demanding more supplies from the chain.
I have suffered from imposter syndrome in the past and it stemmed from a previous job where the leadership intended to make you feel useless and incompetent. I have overcome it recently and have more confidence in myself these days. I am not aware why people would use imposter syndrome as a way to brag but for myself I genuinely didn't feel comfortable about myself.
You really don't need much time to become a home gardener, and believe me that spending time outside digging in the dirt is a very health way to spend time away from the computer.
> The web itself is an app platform.

It's not. And frankly will never be.

> The only browser preventing it to happen on mobile is Safari.

It's not preventing anything

> look at the desktop. There, web apps have replaced most native apps long ago.

What a strange fantasy world you live in.
I've got a 10 year warranty on the battery pack. And at the rate that independent battery servicing is expanding, there is a very good chance that independent pack refurbishment or replacement will be affordable by March 2032.

In any case, the wife's 1996 Hyundai was worth more to the breaking yard than it was to the second hand market when it's transmission failed in summer of 1997. So even if the battery pack fails immediately after the warranty period and that totals the car, I've still come out ahead in total cost of ownership.
Regarding Linux servers:

EP 10: MISADVENTURES OF A NATION STATE ACTOR

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/10/

NSA: So we’ve figured out here is the internet-facing box. The web server that they’re using was not patched, wasn’t updated, so I was able to actually use the known exploit to gain the right access to that machine. [MUSIC] Once I did that, I put an implant down on that machine because it was pretty safe. It was actually a Linux server and the nice thing about Linux is no antivirus, right? I’m not super concerned. Especially because it’s a web server, I don’t worry about a user seeing the screen and using it and see something weird going on. But anyway, so I get down on that box, sit there for a little bit. Everything looks pretty good. There’s not much to see; it’s a web server and it’s got a website on it, got a database back end to it. Not a whole lot going on.
> Are jails a cost-effective way of separating people from society?

Optimizing for cost is not what you want. The most cost effective way of separating people from society is a summary execution with no trial. Prisons aren't meant to be the cheapest solution, they're meant to be a more humane compromise.
Did you mean NAGMA, as in they won't stop nagging you?
Even if you're not paying for the service, you still need to take the time to do it or get it done for you.
I've just seen your article[1] about business model. Do you think ads will be more sustainable than a subscription-based model? Since a lot of people that will use your search engine know how a computer works (i.e., they know something other than Google), it's fair to assume most of them will have an ad-blocker. Furthermore, ads are counter-productive for a service where you want to have the best result as fast as possible; people won't be looking at ads, or ads will be so intrusive the service will decline in quality (see Google). Did you do some research since the article?

From what I've heard, the UK is pretty big on surveillance. How do the laws impact the "non-tracking" part of the service?

[1]: https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-a...
Try opening a Google maps link on iOS without Google maps installed. Annoying.
Volvo recommends an oil change every 16,000 km.

Because everybody drives differently, mileage and time based recommendations aren't the best. Some places will offer to test your used motor oil during a change and will tell you if you waited too long or changed it to early.
> Which is dumb, though I don't think the stupidity quite reaches "city spends a billion dollars for one particular team" level.

If you look close enough, any spending that any governmental body does will have detractors. That's what happens when you spend someone else money.

From art to sports, to schools, to council housing, to foreign wars. There is always someone against it whose taxes end up supporting what they hate.
Thank you for the counterpoint. I concede that my idea of what a modern motor vehicle is is outdated. I'm actually happy to see that things have improved so much.
You can go to Central Park and see rats everywhere, and I don't see any compost piles there.
Perfectly timed as I literally JUST started my (second ever?) Nixos attempt
Some of my high school professors treated cheating differently depending on the type of the cheat sheet used: handwritten ones would get ignored, but printed one would be punished.
Gigabyte Spinning Off Its $30M Server Business
> So to make, say, an in game item that people can re-sell, swap, etc, instead of

> * Make a website

> * Setup the DB

> * Manage user accounts

> * Manage payment information

> * Code the sales, auctions, etc

> * Build the integration with my game & my API

> * Manage and maintain the server

> to do it the traditional way. To do it on chain I

> * Create a trivial NFT contract

> * Build the integration with my game & a generic API

I don't understand this argument.

You describe step-by-step in a detailed way what would be needed to implement the usual way and then simply glosses over "build the integration with my game & a generic API". That is exactly the tricky part, isn't it?

The integration to your game also depends on your game having some kind of linking between the NFT and your in-game item (hence a database). It depends on the communication with this generic API being reliable enough so you can completely offload your load to that, if it's not reliable for that you'll need to create intermediate API layers to deal with these issues, and so on and so forth. Generic APIs are never really generic.

And this is the most beaten example already, what else can this provide apart from giving me ownership of in-game items?

Trivialising the work of "build the integration with my game" as something that "just happens" is a naive way to shove the hard work unto a trivial step.
Not necessarily. I also have an East German blender, that's like 40 years old, and looks like hell, but works perfectly. I bought another one, since the old one was kinda hard to look at. It was a highly recommended somewhat upmarket type from a supposedly reputable brand.

It broke within 2 years..

I took it apart and discovered it was full of plastic gears on load bearing components which predictably got annihilated by wear and tear. The old one had metal ones.

I echo the article's sentiment that while cheap usually means bad, expensive stuff is usually indistinguishable in quality from mass-market stuff nowadays.
Yeah it's more popular than Arsenal Football Club ... but that's one club. There are twenty in the English Premier League. And that's a single (albeit huge) league within the English league system, which is one of about four countries in Europe alone who you could probably say the same about.
Without compare language/platform abilities, it looks like a major hype cycle like Node or even Java back in the 90s and early 2000s. I read HN and see a lot of stuff around Rust that I don't see elsewhere, so this is also kind of a "why here?" question too. =)
Remember that all those trees need to get planted and grow first. At best this will slow down the process, but not instantly shift it.
Oh it's bad.
I neither understand how that's insulting to you nor how that justifies you insulting these OSS projects.

Did you write Borg or something?
Most in the West are in the dark about the historical Eastern Ukrainian vs Western Ukrainian War, the constant shelling, the human right abuses, and the wanton execution of civilians in East Ukraine.

If we are going to permit US govt Agitprop, maybe we should permit historicals, and their Agitprop as well.
By that logic the government should subsidize/fund Netflix, Amazon and Apple because they deliver and produce content that entertains me.
Good for me, it's been over 5 years since I last had Chrome installed on mobile.
WMF biennial selection of 25 heritage sites in need of immediate attention
Correlation != causation.

Try out our app, Metascan, to see an example of using TSDF with a multi-resolution GPU hashtable that only stores voxel data near surfaces. Or just skim the original voxel hashing paper from 2013 to understand the technique.

Storing voxel data in an array is a lot simpler. So if it’s not the focus of the research, then why would academics engineer something more complex?
Nazi Germany didn't fall to a coup (though at least one was tried).
"Meanwhile, in some Asian countries, like Taiwan and Vietnam, people mostly complied with lockdowns when they were instituted, which means that they were able to squash covid in the country when outbreaks happened".

I have a feeling this guy doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to COVID. From Wikipedia: "No lockdowns have been imposed in Taiwan". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Asia

And there's a huge difference between quarantining a small island and quarantining a large country whose leaders purposely don't enforce the borders and actually allowed in people who tested positive for COVID with no enforced quarantining: https://news.yahoo.com/dhs-dropped-40-000-covid-190800213.ht...

You can also read in Wikipedia how the lockdowns in Vietnam ultimately failed, while also heavily disrupting their economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Vietnam.

The people who said lockdowns would be pointless were right. History has proven it. It's time for people like Dan Luu to move on. There was never any way the world at large was going to be able to organize a meaningful lockdown policy. The lockdowns were a waste and likely caused more deaths than they saved lives.
If the game that is using the NFTs I bought is shutdown, what the hell is the value of these in-game items that I bought if the game for them doesn't exist anymore?

Yeah, someone else can create a new game and say "we accept the NFT items from Defunct Game X", you are still completely under the control of whomever is providing you the platform for these in-game items to actually exist. If that platform is taken away you just have some bits of data pointing to other bits of data with no meaning and no value at all...
> And of top of that people are not even using it properly, because centralized nodes seem to be the main wait to get access to the files.

That's because last i checked (admittedly a couple years ago) their software was slow and ressource intensive. Which is quite the opposite of what you want for real-life network transfer software. Meanwhile stuff like syncthing seem to get bittorrent-like transfer just fine.

Dat/hypercore seamed less bloaty (again a while ago), i wonder what the solid projects in this area are currently.. (torrent-based network filesystems)
I despise crypto, but telling an underfunded OSS project to abandon scarce funding for what is a relatively minor ideological reason definitely rubs me the wrong way.

Rather than demanding them to change, why not find a way to help secure them a source of less objectionable funding.
Think of it like an unbounded array of integer temperatures values -- if you keep adding memory you can keep adding more positive values to the end of the array infinitely, each with an indexable location (i.e. enumerating the set). But this concept breaks if we just say we'll throw all the negative values on after infinity; if we're infinitely adding positive values to the array, we'll never have the chance to stop and start with those negative Kelvin values on after. When this happens it's called non-enumerable (or more formally fails the test of diagonalization). It seems that the authors of this system chose to make +infinity an arbitrary enumarable point to show the negative Kelvin values in excess of that point. Having said that, the set of all integers (negative, 0, positive) should be enumerable (because you can just *=-1 each index), but not when infinity is a member of that set. I think there's a numberphile and veratisium on why not all infinity's are equal if curious to explore.
The trick is not being traumatized by it and making a good time of the chaos. Although it can be complicated if you're not willing to sleep in an airport. Or ask strangers for help. Or be really, really late.
The Roman Empire is presumably the point (in the Western core) where an alternate history could have plausibly accelerated the industrial revolution if maybe not by a millennium at least some number of centuries. If you dig into the social development data the fall of Rome is where social development actually significantly regressed in the West and the East was even arguably ahead for a stretch.
Isn't the first point a goal of most "no-code" solutions? Sure, you can most likely still infinite loop but it is a far easier to not screw up compared to "normal" programming.
Have you finally cracked the Tor network yet to find and trace all those Nazis, extremists, hitmen and terrorists that are still hiding there to make that unfounded claim?
> What if the saw breaks, what if the person who knows how to use the saw leaves?

Then you go and fix that as you have the means to do that.

Were it outsourced and you can only wait for the vendor to do it
You've mooted a very good point. The English language is full of contradictions and condones many deceptive spellings.
For some products. Even they have some crap (in-wall espresso…)
Testing it out now. I just signed up on the website then it popped up a "Get the App" button. Clicked that, and it brought me to this link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tumblr&ref...

Which is the Tumblr app! What the hell?

EDIT: ok, figured it out. After signing up on the website, I'm given a page which has a single item called Getting Started. Nothing else, no menu, no header, no footer. So I clicked the link and it brings me to the Getting Started page on blog.instapaper.com

I now realize this is actually hosted on Tumblr so the Get the App button there is from Tumblr.

Not a great onboarding experience so far. Hopefully the rest of the app is better.
NFL teams demanding things is pretty much what's entirely soured me on professional sports. I grew up near St. Louis and the city has been screwed over not once (Rams) but twice (football Cardinals) in my lifetime by NFL teams.

They enrich the owners and drain the locals. I lived in downtown St. Louis when the Cards were in the World Series (2011) and the benefit to local restaurants + bars was minimal. There'd be a flood of traffic to get to the stadium, and another flood out - very little spillover to local bars and restaurants around the stadium. (Not none, but not the rosy picture painted when they talk about driving business to local establishments, either.)
Or if the game that accepted those NFT as in-game items shuts down, then these items cease to exist as well in any meaningful way, at least for the reasons it might be valuable in the beginning when I purchased it (stats in game, rarity, etc.). If the game ceases to exist then the NFT is just, what, a trading card that shows some scarcity/rarity?

I really don't get this argument at all. I bought an in-game mount for World of Warcraft as a NFT, WoW shuts down, where the hell am I going to use the in-game mount again? A shitty game that tells me "your WoW mount works here as well!"?

It really feels it's all a preparation for the "metaverse" bullshit.
Seeing "the spirit" at play in your fellow humans, is, I believe, the most direct method of finding the spirit within yourself. All too often folks think they can go it alone with spirituality. In the same autodidactic manner they go about, say, learning to program web servers in Rust. Paradoxical, to be sure, but a lesson discovered all too often by too many too late in life ;)
Suppose your roof leaks and you can't afford to fix it. Or maybe you pay some professionals to come fix it, they faff around for a bit, say they 'rehabilitated' your roof, but a while later it starts leaking again.

So you get a bucket and put it under the dripping hole. The bucket doesn't fix the roof. The bucket will eventually fill up and you'll have to empty it down a drain before trying it again. Again and again. The bucket isn't solving anything, but would you be better off without the bucket? No, the bucket at least keeps your floor dry some of the time. That's better than nothing. Prison is a bucket. Prisons collect criminals for a while until they eventually fill up. But they're better than dumping all those criminals straight into the streets.
I've missed a few (domestic) flights over the years and each time it didn't cost me more than 100$. Don't know if that's normal though.
I would pay for a mobile operating system that was not from Google or Apple and that i could install with one click. Before someone recommends Android ROMs, that's too complicated for most people and i don't have the patience or time to dig through forum posts for the solutions to bugs.

I avoid google where i can and this includes their mobile operating system. I despise apple because of their design choices that prevent you from doing even the simplest tasks.

An easily installed alternative would be great.
Sometimes it feels that I'm being left behind since I don't use Rust yet. Better get crackin'
Yes - you can run extra JavaScript to hide those before you take the screenshot. Example here: https://github.com/palewire/news-homepages/issues/4#issuecom...
Elon Musk challenges Putin to hand-to-hand combat
True, but the commenters are mostly anonymous now, and may be unmasked in the future when advanced de-anonymization techniques become available.

Hence it may be reasonable to request that all data be removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification
Believe it or not, you don’t have to extend every thought you disagree with to a nonsensical conclusion. “Oh you bake cookies in the oven because it is hot? By that logic you should bake cookies on the surface of the sun.”
From what I understand about the Dreamcast and even the Sega Saturn, is that both were underutilized in a myriad of ways, but one of the, the dreamcast I think, had technically two gpu chips.

There are comments from some developers over the matter from a while back. I think one of them was Todd Howard, back from when 'Todd rays' still weren't a thing.
Heuristics are often good. The very basic one "has a significant number of users ever seen this file before" is both annoying for development and probably the best possible first line of defence for larger companies.
You can add this to your YAML:

- url: https://...
wait: 3000
CommandBar lets your app’s users customize their keyboard shortcuts
Ulbricht was first connected to "Dread Pirate Roberts" by Gary Alford, an Internal Revenue Service investigator working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on the Silk Road case, in mid-2013.The connection was made by linking the username "altoid", used during Silk Road's early days to announce the website, and a forum post in which Ulbricht, posting under the nickname "altoid", asked for programming help and gave his email address, which contained his full name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Arrest
You provided what is probably a logical explanation but didn't answer the question in the way he meant it (I think), which is: Addressing common use-cases should be a simple matter. Addressing complex use-cases should ALSO be a simple matter ideally, but is permitted to be a complex matter. Here we have a case where a common use-case is addressed by a complex-seeming solution (unless you are essentially "degreed" in Nix, apparently, and understand exactly why partial function application won't work here or whatever). Or are you saying he's actually doing it wrong and built the nix file wrong?

I'm about to dive headfirst into this nix business and this is intimidating, lol
What would happen if WotC ran a Magic Online NFT edition and shut it down? Do you think they'd let a third party use their IP? Would Magic cards you can't play with or view the art of and are just urls pointing to a dead server have real value?

Have you read the list of restrictions Ubisoft has for their NFTs? Do people really own those?
Did they provide a rationale for this change? Or is this more of a "middle manager's bonus depends on engagement KPI" kind of thing?
It's by historic traffic data where available, defaulting to road class if not. (Before I added the traffic data, it used to route over rough mountain tracks in the Highlands to avoid A roads...)
That's what these economic studies look at - is it worth paying for the stadium in order to prop up those businesses? The answer appears to be overwhelmingly "no".
The Anatomy of Technology Regulation
Thanks, didn't know about timestamps.

But it's trivial to run shell scripts in parallel as well, just add ` &` at the end.
> However, an interesting effect is that the vaccination is only useful if you already have a history of dengue. If you're dengue naive, the vaxx increases the risk of severe disease instead.

I was concerned about this potentially being a thing with Covid at one point. Thankfully not the case, but yeah...
Maybe you'd care to point it out?

I know people in faculty, this is what is reported. A google search would suggest the same. It's far more culturally accepted to cheat in University in certain parts of the world, e.g. India, Saudi Arabia.

In fact let me do it for you, here's one article on it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/29/india-exam-c...

Stop projecting and grow up.
I think you put too much confidence in other engineering fields. They go wrong all the time (you might notice some when purchasing a house) and changes are extremely slow and expensive.
Interesting point - thanks! There's an (X) button to close the route but maybe I should change the icon to a trash can or similar...
Tree Planting Is Booming. Here’s How That Could Help, or Harm, the Planet
> Great Firewall'd

Great Firewalled. If someone builds a wall around you, you're walled in -- not "wall'd in".
Checkout https://github.com/gitext-rs/git-stack/blob/main/docs/compar... (note, the tool hosting this page is not included but as the author).

As the author of git stack, with all relevant biases, I recommend

- git stack for automating what you are already doing

- git branchless for more power at the risk of incombatibilities because its only as good as the data fed to git hooks

- jj if your open to something very different