skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike influencers as well but this comment is painfully incorrect. Beeing an influencer does not mean you have to lie. You are however strongly influenced to lie. But that doesn't mean every influencer lies. There are plenty of very big influencer that can easily pick and choose which product they peddle to the masses. They are free to pick only the products where they agree with the marketing message.
That's the real story here.
Would agree that we are totally screwed now. I tend to wonder sometimes if we've actually always been this dumb, but now that we are connected enough we can see it better. And this phenomenon seems to amplify not only how dumb we are, but for people to act even more dumb.

I love the internet, but a great experiment IMO would be turning it off for three to six months just to see what would happen. I know it's not possible, but the idea still runs through my head here and there.
Your point that we have to be careful about the basis of comparison is well-taken, but your analogy is not sound. New York state is 141,000 km2, it's over 1/3 the size of all of Japan.
Our theories break down at the singularity and we don't know what happens there. That's part of why quantum gravity is such a big topic of research.
> For all three, it seems their spindles, actuators, and media are starting to wear out after seven years or so of constant spinning.

Seven years is indeed a lot of revolutions if they're constantly at 5,000 RPM or more.

Are those drives really live for all that time?

I'd expect that Backblaze's business model requires lots of storage and not a lot of access/transfer - lots of write once/read never data. Their storage pods have dual 10Gb network ports, but with 60 drives in a box, each capable of 6 Gb transfer speeds, you can only full use about 4 drives at a time. Are the other 56 drives spinning at full speed all the time, or parked?
Or you can run Headscale: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
Also, I need to compile actual Windows binaries using the shell (MSVC, clang-cl), and I obviously can’t do that under a Linux VM.
Free Carrots #5: MNT Reform
You know there are options besides capitalist hellscape and autocratic state capitalist hellscape, yeah?
This looks good. Does it work as a web app? There are apparently many more alternatives to AllTrails and HikingProject that I wasn't aware of.
Sure, bub. Nobody hates personal responsibility, but your tinfoil hat sure is unsightly.
I’m still running Atom. I’m hoping Pulsar will keep Atom alive.
Besides of VSCode, I tried using Sublime for a while. Its absolutely great slick editor (pricey but I was willing to pay for that comfort) but the plug-ins I use were very mediocre and subpar.
How about you?
own the TCP port for zero downtime deployments of the

It's not zero downtime, if the app isn't reaponding. And any infra that cares about uptime, has redundant instances.

This feature is, IMO, a feel good feature.
What I want:

- I select trail

- App generates map PDF with numbered markers (milestones)

- phone has GPS active, but only shows single number, milestone. Preferably on lock screen, without unlocking phone.

Distraction free, tiny drain on battery.
I think walls that are made with racecars hitting them at top speed in mind would be able to handle a distributed stress.
Isn't orbit tracking trivial? Also, orbital velocity depends on altitude, so perhaps they are just going to a higher orbit.
3,700 kg to geosynchronous orbit... man that is a hefty satellite. Would love to know what they packed in there.
I'm a Rocket League addict myself. I heard Hollow Knight is good on it.
Also, see try.diffoscope.org for a web version.
Twitter discontinues ad-free articles for Blue subscribers
I'm not convinced by refutations of #2 that point out that we humans have developed technologies that extend our senses, eg. we can now detect neutrinos, gravity waves, microwaves, what-have-you.

While these are extensions of the senses we have, we still are evolved to understand an environment that is an infinitely narrow slice of all possible environments in the universe, and Earth life's approach is an infinitely narrow slice of all possible ways of perceiving and surviving an underlying reality that is vastly unknowable.

As we look into a Universe (or even look around ourselves here on Earth) with our sense extenders, we are still bound by the limitations of our cognition and perception.
I have, they’re both good. I really do spend many many hours on trails every year, in the mountains, in all seasons. MapOut is a clear winner for me, the interface is the most intuitive for all the basics and I’m always stumbling on new, useful features.

An example of something I stumbled onto: have a route open on your screen, zoom into some portion of the route, tap the screen and it adds markers on the route telling you the distance of the segment on screen, which persist when zoomed out. This seems silly, but highly useful way for me to zoom to where my location is (say) at bottom of screen and next route milestone is at top, and getting the exact distance to go between current location and desired location on the fly.
I think you’ll see the defensive line move up the track to block this on exit, which will open up the possibility for someone to get under the defending car, which should make the racing tactics more interesting in the last lap.

This tactic will wear the car out far too much to be used on multiple laps, so it may just get race fans to experience more excitement and interest on the last lap.
I'm using my old Pi B+ as a pi-hole. It's been ticking along quietly for a year now. We only remember it's there when we use the internet out side of the house and realise ads are still a thing.
How much do you have to pay in monthly housing costs with the inclusion of utilities and amenities?
Well, we all know Apple's mantra: "Don't leave money on the table!"
Or ... "max waste" ... no harm being honest about it and keeing peoples eyes on the prize!
Not hearing the stuff does not prevent someone who does hear the stuff from breaking into your house with a hammer, as Paul Pelosi discovered.
In a tangentially related note. The value in a social media network is the viral momentum, not the cool engineering tricks or fundamental features.

Virality, like any success, involves being in the right place at the right time. This is largely unpredictable.

The problems that social media networks have need to be sorted out on the platforms themselves. The graveyard of dead projects is full of clones of popular softwares with slightly different features. I'm sure many of them were fantastic ideas.
I don’t doubt that the problem is a tough one to solve. This is (partly) why I suggest offering a marketplace for filters, and so a reward for those who crack the problem. Of course there are always going to be some people who which deploying any kind of filter is just too much work. There were always some for whom editing a .killfile was too much.
Wasn't Softbank an investor in WeWork? [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-20/wework-st...
Hacker News has a great community, features informative discourse, and doesn't suffer from the ailments that you list (or suffers from them much less than Twitter).

Therefore we should invite all Twitter users to join our healthy community. Everybody wins.

Edit: I hoped it would be obvious, but the second sentence of this comment was supposed to be sarcastic.
If you are thinking alternative to twitter. You first think concept rather than tech stack. Because tech is not a problem today. You can select or create what you needs about tech. Twitter does not offer tech.
They are different classes of launch vehicles. This payload is not really a good one for starship, and conversely, starlinks will never fly on heavy
I think the right to be forgotten is one of the worst things we've lost in the modern Internet era. People should be allowed to say/do something stupid when they are young without it coming back to bite them when they are older.

Within reason -- for example: pictures from college parties. There's no reason why these should be forever accessible. A nice, graceful decay on some data would make sense.
Capitalism is trying to move to a model where everyone is atomically isolated, an independent contractor making anonymous sales in a marketplace. That means lawyers, contracts, and rigid rules and documentation. The more pure a market is, the more lawyers and rules you need to make it work. The goal is to eliminate the kind of fluid high trust social networks that characterized work life in the past. Partly because if everything is more rigid, it's easier to exert control, partly to prevent things like unions from forming. They want a perfectly abstracted workforce, free from the messy details that force you to treat your workforce as made up of people. Notice that we went from "personnel" to "human resources" to "human capital management". That's the Ayn Rand utopian dream made real. The idea is to turn people into units of production to be bought and sold, and you can't have a market for a commodity unless they are all the same. So, you must be made identical, so that the price of labor means something. Every criticism leveled against systems of control in the book "Seeing Like a State" apply to capitalism too. When people talk about a free market, remember that they're talking about a free market for labor more than anything else. You are the product in this scenario, not the customer.

But even here, the purity of the labor market is hampered by rules designed to protect the laborer- osha rules, overtime rules, rules about how much a person can be controlled, and so forth. If you eliminate all those, and focus only on the making labor freely able to be bought and sold, you can begin to see what a completely pure free market for abstracted, commodity labor would look like.

It is this: The most pure example of a free market for labor is a slave auction.
Ethical design is a risk management strategy
I'd say this.

There are two reasons why you would use a higher compressing image format.

(1) To save network bandwidth, (2) to save storage.

Adding AVIF, WebP, and JPEG XL to a JPG file help with (1). To help with (2) you have to be able to replace the JPG with something new. Supporting more than one new file format is counterproductive.

It took me years to decide WebP was well-supported enough to be worth using but until very recently it still got a major caveat

https://caniuse.com/webp

that "Safari 14.0 – 15.6 has full support of WebP, but requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later."

With new image formats Apple decides it is a reason why you should buy a new machine and decides not to add a decoder to the library that works with older processors.
Always inspiring to see the work spacex is doing!
Redesign of Swiss passport (now with maps inside)
no not the stiffener but in the shot were you can see the stiffener at stage separation you can see the cables flying around too.
> https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/ Turn any XMPP client into that fancy multiprotocol chat app that every cool kid want.

Nice, didn't know this exists. Thanks for the link.
Ask HN: Devs of dual-license OSS, how do track “free” usage?
Posting again for (hopefully) a wider reach this time.

Developers of open-source software tools/packages under a dual license, how do you track who is using your "free" software so as to sell the commercial license?
> I may never write a bash script again

I wrote 2x 200 line-ish shell scripts recently, and it was simply terrible, and although I'm increasingly convinced we need a shell like abstraction, I can't believe `bash` is the best we can do. Really hope I find one of these alt shells that suits me. Not a fan of Python but xonsh looks really cool too.
I just checked my app, it does not. Seems like an account is required to email upload routes maybe? Which would make sense. But seems like no login needed for most functionality.
It seems that Seagate's reputation still has not changed.
> only consume the content that aligns with their views

And for this reason I believe social media is fundamentally harmful to society.
That doesn't mean your house would be build like it's 1920 if it were build right now.

Besides I didn't really mean "normal" houses. But rather large buildings which have complex ventilation, sunlight, climate control and sustainability requirements. There has been a lot of innovation in that space. And it shows in the office buildings that are build today.
> surveys to find the "why" and how we might be able to fix it or avoid it from happening again

A 2-party system will always create polarization and lead to black/white thinking in all aspects of life I think.

As a European moving to USA, the part I miss most about back home is the willingness to think of all issues as “Well there’s 5+ sides to this, let’s discuss”. I think that outlook stems directly from our multiparty system where you usually have more than 5 parties in power who need to debate and come to a conclusion.

In Europe, even the fringiest of movements (like the pirate party) often get at least 1 seat in parliament. This may be more symbolic than practical, but it does lead to there being at least someone, somewhere, who says “Yo, this has an impact on fair use! We should discuss”

edit: To expand on why I think this is the why, I’ve found that non-US Twitter is a lot less polarized. There’s the occasional hot button issue that a politician brings up to start a fight, yes, but on US twitter everything gets polarized.

edit2: Perhaps the easiest solution is to ban politicians from Twitter. They’re the ones usually starting shit and trolling for a ruckus.
My take on VR is that it's great for creating an ambiance that would be very expensive in reality. For instance I can and do watch movies in large fancy VR theaters while at home I have a regular TV. Certainly, there are lots of quibbles around that with sound, resolution, when you have multiple people, etc.

I keep trying to use it for work but it's just not there yet. I find it easier to talk to strangers in person than in VR for some reason. It seems to me like it's going to be a long slog until VR is ubiquitous. I think it was too soon for Meta to bet the company on.
I've heard good things about New Zealand real estate. I'm guessing spiraling prices are why you'd want to leave?
> So like I said. It's complicated seeing it on HN. on one hand I want the world to know this technology that sadly we left behind and seem hellbent on reinventing. On the other hand, a lot of you guys suck now, and are too capable for the amount of forethought you have.

First of all, as interesting and divergent as Plan 9 was, I think you overestimate it's potential for popularity, No doubt due to your seemingly fetishistic regard for it. I think the particular brand of HN user you are "worried" about is probably never going to be interested in contributing to the Plan 9 ecosystem, so you can relax knowing your "baby" will likely be left alone.

Secondly, I've been in a lot of hobbyist communities that have all gone through their respective changes over the years. It's this particular brand of high and mighty "you lack the necessary taste to appreciate this" kind of attitude that I have found most distasteful and counter-productive to these communities. The thing that kills these communities is business types trying to capitalise, and sanctimonious die-hards, not a bunch of newbies.

Let the kids have fun, stop being a fuddy duddy.

> I'll take my downvotes in a to-go box, as usual.

Take this too, ruminating might be a refreshing change of pace for you.
Very curious to revisit this in a few months and see if it still stands
Imagine the anger as some 18 year-old from the U.S dropshots your best friend.
And for some reason seeing 2 land at the same time is a 100 times cooler. Seems like coolness is non-linear.
I have absolutely fallen in love with FreeBSD after Debian and Arch stopped being what I wanted.

It feels closer to what I wanted than a proper Linux.
Sure - I'm just saying that the article is right that this problem is difficult, not easy, and that it doesn't get significantly easier if we accurately keep track.
NYC Salary Transparency Starts Today [pdf]
All companies with 1 or more employees in NYC are required to provide base salaries on job postings starting today. Supposedly NYC is going to start fining companies who aren't in compliance starting Dec 1.
That's an interesting project to attempt. An issue that should be considered is that pipes can only pass plain text. So every command should import/export structured text which may impact performance and limit capabilities when compared to a shell that can pipe objects.
As I said in another comment, I was on the base for this launch and landing. We were standing at the SpaceX Hangar AO which is about 4km from the landing site. There may have been closer personnel, but the majority of us on-base were around there.

The tourists viewing the launch were scattered around the Cape, with the most popular spot being here: https://goo.gl/maps/ohaudmEggCLmr7gu8
Which is about 13 km from the landing site.
Softbank lighting hundreds of billions of Saudi money on fire makes them a global treasure as far as I'm concerned.
HN is still viable because it hasn't reached the masses. The self policing works well currently, but I'm not sure it would with the general populace
Not yet, but it is on my todo list. There are multiple projects/companies/groups that I am the bus factor of 1 for any of the technical parts (hosting, code repository, etc). This is a real concern to ensure they continue on without me, and hit me hard one night when I had to be rescued from a flood.

I am a paying customer of Bitwarden, so that's the easiest path for me, but I like complicated things.

My plan is to use Shamir's Secret Sharing. Specifically I was thinking of using Klaus Post's Reed-Solomon (golang) which is a port of Backblazes JavaReedSolomon. One could perform an All-or-nothing Transformation first depending on the security level needed.

The primary advantage of this compared to Emergency Access with Bitwarden is that it isn't reliant on a single person surviving me. I would give my wife the emergency access, but if we became incapacitated at the same time (almost happened in the flood), then other trusted people can come together to assemble the keys to unlock the data.

Additionally I can give different people different weights. Perhaps my wife and my mom have enough keys by themselves to unlock, or maybe just a couple or a few keys short. Whereas my trusted friends have enough keys that would require X amount of them to agree to unlock my vault, and people that have an incentive to kill me have the least amount of keys :)

I would likely just store my password to my Bitwarden account, my email account, and my note-taking application. That way I don't need to update it except when I need to change the password. Which is also how I could revoke someone from holding a key, change my password and re-run RS and redistribute keys. Realistically if you gain access to my Bitwarden then you have the keys to the other places, but not necessarily the ability to pass a 2 Factor Authentication, so I could include recovery codes for 2FA.

There is no reason I couldn't have multiple vaults for different things with different levels of keys needed to open, so for a non-profit I work with it only takes a few key people to come together to unlock but only gets them access to stuff relevant for that organization.

If someone loses a key, or it gets corrupted, it just takes more people to agree to use their key to gain access.

In addition to death, something could happen to cause me to forget my master password, but otherwise I'm still capable of doing things. So it is also a backup for myself.
It can be directly attributed to people studying the stats - but it had been known for years that "going for it on 4th" was statistically better. But coaches were loathe to do it because if they did, and failed, they'd get yelled at for not doing it "normally", and if they succeeded nobody would notice.

It took quite awhile for that logjam to break.
Or placed an inflated basketball in the fuel tank when it was going to be measured for capacity, only to deflate the basketball for the race.

Or load the car with cold (more dense) fuel.

Or (allegedly) race a 15/16ths scale car with a matching 15/16ths scale street car strategically parked in the track parking lot so the scrutineers could compare against a stock car and see that it matched.

Or built a race engine with the correct size cylinder in the easiest to measure location and oversized cylinders in every other position.

Other racers had special lead-filled radios and overweight helmets that would be in the car for tech, then get changed out before qualifying. Or lead shot filled in the frame rails and a wax seal or threaded fitting to keep it in. Darrell Waltrip tells a hilarious story where the threaded seal was in the jack point and NASCAR jacked the car to go look for it. Moving bars of Mallory (tungsten, basically) from the right to left after passing tech. Another racer was caught with a 22 gallon tank (20 was the limit at the time), apologized and agreed to change it. (He changed it to a 28 gallon tank.)
Hm, why not? I see a missed opportunity here
> The racist shitheads will find their spaces, but they only start to multiply when they're able to wheedle their fearmongering propaganda in front of people who wouldn't otherwise want anything to do with them.

The problem with this approach is group polarization [0], the tendency for groups with similar opinions to become more extreme and entrenched over time. The danger posed by bigots is not just from their numbers, but also the degree of violence used to enforce their bigotry. In addition, having pre-established communication makes it easier to organize violence, even with a small proportion of the population.

I don't have a solution to these problems, as much as I wish I did, but wanted to bring them up as issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_polarization
Or picketed so their speech is drowned out, or even punched in the nose by passers by.

You can argue if this is good or bad, but it’s a fundamental difference between the public square and digital recreations: in the real world, speech can have meaningful consequences. In the Twitter world, you create a new profile.
why do they alias all this stuff. Remove Item is _not_ rm. It's so stupid. Like when they aliased wget and curl to some nonsense web request command and everybody complained that it didn't work.

I'll never use PowerShell. Just way too many bad decisions all over the place.
Keep assertions on even in production unless you have compelling arguments for the opposite. E.g. people might die if the process terminates.
Error messages are great, autocomplete works out of the box, and commands ArentCamelCaseMonstrocitiesOnlyMicrosoft --CouldLove.
Thanks a lot! I'd love to hear how it goes if you actually use it in the wild.

I'm actually using a plugin[1] that handles elevation and slope graphing. Adding slope to the graph is as simple as adding a line in the configuration.

I only intend this to be a boilerplate for others to start their own projects. I'm not sure how much active development I'll do on it, but I'm certainly open to PRs that make it better.

[1]: https://raruto.github.io/leaflet-elevation/
Security Belongs in the Hands of the User
Practice. Put enough time into an input device and it becomes second nature.
Do you have any source for this? I would expect that a FH launch that reuses all 3 first stage cores would be cheaper than an expended F9. A few hundred thousand extra in fuel costs for the side boosters is cheaper than the few million dollars that the 9 expended engines would cost.

But I still believe you -- the infrequency of an FH launch probably increases the ancillary costs. I'd just like to see your source.
There are very few leftist politicians in power, and nearly zero in the US. Kshama Sawant, for sure. And who else? Maaaaaybe AOC and the "progressive caucus"?
Section 8 inspects your house to make sure you're cleaning your room? that seems... strange