skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of bootstrapped businesses have better things to spend $200 / month on, let alone the time spent trying to figure out where all the anomalous traffic is coming from. As I understand it, it's not simple file fetches either. It's cloning a repo, which involves two-way communication, consumes CPU and RAM, and causes disk seeks. You're not slapping it on CloudFront and calling it a day. Finally, it looks to me like the costs are going to scale the more people he has using sourcehut and writing Go modules.

I don't really understand turning this around on him. Why should he have to subsidize Google? If it's not a problem, why do we have robots.txt at all? Just let bots hammer your site and cope with it.

The current situation can't be the optimal solution. It wasn't even present prior to Go 1.16. Only one company has the ability to change that. What should he do differently here? Why should he have to spend any of his time or money working around an issue he didn't create?
Drew is running a code hosting business and this is a cost of providing a feature to the users. He can pass the costs on if it is a problem. He has lots of options and his competitors are not making a big deal out of this.

I suspect he's drawn his line in the sand and wants to keep it going rather than finding a solution that works without requiring upstream changes.
I don't think anyone has ever asserted that stealing can be justified if the casual outcome for the victim is insignificant and it is certainly isn't a justification here. It is a valid historical question of the impact of the indemnity. Pointing out that haiti's economy was unable to develop should be relevant and certainly not reprehensible. There are a lot of cases of historical injustice including other instances that involved Haiti in the first place. Justice will be harmed if we can't fairly judge the outcome of these injustices.
Fuck you u racist
If you believe you can review your list everyday, then your list is not large enough ;)
Obviously, it would defeat the purpose to try to review it everyday -- classic quadratic algorithm -- nothing will be done and a lot of anxiety may be generated.

If you are stuck and can't choose in a reasonable time, pick at random, and work on it: avoid multitasking (if it "maybe/someday" task, then you can afford it).

If 1000 hours over 4 years is too much for your purposes, pick a different frequency -- having the habit should help either way. If there is no amount of time you are willing to reserve for your list than call it "Never" (that is fine -- as one data hoarder to another).
Turn-based strategies might suit you better.

There is a reason why they are a completely different genre of games.

I enjoyed playing Age of Wonders (all titles) because I was getting frustrated with Starcraft: Brood War.
That ignores any type of structure to the data (such as timestamps and which sensor it is). It would also probably need to be indexed somehow.
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (Not sure a rhetorical question to make some vague accusation counts as a substantive comment)
Factorio as a 4X game when you create factories and develop technologies to expand into new previously inaccessible areas and exterminate new threats.
No, just to stop you right there. Allende's government, 1970-1976 (interrupted in 1973, but according to La República de Chile, a country which stopped existing having been effectively invaded, he was meant to continue in office until 1976) didn't meaningfully enslave, kill, or torture anybody. The argument that it stole and lied to people can in fact be constructed, but at that point they have to fight Henry Kissinger's monstruous and cowardly realpolitik with some realpolitik of their own.

You can't just say that, you can't just talk shit about every single government that ever existed, like there was no differences between them. That there was no difference in intent. Like if you were on a desert island with nine other people, would you say that about the organization among the ten of you?

Further, I honestly prefer the contracts the governments of the countries in which I am a citizen to the contracts of practically or literally all businesses and institutions I've encountered.
We just need to start with better self governance, exploration, review & moderation & justice. I imagine most of our best futures starting as voluntary, non-binding, additive/annotative atop existing channels & forums. Systems of peers & juries.

More than just momentary summary judgements & things which help us reflect & ascertain how others are seeing us.

Real democraccy, when done well & with regard, is about an promotion of freedom, expanding liberty. This article focuses like so much of the day does on regulation, on accepting as given the confined & prisons that happen to be about, corproate run, & projects development of additional new constraints to guide things a certain way. Im not opposed to exploring ways forward here, but my hope for where democracy happens is elsewhere, lies in thise wanting to understand & share the world & themselves better, more openly, & working forwards newer mediums.
What are the concerns? I keep hearing the same "don't use it in prod" about docker, yet I know quite a few (small-ish) operations successfully running on it.
Open source it, so I can see if it's a good home for some of MY ideas in a lowest-possible-latency audio over lossy network R&D/code I've been half-ass building for a decade now. ;-)

Though perhaps not, as I'm guessing making it browser based and cross platform removes the ability to do lots of the things that drive down latency.
I was always surprised how they were afraid of credit cards tracking everything they do.

OTOH in France we have people afraid of (someone, not sure whom) tracking their life through the computerized power meters...
Some experience here as a 30 year old boomer.

Unfortunately this makes market research difficult. Guess it depends on the audience you're trying to reach.
The guy who had 4G of traffic a day was self-hosting his go-module where he was the only user. Google downloaded his repo 500 times a day, that's some serious traffic for a single person, and no he was not a git hosting service.

Also traffic is not free, so even if they maintain a cache somewhere there is a cost to this.
> Function returning function returning function is an awful style of coding that is hard to read.

Although I hate functional options for their lack of discoverability, the idea that currying is "awful" is pretty far fetched.
Hey guys

You removed the app from Russian App store. Do you have any policy for existing accounts?

For some context: I can still download the app from Purchased section of the App store and use in-app purcahse (apple payments via cellular providers work in Russia).
For what it's worth, this is how it works for founders too. The amount you pay is stupidly small (usually well under $100), since the strike price is essentially $0. There's no legal designation for founder when it comes to stock, so this person just got the same deal the founders did.
It’s not exactly a sterling example of ethics.
Again: it is cheaper and easier than ever to get a "real" computer. They're at thrift stores for like $50-100, with peripherals. Raspberry Pi alone has sold over thirty million units. If a bright kid with a good idea asked for one on HN I bet a dozen people would ship their extras to them for free. Computers are given away for free pretty regularly on Craigslist and Facebook and such. Old but functional laptops can be had for tens of dollars on Ebay. It is wildly easier and cheaper to get into personal computing now than it was in the 80s, 90s, or even 00s. You can literally afford it by collecting loose change for a little while. A month of half-decent Internet service may well cost more than your entire computer set-up. This has been the consistent trend and it shows no sign of reversing, even after 15 years of iPhoneOS/iOS.

> the next Apple, only without the cruelty and greed.

Sigh. Well, never mind, I'm out.
Not really. There are really broad shared categories. Nearly all social media is a time suck for nearly everybody. Twitter is a time suck for most but a useful tool for many. Messaging apps are a useful tool for most but a time suck for some. Maps is useful for pretty much everyone. You get the drift; there are few universals, but clear distinctions do exist.
thanks for sharing! this is really interesting!
Yes, this. Thank you for pointing out the scapegoating.
Go on, tell us more …
"In closing arguments this week, prosecutors conceded that their case was based on “all circumstantial evidence,” saying that the jury needed to join together the pieces of “a puzzle” to reach its conclusion."

I hate the whole idea of a jury system. It's insanity. Either the prosecution has proof that she comitted the crime or they don't - the idea that 12 random people can just decide you are guilty based on nothing more than prosecutor telling a nice story is literally insane. Thank god most of the civilized world doesn't use juries like US does.
There would still be reasons to have configuration structs if we had named arguments.
A serious time travel game.

Think of MS Flight Simulator or Google Street View as documenting the current world. Then take the same approach to thoroughly document the past. The locations, the events, all in 3D VR with realistic graphics, and simulated actors that react to events and react to the players.

Take the current knowledge and physical/archaeological remains of the past, and digitise them, digitally renovate them. Do this rigorously and professionally. Not Hollywood-style approximation, but the work of real historians and archaeologists. Let historians use it and debate the details how it should really look, or how the events really unfolded and adjust it accordingly. Organise the database of content and simulations. AI is possibly already there to automate processing and conversion to 3D of old videos, photos and paintings, even perhaps writings to animation scripts. If not yet, some AI researcher is surely working on that.

Make a VR meta world, where players can travel to certain locations and certain time and interactively take part in the events.

I would pay a monthly subscription for such a thing, to see the past getting recreated digitally. It would be the next best thing we actually could do, compared to real time travel.
Clownish. If I were the CEO, some folks would have already been fired.
For 2), it’s because Finder only ever looks for things indexed by Spotlight. So it could be Spotlight lagging behind (that’s the ‘mdworker’ I’m sure you’ve seen many times hogging cpu), the Spotlight importer for that file type failing, or even just Spotlight deciding not to index various folders by default :(
Off the top of my head I don’t remember exact folders it ignores, but it definitely does not index the full file system.
GP is talking about the bombs forestalling a
possible Soviet invasion of Hokkaido.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Soviet_invasion_of_...
I left spare space for that. Especially if you store a minute of samples at a time.
> I'm in a Californian hotel right now, and I need to redirect 75% of the water to the bath faucet to have a shower at reasonable pressure. A lot of wasted water.

Please let me know if it is a chain, because nearly every hotel I've stayed at has abysmal shower water pressure, probably due to California's mandatory flow-limiting fixtures (currently a paltry 1.8 gallons/minute vs. the federal maximum of 2.5gpm. Prior to regulation a typical rate was 3.5gpm apparently.)

Most shower heads I'm familiar with do have some kind of flow control, but that obviously only reduces it further.

Add in some awful low-flow toilets (currently 1.28 gallons/flush max) that don't flush properly and it's a recipe for misery. I usually mention these issues when the hotel asks me for feedback, but of course nothing changes.
So it only needed a "turn-table" base?
957 hours. Pretty crazy. Can't think of another 'outage' with that kind of length on it in awhile or ever.
I just thought no js just made the internet work better sometimes, and now you're telling me I can be smug about it too?

Now how much would you pay? :)
I'm a huge fan of API-first design and would love to see MMOs embrace this. Anything you do in game could be doable via APIs and those could be open to 3rd-party clients. That would allow people to develop those kinds of specialized clients.
We need to turn data into a liability.

There's a reason many places work on a "need to know" basis.
I think in the US credit score system rose as a way to work around racial discrimination laws.
What're the (approximate) costs for monthly usage? (Or if you don't know yet: what're you budgeting for?)
Check out Foxhole. There's one server with thousands of people fighting on one map in a massive war. All weapons, ammunition, structures, etc are built by players from mined resources. The "High Command" Discords for each faction have their own internal tools used for gathering intel with computer vision and stuff. There's also a live map of the war: https://foxholestats.com/
Not clear if by "went to strip clubs" you mean "was paid to operators" or "made its way to patrons who paid it to the clubs"? My memory was that dancers tend to be paid like waitstaff and rely on tip income, quite possible they wouldn't have gotten much out of PPP if they weren't full time employees?
https://www.murgee.com/auto-mouse-clicker/

Looks similar to a nocode version of autoit maybe. Its one of those tools that is challenging to understand but has incredible amounts of power. If you're familiar with old school runescape, it lets me set up a pretty nuanced bot for almost any acitivity in the game in about an hour. There are 150 actions, and a ridiculous number of settings. Many of the actions are ones I wouldn't think of when doing automation, but turn out to be useful (ie waiting for the count of colors within a certain area to be above or below a threshold).

Surely one of those things most people here would look at and prefer to write python on their own!
The following approximation is interesting when it comes to the game theory of advertising:

- Both parties do not advertise, resulting in zero outcome.

- One party advertises, resulting in a gain for that
party and a loss for the other party. (after advertising cost)

- Both parties advertise, resulting in negative outcome.

One equilibrium looks significantly better than the other.
20x Price-to-Sales (P/S) multiple on trailing-twelve-month (TTM) revenues is actually on high-end of of sub-$20B SaaS right now -- it's just the new reality. Examples from public markets:

Cloudflare ($NET) TTM revenue is $0.73B and $16.9B marketcap (23x P/S).

DocuSign ($DOCU) TTM revenue is $2.1B with $15.5B marketcap (7.3x P/S).

UIPath ($PATH) TTM revenue is $0.9B with $9B marketcap (10x P/S).

Okta ($OKTA) TTM revenue is $1.3B with $13B marketcap (10x P/S).
Is that something the mev apis implement? The Ethereum network would still include the transaction and just have it fail.
I'm sure it's not that simple, but I suspect that it simply isn't worth it to launch extra mass to Mars. InSight was successful in its mission, I don't know what value would be gained from extending its life further.
This is an interesting part to me: "[T]he new order[0] adds more provisions to protect consumers in the future: ... Twitter must provide multi-factor authentication options that don’t require people to provide a phone number."

I would like to see this be a more broad-based rule. No, I am not moved by "SMS is easy" or "getting a number that can receive SMS is harder for scammers to do in bulk." If you must, give users the choice but not the obligation to hand over a mobile number.

0 - https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/2...
I was under the impression that that acquisition (along with their previous ones) was all stock, but apparently it was a mix. In hindsight, that seems like a poor decision.
For context, Twitter‘S revenue in 2021 was $5 billion, on which they made a loss of $220 million.
Why not use your distribution's native package installer?
Yes, I also hope EU breaks Google apart.
Why? Business will continue, they are just trimming fat (excessively) based on what the market is doing. Next 2 years might be rough, especially for ecommerce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting#Mitigati...

> Tor Browser notifies the user of canvas read attempts and provides the option to return blank image data to prevent fingerprinting.

> Canvas Defender, a browser add-on, spoofs Canvas fingerprints.

> The LibreWolf browser project includes technology to block access to the HTML5 canvas by default

It doesn't seem to be the case that anything with javascript must leak canvas fingerprints.

Are you saying that Brave is unsafe because it has JS like every other browser on the planet or because it doesn't resist canvas fingerprinting specifically?
> If people actually proposed laws that did that, we could have a real discussion about that.

RAND found safe storage / child-access prevention (CAP) laws reduce violent crime, suicide, unintentional injuries and deaths:

* https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/child-acce...

The NRA is against CAP laws:

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texas-lawmakers-approv...

RAND found that stand-your-ground laws increase violent crime:

* https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/stand-your...

The NRA is for such laws:

* https://www.nraila.org/articles/20201230/nra-backed-stand-yo...

Background checks and domestic violence prohibitions are also effective:

* https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/background...

* https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/domestic-v...

NRA:

* https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-nra-background...

* https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/17/d...

Gun show loophole:

* https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/01/13/ov...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_show_loophole

Laws that studies have been found to be effective at reducing gun violence are blocked at every turn from what I can see.
Ask HN: Which programming language that you've used had the best DX?
Would you fire yourself?
In the previous discussion someone lamented they wished they could do this in JavaScript[0].

Nowadays we have TextDecoder and BigInt64Array so I'm pretty sure we actually could do it[1][2].

I doubt it would be faster than calling <number>.toString(2), but in principle we could port this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517332

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> translating algorithms to a programming language is not the hard part of programming

I agree with this bit, but often struggle to verbalize what is hard. I'm curious to hear your take.

I usually say, in a hand wavy way, that structuring large logical processes takes a lot of deep concentration, but that doesn't quite capture it.
Mixture of UFO and Invisible Inc. Tactical game where you rely on stealth and elusiveness to infiltrate alien ships and bases to steal their technology to develop new gear to ultimately defeat them (by covertly planting doomsday device under their noses of course).

Game that makes you feel like you are one wrong step from detection and disaster like Invisible inc did.
https://blog.kulman.sk/faster-way-to-download-and-install-xc...
There have been multiple occasions where I would've ran aground if I had trusted Navionics' charts.

Granted, I sail in Finland which has one of the rockiest waters in the world but in my situation, their products are simply inadequate for any serious use.

But yeah, I could see a use case for it in some situations
Ahhhh this is extremely helpful, thank you. I've been puzzling at the mud parsing thing because while it's in the shape of natural language (and somewhat annotated in it eg there is spurious "decorative" information), it does represent a 1:1 mapping with computation already.

This feels like a much better path than trying to get it into an AST with like yacc or whatever. But since it isn't actually natural language NLP didn't seem right either. I've got a lot of reading to do but this is very interesting.
Elon Musk will put up $6B to drop Tesla loans from his Twitter deal
> One key challenge with nuclear reactors in space is the risk of contaminating Earth

What?
Except in current democracies there are lots of important popular issues that voters want addressed and yet politicians refuse to, because their owners are against it.
I just accepted an offer (contract is signed) 1 month ago. I guess I need to start again looking for a job.
This is surprisingly reasonable. I would like to see a decisionmaker do some time for fraud, though. They locked people out of their accounts and demanded phone numbers for "safeguarding," then used them for targeting in direct contravention of a previously negotiated agreement with the FTC. If that doesn't rise to criminality, the fraud statutes need to be updated.

edit: they should also be required to dump the phone numbers (even to be recollected later, without the deception), but I didn't see that in the article. Are they being allowed to keep the proceeds of a crime?
> Apps like VSCode and Discord have shown that it’s possible to achieve decent performance

the difference is that they have the resources and employ people who work full-time to not make Electron suck
It would make low budget SciFi movies look realistic too
>If the author’s thesis is correct, then there should be a noticeable difference once these groups are exposed to easily accessible guns.

That doesn't seem to track logically, to me. You're assuming that the assertion is only useful if those are the only things that cause gun violence, rather than the primary and addressable things. Of course it's a myriad of things of varying impact and varying interaction with each other. This test can't realistically control for those things, nor can it even control for the basic effects of transitioning between two countries/cultures that would create noise in the data. This test could certainly produce useful information, but it's too naive to prove or disprove the notion that availability and laws contribute strongly to US gun homicide rates.
They offered to turn off refreshing of his domain it appears on Jun 8, 2021: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85692...
Meanwhile Fiestas are everywhere in Europe.
To be fair, the reduction in micronutrients/minerals is a drop in the bucket compared to our yield increases. Besides, the reduction is more closely linked to our choice in cultivar as opposed to soil health. The Rothamsted institute has studied this extensively if you are curious to read more.

I agree, though. We should not only have more sustainable farming but also a more sustained food system entirely.
That's called resignation. Yea you would do it if you respect your company and your users. Call in someone more mature.
Which is bizarre, in itself.
“You know, strip clubs weren’t really like how they show them in the movies” remarks the geriatric millennial as they turn away from ReBoot reruns for a brief moment, “not the most romantic of places back then.”
What a great buy...

I saw a tweet the other day that said they can't think of a worse purchase since Bank of America bought Countrywide for $40 billion.

TWTR has traded flat since its inception in one of the greatest bull markets of all time.
When I think twitter, I think of a service that costs 5.2B to run.