skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in senior management for a “successful” makerspace and have intimate knowledge of how difficult they are to both run and make profitable. If they are profitable, they tend to operate on razor thin margins. It’s sad because they also tend to produce value disproportionate to their cost, providing real opportunity for people to learn hands-on skills, make products, and start businesses. I’ve seen many lives transformed by having access to tools and a community who know how to support their use.

It seems most people start them because it sounds fun. And from the people I’ve talked to, for a while it is fun. The community swoops in the provide free labor and support and it all feels magical. But once this fades and the reality of the challenge sets in, it becomes less fun, less community-centric, and requires serious business chops. You are essentially running 3 businesses. Customer service, manufacturing, and education. You really need to understand the fundamentals of business to make this work. Even then it might fail.

If I remember right, tech shop was well into the 8 figures in debt when they went under. Many other spaces have come and gone, too.

I also just moved to Sacramento and toured the Hackerlab 1 week before this announcement. It’ll be back in some way, shape, or form, so keep an eye out for that. I’ll be talking with the community over the coming weeks and trying to sort out what the opportunity is.

If anyone is considering starting a space or has questions, feel free to reach out. My contact info is in my bio.
You need to remember that Cloudflare isnt a host
I happen to believe that no disease has been truly eradicated and cannot be done so. Smallpox appears to have many avatars: Chicken pox, shingles and so on. The average HN idiot would be quick to point out to me that that they are all distinctly different viruses and I most assuredly don't know what I'm talking about.
Visiting a mental asylum (via youtube, don’t go there) will clear all misconceptions about what conscious beings are able to fail at.

why would

Tl;dw: it wouldn’t. Some poor guys do way worse than GPT-3.

What gp-like comments usually mean is sentience is being adult, healthy, reasonable and intelligent. Idk where this urge comes from, maybe we have a deep biological fear of being unlike others (not emo-style, but uncanny different) or meeting one of these.
Looks like I will need to update https://carlschwan.eu/2021/04/29/health-of-the-kde-community...
It's a pour over method [1]

You can also use a regular drip machine though. Use half the normal water. Add the equivalent ice (by weight) to the flask. Brew as normal, but turn it off as soon as it's finished. The slow drip of hot coffee is cooled immediately as it hits the ice.

Since the brewed coffee is cold, you can add extra ice to your cup without it melting and diluting the taste too much.

Adjust the water / ice ratio as desired.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3jxJv5UiPg
I remember reading on HN years ago that Google bots have never honored robots.txt, but I don't actually know
Have we really chosen to minimize the suffering? That seems more like virtue signaling by the industry at most. Factory farming is very much still the norm, and it's horrific. It seems we've actually maximized it or have at least increased it above the previous norm.

I'm unsure how we would treat a sentient AI, but our track record with sentient, intelligent animals is one of torture and covering up that torture with lies. It's an out of sight, out of mind policy.
I recently cursed google search results when trying to research an actor's birth date. There were two dates given on Wikipedia and I wanted to see which one (if either) was correct. Google returned the actor's IMDB page (which listed a third date, and no source), and then pages upon pages of what appeared to be auto-generated sites that clearly scraped from Wikipedia, repeating one or the other of the Wikipedia dates.

This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge.
Cinnamon and KDE, and probably Mate, look quite similar to Windows, with the bottom panel having a "start up" menu at the left, the tasks, the status icons and the clock. The settings manager is arguably simpler than the numerous messy UIs on Windows.

I don't think the UI is the issue. I even think some DEs are better than both Mac and Windows on most topics. I don't like Gnome but it is okay I think, especially on Ubuntu. The rough edges are the issue, and above all, the incompatibility with Office (you might have to interact with people using it) and with the various domain-specific proprietary programs.

Windows also has - different - rough edges (and probably mac but I don't know it enough), but you'll find help online or from a nearby acquaintance.

But if I had to set up a computer for a complete newbie, that would be Linux. In any case I would have to help them, but on Linux there are just less disturbances, less risks, easier for them, the UI is better structured, everything is more predictable and since I'll need to help, I'll have better time with Linux.
Wow from clicking on a link on a modern browser? New 0-day?
OK when I was in high school.. and we are talking 1991 here, there was a programmer in a class I was taking who wrote a head to head tetris game as his project for the class.

31 years later the world figures out that head to head tetris is pretty cool.
As a European working in large corporates and attending this company and government „innovation event“ that never result in more than show and a drink, I wonder why government wouldn’t rather finance such a hackerlab.
So much passion and hands-on experience (news-letter, workshops, demon of projects) would connect and create more founders than any of those „innovation theaters“ I attend.

Just wondering why governments or companies wouldn’t fund these.
The document that was cited above claims that Houston was a major global hub of Chinese science and technology espionage. That's what's absurd.

Practically every consulate and embassy around the world is crawling with spies. "Diplomatic cover" is a standard way of sending spies to a foreign country. That's not why the US would close down a foreign embassy.

The closure of the Chinese embassy, with a big announcement and almost no forewarning, was meant as a political statement. It came in the middle of an escalating trade war, initiated by the Trump administration.

The post facto rationalizations about the Houston embassy being some extraordinary hotbed of espionage were absurd on their face, and I'm surprised by the level of naiveté in this thread towards these sorts of official government explanations for what are obviously political moves.
Who Will Make Apple Fashionable Now?
> Yes but what about the second law of thermodynamics. I mean the law of entropy. […] still it breaks with us being here.

Of course! I mean, entropy can decrease locally – say, over the entire planet – but that would require some kind of… like, unimaginably large, distant fusion reactor blasting Earth with energy for billions of years.
> […] ipv4 is still the majority of internet traffic.

Not if you're on mobile. Lots of cell networks only give IPv6 addresses to phones.

E.g., T-Mobile in the US:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE
Amazon has a similar service now, but brands need to onboard so it's not super wide spread yet https://brandservices.amazon.com/transparency
Mountain Project started in 2000, so also has been doing it for literally decades.
I can relate all too well the procrastination involved in fiddling with the typesetting engine! When I was writing my bachelor's thesis (in Philosophy, nonetheless!), I spent an inordinate amount of time on tweaking my LaTeX template and workflow.

I ended up falling way too deep into the Rabbit hole, and started using NixOS just to write the thesis itself. It did eventually result in a fun blog post, though!

https://shen.hong.io/nixos-for-philosophy-installing-firefox...
The supreme court should ban apps like this because it encourages divorces
You can get really far with cheap techniques when your goal is to dissuade. The bigger concern I’d have is statistical analysis of top offender.

Every OSI layer offers more bypass techniques and is the halting problem where your goal is to get value without making everything break when a new browser comes out. You can’t cover all options as a 3rd party and get it perfect.

The higher up application layer, the easier it is to bypass. The more you try to classify without impact (dpi,ids,waf,spam,av), the easier bypasses are.

The domains that get effective like spam have quicker feedback loops. Network middle boxes have the slowest response cycle where they are explicitly called out in RFCs

<script> In a url might get blocked but <script >… bc it’s string matching and not layer aware.
This is probably good simply based on the guy not being that smart.
Also weirdly enough, browsers also can seem to go into reader-mode, to compensate. I've seen this before, but in this case it seems a little weird that reader mode wouldn't work.
Your scenario is not equivalent here. You could reason that a sentient student could be motivated to write a paper about why they were not sentient as an exercise in philosophical or critical thinking. There are no consequences of successfully convincing your readers that you are not sentient. Instead imagine you found yourself on an alien planet where humans must prove their sentience in order to survive. Do you still write the paper?
For what it’s worth as well, there are other solutions than whole-network VPNs and such.

Personally, I chose to generate a domain list for V2Ray from the Russian government’s blocklist when I lived there [1].

I prefer to do that typically because it avoids the pain of the ever-growing whitelists and it allows me to keep the traffic encrypted in case someone does actually figure out that you’ve bypassed DPI. And if you use something like V2Ray or ShadowSocks, they’ll disguise the traffic much better than something like OpenVPN typically would, making it less obvious to anyone monitoring that you’re using a proxy in the first place.

There’s a load of references and pre-generated lists for different needs if anyone else is interested in doing something similar [2].

(Also, I hope this doesn’t come across as missing the point of the tool — I think it’s really useful and a good solution. I just figured I’d note some others too)

[1]: https://github.com/OmarAssadi/AntiZapret-V2Ray

[2]: https://github.com/v2ray/domain-list-community
> This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge.

And Google is not about organizing world's knowledge but creeping on people for YoY financial results.
> This is not helping to organize the world's knowledge.

Oh they stopped doing that long long ago...
Lefties want new houses ? Thats a strange claim to make. The most left wing states in the US are the ones that build the least new buildings.
Those are not serious or widespread problems. Other cities manage to make do with cheaper options. This is just another case of lazy, overpaid government employees trying to justify their jobs.
My biggest takeaway from Europe was how incredibly well cities were planned for pedestrians vs cars. Obviously these cities were often developed much earlier than US cities and this makes perfect sense.

We got all around Europe (Slovakia to Switzerland to Italy to Austria and back) all without a car. As a US citizen this priority can be frustrating at times because some cities even have no admittance for non-local cars, so you gotta park out of the city and transit in if you don’t have a local plate. But as a US citizen I am incredibly envious of the rail network and the downtown areas which are pedestrian only and entirely devoid of cars.

But also fundamentally we found that just as in states within the US, country to country things were vastly different with road quality. Many Eastern European countries are still weeding out corruption in their political systems and funds allocated for infrastructure are finally making it into public projects, so they often had worse roads and rail systems.
Rotating Railway Crossover
Oh nice!! Thank you!
> I am talking about ads in sponsored segments. The inventory of youtube ads is much bigger, but I blocked them a long time ago (too annoying).

I'm also talking about sponsorships, not Youtube ads (preroll, display, interstitial, etc). However, I don't watch the same channels you do, so I don't see the same sponsorships.

I have seen a Hello Fresh sponsorship, but never Ridgewallet or Raid Shadow Legends that someone else mentioned. I have seen sponsorships from electronics components companies, airlines, medical supplies companies, body armour, agricultural equipment, solar panel installers, a local newspaper, a local dairy, etc.

Edit: Funnily enough, I just heard my first sponsorship for a prescription hair loss medication - ads for prescription medications are illegal here (Ireland) so definitely a bad ad.

Unless you happen to be an Irish search-and-rescue medic who lives part-time on a farm (or have the same interests), you aren't going to see the same sponsorships. Your bubble may contain VPN and F2P games, but mine doesn't. Hence, making generalisations based on your own experience is not helpful.

In the end, I don't think there's anything wrong with using SponsorBlock, but I don't believe that you have an ethical motivation for using it. If so, the best course of action would be to simply avoid the channels/podcasts peddling the products you don't like. You use it for convenience, plain and simple.
surprised but really not to see people so passionate and dedicated to containers. warms my heart, really best thing to ever happen.
Are you suggesting the father derived no benefit from the arrangement, that he continued to do half of the childcare, cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc?
>a company that is going to be importing 8GW of power to the UK from Morocco with high voltage dc cables

I found a press release - the company is "Xlinks". The project doesn't pass the sniff test - they casually mention a 20GWh battery as part of the plan, which would be 10x bigger than the world's current biggest battery storage (2000MWh, at Moss Landing, California. Ironically it's only just come back online after a several month outage due to another fire)
Why would you store it, instead of mixing it back in the sea?

I guess you would need some pipes and pumps to move it away from your inlets, but that seems comparatively cheap.
Yes, that’s Google result, though issue I took with it is it’s unclear if the author has successfully run an economically viable maker space; unlike the link I provided.

Author also doesn’t disclose they work for Formlabs; not a significant issue, but nothing less important to me.
It has been an ongoing battle for 10-15 years at this point. Search engines are constantly battling people trying to game their systems. I have to wonder if Google hasn't lost the thread a bit, inside their surely quite complex algorithm black boxes.

For a while now Google has suggested that the best way to rank well is to have human readable content and focus on user experience. At the same time, natural language generation has come leaps and bounds, to the point where sometimes even I, a human, can't tell if an article has been spun by a bot or not.

So if Google starts ranking human readable content, and robots can now produce human readable content, what is the next ranking signal they can use to differentiate spam from humans? Are we going to end up with "Verified Websites" ala verified Twitter handles?

A huge portion of the web at this point is just bots communicating with eachother, and legitimate business systems having to process bots participation on the internet. I imagine the portion of the web that Google crawls that is legitimate versus that which is bot generated would surely be majority bots, just because of how fast they can generate content. One thing they can't do as easily though is register domains, so it may be one of the better points of defense.
What are you going to do with the atmosphere derived gasoline that you couldn't do better, cheaper and cleaner with cheap electricity?

That's why no one is making it at scale.

We're rapidly expanding renewable production at an amazing pace, as the article discusses, but we are very much still in the "stop burning fuels and directly electrify processes instead" stage, because that is currently cheaper even without including long term externalities, so even in lawless or suicidal nations self-interest makes it happen.

But the relatively small markets that fossil fuels will retreat to as electrification takes hold will soon be under threat too, for purely economic reasons adding extra impetus for change to happen.

Most of those will just use hydrogen directly, further reducing the market for gasoline, but again even gasoline will be replaced with renewable derived fuels for whatever obscure uses we still have for it, because it will be cheaper.
About 20 years ago I was on my own in the Gobi desert for a while and the silence is still the thing I remember most. It was odd and unexpected.
Copper is used in applications where the conductor is volume constrained. Transmission lines are not volume constrained, they are mass constrained. Aluminum is superior there: its electrical conductivity divided by density is higher than copper.
You can get some IDE support with a simple preprocessor macro[1].

It's a crutch, but at least you don't need to stuff the shader into multiple "strings" or have string continuations (\) at the end of every line. Plus you get some syntax highlighting from the embedding language. I.e. the shader is highlighted as C code, which for the most part seems to be close enough.

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/pl_mpeg/blob/master/pl_mpeg_pla...
I represent Sweden in the ISO WG14, and I voted for the inclusion of Embed in to C23. Its a good feature. But its not a necessary feature and I think JeanHeyd is wrong in his criticism of the pace of wg14 work. I have found everyone in wg14 to be very hardworking and serious about their work.

Cs main strengthen is its portability and simplicity. Therefore we should be very conservative, and not add anything quickly. There are plenty of languages to choose form if you want a "modern" language with lots of conveniences. If you want a truly portable language there is really only C. And when I say truly, I mean for platforms without file systems, or operating systems or where bytes aren't 8 bits, that doesn't use ASCI or Unicode, where NULL isn't on address 0 and so on.

We are the stewards of this, and the work we put in, while large, is tiny compared to the impact we have. Any change we makes, needs to be addressed by every compiler maintainer. There are millions of lines of code that depend on every part of the standard. A 1% performance loss is millions of tons of CO2 released, and billions in added hardware and energy costs.

In this privileged position, we have to be very mindful of the concerns of our users, and take the time too look at every corner case in detail before adding any new features. If we add something, then people will depend on its behavior, no matter how bad, and we therefor will have great difficulty in fixing it in the future without breaking our users work, so we have to get it right the first time.
Never had KDE itself crash on FreeBSD. And I run it 24/7 and only reboot for updates

Firefox is the only thing that sometimes crashes on my system.
There’s many criticisms to be made about quantum computing but you don’t understand quantum mechanics at all.
Because people in America would rather take a magic pill. Exercise, healthy sleeping schedules, better diet, journaling, meditation, etc - Could all be prescribed by a doctor in some way. But it seems like so many people here in the USA have the tendency to avoid their dealing with their problems directly.

I believe this comes from the religious culture in the USA and the core tenet of religion being that God is all powerful and you must relinquish your problems to God while acknowledging your lack of power and remaining in submission. That line of thinking gives a sense of relief, but ultimately causes people to avoid dealing with things directly due to not realizing how powerful their minds really are (as far as being able to make changes on their own without “magic pills” that often leave you feeling worse).

Ironically, religion also helps a bit because people often “find God” and turn their lives around for the better due to the benefits of prayer which are often described as peace or serenity. However, prayer is LITERALLY just forgiveness/open heart meditation. That sense of relief people feel after praying and releasing all of their problems to God for 15 minutes? That can be achieved without identifying as powerless without the help of a supreme deity.

Sorry about the rant, but this has been on my mind for a while now.
Where I live is too urban for complete silence, but falling snow - especially big flakes - on calm days brings a serene hush.
Other stuff:

https://twitter.com/rcs/status/1550526425211584512

nullptr! auto! constexpr!
I don't think you're being honest in your motivations here. SponsorBlock is a convenience tool to avoid having to watch/listen to ads. It's your stated aim on your website:

> SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos.

Again, I don't think there's anything morally wrong with using SponsorBlock, but I think it's absurd to claim it's a morally positive tool.
What about creating object files from raw binary files and then linking against them? That's what I (and of course many others) do for linking textures and shaders into the program. It's a bit ugly though that with this approach you can't generate custom symbol names, at least with the GNU linker.

This #embed feature might be a nice alternative for small files. Well for large files you usually don't even want to store them inside the binary, so the compilation overhead might be miniscule, since the files are, by intention, small.

When I read the introduction of the article - about allowing us to cram anything we want into the binary - I was hoping to see a standard way to disable optimizations (When the compiler deletes your code and you don't even notice).
it's not that straightforward though.

to register an .it you must prove you are a person or a business working or residing in one of the EU member states and need to provide the ID of a person who's gonna be listed as admin-c of the domain.
Gonna disagree 100%.

Different engines will have different requirements. By making an editor for generic case, you'll end up Jack of all trades, master of none.

Integration makes more sense, but the price you pay is inflexibility.
I’m looking for proofs of its infiltration.
But not happy to forgo it if the creators accept sponsorships you dislike?
Maybe tell some of our public health officials that
Another typical use is embedding a public-key in an application or firmware.
Ask HN: Best banking partner for issuing prepaid debit cards
My startup needs to pay thousands of hourly contractors. I would prefer to issue each of them a refillable, prepaid debit card with funds to be added on an ongoing basis at low cost.

Any suggestions for a banking partner to work with --- preferably one with an API so I can automate the entire process?
I did exactly the same for my master thesis. This is why so am so not interested in doing a PhD.
Cold brew should be brewed at room temperature, then stored in the fridge. It's considered cold because it's not brewed at 190*f.