skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this myself. I made some real-world friends from usenet. Not extremely close ones obviously, but I hung out mostly in a ng dedicated to a band (Ween) and when I travelled to see shows, I always had folks to hang out with even if I went alone.

During the high days of that group, there were a number of websites dedicated to the band, but usenet was the home (members of the band even showed up now and then). Then one day someone created the first web forum dedicated to it, and it quickly racked up far more users than the newsgroup. The writing was on the wall.

I went and created an account but I could not STAND the web forum interfaces at the time - compared to Free Agent with its conversation threading, the web's early discussion forums were a bad, mean joke. But ignorant people for whom internet=www spoke in their legions and it was only a couple years before nobody came to the usenet forum anymore.

I briefly got into Delphi Forums at the behest of my first gf and there was one decent place I hung out in for a few years, but looking back, the evolution of right wing ratfucking on the internet was in full swing and the people I had lively debates with in there eventually became (in many cases) Facebook "friends" as we all onboarded there.

And there I lingered till 2016. Reddit is circling the drain at this point, even the subs that are dedicated to my own politics have become appalling lowest common denominator echo chambers.

I would love to go back to Usenet, much like NYC disco scenesters of the 70s would love to go back to Studio 54, but in both cases, it was a special place and a special time, and now we live here. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm pretty sure that's the answer.
They probably lobbied for the law. I know I'm boycotting them.
> Can I learn something while I’m bored on the couch?

I have two very generic suggestions, but I offer them in good faith since both goals you listed are related to learning.

1.) Wikipedia. My knowledge on most topics is a mile wide and an inch deep. If you're anything like me, going down a wiki rabbit hole is a pretty satisfying time-waster. If you want something more structured, Khan Academy is amazing.

2.) Reddit.. Except it's critical that you unsub from all default subreddits and big subs like r/technology etc, and only subscribe to niche subreddits for whatever hobbies or interests you have. These communities aren't as active so you won't have a million links to click on each day.

The other suggestions such as learning a new language, or playing puzzle games, are obviously good options as well.
Yeah, witness Triplebyte's lack of success in getting companies to use them as a substitute for anything more than the initial phone technical screen.
Apple rumors point to a 15-inch MacBook Air and 12-inch laptop
What regulations prevent people from getting paid in "fiat" currency?
Previously discussed [0] Seashell.com is another VC-funded startup that seems shady and is building an investment app advertising high yields sourced from DeFi. Took investment from Do Kwon and had a tweet from Terra [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375309

[1] https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1481701273070047232
Its not revolutionizing the world, but it is allowing people to shop online without having their transactions spied on by credit card companies or the government.

Cryptocurrencies are the only viable mechanism for online financial privacy that comes even remotely close to widespread adoption and use.
I find the documentation from Okta snd Auth0 pretty solid for understanding basic concepts of OpenID and Oauth.
To be fair, they didn't say Tesla has delivered any self-driving cars. Everyone knows a huckster is at their happiest with an internet horde making excuses for their incapacity to fulfill their promises.
>That being said it is very powerful and you can do extremely neat stuff with it. It's in some ways more powerful than what you get with enterprise data center SDN products.

I think that's true, but I have basically 0 confidence that I can implement even simple rules using it, let alone anything more complicated.

The thing that was the real show stopper for me and made me switch to Nebula was that there doesn't seem to be a way to self-host a backup controller so that our network can continue to function even if ZeroTier.com is having problems. Unless, that is, I go entirely self-hosted and give up the web management UI, which I think is part of the compelling offer of ZeroTier.
> What's the "right" way to store person names?

struct Screenname {
Matches<String,regex"\w+"> _;
// TODO: ensure it is illegal to ask for users' real names
// for now we'll just do the right thing unilaterally
}
To be snarky, I have a bad interaction with the IRS every time I get my paycheck.

I also have a bad interaction with them every year when I have to tell them how much I owe them down to the dollar correctly under penalty of law. Failure to do so is also a penalty of law.

Yeah, fantastic experience.
$3/W capex, even if it could be achieved, is well north of the current cost for renewables. It anyway fails to address extraction cost, for which there is no plausible means to match renewables' near zero cost.

By the time any new nukes could be brought online, capex and opex for renewables will have fallen far, far below even their most aspirational projections.
This doesn't really make sense. We have SQL databases with permissions to prevent tampering, and audit logs, and myriad other solutions.

In addition, I don't see what prevents an "official" from writing a social credit transaction (disclaimer that I have no idea how China's "social credit" system works or even what it is) to the blockchain. Nodes validate to solve disagreements where one node says a transaction happened that did not. This does not appear to be the same type of dishonesty being referred to here.
If there's very high interdependence and dependence on a scarce shared resource, they could be locked in. An non-code example is deciding which side of the road to drive on. If 99% of the population chose to change from left to right, the remaining 1% would prevent that from working. The 99% can't just build a parallel road network for themselves because of limited space.
Devil's advocate, it's not that simple. Producing a DVD is cheap, the seller can produce them for almost nothing per unit (not zero though).

It could be that this stolen DVD allows N people to discover its content and buy the DVD. The seller wins from this stealing even for a small N. N could be bigger than when downloading the movie instead, because the DVD can be seen in a shelf for example.

Is it fundamentally different? (it's a genuine question, I have not studied anything on the matter).

The only difference I see is that almost nothing = zero when downloading the DVD's content instead of stealing the physical object.

edit: I actually see a difference, there's no guarantee that a stolen DVD does produce any sale, and so there is a loss even if it is small, but I think the question is still not simple to answer.
There were and are a surprising number of people such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who studied and practiced an actual thing called ‘Magick’. I have yet to see any honest-to-God evidence of such a thing.

Just because whom you believe may be credible people might back something up doesn’t give it value. It’s value does.
Insurance, licensure, and NIMBY pressure.

Previously in nuclear industry.
Rhizome has painstakingly documented its forensic archival of The Thing BBS

https://thingbbs.rhizome.org/

It's a testament to how de-centralized and randomly those archives were served. And the death of dial-up async long manifesto culture. Any greenfield cloud based approach can scale users, but not that culture of usenet binary harvest tools, irc #warez clubs and constrained bandwidth netiquette ;)
I think blockchain is an interesting technology that does have some unique qualities. It's cool that you can setup a system where the people running it don't have admin powers.

It’s a Merkel tree, with a distributed clock. I still don’t know where it would be useful outside of cryotocurrencies. And for currency, it’s still extremely questionable.*
A pleasure to finally meet you lol
There's only so much a company can do to protect against user error. People stick their fingers down a running drain garbage disposal. People will look down the barrel of a loaded gun and pull the trigger. The question is not "has anyone hurt themselves?", the question is "does the product have reasonable safety precautions?"
You don't send money to family overseas do you? For us, it has revolutionized the world.
Which is really quite rare when the page is non-technical and in English so why do so many pages insist on downloading fonts?
Yes, let's search for the One True Font, One True Theme, and Unicorns while we're at it. Oh, let's also pretend that we'll give users a choice. Well, technically, we will but we will make it "unsupported" and call it a hack.

Wait, I think that reminds me of a desktop environment.
Why not use something like Postfix or Exim with a local application like Thunderbird?

Also unless this is a tech-savvy organization or emailing or FOSS is part of their mission, consider just sticking with something from Google, Microsoft or Fastmail. A shelter for homeless kittens probably doesn't want to mess with something custom.
I don't think in-q-tel was one of the original VCs that funded google. Google acquired Keyhole some time after founding, and Keyhole was in-q-tel funded, so in-q-tel ended up getting google stock.
> So far, it’s been nothing but pollution, speculation, theft, and crime.

I see, nothing right?

So Stripe [0], Stellar, and MoneyGram [1] are polluting the world? Where is Stripe, and MoneyGram scamming then?

Of course, we like to complain about the scammers in crypto (and there are outright scams on there but not all of them are scams) just as we keep complaining about the non-free software and spyware that is plagued by the same companies from Google, Microsoft and Apple.

Some are still waiting for all non-free software to be wiped off the face of the software industry and after 37 years, that hasn't happened and it has gotten to the point that we have the same Big tech companies keeping privacy activist companies like Mozilla on life support.

The outcome is the same and it is co-existence. Many of these coins and tokens will collapse, but the useful and compliant ones with ISO 20020 will still be around as soon as regulations come in, which will disappoint both crypto-maximalists and the skeptics.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-29/moneygram...
I hadn't heard of it either. Only for the last ~9 months, it seems. And from the comments, it required proactive action.
It's a pandora's box of horror, if you dare to begin research it. We all need to though, otherwise it won't stop.

Here's an Australian Senator talking about a list of top level government people & politicians that are on a list that so far no one has investigated. (The list was sealed from publication by a Prime Minister for 90 years)
https://youtu.be/t_FsQCxfb7k

Here's an article downplaying pedos, making them more palatable (2018):
https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/07/tedx-speaker-argues-that...

Child trafficking: https://globalpressjournal.com/africa/democratic-republic-of...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

I've seen videos of people laughing at the camera after having just killed a child while being raped. The man was a white American. This is happening in every country.
> if code isn't really law then we're just back to systems of social consensus

This is one reason why I'm still cold on blockchain tech in general. When push came to shove and Ethereum was hacked, the solution was an informal social consensus to fork the chain. Which proved that as far as the flow of value is concerned, the buck stops not at the tech but at the social consensus. So all this mental effort going into fancy byzantine algorithms is effectively just smoke and mirrors and the rest is a Merkle tree.
24 billions of which turnover?

"Since the start of 2021, more than 46,000 people have reported losing over $1 billion in crypto to scams – that’s about one out of every four dollars reported lost, more than any other payment method."

Not to mention
"Because of federal law & issuer card network terms and policies, consumers are shielded from the cost of unauthorized purchases made with their cards."

That's not the case with crypto currencies
Why drugs have not been even mentioned clearly? "One bar of chocolate week max" and "fast food twice a week max" is not a joke. It's typical outcomes of using amph or meth or something similar. I would not want to look at the cyberathletes' competitions if any doping control affects these.
CIA New Developer Exercises: Capture the Flag
Its a circle of planned obsolescence. Battery gets old, so they degrade phone performance. There's no way for you to change that. They get sued, lose, and maliciously comply by making a switch that maybe causes your phone to reboot randomly. Its all formulated to think, 'I need to replace this'.

Phone manufacturers should be forced to unlock their phones, release drivers and provide user replaceable batteries. Then you can say Apple isn't trying to force you to upgrade.
I agree it's not great. But imo it's an understandable and inevitable reaction to the constant pro-crypto fanboy comments. Both sides are mostly noise.
seL4. Simple and formally verified.

I think it's time to pour VC money on a fully verified stack.

Perhaps not everything needs to be proven, integrity for some components can be ensured more informally with e.g. refinement types.

Lots of governments and organizations need more robust software.
don't forget porn, there was a tremendous amount of porn on usenet. a friend of mine had some perl script he called "aub" that scraped alt.user.binaries or something like that. catalogs and catalogs of stuff on a quiet little server in a university lab.
There’s definitely some complexity inherent in microservices which isn’t inherent in monoliths, but that doesn’t mean a net increase in a given microservice relative to an equivalent monolith because microservices disincentivize other kinds of complexity (which monoliths don’t disincentivize) as mentioned above.

The net complexity may well be (and often is IME) less for a microservice than for an otherwise similar monolith. In addition to this net complexity discussion, microservices also have security, scalability, and reliability benefits.
"synthetic asset" and "derivative" sound like Venn-diagram that's just a circle.
Can you give an example of an act of personal sovereignty?
I think we really shouldn't feel guilty instructing our user agents to do as we please. They were meant to act on our behalf, that's their purpose!
How much "state" would sscanf really need? From memory (and with an extra peek at the man page) each directive is in sequence of the "format" specifier is sequential (it's not nearly as flexible as a Regexp) so you really only need:

A: a processing state (int/enum).
B: a current fmt str pointer.
C: va_list struct to keep track of destinations.
D: a source string pointer.

Now if what I saw mentioned in another comment is true that there is some insane conversion to a FILE* stream to do this, then yes I can see why it happens but it's not really NEEDED to implement the function as specified.
Face to face
Hard to participate as an English-speaker, but just to scope out a still-thriving BBS: students at the local university maintain a telnet BBS called PTT, which is essentially the Reddit of Taiwan. As I understand, it's been crucial in recent political movements (like the Sunflower movements and parliamentary occupation) and lost of current events in Taiwan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System
When's the release party?
I think checksums can be used to verify that particular messages are the same, but ultimately I think there just aren't that many protocols for ensuring that every provider has every message. Some messages could get dropped and the solution is that providers will just check again - there's no protocol level guard against it.

Absolute integrity is a lot less important in systems which assume that inexpensive manual overrides will be possible - because you save a ton by simply deciding to build a system that 'only' works 99.9% of the time and intervening in 0.1% of cases. Obviously blockchains don't work 100% of the time but that's the premise for their increased costs.
Poor quality article implying that these are alien signals
The developers have also gotten too greedy and most of them will job hop every year for the maximum income.
I don't think there is any fix for that except for people to deliberatively and incrementally take that power from their hands. not betting on the outcome. I guess the old real hope is that 15 years from now when google is finally no longer relevant, that smaller business and individuals diffuse that control more broadly.

or we get google 2.0
I suspect the term "population" when referring to the signal is misleading (as in, it is most likely _not_ a "population of aliens sentient being emitting radio signal to report rush hour traffic" ; but the author enjoyed the ambiguity to earn some views). What would be the meaning, in context ?
Never had Kdenlive crash on me. Win 11. Solid here.
It's stunning that people bought into Luna 2.0 after the first Luna token imploded. It didn't take a few years, it was what, a few weeks later?
Hey there, former sysop here, both on a C64 in the late 80s and a PC in the early 90s. I've been tossing around the idea of starting another one that you ssh to, and make it available as a docker image. Would anyone show up? Maybe if I make a web interface...

I have left all social media - this site is the only social thing I do now - and this whole thread is giving me all kinds of sad feels.
Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31258469

and a couple lighter-weight projects to bookmark for myself:

Caddy Security https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31258469#31259369

GoTrue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392517#29399741

and a brief discussion of SCIM (Cross-domain Identity), including a Keycloak v16 extension:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31408059#31413662
In this case, advertising the ability to pirate games removed any plausible deniability
> between 4 and 6 percent a year

Salaries aren’t increasing at that rate for a lot of people. This is going to have bad consequences.
Intelligent, pro-blockchain people should be relatively easily able to explain the value and utility provided by it though. It shouldn't be necessary to say "I'm intelligent and I think this is good".
easy. github. no contest.
Living Skin on a Robot
You're right, there's no need for health care for the fat. They're going to die anyway. The sicker people are, the less we should take care of them.
Works for email, phone numbers and addresses, too.
Well, technically it's still an owned platform, just in this context it's a platform that got owned by google.
TerraLabs were able to execute on something that many people tried and failed to do.

If LUNA didn't fail, people wouldn't be complaining right now.

I think all of these reports and and complaints aren't justified
If your general purpose OS requires a calibrated monitor for this to not be an issue, it means the OS design is a failure.
This article tries to pain a bleak picture, but with only a single house available for sale, and everyone anxiously waiting for the apartment complex to be finished, it seems the people are voting with the feet to stay.

I know it's their home, and it's hard to leave, but if it was really that bad, some would, so I suspect the article is not entirely accurate.
Realistically? Hackers who use new phones/pads are gonna repurpose them for some idle fiddling with the TV at home. That’s the extent of this “reducing e-waste” goal.
> A stolen DVD is very clearly a reduction in the number of DVDs the seller can possibly sell.

But that's not true; you would have to assume that the number of DVDs the vendor orders is independent of the number of DVDs the vendor loses to all forces including both sales and theft. That assumption is obviously false. If you run a store, you're not limited to ordering a single shipment of whatever DVD; if it sells well, you can order additional shipments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31687516
FWIW when I was doing some banking courses, as I was working in DeFi and wanted to know more about CeFi, they have synthetic assets too. Which are derivatives. In fact in the Big Short movie I'm 100% they call derivates synthetics!
I know there are periodic federal bills, but how are state legislatures regulating access across state lines? Is this issue of local residents that travel for it?
Yeah, unfortunately this model isn't available in the UK so I'm just going to have to take a stab in the dark. I'll find out soon enough.
As you saw, there was no cash when people tried to actually cash out...
I agree that a combination of batteries and hydrogen would be a bit cheaper, but generally I would trust the MIT study over the model above, that states directly that it is a toy model.

It's fun to play with, though, so definitely upvoted.

Do you have an alternative peer reviewed study to support the conclusions?
"Find the thing you love and do that for a living, and you'll never work a day in your life," is such bullshit. Has anyone over 35 - with half a brain - ever said that? If so, then shame on them. Maybe find the thing you love second most, and risk resenting that. Maybe.

Importantly, other people are going to exploit your love to take advantage of you, getting you to sacrifice some of yourself for these ideals you hold, and then not share the rewards with you. To you it's your identity. To them it's words that save them money.
The odd thing is that you have about as many GPs per capita as Norway yet GPs in Norway don't seem to be anything like as busy and they are also much easier to get appointments with. I do realize this is anecdotal evidence though.
Store the feed item details in a database. That way, you can store the pubdate if one is present, and if not, just use the timestamp for when the item was first detected
Really hard for non-techies; even a hosted WordPress isn't easy to use. I've been asked a few times 'I want to write online, what do I do?' and it's hard to find easy to use answers that don't involve vendor lock-in. Or me having to provide support forever.

SSGs with plain text files are brilliant once you are set up, but it's a big hurdle getting there.

Best I can do is try to find platforms with sane exit strategies.
And kills reviews. Most reviewers won't freak about the load time, but the framerate they will.
Look at ads...
>1. Your UI is horrible. Hire 1-2 front-end/designers and copy everything that tail scale does right.

I don't think that's entirely fair to say "horrible". It does everything I've needed of it quite well. The design sensibilities are just... I'm not sure what the right word is, but maybe "ugly" is good enough. I remember when I first looked at it I thought "this is going to be horrible", but once I started using it the functionality was pretty good.

For example, I'd call it better than DefinedNetworks from a usability standpoint, because you aren't clicking in and out of a bunch of things, but DN is definitely easier on the eyes.
is this everyone on HN's first time reading that prison is not very good for people? kids get longer sentences for stealing candy bars. the entire prison system is state organized torture and it basically shouldn't exist.
They’re part of a cult. Prophecies not happening actually strengthen their belief in the cult.