skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was enjoying this until it veered off into ranting about Communism. Come on man.
It's crazy to see all these interviews from >25 years ago. Everything is calmer, people are more soft-spoken, they think before they speak. They come across as some mix of wholesome, endearingly naive and balanced, genuine etc (it's the tone of voice, the facial expressions, the body language, everything). compared to the media frenzy today, including the shouting grimacing screaming youtubers, the constant crisis mode, everyone putting on an act etc.

I'm not saying the world had no problems, I was alive, I know it wasn't paradise. But the contrast is always noticable whenever I watch old footage, eg asking people's opinions on the street etc. Or there was also a video about some friends having fun at Disneyland and it all seemed much calmer than today.
Lots of people live with parents. Or live a bunch of people in an apartment.

There's cheaper properties a train ride away, around Brisbane.
Costs of WordPress Joining the Block Protocol
I have found one truly valuable use case for shorter URLs: when a link is included in a printed document. The problem is that every URL shortener replaces the domain, which is IMO a highly dangerous thing.
URLs generally do not matter to people.

Quick, what’s the URL of this discussion? Will you remember it? Does that have any impact on your usage of HN?

The vast, vast majority of website sessions start with a click. When people bother to type things in, they type them into search bars (reminder that in most browsers, the “address bar” is also the search bar).

So be clear what you want from your URL structure. If you want search traffic, you’d do better to organize it for Google (hierarchical topic-based) than making it short.

If you want to be able to say it or print it for easy typing, a domain name is going to be best. Catch it and redirect it to the target page.

Even “domain.com/word” is going to be hard for most people to remember. If they remember it at all, they will probably type in “domain word” and let Google figure it out for them.
just seems like another radio song to me. not much emotion in it, so it's not really believable. glad it's bringing some unity tho.
Feel free to sit in a bar in Washington and talk about how to assassinate the President. Or sing a popular song. Or try to persuade someone to vomit suicide.
NYPD Systemic Parking Corruption
Hilarious article. It's satire, right?
What you are describing is a signature, and i use gpg --sign for that.
You can probably search around for references on distributed data management. But basically, when your data is split across different instances, you can no longer do joins or transactions or rely on the database for acid guarantees. All these things must instead be handled in code which is exactly how you would work with data using a nosql database as well.
Writing HTML sucks and No-code doesn't help
Quantum leap: Biden administration commits to ensuring US leadership in emerging
Digital Ocean has something similar: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform
This google ad was also somewhat popular 9 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech-news/googles-india-...
It's a lot of what we are conditioned to do and expect. We learned that the default cost for most apps is free (with the hidden cost of data mining), this assumption can be challenged and possibly changed.

It won't necessarily be easy or quick and likely requires cooperation with the major App Store owners to help assist with things like store visibility, upgrade pricing models, and/or friendly subscription interfaces.
Yeah.. unfortunately.
sorry for the late reply, but here it is anyway

My ideal social network is a network where all kinds public statements are completely free to be published. If you publish something illegal you should be legally liable for that. If something illegal was published anonymously, an author should be given a time threshold when he can prove his/her personality and become personally liable for that content/statement.

The only additional feature that would improve user experience without harming people's freedom, is labeling of content by a thirdparty(chosen by the enduser, like i would chose one labeling system of content, that would put the most horrible things under "nsfw" clickwall, and someone else might choose a labeling system that puts under a clickwall(one click away for you to view that) everything that has a chance to offend anyone)

Horrible content like footage of crimes presented as entertainment should be treated the same way as described above.
In my experience in MA, in larger stores shelved items usually have a price (and price/pound or price/quart) label on the shelf along with an item description. But it's a lot less common for individual items to be tagged than it used to be. The availability of scanners varies.
This sounds like an incredibly foolish expedition. They took a boat to sea without practicing basic seamanship procedures (person overboard drills), an inaccessible life raft, and no practice as a crew. That’s not adventurous, it’s reckless.
another +1 for Fly.io. They also use heroku buildpacks so very easy to pull across.
>>What are you doing to prepare?

My advice:

- hoard cash, i.e. don't spend it on things you don't need right now, you might need it a lot more in 6-12 months just to pay the mortgage

-do anything and everything you can to have a nest egg that will give you 18-24 months of living expenses; 6 months won't be enough for a lot of people. Not easy for everyone I know, but if the SRHTF, it might take you that long to find a new job - and that new job might not pay as well as your old one.

-get out of debt if you can. Again, not easy, but owning a house and car free-and-clear is an awesome feeling when the economy goes into a bad recession and you don't risk losing your house as long as you can pay taxes and insurance.

-get a side-gig or two on top of your job if you can, having a few irons in the fire is never a bad idea if you can handle the extra work.

-not a good time to switch jobs to a risky small tech company (or even a big tech company) if they never, or rarely make money - sooner or later VC's will stop writing checks to companies that don't have a prospect of becoming profitable - in a severe downturn, VC's will cut their losses and move on; these types of companies will be hit the hardest.

-if you are working at mega-corp, try to get on - or stay on a team that supports or develops projects that are really important to the core company functions and/or makes them money. Not a good time to be part of a 'special group' exploring some new technology pr product that might not ever pan out - when big corps tighten belts, look for those types of projects to get shut down.
This is nothing but marketing
Billy Hollis – CodeHeads Anonymous
Reminds me of the first time I taught a friend about cgroups.
>Driving a car is the ultimate expression of freedom.

I see someone drank the Kool-Aid.
Oops!, please note: I pasted the title of the paper behind the second link… up there by the first link which is a Google Scholar search for “arginine diabetes”. And it’s too late to edit. Apologies!
USA is moving toward an intellectual property economy. Lots of IP, especially informatics requires code.
Did you actually read the article? What was the judgement in the quote?
Such a cool idea
...or, you know, on IaaP - to give the concept of having your own computer running under your own supervision on your own connection a fancy term. Infrastructure as a Property [1]. All you need is a computer - you're sure to have one of those laying around somewhere - and you're set. You'll be amazed at how much stuff you can host on that old laptop with the broken screen. It even comes with its own built-in UPS, imagine that! Add some external storage if needed and/or for redundancy and you're off to the races. Just make sure to set the thing to automatically install security updates and to make regular backups (rsnapshot configured for hourly snapshots with 3 months retention will go a long way here) and your stuff will be safe and secure - more safe and secure than when it is hosted at some big juicy target like Heroku.

Source: I've been doing this for more than 25 years. Never hot "hacked", never lost important data. I have seen countless drives and power supplies fail but always kept configuration and user-generated data safe (and that is all that matters, the rest can be easily re-installed from distribution media/the 'net).

[1] Maybe I should make a fancy content-less website with annoying scrolling habits for this to attract some VC capital
From another perspective, the latter proves the former. Google and Apple are so dominant in the market that consumers have no choice but to use their services. As such, the services require public oversight.

Yes, the dutch government is itself perpetuating the situation, but they're only doing what private industry has for years.
There is the big blind spot for governments. Tried to get attention to this too with the covid QR system: they say it is safe for privacy, but it demands you to use an app for that on a smartphone (the paper alternative is not privacy friendly).
It is denied and ignored and continues to be a focus point for the EU.
In the video, 22:15.
Another Cloudflare announcement without releasing the actual product. Why can't they wait until they have something to actually show rather than announcing something that we can't have.

R2 was announced in September 2021 and still isn't available (not even in open beta). And lets not mention that it was announced with the concept of zero-cost for single-digit per second access and now, when I look at the pricing page[1], I don't see request pricing that's significantly different to AWS.

Sure, egress is free, but $4.50/million write (AWS is $5) and $0.36/million reads (AWS is $0.40) is pretty expensive.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/platform/pricing/
Numbr: A smart calculator combined with a notepad
Dark pattern: how YouTube makes sure you don’t always “skip ad”
"Longer terms for politicians leads to better government. If legislators were elected for terms of 9 or 11 years then the democracies would enjoy much better leadership than what they currently get."

Then by simple reasoning, the best government possible would be to elect them for life - they'd never have to pander again. Yeah, there's a /s missing, but I think you'd get better government by attracting better people than those interested in being in government. Perhaps term limits, certainly limits on lobbying or donations, anything to make corruption harder and (somehow) make results attainable.
Patenting Your Perpetual Motion Machine
> FIDO2

Lacks the reference to a transaction. An attacker could send unlimited transactions for 15 seconds after you approved yours.
Uh, this article is someone on "the left" talking about why "the right" thinks it is important to study history. In this case, cites that "the right" is concerned with how civilizations fail, such as the Roman Empire.

This doesn't have anything to do with western supremacists, and it very much isn't someone on "the right" talking about themselves.

I'm totally cool with reading history and trying to learn from it.
Prodigy Game: Perfectly suitable for a 5 year old with a parent there helping. They learn math while playing a fun RPG game.
>You've told me why you think you would like it, not why the industry would embrace it.

You're absolutely correct. And this is because I never told you that the industry would embrace it.

> Right, but there is one.

Right but there's no need.

> heath-robinson type blockchain arrangement

A system already exists and is perfectly usable and understandable. Hyperbole isn't doing any favours here.

> We have a central authority that can easily run its own marketplace, if it shoudl wish to.

This is true of all distributed systems.

> A central authority can solve this just as well as a blockchain, without the need for the tradeoffs.

They haven't though have they? And it comes for free with blockchains, alongside being able to do so without silly blockers like having to sign up for a business account and be verified by ticketmaster and pay fees as though you are a venue etc. etc.

> Sure it does, many bands and venues specifically want to prevent resales as it encourages profiteering over fan accessibility.

Fair, but this isn't what happens. What happens instead is that not only are people making fake accounts and bots, but the ticket issuer themselves is involved and profiteering. Literally the worst. If this takes place on a public chain then the ownership and scalping of any given ticket is fully traceable.

I'll grant you however that blockchain stuff doesn't solve KYC problems. It can certainly help though, given vouching systems by trusted third parties can be implemented and blah blah blah

Additionally, overbooking is easy to see coming and know about in advance, as well as a host of other benefits (expecting a big gig? Traffic reports can grep the chain and see attendance expecations. Blah blah public data.) Once again you can say something _ridiculous_ like this can be done by a central authority - but I'll let you be the one to hold your breath for ticketmaster to create data APIs for individual gigs.

> All of this stuff can be done anyway.

Yes. As discussed everything that can be decentralised can be centralised, basically. Unless you want / care about the additional data transparency and public programmability the chain gives, ofc you won't care.
> It's not about what you reading it, it's about ensuring that someone else can do it.

I fully agree with you on this one. However being free/libre doesn't mean that that "someone" will actually fix your problem. I've been a software developer/hacker/OSS enthusiast for close to two decades, but I'm mighty tired of 1. software that's impossible for me to fix myself, 2. its authors who don't care enough about my problem.

I've had one minor issue with 1password and I was blown away with how good their support was. They followed very good OpSec while not appearing intimidating to what they didn't know wasn't a non-technical user, they solved the problem on the spot, and they gave me a few months free to compensate for the inconvenience. At the same time, I've currently lost track of how many random Github issues I'm subscribed to, with some going on unsolved for years.

Being free/libre is just one dimension, orthogonal to other qualities software might have. These other qualities include simplicity/hackability, cost, usability, convenience, support, security, accessibility, respect for your time, ethical/mindful design, and many others. It's OK to choose your own trade-offs.

> I just lost count of how many stories I heard of people regretting taking "convenience over freedom" with critical software.

All online vaults remain available offline; the client allows a full export, including in plain old CSV. Bitwarden has builtin import functionality; or I can write a few lines of code and put it in pass. Worst case scenario, 1password going fully evil and pushing a silent client update to lock me out? I go offline, restore the app+vault from a backup, and export. It very firmly fits into the category of "problems I can fix myself".
...therefore it's OK to lie about the toxicity of roundup?
An Apple-FedEx debacle had a local man caught in the middle
Young kids enjoy learning, but most kids eventually dislike school so ~5 is a critical age to get them interested/ahead of the curve. It helps separate the dislike of school from the dislike of the subject the same way getting kids interested in reading before they need to read books for class works.
In my experience, this is the most motivating reason. Take something they love and show them how they can get control over it and play around. Kids like to play. They will take literally anything they can play with and play with it.

These high minded ideas about economic utility are for later, when they start worrying about their adult lives. But in the meantime, playing around with the computer and the games and websites and phones and seeing what they can do with them is the best answer.
> so I’d give them 4 and ask them how many I still owe them

That works once and then they demand all the froot loops. They might not be able to do math but they are still criminals.

Jokes aside, sport is a usual goto if the kid is interested. Counting points or asking by how much the other teams is ahead.
Nice song but why is this on HN? It’s not like it’s the first Pakistani song that’s a huge hit in India.
When are we, as a society, going to take small crimes seriously?

My girlfriend got scammed out of over $1000 on Ebay recently (seller is within the country). Here was the dastardly scam: she ordered something, and the seller never sent it. Ebay would do nothing; the police would do nothing.

Why can you just take people's money like this?
It would love to see something like a "short" link tag. For example imagine that YouTube provided the following tag on video pages

<link rel=short href="https://youtu.be/abcdef"/>

Then copying the URL could copy the short link instead.

That being said I like when the URL is readable. The YouTube example works because everyone knows that YouTube is a video. Presumably for non-video links they could use something like /user/foobar to differentiate from their "main product". But for blog posts I would much rather see something like /short-urls rather than /su as the reader gets nothing from the first one.
Not to sound dismissive, but couldn't you specify in a will that a certain set of books is to remain together, or under certain conditions?
Yeah, DigitalOcean is a great alternative. I've been using it for my personal projects for a while now. I think they have a $5/month machine that can do wonders for a hobby project.
Ask HN: What's the ratio of blind ideologues to detached prognosticators on HN?
I hear this statement all the time but I don't know parser generators well enough to actually know what this statement means. I have no reason to believe it's not true. What is an example of an error message that is easy in handwritten parsers that is (much?) harder in parser generators?
I've been playing a LOT of monopoly online recently and I agree with you - whoever gets the first monopoly on the second or third side of the board is going to win 90% of the time. And if you're playing with an inexperienced person who doesn't realize the value of never, ever giving another player a monopoly, then whoever bamboozles them first is likely to win.

I would usually forfeit and leave whenever I wasn't first, and generally speaking so did anyone else.
Why Web3 Storage Matters
Sacré bleu!
Buying Sysinternals is how Mark Russinovich started working at Microsoft, right? He's the CTO of Azure now!
Shame it's been flagged, haven't seen so much unanimity in a long while. ;-)
Out of paranoia, I do all my piracy on a completely different machine than all my banking, taxes, official stuff anyways. Which is also a separate machine than the one I use for work.. How many devices does one person need?
Can you describe such a situation? As far as my thought process goes, the horn is meant to attract attention, and lights only help that purpose.

If you are driving on a dark road with traffic coming on the opposite lane (the only situation I can conceive where high beam blinding is a problem), why would you sit on the horn for more than 1/2 a second?
I think it's fair to be against student loans. My point is that by being against preventing the declaring of bankruptcy of student loans you're in effect arguing for either a system where the providers are forced to give out loans that won't be repaid or a system of no student loans. You should make it clear which of the two alternatives you're actually advocating for rather than advocating for a vague policy without exploring its obvious consequences.
Who reads the manual? I suspect the HN crowd tends to read them more often, even so, I suspect many of us avoid that until "necessary" (IE: I've been stuck on a problem I care about for too long)
So you’re complaining that Google is trying to follow the law and you’re making your kids lie about their age?

You don’t see the problem with this?
Title is click bait. Coke Studio has done this several times. Mainstream Pakistani songs are quite different from Indian songs, however, both populations can understand what is being sung. Mixing the two together results in incredible music. Pakistan and India still hate each other. No music is about to unite them after 1000s years of history and polar opposite religions.
> And you wouldn't want students to be handling many of the jobs that rely on people to conscientiously do them for years, and have institutional memory in mind.

Went to a vocational high school for electrical installation and in senior year we did jobs around the school. My friend and class partner put up the schools first CCTV system and we did everything ourselves. I was crawling around in the ceilings stringing coax and 24V power wires, on ladders with a hammer drill mounting brackets, and in the court yard drilling holes through the walls into the deans office on the 2nd floor. That was a 2 month job.

Two other classmates did an amazing rewiring job in the automotive electrical shop with all new conduit bent to perfection, multiple parallel runs and all. Of course we were the top students in our class. We were hand selected for such jobs by our teacher who was a licensed master electrician so it allowed us to legally do work in the building. As long as you have a good head on your shoulders, sharp teacher and the right equipment you can achieve a lot with a little training.
This is completely false. The standard measurement bars use is called the "pour cost" which is inventory usage(in cost) divided by sales. The pour cost average for a bar is between 18-20%. That's a gross margin of 80 to 82 cents on each dollar a customer spends on drinks. That's a pretty spectacular margin. A well-run bar on a busy night is practically printing cash.
All the artists/musicians and a bunch of interesting people that bring culture and life to the city start leaving is how it works.
I quasi-inherited my eldest brother's C64 when he stopped using it. I would've been ten or eleven, sometime around 1991 or 1992 I guess. Between him and his best friend there were scores of disks with a ton of games, mostly RPGs as I recall, though I remember mystery, adventure, and action games as well. I had a ton of fun with it and have nice memories of sitting in the corner of my bedroom, on the floor, with a small CRT TV, trying out various games at random. (They even had some pixelated porn images which I was pretty impressed with at the time ... not so much in a prurient sense -- I was only 10, after all -- but because I had never seen digitized photography before.)

I'd cut off my left pinky to get all that equipment back, but my mother (for reasons I don't understand) gave it all away to my brother's friend when he died back in 1995. She gave away all his Magic the Gathering cards, too, of which he had an extensive collection ... probably would've sold for thousands of dollars at the time. Oh well.

Sometimes I think about purchasing a C64 or C128 on eBay or something, but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. I was never that much of a tinkerer, and though I still remember LOAD "*",8,1, I never did much with it programmatically beyond typing in a few programs.

That said, I do appreciate the opportunity to think about this stuff, and especially about my brother, who would be amazed at what we can do with computers today. He was gone way too soon.
Oh sure, I'd expect that most people going there align with the college's beliefs. I'm just pointing out that it's not 100% and that there are non-Christians going to Christian colleges.
Not to mention the myriad of injuries you can get by working in an environment where there are dozens of hot items around, boiling liquids, knifes, slippery surfaces, open fires, and whatnot.
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