skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Doesn't it sound almost undeniable that we would be healthier as a society if people were forced to do sports, read a book, create something, or talk to their friends in order to relax instead?

I disagree. Firstly, video games are a very broad term so I'm not claiming that there are not video games that are made solely for the purpose of making money from people addicted to the dopamine rush. Bad actors are unfortunately present in all sorts of industries, but anecdotally, they are outliers.

For me, the video games that I play or played have brought me closer to my friends and left me with memories that I can look back on and smile at the thought of.

Infact, Minecraft Redstone[0] was a massive catalyst in developing my interest into putting small parts together into a working system, which eventually led me to learn programming.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you are suggesting that video games and similar dopamine machines are replacing more traditional past times such as sports/reading etc. Are you suggesting that before the prevalence of video games, people only ever engaged in things like sports/reading books?

TV is a thing, and before TV, people who didn't want to engage with sports or reading spent time with their friends in ways which weren't exactly productive. There are undeniable changes to society since the introduction of the WWW/electronics in general, but I don't think they've made society unhealthier in general; they've merely changed it in ways that we are still getting used to.

One last thing to note is that video games are a great way for me to also talk to my friends and have a purpose for hanging out(albiet online). Lots of them live way to far for us to feasibly meet in person on a regular basis, and playing a multiplayer game together is a great way to engage with each other and also have some fun on the side.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that video games aren't necessarily unhealthier substitutes for past times we engaged in before they became prevalent.

[0]: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Redstone_circuits
How can we trust the dad?

I think if someone was doing something criminal and their access was blocked, they will juat quietly walk away. But talking to the press? That would be a new level.
Can Tokyo’s charms be replicated elsewhere?
Yeah. Nikwax is a big brand.

You can also get "Shakedry" Gore-tex products, which don't have an outer layer needing DWR treatments at all.
TIL about the contenteditable attribute, which it turns out can be used on arbitrary elements to make them editable!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

You seem like a really cool person!
Does your protocol provide any advantages over bincode?
https://archive.ph/2zjHW
https://cdn-design.tesla.com/.git/ this url says 'No.'
I realise it's not a solution that you want to use, but I have a global hotkey set for launching or focusing a preferred text editor: Windows + Shift + E.

You can even have a special hotkey for opening a specific file.

The big advantage for me there is that you get real text editor, not just a browser text box and I can delete lines with "dd" like God intended.
You're talking to someone who has spent the last decade working for major cloud providers, including AWS, on infrastructure and services sides of things, including work around data feeds for the capacity management teams. I have more than a passing familiarity with the way things actually work at a cloud.

They are constantly guessing at cloud capacity. Short, medium, and long term models with forecasting galore, all under constant recalculation based on customer actions (they literally take live feeds of creation/termination actions), and yes they also take in to account hardware failure and repair rates. Consolidating racks of equipment is a pain in the neck and tends to be avoided, unless you can safely live migrate away all instances.

They all build up various models, using all sorts of forecasting techniques. The longer range forecasts are involved in data center provisioning, along with other business analysis, market research, legal analysis etc. that helps define where future regions should be.

It's still a guess. They can't tell what the actual demand will be, and they can't tell what is going to happen with the supply chain (supply chain issues are the biggest nightmare for capacity planning teams). Sometimes they get it wrong.

The capacity management teams spend a lot of time and expertise to keep the company just sufficiently ahead of demand. It's a crucial part of keeping costs under control.
Yeah, you don't need GoreTex stuff in SoCal.
The allegation seems to be that RealPage was providing a service to solve the coordination problem you're elucidating.
These stories of people being banned by google without recourse are so common, it's amazing that anyone here is still using google for anything important. First of all, get off of gmail. If you do nothing else, get off of gmail. I'm very happy with fastmail, they provide email, calendar, contacts, notes, and some cloud storage for a monthly fee.

I've also come to love nextcloud, I started using it to replace google photos, but there are tons of other great features too. I use it for photos, notes, calendar, contacts, news, and some collaboration stuff. It's open source, you can self-host, or get a hosted account somewhere.

While you're degoogling, start using duckduckgo for search. It's a better experience than google these days, and if you really want to send a query over to google, just add !g to the end of the search.

Get off of Chrome too. I would prefer that you use firefox, but chromium works fine too.

Getting off of google voice took a bit more work. I ported my number to Telnyx, wrote a SMS-to-XMPP bridge, and set up Asterisk to route voice calls. I'm happy with that solution but it won't be practical for most, so maybe someone else can comment on google voice alternatives.
Won't stop the outrage post.
Your favorite note taking apps probably have registered a domain name in the .new TLD

If you like secretly like Google Docs but just don’t want to have to go though Drive to make a new doc: https://doc.new or https://docs.new

If you want to use GitHub Gist: https://gist.new

Similarly https://paper.new for Dropbox Paper

Also definitely not a good idea in general, but I found https://md.new by guess and check. I can’t vouch for the site itself but it might be just the tool you’re looking for?

(I’ve prefixed all these with https:// so HN will linkify them but in your browser’s address bar you can usually omit that to make it more convenient)
In practice, at least one of them is Kwin or Mutter and the other is wlroots. So usually there's pretty decent coverage.
Is there a way to do what you're suggesting with identities? I don't think there is. How are you going to rotate keys without a master key?

And even if you're ok with the master key, the only way to solve this without centralized providers is with blockchains. A blockchain for rotating keys doesn't make sense.

But I do want to know if you're ok with a master key and subkeys that can be rotated.
Wow, top score for uniqueness, in the field of being stupid...
Though I often have questions about how that works in terms of managing your domain. I feel like I shouldn't have the account I manage my domains with tied to an email address at the domain that's under management. If my email provider disappears, I'm potentially locked out of the account I need to log into in order to change the MX records, right?
I have no ties to this app, just have been seeing it around.

Fwiw that's just the landing page, almost positive it's a downloadable application.
I just use Whonix in a QubesOS VM routed via Tor.
Classic humanity, I mean that's pretty much how everything's done everywhere
Isn't NTFS just a slightly modified ODS-11, the VMS filesystem? It doesn't have version numbers and it does have "alternate streams", but otherwise ...
This is pretty much exactly what I use Sublime Text for. On windows I just have to type the windows key, "sub", and enter. Then it pops up with my todo list and various notes. I can open a new tab to jot a thought down. The notes persist despite closing the application and restarting the computer, even without saving to disk.
We are only using software that allows all data to stay on our own servers. Open source if possible.
How can you rotate that? No one knows the second key is related to the first. You still need to publish your second key somewhere along with an invalidation certificate for the first key.
Any thoughts on the least intrusive yet modern simple graphics library for Python? I've been wanting to play with some of these things but never quite find the time/motivation to deal with the "getting started" overhead.
They also have to egress to third party servers since they are a CDN and support things like serverless functions
Love the Hash Array Mapped Trie
The Dad appears to have chosen not to sue Google for some reason. The dollar amount quoted in the article is peanuts for what these things normally cost, making it sound more like an arbitration thing.

Typically if you win arbitration or court, the losing party pays the lawyers anyway - so why did he not pursue this?
NextCloud on a VPS works very well for me. The AIO setup does all the work for you: https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one
Anecdotally, they definitely don’t breath as well as shoes without, which is to be expected give n the properties of gore-tex. Since Gore-Tex needs to be kept clean and washed regularity, my theory is the shoes will perform well in a lab/testing but in the real world will get dirty and “plugged” up pretty quick. Shoes are gonna see a ton of dirt compared to a jacket. I avoid Gore-Tex foot wear unless it’s for a winter mountaineering and waterproofness is essential.
Heh, I wonder what Kaczynski would think of the game's message about the consequences of exponential industrial development, and resulting pollution (and specifically the dangers coming from cutting trees or polluting them so much that they die, at higher difficulty...)
You could have said the same thing about internet companies after the first dotcom bubble.
Okay.. so its all downhill from here as far as tech work is concerned. Duly noted.
I miss the nano. It was the last Apple product that was differentiated in any way from its lower cost competitors.
What do you mean real dollars? Dollar deposits in bank accounts outside the US are as real as dollars deposited in US banks.
wtf - why is this in the public folder?
Additionally, there are states that are partly 0 tax (Saudi Arabia I believe used to be), and they still have a functioning currency.
It’s not a single IP address per data center. Otherwise they’d only be able to make 64k simultaneous egress connections, nor would their scheme of different ip addresses per “geo” and product work.

Edit: based on this part of blog post:

“With a port slice of say 2,048 ports, we can share one IP among 31 servers. However, there is always a possibility of running out of ports. To address this, we've worked hard to be able to reuse the egress ports efficiently.”
> Zig is truly compatible with C and will compile C code directly, since its compiler is actually written in C++.

I assume this was intended to say something else?

> Here's the brutal truth: I can't find anyone under the age of 41 in my field to say a single positive thing about D

IIRC the presence of the GC in D was (is?) its Achilles heel. Because the GC is infectious. As soon as your dependency needs it (and IIRC even parts of the standard library did/do), it becomes painful if not impossible for you to avoid it. Had it not had this fatal flaw, D might've fared much better.
PFTE is different from PFAS.
How do you discover users to follow on Twitter?

I doubt anyone has ever been successful into signing up on any social platform and just followed the big names that are suggested automatically at the beginning or based on some "key interests" you select.

But hey, if you want that, it's easy for a third-party website to grab a ton of public Nostr data and build custom recommendation lists and whatnot.
> So I'm not constraining how you would have to solve this issue. You can model the memory configuration if you want. But you don't have to model it in your algorithm. It's just that your algorithm is allowed to assume that the amount of memory available for the program being analyzed is finite (if it wants to).

What I am saying is that in practice, for the huge majority of interesting problems, it is not useful to finitize the actual program but instead to abstract over the program that assumes no meaningful resource constraints. Wandering off down a road of looking for efficient algorithms that take advantage of the actual finite nature of real programs will only harm you in the enormous majority of cases.

> But anyway, the complexity / efficiency of an algorithm that solves the problem is a different issue that than the decidability of the problem, the latter of which many people get it wrong.

Again, people only "get it wrong" if you are being maximally pedantic in a way that provides negative value to thinking about these problems.
Fun fact: the first product we announced to celebrate Cloudflare’s launch day anniversary was a IPv4<->IPv6 gateway:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automati...

The success of that convinced us we should do something to improve the Internet every year to celebrate our “birthday.” Over time we ended up with more than one product that met that criteria and timing, so it went from a day of celebration to a week. That became our Birthday Week. Then we saw how well bundling a set of announcements into a week was so we decided to do it other times of the year. And that’s how Cloudflare Innovation Weeks got started, explicitly with us delivering IPv6 support back in 2011.
I just figured his dog had its own bitcoin wallet.
Stratechery covered this … they pointed out the really f*ed: part: Google is refusing to reinstate the account.

Protecting children is important. AI is imperfect.

But there is no reason the keep the account suspended once it’s clear there was no wrongdoing.

This man is innocent of doing anything wrong. Google had suspended him, and removed access to all his online account data. And refuses to reinstate.

We balance out liberties with responsibilities all the time. We allow the state power to protect children, and corporations have the right to assist them.

There are careful balancing acts being done.

But there is no balancing act here. There is no justification for Googles action.
Google will not lose any significant number of users no matter how shitty they are, because most people have no idea how to leave.
> US-issued "Allowed to Handle US Dollars Electronically" License

Source?
For what it's worth I would totally support a mechanism, like a registry key, environment variable, wherever configuration information can be accessed, to opt out of trigger warnings. Software should work for everyone and everyone means everyone.
This. There should be anti-monopoly regulation that would state that e-mail addresses belong to users, just like the phone numbers or domain names.
But if you use a gdoc you can access it from anywhere (incl offline) and it’s always up to date a version controlled. For me that’s enough additional value to be worth a bit of a speed hit.
The industry will not transition to v6 unless:
1) The cost of not doing so is higher than the cost of sticking with v4. Because of all the numerous clever tricks and products designed to mitigate v4's limitations, the cost argument still favors v4 for most people in most situations.

or

2) We admit that v6 needs to be rethought and rethink it. I understand why v6 does not just increase IP address bits from 32 to 128, but at this point I think everyone has admitted that v6 is simply too difficult for most IT departments to implement. In particular, the complexity of the new assignment schemes like prefix delegation and SLAAC needs to be paired back. Offer a minimum set of features and spin off everything else.
Because whoever did the deployment is incompetent.
If you're on macOS, have you tried Stickies?

Specifically, are you aware of the ⌘⇧Y hotkey for turning any selected text in a focused application into a new sticky note?

If so, have you considered typing your note into your browser's address bar, highlighting it, and then using said hotkey?
I don't know why people use gcp, I would like to hear some opinions.

The way I see it, if you don't mind price, you go with AWS (most polished). If you mind price gcp isn't really much cheaper, so you go with something actually cheap like OCI.
Zigzag is a phase after DCT+quantization where you iterate through the resulting matrix in a particular order. Nothing to do with the DCT itself.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JPEG_example_zigzag....
I'm choosing between learning Nim or Rust. Nim frankly looks like the nicer of the two, but also less marketable and with smaller community.

Suck to say but it's true.
Google seemed to review the images and determine they were for the reason he explained, but the video of his wife naked in the bed with his son seemed to be what was still considered an issue. Perhaps they were asleep while he filmed the video?
The world needs to get off the blood currency that is the U.S Dollar.

But I hope the U.S doesn't do to Ghana what they did to Libya, the last country to try something along those lines: forment revolt and overthrow the government, then literally sack the country and leave with billions in gold bars, and say they gave the country freedom and democracy.
I'm glad you brought this up. Stack ranking is known to decimate morale. Microsoft was notorious for this.
The rightful way to handle a bad deal is to peaceably walk away saying “I’m better off elsewhere.”
You mean because of MyNumber?

It's your responsibility to maintain a consistent katakana transliteration of your name. I don't think many banks would accept documents if your name was misspelt, no matter the country.

MyNumber's purpose is precisely to curtail white collar crime. Of course there would be tight regulations around that. But it's something that you make only once.

EU countries are economically and legally integrated to very high levels. Banking regulation is simplified for intra EU transfers. Japan is an isolate that is not part of any economic unions. Banking regulation focus on the domestic market and crime prevention. Different countries, different needs.

I agree that bad UIs are not a huge pain point. As I said, nobody cares. But that doesn't mean that bad UIs are liked or appreciated. They are tolerated.

Learn Japanese and get yourself a Resona bank account.
If I understand you correctly, then that exactly what I am talking about. You might see this as bitmask. That's correct.
Use a film camera and develop the film yourself.
You don’t own a phone number either. Ever tried to move between countries?
Well either that or their population continues to decline. I'm not sure what the alternative is.
Agreed.

Using square brackets in place of some parens is something some of the Racket professors started doing. I assumed it was because they thought it would be helpful to teach high school students in http://htdp.org/ . I defer to them on teaching, but I think it looks ugly, is harder to type, and seems like it's more confusing in code examples (people thinking it's significant, when it's not).

One thing I did do is make an Emacs mode, https://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/ , in which typing square brackets instead inserts parentheses when appropriate. This is helpful on US keyboards, on which parens require a multi-key press but square brackets do not.
It has always been standard, it was the #1 thing to do when setting up Apache back when Apache was the standard and nginx was still this obscure Russian porn web server.

.well-known is much more recent and an exception. Can you think of any other .file or .folder which is wise to be exposed publicly?
What kinds of doctors, that you interacted with: Your GP? Those seen on TV who work in media roles? None of those are the researchers.
You're correct that the Cedi has lost value compared with the US dollar while existing in a world where USD is one side if nearly every international business transaction.

However, look at the US dollar over longer durations against wheat [1], copper [2],
gold[3], or Bitcoin [4]: the dollar buys significantly less than 10, 15, 40, or 100 years ago.

While the Cedi may be much weaker against the dollar, the dollar is loosing against real commodities/assets that can't simply be created by banker's fiat.

So, the dollar's the cleanest dirty shirt in the room. And Ghana just announced that they'd rather trade oil for a clean shirt (gold) rather than taking a dirty one.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/2534/wheat-prices-historical-cha...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/1476/copper-prices-historical-ch...

[3] https://goldprice.org/gold-price-charts/15-year-gold-price-h... / For 100 year chart, https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...

[4] https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=BTC&view=10Y
> We have one side of the story because the other side (huge corporation) didn’t give any information and decided to keep ban. No transparency there.

I'm not sure why we expect Google to provide transparency for CSAM bans/investigations. That would be highly irregular, and not just for Google.

The Dad has legal path(s) to take if he feels he was truly wronged. Paths that would ultimately cost nothing if he prevailed. Paths that would likely force Google to undo their decision if Dad's statements are in fact the truth and Google has no other data/evidence.

Dad chose not do do any of that though... why? I'm confident there are lawyers out there that would even represent Dad for free.

> This phrase used by Russian propaganda when they got caught in crimes every damn time.

What?
Do not send them via plaintext email, or a proprietary chat system. Also be aware that other corpo apps on your phone may harvest and back them up too or scan them in place. US cell carriers require extensive root access malware like OMA-DM toolkits that can be triggered to spy on anything on your phone at any time.

As long as you use proprietary software on your devices you will never be safe from this type of thing.
This is the part that should receive a Congressional inquiry. I would love to see Congress drag Sundar Pichai (and no one else) before them and scream “What the hell is wrong with you?” in his face.

We have courts for a reason. They found no wrongdoing. Google is objectively deciding they know better than an elected court on what happened.

This whole situation is absurd and evil.
I had a repeated crash of Factorio. It was from one of the 30+ mods I had running and it only crashed after 14+ hours of straight gameplay.

I considered the crash a Quality Of Life feature to make me stop playing and get some sleep.

With Factorio even the bugs are features.
Again, if you just wildly make up terminology that nobody else uses you'll come to different conclusions than other people - but you won't be talking about the same thing.
It sounds like a secure platform was likely used to send it to the doctor but the photos were taken on a phone and auto backed up to Google Photos and also texted to his wife’s iPhone.
no one with savings in USD is glad that it inflated, but the reality is that other easily accesible currencies bit the dust harder.
A companies marketing website and their actual products have little in common. I would be surprised if any engineers even work on the marketing website and blown away if it is co-located with something sensitive.
Power+performance, great battery life, great build quality, great hardware...
[] as a quoted list shows up occasionally. [foo bar] vs '(foo bar). I think I prefer that but it's hard to be sure.
Highly interesting and exactly the sort a thing a doctorate is meant to study. Would love to see some data-driven generator approaches, surely a GAN or a diffusion model can do wonders here.