skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This trend of "new modern shells" that runs and start as slow as some javascript code (powershell) needs to stop

Who cares, as long as it's not my shell. The old shells and terminals won't disappear, and if some new relevant standard emerges, people will port it.

> People forgot what shells are for, and what scripting is for

Shells are for the people, and scripting might be for people, depending on whether it's a oneshot-script. Maybe you forgot too what they are for?
Just plug your recovery key in a backup server on a network you have physical access to and expose ssh port as a tor hidden service (optionally with onion client auth if you're paranoid)? Either way as long as you have backup keys that don't involve biometrics you can set up your own infra for that as you see fit.

But yeah, the face whatevers really must not be the only option.
No. Having schizophrenia may result in you not being able to distinguish between reality and dreams when you are awake.

While you are asleep, it's quite common to believe in your dreamscape. (It's also common to tell yourself that it's a dream.)
Time to move I guess!
You've got some great music in that list!

Would like to be able to click the tags to filter the list. Also, if I were to curate a library of album recommendations, I'd want a little blurb I could write in about the album. Like a short review or listening notes.
Foldscope: The Paper Microscope
I can't find out what the cost to govt is in order to launch something into space, but you do need govt permission to launch since all space objects must belong to a specific country.

The govt can include the cleanup cost as part of the launch licensing cost.
> After all, they may currently be in the middle of doing something and would prefer not to be disturbed. OTOH, a message is already a disturbance [...]

That is what has not sunken in yet in our new and fancy asynchronous world.
> And one can't really argue Google is a monopoly with regards to email services

If you take deliverability to the average email account into account then they are not far from one.
The "average miner" is not stealing power.
I purchased DUNE on YouTube. Turns out even after paying full price, the image quality is limited to 480P unless you watch via a smart TV.

To prevent piracy, or something.
Wow Torvalds Modified Fedora Linux to Run on His Apple M2 MacBook
Linus Torvalds made Fedora Linux Workstation 36 work with Apple Macbook Air M2. Nice!
You could potentially avoid this by paying more for older junk.
> As I get older, I also find my body acting more and more for me.

Maybe your theory of "me" is a bit off from reality? I think Marvin Minsky's book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind is a highly interesting (and mostly ignored) theory (or model) of the mind as a group of agents where each agent tries to reach consciousness. Those that don't reach consciousness (your "mind") are your gut feelings.
Okay, do you have any data at all?

Men don't run away screaming from surgically modified boobs.
Without ‘consideration’ ( payment) one can usually argue that no contract exists for the laws to be inserted into.

Closing that loop hole was valuable.
That's me. As a kid 15+ years ago, buying a video game for PS2 was ridiculously expensive. I was buying cheaper copies from local "distributors", then I eventually got Internet connection and learned to download them myself. I did buy a PS4 a few years ago and purchased a few games - which does not sound like much, but I basically have 0 time for that now, but if I did have time, it would not be PC, Xbox, it would be PlayStation. If it was just for the exclusive titles. God of War was one of my favorite games and I was happy to play its recent continuation (though I only had the time to finish like 1/3 of the story, I really enjoyed it).

I also bought PS3 before Hotz by the way. Over the span of 2 years I bought like 3 games I cared about the most, that's all I could afford with the money I had available as a kid. After the jailbreak I had some 20 titles.
I contributed to mediawiki, prior to being hired by the Wikimedia foundation (this was a while ago, i dont work there any more, although i still do open source contribs sometimes). I definitely wasn't the only one who contributed before being hired.

There are downsides though - if you're really into the open source project, and then get hired it starts to be less fun. It also means that if your hired to work in one specific area, you probably stop doing other things because you need to get your team goals done, and it feels silly to do other stuff, which can be kind of sad if previously you were doing a variety of stuff.
>let alone bitstreaming DTS

On the contrary, that's super easy with ALSA. Literally all you need to do to "bitstream" is "play" the data as if it were audio, and not have any software in between trying to adjust volume or otherwise modify it. You could do it with nothing more complicated than "aplay", making sure to specify the correct card and not dmix.
This recalled a horror story about huge charges when retrieving the data. I searched the link and seems like pricing was changed since the blog entry [1].

Still good idea to check the extra charges when reading.

[1] https://medium.com/@karppinen/how-i-ended-up-paying-150-for-...
America’s stealth aircraft you've never heard of
If this is the future, there is an interesting outcome...

To begin with, operators will control one/a few cars.

But eventually as many cars are deployed, it will instead make more sense for the operator to specialize on a particular city or street.

You might end up with the operator driving all cars down a particular street, directing each one around the poorly placed traffic cone.

Which doesn't look awfully different to a construction worker today directing traffic...
Debate is literally appealing to in-group/out-group bias. The purpose of debate is to try to influence that bias.

The weird thing about debate is that the most ridiculous claims have the most evidence against them, and are therefore the most work to refute with sources. Claiming that the earth is flat takes a lot more evidence to refute than claiming that the earth has slightly incorrect parameters of oblate spheroid-ness.

This is played upon by certain people. Trying to explain why a concept such as "anti-white hate-porn" is just not a thing is like trying to explain how we're pretty sure we actually landed on the moon.

This comes back to the fallacy of "equal time for both sides of the debate".
YouTube Taps ML to Convert Landscape Videos to Square, Vertical Formats
Also note it applied to roaming within the EU. You’re still in their clutches if you go further afield.

Rationale was that treating people from one EU country differently than from another was against the union. Imagine paying inter-state roaming in the US.
My preferred way to read RSS is via an RSS-to-email service then using some folders of my email client as a feed reader.

These days I run my own RSS-to-email service however it is paid. If you want free https://blogtrottr.com has a pretty good ad-supported option. I have used it extensively in the past.
This is mentioned in the link, about $100 to get your 1TB out.

I can see home backup use cases where you might be happy to get it out at 100Gb/month over time. For example, a home photo/video library where you can view arbitrary photos, and slowly pull out all of them.
Since I'm not that familiar with the pricing model behind this, did I understand correctly that it costs roughly $1/TB/month to store and roughly $95/TB to restore? The price seems steep at first, but comparing it to regular backup services where the cost usually adds up to roughly $100 per year it starts to make sense. I have backups but I don't think I would ever need them more than once a year, even that would be alarmingly often.
What does 99.999999999% durability mean exactly? Does it mean a probability of 0.000000001% (1 in 100_000_000_000) that your bits will randomly disappear? Is that yearly?

One interpretation is that about 1 bit per 100 GB will randomly flip each year. That or S3 Glacier is expecting to hit a catastrophic event every 100 billion years (which doesn't seem nearly frequent enough).
There is more wisdom than you might think in "Cute Baby Animals" (one of the best baby books of all time)
RIP Figma. I can already see the Adobe installer coming back to my Mac, crazy pricing plans, etc, or the fate of Macromedia.
KPMG partners in Dubai seek suspension of local leadership
What in the world does any of that have to do with birth rates and overpopulation, which is the only thing I mentioned? Are you just spamming a link and quote?
Who needs to get work done? Just make the entire OS an advertisement platform already that fills the screen with ads.

Mike Judge's Idiocracy satire was ahead of the curve on this one: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
At least for now you can still easily anonymously buy (activated) sims from other european countries.
Of course, it's Taboola. Not shocking at all.

But why did Microsoft allowed Taboola in the first place despite Taboola's reputation? That's a question that I want to know the answer to.
Not the best place to play with semantic. There is a reason there is deep animosity between japan/china and japan/korea.

Just over 37-45 estimated war crimes resulted in 3 to 30 millions death ...
Genuine question, what the private sector is doing in the west? other than autonomous car?

There is some effort for "flying taxis", anything else?
Are you watching YouTube on Linux by any chance? AFAIK modern versions of chrome and FF should not have this issue even on Linux but I could be wrong as I'm out of the loop on modern DRM.
Oh, yes, sorry, I cannot edit now.
Our director of cybersecurity did something similar. I asked my manager, what’s going on, he had no idea. Completely unintentional, she wanted to speak about a RFP response, but it was completely out of context and I didn’t know she was reviewing it.

Out of etiquette, everyone should think about context when sending a message. Probably more so in roles of authority and those that own “terminate-able offence” compliance.

Also, people should check their paranoia. I’ve been working jobs for 30 years and never has the bad news or underhanded crap started with a message like this. Not that I don’t sometimes think this is the first time.
But we could just build solar power and not use it for mining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo#Abuse_of_ethnic_mino...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule
Tell that to the people who live near a border and have their phones frequently associate with a tower on the ‘wrong’ side.

I think your post is in poor taste.
I realize this was a weird time and masks have been a complicated topic. However:

I advertised some masks my grandma has sewn on FB. It was ok, expansive clicks like always but ok. This was running for at least a week or two. But when I changed some text it triggered a new ad review and within no hour my account was banned. It didn't even took a hour to deny my appeal as well and my account was lost forever (without ever naming any reason)

This account had 50+ (harmless) groups with way over 100k followers as well as a few thousand dollars in ad spend just that year. I didn't socialize at all on Facebook which I guess made my account fishy to some degree but all data was correct and passport verified.

This is the reason I completely ignore Facebook and all its platforms for whatever reason these days. I don't care if it could help my business, it's not worth the trouble.
That's a great example of how people tend to build complex ethical models in their minds to maintain the illusion that they are just and consistent with others.
There's no reason a "Plasma skin" can't do anything Kodi can do. They're both just a bunch of software.
All eyes on NYSE: UBER now
I've moved all my stuff off of glacier because of their ridiculous pricing model, and user-hostile metadata handling.

I.e. you have to maintain your own index of files, where they could have just done this for you.

The pricing model for downloads is too easy to shoot yourself in the foot. I'd rather pay a tiny bit more to not have bankruptsy traps built into the product. So that's what I do now.
Isn't the phrase from video's description "Waymo sponsored this video and provided access to their technology and personnel" enough?
Yeah, it's putting low cost up front, but if you need the retrieval NOW, you're going to pay it. On any cloud provider, you should absolutely be reading their pricing carefully so you can account for the cost of these situations.
The Cuis-Smalltalk Book
This kinda sounds like survivorship bias though. You probably had that feeling _at least_ as many times and something bad didn't happen afterwards. But these moments are not the ones which our mind would like to keep as relevant.
> 99.999999999% data durability, data spread over 3 Availability Zones

I'd love to see what source(s) this claim has in practice. How did you arrive at 9-9s? Shouldn't it be spread over 3 Regions rather than Availability Zones, as otherwise it could just end up in the same geographical region while giving the impression it's spread across many.
Hey Harsh,

Sorry to see this (after reading on On Deck) and here is how I would try. No guarantee but an idea. Add your mom to Google One Family plan (buy for one month, you don't have it).

Now, the support on Google One is quick and are actual people. I was extremely surprised by this and asked quite a few time if they are real people (they are). Try talking to them and see if that works.
To me this is just more of the same: added convenience to what we already have. Converting individual commands to TUIs is a step away from the unix philosophy.

I think the future of the command line lies in the direction of flow-based programming and spatial representation of complex commands.

I would like to see a terminal that, as I type, _generates_ a flow-based view of my command. Every command would be visualised as a component: ls, awk, sed... Every |, < or > that I type would append a link and a new component to my flow, and ultimately I would be able to manipulate my flow instead of typing: click the ls component, have it output Creation Date instead of Modified Date, then click the awk component and add another output to a new sed component and so on.
we get the world we deserve.
Thanks! Going through the forum helped. Had to reach out to Microsoft and request them to unblock the IP.

Full details here -

https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/how-to-unblock-from-mic...
One weird trick, security teams hate him.
In Russia there was definitely a period when any large flat panel TV was called "plasma".
70M WhatsApp users signed up for Telegram and 32M for Signal when Meta tried to ram new TOS allowing Facebook access to WhatsApp user data, and that’s why they backed down.

That scummy company forfeited the benefit of doubt a long time ago.
Confused. It is solar powered but can "soak up" excess energy from the grid. But for mining to be profitable you want to be running the hardware 24/7. Batteries are not mentioned. And then it says "could run off solar power"
Are there any good tv operating systems which use standard desktop/laptop architectures? Was excited by this until I saw it's only released for SoCs. My hacks/scripts on Windows + Flirc are getting tiresome.

Been looking at one of the Android distributions, BlissOS.
Rethinking Star Ratings
Also there is afaik no SLA for this! Just marketing.
What could go wrong? :-D
It seems to me the solution to the problem posed in the article -- and to the wishes of many of the commenters here -- is to use JavaScript as your shell. The missing piece is an app that presents a text UI with a JavaScript REPL and that renders the DOM inline.

Missing file, device, and information manipulation applications that shell programmers string together would be replaced by JavaScript functions from a library. If you really want JSON, use the JavaScript Serialized Object Notation to serialize JavaScript objects in JavaScript.

Why do people write "what I want is..." articles and comments when they could be writing solutions that scratch their itch and meet their needs?
when you are very poor, meals are uncertain and every dollar counts, saving a few bucks on a big mac is actually a pretty big deal.
not to mention mcdonalds are open much later than homeless shelters or soup kitchens, safer too. being able to get warm and be fed for low cost is something easy to take for granted but when you have nothing it really means a lot.
Isn't the chance of nuclear armageddon something like 30% this century?, that should affect the probabilities
"A sec" is very ambiguous. Asking someone if they have 15 minutes to talk about the new deployment is much more useful and allows people to prepare for it, shortening required time to converse and providing you with more useful answers. Everyone benefits
That's only potentially true with very large circles. Small round abouts are so small that you want to be able to see obstacles before you even get to the point of preparing merging.
You don’t even need a profile to sideload any more, just Xcode, which does mean owning a Mac.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/03/27/how-to-create-free-apple-deve...
Link to full text for the curious: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v47n04_1951-06_Gorgon...
Did that post get renamed? I couldn't understand why it vanished magically
I've been working with Alex for just over a year now. He’s never political, super nice guy, focused on creating beautiful art.

This is a major blow to the team. If your not backed by Sony or Paramount, ads (especially in the first week) can be the deciding factor in whether you make it or not..

When he told me what happened, I refused to believe him "There is no way they banned you over blue eyes". Unlike Alex, I'm extremely cynical about censorship & social justice politics but even I couldn't accept they would do something this asinine.
Why should we consider them public spaces when they are private companies?

And social media companies only control what is said on their platform not "online" aka the entire internet as you said
I'm not a CEO, but I think if you can prove that it was based on performance, excluding racial factors, then you are good to go. So you think the minorities they hired are disproportionately bad? Even if you are racist you must realize that they probably have fewer minorities than the general population so they already are limited to statistically higher performing people per minority group.
The problem is that they do not take any responsibility for the negligence and breach of contract - they were obligated to keep my data secure, they didn't, I might get defrauded now and they will never compensate me or anyone else.
No. But I hate the idea that people who did absolutely nothing to create the company think they by proxy of the government should have the right to tell others to do with their property. If you want a company that meets your ideals - create a company yourself.
https://simplewebauthn.dev/docs/
> Maybe this is what people mean when they talk about "gut feeling".

That's also based in scientific observations, as it seems that the 2kg of gut bacteria making up the microbiome have a direct nerve connection to the brain.

I'm pretty sure those fuckers are making me crave sugar that they could then eat themselves once it gets down to them.
I'm on the side of less is more, too. Poverty alleviation is, while not a universally solved problem, is well enough understood that we know what does not work. Harsh, punitive measures such as long prison sentences without corresponding in-prison safety, nor sincere rehabilitation and redemption programs, are guaranteed to maintain cycles of poverty and resentment across generations.

I do think school voucher programs is a promising direction, but like anything that becomes a pawn in the culture war, it becomes difficult to discuss it without FUD.
We have a situation where someone turned on an option for enhanced security, combined with the fact that Google doesn’t ask for further solid information like biometrics or social security number. This person wasn’t locked out by magic algorithm.

What solution could Google offer without creating a security backdoor? Google might not ever be sure as to the identity of the account holder.
Because most people don't care about it and forget about it in the long term?
Open any book on differential geometry and compare the treatment of differentiation with the needlessly index heavy treatment in any undergraduate calculus textbook.

The point is that we treat the differential of a real valued function as a function/vector/matrix for historical reasons. The simpler perspective that always works is that the differential of a function is the best linear approximation of the function at a given point. But for historical reasons most math textbooks restrict themselves to "first order functions" and avoid, e.g., functions returning functions.

This also leads to ridiculous notational problems when dealing with higher order functions, like integration and all kinds of integral transforms.
It's a bit of a contrast to the Game of Thrones style of fantasy, where macho leaders do public executions as if it wasn't a big deal.

Even pagans were reluctant to do such things. They were terrified of curses, magic, the hidden strengths in apparent weakness: not powers suited to rule with, but very well suited for destructive revenge.

One of the oldest of the old Norse stories we know, the story of Wayland, is basically a revenge flick. There's also:

"The twelfth I know

When in the tree

I see a dead man dangling:

Then I the runes

Carve and draw

So he who there hangs

Walks and talks with me."

That is from Hávamal, the final part, where Odin lists the spells he knows. It sounds like a warning to me: are you sure you want your enemy to become Odin's companion?
I use tarsnap for off-site backups :

https://www.tarsnap.com/

It’s probably not as cheap as glacier but it’s cheap enough for my needs, secure and encrypted and was very easy to set up.
Well, extend your argument to everyday life. A drone strolling along in public and highly populated spaces with a big box full of unknown contents...
And this is how Flash-drive-on-cockroach As A Service was born
This is not clear. Even if it is regulated, the question is if anybody ever successfully sued to get this right, and then the question is what is the fine that would be given. Is it large enough to make the company change its ways in the future?
What about the Beatles?!
> 3 or more AWS Availability Zones, providing 99.999999999% data durability

I think you need to multiply that by the durability of amazon as a company...

I suspect that in any given year there is perhaps a 1% chance that they shut down AWS with no chance to retrieve data. (either due to world war, civil war in the usa, change in laws, banning you as a customer, change in company policy, bankrupcy, etc.)
If you have enough cars travelling one specific bit of street that you can employ someone full-time to do it, you'll very quickly get enough data to remove that edge case.
Children learn by imitation, but they also learn by going to school and receiving directed lessons about specific topics. To me, machine learning seems like the imitation part without the going-to-school part.
What is challenging about it?
This service already exists for a very long time. I have been using it for many years with https://www.arqbackup.com as a fallback for my TimeMachine and Backblaze backup. Google also offers a very similar service as Glacier called Coldline: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#coldli...
It’s definitely not as cheap: $1 buys you 4GB/month.