skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Over the summer, when Musk was still trying to wriggle out of buying Twitter, his lawyers filed a countersuit against the company that included a grab-bag of justifications for scuttling the deal. One of the claims went largely unnoticed in the United States but caught my eye: His lawyers argued that Twitter had engaged in “risky litigation against the Indian government,” and put one of the largest markets in jeopardy.

> Musk is either exceptionally naïve or willfully ignorant about the relationship between government power and free speech, especially in fragile democracies. That should worry anyone who cares about the future of free expression on the internet for billions of people. The combination of a rigid commitment to following national laws and a hands-off approach to content moderation is combustible and highly dangerous.

> Twitter has historically fought against censorship. Whether that will continue under Musk seems very much a question. The Indian government has reasons to expect friendly treatment: Musk’s company Tesla has been trying to enter the Indian car market for some time, but in May it hit an impasse in negotiations with the government over tariffs and other issues. India’s Economic Times reported last month that one of Musk’s other companies, SpaceX, would seek government permission to offer its Starlink satellite internet service there.

Yikes.
The only thing harmful was the registration price hike.

That page, I can’t figure out what it is trying to say. I think I know but I’m not sure.
How dare that guy have a clear opinion that he's willing to back up with reasons!

Way better than Dijkstra being pithy about everything.
Sadly no, but still get a lot of wear out of R5. I have it on this BeBox and on a 6500/275 that I'm trying to figure out sound issues on.
>Mastodon still has like four users compared to any of the major social networks. Fix it now even if it takes a breaking change before it hurts more later,

It's already too late. It should have been fixed before Twitter nose-dived. Coming up with a replacement at this point isn't going to work: the Mastodon name is already out there, and this is the time when an alternative has to be ready and usable: it's first-mover advantage.

>There is a clear path to adding things like DKIM or SPF. First you...

So why hasn't this been done yet? We've had decades.

>The problem with email is that the major providers don't want to do more things like that

Exactly my point. Email *can't* be fixed at this point because of first-mover advantage. Incumbents don't want to fix it. Users moved to email because it was available when they were ready, and it was the best alternative at the time.

Mastodon is likely in the same place now. Something better doesn't exist yet, and doesn't have any name recognition. Mastodon itself can't be fixed because the designers like it how it is: if they wanted a better design, they would have designed it that way from the outset. So if Mastodon catches on, we're stuck with it as-is.
I just tested https://astria.ai and impressed with the results. Curious how this is different.
Right, so I get that this is a joke, but it's a content-free one. What are the bad things you think are associated with .com domains, exactly? Nothing comes to mind like what the linked article discusses about .io. As far as I know, .com is an entirely boring generic namespace, that doesn't have the same kinds of security/colonialism issues that the link says that .io has.
The way to profit from gluts and squeezes is to warehouse products. Warehousing perishable products is much harder.

If you store the products in containers, it's easier to ship them when there's a squeeze, and you're also warehousing containers ;)

Of course, the more people who buy the glut and sell the squeeze, the less of a glut and a squeeze there is.
It's a goofy blog post and title in which the author is attempting to woke mob io TLD so I pointed it out.
Unless you have a crystal ball I’m not sure how one can do better?

The alternative is forcing some slack in the supply chain but that comes at a significant cost to consumers.

Not sure about you, but I’d rather pay less not more for things, even if it means a temporary price increase or even shortage.
Flight Simulator 1975
I was wondering how Flight Simulators worked in the 70's, was pleasantly surprised. Really creative solution for the visual feedback.
They did.

The initial CPU target for BeOS was the AT&T H0BB1T DSP. The alpha copies were called Shark. I actually have system images for the hobbit builds still floating around somewhere. I never did get my hands on a prototype hobbit bebox, sadly. I almost bought one off a guy in France but the deal fell apart.

Be produced a regular PowerPC version that could be installed on Macs (I think it may have required PCI macs?) and then an x86 version that was 32bit only and had a lot of ... quirks. But I used it for over a decade.
I imagine you've never been screwed by a university.
My third time taking thermodynamics I think I finally got it.

It was honestly just finally throwing up my hands and asking the professor directly, "what is the motivation for all these partial differential equations".

They said, "because it lets us calculate values we want to know from things we can easily measure."

Literally the entire field clicked at that point. Third time taking the course. Sure, I got fine grades the first two times, but since they were all split thermo and stat mech I think I made up a lot of it with stat mech since that came more naturally than PDEs.
Bird potentially insolvent after overstating revenue for 2 years
I wonder if they will ever target such an old ISA.

What are your sound problems? I only briefly used BeOS on an actual mac and it, amazingly enough, worked without a hitch.
'Mating in Captivity' by Esther Perel is also quite good in terms of realizing whether you can meet the Needs of your partner and what to do if you cant.
It stands to reason that, in a cultural & political environment that encourages bubbles, fediverse would evolve into a bunch of several such bubbles - federating within each other, but not outside. Eventually, I hope we'll see some "frontier" servers that could be federated by different sides to serve as a meeting place for the brave souls.
I think there is a space to say that the author has moral issues with sites associated with a TLD… but there’s not technical harm occurring, like malicious software, viruses and etc.
A mistake I've seen is when they try to suppress criticism as oppose to harness it.

A classic thing I saw moderating in the original Valve forums was the first time poster going on the all caps rant. 9 times out of 10 you could just talk to them calmly and turn them into an ally and make them know someone was actually listening. All they wanted was to be heard.
I run a prolific .io domain... well, I used to, until we bought the .com! I think all domains could be considered "bad" for the exact same reasons listed in this article (".com" stands for commercial, all domains are rented even if you "own" it, and have you seen how bad ICANN is??).

But more importantly, I by-default approach all articles that are titled "____ considered harmful" with trepidation. I think it's a cheap trope to avoid just saying "I don't like this". People have different opinions and it's such a distancing way to state your opinions without having to own them.

(All that being said, this was a delightful post and I genuinely enjoyed the format!)
What is the Difference between px, rem and em?
Many modern web pages are extremely bloated. Consider all the videos on an ad-heavy website. Often there are hundreds of http requests.

A beginner’s video game will be relatively lightweight in the sense of not having a lot of large assets, and what they have is pre-loaded.
Seeing a lot of people in the comments here who have purchased an io domain.
Is there research to support your thesis?
We don’t know internal conversations to be fair and we’re mostly (only) putting together datapoints that we see on Twitter.
I found it difficult to understand the reasoning on that page to object to a TLD.
There is quite literally nothing "woke" about using "they" to refer to someone in a gender neutral way. That term is really overused nowadays.

Either way, I suppose "he/she" could be used instead if that really is an issue?
Does uniswap actually have a pair with USD, or is it "USD" that's actually a token someone else promises is redeemable for USD?
Sure, I completely agree on this one - AI generated faces have been pretty decent for years now. The quality is currently in some weird space: with careful preselection they can fool unsuspecting reader passing by and yet at the same time reader looking for fakes will detect them (given high enough size/quality) with high confidence.
Aha! I am mildly surprised I remembered that correctly as I hadn't thought about it in yeeears.

Thanks for the info :)

Is there any memoir, book, whatever detailing out decisions on the hardware? Like why did they go with the 603? etc?

I really wish there was some deep-dive book on the early history. I can't (well, couldnt. Havent looked in a while) find much info on the original hobbit based system.
It is absolutely massive at my org.

The comms team religiously using it, and the ‘what’s happening’ digest being on by default meaning posts are surfaced in to people’s inboxes regularly until they unsubscribe means everyone knows about it.
> But association is not transitive

People are always trying to do this, though. But if you carry it far enough, we're all associated with everyone else and therefore with whoever the literal worst person in the world is right now.
they key difference between .com and .io is that .com stands for "commercial" and .io stands for "indian ocean" - a territory which was occupied

the association is stronger because the occupation of indian ocean territory translated directly into occupation of the .io domain.

> This line should tell you everything you need to know.

that i'm funny & don't take myself that seriously, yep :3
An example of a UI toolkit that does do this is https://jpro.one which renders JavaFX apps to HTML. They use it for their whole website and even their documentation. It works fairly well except if you go offline and lose the connection to the server.
What evidence have you seen of jealousy towards Elon Musk, and what do you think people are jealous of?
I'd say the Rails community has been a flat-line somewhat... but not diminished. Yes, it may not have been the hottest framework, but it's been rolling forward consistently and actively.
“It’s like the moon” was my exact answer when my wife asked how I liked the trip to this place. Found it to be exaggeratedly rough and dry. I wouldn’t choose to live there. Imagine Mars and the moon would be a lot heavier going.
So glad you found The Story of Async JS helpful! Appreciate the shout-out.
> So, like .com domains?

What does this mean?
You know I think by publishing their opinion on their website they very well may be owning it. I'm not sure they're trying to avoid owning this opinion. The "considered harmful" thing is an old tech meme that I think they're playing for laughs more than avoiding imaginary liability.
it can play MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT THE SAME TIME (!)
Checkout my business for AI text generation https://text-generator.io !

Apologies for owning said domain, I worked at a domain name registry... Attesting to the other comments that it's a metaverse/nft/digital property style pyramid scheme like most things and they do tend to be owned by "evil capitalists who do hostile takeovers".

Even the web3 name tokens I'd assume there's someone who minted a whole bunch of tokens for themselves before launching.

You can buy names that are no dollar markup on CloudFlare which still gives money to the registries but at least that skips the bottom layers of the pyramid
Usually I'd expect attempts to appropriate the "considered harmful" cachet to at least try to be a bit classy.
The downloads page has the list of supported devices, but neither of those two you mention are supported.

For a copy of the stock OS you can usually find it on the vendors website.
Also RISC OS
PayPal ending 'refunded return-shipping' on US program
.io only exists as a logical entity BECAUSE the British and US militaries forcibly evicted the indigenous residents of the indian ocean islands.

The "British Indian Ocean Territory" is an absolutely artificial political construct as a direct result of foreign occupation and take over of peoples' traditional territories without their consent. It's not even something that happened very long ago, solid documentary records exist of everything that happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_expulsion_of_the_Chagos...

From a strictly utilitarian military/strategic point of view Diego Garcia does occupy a very unique location in the world as an air base. But they sure could have built out its facilities in the post-WW2 era without just trampling all over the locals.

If a similar thing was an absolute necessity to build now in the modern era the locals would probably get massive economic subsidies, job training, electricity, air conditioning, modular prefab housing, etc and remain on their islands..
The idea that you can do category theory over any kind of thing as an arrow may be true as a matter of formal mathematical logic, but it's very much not intuitive in the way that it is for sets. If we wanted to work with tables, chairs, and beer mugs, it's very natural and easy to think about forming sets of beer mugs - a beer mug might either be a member of a set, or not, and this doesn't seem to require anything of it. For a group you need a binary operation and inverses, so this feels a bit more complex and abstract than a set (indeed the way I was taught, a group is a set plus some additional structure), but it's still fairly direct and understandable what kind of things satisfy the group axioms (if I had some rule for merging two beer mugs, and some kind of inverse - obviously this is unphysical, but it's at least imagineable). Whereas for a category it's just impossible to get started - should my beer mugs be objects or arrows? Presumably objects (since beer mugs are objects in the conventional sense), but then what are the arrows?
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that using VC money to dump scooters in random cities and then pay people to run around and pick them up in trucks to charge them is not a sound business practice.
Firsr off, sorry for your loss, regardless of your history I can only imagine it must have a severe impact on you.

To what you are saying: I agree. But I want to add that there is journalism and there is "news". Social media or not one should only consume news from reliable and responsible journalists.

HN is as much of social media I use. I use to lurk reddit daily, quitting that habbit has helped me so much! I can't believe how hooked I was and I was only lurking! At least on HN there is quality and educational content.
.io owner detected
Apache Tomcat, a casual acquaintance of the local tomboy.
.oz wasn't actually Internet DNS. Australia developed its own domestic inter-university network (ACSnet), running a locally-developed protocol (MHSnet) which was conceptually similar to UUCP, but incompatible with it. [0] In some ways, ACSnet could be compared to BITNET, CSNET, Coloured Book-era JANET, etc.

In 1989, AARNet was launched as a replacement for ACSnet, connecting Australia's universities using TCP/IP, and to the global Internet. ACSnet was grandfathered into AARNet, by moving *.oz to *.oz.au. And the oz.au domain still exists, although it has long been closed to new registrants – the main oz.au site I know of which still exists is ftp://munnari.oz.au – an anonymous FTP server (I believe run by the University of Melbourne), most of the contents of which hasn't been touched in years, you might say it is preserved for posterity. Also one individual who somehow has an .oz.au for his personal website http://danny.oz.au/ (I think his background in university IT likely explains how he got it)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet see also https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/
This is a critical question for those who maintain domains for personal email setups.
https://www.applemust.com/here-is-why-apples-steve-jobs-love...
I mean, robotic arms (depending on what you mean by them) have been making cars on assembly lines for decades.
What about profit off another person's capital? What rate should that be taxed at?
I will _never_ understand sinking money into a mobile game like that. Blows my mind. Couldn't even be worth the effort.
From PayPal

> Starting November 27th, 2022, PayPal will no longer provide Refunded Returns or accept refund requests for return shipping costs. Make sure to submit any eligible claims before the above date to help ensure they get received and reviewed as usual. [1]

[1]: https://www.paypal.com/au/smarthelp/article/what-is-paypal-r...
Help: I solved the Collatz Problem, what do I do now?
I developed two proofs for the Collatz Conjucture. What do I do now to claim fame and prize money?
I think .TK can give every other TLD a run for its money since domain registration is free and it is a haven for scams of every sort.
tbh, i hope so!
Sleeping with light pollution linked to diabetes, study says
Every day I learn something new that Apple does that sucks.

They're an absolutely terrible company, and are actively ruining something I love which is general purpose computing with the user as owner. Fuck Apple.
No doubt... they were very unique, moreso than the G4s (IMO). Still haven't come across a good deal on one, but surely one day I shall! ... hopefully! haha :)
Wow, this person doesn't get it. You can tell when they start talking about 'market based approach'.
Cloudflare Workers scale broke our infrastructure, rebuilding it on Workers
Why not Nim, C#, Java or Julia? Or php for that matter? Familiarity, libraries, community support.
What a dense comment for a number of different reasons.

1) I don't need to be personally impacted to know the impact that robotic arms have. What kind of example is that?

2) Why are you assuming I'm a westerner? I come from one of the poorest countries in the world where remittances essentially prop the entire economy up. The fact the only use case you can come up with is a hypothetical backdoor to failing banking systems is exactly why crypto is a sham. Are you even listening to yourself?

More crypto-bro nonsense. Wake me up when a single useful company emerges from Crypto. I'll wait.
This comment has to be a joke, right?
The thing is that having an account open at all is presumably because you intend to use PayPal at some point in the future. They could keep an account in an 'inactive' state but then that just moves the identity requirement further along to whenever the user tries to check out with PayPal once or move money.
Mostly a fan of Musk but his Twitter obsession and the narcissistic behaviors Twitter encourages have taken him down a couple of notches for me personally. It is one thing to cultivate a certain persona to achieve a goal but it is quite a bit different when you actually start to believe your own BS. I believe he has crossed that line. If Twitter disappeared tomorrow free speech would continue to exist - people would use another service to spread misinformation, sell pimple cream or whatever.

He is not Tony Stark and we (humans on planet earth) don't really need one. Time he caught a self driving Tesla back to Reality Ville.
What is a median private school tuition? I doubt it's very high, I know someone who taught in an extremely wealthy-focused and exclusive private school and the tuition was $35k/year. In contrast, New York state schools appear to spend $25-30k per year per pupil [0 summarizing 1][2] and gets... far, far worse results.

You could say that private schools would attempt to serve anyone they can (just like any business), but public schools rob them of the opportunity. In this system, only the rich can escape, while non-rich get stuck with a botched socialized system at taxpayers' expense. Donating to allow more people to escape the public schools is thus a great cause.

[0] https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-ny-school-spendi...
[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/econ/school-finances...
[2] https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/ny-per-pupil-schoo...
Which itself has been renamed a few times. Until the British fired incendiary cannonballs to burn it down just before a blizzard. This demonstration of force helped unite the colonists in their support for revolution. When rebuilding, Falmouth became Portland.
"Crypto solves hyperinflation" - lol, so does gold. What a joke.
Owned by...you guessed it! The Internet Computer Bureau Ltd!
I'm certainly more likely to know people at a random large company, but I know a lot of people in the industry to various degrees from we've met at a conference to I've worked with them. If I were thinking of applying somewhere, one of my first steps would be figuring out who I knew there. I won't automatically refer someone if I don't think they'd be a good fit but if I know them well enough to have a positive opinion about them, I'll let them know what I know or can find out and put in a referral.
‘Out of control’ Tesla Model Y crash in China leaves two dead
I had trouble reading this because of the crazy indentation scheming. My eye kept getting drawn to something else.
Meta, on presentation:

You’ve capped the width at 750px, but use up to 83 columns of monospace. This leaves it assuming that each column is no more than 9px wide, but this may in fact not be true. I, for example, have boosted the size from the stupid historical customary value of 13px to the more sensible 16px, which, combined with my chosen monospace face Triplicate, takes 9.6px per column, and so I get some undesirable wrapping. Here’s what should be done instead (assuming 83 columns, though I suspect you actually want to rewrap the sole line where that occurs and go down to 80, and incidentally the other line that’s 80 could be subjectively prettier with manually-chosen line breaks aligning with punctuation rather than line length, starting a new line for each of the two “_and_”s):

#main, #header, aside {
font-family: monospace;
max-width: 83ch;
}

In related news, I think this is the first time in at least a decade that I’ve come across an actually interestingly useful use of monospace in a web page and felt no particular inclination to substitute in serif and breathe a sigh of relief at how much more readable it becomes, which is what I would normally do. If you’re going to go monospace, do something interesting with it like this!
This is extremely interesting. Is there a good book you recommend on this topic?
> the feeling that I could choose to do whatever I wanted

That feeling is an illusion. This has been demonstrated with brain scans. By the time you feel like you are making a decision your brain has already made it and you are just becoming aware of it.

It's actually possible to turn off that feeling, to do without the illusion of free will. Your body keeps moving and doing "all the things" but you are totally non-agential, just watching it, along for the ride. It's fun and deeply relaxing once you get used to it.

(Note that this does nothing to resolve the question of free will. Your conscious mind doesn't have free will, but that doesn't mean your unconscious mind necessarily doesn't have it.)
About the writing style, it may only be that they are very young.
> is there any precedent?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#...

The following list of ccTLDs have been deleted after the associated country was withdrawn from ISO-3166-1: .cs (Czechoslovakia), .zr (Zaire), .tp (East Timor).

It has happened before and could happen again. There are also some, like .su (soviet union), being actively phased out which will probably be deleted in only a matter of time.

If io is withdrawn from ISO-3166-1, we may see the ccTLD be deleted as soon as 2150 I think.