skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sometimes you need a CDN because your hosting costs would be untenable otherwise, and CloudFlare’s the only one that’s free / a flat $20 for as much traffic as people can throw at it. So losing CloudFlare can mean that your only other option is to pay egress-bandwidth bills / other CDN service bills you can’t pay; and so you just don’t bother to put your site back up at that point.
Same. Those things were built to last (at least in the low volumes I use it for). Needs a new cartridge by now (the third I think in 20 years?) but other than that it still runs perfectly fine. And it speaks PCL5 and PS so it's compatible with everything, from the Amiga to the latest Windows 11 (and of course Linux).
This is a really annoying narrative. The Dutch empire "fell" in the 18th century, and they never regained their former glory. Danish glory fell in the 11th century. The Swedish empire fell in 1721. Today those are three of the best places in the world to live.
This is overly pedantic. If you are a computer, "X could be" just means the chances are >0. In natural language, "I think X could be" implies an amount of suspicion not infinitely close to 0, and it is fair for others to have different opinions on those chances.
I have to agree that it's excessive and I don't understand why they're doing it. Major versions imply breaking changes, which contradicts the assertions of other people here replying that the differences between each version are minor; in that case why not minor version bumps? What's the benefit? The only thing I can think of is that it forces upgrades to new versions of Visual Studio.

One immediate problem it creates is with recruitment - between 2019 and 2021 we went from .NET Core 3.0, through 3.1, .NET 5, and now .NET 6, and suddenly in the space of one job I went from up-to-date to 'legacy CV'.
That wad of text was hard for me to read / get a lot out of.

The image though made sense to me:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2022/08/pasted-im...

I think I'd take a similar approach. Basic services, transit and etc would involve less moderation. Actually hosting someone else's BS on my systems more potential moderation.

Personally I wouldn't host some jerk at my house, I still would argue they deserve basic protections, even if they're horrible.
I am not an artist people might interpret my work as art but for me it’s a craft. The thing with real art is you do art because you want to do art and with luck you can make a living of it. If you do art for the money you always had bad luck maybe now even more. As long as people need a way to express themselves there will be art in one form or another.
This makes me wish there was a consolidated monthly “Events” thread, like the hiring/freelancer threads.

I’d love to be able to skim such a list once a month and see if anything interesting is coming up.
It's interesting watching the responses roll in here. What CF is laying out here was essentially the standard viewpoint of western society until something like 10 years ago. "I disagree with what you say, but I'll protect your right to say it" is a basic tenant of liberalism. If you find that shocking, you should examine why that is.
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he was definitely successful in raising some eyebrows, peaking people's interests and ultimately got a lot of clicks!
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> Having experience in PF1 and D&D, I've tried to look into alternative systems, which can be characterized as "rules light" to ease newbies' pickup stress.

D&D 5e and PF 2 both do a pretty good job of:

1) Streamlining and simplifying rules, and

2) Making battles less dull for whoever's not currently taking their turn,

which helps a lot with a couple weak spots in those systems.

I'd still not call them "rules light", but they are a lot more approachable than before.
We are not going to war with nuclear armed states. At least not to a level we can't plausibly deny.
Hypothetically, SSH over SSL/TLS or an iodine tunnel along with a few IDS tripwires.

Every approach has strengths and weaknesses, the password-less method is convenient... but is the number one target for worms/bots. =)
> Down here at BB(6) you can feel fairly sure the machine doesn't express anything inherently problematic because it's just too simple.

One of the shocking results of Busy Beaver research is that this is actually false. Even with as few as four states there are machines that are complicated and difficult to understand. Turing machine "states" are really GOTO targets, and with six states it's possible to create control flow that is beyond incomprehensible.

I wrote up some rambly notes about this: https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/09/25/spaghetti-code-conjec...
Not sure actually, it's not my event.
The graph is quite shocking to me. Looks like the series was coasting around a constant 76.5-ish until 2019, where it completely nosedived twice in a row. Is this due to COVID?
Office Space has relevant scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
No, snap startups have an even worse startup time.
Why not, did he try to back out of that too?
Don't worry, by the time this kid's old enough to even care, he'll be unrecognizable. If it's any consolation. I cannot recognize this kid as anything other than a "kid". Good looking kid for sure, but still a kid.
That's how I interpret his statements, at least. He goes into more detail in his book The Network State, but essentially says America is descending and the future will be the Anarchistic West vs Communist China. He advocates exiting most systems into a "cloud country" which would ultimately manifest in the real world (aggregate online over similar values, purchase physical land, etc)
Sure, the organization is mostly fine. But the people who lied are not, and are not redeemable.

Mistakes are fine, policy lies are absolutely unacceptable and should be punishable by public whippings and jail.
Unfortunately doesn't signal the rejection of tracking by things like fingerprinting.
Railroad rep: " We care about worker health. For example, our trains are more efficient!" What a joke.

Another high profit industry doing absolutely everything it can to eliminate the workers and allow only executives control over the means of profit. The lifeline of our economy, no less!
It seems pretty obvious that the individual can not be trusted with the power modern technology hands to it

Hard disagree. Modern technology is mishandled most intensely by large organizations. When it's misused by individuals it's usually based on information freely given. An individual might send your employer an insensitive tweet you made ten years ago but an organization can do anything from unmasking an anonymous product review for the purpose of suing you to operating a massive surveillance state to fuel a "social credit" system.
All of the changes described in PSR (drastically cutting workers, implementing 16 hour shifts and stricter rules on now-overworked employees, running fewer yet longer trains) sounds like the rail industry is trying very hard to commit suicide. America seriously needs to revise our business school education curriculum and our legal system to refocus on long term profitability and stability, not short-term profit gain at the cost of imploding an economic sector.
Can you name other development platforms of similar scale/depth that don’t have this issue?

Compared to the whirring treadmill of frontend web development, I find .NET to be pretty easy to keep up with. Good IDEs (ReSharper or Rider) really help with the new language features (which are opt-in).

Outside of that, the ecosystem is large enough that there are quality blogs/articles/podcasts to stay current without sinking a ton of time into doing so.
Heh, I'm not calling for tanks rolling on anyone else but the Russians at that moment. But taking down national assets? Hacking them back to steal information just like they do against us? Why the fuck not?

If you let bullies bully around without consequences, they will only escalate, and it's high time someone takes on these four.
Good idea. Just created a WhatsApp group, it would be easy to do a poll
We know there are serious problems with highly inbred rats, but I don't think it's "long telomeres" (solely or even at all) that is the problem.
> they absolutely knew what "gotahoe.com" would be parsed as, it's very clever

I'm not so sure :) goblah.com is one of the most popular tourism domain configurations that exist.
While I work during the day, I am very much a night owl. Some things I have noticed. I have also served aboard submarines.

Your post makes it sound like people working at night want it dark. This should not be the case where they are working. They should have blackout blinds in their house for sleeping during the day.

- Most building light and home light is not actually bright enough and should be brighter.

- healthy food / snack options. Not a lot of places are open at night

- Keep the building open (HVAC, ability to open doors after hours, etc)

- Have a pass down log for the people coming in at night and work with more asynchronous communications

- Give people on the night shift the power to accomplish their mission. If the authority to do something requires waking up someone on the day shift to approval, it will probably not get done on time and just be passed to the day shift

- Well lit parking lot. You want your people to feel safe, even at night. If you have the funds, a security guard at night on watch would be a good addition
The "typical" in my comment was meant to take care of that part, I probably should have mentioned this explicitly. AWS Lambda is of course a case where startup time matters a lot, but it still leaves the common problem of ASP.NET that it was designed around a lot of reflection. My understanding is that this simply won't work with AOT out of the box unless you adapt all the places where you use reflection-based code. For example you'd need to use the source generator versions of JSON serialization and the EF Core DbContext in this case, with all limitations those have. But I'm not sure my understanding here is entirely correct or complete.
AWS is a horrible trend but makes good invoices. Everything takes longer. Amazon wins. I win. Clients have trendy tech. They dont win but they feel like it.
Why is data quality harder than code quality?
A good measure is whether or not you feel that empty, churning feeling in your stomach. Another good measure is if you're into the idea of eating something like plain cabbage or oats.
Bonus: if you do a very good job, you may end up writing Alice in Wonderland.
Keep it simple. No raid or weird filesystems, no special NAS computers, no encryption, no remote services. I stuff every computer I assemble with hard drives until it can support no more then mirror important data from every computer to every other computer with rsync.
Sure. No worries. Checking if this weekend works for majority or not.
I've never understood what blockchains are for [1]. When I attended a blockchain conference the other day, I had to control myself not shout after pretty much every presentation: Why don't you use a central database??

[1]:Apart from crypto currency, which seems to really need a Blockchain.
> What I'm saying is: You don't get to just go on some cruise ship and then complain people around you don't act exactly like you. That is absurd.

I don't think anyone is doing that (straw man)-- which is part of why your reaction seems so over the top to me. At worst, people are bemoaning the loss of one more low-network space; which then morphed into a discussion of why a deliberate low-network space might be considered worthwhile beyond the personal choice of not using one's phone.

And then you started putting words in my mouth about me not being able to refrain from using my phone.
For me, no. But judging by the numbers in the opiate crisis it is for a lot of people.
Looking forward to the day some webmaster sets the background to pictures of cookies when you block them all.
There's a lot of speculation in this thread, but the article specifically identifies the causes:

> While the pandemic has driven most of the decline in life expectancy, a rise in accidental deaths and drug overdoses also contributed, as did deaths from heart disease, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, the new report found.
Cuba, one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere has a longer life expectancy than the US because they have universal healthcare. They also have a higher divorce rate than the US.
Depends. The Chinese government kidnaps their own citizens in the US and have been known to torture relatives of whistle blowers that live abroad.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-r...

So if you were one of these people and some jamoke was flying one of these drones around your area I'd imagine that would have a profoundly negative effect on your psyche. Which is one of the reasons I'd never fly a DJI drone. I'd expect there's a potential that the drone is feeding back track and positioning data w\ imagery to a "service".
I agree. I joined a few smaller startups and saw plenty about how NOT to do things. Only one I joined a larger company did I feel happier (in hindsight). And now if I went back to a startup, I’d feel more confident about whether the company is run poorly and how much I can help it.

Some problems are organizational immaturity and can be fixed. Some problems come from leadership and won’t change as long as those leaders are there.
For our own SaaS[0], we provide a timed trial. But we regularly provide trial extensions because reality of business is that it takes time to get everybody on board and onboarded.

Reading this post, I suspect '30 days of use' would result in less 'please extend the trial' emails and would mean less friction during the trial.

However, there is a tradeoff: when somebody reaches out for a trial extension, it may be their first contact, where having a fast and effective response gives them a sense of the level of service we provide. Sometimes it also results in further conversation about how we can help them make a stronger pitch to whoever internally is approving the purchase. So a looser trial would mean less of these conversations.

Would have to test :)

[0] - https://enchant.com
They're often installed on ridges in mountainous/hilly areas.
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>vaccinations could begin widely after Labor Day.
Added point 0.5 I forgot because of your comment.
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It's also sort of hard put the cat in the bag, for the service that instituted the policy and for competitors.

If you start a competing free-speech twitter competitor, you're effectively "twitter for InfoWars fans, QAnon and assorted holocaust deniers". Likewise, the headlines if Twitter themselves softened their line would hardly be about standing up for free speech ideals...
Everything is AI and UX now. It gives you a good estimation of the quality of this SW.
This was a couple of days after the break. I definitely knew I broke it at the time! Luckily I didn't need anything setting or really anything at all.
I'm surprised that this news is surprising.

A pandemic hit and killed millions of people. It had a disproportionately high impact on the elderly, which will have the effect of "chopping the tail" off a Poisson distribution and dragging the mean down as a result.

The past several years of data should almost certainly be considered an outlier that will stand out on a long-term trend now that COVID has vaccines.
One of the complications of this is that it's very hard to hold the switch on certain types of terrain

I've never used a mower fitting that description. On all of mine the safety handle runs the entire length of the push handle and you have to essentially let go of the mower to disengage it.
Disclaimer: There may be newer tools with better support for Linux or Windows, but for macOS users, the venerable "ImageOptim-CLI" project ^1 remains a powerful option.

It wraps ImageOptim, ImageAlpha, and JPEGmini in a single executable, and is able to produce visually-indistinguishable image assets with 60-80% reduction in bytecount, for nearly any corpus of unoptimized files. I've used it to great effect as a webperf consultant. Enjoy! :)

1. https://github.com/JamieMason/ImageOptim-CLI
I do the same! The whitelisting is the best part, since now i can stay logged in to sites that i trust not to track me.
Decades of high obesity colliding with years of an addiction crisis during a pandemic when the medical system is extremely stressed?

Seems about right.
I thought about this too, but I'm not sure there is anything you can do to make this group happy, short of removing the turbines. So is it worth even considering their perspective? I know that's a harsh question.
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This is really mind boggingly, meaning that there is an actual discrete valicable limit of what can be determined and what can't. Turing machine with 4 states? Cool. Turing machine with 5 states? Sorry, it goes beyond ZFC maths!
Maybe, but you're talking thousands of reviews. (Also I closed my Amazon account years ago and don't shop there.)
> This is a crazy take on responsibility. It isn't Europe's responsibility when people decide to take unsafe passage on the sea and drown. Could they do more? Yes, I'm sure they could, but are they directly responsible for drownings? No, this is too far.

"With great power comes great responsibility", a principle as old as civilized humanity. Germany alone is the fourth largest economy by BIP, and the entire EU as a whole the second largest.

We have the capacity to help the people fleeing from the bullshit that was mostly caused by us in the first place, we actually have the rights to asylum in our constitutions, but we're not doing anywhere near what we actually could do.
CloudFlare opened Pandora's box. It will never be able to shut it.

When private companies become enforcers of public morality, you will quickly find morality is shaped by what is profitable. This is a horrible idea.
Why is the website failing with unhandled errors, but working when they are try/catch'd? Either way the errors are being thrown, and the functionality isn't available. Is the browser not able to handle the situation itself more gracefully?
Slight decline vs a nosedive during the pandemic.
Cuban healthcare is a joke, ask anyone actually from Cuba. The numbers are mangled to make it look good.
He helps his clients solve problems...unless they aren't using Salesforce. Then they're on their own.
That is not what is described in the joke.
This is how I use Firefox, things only stored for the session, for the given container. Containers are better than first-party isolation, because many sites expect to share data with third-parties.

It is also better to fake API responses than to block access to them. In Firefox the privacy.resistFingerprinting option takes care of this. It was originally developed for the Tor Browser.
> At what point does someone's right to personal safety and privacy trump another person's right to host whatever they want on the internet?

If you're willing, I'd be interested to hear your own answer to the question you ask. It's an interesting question (though I'm not sure I agree with the premise(s), but I think that's a different conversation).

Also interesting would be to hear your answer to the reverse: At what point does someone's right to host whatever they want on the internet trump someone's right to personal safety and privacy?
I think inkjets have to do that or the ink dries inside the heads and they clog up. This is why if you print rarely, you should really go for a toner-based printer.
> Reminds me a LOT of Evangelicals in the 2000s - I know that comparison has been made frequently but that's the last group that made a serious censorship push.

It's the exact same pattern: Zealots trying to use censorship to suppress those that don't adhere to their ideology. The reason it's confusing is because you're looking at it as a left/right issue when it's not. It's an authoritarian/libertine or extremists vs everyone else issue.
Currently Germany is exporting lots and lots of energy to France because the French nuclear plants are in large part not working (repairs, corrosion damage, lack of water for cooling). Given that nuclear is demonstrably not working well for France what makes you so certain things would work better in other countries?
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I could definitely hear CRT monitors at resolutions well above 640x480, so it can't have been the horizontal refresh rate.
Reminds me of browsing the web in the early 2000s. No TLS. Very simple design layout. User forums. Random calendar on front page
I use public/private with the private key handled by Yubikey PIV functionality.
I'd say obesity of by far the worst out of those, since its so widespread and covid certainly didn't help there. That Americans are generally way more overweight than say Europeans is something I keep hearing for multiple decades and became a regular meme source, and I keep seeing it regularly.

I saw a lot of attempts for normalization of this in US media, ie Hollywood family/comedy movies painting it as something to be OK with, and not a disease that will slowly but surely ruin your life and kill you prematurely, all completely preventable. I wonder how much better US healthcare would be if obesity wasn't such an epidemic there, the costs for treating all those comorbidities that eventually come is staggering, all long term treatments.

HFCS must have lion share in this, as overall processed cheap junk food. We don't have it all figured out here in Europe, but at least our approach to food, its quality and quantity is way better here.
> Why can't we just be neutral? We didn't do this for Georgia's claim in Ossetia or Armenia's claim with Azerbaijan (both similar scenarios), or the Iraq-Iran war, etc.

Errors of the past are not a good way to go further.

Lack of any defense for Georgia was very sad (similarly for Chechnya, but Russians might look at it a bit more angry). Fortunatelly Ukraine is to close to EU borders to be ignored and handed over to Russian war mongering.
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I have started experimenting with a DJI Tello and ORBSLAM but I would like to have at least a little less of a toy like drone that can stream the camera and accept remote commands
I don't know about ASP.NET, but the post says that Reflection.Emit is not available. Reflection.Emit is a namespace used for runtime code generation; I would assume most other parts of reflection are available, like with previous iterations of AOT support in .NET.
Citation needed. Does not pass a cursory glance. Meanwhile there are plenty of good stats identifying strong correlates on other factors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Household-Types
Thought somebody had tried to commercialize MAGMA for a second.

https://icl.utk.edu/magma/