skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is that not censorship, but China enforcing their laws is?

I think copyright enforcement should be seen as a form of censorship, regardless of whether or not one agrees with copyright laws.

This Wikipedia article about internet censorship seems to have been partially written by people who think that copyright enforcement is a form of censorship as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship
You’re not from Australia, I see.
they don't say in article it's property tax for spots taken by scooters, so it's unrelated, could be as well their office buildings or whatever, this is equivalent of you not paying property tax for your house and gov seizing your car
> Deluge still hasn't had an official Windows release for 2.x, and it's been that way since 2019.

This is GPL software made by people in their free time, for free. Apparently, the intersection of "people who want a Windows release", "people who have the skill to do it" and "people who want to do it for free" is empty. If you belong to all 3 groups, then please go ahead and provide a Windows release. If you don't then I'm not sure what you are complaining about. That nobody is providing something to you for free that you need?
Suggestion: abandon the player, let your subscribers choose whatever player they like, such as their own browser's builtin player, and just post a link to the media file, like an mp3, and/or stream via a common protocol all browsers support, like rtsp. No middleman and far less fuss.
I had to stop using Privacy Badger as a lot of sites would break. This was specifically when shopping, booking tickets or using government/banking sites. Extremely frustrating as most of the places it would break would be important sites where i really didn't want it to happen.
So, democracy is not your thing?
Enormous ‘rogue waves’ can appear out of nowhere
Politics also affects birth rate.
Both of you are right. Which doesn't mean that everyone should be let off the hook.
Microsoft didn't even reign in 343 Industries when they were fucking up their flagship Halo franchise. I don't think anyone at the mothership wants to actively manage their acquisitions. Let's see if they do something about Blizzard...
That's because it is (subtle) propaganda, designed to elicit feelings rather than deliver facts. Self-actualization, it suggests, requires external endorsement.

"We knew that every piece of information we were sending out to our chaps was significant," she says, recalling watching the importance of their work reflected back on the TV news.
Happy user for several years now. I prefer this over other more popular blockers because Privacy Badger doesn't directly go after ads. It just blocks the tracking aspect; which in 99% cases of today's web advertising also prevents the ad from showing up.

In general I consider ads to be unethical cognitive burden. The exception is if the site owner keeps the lights on by incorporating non-tracking advertising, it would feel scummy to block off their ads and just take the good content. On the other hand tracking users is an active hostile move and blocking it is the right choice. At least that's my reasoning for choosing Privacy Badger.
Link to the paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671
Looks nice. I have a few questions, if you don’t mind answering.

1. How is the work for the app funded, and will it continue to be free? What’s the business model to ensure longevity? Is that a hosted service to store/sync information?

2. How did you author your website (what tools are you using)? I looked at the page source and found comments for different blocks, and the code looks relatively bloat free, IMO.
OT, but: ^W deletes a word, so you don't need to spam ^H. (Though it is a dangerous habit when writing in a browser tab.)
I imagine in stead of crowd sourcing (which would work) we could have crowd ordering and pay after delivery. The IOU's would be near-instant value created out of raw ideas.
> And don't even get me started on how much work by this time has gone to build the infra-as-code to manage the rube golderg machine, you'll (seriously) have more lines of CDK code than app logic (that was slower to develop & harder to debug than your actual app code per line).

Of all the AWS complaints, CDK is one of yours? I absolutely love CDK and its take on infra-as-code where you construct OO constructs imperatively in a sane language (please, please no more YAML-based DSLs...). I've found that CDK is the only one to have given us the code reusability that all of these solutions always promise while still being overtly hackable.

Debugging CDK code? What kind of wacky stuff are you trying to do? I don't think I've ever had to debug CDK outside of typical "what IAM action am I missing?" or "how do I click some checkbox in CDK?".

I'm curious what you would consider to be better alternatives to CDK.
FWIW lots of other BASICs launched into a repl just like this one. My childhood MSX-BASIC sure did.
Early access these days really isn't a good place to test a game. It's like a quasi full release.

Any game that's not fully legit would have bad reviews follow them until after a full release and revamp
Also

> And probably the best advice is forget everything you think you know and learn properly from scratch, start over try https://www.theodinproject.com/

How could that possibly be the best advice. It's a simple tutorial, in my post I mentioned that I worked 3 years on a sass app and 2 years on a desktop app, and if I did not mention it, it amounts to at least 5,000h of experience total with front-end (and some back-end, I admit my experience with Node.js back-ends is quite limited at this point) + I have some 3,000h working on WordPress plugins. One does not just forget prior knowledge and "learn properly from scratch". When I set out to fix my bad coding practices 2 years ago, which took me maybe 6 months, I was not starting from scratch but building upon previous knowledge. I also was not following any tutorial, but studying other codebases, doing some searches over HN, quick reading through some books and integrating it practically in a real project I was working on as I went through that.
The application lets you configure a proxy, and then does not use the proxy. It ignores the proxy configuration without informing you. It silently ignores it. No amount of comments in a bug tracker changes that.
DANGER: since everybody and their mom seems to be switching to VS-Code, we are going putting MS into a position where it does Microsoft things and that's dangerous.
Frontend for writing behavioral experiments. So backend runs C++ signal processing etc, graphics display, or whatever we need, all of that has bindings for MicroPython.

Works very well, but: it's still Python. Great, but dynamic so not the best suited for larger applications in my experience - no matter how well-architected the code is. Becomes just really hard to refactor without breaking anything.
Allow me to be a bit "blunt" and controversial here: Catalonia based their economy in slavery[1][2][3][4]. Are Catalans going to make reparations to the descendents of those slaves?

Sadly, what is in the past cannot be undone. We can help poor and needed people, though. And we should be doing that, independently of their ancestors.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/apr/13/barcelona-sla...

[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20200622/481890711216/a...

[3] https://aldianews.com/culture/heritage-and-history/very-prof...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-48476378
There is no connection between vaccines and abortions and trying to bring these topics together is absurd and a waste of time. Furthermore access to abortions is a concern only in the US, Poland and I believe several other ultra-religious countries.

Vaccines are a global concern, transcending countries and continents. OP’s worry is legitimate, but I’ll explain why in another reply, since your comment is off-topic and doesn’t deserve any extra attention.
Huh, I didn't expect to see an article of mine on HN this morning. It's been almost 3 years since I wrote that article and I've been journaling consistently since then.

One interesting observation is that I have inadvertently been writing longer and longer journal entries. In 2019 the average entry was about half a page (I have pretty cramped handwriting), and I'm currently writing about a page and a half. I believe I've also gotten a lot better at expressing myself to myself (I've had a lot of practise).

I also tried using a digital journal for a while, but found I needed a distraction free environment that only pen and paper could provide. My handwriting hasn't improved though.
is that still a thing?

I'm sure i've stored more than 50mb in idb before...
> 250x median annual income

Not sure where you got that number. Average salary in JB is about $25k a year.

They are luxury apartments, a few km away from the border of Singapore for $140,000. Compare that to buying the equivalent over the causeway, would be a magnitude higher

Many of them are owned, just not by people who want to live there. It's a place for Chinese people to park money in real estate.

I have the same up north in Penang. For the first year there was no one else living on my floor and the block was basically empty despite nearly all of them being sold. Even a few years later looking at lights at night time I'd say under 40% occupancy of the building. The same for all other skyscrapers in the area, and looking out the window I can see 3 new buildings still going up.

Prices here aren't skyrocketing at all. Actually going down in real terms because they just keep building and building.

Zoom out and check out the housing index for the entire country: https://tradingeconomics.com/malaysia/housing-index

Supply is pushing prices down despite GDP going strong.
Geez man, we got to the point where if you’re poor in real life you’re also poor in
the game, and you’re fine with that I guess. When the opposite could so easily be true if not for greed.

You can not care if you want, I think it’s just a lame thing in general to do so.
> Third, I'm not sure why it would matter. OK, they're all Democrats.

I don't know about you, but I used to change my party affiliation before the primary to be able to vote in the election I care the most about... (I'm not from that state though).
IBM Fires Entire Workforce in Russia During Final Exit from Country
Similar to what the other commenter did, is this the same as SIYLI and this program https://www.mindfulnesscenter.tw/files/shares/2-Day_Program_...?

I would say that while I really like these sorts of exercises for us devs because it's underrated, I would expect these thing to be run by at least a Psychologist who has training understanding the background of why these things are good for us rather than a dev like myself who would just be reading from a book to explaining it to others without verifying it myself.
Ask HN: Find Side Project
Hello everyone,

I'm a Product guy, and I know to code. I've been working in the European tech scene for seven years. It's pretty exciting, but I want to set up my own company. First, as a side project, why not work full-time on it when it generates some revenue.
I don't want to build a unicorn; I want to bootstrap my company and be independent.

I have some pain points I can solve for myself, but I don't believe they would generate revenue. Ideally, I would love to work on a specific niche with an intense pain point. But I have some difficulties finding those particular niches.

What's your process for starting a new business?
Embedded usually pays worse than equivalent jobs writing "big iron" software. Is robotics any different? What would you recommend as an entry point to the field?
Available .com domain name ideas drop for your project/blog
Disclaimer: project manager of Flarum

Although Flarum scales very well, it is not losing sight of shared hosting environments. The only requirement is composer/ssh; hosting providers usually offer these nowadays.

Flarum only released its first stable last year and so has some features missing, yet https://extiverse.com already lists over 500 extensions compatible with Flarum v1.3. Relying on much used technology allows for fairly easy adoption by developers to contribute.

An interesting comparison between Forum software can be found on Slant: https://www.slant.co/topics/898/~best-web-forum-software-pac...
When will Apple ship other M2 Macs?
At this point, dramatic changes to ux would alienate the core fanbase that's been supporting dev for a decade.

The learning curve itself IS the feature.
Some trackers use http (if you look at a magnet link and see `&tr=http://mytracker.net`), and webseed uses http: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html
It's nice to get the old slashdot vibe of "it's open source, any complaint is invalid, learn programming and GUIs and fix it yourself".
We couldn't use `:` as that one is already used for too many things.

We then experimented with different tokens, and `/` felt best.
Fusion happens when hot enough hydrogen ions (=hydrogen atoms with the electron stripped so only the nucleus is left) are running into each other often enough.

So you need a high enough density of those that stay hot enough for long enough (the triple product, vertical axis) at a high enough temperature (horizontal axis) for enough atoms to fuse.

At the boundary, enough energy will start being released from fusion reactions to keep the reaction going. at Q=1 you have theoretical break-even. Somewhere between Q=5 and Q=10 you could extract more heat than you put in. The heat produced by the reactions should be enough to sustain the reaction. At Q=inf it just keeps burning like a fancy camp fire. Just throw in fuel, remove ashes and enjoy the heat. Commercial fusion can only start being viable probably somewhere between Q=10 and Q=20.

Do note that the projected future in OP's gif should contain way more attempts from various companies to reach that limit. Just mentioning sparc is a bit selective.
This is a really bad look, but I would think that if opsec is important to you, you won't have your proxy configuration in application level settings of a Python app. I think the people who would be concerned about this use system wide VPNs or seed boxes.
aws pricing is literally a catalog. what and how much you buy is kind of the whole thing. a subset of the catalog is good.

aws core primitives are:

- flexible

- reliable

- robust

if your service succeeds, you will definitely want to move some components out of aws, but not all of it. aws can always remain the control plane.

if you don’t need what aws offers, don’t use it. they offer it at a price, and it is what it is. thanks to other providers, it likely will remain fair over time.

what i outlined was how to make aws cheap(er). it’s a simple strategy:

- use the primitives: s3, ec2, nvme, route53, lambda, apigateway

- avoid the services: rds and all the rest

- avoid heavy egress: use cloudflare workers and r2

scaling to zero means avoiding things like kms keys.

not sure where you got apigateway pricing from, it definitely scales to zero without fixed minimum cost.

lambda will always be the most reliable part of your stack. when you have enough traffic that it’s worth it, use ec2 instead and let lambda manage those machines.
NGspice is open source. IMHO the only improvents in it are new models and some bug fixes. However, the program itself became worse by stripping the help part and by making nutmeg a part of the main program.
Would you take the advice or medical specialists for a brain tumour? Or epilepsy? Or an immune system disorder? Where do you draw the line? And what makes you qualified to judge?
> it's more convenient than searching for the right torrent link.

Where I live, you'll be fined if you download a movie torrent.
ok. Basic. When did you parents learn to read?
I have been programming in BASIC since 1970.
I programmed it through primary school, middle school, jr high school, and high school, and took it in college. Almost all on a HP2000. (five different machines).

Is there a set of test programs for basic?
I used to be a very happy TekSavvy customer, until I moved someplace they don't service. I wish I could keep paying them my monthly fee anyway, toward their ongoing efforts to advocate this kind of stuff. They're a tiny voice of sanity in an ocean of stupidity.
You can route a BitTorrent client through a VPN. I do this with Docker + rtorrent + Wireguard. I agree silently ignoring proxy setting is not cool but assuming it is used for privacy reasons is a stretch. I'm glad it avoids people route Deluge data through Tor though that also would not be the sole purpose.
I think they're ignoring it because in practice it is not much of an issue.
For PV Narasimha Rao, I can still buy the argument that he set off on dismantling the Licence Raj. What exactly did Vajpayee achieve that came anywhere close? Deciding to go nuclear?

Nevertheless, I don't see how either of them can be considered to have equalled Nehru. For one he remains the longest serving PM during the most transformative period of modern India. During Nehru's term India went from having to import even cars to building jet fighters.
The usual term for a male human is a "man".
Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome (2019)
In the context of blind users: I wonder if it's common to have the display turned off, while still receiving touch input, I wonder how much it would improve the battery life.
Would be more viable if they had a file upload/download module that didn't allocate a files worth of space per download per user. The FoF module is not usable.
What's the hazard?

For the worthless schools that took loan money and didn't deliver education (for-profit scam schools), those could be forgiven. For all the expensive degrees that have led to jobs that can't pay the loans back, this all shows how inadequately prepared the students were to do basic arithmetic and cost/benefit analysis. That's on their parents.
This does not match my experience, I have never encountered such a rip. I downloaded a few when Prime and Netflix would be fussy, and the quality is consistently higher than the 1080p (?) low-bitrate I get on auto in firefox.
I hate this philosophy of yours with all my might.

When you put something out there, you should strive to do right by your users. It is fine if you do not have time to fix a particular bug, but communication and asking for help should then be your priorities as maintainer. If 10 years of mostly silence on your part have passed, IMHO you have failed to be an effective open source maintainer.

I understand that open source doesn't offer you any rights or guarantees, but it does not have to be written in a contract to care about your software and its particular shortcomings.

Lastly, if you say a maintainer can do whatever they want with their software, I say that users should be free to be critical of it. There is no attitude in OP, they pointed out that a possibly major security bug still exists and people should be very careful about using it. Being open source doesn't mean nobody should dare criticise you.
No. Any attempts at cheating caught live just invalidate that bulletin (and said cheater is brought to the police). With a well organised setup (having a record of who already voted, having a transparent ballot box that is only open for a moment when your identity has been verified, multiple assessors watching for the extremely obvious "hey there's multiple envelopes that fell in there"), cheating is already extremely hard, for almost no gain. Maybe you can stuff two votes instead of one, but at what cost, potentially invalidating hundreds for your candidate ? And since voter counts are recorded and compared to bulletin counts, even a difference of one will start an inquiry and potentially invalidate.

If you multiply the voting places, where instead of having a single place which will tally over 10k votes, have 15 places that tally 700 votes each, you have now made both cheating much harder, and less worth it in the scenario you propose.
You can just disable it for some sites, or play around with their trackers to see enabling which fixes your website. I've seen it break some shopping sites too, but that's been mostly on rare occasions for me.
Huh Pixi JS. I used to be a contributor many moons back. It's a great little library. Would love to read about challenges with d3 force and your wasm approach if obsidian has a tech blog.
I'm all in favour the EU doing what it's doing, but x86 is actually a good example to not enforce this standard. Imagine that the EU enforced x86 as well, what would've happened to ARM ?
This seems to go beyond choice of words. All you’re saying here is that context is exhausting. But sounds like you’d sooner exhaust your listeners with vagueness then try to exhaust yourself to find clarity.
> Streaming services wouldn't exist without DRM.

That's completely false... People can already download for free drm-free content that is available on Netflix, etc, yet, they still subscribe.
No. Voting has been secret also for centuries. Paper ballots allow secrecy of the vote _and_ verification of voters. Something that electronic ballots will never be able to do.
I cannot comprehend being blind and developing for my existence. I think I would die, or else become a lecturer .
Anybody could crawl HN and build up the exact same dataset. You choose to publish your words for the world to consume when you submit a comment.
Welp, it's open source, you've had 10 years to contribute a fix.

If you're going to downvote my comment, please explain in a subsequent comment why it's unreasonable to expect that if this is such an egregious bug, someone would've contributed a fix for it? Or at least, a reproducible test case?

Given they haven't, it's either not that egregious, or the people complaining are people who feel entitled to take without giving.

Which, tbh, probably describes a majority of users of torrent software.
Where is that? Is the fine reasonable? (ie: legalizing illicit torrents)
Nah, this story is just exceptionally good. Asimov was a fine writer, but this story was his crowning achievement in short fiction and he knew it too. You can read his other things and none of them will give the same feeling.

Nightfall is a decent story though. But yeah, The Last Question is in a league of its own. It's one of my favorite short stories ever along with The Library of Babel by Borges, The Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl, and "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Tick-Tock Man by Harlan Ellison.
Too much power in too few hands.

Compare the US to the EU.

The US is over 4.5x the population of Germany, the largest EU member. The entire EU is only about 25% more people than the US. California alone is larger than all but four of the EU member nations.

The US Federal Government is more like the EU itself rather than any member country. The states are more analogous to the countries in the EU.

So a US National ID is kind of like a EU Citizen ID.

What we have instead is an agreement between states and the federal government on ID guidelines. From that perspective it’s not so different.
Which makes you wonder why some railway stations would have a IATA code.
>Other than speeding up voting calculations

Hilarious to read that as the US presidential elections take over a week to tally results, when french elections have 90% of the results at 10PM on the same evening (most voting places close at 7PM)
Yeah but you are basically asking for a world which has fragmented implementations such that some stuff will interoperate and be usable within Spark et al and "the new stuff" which could either all be on the same platform or much more likely spread across a number of platforms.

Once you have gotten the hang of running Spark (and working knowledge of JVM itself) then you have paid the cost and it's done. Adding a whole bunch of new stuff just means more costs to pay, less integration, more fragmentation of knowledge.

Doesn't seem like a net win on any front to me.
The steam URL is kind of whimsical. I quite enjoyed when Stardock created their competing service in the same vein:

Valve : Steam : steampowered.com

Stardock : Impulse : impulsedriven.com