skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has actually been dying slowly. More and more I encounter "this website/video is nor available in your country".
I built a Twitter parody this past weekend, whose waitlist is now open
What features would you like to see next?
Their point was that you were saying a thing confidently that was not true. I'm trying to figure out what your point is, other than pretending like you have inside information about the necessity of glue that isn't there.
Interstellar meetings are bound to happen first with a large developmental gap.
Applicable here is obviously us being the Cavedwellers, Sumerians, Azteks, Egyptians, whathaveyou.

What happens? Astronauts appear as effectively gods, being literally superior beyond comprehension in every aspect. Religions sprout, sacrifices are made, wars fought...all because you thoughtlessly wanted to be nice and sey 'hello'.

Self-knowledge is a prerequisite to fruitful, non-destructive communication between civilizations. The ability to comprehend the scientific technicalities is likewise necessary and we are just on the brink of that.

There are (many) other requirements. Importantly, you have to be able to imagine a superior entity other than as playing the role of your "master".
How is proof of stake a net negative on the environment?
It's in the acknowledgements sections.

https://martenframework.com/docs/the-marten-project/acknowle...
Let's consider the good news here: we can have NGOs provide effective, foundational services for reasonable costs.

Some issues belong in the 'commons' due to elements of 'public good'.

I'm not making a political statement, this is just pragmatic reality.

If something like Wikipedia can exist without having to die due to lack of funding, well, maybe we can also do such things for 'search' and 'public messaging' (aka Twitter).

In this manner, we can forgo issues of 'total marketing surveillance' and having an excess of irrelevant ads for so many things which might be oriented towards public good and should not have artifacts of commercialization. (And I'm not even against Ads, just their ubiquity and irrelevance).

Let's not fret too much about $5M in 'goodwill' money sent out to Tides but contemplate the sliver lining here.

Of course, we should keep our eye on these things, Tides is maybe a benevolent actor, but they are also a political actor that sent money to Canada to support issues which were ultimately related to electoral outcomes.
> probably most

As far as I can tell from the OP and it's cited links[1], in 2021 they had around $160 in total revenue. $5 million of that went to the Tides foundation, the thing I think you are describing as "pushing woke politics". Another $50 million of that revenue was simply left over as unspent surplus.

Are you talking about other expenditures as "pushing woke politics"? On what basis are you claiming that a "lot, probably most" of donations to go "pushing woke politics"?

(Around 1/3rd of donations (still not "probably most") remain simply unspent, which is kind of weird, but not about "pushing woke politics").

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...
Drew, will you reimburse people who do not wish to use your hosting after this change?
I think Kiwi Farms' users harassed several people in retaliation for their speech until they killed themselves, rather than engaging in rational argument with them, defending their rights to speak their unpopular opinions, or even just leaving them alone. We're not talking about acrimonious ideological debate; we're talking about stalking and SWATting.
If you open and close scissors the main force is up/down but based on the structure of the hand you also apply a sideways force which twists the blades left/right.
Depending if the top blade (where your thumb goes in) this pushes the blades closer together, or a bit apart. And if the hinge has to much play, this is enough that the paper gets twisted between the scissors.
The Wikimedia Foundation collects money in places like India, South Africa and South America with those misleading messages:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...

Most of the money from the Knowledge Equity Fund so far has gone to organisations in the U.S. I think that indicates how much genuine thinking about diversity is taking place in the Wikimedia Foundation.
A batch of those people roll through every space related post and downvote things, but then the tide shifts later in the day. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the users here are strongly in favor of getting humanity into space
Star Trek Enterprise noise:

play -c2 -n synth whitenoise band -n 20 40 band -n 200 400 gain +20
Sortition[1]. It's been tried before, with some success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
> "many people can't access or contribute to Wikipedia because of racism", which is basically true if you account for second-order effects

This kind of very shaky use of second-order effects is dangerous and is responsible for some of the most well-intentioned but also destructive policy changes in the last 20 years.
> This still doesn't explain why we don't see evidence of life though...

It is an adequately plausible explanation of why we haven't yet seen evidence of life elsewhere. To argue against it seems to require one or more question-begging premises.
I am a huge fan of your work. Thanks for all you have done.

But you are so opinionated, unrealistic, and unreasonable. Are you seriously suggesting that arbitrary censorship is ”making the right choice“?

You brush aside valid criticism to push your own ideology. A little restraint and pragmatism would go a long way. You are the modern RMS, both in a good and bad way.
On other hand I would argue that something like javascript in modern browser is much more arcane and probably opaque.

At least with DEBUG and assembler I could reasonably reason and do things by hand. With many modern languages I have no idea where to even start checking what they do and how.
That's why your location was so important back then. Less so now, but it still makes a difference.
Critically, it could stream something different than what the console was rendering to the TV. At the time it seemed Nintendo was hoping for the kind of design explosion the DS had early in its life, and a few titles trying such things were really good, but for many reasons it didn't stick the way the DS did.
Sure. You can reach out to support to request a refund for the remainder of your unused paid service.
An array of solar panels large enough to charge your home and electric car as well as a battery backup.
Seems like virtue signalling from an over-controlling project maintainer with a grudge against blockchains.

Can you make a coherent case for why a legitimate and licit application of crypto should not be allowed on your source hosting platform?

To give an example of a legitimate and licit application: Endaoment.
They will be able to do it only for their citizens and they can do it already.
> my car will twitch when pedestrians turn as if they're going to enter the road (where human drivers mostly don't notice, and if they do they ignore it)

As long as those pedestrians DO NOT actually enter the road after those turns, any "twitching" of your car in response is an ADDITIONAL SAFETY PROBLEM, because other drivers might notice the erratic movements of your car and do erratic things as well, which in the end might result in accidents that wouldn't have happened had your car not "twitched".

Especially "twitchy" AIs like that of your car might very well "re-twitch" on noticing your car doing small, but erratic and rapid changes in behavior, thereby initiating a "twitch escalation spiral".
That a project using proof of work is bad does not meant that a project using proof of stake is good. The ban is cryptocurrencies, and that PoW cooks the planet for no benefit is only one of the listed reasons behind it.
It's a beautiful piece of theory, but when the IACR tried to build a voting scheme based on that to elect their board annually (https://vote.heliosvoting.org/), they got caught by a non-obvious bear trap when you make the whole thing non-interactive (which is the way this is mostly used in practice).

Details here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/771

Basically, if you do this with a hash function, you need to HASH ALL THE THINGS, not just some of them.

As to why this paper keeps showing up without everyone knowing that they're using it: the result in this paper is not, to my knowledge, a new invention of Maurer, rather it's something that everyone working with Sigma protocols more or less knew at the time, but no-one had written it down in its generality (or at least, no-one else got a paper on that accepted; some reviewers might have rejected such a paper as not novel enough). You'll note that Maurer itself got the paper into AFRICACRYPT 2009, which is not quite in the same league as CRYPTO and friends - for example, https://sites.google.com/site/conferenceranking/ calls it "unranked", and the CORE ranking page doesn't seem to list it either.

It's a neat little result and it's very useful to be able to cite, but it's not ground-breaking.
I don't think that it will be so that everyone that pays $20/month has a "little bird nest to their name". They want to charge $20/month to everyone with a verified mark, according to the article: "the report states that Twitter is planning to charge $20 for a new Twitter Blue subscription, and that blue checkmarks will be lost to users if they don't pay up."
Political theories, yeah I can see them having some rigor.

For movements? Very much depends on what media sources think of them, because they are the "reliable sources". This gets even more pronounced when they have a conflict of interest, for example "This subset of media sources is engaging in behaviour that indicates a conflict of interest" easily gets you labelled as everything bad in the world by those very same outlets. Which then get cited as reliable sources, and through those citations other outlets start mirroring that and so on.

Until the reliable sources are mostly in agreement and you can't do shit about it.
So does that make GraphQL the best then? JSON + faster/less data over the wire.
This reminds me of reading about Michael Faraday researching gravity. He and a few other researchers were taking little balls of metal and moving, shaking, and rotating them next to each other to try to determine if there was any electrical activity generated from the relative movements of the masses. Faraday even tried measuring for electrical field disturbances from a mass of bismuth falling and then stopping when it hit the ground.

If their hypothesis was correct, that moving matter in relation to other matter generated a field exchange, that meant we could each have a "gravity transmitter" and "gravity receiver" that could act independently of any wired or wireless systems.

Having point to point high speed communications from anywhere on the planet to anywhere else on the planet, which themselves weren't governed or use restricted, would be game changing. Alas, current theories and decades of research haven't given us much to go on.
You can use Okta, AAD, etc to front your AD with OAuth2 and secure your VPN with that.
SBF told Elon Musk he would pay up to $15B for a stake in Twitter. Here’s why
I am aware that quite a few years ago the Australian chapter of the WMF had systemic rorting. People were paid to travel overseas and report on conferences. Instead, they disappeared, did not write any reports and used it as an overseas holiday.

This has been a problem for a very, very long time.

Stop giving money to Wikipedia. They don’t need it, and they don’t publicise what they spend it on.
It's also quite easy to space travel outside of gravity well. Just take any piece of ice, drill yourself inside it and use thick ice walls as shelter. Mount some engines. If you're used to living in such environment you can be having a normal life while going around in it. Fusion as power source, likely.

Earth civilization is wondering why it can't see or hear anyone while almost literally living inside a beacon.
> domains where it is actually bitterly needed (like specialised equipment, agricultural machinery and home appliances)

Why are the needs of commerce so much greater than then needs of people who use consumer electronics? If we're trying to reduce ewaste caused by planned obsolescence, isn't the vast majority of it consumer electronics?
Legitimate use-cases are not banned, per the article:

> We will exercise discretion when applying this rule. If you believe that your use-case for cryptocurrency or blockchain is not plagued by these social problems, you may ask for permission to host it on SourceHut, or appeal its removal, by contacting support.
Scientists have created an entirely new material that can’t be explained
Full title: "Scientists create entirely new material with plastic and metal properties that ‘can’t be explained’"

Edit: Original title too long; took new title from first line of article.
It's indirect. Many of the people who influence what the average Joe talks about use Twitter, and few of them are self-aware enough to recognize Twitter is a fishbowl at a cafe by the ocean.
Am I affected? sr.ht/~ilmu/tala.saman ... I would appreciate knowing so I have time to move and since you (drew) are in this thread this is the expedient way to find out...
What a weird thing to get hung up on.
I call BS. The cost of any difference in the dies for manufacturing the glovebox will be amortized to cents over a run of thousands of glove boxes and it's not like each wire you add to the wiring harness and connector that needs to be connected doesn't also have incremental costs associated with it.

This design is an aesthetic choice, though certainly motivated parties could spin at as being cheaper (I suspect it's close to a wash).
That doesn't make sense.

They were promised that NATO wouldn't expand, eg to all the baltics, etc, and yet it did.

That is why they are now lashing out.

The fact that their bad and badly miscalculated reaction is causing further NATO expansion is beside the point.
Well my life, the life time of my children and their's. Also my friends and other family. To preserve living conditions for this would be long term for me.

This time span is much more important that quarterly reports or political elections.

Of course if we do not fuck up as a species (climate, war, etc.) and fail in this century, more humans will be born over the next few centuries than ever existed. These unborns have no voice. They inherit what we do with this planet and our society. Ethically I would say, to preserve their living conditions is the far long term and should also be considered.
I read that here, my memory was a little off - https://web.archive.org/web/20170302073322/http://www.ign.co...

>"In doing our testing without the touch features we noticed looking back and forth between the Gamepad and the screen actually took a little something away from this type of Zelda game," he said.

>"There was no hesitation or reluctance in removing those features because we felt the way it is now is the best way to play the game," he added.

I can understand the cynicism, but, to me anyway, I agree that it's not ideal gameplay. The game pad was a big miss for me for anything other than being able to play a game when my husband was using the TV. I ended up kinda hating the gamepad.

So I believe both can be true.
Lot of throwaway accounts at the top of this thread, that's quite funny fun, and telling about this site

Cryptocurrencies are ponzi schemes, they are scams, they should be illegal

There are better ways to fight the current system than with other scams
As a keen Sourcehut subscriber that's disappointing. I don't care much for cryptocurrency, but prefer my service providers to be far less selective than this.

Sourcehut is open first, so all is not lost: those excluded could host their own.

On balance, I'm looking at alternatives, but might stay.
Usually when visiting a website, saving a few kilobytes on the client side on requests to backend does not make any difference.
But then, again, what is the point of the radar?
I'm seeing a lot of comments here along the lines of "why even bother with protobuf (just use JSON, you fools!), and gRPC is a pain anyway!" There are two very very critical things to know if you find yourself thinking either of those two things:

1. To me the compression that protobuf offers, while cool, is not what I find most important about it (or, rather, is not the feature that I like the most). What is the most important (for me) is that the sterilization _forces your server and client to have a typed API contract_. This is a pretty big deal. Imagine you're in a situation where you spent months laboring over your OpenAPI config, just to later realize that

> _oops! my OpenAPI config doesn't actually represent what my server is actually doing, and now my OpenAPI generated user documentation is wrong, and my TypeScript types I generated from the OpenAPI config are wrong too, which means I'll get runtime `TypeError`s on the frontend.

This is a pretty common situation for people to find themselves in, and it's a tough spot to be in because... well... you can't ever escape. Because no one is really reliably generating actual running servers from OpenAPI configs, you hit this situation reallllly fast. Protobuf, on the other hand, is legitimately a spec-first workflow (by force -> which to me is a very good thing). Take a look at Postman's state of the API report, and you'll see that even their customers are only doing spec-first 10% of the time (and, this is supposed to be the cream of the crop in cutting-edge spec-first development). Why? Because it's really really really hard to do in practice. But protobuf makes it easy. That's a big deal.

2. gRPC and protobuf are not as deeply tied as you might think. You can use protobuf without gRPC at all, and in fact a lot of people are doing this. You can even do it over WebSockets, or anything else. Unfortunately, because the two technologies are often mentioned in the same breath we tend to deeply associate them. Years ago I had a project I needed to pick a wire compression thing for (it was just for fun) and since I was tired of always just using messagepack over and over again, I evaluated other options. I picked FlatBuffers in the end, but I wish I could go back in time and ask my past self why I didn't pick Protocol Buffers instead. I KNOW I remember looking into protobuf, but I think I just assumed that in order to do protobuf well you had to also use gRPC and since I wasn't up for learning gRPC, I gave up on protobuf. That's the beauty of what tools like Protobuf-ES are changing -> they're making protobuf accessible to everyone.

..and besides, there are other things that protobuf unlocks(namely the "reflection" API (very much like GraphQL's introspection API if you're familiar with that), but also things like documentation generation and enforcement of backwards-compatible changes) but the above are the two most appreciated by me.
HN grok'd the reference in 7h.

I legit consult (D&D)^2 once a full moon.

And not just for my hostname Sumerian naming convention!

https://okaq.github.io/dieties.webp
It’s Haiti. It doesnt exist before the racism and colonialism. Of course, something existed on the same land, but that wasn’t Haiti.
Moreover, most of the money to date has gone to U.S. organisations.

This is truly bizarre if you consider that the Wikimedia Foundation raises funds in places like India, South Africa and South America – with heart-wrenching messages about donations being needed to keep Wikipedia online, independent, subscription-free and so on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Show HN: Rust on AWS Lambda
Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

https://maa.tandfonline.com/journals/tmaa20
What was I wrong about? What do you think the sticky substance on the gaskets is? Couldn't possibly be glue.
My point is the phones are glued for a good engineering reason.
A subjective opinion, but it's much easier to read some documentation and checking maybe an OpenAPI spec than having to deal with protobuf.

You also have solutions like GraphQL that define a schema, or you can publish some kind of schema (a good thing to do) but use JSON instead of a binary format.
If everyone who has a problem with the corrupt system opts out, the system will chug along fine. Most people don't care, obviously. The people who make a moral stand will just be poorer and less able to thrive. You are basically suggesting something a lot like being Amish, they refuse to participate and as result they are a cute little subculture that is slowly disappearing.
I'm being hyperbolic, but other than being a theoretical model, I was curious as to where the parents' claim of this technology being a "1000 years away, conservatively" came from.
> I credit Solarized with setting the baseline allowing proper "dark" themes to be more commonplace.

Apart from the IBM 3279 color terminal, released in 1974, and literally hundreds of devices following (and maybe preceding) that.
And what are the odds of getting an automatic "computer says no" response?
I'm not sure what this project is for, but on the face of it it does not seem to be a problem. If it develops further and starts to run afoul of these rules, we can discuss it further and if necessary work together to ensure a smooth transition to another hosting provider. If you'd like to clarify more about this specific project, feel free to email me (sir@cmpwn.com) (or just elaborate here on HN).
Chrome drops JPEG XL, “not enough interest”
After reading to half way into the article, there is this disappointing text:

> It turns out that there are a range of particles in nature that exhibit this kind of symmetry. There isn’t any easy way to argue why this kind of symmetry must exist, but it does.

And then the article continues to show some implications and predictions that follow when one assume that this symmetry must exist.
But I opened the article expecting to find the why ..
I would donate to wikipedia if they would commit to becoming a smaller organisation, with a smaller staff.

10 fulltime staff should be plenty. ~5 developers/devops people to run the site and slowly make changes, and 5 marketing/branding/business/finance people for everything else that needs to be done.

Pay those 10 staff well, but cap it at that and don't aim to grow headcount or scope beyond being a great online encyclopaedia.

Ironically, they probably wouldn't need my donation if they only had 10 staff.
Sure, I can't prove that glue is 0% effective, maybe monkey dung is better , you can't prove it either.

What I can prove is that "glue helps you swim with your iPhone is bullshit". In fact logic would tell us that glue is created for sticking things together, if you want water proofing you would use something designed for that purpose.
Music, Science and Healing Intersect in an A.I. Opera
No: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v1.25/bin/DE...