skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957321 - July 2022 (188 comments)
Who is owning the WebRing brand now? I would be happy to discuss ways to bring it back in the modern web!
Walking is hunting. We were, we are hunters on the savannah, we watched, we searched, we centered in on something.

Have a stick with you and a notebook, a paper one. The paper notebook reminds you of the prey and provides the method to scribble idea hooks.

Think of the solutions tried so far as trail. Go on walks hungry, do not eat while walking.
Except in Nebraska.
Why is there no Ruby web framework in the most iconic benchmark [0]?

[0]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#
Do you mean fintech? Might be 20 years late to put the brakes on that one.
> No kids

Ah, that's the secret. Too late for me. :)
The toyota model actually uses the reduced slack to see what products need to have what amount of slack early.

Most companies seem to not know that nuance.
Interesting. I've only bought car in EU (in Mitsubishi dealership in Poland) and it was BY FAR the best customer service I've received in my life. The salesman was thoughtful, listened to me carefully, knew the product well, didn't try to push anything on me. It was pure pleasure. I was kind of sad that one has to spend $15k in order to warrant a customer experience this good.
About Linus, I've migrated some people to Debian purely because they managed to fuck up the Ubuntu (or one of its flavours) upgrade somehow... and those were not linux-illiterate people. I dunno what it is but Ubuntu have weirdly higher rate of fuckups on upgrade than we've seen with Debian. Hell, it even survived that one time one of our admins upgraded by 2 releases of debian at once...

Might be conjecture based on small sample size I have for Debian, but what Linus was doing shouldn't really fuck anything up... Steam package in Debian "just installed"
StandardML or maybe OCaml
I am very curious as to who is telling the New York Times that this is currently an "allowed"/desirable topic to publish on? A few short months ago this was a taboo to speak on, for the fear of being cancelled/deplatformed/etc... Is it Ok to have this discussion now? Who makes these decisions?
Hey Putin, where you gonna run to?
Sending someone money with a note is classic money laundering?
I'm not sure how that meets the pattern of money laundering any more than it meets the pattern of someone having a birthday.
The blade bending at insane angles is the result of post-accident engineering to make sure this doesn't happen again at international levels. Training foils and beginner foils are made of cheaper steel that is a lot stiffer and breaks a lot sharper -- you are not allowed to fence in certain levels of competition with them at all.

Also, historical swords also could get very floppy with just the right amount of force...the movies lie to you somewhat.
I suppose. I’ve also got 20x the followers on Twitter because I’ve been using it actively for years, but I’ve only recently started using mastodon. I can certainly say I’ve learned more about mastodon from posts on mastodon, but in this instance a user from twitter was helpful. Notably that user is also on mastodon. I’ll have to check to see if we’re following each other there. Every day I find more of my twitter friends on mastodon, and it’s a lovely feeling.
In one study I read, >97% of children who identified as trans changed their mind as they reached adulthood, and the majority were just homosexual.

There is literally no such thing as a ‘trans’ person. It’s medically and scientifically unproven. Political correctness is having a massive toll on these kids and everyone is too cowardly to stop it.
Wouldn't just debit card be enough ? My bank have "internet card" feature where card has its sub-account I need to charge before any payment goes thru
Also I have 20x the followers on Twitter because I’ve been using it longer! And I still get a lot out of mastodon.
Uniswap, AAVE, MakerDAO traders will disagree with you.

I am one of these people: I had funds locked into a CEX, was lucky to pull them out some days before turmoil but others not so lucky. During that time my DeFi holdings were fine. I would now rather take on protocol risk of something established and proven like Uniswap, instead of risking with an unregulated CEX.
Two of his quotes that were logically inconsistent with each other. I forgot the exact ones and can't search them right now but that was it.
> The fee will be the lesser of the account balance or €10 EUR (270 CZK, 3600 HUF) as applicable*.

I just love it so much when there is a footnote star, but no corresponding footnote.
What Happened at Alameda Research
Jeff Bezos says he’ll donate bulk of $124B fortune
https://fencing.net/66/ukrainian-junior-dies-after-accident/

Always wear your plastron!
Oh, right, cheques still exist... I use banking for 15 years and haven't seen one in person here.
>Felt bad for the guy as it was his new blade bought off ebay. Although saying that I need get back in to the sport.

Non Fencer: So what is fencing like?
Fencer: lots of electrical work and buying blades...
Check/Checkmate does not apply here

Good. The entire check system is a pointless bolt-on esotericism. Not being able to place your king in check has never improved a single game of chess.
https://archive.ph/glqDL
It's not the walking itself, it's just that walking gets you away from other people
FTX Showed the Problems of Centralized Finance, and Proved the Need for DeFi
That's a good one. I also like 'hole'.
Who Owns Spotify?
I haven't seen any instances of the EU really enforcing anti-trust law effectively. They're levied some large fines and made some money that way, but it hasn't changed anything.
I happen to quite like searching by name in my gigantic iphone photo collection. Why is my cool toy taken away? What goal does that serve?
Gender Dysphoria is definitely real and transitioning has made life a whole lot more bearable for many, many people.

That's not to say that self-diagnoses of Gender Dysphoria should be taken at face value, or that it's always in the best interest to send a young person down the path of transitioning, but at the same time there is a population for which transitioning can greatly improve quality of life.
> That said, they’re still scum and nobody should use PayPal, ever, for anything. I work in fintech - if you’re using PayPal and need recommendations to replace it, reply with your use case and I’ll respond.

....I'd imagine most of that would be "paying for stuff that has paypal as only payment method", or otherwise alternative being putting your CC information on the site you will use once and never again, and hoping that they have better security than paypal.

And the rest being "well I want to give my user easy way to pay for stuff and paypal is just that"
it had a Superbowl ad and a stadium in Miami named for itself for a year and a half now. It's been making such an obscene amount of hype that saying "i personally have never heard of them so this must be overblown" is not a very convincing argument.
Maybe. But why are there laws that prohibit companies from selling directly to customers?
That implication wasn't clear to me, from reading the article.
so what ? the parent asked for a web browser. nyxt is rendering-engine agnostic by design

otoh how much rust is there in firefox? a:

https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/
No one is having fun, and that's okay
That's a bit extreme. I'd prefer something in between: stopping Putin but without escalating to nuclear war. Pretty much what's going on right now. It's not great, but it's the least bad option; preferable to nuclear war or genocide.
More pragmatic _and_ RISC-er.
An episode of the BBC Radio programme "In Our Time" discussed this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v59gz
Do you really feel that Uniswap is better run with sqlite on a Raspberry Pi? If so, you are advocating for putting your money into a CEX, because somebody has to own and control that database and physical device.
How would it make anything better? If you could, you'd just be voluntarily losing the game.
Damn, I visited when it was at like 7,999,998,000 and thought I could catch the switch as well, but I missed it.
This looks awesome and your demo has already created quite the stir in our company Slack chat this morning. Just yesterday we were discussing how we can finally close the gap between Slack messages and a ticketing system.

One question - how does it deal with people sending 5 separate messages on the same "issue" - we unfortunately have a bunch of clients that seem to be allergic to Slack's thread feature...
My stepson has one- and I was astonished how good it is. I can’t say I’ve thought about it at length but at face value it seems a marvel. Is the logic for such a thing trivial and widely available?
The opposite. The FTX case proved why regulation of financial institutions is crucial to protect the public's funds.
I still separate my trash because even though my plastic will probably end on the landfill, my municipality does process organic materials into compost, and plastic added to the mix burns CO2 on the separation plant. But yes, if it all ends up in a landfill anyway where you live sorting out the trash is a waste of effort
Teenage Engineering raises first VC funding, after 15 years of bootstrapping
Actually, I'm pretty calm - I can't say the same about the super excited users of Mastodon in the near future though! And, honestly, all this "movement" or "exodus" being based on Elon Musk taking over, really?! How was Twitter any better before him?! The blatant censorship actually made many people flee Twitter long before ELon Musk and it was heavily infested with bots since day 1 and I find no utility in it. Twitter is an acute form of masochism trying to follow a "conversation" on it. I do have Twitter Blue and I've been a paying subscribero of Threadreader before, but they don't help.

ANyway, just try to imagine the same spammy bots taking down all Mastodon servers when the super eager to leave Twitter move to the next cool thing... It won't be pretty! The Fail Whale will feel like a joke compared to what's about to come.
process explorer is a lot too much for an average Windows user, I would think. it's dead easy to obtain if you want it, though.
Yea not quite

Source: I used to work there..
In Germany the banking industry has lost at least 2 high profile cases in the highest civil court in the recent years.

They are not allowed to change the terms of business without the customer actively accepting the change. This seems the most applicable case here. I guess such fee was not at all in their terms before, so just sending an email that now there is won't work.

Another case that loans must not have handling fees (on top of interest) might be less applicable here.

There was also a case affecting all businesses many years ago. A debt does not expire earlier than 10 years later. So if the business still owns the customer something, they can't just say, oh sorry it has expired earlier. This affects mostly gift certificates or prepaid phone subscriptions, but why not "inactive" money at Paypal.
A friend of mine once told me he got stuck at the first "is it tangible" question with trying to answer whether or not "Germany" was tangible. Depends if you are referring to the landmass or the concept I suppose.
Less companies more groups but the one I used to see kill forums back in the day over and over was slicing the community too thinly. You start with a general or focused set of discussions, eventually you want to split general banter out, no problem.

The problem comes in when you fall for the idea "well, I'm already here, might as well make loads of sections". Now instead of on topic and off topic you have general, misc, gaming, books, whatever else.

If you don't have the community to fill out all of those areas, they all end up becoming mini ghost towns. This makes the community look dead, feel dead, eventually become dead.

Used to happen in forums when they were the new hotness, these days if you use Discord you're probably idling at least 2 or 3 communities that did this and now wonder where everyone went.

Premature optimisation, social style.
multiple comments about BeFS and none describe why it is so good.
Correction: Elon is his brand new (abusive) step-father.
Open-source String Validation library in Python
This project is python port of Validator.js which is a library for string validation. So people who are familiar with Validator.js can easily switch to this library. It is also a good way to learn how to port a library from one language to another. I have tried to keep the code as similar as possible to the original library. if you find any bugs or have any suggestions please open an issue. if you want to contribute please open a pull request.
> In one study I read, >97% of children who identified as trans changed their mind as they reached adulthood, and the majority were just homosexual.

A citation could be useful. I suspect that good data on this is difficult to generate, .

> There is literally no such thing as a ‘trans’ person.

This is a pretty difficult statement to contend with, because we need to unpack what you mean by `trans`. I've met transgender people, they certainly do exist, but if you're claiming that those people are not really transgender but just gay men dressing up as women and being performative, we'd have to dig deep into Judith Butler literature to find some common language.
But they have no way to verify the ID is actually him as it was not required to create the account

> What else do you want them to do? There's a bagillion compromised PayPal accounts actively scamming people

... actually check using humans and not "algorithm told me it's a fraud, therefore it's a fraud" ?

I had dumbassery like that trigger (not on pp) just because I didn't use account for few months then used it once...
The stat is actually literally the opposite [1]. I don't know how you would scientifically "prove" or disprove trans-ness? It's someone's personal experience, and very very real to those folks.

[1] https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/few-transgender-ch...
The US telcos went back to whitelisting phone models for volte, so unless you bought phone that were sold by them they'll prevent your from making calls (and accessing 5G network too).
I havent heard of a successfull[1] greeenfield for an enterprise ERP system replacement, especially not one done using off the shelf technologies.

The thing that recent grads(weather engineering or business) tend to miss here is that for a lot of those organisation the central mainframe system and the organization's policies and culture is pretty entangled to the point where you cannot just replace either.

[1] on time, on budget and without leaving some aspects of the old system running under some sort of virtualization.
> Under an agreement with the tribal government, Tesla will train tribal members to serve as service technicians.

> But with 574 federally recognized tribal governments in 35 states, Tesla’s new strategy could do a lot to close that advantage.

Fuck ye!
There's also a lot of reactionary right wing response to anything involving Maori which isn't disparaging or outright racist - as evidenced by the apoplectic reaction from some quarters to merely hearing Maori spoken in the media.
A lot of things I hear described as "revisionist" just come down to lack of knowledge of NZ history - eg: claims about "legal" Maori land sales are usually made by people woefully unaware of the actions and conduct of the Maori Land Court.
That's an interesting point of view!

In my experience, DEB distros have somehow been more stable than RPM ones, but Debian and Ubuntu wouldn't be an order of magnitude off from one another (aside from Ubuntu giving you more leeway in regards to proprietary software out of the box).

Well, maybe apart from the whole "snap" debacle, which is more of an architectural issue in my eyes, going around the package manager (and even then doing it in a way that's a bit more counter-culture than what AppImage or Flatpak does; even if I can understand their desire for automatic updates).

Then again, I have no issue using Docker containers and actually liked older Ubuntu LTS Unity desktop environment (which was stable in my experience, contrary to what others experienced), so maybe I'm a bit of an oddball here.
The actual feeling of the rangers and locals would've been "FFS, the weather forecasts are pretty specific, everyone knows heavy rain means floods, but at least we're not searching for your body."

Source - former ranger.
If it's that large, is it possible to shoot it out of the way using a giant laser? :-)
> smells strongly of a server-side change

Doesn't need to be. Some software nowadays can toggle feature flags clientside behind your back. I know Firefox does (or did?) this. Creepy as all fuck.
Googling Flight Simulator:

> First release: Microsoft Flight Simulator; November 1982; 40 years ago

That's wild. I can't believe it's that old.
Well, the author surely had a nice time writing this fan fiction.

In the meantime, what is the best, most reliable source for actual _news_ about the conflict ? (I've been pleasently surprised by a nebula channel called "TLDR", which does a short briefing every few days, centered on a _map_. Clearly not a deep dive, and very much aimed at the layperson, but pretty synthetic and good return over time invested. Plus, really, _maps_.)
This is and excellent article and a swansong to the delayed greats of Lucasarts and a fun era of gaming combined with technological marvel, for the day, invented by necessity.

I also can't help but think that it's exactly the sort of thing that DRM will soon rob future generations of, as it becomes impossible to reconstruct obsfucated binary flow, from highly encrypted object files, decompressed by a secure co-processor.
No
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm
Hopefully it is to scale up manufacturing and bring the unit cost of some of their hardware down?
Scammers steal free Unreal Engine 5 Superman demo and sell it on Steam
I’ve experienced this often, and am reminded of a book that covers research around many of your thoughts, which I listened to as I walked around a local lake. Very interesting content.

The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain https://a.co/d/4fhFI6M
Considering they fully own all of the IP present in the OPs work, I would imagine they are within their full rights to just take it without asking.
OP is lucky not to get a takedown notice and judging by his attitude he knows it.
Good to see people playing nicely together :)
It's really just a restatement of compatibilism, which has been the major position in philosophy for a long time. And I think, in practice, what most people actually think.

Only somewhat recently have philosophers intuitions changed a little more to incompatibilism.
I think I heard about some solar power investment scheme in Spain, a decade or so ago, that got a bunch of retail investors burned. Is that right?

I believe it also killed the solar updraft tower [0] project that was going on in Manzanares [1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#/media/Fil...
I run AdSense on a site that gets 300-500k page views p/m. Takes about £60-80 in ad revenue, but I only place one ad per page.
Personal experience means little to nothing. We’re talking reality here. And it’s NOT very very real to them. No one knows about the deception at the heart of the trans cult better than the cult members themselves.
Out of curiosity, have you tried Budibase? I'm the co-founder and would be interested to hear your feedback if you've tried it.
Pairs nicely with Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber.

I see bullshit in the same way that culture develops its tradition; layers upon layers of truths and falsities strung together in ways we often take for granted and in most cases harmless. E.G. while one can understand a words meaning nonverbally, the written definition of that word is really a bullshit passage of different words strung together.

And while it's life's greatest gift, perhaps love is the greatest bullshit of all. The charades of romance is utterly beautiful, yet filled with so much pretence along the way.
Wish there was ROM for HID webcam behaviour or as RTSP camera with reliable battery charge cycle management due to being plugged in
This is very disappointing.

It seems that VC funding is a clear signal that a company is looking for a fast exit.

It turns out that no matter how long one bootstraps for, companies cannot resist courting the VC treadmill scam.
>No one knows about the deception at the heart of the trans cult better than the cult members themselves.

Did you used to identify as trans?
Is the idea of making a car then selling it directly to someone who wants it so strange?

There is some serious pretzel-thinking going on here somewhere in the halls of power (pretzled, one assumes, by careful application of money). The idea that there needs to be a middle-man is weird. The people who want one less layer of abstraction don't need to justify themselves, the dealers have to be doing a lot more than being not-so-bad to justify a mandatory role in the process.

> "The big achievement, instead, was making direct-to-consumer car sales possible."

This isn't the biggest problem America faces, but the idea of a business needing to "innovate" to sell its product to consumers has to be the most unAmerican sentences I've read in an article. It is hard to get a more petty strike in against capitalism.
> Afaik all browsers support font size increasing/decreasing even if you don't specify your sizes in em/rem.

They do now, because zooming just couldn't be implemented properly in any other way since everyone was using px (I still remember the days of IE zooming some elements of a page and leaving the rest as they were). And because of that, everyone will just happily keep using px...
Show HN: Hexagon Pattern Generator
Hello, I made a generator. It's 100% free.

Customize with colors, filters, and transforms.
> A few short months ago this was a taboo to speak on

That's hard to verify objectively, even if it feels true.

I would say it is the choice of the editorial board ultimately, who are beholden only to themselves and to some extent their advertisers.

I did find that the style of this article marked it as unusual for NYT, in that it doesn't come down strongly on one 'side' and is an unusually even handed discussion of the state of play.
To be honest you should not be buying this level of equipment "off the peg" without a serious pre-sales process of evaluation and sizing unless you have significant prior experience, and the people with that experience will already have some kind partner agreement in place.

It's much more like placing an order for an container full of severs based on an reference design from an OEM then going to HPE or Dell for a commodity x64 system.
Which many people do not, and here we are.
Vercel. Git push and you're done. Nothing to manage. It just works.

It takes me about 2 minutes to spin up a new website these days, maybe 15 to make it a functional prototype to test some new SDK.
https://meduza.io/en should be decent, by former Russian journalists.
Any details on that? Having worked in health in New Zealand in a patient facing role for all my working life, I’ve never heard of such a thing. I’ve worked in public, private and research/academic roles.
If you interested in unix-like software design and not yet familiar with kaldi toolkit, you definitely need to check it https://kaldi-asr.org

It extended Unix design with archives, control lists and matrices and enabled really flexible unix-like processing. For example, recognition of a dataset looks like this:

extract-wav scp:list.scp ark:- | compute-mfcc-feats ark:- ark:- | lattice-decoder-faster final.mdl HCLG.fst ark:- ark:- | lattice-rescore ark:- ark:'|gzip -c > lat.gzip'

Another example is gstreamer command line.
PHP is a nightmare to deploy vs modern stacks. The LEMP stack needed to run it is a lot more complex than a serverless environment or a managed node.js system