skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not as I understood it. It appeared in windows 3.1 (or before?).

There, it listed what COM components were available and how to start them. These components were meant to be available for all applications, so e.g. embedding 1 component like a spreadsheet in any other OLE application like avword processor could work, even for applications never meant to be connected together.

So it was at first meant as some meeting center, where anyone could drop anything for anyone else.

Meanwhile, the .ini files became a bit long in the tooth, so NT and 95 both adopted it as a config store.

When you use a meeting center for personal config, it makes sense that other passerby's would notice and start to mess with your config. This was both a blessing and a curse: It allowed all kinds of deep integration, but also injects all kinds of other peoples bugs in your code.
I rarely have fewer than double that number of tabs open in Firefox and never have crashes. Maybe it’s crashed on me in the past, but if so I don’t remember it happening.
I am note able to reply to your other comment, so I'll reply here.

Everything except for Tailscale (and possibly ZeroTier) on that list can be entirely self-hosted.
That JavaScript for loading contents and images is probably an effect of Google's changes a few years ago where it was all about the load time of the main page.

So to rise up a few steps on the Google results page, people turned to serving empty pages with a small JavaScript (which finished loading fast - so bonus points from Google) which then starts pulling in the actual content.
Seems reasonable. Although I would tweak it to say you can't control when each turn ends.
As cool as this is, I think space architecture should be made of bubbles, not metal cans (even cool geodesic origami cans.)

If you look at the spittle bug's nest: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=spittlebug+nest&iax=images&... Spittle bugs create a dollop of foam and live inside it.

You make bubbles of several different sizes and nest them inside each other to make a kind of fractal spittle bug nest. The smaller bubbles serve as "vacuoles" within the larger bubbles.

I don't have the time/energy to go through the whole concept this morning but I'll summarize some of the main points: Bubbles are easy to make. The fractal structure is more resilient to damage and easy to repair. It's safer ("Yo dawg, I heard you like space stations so I put space stations in your space station!")
Probably a lot cheaper, definitely lighter.

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The timing on this article is interesting. My Firefox just "refreshed" itself, turned Pocket back on, turned DNS over HTTPS back on, removed all of my plugins, and then somehow leaked itself up to 10gb of RAM (I'll blame Discord for that I guess).

The browser ecosystem under Google's benevolent dictatorship is languishing.
It sounds like something you might be able to accomplish with a copy-on-write VFS on top of a Firebird database file. (Not sure about PostgreSQL, but with Firebird, you only deal with one file, so with Firebird, this should definitely work.)
It’s kind of the same thing that’s happened to the internet. Everyone is now there instead of self-selecting smart, hacker types.

It’s a balance between making things easier to use while also that letting in everyone. And the hoi polloi are just regular people.

Not to sound snobby, but different people like different things. And McDonalds is a $200B company for a reason.

So now they’re on Reddit just being interested in regular stuff and raging and whatnot.

With the masses comes company attention and fake accounts and SEO so the corporate content is low value but prevalent.

I still use Reddit for my subreddits and get good info. But it’s harder to weed out things.

Finally, I had a curious interaction with a company trying to take over my subreddit. I started /r/grass fed years ago when I was interested in this. Not a lot of activity. Some marketing company for an unnamed company petitioned to take it over as if it was abandoned. When I responded that it’s not abandoned, just not very active and that they were welcome to post as much as they like the sub stayed with me as a mod. But they didn’t post anything. Makes me wonder what kind of company wants to mod a sub in order to participate. And how common this is.
In my case I think I got used to have specific ff windows for specific stuff, and having the tabs "opened" feels quicker for me. But I guess I could get used to and switch to tags and bookmarking as you said.
“I think I’d respect your opinion more, if you could write some code to evaluate all possible tic tac toe games in c++ on that whiteboard over there in around 45 minutes. Sound ok?” - whiteboard hiring managers probably
Physics on the server? Nearly every shooter game. Server-authoritative is the way. As per the article, the clients only predict some physics objects (requires simulation) and interpolates & extrapolates others (does not require simulation). The clients have no first authority over the server’s simulation, other than their own player inputs.
Misallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis from China
You're imputing a lot of malice into what I've written that I didn't intend - I'm a big fan of EVs and would love to get one in the near future. I'm just outlining the sort of issues and complexities that come up if you live outside of the US east coast in terms of normal distances that you need to travel.

On average, I drive about the same amount as you. I have a 8 year old car with around 50,000 miles on it. The issue is that there's a range of common-enough activities outside of my day to day driving that make a 300 mile range more difficult.

I bring up my friend's Tesla situation only to point out the complexities. For a lot of the more rural midwest, there's not charging options that aren't bringing your own cables and hoping there's a plug you can use near where you can park your car. The reason he does it is that the closest charging station that's meant for EVs is nearly 50 miles in the wrong direction, so unless he wants to spend most of 3 hours recharging his car for the drive home, he has to get creative. I certainly didn't mean it as a slight to anything but the US EV infrastructure.

The reason I bring up the distances involved is not to brag about my driving or anything, but to illuminate the differences between EV viability in the US vs. Japan or the UK in the earlier replies. If I had an EV, this trip (to see my family for the first time in 3 years, and an old friend for the first time in 10) would be thousands of dollars in plane flights that are quite a bit worse for the environment.

For right now, as you point out, relying on an EV puts constraints on your life. The long drive to see my family again would go from 14 hours to 16+ if I had to work in stops to fully re-charge my EV. Or I could take a flight, but wouldn't that nearly undo all of the environmental benefit of having driven my EV for the rest of the year?
Questions I have for researchers:

Is this a new strain or one of the two known strains?

Are we witnessing greater human-to-human transmission than previously known?

What is the fatality rate so far of this outbreak?
Plant of the Month: The Runner Bean (2020)
Minecraft does physics and lighting on the server, although the physics model is very simplistic.
I manage about 200 servers and docker crashing accounts for 20%+ of my issues so far. The servers are brought up easily on crash and that's not an issue for my services. For a database docker is nothing more than an extra layer of complications on top with iptables, volume system and all the layers it brings. It's just a bad wrapper for a production database which needs stability.
Does this handle sharding? Or is it like ordinary Postgres, which only performs replication?
I daily drive Firefox for a few years now, including watching youtube - never faced your issue… Maybe a misbehaving extension?
I'm lucky enough to live and to work from a well-lit apartment (mostly by natural light). I was made aware of that when I recently visited the newly purchased apartment of one of my close friends who has the building close to his building only, I don't know, I'd say 10-15 meters away, anyway, close enough that the natural light very rarely gets to his living room. I realised then that I would have been very unhappy to live there (even though, in all other respects, my friend's apartment is "better" compared to mine, as in it is situated in a better location and is bigger and more spacious).

Light and noise (as in, its absence) make a hell of a difference in our well-being.
The rather massive weakness of that approach is that it requires a functioning internet connection to do anything, and is badly affected by latency. If you lived on the other side of the world from the server and had a sometimes-unreliable or -unavailable internet connection, you would not sing LiveView’s praises so loudly.
I suspect one of the longest lived names will be Julius Caesar; first his military and Roman history, then he is the name of a Shakespeare play which is a fame of its own, then he’s the name of the month July, and proxy related to August from Augustus Caesar. He’s the name of the Caesar Cipher in cryptography, and tangled up in the etymology of the Caesarian Section method of childbirth (which he probably didn’t have), the Caesar Salad (actually Caesar Cardini but often misunderstood (whom was the chef named after tho?)), and the German word Kaiser for Emperor e.g. Kaiser Wilhelm.

It’s a bit like if Martin Luther King became the dominant meaning of the word “King” and that became the reason “King” echoed down the centuries; famous things named after him so that everything King which isn’t named after him is often thought to be, or is a reminder of him.
> … there isn't one single right answer to improve accessibility.

This is very true. Like any optimization, there is a point at which improving things for one community makes things worse for others. An example most of us are familiar with are the trade offs between mobile UI and desktop UI: You can make your UI adequately work on both, but in order to give both an optimal experience things start to get quite complex. I’ve seen developers tie themselves into knots trying to be all things to all people here. Accessibility is harder in a sense because able-bodied devs often don’t have any instinct for when they’re crossing the line from “good enough” to “overkill”.

The 80% rule for accessibility is really just “Make your site keyboard accessible”. While there will still be some issues for some users, it’s a clear enough goal that it can break a dev out of “analysis paralysis” and just get moving on something, and the benefit is huge for the vast majority.
I've been working on my own realtime networking engine[0] and I think there are a few important points related to network syncing that are not mentioned in this article:

1) Bandwidth. The users internet can only handle so much network throughput, so for fast paced games (where you're sending data to each client at a rate of 20+ frames per second) it becomes important to optimize your per-frame packet size. This means using techniques like binary encoding and delta compression (only send diffs).

2) Server infrastructure. For client-server games, latency is going to be a function of server placement. If you only have a single server that is deployed in us-east and a bunch of users want to play with each other in Australia, their experience is going to suffer massively. Ideally you want a global network of servers and try to route users to their closest server.

3) TCP vs UDP. Packet loss is a very real problem, and you don't want clients to be stuck waiting for old packets to be resent to them when they already have the latest data. UDP makes a major difference in gameplay when dealing with lossy networks.

[0] https://github.com/hathora/hathora
I quite often use the tautline in combination with the truckers: Use the purchase of the truckers to reduce the load that tautline has to hold, but the adjustability of the tautline lets me cinch things tight. Super handy on sailboats.

Great example is from the video linked above with the airplane. At the end he's complaining about the tautline. In that instance, I would use (if not the knot he's showing) a truckers to the plane, and the tautline to set the length.
I believe this is the relevant video (amusingly with a Tesla next to it):

https://youtu.be/uxzm_6SYBFo
> Certainly you can make good money off crypto if you’re smart enough, many people do. But most people don’t it seems.

My thought too. People made money trading baseball cards and beanie babies, too. Doesn't mean they were necessarily smart, or that this was a sustainable way to get income.
Show HN: Zipped Album
Having read several comments in other threads about frustrations with digital music and streaming, I thought this could potentially be interesting to some of you. It's a very small attempt at bringing back an experience that we seemingly lost when going fully digital.

When I was looking around whether something like this already existed, I could only find some commercial (and discontinued) attempts, but nothing based on open standards. So I made a draft of what I think an open single-file music album format could look like. It is very simple, and basically just a specification of how to combine several already existing formats into one file. It is also compatible with the ZIP files you get when downloading a FLAC album from Bandcamp.

While some players (Foobar2000, DeaDBeeF) should already be able to play this format, I also made a cross-platform (desktop) demo player that fully supports the suggested format (including the digital booklet).

I am aware that this is not going to gain a lot of traction, but I am sharing this as it might still be useful to individuals.
Obscurity, in some ways, is more valuable to the creator than fame (although I loved this piece and I'm glad the author shared it here). Guessing what the audience expects, or seeking external validation, can slowly (or quickly) suck the joy out of the creative process. I interviewed author Michelle Kuo about creativity, and her advice:

“The most important thing I can tell you is to relish writing in obscurity. I feel that I was the happiest as a writer when I was in hiding, when I was invisible, when I was secretly writing, stealing away portions of time at work, or writing on scraps of paper, or forming sentences in my head on the commute. That was a time before I had published really anything and before I even thought my writing would become a book, I was just trying to organize or to create order in my emotional life.”

I wrote a book on creativity with Holloway, and I wanted to share two of my favorite prompts:

Ignore the stats: https://www.holloway.com/g/creative-doing/sections/ignore-th...

Make something you won't ever show anyone else: https://www.holloway.com/g/creative-doing/sections/make-some...
I think this is a YMMV kind of situation. Isn't Ubuntu non-LTS supposed to be more... experimental? Like they try out new things which may or may not go on?

Anyway, I've never used Manjaro, but my daily driver is Arch. I remember around the upgrade to Linux 5.16 and gstreamer 1.20 (not 100% sure of the version) the sound on my laptop went to hell.

Pipewire would die and while the system was still more or less usable, it wouldn't turn off. It would hang indefinitely trying to shut down pipewire. Apps that didn't need the sound would work OK, but others would hang at launch, like Telegram. Firefox worked as long as it didn't try to play anything. As soon as it did, it would become unresponsive. I could work around it by disabling pipewire, and I could get back to work by installing the LTS kernel, which was still at 5.15, and the sound worked (I need to be able to make calls with Teams).

My laptop is AMD Zen3 based, but on my (older) Intel boxen everything was OK. However, on the laptop, sound wouldn't work with external sound cards or BT headphones, either.

This was quite shocking to me, since I'd been using Arch since ~2011 IIRC, and this was the only time when an upgrade was this terrible.
Please, could you share more details re: specific hardware?
You can get that feature on any Postgres server by installing Citus
Re: identity

> Kerri Raissian, a professor in public policy at the University of Connecticut, said: “The NRA has crafted a narrative for decades that guns are a part of American social identity.”

https://www.ft.com/content/a5fce2c9-12f2-4457-af63-40a8d9b0c...
Maybe it's not a lie?

https://www.science.org/content/article/could-certain-covid-...
My understanding is that all lossless on-camera raw compression is patent encumbered, and so companies use fancy proprietary mostly-lossless compression eg. blackmagic raw.
> Wondering when the crypto “Big Short” book will inevitably arrive.

You can't really "Big Short" a manipulated market where there are no rules whatsoever and you don't have transparency.
Someone shorted his chain before he had the opportunity to do it himself. He just wants a second chance!
I wish they would look more into rotating structures to address the problems stemming from lack of gravity...
swing/day trading 3 days a week? not sure how easy it is to just disconnect from the markets on the days you're not trading though...

tricky.
I found this link from https://marfooglenews.com/ and for what it’s worth, this guy was shouting about Ukraine weeks before the rest of news media.
Why developers seem to only build luxury housing (2018)
Pretty much every serious online games do it.
The Staples Center in LA was renamed to the "Crypto.com Arena" last year. Matt Damon appeared in a Crypto.com ad last October that called crypto "brave" (which is funnier in hindsight as brave and foolish are often so closely linked). During the Super Bowl, Larry David and LeBron James were both in ads for crypto companies.

They got all of these celebrities to shill for them using VC funding and the gains from their early adopters to fuel what must be massive marketing budgets. "Crypto" is a known concept now, even if an understanding of crypto isn't.
It is ordinary PostgreSQL, in which only the storage interface with the file system is replaced with our own storage interface.
For woody plants, VTree might fit what you're looking for. It's a dychotomic key optionally augmented by your location data.

https://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/vtree.htm
Ted Sarandos Talks About Stock Drop, Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude
Who absolutely would not want to give a credit card to AWS where a bill is dynamic. If $5/mo is bad they definitely can’t handle the screw up that scales up and runs overnight for $500.
London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50
Headbutts hurt the brain, even for a Musk ox
Illegal Immigration Is Down, Changing the Face of California Farms
Looks great. Just a heads up that there a bug in the example at https://www.tetraframework.com/docs/introduction

As it stands you'll get

TypeError: ToDoItem.save() takes 3 positional arguments but 4 were given

when trying to add a ToDo.
Sounds neat. What’s the weak link here though?
I count myself as a huge fan of matrix - both the protocol as well as the federation concept - and even i feel that bridges are a compromise...but i don't blame the matrix folks. In fact, bridges are the best compromise that i can think of in an ecosystem of outwardly hostile (or at least not cooperative) other chat services. If many chat systems used a singular messaging protocol - much like email uses the same underlying protocols - then i would imagine different systems and client/apps could differentiate on features, performance, price, stability, etc...Not so different from email providers might compete today. In other words, i don't think anyone *wants* bridges...its merely an artifact of others not cooperating. If more systems like rocket chat came out and began to leverage a universal protocol, then everyone wins - the app owners/designers, the app users, etc.
“Strangely, some of these whales felt the need to share this in their comments following the crash.”
Why strangely? They’re advertising themselves as the smart guys who came out on top. In the world of crypto scammers, they are probably going to get a lot of congratulations and new investors.
Are most VPN provides unreliable? I don’t know - never researched this.

I use Proton VPN because it is bundled with ProtonMail. I very much like preventing my national Internet service provider from selling my browsing history.
I recommend checking out LibreWolf as a possible alternative: https://librewolf.net/.
Right now, we have our hosting in AWS (us-west-2).

We're planning on expanding to other regions and cloud providers eventually, though.
Palmetto state armory. Decent quality from what I've heard.

https://palmettostatearmory.com/ar-15/ar15-guns/rifles.html

You can even buy the uppers and lowers separately and assemble them yourself for even cheaper.

Smith and Wesson M&P Sport goes for a bit more.

Note: not a firearm owner, so maybe there's additional costs involved that I'm not aware of.
A couple of billion in liquid assets is a pretty low bar that includes lots of corporate treasuries that hold custodial accounts that aren’t nearly as regulated as a bank.

Basically every sizable payment processor for instance meets that bar and it’s incredibly rare to have a scandal with those institutions.
aaaaaand Netbird ..
Worth noting, the biggest closed source thing from Tailscale is the server side, which has an open source re-implementation call Headscale[0].

[0] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
What are the intended usecases for "branching" a database? Currently, I use separate databases for different environments, are branches better?
Also I visited on my mobile and immediately got a full page prompt for push notifications... Does anyone ever click yes for notifications on a marketing website?

When I closed that I had another mostly full page prompt and left the site before even viewing the content.
Odd DNS Requests that are Normal (2019)
I most commonly find it during payment processing and other spots where devs are trying to do fancy input validation or styling in forms, especially on mobile. The most common issue is that the the cursor isn't moved correctly when accounting for automatically inserted spaces or hyphens and it can be pretty much impossible to enter the correct numbers without overwriting previous numbers. Autofill also generally fails in these scenarios.
If they didn’t sell, would the short still have worked?
It's foolish to invest in any way, even a short, on something that is 100% a scam and doesn't follow any rules, isn't audited, and isn't transparent.
That's... interesting. I clicked the link earlier today I can confirm someone was asking whether the project was still maintained, with no answer. Can't say it inspires confidence to see the issue removed...
I’m with you on this. One clarification I’ve had to fight for is that it be A prioritized task list, singular.
Look, saying Google might be going a bit far, given that PGP doesn’t encrypt everything about the message, but the sentiment is broadly correct: for security, it is better to use independent, trusted encryption and a deliberately untrusted network service provider, than to trust the claims of benevolence of a network service provider that it provides trustworthy encryption. In the former case, you hold the keys and the Google cannot wrest them from your grasp by any means. In the latter case, the Proton frames it as though you hold the keys, but in actual fact they access the keys every time you do, and could at any point decide to duplicate them.
A colleage told me once that his manager went into a panic after realizing that their multiplayer game would be unplayable over the network… Unbeknownst to said manager, the debug builds all this time had a 1 second delay built in to ensure all code would be able to deal with real-world delays.
if you claim you can perfectly predict it, yes