skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.
I don't see what would clump, because it's not negative-mass matter floating between galaxies that I'm suggesting.

Just like entangled particles that are lightyears apart, when you measure the angular momentum of one, you know the other's because of conservation laws and not because of some hidden object nudging the particle the right way either.

Spacetime bulging the other way ("anti-gravity") would simply be a feature of spacetime to conserve some other property. In my example that would be the water pressure that wants to stay constant.

Some commenter below mention that this is like a waterbed. I like that analogy.
If you put a large marble on a waterbed, not only will it create a trough, it will also ever so slightly lift everything around it.
Java is not out at all, seeing the amount of Java Jobs listed
Feels like I'm missing some context here. I guess the point is to chuckle, since this was posted in 1999 before it became evident that in fact markets are dumb and gullible and if you have a popular enough website you can own entire ones and sell access to their members with unprecedented efficiency to advertisers.
Good to know, I'll definitely look into that should we ever change to AWS (unlikely in the near future)
So 10000+ hours of WAV files...
The problem is that there's nothing between $0/month and $19/month.

I would happily pay $20-50 a year for a "Solo" GitLab plan.

I have a handful of small repos hosted by GitLab. I don't use CICD for those repos.
Yeah yeah, everyone is entitled and we should think of those brave corporations who need to make money.

Seriously?

Look, when you give something away for free, you’re either a charity or you’re marketing your non-free tier products and using your large user base to drive premium users.

If a company has committed too much to their free tier and it is not sustainably driving premium users, I have little sympathy for them.

You did a marketing thing.

It didn’t work.

Sucks to be you. You are still not getting my business. I do not feel sorry for you when people lash you on Twitter and promise to leave.

There’s no reason to feel sorry for companys in this situation; it is a situation of their own engineering.

If you don’t like the product, don’t use it.

If enough people don’t use it, the conversion funnel will dry up and the company will change tunes (again).

The only thing to take note of here is, yes: if you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Feel free to grumble about it and call out these companies, but don’t be surprised about it.

> The common thread here: Lots of users expect to get things for free, forever, from for-profit companies that don’t answer to them. Those users contribute almost nothing1 to the bottom line for the for-profit companies, and actively drive up costs for them.

Please, spare me.

Those users are part of the conversion funnel to paid tier users.

Gitlab would not exist without them.

If they piss them all off and they leave, it will contribute, I’d wager, significantly the total evaporation of their bottom line.
Not only current AML framework isn't very effective to say the least, it is also becoming very clear sanction regimes are ineffective as well perhaps even counter-productive in most cases.

Maybe diplomacy and mutually beneficial settlements are a way to go.
That's why you drop an atomic bomb on the oldest church in Japan[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Twenty-Six_Hol...
My 6 year old loves this game. Great creative fun.
What you say about installing OS as long as you have full access is true.

But I wonder, could digital ocean make it easier? Does redhat provide VM images in which you only have to enter license key, or is the process more complicated (e.g. you have to get these images from a paywalled url?)
“Contrarian” in this sense means someone who disagrees on purpose, at best for hypothetical intellectual jousting, and at worst to simply act as a troll.

In either case it’s not very interesting to read threads of people practicing their debating skills.
They'll use the same engine, but quite often different engines are available in different territories. I know that the VAG 1.5 TSI (used in lots of cars here) still uses a belt for example, but the 2.0 TSI is chain. Perhaps in America only the 2.0 is available.
Thank you! Interesting. Why would it necessarily reduce culture wars or repression? Because the public sector gets smaller? Or because taxes are "fairer"? Edit: middleman free finance? How?
for remote java jobs use https://javajobs.pro/remote/jobs
It's a bit shallow, but money. I work on https://gifmemes.io and get motivated to continue working (on the mobile app, currently) everytime someone donates or buys the watermark removal.
That wouldn't have fit into the 80 character limit. I also wanted to mention that it's private and offline, but couldn't say it compact enough.
The company chooses to use a freemium model if they want only paying customers to use their product then they are within their rights to change to that. Just because something is free doesn't mean you have no right to complain. If I give away free food that's spoiled and causes food poisoning am I immune from all damages?

An example of this is Facebook. It's free for the users but it does track and sell a lot of your personal data. Without complaints from users we would never have seen things like the ios adpocalypse or GDPR.

I'm sure the person who wrote this doesn't read HN but still wanted to give my 2 cents.
Where does the 1 worker per 4 retirees come from?
Increasing immigration is a dead end. Birth rates are declining almost everywhere.
You don't need even a "mini-blockchain" - you just need a boring old 1970s vintage Merkle Tree.
Kobo has built-in Overdrive, Dropbox and Pocket support on the device itself, which Kindle lacks.
Wait, you can bypass that shitty launcher? Thank goodness. It's been taking forever to start, or flat out refusing to start for me since about a year ago. What a useless piece of garbage.
You're assuming that self-hosting is free, which i can certainly guarantee you that it is not. The only situation where it may seem like it's free is if you host for your own personal use.

For a business, somebody is getting paid to maintain self hosted servers on hardware (virtualized, on prem or in cloud) that are also not free, and besides the hardware cost you also have the cost of simply keeping them running.

For personal use, it is only free in the sense that you don't value your free time. Initial setup is the smallest part of it. If you intend on exposing your services to the internet, you also need to be on top of patching, reviewing logs and much more.

I've been self-hosting for decades, but these days i simply use whatever cloud offering fits my needs. It's usually cheaper, and/or much more resilient than what i had at home.
I don't see why/how disenfranchising a large chunk of people that have contributed to society would improve this. After all you'd be telling the people that are working hard to keep things afloat that if they succeed that they will lose the vote too unless they continue to work forever. The net effect will be that the social safety net and pension schemes will be ultimately cancelled because only those that work get to vote.
I think we may all be assuming that the round foundation necessarily means tower, when it could just be a round room. Any ancient Roman architecture experts care to weigh in?
> this doesn't clearly distinguish between WeChat and Weixin, which is sloppy

What is there to distinguish? Unlike the TikTok/Douyin split, WeChat and Weixin are the same app and there are no content silos separating Chinese users from the rest of the world.
> Rely on taxes that can't be evaded

I think this is the underlying issue.

Anonymity is good and all, but the moment a known intermediary comes into the picture, it becomes a target for government enforcement.

If you need a service like Tornado Cash to preserve anonymity, as long as there is a physical name attached to that service, government regulation becomes enforceable.

In other words, there's still a long way to go before salary payments or other forms of taxable money transfers become evasive enough that they're unenforceable. The small number of exceptions (e.g., tech-savvy remote workers taking payments through blockchain) are not large enough to set the rule.
Sounds like a great way to have a judge make you liable for compensation.
I am also self-taught and mostly learn by the same process described in the article. Playing around with small, isolated experiments and observing the behaviour of the system is essential to how I understand new things.

But I would like to add that getting a high-level overview also helps me to gain a clearer and better integrated, more contextual understanding. This is especially important when I learn “hard” things (although this is a very relative term), since usually those things have a lot of unknown unknowns that often reveal themselves in this process.

That is why I like watching talks about the subject, reading articles and opinions, etc. which are more related to the conceptual stuff and the thought processes behind it. Usually I will then build a concept map and connect things I know that relate to the subject (I like using a PKM tool like TheBrain for this).
Honestly, one time is enough.
Good to know!

To be clear I don't fault them for making an assembly process where repair is not the highest priority. But it took me a while to appreciate why that little zipper repair was difficult enough to offer a replacement instead.

In many ways I suppose repairs always will be more expensive. The staff who know how to make the item may no longer work there, you cannot set up stations and a process, and every repair will likely be different. And without additional shipping, the employees doing the repair will be paid more than the original workers.

An acquaintance who owns an outdoor apparel company told me he doesn't want to make pants because the warranty and repair expectations are much harder to deal with than upper body items.
Yes and no. With perfect audio quality, it'll write down almost verbatim what you said. But as the audio gets more noisy, it'll shift more and more towards the most likely interpretation.
Yes, but the stated point was much broader. If you want a narrower reading then we kind of agree that probably some policing might be needed, no?
How would you know? We have examples of good socialised health care and terrible everything else.
That's a fantastic piece of work.
The law could easily shut him down, so crypto isn't a solution either.
It’s scary that porkbun just gave away the domain like this. What if cloudflare was actually the threat actor? Could they just steal domains like this?

They should’ve not cooperated. Instead, cloudflare should have had to contact verisign - the actual owner of .com.
I did genuinely think it might have been about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_descriptor (which, briefly, are like a 'kernel' in machine learning, or can be something like a Bloom Filter).
Three properties of cash make it tend toward centralization: physical size, difficulty of movement, and ease of access.

If you store a lot of cash in your home safe, eventually you will need more space - this is one reason banks exist. If you try to move a lot of cash quickly from one person or location to another, you will have a hard time - this is another reason banks and money transfer exists. If somebody breaks into your home safe, they probably will have immediate access to your cash - see smart contract wallets[1] and social recovery wallets[2] as an example of a more secure "crypto safe."

I agree that a concern in blockchain is that regulation and services may restrict users ability to withdraw to the base layer, see my other comment[3]. To me this is not a failing of the blockchain. It would be like governments restricting the use of internet or E2EE chat protocols - which is happening in some parts of the world - this does not mean the protocols have failed to meet their goals.

[1] https://www.argent.xyz/learn/what-is-a-smart-contract-wallet...

[2] https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422921
The US litoral ships are 3500 tons 115m length. Russian Black Sea frigates 4000 tons 125m (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Grigorovich-class_frig...) Black Sea is deep everywhere, ie. there is no "litoral" area where those frigates wouldn't be able to operate due to their size. And their roles there are currently mostly those of "litoral" ships, like the land attacks.
Of all the people who worked on this, nobody thought it was illegal or land them in trouble? Like, how does one come up with a plan like this, sell it to their colleagues and see it through to completion? The level of entitlement ("laws don't apply to me" or "at most there is going to be a small fine, no big deal" etc) is mind boggling.

We can't expect our corporate overlords to behave ethically, now even expecting them to behave legally is too much to ask, I guess
I was wondering for a long time:
wouldn't it be possible to create an ML-based AI that could parse CIV games and emulate/imitate human-style play? It would have to be broken down to the respective difficulty levels a human is playing and I guess it would require a lot of input metrics. But people are playing CIV anyway all the time, so there is definitely no lack of data.
That way, CIV could move away from giving the AI boni that it often doesn't know to exploit properly, and we could potentially finally have an interesting competition with the AI.
> Increased energy usage is not necessarily necessary for increased economic growth

I disagree with this - economic growth has almost always perfectly aligned with increased energy use, however this is not a bad thing.

The history of the human race has been about moving from less dense sources of energy to higher dense ones. From wood, to charcoal, to coal, to oil, to gas, to nuclear fission, to nuclear fusion. Abundance of energy is an absolute must for economic growth.

The good news is that what we have started to decouple our impact on the environment and economic growth.

I would also go as far as saying that economic growth is a necessity for us to combat climate change. The development of advanced technology like fusion, better desalination, higher density and more efficient farming, will all help reduce our impact on the planet.
Karma to Christians for ruining cultures/religions before them? It's damn nice that Japan was able to resist Christianity. Felt really good to walk the cities without seeing much of the big-3...
So you have decided to start a free software consultancy
Because:

1. the taxes are more just, and thus cause much less collateral damage (like enforcement actions related to prohibiting Americans from using financial privacy software on their computer) that elicits hostility/acrimony from a broad cross-section of the population toward governing institutions, and

2. by offering a settlement to those negatively affected by reduced government spending and the introduction of a LVT, we are not threatening to deprive major interest groups of their livelihoods, which would create avowed opponents of the reform plan in whose interest it is to vilify the reformers and their plan.

The goal is to align interests so that all major groups support reform toward a more just and efficient economic system.
Similar story here. Bought a Kobo Libra half a year ago, after more than ten years using Kindles.

I chose this Kobo for its bigger screen, as well as hackability. It was cheaper than a corresponding Kindle. Also, I knew I could easily install Koreader [1] in it, pretty much the only UI I have been using for many years now. I'm glad I did.

However, and this is important. Though happy with this Kobo, truth is that it feels cheaper. I keep it on a good case, and I use it with care, as I'm pretty sure it won't survive any fall from whatever height I may drop it. And my previous Kindle, a paperwhite 4, had its tumbles, and survived them quite nicely. And not exactly because I was fortunate. So there's that.

But don't get me wrong. I'm not Kindle-nostalgic. I just have enough experience with both to know what I can reasonably expect from my current device.

[1] http://koreader.rocks/
> Burning coal is also not really nice for the environment, so maybe we should all stop using electricity?

We should, in fact, consider phasing out coal power generation.

Which is what almost every OECD country has been doing for more than a decade: https://ukcop26.org/end-of-coal-in-sight-at-cop26/.
Why would someone do this? Isn't it basically asking to get the account deactivated due to piracy concerns esp given that now Amazon has the whole trail of things you have pirated?
"What use do you currently have for encrypted HTTP, or is this simply short-hand for illegal file transfers?"
Hetzner Price Adjustment
Ok, so let's say I don't have a phone. But computers contain thousands of components, many of which contain minerals mined by slaves. So no computer either. Without access to the internet, there's almost no way to get a job. Nevertheless, I go to the employment center and say that my only condition is that the job does not require me to interact with any computers or other devices that contain minerals mined by slaves. None exist, so I go home unemployed (to an apartment building built by an oil tycoon in the 80s). Now I'm hungry, so I walk barefoot and naked (clothing is often is made by child labourers and with no regard for environmental impact) to the shop. Good thing I don't live in North America so I can actually go places without driving a (planet-killing) car! At the store, I want to buy some bread and vegetables, but discover that a rainforest was cut down to build the field where the wheat was grown and dangerous pesticides were used on the vegetables, leaking into the soil and poisoning the groundwater for the locals. Back home, I close the main central heating valve - it's powered by a coal plant after all. It's winter. It's now a race to see what kills me first - hypothermia, starvation or the random infection I got last week from a small cut that I refused antibiotics for because they were developed with animal testing.

So who is the criminal here? Me, right now, using my 6 year old phone on the bus? Or is it the capitalists who pushed hypothetical me to the brink of death for trying to live "sin"-free and the politicians who oppose any attempt to keep them accountable?

And more importantly, what's the solution? Because going full Amish isn't nearly as scalable as you might think.
I had a brilliant autistic girlfriend and everything she said was fine but she would say them at the wrong time. She couldn't read the situation. She would be the kind of person to correct her boss in front of his boss.

I learned from watching her and thinking about what she should be doing. For example, I had a altercation with a guy over a parking spot we both wanted. I was alone but he had his girlfriend in the car. I looked at it from his point of view and realized there was no way he was going to back down in front of his girlfriend, so I let him have the space in a friendly way and went about my day.
That it's even grown to be even that large is surprising.
why it should be out?
Road-trips are accomplished by paying good money for distractions in minute by minute blocks of time…
Exactly, announcing that there won't be a CENTOS 9 would have been massively less controversial then changing EOL of CENTOS 8.
My pants could, at one point, stand on their own. I bought rather heavy denim, because I wanted to be kept warm (or at least keep the wind at bay) during the winter. I don't remember how long ago I bought them. I try to be nice to my jeans; even considering that, it's a far cry from parents' 18-24 months of use as my Naked and Famous jeans pass through grade-school-age.
Exactly my thoughts too.

How is that possible that Google Play and Apple store allow apps like this to get published?
Just apply a carbon tax.

If you admit that a carbon tax would make us both richer and greener, then you're welcome to argue that on top of that we could do more.

If you can't admit that clearly, then it's just more climate denial: oh it's too expensive to fix, we have to keep giving money to Russia, because insulation and heat pumps are a hoax.
A miracle or a curse?
If they aren't free parameters then why do we assign arbitrary dark matter content and distribution to galaxies like the bullet cluster/ultradiffuse galaxies with "too much/almost no/no DM" to "make it work out"?

If dark matter distribution weren't arbitrarily assignable, why would reputable physicists suggest that some galaxies might have a dark matter clump at the center and not a supermassive black hole?

The evidence for a highly homogeneous early universe has basically been refuted, unless systematic difficulties in assigning galaxy distances (certainly a possibility) JWST is observing galaxies that are forming WAY too early for a standard gravitational model; MOND has predicted early galaxy formation for more than a decade now.
Ask HN: Is entertainment getting the Google Chat treatment?
Today I received an email from Google informing me that "Play Movies & TV is moving to Google TV" and was curious about when the announcement was made, so I went Googling for it and instead found this:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/102498448?hl=en

So, there used to be Play Movies & TV, which was an offshoot of Google Play, and now it's become YouTube, but it's also become Google TV, but Google TV used to be the Android-based OS that ran on some smart TVs, but those TVs now need to use YouTube for the same functionality?

Is Google benefiting from naming churn somehow? It doesn't seem to have helped them with chat, but now they're trying it for their entertainment stuff? Why?
I want to be happy/angry about it, it sounds actually exciting. Tell me more. Reminds me of how Phoenix BIOS was reversed engineered from the IBM BIOS, and the documentation between documentation team and programmer was entirely written and attested, for legal purposes.
So we can choose rule of law, or cryptocurrencies?

I vote for rule of law, 100%.

> In other words, blockchains are systems with democratic recourse, but not authoritarian recourse.

No, "lawful" and "authoritarian" are not synonyms. No, letting people "vote" with their money is not democracy.

You pervert the meanings of the words sufficiently that you have literally reversed their meanings. Laws are created by the people's representatives, who are elected democratically.
I was thinking the same. Is this what sundar was talking about?
I think much more likely is the items would be created for each game and you'd just gain access to them.

Otherwise yeah, it'd be an absolute nightmare, like you said.
To me, the big lesson here is : if your company wants to offer a free service, be sure that you can keep offering that for free. Any limitation or restriction you put in place later will result in bad press.

Offer the free service, but put limits in place right from the start. Only this many free repos, only this much free data, etc.
Removing a limitation later on is easy to do. Putting a limitation in place is hard, and results in bad press.

It's also fairer to users - they know what to expect, they know the limitations and the rules. They aren't caught by surprise when the rules change on them.
> You can hold ETH or an ENS domain with nothing but a private key.

Until the government decides to blacklist your account.

Ethereum is only decentralised until it isn't.
California Exported Its Worst Problem to Texas
At our company we use Cordova for all our apps, which means we have to use WKWebView in order to render our application. As does ever Cordova app.
Engine Simulator: produce realistic sounds from various engine parameters