skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple hundred downloads?

These kinds of repository are probably best used by drive-by malware.

I think this (and all) repository's download log should be made open, or at least made viewable prior to your downloading step as part of the trust profiling.
galactic freaks
“That’s actually good because he has knowledge about the industry. Who else would do it, some random guy?” - someone on this website probably
I believe the US has an extradition treaty with the Bahamas.
Rhodia notebooks are great. Also check out Rite in the Rain. As a lefty I don't care for spiral-bound anything, but I use a pocket-size Rite in the Rain in the gym to track my exercise goals & results.
It’s as close to a miracle drug that I have encountered. I lost 40 pounds; side effects include constipation and related minor G.I. stressors which weren’t ideal, but in my opinion the positives completely outweigh the negatives. a big/wonderful unexpected side effect was I lost all appetite for alcohol, which was a big plus.
> I don't want garbage products that were sourced from the dumpster next to a Chinese factory after they make a defective batch.

> Yet throwaway brands peddling junk that wouldn't have realistically made it onto the shelves of a big box store is a real problem on Amazon's marketplace, and other similar ones.

Either it's a defective batch of products that would have been sold under a brand name or its junk that would have never been sold at all. Both of these can't be true of the same product.

I'd also argue that being sold at a big box store is not really indicative of much in the 21st century.
See this for 24TB of books: http://pilimi.org/zlib-downloads.html
Most likely it uses googles safe search feature. I force it at home using Pi-hole. See https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669?hl=en
> MDN has a good example and looks like this is not supported by Safari

It's currently an experimental feature that can be enabled, so hopefully Apple will enable it by default in 2023.
What a cool website. Quite surreal to see fresh content presented in a mid-2000s style!
I would say that ship has sailed, just like "crypto" doesn't mean cryptography in the previous sense anymore.
But the armies were small and professional until the XIXth century
How does a bad object get in the cache?
Ken Burns retells this story masterfully in "Empire Of The Air" which should be considered mandatory watching for anyone with an interest in this stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for HN!!!
Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of U.S. dollars
This is an antiquated figure. Modern heat pumps maintain competitive performance at much lower temperatures.
Mosh runs directly over UDP, and that's sort of essential to how it works, which is why it can't run through a (SSH + TCP) proxy host.
My family's health, having enough $ to have my basic needs met (and maybe even some non-basic needs), and type systems that keep me from blowing my foot off :)
Do you people know that "# Explore" section on the right of Mastodon already lists posts which are gaining traction? It also lists news which are trending.

It says:

"These posts from this and other servers in the decentralized network are gaining traction on this server right now."

I don't know what the logic is, but on big servers it's listing a lot of content.
> Still, I’d say that trying out Arch has immeasurably improved my knowledge, not just of Linux but of the underlying concepts behind modern computing.

I love hearing that, because it was a goal of Arch from the very beginning: to stop fearing the commandline.

And I was the first alpha tester, in that I wanted to learn more about how the sausage was actually made, so to speak. I was comfortable using things like Linuxconf at the time, but its beginner-friendly veneer meant that I didn't really know what to do if it _wasn't_ there.

After tinkering with Crux and PLD for a bit, I wanted to go deeper and start from nothing. So I loaded up the LFS[1] docs and just started typing in the shell stanzas to start building my compilation toolchain. In an effort to DRY as much as possible, the work also got placed into shell scripts, which eventually became PKGBUILD modules.

I started having way too much fun with it, so I put up the world's ugliest webpage[2] to share my triumphs, and a couple people found it, somehow. That begat the immediate need for documentation, which eventually brought Arch into the forefront. I can't recall who spearheaded the Arch wiki, but we owe them a great debt, because it has become a valuable resource for Linux users, and not only the Arch users.

Arch is my happiest accident.

ps: btw, I run Arch (is this still a meme?)

[1] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20020328043401/http://www.archli...
Yes, but governments are much less murdery and much more predictable than the sloppy gangs which are funded by lotteries.
This Github repo has the most common issues I've heard of: https://github.com/arindas/manjarno .

Big ones are: shadiness with funding, letting their SSL certs expire 4 times, and the fact that their idea of stable isn't additional testing, but just letting the packages sit for a week.

There was also a recent kerfluffle not covered there where they shipped a broken kernel to Apple Sillicon users without contacting the Asahi devs: https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1576356115746459648
Why I have to believe this report when I do not see even accurate weather forecasts one week ahead in many cases?

I really think that the possibility of obtaining the wrong conclusions are much higher than getting it right, yet the consequences of putting a ton of restrictions is really harmful for many people, especially in developing countries.
The comparison to a lottery is too kind.

In a lottery the ticket fees go to the organizer, who wastes a little in administrative fees, takes a percentage for themselves, and returns the rest as prizes. Bad for income distribution, but not especially wasteful.

In a PoW blockchain the "ticket fee" — the electricity and depreciating hardware — is completely used up. The reward doesn't come from the other miners, but from transaction fees and new coins (diluting the value).

It's like a lottery that uses all the income from tickets to pay for marketing, and the actual prizes are paid by government subsidy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4inrut/manjaros_ssl_...

The link for the post is dead, but they've let their SSL cert expire multiple times. While it happened a few years ago, I find that a hard thing to come back from.
He hasn't been convicted let alone charged with a crime (yet). When he is, his actions weren't violent. He's not a radicalizing figure and letting him speak doesn't hurt anyone (as opposed to an Alex Jones type).
For months now, I've been thinking and backing off from building a virtual queue for small shops (think barbers, food stalls at events, anything where people queue up)

Scan a qr code, get in line. Or via a url or app.

Sounds simple enough, useful enough. Friends easily pointed out issues with how this could go wrong and with very little extra time after work, I dropped it.

Comments on this thread just stirred it all up.
That then could be used to create a super high resolution telescope no?
Agree on this.
Civics and government ought to be mandatory subjects in American schools. In school, we learn about the Civil Rights protests, and we learn about laws that made in response to these protests. What's completely neglected is are the lobbying and legislative process that lead to the creation of these laws. Nowadays, lobbying is a dirty word which for the average person means literal political bribery, which only leads to more political apathy.
i have fond dual se30 server memories

one for uucp

one for firstclass
There are easier ways to admit you’re wrong than ad hominems. Cheers
You can also price it at $0 and NOT ban it.
I'll be generous and assume you use a whole gallon of gas for a 20km trip, that's approx. 34 kWh [0]. Meanwhile, a single Bitcoin transaction takes 1,173 kWh [1]

[0] https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Miles_per_gallon_gas....

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/10/26/bitcoin-electricity-consumpti...
I would say, as most of the times: "it depends". In terms of career, I like to think I reinvent myself constantly until I gather enough experience or capital and, arguably more important, convince myself that I can be that new me. This step is usually the visible one for the people around me, but in my mind I have already moved on by then.
I doubt that just feeling bored would push me to this unless it would happen over a very long period of time.
Did you know you can get an 11 Terabyte hard drive for $90 on Amazon? Wow:

https://www.amazon.com/External-Portable-11000GB-Compatible-...

(Um, yeah. And look at the reviews.)
Finding new particles and studying astronomical events has a larger nugget of similarity with the psychology modus operandi than you may think. They’re studying rare or unique objects with extremely finicky measurement tools; enormous amounts of noise are statistically treated to extract a signal. Victor Ninov claimed to have discovered new elements, causing years of disappointing failures to replicate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ninov). Even if the actual scientists learn their lesson, with some regularity popular science media announce that “the Standard Model just got overturned” or that this or that new quark was discovered.
That's the premium you pay for not having to deal with hosting and configuration. There are plenty of people - even in the tech community - who lack the knowledge to handle this themselves.
As a newcomer to OpenBSD myself, I strongly advise anyone to ignore any online resources that are not the official FAQ or at the least https://romanzolotarev.com/openbsd/ for clear and concise guides on how to do specific tasks that a user may be interested in.

I’ve found that most “I installed OpenBSD on X hardware” blog posts are good mainly for seeing how the installation process fared (what should I disable in BIOS?; what hardware works, what doesn’t?) or what their subsequent configuration process was like after installation.
> often not until you do so at scale

That’s the funny thing about downloading copyrighted works with BitTorrent in Germany, it automatically counts as "at scale" for the courts because you’ll have many peers that all download a bit from you.
I'm sorry your excellent efforts on this wonderful application are associated with these unethical actors.
There are many people here with a lot of potentially destructive ideas. How do u know the exact needs of each business? What u would do is to make many go bankrupt just bc of a regulation.

Of course, I know that many of you... as lomg as it is not your own business everything is ok.
Not true anymore. Check out eg the Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, if I’m reading the COP right, it’s something like 280% efficient at -8 C.
The holidays are always a good time to reflect on this. My father is one of ten children. They all grew up in a 900sq ft house. Most of them dropped out of high school, none of them went to college.

Now that they are all grown up (the youngest is 48?) it's interesting to see how they all ended up.

Some worked a factory job for years, and ended up with a nice house, retirement, etc. some worked the exact same job and are still paycheck to paycheck.

None of them were really skilled workers, professionals, etc. My one aunt has never had much more than a minimum wage job, had five children with three different fathers, and she's probably in the worst position of them all. She's been given cars etc by the others but always screws up. Her children (and grandchildren) have carried on the tradition.

Looking in from the outside, it seems like the big factors are your work ethic, who your friends are, and what you with your spare time.

My dad has a great work ethic but he's an example of work smarter not harder.

You seem to be an average of your friends, and my aunt for example, hangs out with some real winners.

Spare time is related to your friends a bit, but spending all of your time and money at the casino doesn't get you anywhere, and neither does hanging out drinking until 2am.
yeah, although I don't think it's the greatest responsive design. page numbers are still quite small, for example. it's better than nothing, though.
The internet is essentially a worldwide network so having a company claim it only falls under U.S. jurisdiction even though it reaches users everywhere is still an unsolved enigma.

Most U.S. Big Tech companies have willingly set-up shop in Europe, but with increasingly acrimonious legislation putting them in the cross-hairs I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Musk tests if he can get away with merely operating from U.S. soil and ignoring EU legislation.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Walk right in it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track…
Obviously Satoshi. Always behind the scenes but never actually seen.
> Most of the stores I've worked with leave their LED lights on at night because they want it to be apparent from the street when someone is in there robbing the store.

Unless it’s prohibited by law, which is in effect in Germany and France (if I remember correctly).

Energy prices are on the rise in every form, at least in Europe, and people feel the pressure profoundly.

The problem here is, we don’t have unlimited energy as of now. So, we need to at least use it a bit more carefully until we clear this bottleneck.

Cryptocurrencies’ energy waste problem also still needs to be addressed, because if they can do this more efficiently, we can use the energy for more production.

However, this doesn’t mean that I believe cryptocurrencies are solving anything. I’m firm on that view.
Amazon-the-store is mostly near-shored AliExpress + 7-Eleven at this point. That's got its uses--it's awfully convenient!--but it leaves them open to niched-down competitors that I would love to give my money.

AWS, on the other hand, feels pretty sustainable.
Many thanks. Ill dig through them and see what I can find
I don't know about AMD, but I'm pretty sure it's a thing with newer Intel chipsets (there was lots of hubbub about it when the Framework laptop came out, which I was following at the time).
Scalability to many engineers, maintain ability, and testability to name a few. Happy to elaborate with examples for those if you’re having a tough time piecing out why.
Was talking with a homeless guy yesterday. He has been given free housing multiple times, but he always leaves and goes back to living on the streets. He isn't kicked out, he just leaves. He is a very nice guy, but isn't looking for housing. Is he poor? Yes, but, as you say, there are safety net programs out there for him if he wants them.

Our town has clothes available for people who need it and (in some circumstances) housing. When people go to clean out the houses afterwards they find lots of dirty clothing. Instead of washing the clothes (in a machine or by hand), they go back and get more clothes.

On one hand we could say they should know better, but really they probably don't. All of us have blind spots and people in poverty in the US typically have lots of blind spots about how they could live differently.
That's very different from the Twitter timeline though, which shows you "good" content from people you already follow that happened since the last time you used Twitter. So if you refresh a bunch of times you'll always see more interesting tweets / likes / comments.
I honestly don't understand how anyone reaches 2022, given all that we've experienced in the past several years, with enough faith in journalism remaining intact to pay any credence to "X happened, but we won't show you any evidence. Trust us."

For me, such a story is totally meaningless. It conveys no information about reality either way. The chances of truth or falsehood are exactly equal.

We have different epistemologies.

> from other pedophiles because its not some hivemind

Did you think critically about this? If so, for how long?

How are the pedophiles teaching the sooper-seekrit hashtags to each other? Is in the manual "So You've Decided to Become a Pedophile" that they send to new members of the vast conspiracy?

The problem with these conspiracy theories is that any inspection of how they might actually operate, day to day in the real world, is always neglected and handwaved away.

The whole point of a hashtag is that they spread virally, or are obvious terms. The very idea of a secret hashtag is an oxymoron.
Yeah, it's one of the things I hate most about the ad ecosystem. The pro-ad argument is "they give the little guy a kick at the can", but that's tremendous bullshit. Try an example: Turn off adblock and search "Lejiled Wallet" (a very small French company which makes nice leather wallets). You'll get ads for much bigger companies (Fossil and Belroy) in the sidebar, and those ads will follow you all around the internet for months.
https://i.imgur.com/lAaAdGM.png
Whitespace - Programming Language
It's only not sound if you want to grow and sustain the business rather than turn it into your own personal $44 billion rage room for pointless glass smashing.
It's just the distances involved. Amazon UK can get everything from any warehouse in the UK to your local depot for last mile delivery overnight, if not faster.

In the US unless you air freight ($$$) it you cannot rely on getting stock from warehouse A (say in NY) to warehouse K (say near LA) overnight. This then means you have to keep a lot more "duplicate" inventory sitting around various places as you cannot just in time move it, which is also extremely expensive.

I imagine the reports of shipping delays in the US are caused by Amazon intentionally trying to reduce the amount of inventory on hand and/or using less air freight.
+1 to Strogatz's Chaos book - this was the first textbook I ever read cover to cover, almost like a novel, because of how exciting it was.

I also really liked self studying Strang's Linear Algebra. Another one that comes to mind is Naive Set Theory by Halmos - it's a very short and well written introduction to set theory for practitioners but it still manages to get you thinking very deeply.
Sure, but that does nothing to help with the tragedy of the commons caused by unaddressed negative externalities…
Why does the author say throughput tanks in the their first convoy example? Yes requests are being queued (delayed) but the server is still doing the same amount of work per “snap”. It’s not really a traffic shockwave, but instead more like adding cars to the beginning of the road.
-- Indeed, we didn't want to support that hotel, which is why we stayed in Leis. I'll add that to my post.

-- Like everything in Switzerland, it was easy to reserve spots online. I think we went on a Monday. Therme Vals is a well-designed space, and the spa experience includes ~18 different zones and temperatures. Some of them are gimmicks, but nonetheless delightful play of space, sound, temperature and texture (stone).

Our family isn't into the pampering-spa experience, but I think all of my children can still describe that place 1yr after---worth it for me.
Trying to restart an innovation engine in a large old company like this seems to be nearly impossible.

I’ve been a part of a number of startups that were gobbled up by big co trying to innovate their business, and it always seems to fail.

The problem I continually see is that in big companies anyone who sticks around and does “something” gets promoted. Over time as the good people leave you have a layer of of really bad managers and directors that just effectively block innovation. They’ve spent their careers being shills and are threatened by anyone innovating.
Well, you don't know that the ladle didn't harm you directly. If it's made of substandard materials that leech carcinogens into your food, the effects might take years to appear.
Damn! You beat me to mentioning Harold Edwards' book, as it perfectly fits the description. The first three chapters are intuition and concept building, the next three chapters revisit the topics with more rigor and proofs, and then there are follow-on applications chapters with all sorts of nuggets. It is virtually mistake free and can be opened up and read at any point and still be understood, a stated goal of the author.
Ukraine – Lights Out, No Water and Soon No Heat
The other thing I noticed is that these thousands of identical products have seemingly randomly generated all-caps brand names like BHHSRE, VHYXZY, XIOU, DAUGHE, JXMOX, LANMU, IBERLS, GMJYC… (yes, these are all actual brands I’ve seen on Amazon). It’s like someone is randomly generating millions of brand/product combinations to deliberately flood Amazon.
This report is the outcome of thousands of scientists collaborating.

What it predicts for developing countries is disaster, which we already see. More droughts in the summer combined with floods in spring/autumn.

This leads to food insecurity and ecosystem disruption, which will be more harmful than not doing anything.

Weather is hard to predict short-term, but the long-term trends (i.e. climate) are visible.
US Drought History 2000 – 2022 (Animated)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25598656
A politician is just another mafia in my eyes. There have been mafias that are not worse than politicians in history. Literally.
The whole world was pulling for EVs to make it.

The nerds, like the people who founded Tesla before Musk bought in, had done the sums and realised battery EVs were the future.

Governments around the world funded the initial rollout, a bunch of environmental orgs helped, another bunch of private businesses making chargers or charging networks or charging apps. Literally millions of people worked to make this ahppen.

Musk just happened to be a loud mouthed asshole with lots of money and onnections that backed the right horse at the right time and ended up with even more money.

At best he's the Bill Gates of EVs.
Sure, greed is good. But unlimited greed will eventually drive away customers as Amazon is illustrating very conveniently (and AltaVista before it).

Google too needs to be vigilant that it's decreasing utility isn't driving away users to a competitor.
Reboot Food
And random components… you’ll have better luck on eBay. Need a P key for you random laptop keyboard, 1000 5mm LEDs or usb-a cable, male on both ends, straight and right-angle? Gonna have better luck on eBay.

And then the actually unique stuff. I’m buying odd lots of used postage stamps. I’m sure as a seller doing one-offs, even if it’s a common item, eBay is the way to go.

Amazon has improved a lot, but eBay still king on that.
> the yearly revenue might be in the say 10+k range. So the business itself at "10 P/E" would be a roughly 100k dollar business

That would be P/S (price to sales), not P/E (price to earnings/profits). Not sure about web stuff, but for other small businesses no one would pay anywhere close to 10x P/S (or P/E for that matter but profits are more valuable than revenue).
So you can waste energy as long as the result is something that will end up in a landfill the week after?
What's the difference between SDUI and SSR (server side rendering) aka how the web used to work before angular, vue, react, etc
That link doesn't work for me, it looks like they prevent hot linking images
That might depend on where you live. I nearly always get next-day or 2-day shipping. There are exceptions, but for central Austin, it's pretty good.