skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is of cours entirely the point.

Regular people are not meant to understand
what it says and means.

If it was spelled out in plain simple English
for everyone to read a lot more people would
object to the terms and feel upset.

When it is obfuscated nearly to the point of encryption
no normal person will be able to, or at least spend the time
it would take to decrypt it.

This seems like a job where AI could be utilized to
read legal language and output a plan English interpretation.

It also has to do with job security.
You need lawyers to read them, because other lawyers write them.
At least Microsoft is internally consistent for once and and naming it after an older similar project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
I don't think a different regime would have fundamentally acted differently. Russia is too big to be in the EU (Germany and France would never allow it), and too small to be a 'nice' player next to super powers. Animosity towards Russia from the side of eastern Europe was always high, and the US kept using Russia as a useful boogie man, while China is a double-daggered partner.

Russia never had a lot of options, and while it would have been better for Russians living standards to "roll over and accept defeat", this would have been political suicide for any regime.
Very interesting project and impressive work, thanks for sharing!

Can you talk a bit about how data is replicated between nodes when Stalwart is run in clustered mode, and what kind of data integrity/resilience properties we have when one, two, several nodes go down?

Also, have you considered implementing server-side encryption of e-mail messages so that a "honest but curious" system administrators could not read user's messages? (e.g. using the user's password to derive an encryption key). More generally, what are your thoughts on the "privacy" aspect?
This is really exciting stuff. I can't wait to switch over to JMAP.
German is a bit of a special case. I'm not German, just a learner of the language, but I've noticed they often change the perfekt tense into präteritum. I assume this is because it tends to be shorter than the more commonly spoken perfect tense and is, of course, understandable for Germans, but not so great for language learners.

I mostly watch native German content if I can, not dubbed. There might be additional oddities that you run into with the dubbing for the reasons you mention.
Strategic warfare is maximum entropy by maximum resolve with a maximum economy of means.
He construed a logic argument and provided the links to based it. You have "friends". Unfortunate is your comment.
hmm, an instant reply, from a newly created account, leading with a patently false accusation followed by extreme examples which don't match reality.

yes, looks like typical move of Russian-sponsored actors.

Thanks, redscareone, that's exactly the kind of proof my argument needed.
I'd suggest - SPAM.

For example, I use the presence of IPs in the URL as a SPAM signal. If one used such an obfuscated URL, they could avoid some of the SPAM filters.
yes thats exactly what I said.

EDIT:

Yo -- when I mentioned Pence and Montana... Iknow several people who owned places in the building, and drank next to Montana in the residents' bar with.... im very familiar with the building

And if you need a very secure location to lock your bike up in SF (which is a good idea) ring the security bell in the parking breezeway near the dumpster, the security guard will open the door - the lock your thing to the stand they have

(LPT: anytime youre in SF rather than use a bike rack outside (people steal your saddles)... drop$5 to check your bike in with a bellhop at a nice hotel.... and they will accomodate you for a week..
I’ve been looking for a Mail-in-a-Box for JMAP for years! Thank you for this. Looking forward to the SMTP server release.
Peace talks could have involved a return to post-2014 borders as a condition. At this point it’s science-fiction anyway and it’s becoming clear that Ukraine wants to take back Crimea.

I don’t know nor have access to the information necessary to judge if it would have been better for the population.

I just deeply dislike the narrative which pushes the Ukrainian conflict as an unambiguous fight between the forces of good and evil with a single acceptable outcome and where anything short of total support for one side to keep fighting is seen as wrong.
Exactly. Mind you, I like Arondir, I like his relation with Bronwyn, I love how they did the Orcs, and I can't help but enjoy those spectacular leaps the elves make. The individual parts are fine. It's just how they tie everything together, dragging characters by their hair to wherever the plot wants them to be, that makes the whole thing make no sense.

And I don't see why any of this is necessary. Couldn't they have Arondir meet Adar before the escape attempt, make the escape attempt succeed, and when the Orcs pursue him, he manages to steal some weapons from the first Orcs he defeats with his bare hands. It wouldn't be the most inspired writing, but at least the decisions the characters make, would make more sense.
I (andrewstuart), share a name with another HN user (andrewstuart2) - we have been aware of this for years.

I saw he was commenting in the thread on this page and I said "Hey we're in the same thread!"

Then some other HN joker created an account called andrewstuart3 and joined in the thread.

Now you know!

I do not know what customkitchen is.
Human-level Atari 200x faster
How would you even do that? Government controls mass communication by law, its privately operated with federal permission essentially (FCC). Government sets up the frameworks that media operates in. the best you an do is akin to zine printing with your little independent website. Once you go big you are subject to attack by the media if you go against elite business interests and vilification by the wider public who will never be exposed to nuance, then its over. The public narrative moves on to the next permitted discussion point and leaves you behind. I hate to be a cynic but this is what the history books suggest.
Vinicunca
I had to cash a check yesterday. This would have been a single CLI command with crypto. Ignoring the fact that this is a 100+ mile journey for me, I had to speak with real humans to get payment in hand. Just how much manpower and resources are spent simply in getting the cash from these federal printers to my hand, resources that I am inadvertently paying for? From Multiple CEO salaries to armored truck transportation to the cleaning person at the branch. and much more. I just think if people are going to slam crypto for resource consumption, you can't overlook fiat's true overall resource consumption.
As a hiring manager, I have the same gut sense when I see such a post. It's either just unfortunate wording or the employer very honestly telling the candidates what to expect.

I understand where it is coming from – but I can't help but wonder what the job post is trying to achieve with this statement. Maybe they want to attract people who would like to work with other “gritty” folks.

The problem is that it can mean a lot of bad or good things on a wide scale. Be more specific, please.
> Measures like SIP force application developers to create workarounds that compromise system security even more. Remember the recent Zoom vulnerability where they created a special service to autoupdate Zoom? If the system is too restrictive, developers will try to punch holes in it to accomplish what they need.

That wasn't related to SIP, so I don't think we can just throw random unrelated security issues against SIP to justify it being a bad thing.

Bedsides, is the moral of the Zoom story really that application Developers should be given unfettered access to the OS and the freedom to do whatever they want? It sounds like the opposite - an example of exactly why security has to be built into the OS and can't be left to companies like Zoom.
Yes, I did. No reward condition. I am using a dark mode browser extension though.
You don't loose anything.

Open up gimp remotely on the road, try it. It isn't usable ny any stretch of imagination.

That is why we need hacks such as x2go to make it usable.

Even the worst RDP solution is orders of magnitude better in performance than X11.
I've recently done quite a bit of reading into the period around the Norman conquest. I'm American, so take this as a view from the outside, but English historians appear to be strongly divided between pro- and anti-Normans. Imagine if South American historians were similarly divided, with one side arguing that La Conquista was a good thing because the Spanish brought civilization to the Incas.

The author of TFA appears to lean towards the pro-Norman side. I've read some of his stuff before. George Garnett's The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction (2009), will give you a good taste of the anti-Norman perspective.
I'm sorry what?

In practice, crypto markets are not any more decentralized than others. In real life people use hosted wallets on exchange platform. Transactions happen on a distributed (not decentralized!) ledger. The underlying network is only somewhat decentralized (the mining economy tends to the concentration of big players).

Also the way you seem to imagine we could be "removing the banks, exchanges, brokers, clearing houses, compensation chambers, back office, etc." just shows how much you don't know about how an economy works. Real-world transactions need to be reversible, need escrow, guarantees and a lot of other mechanisms that are by design not available using blockchains based assets (if they are there, it means the assumptions which would have made a blockchain useful have been broken, and that we can achieve the same features and services without a blockchain in a more efficient manner).
yeah the usability is pretty much the same, with small links and icons impossible to click
Matrix was worth the effort to self host
If you want to minimize latency - you got for busy waiting. It's a common thing for HFT
The WSL naming is terrible and stems from a time where Microsoft was an evil monopoly empire, and used all kind of doublespeak regarding Linux, GPL, etc (see Halloween documents). The name stems from its predecessor, Windows Services For Unix (SFU) [1]. Its bad enough Microsoft kept using the doublespeak naming scheme, please don't copy it.

What this is, is Linux compatibility layer (running on MacOS). BSDs have (or used to have) such as well, at least FreeBSD used to.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
They doubled as the UK is part of the wider market, so subject to market forces due to the way it is structured... In this situation, green energy producers are also getting a significant boost as their energy is very low marginal cost of production and commands the same rate as fossil fuels. Hopefully that is at least some silver lining... Maybe we could tax the fossil fuel companies and support the UK taxpayers rather than laying down more debt in the form of taxpayer loans.
Fiat money is as old as currency itself. Greek and Rome coin values did not correspond to their intrinsic metal content (at least not within their boundaries) and they were regularly debased. The Chinese used bronze coins and paper as currency.
I once used libparport -- a Linux library with hooks into kernel modules -- to obtain sub microsecond timing on custom hardware on a ~2008 Xeon pc. The parallel port has, by modern standards, terrible bandwidth but excellent latency: I waited for an interrupt and then "did a thing" once it was sent. I remember testing the timing with a 500 MHz scope and realising that I couldn't actually measure the timing error or delay accurately once I'd calibrated the whole system.

The parallel port was basically wired as a general purpose ADC and DAC accessible by DMA, as the parent here says. Amazing kit at the time, and free in the context of expensive ADCs requiring custom hardware and difficulty interfacing in comparison.
True but this argument is non sequitur.

Figma as mentioned earlier executed beautifully, no doubt. But the blog narrative is somehow projecting that Figma had vision of WebGL vis-a-vis browser based graphic tools, which I know is not really true and somewhat akin to history is being written by victor.

Instead, Dylan & I talked about the transition from Desktop to Web 2.0, and whether now was the right time to bring graphic design to the cloud. John Lilly & I had discussed a hypothesis about this while I was at Greylock, and it was one where I had come to have conviction. The basic premise was that the combination of Web 2.0, Social, and Mobile had finally created the possibility of building truly useful and user-friendly collaborative software in the cloud...

This is also disrespectful to the pioneers - nary a word was wasted on people who came before Figma on browser as well as desktop. I wish there was atleast one line dedicated to 'Sketch' software - early version of Figma UI was copy-paste of Sketch one.
>you often need to seem nice and likable to wealthy people in order to get that idea off the ground.

Almost the entire if superficial opposite of what created the Silicon Valley of wonder and lore.
This is the extremist take without any nuance that causes these flamewars without any good reason. Nothing factual, just hearsay dramatized to the max.

Wayland is backwards compatible, it literally has XWayland which is a completely transparent way of running any X application (with the caveat that these X apps can see each other, so not all of the positives of wayland apply).

Wtf, graphics subsystem? Wayland implementations use the standard kernel DRM interface - if anything xserver was always a red herring here with proprietary blobs for nvidia being part of the program itself, instead of being a separate driver.
XPRA uses H.264, PNG or JPEG compression. Chrome Remote Desktop will use VP9 these days.
Interesting point! And I supposed with things like stable diffusion there is a level of skill, intuition and experience in how to steer it to what you want. A skilled stable diffusion user is still an “artist”.

My issue with the AI behind ad networks is that it a hostile AI, it is trained with an agenda that does not align to that of the user (the advertiser). The AI is trained to maximise the profits for the platform (Google or Facebook) at the expense of the advertisers own business and the viewers of the ads. It’s an exploitative relationship (to both advertisers and viewers), compleat with all the usual gas lighting and manipulation.

In my view there needs to be a separation of ad placement vendor and advertising exchange. The exchanges need to be regulated in the same was a securities exchange is.
Okay sure I agree that my parents shouldn’t turn off SIP, not that they would know how to. But in this case the advice comes from Allan Odgaard, the author of TextMate, on a blog called SIGPIPE. A certain amount of technical expertise can be assumed from the audience.
Fortnite is built on the Epic Games created Unreal Engine, not Unity.
The sun has lower energy density than a sandwich :P I guess it's useless!
> All the hardware is built in. It works for 1500km then stops until you pay up.

So, ABS disengages at 1500kms, and you fall on the first puddle of water? (This is a big, heavy bike)
Six months ago you could assume this to be true, but thanks to Russia BRICS pretty much exploded, pushing its most important countries, like Kazakhstan or China, away from Russia, for both political and economic reasons.
Financial services are like 20–25% of the global economy. Could be lower for sure.
The (personally) funny thing about the 2nd amendment is that since I am not a native English speaker, its syntax looks broken to me. Without "since" or "because" at the beginning it reads either as a non sequitur or as a "driving by the gas station, my hat flew off" kind of sentence: the subject suddenly changes midway through and (in my native language) it's a hallmark of non-literate speech which one would really, really like to not have in an important legal document.
also - none of the suggestions suggest to breastfeed a baby crying if she/he was already fed before. Therefore I don't the argument that this is something that must be done by mothers only.
At college, its expected you do prep and reading before the lab. If your first time reading the procedure is when you are in the lab, you are going to lose time.

Usually the prep work beforehand takes less time than bumblefucking it in the lab on the day of, results in cleaner work, and better grade outcomes.

Also, with chemistry lab work in a lot of cases you can't just abandon your work because its time for chow, that creates a safety hazard (grade loss being incidental).

Same as you are meant to do reading before lectures or seminars, or assignments.

In professional labs in industry, things are different. You are a cog in a machine, usually doing the same standard operating procedure daily, and you do tend to go home on time and get that balance.
> Your business must have at least $50,000 in a Mercury account.

I love the super transparent and easy requirements. You got 50k$ you get the credit cards.
Maybe if google wasn't so beholden on the ad revenue, they could pursue more interesting opportunities for revenue. Imagine a first rate aws competiter that wasn't Azure and the headache that system is in comparison. that alone would generate conversions overnight. Then you can use some of that infrastructure you've just built and your customers are paying for to run your own science division that could research anything and everything with free compute.
> For the vendors that don't sponsor, you don't know whether the amount they save goes into a higher quality product.

For the vendors that don't sponsor, you don't know whether the amount they save goes into a higher quality product. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't.

But for the vendors that DO sponsor, you definetly know that the money didn't go into a higher quality product.

Some eCommerce companies who are agressively using Google/FB/Social will spend 30%+ of their revenue just on online/influencer advertising (based on companies I have worked with).
Google has become the baddies. I assume this is just them abusing their power to hurt companies that their customers (advertisers) complain about.
A 2FA tool for the CLI with system keyring support
I downloaded the results from that page, loaded them into a spreadsheet, and less than 25% are earning more than 150k/year and only 17% are higher than the 160k median income.

All these involve overtime which means:
- lower quality of life
- either not having kids or having to hire someone to take care of them

There is definitely something wrong if the system allow people to only take a handful of days off a year, is there a hiring freeze or something? Any sane manager would prefer having more workers that rest fully and stay motivated than people extending their times and becoming fatigued, demotivated and grumpy in the process.
Maybe instead of "rolling over and accepting defeat" just not starting the war would have worked ?
> If you are going to invest into something, it should be good investment that gives returns. An Useless degree clearly do not give enough returns not even to pay for itself.

You're assuming that individuals capture the entirety of the value they generate for society (and that they do so exclusively in the form of income), which is essentially never the case.
My PoW theory after talking to a bunch of people at Berlin Blockchain Week:

PoW is easy mode and PoS is the logical consequence of it.

First, letting people calculate random hashes is easy to implement, because you don't have to check useful stuff, just a hash.

PoS then is just giving people that did these calculatios, who now value their tokens because of the work they put in their creation, an incentive to validate txs, or they will lose that work.

Chains like Filecoin, Sia and Arweave go a harder route. Their PoW is storing real data of real users, so the "miners" get rewarded to do actual work. It's a decentralized version of S3, and S3 also was one of the first services AWS started with.

I think, in the next years, we will see more and more of these useful proofs cropping up. And people will understand the value they're "storing", no pun intended.
‘Microsoft’s social network, LinkedIn, is unglamorous but its business-to-business ads allow it to monetise the time users spend on it at a rate roughly four times that of Facebook, estimates Andrew Lipsman of eMarketer. It generates more revenue than some medium-sized networks including Snap’s Snapchat and Twitter. <...> So far [Apple] is only dabbling in ads and does not report sales figures. But Bloomberg reported recently that Apple’s ad business was already generating sales of $4bn a year, making it about as big an ad platform as Twitter.’

Twitter is now a unit of being moderately unsuccessful at advertising.
>Figma is absolutely valuable as evidenced by its customer base.

See how quickly Quark lost the most loyal and hegemonic user base to Adobe InDesign just over Adobe choosing to use the TeX paragraph formatter. Gone in eight quarters. Figma doesn't have itself embedded in national scale print plant with degree level of user education and per seat licensing including the multiple necessary third party adaptations at >$10k per seat.
I feel like submitting a swarm of DMCA take-down notices for copilot, which stole my AGPL code.
Monopolies abusing their power. Until congress does something this will continue and only get worse.

I wouldn't be too sure that AT&T would be broken up today as it was back in 1982.
I guess GP meant input latency (since there's no input if you're just consuming a video stream).
Thanks, very interesting. this is definitely the type of rumor that I'd like to follow.
An open sourced Electron/Desktop app for editing videos sourced from Youtube might be successful, but everything runs in the browser and it's more universal. With WASM, things get more interesting because the capabilities will get closer to "native" apps over the next 3-5 years
Doesn't work on Firefox for Android.
Edit: as noted in another comment, it works when removing the final dot.
Employment is a relation of power. The employer holds the capital and controls the synergy that makes your work valuable - you have limited and fungible human capital required to make their business work. The employer is large and you are a single person, so unless you hold exceptionally critical and rare skills, like say, Michael Jordan at the peak of his abilities, you are quite fungible and hold very little power in this relationship.

Any employment contract you can ever sign is with company that needs gritty people. You are not a partner, you hold no capital, you are not a unique snowflake the company values, you are just a cog in a money making machine that needs to work reliably - by easily replacing damaged and worn out cogs.

The whole obsession with startups and stock options in them on HN is nothing but the aspiration to reverse this power asymmetry. So that you too can get the power to set the rules of the game, and that others, that you employ, follow your decisions. Money is just another name for power, and the rules of power are the same since the days we started walking on two legs, and probably before that too.
Well, there's the NASA doing manned launches (or nowadays, working towards eventually being able to, to put it charitably) which, as you say, sadly seems co-opted by pork-barrel interests.

But there's also the science side of NASA that does stuff like space probes, the Hubble and James Webb telescopes, and so on. And this side seems to have a better track record (well, post-Apollo at least) of actually delivering something valuable. And, AFAIU it's this side that has chosen the RISC-V based platform for their future work.