skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transparency in a society is extremely important. It is a fundamental right to gather and publish information bringing to the publics attention harmful, disturbing and potentially illegal behavior.

What principled political speech should be protected you ask? My answer is investigative journalism.

If you believe investigative journalism should exist and plays an important function in society, you should have no problem with outlets doing that.
I don’t think it’s that far fetched. Because of the war, many if not most international western HQd companies pulled out of Russia - that’s a loss in revenue from that region for all of them. The first thing that goes is marketing spend when you need to reallocate your budget.
I'd encourage you to study the difference between (a) the Chinese political system and (b) the Chinese model for international co-operation.

The first is hard for me to accept, as a Westerner attached to direct democracy, but I recognize its accomplishments and try to look through the fog of propaganda.

The second is a an alternative to the Western, 'rules-based', neo-liberal and neo-colonial order. You're likely to see a large part of the world supportive of this alternative. It also leaves plenty of space for human rights and democracy in partner countries, since national sovereignty and multipolarity are amongst its guiding principals.
I was literally searching for tech / dev meetups in Toronto earlier today, as I moved here a couple months ago. The results were a bit disappointing. Most group are either dead or online only.

That's a way to say: YES, if that happens, count me in.
Bangalore and Bengaluru are used interchangeably. But Bengaluru is its official name while Bangalore is its erstwhile colonial/English pronunciation
And Lincoln did a lot of damages to the slave-based economy when he championed abolition.

I almost went full Godwin point on this.
Oppressive poverty and marginally functional electricity grids are moral virtues we should all aspire to, apparently.
The group they're trying to target here is a terrorist group. Not even in a metaphorical sense. It's people who try to harass random transgender people to the point of suicide or murder.
After reading the following article I've tempered my expectations from ramapycin

https://khn.org/news/a-fountain-of-youth-pill-sure-if-youre-...

The drug has been known for a long time but human trials always seems elusive
Spoiler: "Please stop repeating the phrase “crypto is here to stay”. I have a book to sell you because my blockchain startup was killed by Cardano, which is why I want all of it to 'die in a fire' and to 'destroy all of it'. So please buy my book."

Trying to destroy all of crypto is very unrealistic and being on the absolutist side of hating crypto and believing that all of it will be stopped and absolutely destroyed is no better or just as delusional than the crypto maximalists who also believe that crypto will take over the entire financial system.

Neither are realistic in their utopian goals and are most likely doing this to boost or promote their own grift, whether if it is a book, newsletter, Patreon, more followers, etc, its common to see both extreme anti-crypto and pro-crypto camps doing the same thing.

But what I can tell you is this: 'Some' cryptocurrencies, projects and technologies are here to stay. Not all of them will survive incoming regulations.
They had enough to move to the US 8 years ago from Africa. But it's mostly about support than it is about money, as I have always been supported in my goals.
For all the myriad of settings on these things, on just every microwave oven I've owned, the "power setting" is always set to High and I just dial in the time in minutes. Mind you I mostly use it for microwaving frozen peas and sweetcorn, and very slightly softening super hard frozen ice-cream (~5-6 seconds).

I can't be the only one?
The world is warming. Even if we do everything we need to starting now, it is too late to prevent it from getting warmer for the near future.

We will have more deadly heat waves as a result.

We desperately need to install even more air conditioning.
They speak to it, I wouldn’t say that’s addressing it. They’re simply repeating a variation of the liberal viewpoint that nazis shouldn’t be punched, they should be convinced of their wrongs through peaceful social means (which invites naziism right in) or law enforcement (which, well, piggies like their own kind).

If Matt Prince were the head of the Inglorious Basterds, he’d evidently reform them to vote blue instead of scalping nazis
Stop Xcode 14 beta from draining your battery
Yeah I saw ads for that recently, a Snap documentary of the life of Bhad Bharbie or something (a female rapper I believe). I don't believe we're talking about TV shows that rival Apple TVs exclusives
And what happens if your house catches fire?
This is just IP-based filtering, which is useless as the attacker can purchase more IP space.

What you need is something like a whitelist-by-public-key or hashcash or something.
Not sure, if everyone has Discord on their phone.
In a courtroom you wouldn't get away with absurd hyperbole like this. It would hurt your case more than help. No wonder the activists want to avoid court and rule through social media where hyperventilating emotional blackmail is pretty effective.
Nothing.

Most of my country's power comes from nuclear and coal power plants, and most of heat is district heating using waste heat from the plants. We're going to be impacted by electricity prices but that's about it.

The biggest way this affected me is I started to despise Germans. They cause this with their anti-nuclear bullshit. They emboldened Russia. At least half of Ukrainian blood spilled is on German hands.
edit: maybe not "without physical copresence"

I believe something similar happens when musicians improvise/jam, especially Jazz:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
The cost of central air has been dropping (it was something like $3k add-on to a furnace replacement) and so rarely do you install or replace a furnace without A/C, and once you have central air, you just set it and forget it. Even a fancy thermostat is going to use more energy than a loud window unit that you turn off whenever possible.
The first time Bitcoin was posted it received no comments and barely any votes. The second time it received mixed feedback. It took about a year for it to get a decent sized thread.

The third link, I think, is worth revisiting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1532670
"Almost"?!
I’m in adtech and we manage to do ads in a completely user respecting way within the retail space. We monetize on search traffic without user data, cookies, local storage. The only browser feature we leverage are click events and img tags.

Though I appreciate your frustration, your aggression is a little off target. :)
> Instead of just existing as a small number of weirdos on mainstream platforms with millions of users, they are now building their own silos.

This is _not_ about that - these people are building their own siloes; Cloudflare are hosting them. If Cloudflare stop providing services to them it will reduce their ability to host their own siloes.
Well funny because one of the consequences of the text2img and img2img revolution we've seen the past weeks will certainly be that real artists / illustrators will have to use NFTs. For the timestamps. To fight in court essentially.

I dont think cryptos are going anywhere just because of that (I could be wrong).
So everything said by Joey Diaz and joe Rohan on their podcast is, in your view, a joke with no truth value?
Those warnings from the US are usually transparent geopolitical self interest. That’s not to say it’s incorrect, just that Europe does not need the US new world bumpkins to teach them about energy policy or dictate its foreign relations. It is perfectly capable of managing and mismanaging its own interests.
It's the same thing most consumer VPNs do. That 70% off discount will basically always be for a 2+ year plan as well.

It's one of the main reasons I like Mullvad. One price, month-to-month, no 'discount' for paying for multiple years at a time, no shady sales tactics.
I'd love to see a list of all this author's changelog threads (previous years). This is so cool to scan through!
Anglicized v. Localized

Bombay = Mumbai

Madras = Chennai

Calcutta = Kolkata

Bangalore = Bengaluru

Localized is Lindy.. but damn those Anglicized names for some reason sound better.
> They are exact type of customer who need DDOS protection the most.

> > They (KiwiFarms, Daily Stormer) would be better not on the internet.

DDOS protection only exists because some people are willing to illegally target websites they believe would be better not on the internet. It's the entire point. Folding to publish pressure for one customer weakens their case for protecting others.
I don't read it at all as "you should feel bad". I read it as "just stop using so much energy".
What is the practical difference? These "regulations" are put for a reason. You just can't leave the river dry or the water boiling and call it a day.
> For example, ZFC+CH might non-constructively predict that some machine M halts, while ZFC+notCH might predict that M does not halt.

Just to add, this can only happen for a Turing machine M that does not actually halt. If you take a system which cannot prove that M does not halt, you can consistently add a new axiom that M halts - but the number of steps to halt, and thus BB(n), will be a non-standard number.
I found it to be an interesting fact that I did not know before.
When Russia annexed Ukraine nobody anything, including the US. Besides, of course, working with Ukraine behind the scenes to prepare for a potential similar event. And that oreparation worked, didn't it?

I like how HN ignores the historical context when it comes to Russia, gas and Europe. This history goes much further back than 2014...
Exactly, it was really more of a truism, there are many manynother things that the developing world consumes more of than Africa, food, education, water, electricity, gas, on and on. It's just not really useful info, it's true, but doesn't really add to the conversation.
Yep. They've been warned about this danger for years.

Germany 'Totally Controlled By Russia' (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LLZBVTid4I
For a site that generally is there to give you the inside scoop on what is really going on / happened, interesting / disappointing that the choice is to not do so here.

To me "sorry I was wrong" isn't enough.
Large corporations policing free speech is a horrible trend that often enough goes absolutely wrong and the only way to prevent censoring content inappropriately is to not censor anything at all. There are laws and courts that judge over what content should stay online and it should stay their responsibility. If we give that up, we replace democracy with a technocracy, that already showed us plenty of times is not something we want. If it means that a website like Kiwi farms has to stay up, then that's what it takes. A twitter mob should never have the power to take any website offline. I doubt anyone in their right mind would lay their trust into every Twitter mob. It's just luck that this mob is in line with your opinions, but others might not.
Ah, indeed! I now also see it. I guess parts of the site are cached and take time to refresh?

Regardless, thanks for the correction!
Would be great if you could share your 3-5 most exciting developments that weren't discussed mich here.
Malloc() and free() are a bad API
I never had A/C at home until I moved to the US Midwest a few years ago. In a hot and humid climate, you just have to design buildings and communities for the climate and adapt your lifestyle so that you're avoiding the heat. In a tropical climate, tree cover and designing for capturing the prevailing wind does most of the work. Urban heat islands are a challenge to be sure, but my apartment was fine. Once your body is used to it, you feel fine going outside and doing things without feeling like it's unbearably hot.

Living in the Midwest in a climate controlled house has definitely changed my tolerance for the heat, and I find it difficult to sleep in the heat when I travel back to my hometown.
If you use a heat pump in winter you do actually make outside colder. So there is that analog.
do you really think that ratio of revenue to payroll is that low? i think you have a very rosy view of how the business world works
I guess I am in the minority because I don't run an AC unit in my bedroom office here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The humidity can get a little miserable during the height of the day, but it's completely tolerable as your body adjusts. For the few days each year when we get into the 90s, I strap a couple of reusable ice-packs from my ice chest to my back, neck, and seat. This method works exceedingly well for affordable cooling until the night temperatures bring everything back into comfortable territory.

I visited Texas this summer and the consistency of the 100+ degree days turned me off from ever considering that part of the country. I find that it's just too hostile to life; heaven forbid you experience a power outage for a week causing your AC to become a useless heap of metal; what then?

Edit: Does this data count heating as well? Whenever I hear "AC" I typically think cooling, thus my main comment is focused on that aspect. Heating here really only needs to be enough to keep pipes from freezing, beyond that, it's very easy to stay warm with enough clothing, blankets, and body movement.
They should either change the verification badge to say “certified famous” or something, or just give out the verification badge to anyone who wants it, provided they successfully prove their identity. I don’t see how verifying my identity negatively affects Justin Bieber’s verified status, for example.
Armenia gets 80% of its electricity production from a single nuclear power plant owned and operated by Russia. It also sits in a seismically active area of the world, tbn.
Out lawyered, because he was wrong?
Backing up volumes right from Docker Desktop
Docker has launched a new extension called "Volumes Backup & Share" to the Marketplace:

https://hub.docker.com/extensions/docker/volumes-backup-exte...

The extension allows you from Docker Desktop to:

- Backup data that is persisted in a volume (e.g. database data from Postgres, MySQL, etc) into a compressed file.

- Upload your backup to Docker Hub and share it with anyone.

- Create a new volume from an existing backup or restore the state of an existing volume.

- Transfer your local volumes to a different Docker host (through SSH).

- Other basic volume operations like clone, empty, and delete a volume.
And what happens when LunaNode goes out of business or gets acquired and the CEO posts an “Our Amazing Journey” letter on their website?
I handle cookies on my proxy where I change them to per session cookies and interestingly the sites that have cookies that are "necessary for sites to work", are working flawlessly (/s)
Front end development may have a lot of frameworks, etc., but so much less magic than .Net.

What makes .Net so much harder (especially ASP.Net) are the new features but also all the magic that makes discoverability so hard.

Front end frameworks tend to follow similar patterns, and where they differ, they usually advertise the difference between the standards heavily.

But also, since they are genuinely different frameworks, it's easier to search the differences etc. So, if I open a Vue application codebase, I know almost immediately that it's a Vue application and not a React one. I can google vue and figure out (most likely from their getting started page) exactly all I need to know to get started.

If I enter an ASP.Net codebase, on the other hand, I have no idea whether I'm looking at ASP.Net Pages, .Net WebAPI, .Net WebServices, or more often than not, some combination of all of them. Throw in some Dependency Injection, with a combination of IOC containers used in the same project, and it's a massive lift to know what even to Google for.
I find the article hopeful for the future of free speech on the internet. Even though the ability to host content on the net is one thing and lacking access to most platforms (where the users actually are) like youtube, facebook, instagram, tiktok is another. The most important thing nowadays is access to the siloed user bases for people who try to express dissident opinions, not the access to the net as whole, even though that is important as well.

>For instance, when a site that opposed LGBTQ+ rights signed up for a paid version of DDoS mitigation service we worked with our Proudflare employee resource group to identify an organization that supported LGBTQ+ rights and donate 100 percent of the fees for our services to them.

I find this section peculiar. Why does the company have "values"? I though companies were supposed to be looking after the intrests of their shareholders, i.e., profit. Do the shareholders consent to the lost profit being donated to political motives? This broader trend of companies becoming political organizations is terrible, frankly.

But even with that said, I find their stance in the article to be hopeful, and sincerely wish that they stay true to their words in this paragraph.

>To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.
All of those platforms regularly remove that type of content and ban users that post it.
I can provide lots of examples of Kiwi Farms doxxing and harassing queer people. Whether they happen to work for Cloudflare at the time is a matter of chance, and not particularly relevant to the point.
Acting without voting made this an "illegal strike." If they'd all voted to stop, there would be no threat of jail.

This is a garbage ruling because obviously there was consensus among the workers otherwise it would never have been a problem and gone to court. And the point of the vote is to demonstrate consensus.
Exactly, you get to see how early (or late) decisions have scaled up, for better or for worse.

You have to take an intelligent approach though, you can't just go in the opposite direction, e.g. excess meetings can be very damaging to engineers, so let's do 0 meetings.
That, when it was announced would have been exactly what I was looking for, but it got kinda silent since then. So I am not sure how well that actually works and where it currently stands
If for LND - the answer is yes!
This is a big part of it. Almost anyone who lived in a large house in the past would have "summer rooms" and "winter rooms" - rooms that were more comfortable during those times.

They'd take more to heat because they often leaked, but they were cooler in the summer also.

Now we heat and cool all the rooms, even on those same older houses.
Lays off 20% of employees and the stock jumps 9% immediately. Really drives home a good message to all CEO's out there /s
Would you rather some "Unfortunately, due to market conditions..." fluff like the rest of them?
I opened your link and saw that bio about the author:

"Fred Fleitz served in 2018 as a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff to National Security Adviser John Bolton."

That surely seems like a very objective person.
>We believe cyberattacks, in any form, should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Unless, of course, you are an _enabler_ of such attacks.

This is where CF's hypocrisy shines through.

instant-stresser.com
str3ssed.co
freestresser.co
metastresser.com
(dozens more)

These are all sites hosted with CF DNS, who provide services that are literally the opposite of free speech -- they are in the business of _suppressing speech_, for money (or for free!). They are the providers of the service CF protects its paying customers against. There could be no more simple definition of a shakedown racket than this: Pay us for DDoS protection, or risk being brought down by one or more of our (non-paying) customers!

For all their completely defensible talk about free speech, this is a category of customer that is indefensible, and completely identifiable.

Except for one thing: If they were "relegated to the dustbin of history", so too would be CF's business model.

So before defending CF's stance on "free speech", take a good look at their business model, and who they support.
They must use this at HRT
Wow, I wonder how much they were suing him for. Probably tons of money in damages from his report
Look forward to seeing you there! Come and chat to me when you have a minute free.
As a westerner, the names in my vocabulary are Mumbai and Chennai, but also Calcutta and Bangalore... Not sure why that is, though the lack of consistency is interesting.
It’s just a fact — why do you think it’s meant to make someone feel bad?

It doesn’t make me feel bad and doesn’t strike me like it was meant to. My thought was “whoa, fascinating” and then I moved on with my morning.

Maybe the “feel bad” stuff is a you thing that your projecting out onto somebody else’s words?
Did you see the episode of South Park where the boys go to Afghanistan to return a goat and the boys there tell them that "Half the world hates America." And they're like "Why?", and the kid says "Because you don't realize that half the world hates you!"
You can acclimatize to pretty high heat levels.

Europe gets to 35C and people die. In poorer SE Asian countries they have no AC and temperatures regularly hit 35C with far more humidity, but they do just fine.

Hell, you see workers doing construction work in full gear at those temperatures.
> 1950, 10% of Americans lived in NYC

The share of Americans living in NYC hasn't fallen all that much: 12M in 1950 to 19M in 2021 [1], during which the US population has gone from 151M to 332M. So 8% to 6%.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23083/new-york-city/popul...
Unfortunately with the various moral panics going on, folks who lean towards the middle / nuanced balanced thoughts are more afraid and reluctant to put their thoughts out there. It just isn't worth the brain-width or having potential people yell at you for toeing various party lines. The death of questioning is imo one of the more disheartening things in the last 5-10 years.

To your last point, I personally skew towards being deeply suspicious of institutional power being able to have more tools to further leverage the tilt against the individual, but you're also not wrong with individuals being deeply flawed beings too.
> is there a point at all in having username/password authentication in a mobile app these days, for the reasons i pointed out.

It depends on your target market. Requiring social media/google/apple accounts in order to use your app means that there will be a lot of people unable or unwilling to use your app.

Whether or not that matters to you is a business decision that only you have enough information to make.
I have yet to buy a single thing, let alone a single useful thing, with a cryptocurrency.

I also don't understand how a cryptocoin is supposed to be a rapidly accumulating asset for investment, while also being stable enough to function as a currency.

As long as these two things remain true, I remain skeptical.
Nice hindsight is 20/20 comment...