skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember exactly which sites, but I run into the problem every so often with a handful where I'm prompted to change my password according to vague guidelines that say I usually need special characters, without saying which ones it accepts.

I change my password with something randomly generated by my password manager, and the site accepts it, and as far as I know I'm good to go. Then next time I try to log into the website, it doesn't accept the password it previously (falsely) accepted before, and I have to reset it again and play the guessing game of what special character it didn't like. Madness.
I have a hard time taking this position seriously -- when did you come to this conclusion? Have you put yourself in the position of someone living in these countries? Some random person having their access to the rest of the world just cut off like that? For their own good?
> for some topics, the readers don't have enough background knowledge to know that it's a mundane story

Why does it matter? The press does context-free puff-pieces all the time, even for professionals allegedly at the very top of their game (off the top of my head: Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Holmes[1], Elon Musk, Jeff Dean, and Sanjay Ghemawat to a lesser extent). Typically the template is "Genius expert invents X all by himself" without providing additional context for people outside of tech.

Food for thought: do you suppose journalists are exclusively wrong in tech reporting only? Or is this an area you have enough context to understand the nuances?

1. Sometimes the "revolutionary tech" is not just plain evolutionary, but fake. But a layperson reading the hagiography can't tell the difference
> To justify pumping billions of USD into Shuttle-era contractors who would've otherwise gone bankrupt a decade ago.

You might have a case with Aerojet Rocketdyne - not sure if they can survive on RL-10 sales alone. But the others: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrup Grumman, aren't depending on SLS contracts to survive. It's just a nice cherry on top of their defense and commercial contracts.
This is wrong and out-of-date for multiple reasons.

1. Corporate spending in politics has had negligible impact after Citizens United:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30352

2. These days, the ostensibly pro-business party(GOP) gets more of its money from individuals and SME donors than the Democratic party.

Your real problem is public opinion itself. The public in America simply trusts corporations over government institutions(except maybe the military). David Shor has great(but damning for progressives) analyses of this phenomenon.
FranLab and EEVBlog did a livestream together, there also was done by the Angry Astronaut, as well as one by the Everyday Astronaut. I'd say if you're on HN there's a decent chance you know at least one of these channels already, Youtube just isn't doing a good job of notifying subscribers to livestreams :)
>how do you think you should find out about it?

Word of mouth, basically. Or searching for something that I need.

What I hate most about advertising is it just shoves everything in people's faces and makes people think they need this and that. I find myself somewhat immune to ads (as much as one can be I guess), maybe I just programmed myself to ignore them growing up in early internet days. But it's so obvious the large effect that ads can have on most people.

I find out about new and cool stuff generally from peoples comments on sites like here, reddit etc. If you have a good product, word of mouth is generally pretty damn good. Or coming across something from searches for a specific need.

I just can't think about anything that I needed and found out from a standard advertisement in like.. any recent memory. Maybe I'm the outlier here.. obviously ads must work well enough but I hate them with a passion.
1) and 2) sound a bit like covid / long covid symptoms.
You say to the guy who wrote the first seed check of Coinbase
SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies
>I assure you there is a set of people who think the tweet would be permission to hijack a domain. And some of that set overlaps with the group that might accept the $10k challenge.

And then from all those people you'd still need to find someone who 1) would successfully pull it off and 2) be stupid enough to demonstrate this in a damaging manner.

It’s also worth noting that this offer was made to only one person.
GrapheneOS has "Network" as a permission you can disable per app like any other permission. This is such an obvious and purposeful omission in stock Android's permission model.

I see NetGuard was mentioned in a comment, but if you have Graphene you can just install an app and never let it call home via the App Info permission menu. I do it for Google Camera and Snapseed, the few non FOSS apps on my phone.
The way I set it up, the ingredients are canonical, the recipes aren't exactly, since you can have so many variations. National food dishes seem like a prime candidate for that though.
You can run Linux on Mac hardware. Linus Torvalds seems to have been doing this for the last decade.

Personally I find Linux desktop environments to be beyond awful with zero hope for salvation but to each their own. I certainly recognize a lot of the shortcomings of OSX but, more than anything, I don't want something I have to endlessly tinker with to get working (and keep working). For me, out of the box experience is paramount.
We are? I suspect many of us are trying to trick ourselves as much as everyone else.
Unfair and unlucky are different concepts. Randomness could be perceived as lucky and unlucky, but that’s not what they’re saying. Randomness, if truly random, is as fair as it gets.
I use Amazon's official extension to send webpages to Kindle all the time. [1]

My feedback: I can't justify paying $4/month to be able to send few packaged webpages to my kindle, If this was a one time payment of ~$20, I'd be interested.

[1]. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...
Actual article title “How mammals won the dinosaurs' world” makes a little more sense.
Interesting to see this come up, as I only recent came across Pure Data [1]. I find it surprising that the numerical programming languages aren't flow-based. R makes good use of pipes, and I guess it works a bit like flow-based programming, except that they are all are 1D segments of variable length, and no branches. Sometimes I think that Go's channels are bit a flow-like (though it is otherwise very much not functional!).

If anyone knows of a flow-based programming add-on to R, I'd be very curious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data
This isn't relevant to spying on regular people. Regular people don't have air-gapped computers.
I think I agree. I'm glad my Kobo doesn't have a Twitter app.

Kobo's Pocket integration is nice, so I can read through articles I've saved on my computer/phone without distraction. There's also an Overdrive store so I can browser and borrow books from my local library without jumping through hoops.

Would it be nice to support alternatives to Overdrive and Pocket? Sure, but once you open the doors to any third-party apps, it's hard to keep the focus on books.
The differentiating factor to me is that backends can typically define the runtime they want to use, while frontends are beholden to run on what the user brings.

A backend from a decade or two ago can still run fine, because it defines what it runs on. It doesn't matter if CentOS 5 deprecated a feature the apps needs, we can run it on a CentOS 4 VM (not that anyone should).

Frontend feels like it has more churn because it can't define it's own runtime. If Chrome deprecates a feature, frontends have to adapt to that. Because frontends have to adapt to their runtime changing, it becomes important to use a framework that's currently supported. You can't keep running on Java applets, because browsers won't run them anymore. You can't keep running on RandomJSFramework if it stops getting updates, because features may get deprecated in the browser.

I think it has less to do with the average frontend vs backend dev, and more to do with the environment they operate in.
I often have periods of anglosphere fatigue where hearing about the same values, debates, and cultural norms every day starts to take its toll. That's why learning languages is so psychologically helpful.
Brazil Set to Build the World’s Biggest Urban Garden by 2024
Off topic- is there a way to see info on twitter without creating an account? I used to look at tweets from my local meteorologist on twitter but now I can’t seem to be able to view info on twitter without a modal blocking the window and asking me to sign uo
It is really to bad eucryphia's post was flagged. It is always nicer when we can have a free, and honest discussion without the nannies swatting at each of us when we don't fall into line. Perhaps the nannies "covet" the free thinkers of this world.
The Three-City Problem of Modern Life
Kinda crazy how fast things have changed.
Apparently this is developing into a pattern, and has happened 16 times already!

> The original launch date of Artemis 1 was planned in December 2016, but it was delayed at least sixteen times due to technical issues with the SLS and the Orion spacecraft.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1
Element Is a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Secure Communications, Q3 2022
I have to say, your setup process for your chrome extension is very slick. I look forward to giving this thing a shot, I use Pocket to save articles but it's kind of just a junk drawer for me, and I'd prefer to force myself to read from my Kindle anyway vs my iPad so I don't get distracted easily.
Classic Safari/WebKIT.
It’s strange to think he lived such solitary life and yet millions will read about his death.
Thanks for your comment and you are correct with your latter point and assumption. It's hard to word things properly when you're limited with the amount of allowed characters on twitter.
Everything takes time.

Everything that takes time costs money. Why is software an exception?

Try telling a carpenter or an auto technician he shouldn't be paid for his work time because "everything takes time". How did software developers take a left turn at reality?

it has no value.

I really don't care as long as people pay me for it.
I know :). That's why I was unambiguously grateful for the article and polite in my humble request.
Non only the ease of digging but also it being self-sustaining: it doesn't need reinforcements in roofs and walls. In modern times there is something similar in Coober Pedy, Australia.
The problem with the believe that debt can be "erased by a the stroke of a pen with political consequences" is that those consequences would be far more than just political. Wars start over less, political extremism is driven by those kind of actions.

Actions like that always have winners and losers.
Congrats, Garry. You told me when I interviewed to have a co-founder. I'm happy to report I still can't find a co-founder but you were right.
> meaningful regulation of corporations can't really happen

Isn't that overstating the case?

I agree corporate lobbyists have an outsized and often harmful impact. But just recently we have seen California moving toward ending sales of gasoline-powered cars. Or at the federal level, greenhouse gasses are now legally a pollutant that the EPA can regulate. With just one more Democratic senator, we would have seen the end of the carried-interest loophole. And organized labor, which serves as an important check on corporate power, has been on the rise, in part due to Federal support.

I'll also note that places like Facebook, although not yet particularly regulated, are running scared from a lot of proposed legislation, and so are increasing transparency and reducing harm in hopes of heading it off. That too checks corporate power, and is a strong sign that they don't see themselves as untouchable.

Personally, although the challenges are large, I think there's a fair bit of cause for optimism.
Congrats Garry! You're going to do a great job I am sure.
I dunno, but Palantir has always been a little bit…

I mean, it’s kinda in the name.
I was surprised that the article mentions dozen of languages but no word of F# which is a mainstream clone/derivate of OCaml. Especially considering exactly that point.
I see OSI version of open source as forced labor, the best I can do is open source my work, meaning make the source code open source, people can use it for free but as soon as you want to commercialize my work, you gotta pay.

If you anyone is about to say that isn't open source, well, there is nothing you can do about it, sorry
It's easy to forget that code is... so small, but I guess if your codebase on its own was hundreds of megabytes big, then that would become noticed more quickly. I never realized it stored a copy every time, I assumed it used diffs. So git uses the same solution some of us use when we're about to do something on git we're unfamiliar with... you copy the entire directory housing your code + git repo into a new location just in case it fails miserably.
> implies it's not adding anything

I did not imply any such thing, I said it directly.

Just because the word 'blogspam' is typically used in a derisive and impolite manner does not make this any less of what it is- content from an HN comment, transcribed to a blog, then returned to HN.

This remark should not be an affront to our sensibilities. I have higher expectations of HN and do my part to discourage myself from taking part in this for the longevity of the community.
> Unrelated, some unsolicited feedback for bloggers, I like to click on images to zoom in (quicker than ctrl+equal 5 times). So at the very least please wrap the images in a link to the image src. a humble request.

I suggest using a TamperMonkey script to accomplish this on your end; outside of thumbnail galleries, it runs against common expectations, so you'll have better luck taking control yourself.
What do you think might be good counter examples of this not being the case?

Maybe Instagram, Discord... I was going to say Robinhood, but the free trading might have been the real differentiator?
this article: https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses#what-are-the-... helped us a lot on our decision.

can you elaborate what is wrong with using a license that is listed on https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical ?
No, this isn't "against GDPR".
> The extreme left in SF politics (which in SF = the Establishment).

???

kind off topic, but I am curious what other people in SF think about this statement. I don't live there, but I find it surprising and dubious that the extreme anything is also "the establishment", not saying it's not possible but seems unlikely to me.
> Several external dependencies.

> It’s annoying to install all these and to keep them up-to-date, it would be great to just have a single thing to worry about.

I feel the author's pain.

There's a Python2 project for ebook management that I used pretty extensively years ago, but it depended on a number of external dependencies, both as compiled shared objects and other Python libraries. It felt extremely fragile and was always a pain to get it working properly, so I eventually rewrote the core parts of the entire project for my own use (in Rust, incidentally). Now I have a single app that I can be sure will pretty much always work.
I recently readded this with an ask option like the gcloud cli

It sends very minimal information about what command you ran

Analytics is pretty common with most collecting more, being on by default, and leaving you to discover the option in the docs. Not sure if this is compliant with GDPR, but asking seems more ethical or right to me

Note, you can track downloads in several ways if that is what you are most interested in.

The type of tracking also depends on what you are building. Is it a library, CLI tool, or full application with a UI? This will partially determine what is appropriate and available
That was not the context. 4 posts up: "I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads"
From https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles :

> You have two nearly identical 22K objects on your disk (each compressed to approximately 7K). Wouldn’t it be nice if Git could store one of them in full but then the second object only as the delta between it and the first?

> It turns out that it can. The initial format in which Git saves objects on disk is called a “loose” object format. However, occasionally Git packs up several of these objects into a single binary file called a “packfile” in order to save space and be more efficient.

...

> What is also interesting is that the second version of the file is the one that is stored intact, whereas the original version is stored as a delta — this is because you’re most likely to need faster access to the most recent version of the file.
“Omar Became a Superhero Costume”
Like you said, if your registrar shuts down your domain it doesn't matter where your DNS is hosted. So your recommendation makes no sense.
I have 2 in the XPS line - a relatively old 15 inch and a new(ish) 13 inch.

They're perfectly fine machines.

Dell officially supports linux on them (admittedly, only Ubuntu), you can get 32gb of RAM, and they perform just as well as any other intel based laptop (which is to say - I wish they sucked less power, but they're fine on the performance scale).

I'm... not a clean person with my machines, and I've never noticed any issues with the keyboards.

I have zero issues swapping wireless to wired (Arch linux) - it's basically instant for me, but I don't actually know how you're testing that, since none of the newer 13 models include an ethernet port (I use an adapter). Have you considered that you have a bad usb-ethernet adapter? Every one I've used is fine. Alternatively - are you sure you're not thinking of the Latitude line? Those are very different machines, which I also avoid.

Basically - I'd take an XPS every time over anything Lenovo puts out. I don't even really care about the hardware, I just think Lenovo can't be trusted a god damn inch. Chinese company selling computers with rootkits/MITM pre-installed. It was a sad day when IBM sold their personal computing line to them. I know a lot of folks still like the Thinkpads - but it's not worth it, IMO.
Wait, how do you play B♭♭ differently than A on the 19-TET keyboard? There isn't a separate key for that is there?
This is the least of Stackoverflow's problems, although it does show the kind of people that operate there. "Welcome to our club. It is our club though so you have to obey our rules and we're in charge. So you're welcome to stay as long as you act exactly like us."

Basically the HOA of the internet.
The speakers work fine on mine, but I have to say they aren't much of a killer feature. How often do you use your laptop speakers? Even if you cheap out, it is pretty difficult to find a pair of headphones that sound worse than laptop speakers.
Hint: when you say “Democrat party” rather than "Democratic Party" you are giving away your game too easily. This is what GOP partisans call the party as an intentional slight. The only ordinary people I ever hear use this name are those who habitually watch Fox News.
Long (good quality) article. The numbers are further down. For retirement looks like either buy 200-400k USD in real estate or donate 100-150k USD.
It wouldn't just terminate SLS though, it would probably kill Artemis, which would be a bad thing.
I'm way less upset by this than a large number of people in that twitter brawl. I can agree that this probably isn't the best way to go about things, but in the end, all I see is a CEO taking a firm stance of confidence behind his products - let's just hope this doesn't turn into a real bad situation for namecheap customers. Ballsy? Yeah. But pitchfork and torch worthy? Not really.
Congratulations, Garry! YC couldn't have picked a better leader.
> I have been running a website that you know and use with 100m users since 2004

The only website that you know I use is this one. Are you saying that you run HN? I do not think you are that person.

If that's not the site you're referring to, I'm rather curious to know what site it is that you run, that's had 100m users since 2004(!), that can correlate a site user with this HN user. Will you tell, please?
> Modern CRDTs are massively more space efficient than git but nobody seems to notice or care about the size of our git repositories.

The packing process explained in the article is why: rather than make compression an intrinsic part of the system's model (which most VCS do / have done), git moves it to a later "optimisation" phase. This is an additional and somewhat odd costs, but on the other hand it can be extremely efficient (at $DAYJOB we've got files whose compression ratio is 99%).

An other interesting bit (which makes it very annoying to inspect the raw contents of a git repo) is that git DEFLATEs object contents when it stores them on-disk. But while that's clearly documented for packfiles (although the lack of end-of-data marker is implicit and extremely annoying), it's not really spelled out for loose object, you get to find out when you can't make heads or tails of loose objects, and git barfs at your hand-crafted loose objects.
It's a good model, and more active church communities would likely be a net positive for society. But the model does come with some nasty side-effects, not the least of which is a required subscription to the invisible-friend belief service.
> SLS is made by Boeing

SLS is at best partially made by Boeing. There are 5 prime contracts:

1. Core stage - Boeing

2. Upper stage (both ICPS and EUS) - Boeing

3. Upper stage engines - Aerojet Rocketdyne

4. Core stage engines - Aerojet Rocketdyne

5. Solid rocket boosters - Northrup Grumman

NASA does the software, integration and operations.

There's also Orion, which is being done by Lockheed Martin. It's not technically SLS, but the vast majority of SLSes will launch Orion, so it seems not unreasonable to lump it in.
"What you're listing (clearly inspired by the ten commandments) wasn't sufficient for Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, even though at least two of those rose to dominance within preexisting civilisations that had a whole bunch of extra rules."

Because they didn't follow them...
I am a dad of grownup children myself. My daughter is married and my son is getting married soon.

One of their strongest memories is about the songs we would make them hear while traveling around in our car, when cars had CD-ROM players.
Userspace NBD block device outperforms Linux kernel nbd.ko driver
I was in the Kruger this weekend, and our guide was lamenting that they've already lost over 340 rhino this year, and said poachers keep hacking their radios and finding out where the rhino are, even when they change code they speak in.

I find the chance of that to be roughly zero though - clearly a bunch of the guides have been paid off. This isn't a problem tech can solve.
> you'd be shocked how many people try to claim bug bounties from us because they "hacked" their own account using their own credentials.

Wait ...what? Like, seriously?
Because they were supposed to "optimise" the routes and enable true ride & cost sharing? It did look like that for a while with their lowest tier.
"I will do everything that's in my power"

Will you pay money for the content you consume?
Google's a publicly traded company which is profitable in other areas. Search can carry the load financially while they achieve market dominance in other areas.

This model is based on removing public market forces on a company while the company bleeds money in order to achieve dominance.

W/R/T other SaaS companies doing the same, SaaS startups exit strategies include acquisition that D2C business don't really have. Who's going to be big enough or see enough value in buying Uber/WeWork/Doordash to augment their current offerings? Amazon can't buy them all at the peak of their valuation.