skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does a text file stop being a text file if it stored inside a zip file?

Cookies are chunks of text, calling that a file, even if it is stored as part of another file doesn't seem wrong, if perhaps it isn't the best way to describe it.
I should add here that you don't see most of the "rejections," since the lawyers don't feel like explaining them.

The PTO rejects; the lawyers argue & amend; the PTO rejects again making it Final. But it's not Final! You can pay for another go-around.

What you think of as a "rejection" is really Abandonment. They keep rejecting, and finally the lawyers give up. They hate doing that, because they're getting paid to get you something.
My understanding with the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia is that you could buy solar and batteries for cheaper and deploy sooner. You could throw in a subsidy for electric cars too which can feed back to the grid in an emergency. That said the small reactors of this article will hopefully have lower costs and faster deployment times.

Another advantage of wind and battery is that they aren’t national security targets in the way nuclear is.
Basic usage with Nvidia drivers works ok. Nvidia disables CUDA and NVENC/NVDEC on FreeBSD. CPUs/motherboards work great, at least in x86 (arm64 probably works well, too, but I'm less familiar). Wifi is very behind the curve. If you have a supported card (including some 802.11AC cards), 802.11N probably works -- but last I heard, AC does not.
And at best? And what about on average?
> Nuclear has the opposite problem of wind/solar in that it needs to be run at 100% capacity as much as possible in order to amortize its absurd building costs over its low operating costs.

Can you not make the same argument for wind/solar? If any power generator isn't capable of dumping it's full output onto the grid when possible, it's not going to be profitable. This pdf seems to indicate that wind is allowed to just dump all of their output onto the grid and everyone else has to ramp up or down. Which doesn't give realistic comparisons of cost between the two. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/61721.pdf
Try Abebooks.com, which is also owned by Amazon.
And its first reference is to what I consider the definitive reference on the subject, at least for the state of the art in 1968: the Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms.

I also think the only additions that might be needed to that are mentions of newer algorithms that are comparatively simple, but better. The subject itself is pretty well-trodden.

Knuth does mention the extremely simple additive random number generator

Xn = (Xn-24 + Xn-55) mod m

(And says that this can be used directly with floating point values to produce floats in the range [0,1))

It uses 55 words of state (initialized to not all be even), needs only about ten simple instructions to implement (in particular, no multiplications or divisions), has period of at least 2^55-1, and Knuth said it’s very good in practice, isn’t known to be bad, and ends with (in the 1980 second edition of volume 2, with the first edition being from 1968):

The only reason it is difficult to recommend sequence (7) wholeheartedly is that there is very little theory to prove that it does or does not have desirable randomness properties; essentially all we know for sure is that the period is very long, and this is not enough”

I can’t find anything more recent about this RNG. Has it been forgotten, or was it shown to be bad in some important sense?
> System rules can, and often are configured to prevent password reuse well before 2FA.

That does not at all help people who reuse passwords from one site on another.
My company has many backends federated together, but a monolithic, web-based frontend. It’s actually really easy to remove a field from graphql.

1. Remove all uses from the frontend.
2. Deploy.
3. A day later, delete it from the schema.

If deleting it causes relay compiler errors, go back to step 1.

(The less lazy way to do it would be to actually pull some stats about how long-lived frontend bundles are)

Not being able to delete fields only really applies if you have a huge number of clients that you can’t easily force to update on a whim. Plenty of folks just have web clients.

My company doesn’t have this, but I’d love to get per-field usage stats about our schema.
Discourse.org?
> But my point is that if you can make it work on desktop Linux you will make it work on FreeBSD as well, given some decent skill.

As someone who has run Linux and FreeBSD desktops for years -- no, Linux on the desktop is actually quite a bit better and easier to use than FreeBSD.
While there is no easy way to discover for which game it is the case, many if not most games on steam are actually DRM free. The choice is with the dev/publisher to include steamworks DRM.
Extracting from shrooms with ethanol is quite consistent, the psilocybin isn't very soluble so after a few days soaking you can be pretty confident that the ethanol has taken up all it can. for microdosing the ethanol probably isn't enough to worry about trying to take it back out of solution, drink .25 oz or so.
Sadly, yeah.

I get it though, it's not their passion or job, they don't want to have to care, same as I don't really want to know how my car works, I just want to drive it and have the radio dial to be the same place it was yesterday when I reach for it. You're better off if you understand things, but there's only so many things in life you can master, and you have to rely on others for everything else.
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The point the article is making is that the entire concept of "plain text" is unfamiliar to non-technical people, so explaining that cookies are "text files" doesn't help them understand cookies.
1.1.1.1 and WARP: More features, still private
Doesn't need to have the same boiling point, just needs to have some partial vapor pressure at 1 atm and be miscible with water.

One big mechanism for dispersal is sea spray aerosols, probs because pfas chemicals have fun surface chemistries. Concentration of pfas in sea sprays can be 10,000x concentration in bulk seawater
That’s probably why this low density suburban community exists. It’s ok to preserve that.
There's also experiments and staged rollouts, and if there's no hurry they can take a while.
Just wanted to say that in linux you have extended attributes on files, check the man page on chattr. I believe the -i option makes files immutable.

I picked this little trick up watching a red team discuss how they set themselves persistence on the target system by making /etc/shadow immutable this way.. Fun bit is, root can't even remove the file until the flag is removed, and you can't see the immutable flag on the file unless you know what you are looking for via lsattr.
Scalzi says here that he intended it to be funny

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/726k57/comment/dnhg4...
For people (semi-rightfully) complaining about the feasibility of FreeBSD as a desktop OS (or a workstation purposed OS), the fact that it isn't easy to install through the graphical interface is both a blessing in disguise and a legitimate point for slow install + config times. To that end I say to the less keyboard/terminal focused (which should be a paradox when it comes to developers but whatever) : try some of the general-purposed graphical "flavors" of FreeBSD: MidnightBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD. MacOS users who want to seek the same experience but on a less closed unix(Still FreeBSD): helloSystem(from an ex-Apple if I recall correctly) & ravynOS (previously 'airyx').

Of course there is also netbsd + openbsd, but imo those are really far behind FBSD when it comes to being mainstream and usable as daily drivers. One of the main reasons I personally can't daily drive FBSD on my laptop is the lack of proper drivers (I know about 'running' the linux ones). Still a more than decent choice for any desktop unless running very obscure hardware or needing specific requirements (think cuda,cudnn,rt and similar proprietary software/libs)
This is not fiction, there have been several cases of jaw dislocation due to trying to eat impossible burgers.
Funny, that's literally the video I was referring to. Guess it's not quite a fedora, I don't know anything about hats.
You have not properly read my other comments within this post. That is arrogantly presumptive, and over valuing the ideal that downvotes should suppress freedom of opinion.
I feel 2 critical points are missing in the bad things: some control and security on the backend side, and more importantly scaling. Did these things got fixed? What is the cost on the cloud versus the same backend with an API (I saw a horrible story about that). Can I cache queries efficiently? Is it efficient and fast with high throughput of RPS? Or tell GraphQL to use Redis for some data? Etc...
One of the things I dislike about GraphQL is that though the standard doesn't really specify a format all the implementations are closely tied to JSON.

Between that and the (at the time, anyways) abysmal serialization performance of Juniper we ended up abandoning GraphQL.
I usually just say I will consider it for a future release and I move the issue to discussions.

And maybe one day I will do the feature, but not cause they told me to. :-)
From 0 to 2Bs prices scraped a month
Some high level principles for scaling a web data company
It will need to find a swamp first.
"Dehumanizing" to the Chinese people? You know, I was under the impression that total government surveillance, in-person monitoring of religious minority communities and regular internet censorship was the most dehumanizing part. Whatever the CCP calls 'oppressive' should be taken with a grain of salt.

China and Taiwan can share a history, but that doesn't entitle them to reconciling their differences. Much like the other commenters brought up, establishing Taiwanese independence is obviously the smartest path from here. China has had their feelings hurt for almost a century over Taiwan. Entire generations of humans have lived and died in the time Taiwan has enjoyed sovereignty. China knows it's time to let go, but they can't look weak or suffer the same fate as Russia. Continuing to threaten Taiwan is just part of their political-industrial complex, nothing more.
Uses machine learning + your budget = creates infinite moodboards you can buy from.
The site is being hugged to death or otherwise crashed so here is the discussion from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13805282
If things frequently seem nonsense to you perhaps greater reading comprehension skills may help you keep up with busy-minded folk.
According to the following link, 50% of the earth is relatively untouched while 20% is classified as built up urban areas or cropland.

https://earth.org/half-of-earths-land-surface-remains-relati...
There have been plenty of collectivist societies in history and some had gift economies, this isn’t really unique. There are several Native American cultures that would have fit the same description. You could even see a faint parallel in cross-tribal clan membership.
They didn’t use to, no.
This fine. I appreciate the courtesy. Have a great day.
> What I’d like to know is the overall cost

We can estimate this for nuclear pretty easily. From the UxC cost calculator[1], we can see the various components that go into getting mined ore, converting it, and enriching it. At today's prices, let's call it $2000/kgU. We need to add fabrication, transportation, and carrying costs to that. Let's call fabrication $250/kgU[2] and throw on another $50 for transport and misc costs, giving us $2500/kgU for finished fuel. Assuming we burn our fuel to a an average discharge burn of 50 GWd/MTU and the plant is operating at about 34% electrical efficiency, that works out to 0.6 cents/kWh for nuclear fuel.

On to disposal, in the US utilities were previously charged 0.1 cents/kWh for disposal; utilities haven't been charged this fee since 2014 due to a disposal route not being available[3], although DOE retains responsibility for disposing of civilian nuclear waste.

On top of that you have the plant's O&M costs, which are probably another 0.8-1.0 cents or so/kWh.

[1] https://www.uxc.com/p/tools/FuelCalculator.aspx
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857331...
[3] https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-603.pdf
Replibyte in practice – a tool to seed your dev database with real data
“Will solar panels be as available as they are today”

Already installed solar obviously has zero dependency on China. In the steady state you need to replace around 3% per year to keep up with panel degradation, but a dependable solar grid has significant excess production so you have wiggle room to build up domestic manufacturing. And you can ramp up alternatives like wind.

Nuclear has more significant systemic risks, which are less obvious. Over half of Frances’s Nuclear powerplants are currently offline for deferred maintenance. If they where nearly as dependent on Nuclear as often reported they would be having real trouble right now.
Of course it was not NIST's job to standardize a hybrid algorithm and nobody claims such a thing.

However the silly position is that of the NSA, as shown in

https://web.archive.org/web/20220529202244im_/https://pbs.tw...

which attempts to strongly discourage the use of any "crypto redundancy" and says that they will not approve such algorithms.
There won’t be change until there are consequences.
Feel free to create a pull request
The article hits the nail on the head about Linux' "mismatches". When distros need to be different gratuitously, you can no longer get a book on Linux that meaningfully applies across multiple distros. Heck, even an Ubuntu book would be irrelevant after a few changes (16 -> 18, 18 -> 20).

The same people who respond in the community to questions about changes often respond to defend the changes, but rarely respond with answers to the technical questions about them. It's frustrating.
There's a lot of evidence that multivitamins don't actually do much: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/do-multivitamins-...
Bitcoin is a game. A very expensive one & highly volatile and unpredictable.
Only if you actually intent to merge a good pull request for the feature.
>I think I'm in the right vintage for that, but did cassettes ever sound good?

Compared to CDs? Definitely not! Not to mention how many people listened to homemade mixtapes and copies, which made the audio quality even worse.

Did they sound good enough that you could dance, relax, have a good time, be consoled when you were unhappy, or whatever people did with music? Absolutely.

Even when CDs did eventually come out, I far preferred a WalkMan to a Discman. I could put a Walkman in one pocket and a cassette in the other. That wasn't easy with CDs.
To me, that's less an argument against transhumanism than it is people drawing an arbitrary line and deciding the things they don't like can get one label while the things they do don't, so they can easily point out problems even though the line is mostly arbitrary.

Whether I get some small extra perception because of a simple small magnet or because of a complex microchip is irrelevant to the point if they provide the same new abilities and have similar levels of risk and robustness.

Similarly, whether we think getting social media embedded in your consciousness or getting a gun embedded in your arm are good ideas has little to do with the prior examples, so to me they aren't examples of problems of transhumanism as much as examples of problems with humans.
Some nits:

> It doesn't support map/tables/dictionaries. This is actually huge. I get that there might be

It does. You can define, say, an "any" or "json" type in your schema and emit anything you want at a field with such a type. For example https://stackoverflow.com/a/63588485

> No clear path for Api versioning

Some options include:

- Prefixes (`/v1/graphql`, `/v2/graphql`)

- Backward compatibility: only adding and not subtracting things you want to support.

Lots of fair criticisms though. My two cents:

There are very few cases for starting a GraphQL based project by writing a GraphQL server (resolvers, queries, etc). This is where devs waste time instead of exploring their concepts. Instead, use GraphQL with something like Hasura that generates the GraphQL service for you based on database schema.
Counterpoint, if we can't make earth work, how are we expecting to make another planet work? It will be inconceivably harder to turn Mars into something hospitable than it would be to remedy our current planet. We have the science and knowledge we need to make drastic changes here, we are just disorganized and unwilling.
when I talked about drawbacks of graphql like 3 years ago - I got ridiculed. there surely are some nice perks but overall - I find the maintenance of that tricky abstraction layer way too exhaustive. then there's that (weird) architecture in which all the data goes through single focal graphql endpoint. I mean - there's already painful client/server division in web world but now the server knows near nothing about the client intent.
here people mess with FreeBSD afaik:

Building the .NET Core SDK on FreeBSD

https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1139
> As manicdee said it prevents you from drifting out of the lane.

Which is a perfectly good feature. But a system that just does that sounds like it's a safety backup system, not something that makes driving easier.

> Also "active input" is possibly a bit of a stretch. The system checks whether you are providing some force "against" the motion of the steering wheel. It's not trying to steer away, it just tests if somebody is actually having a "strong" (another stretch) grip on the wheel.

Okay, this gives me an entirely different impression then. To me "active input" means I'm following the lane. If I just have to keep a grip then I don't have to do the work and there's a clear value.
It's nit psychoactive in the sense that is has any direct perceptible effect on the brain. It reduces inflammation, which can be perceived as less pain indirectly altering your mental state.

Whereas psychoactive drugs generally affect the actual underlying processes in the brain through various interactions with receptor, enzymes, or neurotransmitters.

I hope that distinction makes sense.
Desktop Linux is pretty comfortable and intuitive, actually. There's no challenge involved.
Does boiling water actually help with chemical contamination. The main benefit is killing microorganisms. The heat can also destroy some toxins, but as far as I am aware PFAS stick around at boiling temperatures.
I am a TexStudio fan for in depth Latex editing. The only "negative thing" I can say is that sometimes particular Tex docs require certain compilers and Texstudio can make this selection difficult.
The recent WireGuard debacle left a bad taste about this. As it actually turns out, sometimes there is zero technical review for very important patches and a few blessed developers can (and sometimes do) just throw their stuff directly into trunk.

This seems like a misunderstanding of the FreeBSD development model. Yes, immature code landed in HEAD, but it was removed before the next release.

In general in FreeBSD there's no expectation that HEAD is always usable. Sometimes it won't even build! It's a place where code can land in the hope that it will be ready by the time the next release rolls around, but "remove code which isn't ready for prime time" isn't an exceptional case.

FreeBSD has a very strong history of post-commit code review, largely because every FreeBSD committer gets email when commits go into the tree -- that's a lot of eyeballs. We're moving towards increased pre-commit review thanks now that better tools are available for that, but that's a separate matter.

(Yes, Netflix runs FreeBSD HEAD. I think they're nuts.)
> The number of HN comments complaining about how complicated Discord is (not yours so much, but the ones where people refuse to even countenance Discord at all) strikes me as odd given my assumption the typical HN user would be a high openness, hacker-ish type keen to try new things.

I think I could be considered as a high openness, hacker-ish type keen to try new things, and my avoidance of discord isn’t that it’s complicated (hard to use), it’s that it’s complicated (unnecessary busy). From the notifications being a lot of noise by default to threads being so much work to catch up on after the fact, it’s just heavy and dense and complicated.

Caveat: It seems much more geared towards users who commit significant brain-space to the subjects they join (for example: catching up on threads is easier if you’re paying attention to realtime notifications), whereas I have a lot of interests and really just want the gems whenever I “sit down” to work with a particular interest.
I agree on Westsider. However, I always liked the Strand for its collection of history, science, and math books. While Strand can be crowded and touristy, it still has a good collection of books.
.. and your dick. Raising NO is the mechanism of action for Viagra.
Related, "powered by Rust" I guess is some kind of shorthand way of saying "powered by Kotlin, TypeScript, Python, Rust, but mostly TypeScript"

In fairness to the project, I think that clickbait was just the submission title, I don't see that language in the GH page at all
How did they screw the movie up so very thoroughly? The novel was not Clancy's best, but still great, very readable. I found the movie unwatchable.
The company named 2K pulls this every year where they disable the multiplayer and even single-player story-mode of their NBA 2K games that are less than 2 years old (they turned off NBA 2K20 servers in Dec 2021)
Great ideas! We’ve had quite some interest in game engines, gotta look into it
> still private

How does one audit that claim, short of being physically in your server halls and inspecting all your code and infra?
The author suggests that he witnessed multiple instances of sexual assault. It's pretty much right there in the text.
The .fla format was a OLE compound file. It wasn't that bad -- I reverse engineered how it worked in the Flash MX 2004 days, and it was mostly editor data structures formatted like how you'd expect.
Wow if that is a news site, its design and UX is a breath of fresh air! No ads/clean, scroll to the bottom and the bottom of the site is clear with a nice little index and only a few little internal only article links.

I cannot wait for a world where all the traditional online news sites are back to an inoffensive and untiring design like this, instead of the shameful spam links everywhere and especially at the never ending scroll/bottom of the sites. That is the worst experience ever, and compared with a lovely site like telex.hu, the difference is profoundly stark.
I used to see GraphQL (and to an uglier respect Soap like interfaces) as complicated solutions to that problem you describe.

But more and more, I think Backend For Frontends solve this issue in a much better way. And of course that idea isn’t new and Yahoo for instance had that kind of architecture.

Frontend teams get to adjust by themselves a simple interface to their needs, and backend teams can provide more info through internal APIs with less restrictions than if it was directly exposed to the outside.
Those turbines were sent back to Germany a couple of weeks ago.

It is almost like the news is more interested in reporting on ongoing problems than solved ones.