skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you illiterate or just incapable of entertaining the idea that you might be wrong?

From my original comment : “ the idea of challenging an unjust ruling by entities with a noted history of hostility toward US tech firms. ” in other words, speaking about the European entities including the commission, unelected bureaucrats running agencies as well as the history of successive CJEU rulings usurping the authority of the legislative branch to deem international agreements invalid for exceedingly silly reasons when said legislature undertook successive acts guaranteeing the flow of data between the EU and the US.

If you’re not well informed about the situation in the EU and are winging your argument based on our exchange alone with no appetite or curiosity to educate yourself, it’s pathetic and you can fuck right off.

>Google was, for example, controlling what versions of android manufacturers could put on their devices if they wanted any devices they made to have the Play Store. That does not to me seem like a good thing.

Have you worked in the phone industry? Set foot in a single physical phone store that’s not an Apple Store for more than a tourist visit? Do you know the kind of bait and switch that’s out there for these exact agreements to be formalized into legal documents?

The history of abuse, scams, deliberate overzealous marketing leading to shitty consumer experiences through fragmentation is what those documents address. You know this as well as anyone out there.

You can’t just run a phone company that sells the new A1.5573 Play store model(limited stock, ie 100s only manufactured during a lifetime) while selling the A1.5573e non play store model and confuse your customers by having all your marketing showing the play store phone with the play store apps with the device ID in fine print at the bottom of a 40x40 billboard.

Read the fucking conclusions of the court at least before making stupid statements like “competition on merits, hurr durr”. The court found the commission in violation of preserving the defence the right to be heard by denying them access to evidence and repeatedly so. They actually upheld googles appeal on this count and found the revenue share agreements that underlie the play store install issue to be non abusive.

Again. Fucking read. God gave you the fucking sense to do so and you’re not cattle.
Unfortunately there are whole services offered to find said nicknames and tie the crap back to your real name. Frequently used for high profile job positions and their “background” checks.
> You release 10min clip of say a podcast and to watch the rest you need to join the members only site.

That's exactly what John Oliver's show does, and has for years, right? They have a couple major segments and two or three smaller bits in an episode, and one of the two major segments gets released in its entirety for free (and inevitably linked by someone or another in every half-way relevant discussion thread anywhere on the Web). They post them on YouTube, I think, I suppose since HBO Max doesn't have a free streaming site and it wouldn't get 1/10 the eyeballs of YouTube even if they did, and the point is advertising, after all.
So realistically then, " This is availability for purchase map, not coverage. " makes no sense, because it is for a fact not available in Africa.
Ask HN: Was Douglas Adams a Buddhist?
Hi There!

This might sound a little off the wall but I was wondering whether there has been any discussions about Douglas Adams' beliefs? Or did he admit to anything in his lifetime?

I have come to believe that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy could be retitled to Hitchhikers Guide to Enlightenment! Hence I suspect that Adams had insights into Buddhism and perhaps even had enlightenment himself - I dunno.

Three examples that come to mind:

- the girl who finds an answer to the ultimate questsion in a cafe in Islington is Adams telling us that enlightenment can be found anywhere, you don't need to be a Buddhist in a monastery to achieve it.

- Marvin the paranoid android is Adams himself and when Marvin says: "here I am a mind the size of the Universe and what am I doing? Parking cars." This was a reference to Adams reaching enlightenment and all he's doing is writing books.

- The cow in the restaurant at the end of the universe wanting to be eaten is a reference to providing happiness to others to reach your own personal Nirvana, even if it means death.

If anyone has ideas/references/insides that would be great.

Cheers and thanks for reading this far!
But the malicious miner won't be stealing the banking credentials you used in a different tab
This is a wrong correlation fallacy.

Porn sites, while very cutting edge in a lot of ways (which generates more revenue for them), are extremely slow to adopt changes to their source of revenue because they are very protective about that aspect (for obvious reasons).

Not only that, but the sources of revenue are all deeply intertwined with their affiliate networks, which drive the traffic to the sites in the first place. Shaving is a huge concern, so these sites have to use 'approved' software that everyone else uses for this.

One of the largest used pieces of software is called NATS [1] and it is a trainwreck of complexity. Everything is directed through their integrated billing options [2]... which as you can see is extensive. Why? Because credit card companies will routinely shut down your merchant account randomly... because p0rn.

For the company I worked for (early 2000's), we developed a micro currency that was HUGELY successful and was used for all sorts of interesting things, like pay per minute billing. This was all early/pre days of blockchain adoption and had we used a low cost blockchain of some of this, it might have allowed for earlier more interesting experiments.

Anyway, the full answer is that this is a lot more complex than it appears on the surface and you have no idea what you're talking about here with a comment like that.

[1] https://toomuchmedia.com/pp_nats.htm

[2] https://toomuchmedia.com/pp_nats-billers.htm
If any of my bosses had been ordered to the ground by the police without cause, they definitely would have told me. It’s a crazy story that sounds almost unbelievable. If you’re white, anyway.

Stopped for cause? Yeah, maybe not.
> This is incredibly reductive. You don't use it because "you don't have a choice", you use it because it's the best.

Not always. I hate discord with a passion because I don't want to be data mined by some corporate walled garden. Unfortunately some open source projects have taken the decision to use it so I have to in order to communicate with them. Home Assistant being the most notable one for me.

It's a really poor choice for this IMO, matrix is so much better and you can use any client you want.
Another vote for bandcamp. Definitely higher effort, but also higher reward in my opinion. One of my favourite things to do is sit on the sofa with my headphones on and actively listen to a few new bandcamp discoveries. It's really fun finding a new musician deep down a rabbit hole and having to try to decide for myself whether this is good music that I want to listen to again. Sometimes it's not, and that makes this method more time consuming, but I've also found most of my favourite musicians using this method.

Another great source is the Bandcamp Weekly with Andrew Jervis. If you're looking for something curated that is a little less effort, this is a great option.
> scientifically verified

That's a bit of a strong statement, but not quite untrue. There was enough legitimate interest that there was funded parapsychology research at places like SRI into the eighties that was at least serious in intent if not in execution or outcome. I just checked and the academic Journal of Parapsychology is still published, and the AAAS has gracefully not kicked the Parapyschological Association out of affiliation yet.

Yeah, the big debunking bang never happened, but the research always had a particular smell about it: smaller and smaller effects every year with greater and greater statistical significance. Preregistration helps with the optional stopping problem, but it doesn't completely solve it, and meta-analysis actively hurts. From my brief time reading the parapsychological literature and its critics for fun, I still look at any meta-analysis with extreme skepticism.
There are crypto payments for porn tho
The problem is this means I'm one misconfiguration away from sending all my data to a stranger's server on the internet. If I misconfigure an Ansible playbook or kubernetes deploy I'm not going to see that warning. Frankly even if a sysadmin is configuring it by hand we shouldn't be counting on them noticing the warning for our security.

I believe they have good intentions and are just trying to make it easy to try out, but this is just too big a footgun hanging out. Makes it untouchable for me.
NTFS has horrible small file performance, to the extent that if you are working on a project that has lots of small files (NodeJS for example) you can expect performance that is 2-3x worse than on other file systems.

Even unzipping archives with lots of small files takes forever, it is easy for a modern SSD to slow down to 5MB/s or less when trying to write out tons of small files to an NTFS partition.

NTFS is old and stable, but it is not fast by modern standards.
This reminds me of the obscure campaign to change the Google homepage background to black to save electricity. There are much higher value things to spend our time and attention on.
It was so natural and intuitive that Youtube's version STILL doesn't compare to how good, fast, seemless, and unintrusive it is done on the porn sites, years later.
women have never sold sex until today
Have you already considered working with/integrating with SPI [0] (Software In The Public Interest) that acts as legal and financial steward for many projects from large to small (e.g. Debian, NTPsec) ?

[0] https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/
ntfs-3g (is that still how Linux machines are mounting NTFS read/write? it's been a while since I've done it) by default just doesn't do anything with the NTFS permissions and makes everything have a shared owner/group/mode as seen by Linux.

You can opt in to having it store Linux permissions in NTFS's ACLs, and there's an option to have a file that maps between Linux and Windows user IDs to allow for interoperability.
AWS Simple Workflows or Azure Logic Apps are both services that let you define S2S workflows however you like without any particular bias to CI/CD or business operations.

If you want to go even lower level, a framework like DTFx lets you define long-running, distributed and resilient orchestrations in code:

https://github.com/Azure/durabletask
One thing that may be related to Starlink, or not - it happened to me already twice that I was just randomly gazing at stars and noticed long streak of satellites in a row. One around last christmas and one few weeks ago. In places cca 1500km apart in Europe.

First one the satellites were evenly spaced, sometimes 1-2 were 'missing' and I could see between gap in the clouds maybe 7-8 at the same time. Altogether maybe 30.

Second time, the spacing wasnt even but there were at least 60 of them till the show finished.

Of course real number could be much higher since I noticed them ranfomly when looking up. Their line was perfectly aligned and they were going fast (probably close to Earth).

I guess this is how satellite launches look these days, but never saw more than 1 satellite at the same time in the same trajectory on the sky, and then this. Very futuristic experience.
Do you need algorithmically curated music if you're only interested in music that is decades old, especially DJ remixes? Looking through historic DJ set list or even just listening to new sets from old DJs seems like it would be much faster.

Spotify is great for recommendations of licensed content that is new. I rarely feel there is some small or big hit I'm missing in the genres I like, but it is heavily supplanted with the use of SoundCloud for sets and music that will never legally be licensed and on the platform.
YouTube has suddenly encountered a rash of “comment reply scam/spam” where if you reply to a famous YouTuber someone with the same profile picture will reply almost instantly with a generic thank you / won a prize type comment and try to get you to use telegram or discord. It’s all so pitiful.

As for Twitter the check mark might actually be useful if it disappeared the moment you changed your “display name” but we can’t have that!
Any one else immediately do "open source" ctrl-f? That's all I wanted to read but I bookmarked the article and put it on my list of things to peruse later
I’m very much in this camp as well. A significant number of applications can be expressed with sql and a thin layer around it
As I said, set up a mapping between users/groups and the corresponding notion in NTFS. An UID/GID will correspond to an SID and vice versa.
.NET 7 Release Candidate 1
Full circle to closed Cloud SaaS offerings where everyone is at the mercy of a corporation.

Reddit has built the corporate version of Newsgroups already.
This might have changed, but in my experience the big barrier to having a distributed render farm is transferring possibly many gigs of textures and resources (sims, point clouds, etc) to each render agent, not necessarily the render time. If you have to do this each time you hit render, it's a lot. If you keep the files online, where both the client and the render farm can see them, you're reinventing dropbox + all the complexity of a render farm on top of it.

Also for commercial production use many VFX houses have contracts that don't let them send the assets out of house.

This would be great for people doing styles that don't need a ton of assets tho, like procedural-heavy (geonodes) scenes.

But as a hobbyist, I could definitely use something like this, and I'll check it out!
This situation just seems so absurd from the McDonald's side of things. Why were they ever tolerating such nonsense from their hardware vendors in the first place. It fundamentally harms their brand.
>it avoids a perception problem which may be far worse: the hypothetical perception that the people drawing up the layoffs were racist

No, it kind of cemented that perception.
Tesla Shifts Battery Strategy as It Seeks U.S. Tax Credits
Given the cost of getting things there, it's probably polite to leave things like movies that you could easily replace back home, so others have them to watch.
What I mean isn't whether the price is competitive, I believe it absolutely is, what I mean is can you run a profitable and scalable company with that kind of pricing?

Recruiting spare gamers' GPUs is one thing - those people bought the GPU anyway, so as long as you pay more than they pay for power, they're happy - but I imagine that's a relatively small pool of GPUs.

At some point, you'll run out of those people, so I guess what I'm asking is whether the price you charge now is high enough that investors could profitably build and run their own "mining" hardware , while you still get enough of a cut to run your service.
I ended up using a QR code in my (Electron) app: the app runs a server, and you take a photo of the QR code on your phone to open the localhost (accessible only over WiFi). The app lets you browse videos you have on your computer through your phone, and when you click on the video image, the video plays on your computer from the frame you clicked on. It turns your phone into a "remote". Cheers: https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App-remote
If you use FB on a computer instead of a phone, the FB Purity browser extension will let you block whatever you like. I haven't seen an ad or suggested post in years. I came here because today FB started putting posts from the groups I belong to in my feed, even though I had notifications off for all of them. So I was able to filter them back out by blocking posts containing the full name of each group (you can block by any string), so my feed is back to only posts from my friends.
I don't pay for ad-free YouTube. Instead I use an ad-blocker and never see ads. If I'm on my phone I use NewPipe, a free YouTube client that doesn't display ads.
What about sr.ht, savannah.nongnu.org or self-hosted projects using cgit or gitea frontends, most of which lacking such integrations the likes of gitlab and bitbucket provide? I'm sure it's more difficult to support things like these, but I'm wondering how flexible the system is with regards to this.
This is the case for me as well. I was learning Common Lisp for fun, and I loved it, but macros never clicked for me. I could understand how they're powerful, but I never developed a sense for when using a macro would make things easier. Probably just not enough time with the language.
Hold on a damn second. You can marry off your child to someone else? The whole "without asking your spouse" is a bit whacky but it sounds absolutely insane that you can marry your child off to someone. That is absolutely crazy. Wish I could participate in politics here in the USA, because this is definitely a ridiculous infringement of personal liberty.

EDIT: Fine, whatever, I emailed Senator Wiener in my local district. I don't really care if other states have it or not. But it shouldn't be the case here.
There are also a ton of bewildered Boomers out there who believe they have done nothing wrong and are completely bewildered their children have gone no contact. I’d say if your kids won’t talk to you’ve seriously fucked up, and at least for some of them it’s over conversations they could have taken to their grave but instead their “truth” was more important than meeting their grandkids.

I told my father something about myself years ago and he tried to make the case that I hadn’t brought it up because I was ashamed.

I wasn’t ashamed. But if you share certain things about yourself, being gay being one of the most obvious examples, some people want to define you by it, or talk about it to the exclusion of all other things. I’d much rather talk about trees, for that matter tax law.

One of my mentees had a bit of a persecution complex about several things, orientation one of them. When late in our relationship I finally mentioned that my kid had come out, she was shocked I hadn’t brought it up before (which in retrospect I think she may have been recalculating her opinions of me on the fly, like the Key & Peele skit, “Oh I see, I’m just an asshole.”)

Without a pause I answered that it’s because it’s not the most interesting thing about them, which just made the eyebrows go up even higher. But I think it finally sunk in.
Actually it’s not that hard for companies to get salary information about new hires. Equifax has a tool called the Work Number that lots of employers subscribe to. Each report lists every company an employee worked for, total salary, and every paycheck dollar value they received. You can request your report for free.

So yeah, now employees looking for a salary boost can’t even lie about their current salary anymore.

https://theworknumber.com/
Moodys is widely ridiculed for contributing to the 2008 US housing bubble [0], maybe they don't want that accusation a second time.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/14/moodys-864m...
https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-i-no-longer-contrib...
There is context, if you just open the article and see the link in the same sentence. But I guess is asking too much
https://youtu.be/u48vYSLvKNQ?t=59
They'll find it easier, both technologically and diplomatically, to target and destroy Starlink receivers (and their owners) within their borders.
PHPBB:Reddit::AIM:Discord

The name of the app is Discord for crying out loud. Have you seen the kinds of things people are using it for? Discord is *wildly* hackable chat, not forum software. There's tons of crap being slung around on Discord that doesn't deserve to be archived because that's not the purpose.

Is IRC indexable or searchable? No. Usenet served that purpose. People hacked in query bots to IRC. At least Discord comes with built in search.

If you want a forum, go use forum software.
Aha, I hadn't been paying attention, thanks! I have known about Rhine since before Bem published his thing in 2010.

It's interesting that neither of those articles on Bem mentions Rhine explicitly (at least the first one does link to him on "dating to the 1930s".)

This has all happened before. And as far as we can tell Rhine did almost exactly the same thing as Bem, cherry-picked the "successful" runs, with statistically flawed results. But Rhine was actually a lot more succesful at convincing mainstream people of his results... but while by the 1950s or 1960s nobody believed them anymore, as far as I can tell there wasn't any conclusive single turning point where everyone by consensus agreed that they had been wrong, and why. It just sort of faded away.

And isn't currently talked about much. It's sort of embaressing to scientists, I think, that so many believed in ESP from Rhine's experiments. As a result, it isn't part of general cultural knowledge, or scientific education, nor is an understanding of why Rhine wasn't right after all... and therefore, Bem is just a repeat. Or, more worrisome, the same mistakes could be made in more 'conventional' topics as well.

[I don't think either Rhine or Bem were doing intentional fraud, I think they both believed themselves. It really does look like a repeat].
How is pointing out 1. That the SNR of the answers here isn’t the best and there may be venues with better expertise (with a specific example) and 2. Pointing out the potential scope of work in any way actively discouraging?
Net neutrality was terminated in the US at the end of 2017, and this remains the case. An executive order in 2021 did not change this.
Rent a boat at your local lake for a day or two. Go camping! Try out photography (it's a golden age for cameras). Try researching travel a little more, maybe nicer hotels/a spa may be more appealing than other styles of travel :)
I wouldn’t be so quick to exclude creative tools from this. Even Adobes creative apps are some of the most atrocious spyware infested tech debt laden dumpster fires around, and are never the best option for creative work.
Oh really?? First I've heard of it, I wasn't aware of that. That is indeed worrying. Do you have any examples? Would be good to try out. To see how much it knows about me.

Also time to start rotating identities more :) It's a bit more complicated not to mix them up now because almost every email service requires a phone number and I only have so many (here in Spain you can't just buy a prepaid sim over the counter, they have this annoying registration process with photo ID that also has to be renewed every once in a while).
This is awesome! Must have been a lot of work.
It has gotten so much worst to the point that I wonder if Twitter employees are trying to execute some sort of poison pill so that Musk does not purchase the company, and they can continue to amplify their agendas and squelch opposition.
As a teenager that grew up hating Bill Gates, because I liked Linux, I want to agree with you. As an adult, I believe we should be able to see past the surface of behavior that other people exhibit and understand their motives.

It is nowadays in fashion to cancel someone based on today's norms, but if we want to be fair, we should put things in context that we don't have. If Bill Gates was so toxic that was unbearable, Microsoft would have failed.
https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/posts
Working on an idea that would largely be reputation based starting with a community that then provides work to each other. https://m3o.org
> I wouldn't give prospective employers all my nicknames :)

I wouldn't give them any, to be honest.

And it weirds me out to see people posting with their real names, be it youtube comments or on niche forums. That anonymity is a deeply held thing to me, I guess.