skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you really believe that these habits would make anyone successful then you have to explain why everyone isn't doing it.

Everyone else isn't doing it, because it's really, really hard to stick to the habits.

Same reason why everyone else isn't walking with a ripped physique and six-pack. It's simple, just work out 3x a week and count your calories. Why isn't everyone shredded?
If you cannot avoid starvation, can you detect that starvation has happened to a particular user? I suspect the answer is no, because if you can detect which user is starved surely you could take bandwidth from those with a surfeit etc.
Similarly, I am using typingclub.com daily. It is actually quite enjoyable.
The goal of CAPTCHA is to tell computers and humans apart. I appreciate the effort towards better UX, but there are already "invisible" CAPTCHAs like Botpoison that discriminate better than this. PoW solutions are just more energy-intensive rate limits.
>stupid requirements I've seen in the wild in the bad early days of complexity requirements.

Early days?
Every sodding week for me....
I would make heavy use of old known technologies.

Set up Red and Blue teams to keep everyone else honest. Enpower an inspector general to make sure corruption is kept at bay.

Build highly controlled and audited sources of high quality random bits, well isolated from all other computing infrastructure. Generate one time pads at the rate of terabytes per day for physical distribution in tightly logged and controlled distributions.

Centralization and tight onsite audited management of sensitive data in air-gapped environments.

Data ingress only allowed in tightly controlled formats (to prevent ingress of control), via data diodes.

All bulk data outgress to use one time pads. All other access through deliberately low bandwidth channels with multiple logging platforms to prevent exfiltration.

Heavy use of append only filesystems. All data at rest to be cryptographically check summed and verified on a regular basis.
Because you can't make war without chips. During war, global supply chains are cut off. And if you can't make war, then you can't have a global order on your terms. Instead, you have a global order on the terms of the Chinese. They become powerful and rich. You (and your allies) become weak and poor.

You make chips in the US for the same reason you make nukes in the US.

It applies to other countries only insofar as they want to be independent. Most Western countries can shelter under the US umbrella. Again, same as with nukes.
Sun had certain values as a company it enforced through its corporate culture which made ZFS excellent.

My perception is that the ZoL based fork had a lot more instability and bugs compared to the parallel development of ZFS by in the Open Source Solaris world. That OpenZFS is based on the more unreliable code base should be evidence that the values which made ZFS excellent under Suns steermanship are insufficiently maintained and that features integrated into ZFS after the fork who did come from the ZoL side should not be used if one wants the reliability of ZFS.

The fact that not all metadata is encrypted shows they are doing things wrong from a principled standpoint. Sun didn't halfbake important stuff like that. The ZoL community will in the long run make the reliability of OpenZFS converge against the reliability of BTRFS because that is the level of reliability open source allows for. Initially higher stability be dammed.
Like GI Joe says, Knowing is half the battle. Now that we know about the problem, hopefully someone(s) can devise a solution.
Which perfectly fine from an individualistic perspective, and that's cool, but this was framed as a open project with call for community involvement.

A successful community project would benefit from a clear set of goals, which is oft times a matter of "software A in language L".
I couldn't find the original study, but as an Australian, I'm shocked.

100% of homes require smoke detectors here, must be positioned outside of every bedroom, and must be less than 10 years old. It's a requirement for building.

83% seems crazy low to me, let alone 2%!
see also Nendo from Izware: https://archive.org/details/nendo-1-5-setup

which originally was a project for Nintendo..., IIRC
Genuinely curious, why disable HTTP2? Your web browsing must be awfully slow sans multiplexing.
Most discrete transistors are made with IC-like process and contain surprisingly intricate internal structures.
> remote controlled barge out in the pacific garbage patch

Whilst I like the thought behind idea, these ocean garbage patches aren't easy to clean up with a barge.

> For many people, the idea of a “garbage patch” conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called microplastics. Microplastics can’t always be seen by the naked eye. Even satellite imagery doesn’t show a giant patch of garbage. The microplastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can simply make the water look like a cloudy soup. This soup is intermixed with larger items, such as fishing gear and shoes.

Better to clean things up at the source. It is estimated that 90% of all plastic waste in our oceans come from just 10 rivers in Asia.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...

https://m.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-fr...
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I completely disagree with the tweet. Apps usually show this kind of message when the user can’t do anything to fix the problem.

If the “code monkeys” are working on it, what’s the user going to do about a crashed database or any other server-side error? If you can do something to fix the issue, the app will usually give you that information.

Of course, the app might be clearer and tell the user to retry or contact the administrator. But a generic error message usually implies server-side failure anyway.

Perhaps this person expects to receive server credentials as well?
> I usually Yelp the names

I look up the address on Street View.
It's a good idea. Hopefully it doesn't end in huge server farms wasting energy just for spam!
yikes! The docs had an overhaul last week, that link was removed as part of the overhaul. Should have paid more attention. Should be fixed now :)

> A one-sentence describing exactly what it does and how it works would help ;-)

Here goes nothing:

mCaptcha is a privacy-focused, highly accessible CAPTCHA that uses Proof of Work for rate-limiting. It makes the bot/spam spend more time and work sending the request than it takes for the server to respond.
I wouldn't say I'm compromising the tested standards, if they can't do it I'm going to be up front about that. It's just that the expected skill level for a particular role gives candidates an amount of leeway in terms of what's considered 'sufficient'.

That said, I've considered doing what you've suggested, but I worry that comes off too obviously as having given up. I also can't always speak to the expectations of the particular role because it's often not on my team (or department in some cases). There's been times where I have cut the interview short and done something similar, but I'm hesitant to try that on a particularly bad candidate, because I worry I wouldn't be able to stay away from asking how much of their resume is a lie.
What would explain the dip in alone time for 75yo, while for the 60yo and 89yo it increased steadily over the last decades?
This ^^

For all the privacy concerns, I'd love to be able to opt to waive them / opt in to groups of people with similar results and exchange notes / personal findings.

And would love to contribute to medical research in a way that's less onerous on researchers.

And of course there'd be some misunderstandings - consumer beware...
By your reasoning everyone who reports a crime should be presumed to be lying.
I'd find "Salutations" much more apt to a fantasy role playing game than an OS, but I'm not a native speaker. I'd still be chuckling all day, I guess.
Needs 3x more location keyword stuffing...
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Oh i can cook. It just takes so much (free) time.
Last week i made my own hamburgers. :)
It's literally no better for 'outdoor temperatures' in any way. Both F and C systems are effectively arbitrary. It's just about personal preference/what you grew up with.
You can type Common Lisp.
This doesn't really seem like an option; normally I'm just one of a series of interviews and I can't just hand them off to the next person.
What software translators (who are usually outside contractors) get is a list of strings with no context, no opportunity to ask what was really meant (including part of speech—blame English—and the intended meaning of this or that %s), and frozen code even if the programmers screwed up (show of hands—ever built up a sentence out of interpolated parts? there, you screwed up).

If you’re lucky, you get English string IDs (and not Chinese or numeric ones). If you’re lucky, the list is complete and in order (and not stripped down to only the untranslated parts so you don’t see how much the agency is avoiding paying you). If you’re lucky, the customer has an localizaton QA department (i.e. a couple of guys per language) which will walk through the UI to try and find the most obvious screwups (and won’t not just merge the Trados back into the source and run the resource compiler).

Every professional involved understands it’s impossible to get a good translation that way. None of them can do anything about it, because the agency will just switch to a less picky one. The good ones try to make something of what they’re given; the bad ones just give up. Almost none of them actually use localized software; almost every one of them looks on wistfully when you show them the Gnome sources with the paragraph-long TRANSLATORS: explanations for every other string. (That’s why Crowdin and Transifex drive me into such rage, BTW—they essentially reproduce the commercial broken-by-design process for hobby developers.)

You know what the most recent innovation is? Have the translator edit a machine translation.

Give your translator something to work with. And for goodness’s sake, if you can afford it, find a couple of freelancers and listen to them—that’s who is going to do the work anyway, might as well give them the whole sum and not the ≤ 30% they will get after the agencies’ cut. (Yes, a small but sizeable portion of candidates will be blatantly incompetent and/or try to screw you over. Duh. It’s a freelancer market.)
Another variant of the original meaning is that chip is anything that can be surface mounted without additional mechanical support. Think "chip MLCC" or "chip resistor". The IBM's article on SLT seems to use "chip" in this meaning.
> Intel is in big trouble and the only card they have left is the nationalism card. And that card is for losers.

No. It's 2022 not 2006. That card will win big, and deserves to.
Satoshi Nakamoto almost certainly isn't Adam Back.

It might be enough for the request to require more resources from the requestor than from the server, even if it doesn't actually give the server any money. I mean the requestor probably isn't going to be willing to dedicate more hardware "horsepower" to taking your search engine down than you are to keeping it up. That was the idea behind Hashcash.

As for coins, the current Bitcoin hashrate is about 200 exahashes per second, down from a high of over 250 a couple of months ago, and the block reward is 6.25 BTC until probably June 02024. At a price of US$24000/BTC that's US$150k per block (plus a much smaller amount in transaction fees) or about US$1.25e-18 per hash. So your suggestion of US$3e-5 would require about 2e13 hashes. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparis... says an overclocked ATI Radeon HD 6990 can do about 800 megahashes per second (8e8) so you're looking at about 3e4 seconds of compute on that card, about 8 hours.

Maybe one of the altcoins that uses a hash function with a smaller ASIC speedup would be a better fit, although I don't know enough about mining to know if there are any where GPUs are still competitive. Still, it seems like it might be more than a few seconds?
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Especially "smart" transistors, like this[1] VN820-E[2]. Hard to argue that ain't an integrated circuit.

[1]: https://www.richis-lab.de/FET13.htm

[2]: https://www.st.com/en/automotive-analog-and-power/vn820-e.ht...
They’re driven by search too, so my guess is, not long!
Before bitcoin, there was hashcash, which aimed to do exactly this: http://www.hashcash.org/ . The original bitcoin paper cites it, in fact.
I could try this. I can't really leave since the interviews are all done over zoom now, but I could ask the candidate if they'd like a few minutes without my camera or mic on.
If memory serves, Nendo was a standalone version of the S-Geometry modeler written in CL, and Wings3D was a clone of Nendo written in Erlang.
Off topic: Great to see more Gemini/Web dual hosted sites.
How do you do that, without bots being able to circumvent the feature?
And the rest? What is wrong with keeping a schedule, running, resistance training, eating healthy?

Also, long drives are mentioned in the context of "unwind after work" (I see nothing obviously wrong with it).

Alcohol is bad, avoid it if you can but no social life may be worse.
Hi [name redacted]. I read some of your articles and HN comments. They somewhat remind me of Terry Davis' comments on HN[0]. As you might know, Terry's writings were severely affected by his schizophrenia. If you suspect you might have symptoms of schizophrenia, it would be a good idea to seek diagnostic help and treatment. I am not a mental health professional and could be completely wrong, I hope you don't take it the wrong way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
This post resonates with me, well put
You don’t happen to have a link to the home exercises or know anything similar I could follow?
> especially with wind/solar prices plummeting every year.

Past performance isn't indicative of future gains. At some moment prices will plateau, or even rebound (e.g. the same was said for batteries, and now prices are up due to too much demand and raw material shortages).

Not to mention that at some point you will run out of suitable locations either due to actual space limitations or just lack of desire from people to have wind turbines nearby or solar panels taking up valuable land. (Of course offshore wind and rooftop solar kind of mitigate this).

You can't really beat the energy density of nuclear reactors per land taken, so they shouldn't be discarded.
True, but at the time, 3 - 4 years ago, Azure and GCP IPs were minimal.

Guess the fraudsters were vendor locked lol.
For now, at this phase I would say we just want to provide general personal knowledge workers before we monetize Affine with business users.
We love the idea of semantic web or in Notion that makes the sorting of knowledge & planning of to-dos much more elegant. And we just want to make it more smooth. Besides, we believe a local-first knowledge base is something people(you should always have full control of your data, especially when we talk about knowledges).
In longer term, we saw that companies still have to pay a lot just to reinvent the wheels trying to merge their business data and SOPs together.
An IT department is not something every SMB can afford and tbh they are not functioning well even in the big companies. And what we are trying to deliver from the business side by open-source is to make high-performance data spreadsheet, modern airtable-ish tables as well as block editors available to every SaaS company by offering Infra-as-a-service. Just like how databricks changed the data industry.
> the letsencrypt emails don't have an Unsubscribe

Yes and that is really stupid, especially from a group of people who are otherwise very clever.
We have a similar system here in Italy, except if you get flagged you have to put EVERYTHING on the roll for the cash register clerk to manually check every last item.
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The difference is, even a reader of the Sun would probably agree that the Guardian is more prestigious (they just wouldn't necessarily think that that's a good thing).
I think Nendo was written in C++.
I feel that elasticated shoelaces, and reinforced inner heel lining to minimise wear and extend lifespan, might elevate this to sublime levels.
Some old browsers break as well, if it's worth it depends on the website. It's your prerogative to disable an useful feature, you can also disable JavaScript. But there's little reason for a website operator to cater to that unnecessary edge case if it's mostly used for abuse.
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I would never ask leetcode questions that have some trick to them. These are ones we've come up with internally and are incredibly straightforward.
That seems like a strange reason to me. Isn't HTTP/2.0 faster? Isn't it also basically transparent to the end user?

I'm trying to figure out what I would gain by configuring my browser to use HTTP/1.1 only.
> why disable HTTP2

Because it adds nothing to improve my browsing experience, and reducing the number of protocols supported by my browser from 3 to 1 also reduces the attack surface.

> Your web browsing must be awfully slow sans multiplexing.

And yet it's not slowed down at all. How many different resources must a web page use before it feels slow on a connection pool of keep-alive TCP sockets? Maybe people visit some wild experimental web pages with hundreds of blocking <src> tags that are not bundled/minified?

Either way, my experience is it doesn't slow anything down when I use both websites (forums, resources, youtube, social media) and web apps (banking, maps, food delivery etc).
Have you considered using a memory hard PoW instead of a computation bound one?
> The solution is real simple

Uhhmmm, I beg to differ and so do a lot of very smart people with many more servers and users than you or I are likely to see.

As with most 'Oh, its' Simple - Just Do XYZ' solutions there are often very good reasons for not doing the 'Easy/Simple/One-Liner' and here are a few with yours -

Firstly - The '10 bux' could exclude a vast swathe of the poorest. Skipping a couple of Starbuck coffees vs. the local currency equivalent of whatever you are charging equating to a month's worth of food or being able to send at least one of your children to the local village school. I mean - your forum / site so you can gate it anyway you wish, I'm just pointing out that it could and would be exclusionary (perhaps unintentionally so).

Next Problem: Accepting and Processing the 'Good Behavior' deposit. Congratulations, you now need to become a Payment Processor and as such have certain legal requirements regarding payment details and storage and also tax returns. 'Oh, just Off-Load it to Stripe' someone might suggest. Do-able I guess but anyone who has taken payments over the internet will tell you that its a Royal Pain in The Ass. Also, now all a 'Griefer' needs to do is run a few dodgy cards through your registration system and 'Poof' there goes your payment processor and/or the fees go sky high.

Most ‘oh its simple – why don’t they just…’ overlook (or are not aware) of the many, many good reasons why greater minds than yours or mine haven’t already implemented it.

Sure – sometimes people do come up with novel solutions to old problems so theres no harm in spit-balling and I’m certainly not directing any scorn or ill-intent in my reply.
> who wants to go back to the days before it?

Me. Specifically, before they bought Caviar [1].

No fake restaurants. Dedicated delivery staff who were on time and friendly. Differentiated offerings from Seamless.

[1] https://help.doordash.com/dashers/s/article/Caviar-x-DoorDas...
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This is a really intriguing idea. What would stop a spammer from taking the time to get a single token and sharing it among a pool of bots?
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Rest assured that not only XP, even 2000 did the same, and of course it did BSOD when booting, the most common being 0x0000007b "Inaccessible boot device".

But automatic reboot is a setting in the Registry, the issue is just with the default being "reboot" (I believe this was changed in XP, 2K just stayed on the BSOD by default, if I recall correctly).
> No matter what we do, what energy source we use, we cannot meet these exorbitant demands for energy

Not only can we probably do meet them (nuclear, renewables), but we have to. Energy demands today are what they are with significant amounts of the world's population living in poverty and/or pretty poor conditions compared to what developed countries are used to. It's extremely unfair to deny those people the opportunities, not to mention that few in the developed countries would want to scale back and limit their lifestyle to the extent that it would matter. That doesn't mean no such avenues needs to be explored (e.g. LEDs, optimising transit networks, etc.) but that shouldn't be the main focus.
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Yep it’s an imperfect system. It’s dramatically better than a lot of others that have existed through history (including today) though.

It is simply wildly untrue to imply that the two major parties don’t hold opposing views on at least a few important topics or that voting doesn’t help determine which party holds the power to realize their worldview. There’s a lot of overlap and a lot of ineffectiveness but this does not make them the same.
You know, a while back a friend of mine was involved in a criminal case and needed to hand in messaging data to the police as evidence. Problem was, they did not want to hand in the whole phone but the app didn't provide any mechanism to get message history to your PC. The app was not globally popular enough to have publicly disseminated solutions.

Time was at a premium and the one option seemed to be one of those sketchy Windows app at an equally sketchy website where you could buy the software via cc. I explained the risks to my friend who decided to give it a shot (on a clean Windows install which was later wiped, of course).

It worked, just as advertised. We got all the data in a usable enough format. Surprisingly enough.