skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t necessarily quibble with your concerns about the right way to achieve the outcomes we all seek. But please don’t paint real concerns about health as “elitist.”

If anything, people who don’t have to worry about these things — who get the privilege to live in suburbs with wide-open spaces, blue skies, and clean air — are the true elites. Being able to live this way is the dream of billions of our underprivileged fellow human beings who grow up in filth and overcrowding.
Do you think this will lead to the downfall of Vimeo? How are you and your colleagues interpreting this move?
If they’re asking you to explain the time and/or space complexity of your solution in terms of “Big O”, which is something you’d learn in an algorithms class, that’s a good clue. The most recent interview I had asked me to determine the depth of a given binary tree which is about as textbook algorithms class as you can get. Others were a bit more nebulous in terms of solutions but they all span various algorithmic topics you learn in school.
Well, okay, got me. But you don't need to do what mitmproxy does in that case.
What's the housing market like in Spain? In Greece you can get houses/land for dirt cheap, if you can get the deed from the previous owner (bribes are basically required)
I know, I dunno why I took the comment seriously, the wink should have tipped me off :-)
3500 a year is significantly less than hiring someone to do it for you.
I deleted an archive tape, by being logged in to the wrong machine. The terminals did have different prompts, but that wasn’t enough.
This sounds like it might work nicely with zulip's topics feature (explained in the carousel on the homepage: https://zulip.com/)
I liked the original post at https://www.motionmountain.net/9lines.html , except for a couple of words I point out below.

After reading your comment I looked at the original post with a view to identifying its basic perspective.

https://www.motionmountain.net/9lines.html was clearly not written by a physicist, as it includes the line "The nine lines contain physics, chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, geology, astronomy, engineering and computer science. It appears that the nine lines contain all natural sciences!" which is not a physics type of statement.

Obviously, physics contains everything, just the way "bits contain all software". Observing that doesn't make someone a programmer, in my opinion.

Why stop at physics, chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, geology, astronomy, engineering and computer science (list provided).

A physicist could correctly state:

"Physics contains all aspects of chemistry, Earth science / Geology, Oceanography/ marine science, Meteorology, astronomy, biology, molecular interactions, physiological mechanisms, evolution, botany / plant science(s), Zoology, Ecology, etc."

However, it is kind of like saying text comprises all of the words of Shakespeare. Well, sure, but that doesn't mean that you get Shakespearean criticism from writing a text editor. It's two different fields.

The author has an interesting outsider view shown in https://www.motionmountain.net/9lines.html

However, the lines "Isn't this incredible?" and "Enjoy searching for answers." are sarcastic and disrespectful to the work actual physicists put into their discipline for decades and the author should be ashamed for this tone.

If they want to be a physicist they should observe and learn from physicists at every opportunity. (I'm not one, by the way.)

Ignoring the rude sarcasm, we can correctly summarize the document as "Physics governs everything. Period."

It's not a physics document. It is (or rather ought to be) a tribute to physicists and the unbreakable laws of physics.
Interix: an entire replacement posix subsystem for Windows NT, which included gcc, opengl, and motif. I ported a million line UNIX molecular modelling app to NT in 2000.
Another way to look at it, for the comparable language C, C++ and Rust contribute to ~50% of code in Firefox and 10% of it are Rust. So that is roughly 20% already. And that is a lot higher than I thought. I guess they will replace C, and C++ bit by bit in the code base.
>per-GB CDN price at $0.05

That is a ridiculous cost for bandwidth. It can only be meant for "low-volume" users or those that just don't care for some reason.

A platform like Vimeo should either negotiate a better deal, or start engineering their own CDN. After all content delivery is the main challenge for video platforms - everything else is boring and can be whipped together by a fund-less bored 15 year old on a weekend. If you're contracting content delivery out that's already kind of weird and pretty much guarantees everyone but yourself will make money with your platform.
They are except when they're not. Plenty of NFTs are on-chain. Also, if nothing else, they've provided a lot of creatives an opportunity to get compensated for their work. The "art" NFT eco-system is very much akin to a patreon of sorts. I don't see how that's a bad thing.
> "just pay the maintainer" is a tough sell when they can just either come up with their own project (even FOSS and recoup the "losses" in proprietary IP with hiring marketing) or fork it if PRs from employees are not well-received by the maintainer.

Also "just pay the maintainer" doesn't contribute towards most managers' primary goal of empire-building. In my experience even getting individual contractors paid for work can be a tough sell, managers want headcount and the opportunity to abuse their minions.

A "maintainer" receiving funds somewhere on the internet to play in their sandbox just looks like enabling escape from management's prison.
Agree and personally I think the Leetcode part is the easiest part in their process. The whiteboard algorithms is where the real fun begins.
Cloudron 7.1 Released
So I check the Basic plan right now, it's:

5 GB limit for total storage.
500 MB upload limit per week.

---

I haven't used it for years, now I know I only use 2.3GB there. Safe from deletion I think.
This rant was based on the OP's observation that very basic websites require JS to view plain text:

> Lately, more and more simple and plain blogs require JS to show any text on website.

HackerNews can definitely be partially cached, i.e. the front page. But HackerNews is on the other perfectly usable without JS - just because your content is dynamic does not mean it requires JS.

You can even mostly use facebook without JS too: https://mbasic.facebook.com

Nobody expects the full experience, but it should be usable. It doesn't require some insane engineering effort - in fact, the opposite - under-engineer the website!
The scenario with Channel 5 was even more silly, since Vimeo was just a service that Patreon was using. This not only looked like a shakedown, it was from a hosting platform the group wasn't even directly using.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/vimeo-is-holding-61514364
> If you try to activate Fi abroad or use Fi service predominately internationally, you may have your international capabilities suspended.

> this is a known policy with Fi

Fi _heavily_ hypes their support for being able to travel to 200+ counties and still provide service. I’d wager most Fi users on HN bought it for this very reason. I wonder what fraction of those read that fine print and know they can be screwed by simply using the service they believe are paying for.
Also, saying “must process ~25,000 pounds of brine“ suggests something much more intensive than “drying a saline solution in the sun”.
> What if they turned that into a service where people submit who they need a gift for + their budget and the store sends a gift to the person?

I've built sonething like this ~3 times as a consultant and I've never seen it get meaningful usage. Somehow it still sounds like a genius idea. Maybe if they have a following that is personally loyal to them it will work well?

I hate to be discouraging but I might see if the idea gets traction with your customers by mentioning it on Facebook Live and running it through the chat before building out anything complicated.
I mean if you like those you'd probably like Jesus's sermon on the mount.
I don't think that's true. Vimeo is very competitive in the B2B space which is more lucrative per customer and has relatively simpler engineering challenges compared to scaling up to billions of views required for low-margin B2C.
Major government surveillance revelations fail to make a big splash
We knew what needed to be built. Sometimes it was easy, we were doing a direct port, other times product and design would write it up in somewhat detailed documentation (can you believe no stories/tasks?!). Because they were games you’d start with the play loops and continually tweak them. Assets would come in from designers throughout the lifecycle of the project and they’d just document what they wanted to see (fonts, colors, animations, flow).

We had a product manager who would regularly play our builds and speak with the clients. If the clients were unhappy, had feedback, or found bugs, he would chat or hop on a call with the lead developer (usually me). We’d write it on a sticky note or put it in our mind palace as a Todo (or if you were a defensive programmer and planned that a certain piece of code needs to be flexible, you were fixing it while he was explaining the problem).

So, we had communication, but not in the form of formal meetings. Product set the delivery dates, we set goals/cadence as engineers around those dates, and based off of continual feedback we iterated on the design.
Sure I don’t disagree, I think I was too broad. I’m talking about only a subset of projects that are not just free work put out there, but actively promoted as some serious building block with a business agenda behind like personal brand building. There is OSS and OSS, I’m not talking about FreeBSD, Linux or PostgreSQL types, but projects that are part of a company marketing strategy or resume building and kind of white lie about their seriousness. My issue is with marketing, promises and expectations, and not OSS as it is to its roots. Edit: for a concrete example, I agree with you in the case of say curl, but not for React.

Also tangentially I don’t buy into the binary distinction “it’s free it can be poison I can’t complain / I paid it’s my right to be an entitled asshole”. The cost is irrelevant with the promise for me, the first cent doesn’t have magical entitlement, and its absence is not a free pass to (white) lie.
Canada normally uses liters except for swimming pools, and then it's back to gallons for some reason.
I wonder if this will be expanded to 'open' content as well, i.e. people sabotaging their previously free content in order to steer people to paid content
Have you looked at the numbers for an ICE vehicle?
I think we could reduce the litres / km (volume / distance) units to just square meters (area).

For example, 7 litres / 100km = 0.07 mm^2

It's the cross-section of a noodle of fuel laid out along the road that the car needs without a gas tank.
I am normally more interested on their carbon footprint:

"What is the environmental impact of lithium batteries?"

https://changeit.app/blog/2021-03-26-environmental-impact-of...
One does not "dig up" brine. And I'm pretty sure most of it gets recycled.

How does this compare to a non-EV?
It doesn't say swamps - it says marshes. Marshes aren't swamps and do not have the deep, all-year standing water. [1]

And I have seen sheep in this environment: Farmers let the sheep roam mountaintops in Norway. Some of that land is marsh - and the ground gets, for lack of better words, squishy. Sometimes, you'll step and water might come over your shoe, but it is just as likely to come halfway up. I thought a marsh would have been more similar to a swamp before I actually was in a marsh.

I have heard that every once in a while, they'll have to help a sheep out of some of the deeper areas, but this isn't enough of an issue to stop the practice.

[1]https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/wha....
archive.org seems to have it: https://archive.org/details/Solaris2.5.1SPARC11972586714

I got one in college, and it was dated even when I got it. I'll need to go back to my parents basement to try and fire it up again, the VGA adapter and and old install of Solaris is about all I can remember.
I recently used it to modify the response from the replay server for an autobattler game, to let me watch arbitrary replays for theory-crafting the ideal team. The game is called Super Auto Pets, here's the code with the mitmproxy extension: https://github.com/bspammer/super-auto-pets
Oh, that really changes the backdrop for this paragraph:

> In the 19th century, as the marshes of Landres dried up and the shepherd’s need to move on stilts began to disappear, the practice became strangely fashionable among some of the more eccentric aristocrats of French society. In the early 20th century, stilt marathons were held in Paris, celebrating the French agricultural tradition.

As you say, this was an intentional afforestation project which ended pastoralism in the area; it's not merely that the shepherds' needs changed as that there were no longer shepherds. Aristocrats finding amusement mimicking the practices of a group that was effectively destroyed by a national action seems at best lacking awareness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landes_forest#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_June_1857_law
It seems they're using akamai adaptive media delivery. Unfortunately akamai doesn't seem to have pricing on the page.

So maybe akamai is just milking them and they're passing the cost on to their customers. Though I do have to wonder about a video hosting "technology platform" that's just selling a thin webinterface on top of akamai.

I agree, you can do this on $10 per month yourself if you have the skills and $3500 is ridiculous.
No, the plan is to deploy it in targeted areas where doing so would have a clear benefit.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation
"Diffuse" has come to my rescue in the past when I've needed to do the odd 6-way diff (don't ask)
That's a good question. I'd be interested in any benchmark you saw. And although it seems like sk has come a long way since 2020[0], it may still be slower reading in a larger file. I really don't know.

But I suppose I'd ask -- faster how?

The linked benchmark really doesn't mean much to me. As an interactive app I judged it on how it felt latency-wise at the CLI. So, I would just try to scroll page-up while find was feeding in the files in my home directory. fzf would sometimes stall on my system (again not scientific) and would occasionally junk up the terminal when it got fed something strange. This could be a problem with fzf or it could have been a problem with how I was using it.

On the other hand, sk at the CLI has been rock solid and very fast. skim as a library needs better docs and has a few other teething issues, but I'm using skim right now, because it feels faster, and because I use it as a library, there is some mental continuity between the two. Recognize and respect fzf in this space, it's just sk is doing it better for me, for now.

[0]: https://github.com/lotabout/skim/issues/317
Classification of ransomware using different types of neural networks
Contrary to belief, Washington and Oregon aren't just cloudy skies. The eastern half of both states is a rain shadow with a desert climate and plenty of sunshine.
Work out what is distracting you.

If it is your own mind distracting you, then give yourself 10 minutes to do a task that are avoiding, and reward yourself afterwards. The reward should be small, but something you only do after you've finished the task.

If it is what others are saying that distracts you, then go back to the headphones and this time listen to Brown Noise loud enough that it wipes out what people are saying around you.

If it is email/chat/socials that are distracting you, then close all programs except for those that you need to do your job. If you have to have email open, set email rules to pull out the emails important for your job, and store the non-critical emails in a separate location so you don't worry about them.

I personally find that headphones help a lot, but for me I must listen to either Brown Noise (or white, or blue, or whatever is best for you) sounds, or listen to music that has no words and has no beat. Words in music distract me, and any beat in music also distracts. I've also found if I can't understand the language that singers are singing, that is less distracting, so Benedictine Monks is fine.
As I understand it, Patreon creators explicitly sign up to a paid Vimeo account and link that with their Patreon account, and then can upload to Vimeo through the Patreon posting UI. E.g. the post says they "tried to log into my Vimeo account".
Also desktop UI.
It's not even arguably a straw man.

Above, you said, "worrying about firmware security issues is silly, because if you can't physically prevent access to the computer". That's not someone else's claim, it's yours. If you didn't intend it to be your claim, you erred in expressing it, since that's what it conveys. That's the claim the other poster refuted. I simply don't understand you when you say they "disagreed with someone else's argument"? I control F'd the parent posts and found no such claim made by anyone, except you.

Your (apparent) claim is obviously wrong for the reasons already pointed out by the other poster, including that there are firmware-level attacks that do not require physical access. Some of these vulnerabilities can be fixed by firmware updates. So, if possible, it makes sense to promptly apply each patch that will fix such a vulnerability.
Who has the right to make demands against FOSS developers? Have any FOSS developers been successfully sued and forced to implement something?

Obviously they should be careful when picking the license, but with any of the standard licenses, they should be fine?
I've seen the advice in other contexts that "if you get into a crisis, step one is to define what success is and what's failure". Otherwise you end up flailing around without accomplishing anything.
Honest question, is it common to commute by car in France? I know in and around Paris your train and metro infrastructure are great, but what about in rural areas?

The reason $2/litre gas is so bad here is because commuting by car is so common for the working Canadian. Canadians average over 15000km per year.

I think it's a combination of our geography as well as our US-like obsession with low tax rates preventing us from investing in rail etc.
But why would they invest time and energy fixing a flaw for a customer spending $200/yr? That pays for like 2 hours of a senior engineer. More expedient to ask them to pay more or leave.
> ADAS isn't self driving

Except that all current so-called "self-driving" systems are just glorified ADAS that are nowhere near the advanced SAE levels.
There are plenty of cloud providers without insane bandwidth fees, or Vimeo could host their services on premise.

Netflix doesn't stream content from AWS, Vimeo needs a more cost effective architecture.
I still cant get over its syntax.

Otherwise I agree with all your point. It basically kept things simple while every other web development language increase their complexity by 10 to 100x.
You do know that Amazon acquired twitch, right?
Same here. So far it's my favorite UX for solving non-trivial merge conflicts.
I think a lot of people here offer b2b services that are not shakedowns.
but previously they squabbled bitterly and thus reduced each other to nothing more than nomadic tribes. The “upside” of ceaseless internecine conflict served to sharpen their tactics to a mental ferocity and lethality that hadn’t been encountered anywhere in the more “Pax catholica” European areas or Pax-Jin empires. And as far as weaponry: Steppe warfare / Persian horse archer tactics weren’t new obviously, but the mongols employer recurved bows and multiple mounts exclusively whereas the Jin empire relied more on spear warriors and some archery which was helpless against Mongolian siege tactics and again —- once the walls were breached —- horse archers who could shoot by some estimates further, with more accuracy and with a shorter draw than the British longbow ( another nearly untouchable weapon (when massed) of the same period ). Europeans relied on their heavy cavalry which was basically like Putins tanks today vs Javelin missiles.
Sorry, to clarify where are you getting your numbers? I've no horse in this race but I'd like to follow along.
Yes, but I find this unlikely to be endorsed by governments in the short term.

It'd be great if the law said that it's (very) illegal for the verifying party to share or store any of the PII, including with the government.
I didn't claim Vimeo uses AWS.
I would love to see how that pie chart changes over time.
Thanks for the insight--that's a good suggestion!
For now at least, yes. If it's primarily 2FA that the concern (and that's the case for me, it doesn't matter a huge amount which country the number is in.
That is very interesting.

But long term, given it is apple and ignore the sever part (which it should go now but not then), these are bad mix.

Still Steve did try to get linux as base (including talking with Linus) but even that is not right.

It turned out the strange bsd-cum-message based os work fine.
Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?
Welp time to re-up a mulvad subscription I guess. The Australian government has been embracing cronyism and corruption for a while, but until half the country stops rewarding the incumbent party with votes while complaining about everything they do because "the other guys will be worse" then here we are.
What if I told you, the US invested more in Germany after WW1 then after WW2.

And again, I didn't say it was bad, but Americans have a majority overinflated view of the Marshall Plan that simply doesn't line up with reality.
"USPS being in big financial trouble" should be considered a crazy idea. To me, it's like saying the "Senate" is in big financial trouble or the Federal Reserve is in big financial trouble. USPS should be a federal entity. They should be managed just like the State department.

What the USPS accomplishes is amazing. For a few dollars, you can send anyone a letter or a package to anywhere in the United States. The amount of productivity and the improved standard of living they provide incredible.
Thanks, I'm dumb and don't know how I missed that when it was right in front of me.
I left tech in July and I'm building furniture and woodworking now. I had been doing Rails since 2007, ending my career with a great 4.5 year stretch at Apple and was ready for a break. Two to four weeks off a year just isn't enough for me and my family and simply getting paid 10-20% more wasn't going to change our life.

I'm loving it. I don't sit or stand in place for eight hours a day. I'm learning a ton. I'm engaging with both local builders and master craftspeople. I get to share my work with family, friends, and neighbors. There's a lot of volunteer opportunities that don't require anything but showing up and willingness to help.

If anyone is interested in leaving tech for woodworking, feel free to reach out. My contact info is in my profile.
We made the switch from paid, to ad driven, to freemium/IAP for our in-house games.

Zynga was one of our biggest clients. Hasbro came in second. As well as a few white label advergames (eg. Vans shoes). We rarely made more than a small cut on profits (if that) and were generally paid upfront and on delivery.
Show HN: Zig a daily find-the-best-path puzzle
This one nuances it a little and they provide some references to further explore. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-innate-talent-...

I would also suggest going through the references that they use in Peak and understanding the samples they use to extrapolate from.
The importance of new species in an age of biodiversity loss
Deleting random people's files sounds more like the warnotpeace module.

No normal person would see "peacenotwar" for the first time and assume it does something bad.

This counts as "no warning whatsoever", and no competent lawyer would say it's a warning message.