skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way it can backfire is that this is yet another reason for many people who already have negative sentiments toward government overreach and government in general to be angry. I would be more than a little shocked if many of the people who participated in the January 6 hoedown didn't have a whole laundry list of grievances, imagined or otherwise, that contributed to their motivation to show up there that day.
This is incorrect. TikTok is actually a direct descendant of Musical.ly which Bytedance bought and rebranded, and was in competition with Vine.
AI language models like ChatGPT should strive for political neutrality
AI language models like ChatGPT should strive for political neutrality & objectivity. They certainly shouldn't pretend to be providing neutral and factual information while displaying clear political bias like ChatGPT does.
The prohibitionist puritans never learn. Laws that reduce smoking permissiveness in public places? Sure, Laws that set rules for advertising and legal buying age or location? Okay, why not. Banning tobacco completely in a spasm of nannying, health-fanatical "for your own good" intervention in people's personal body choices? Why? Have decades of absolutely idiotic drug laws and the previous idiotic bans on alcohol not shown why this is not only a bad idea practically but also just morally wrong by basic definitions of individual's rights to autonomy over their own bodies?

Doubtless there are many people here who personally dislike tobacco and thus think it's just fine that others should be banned from using it, but remember, where one set of laws tries to ban some personal way by which a person uses their body, its guiding principle can be expanded widely to include all sorts of other things you do support being able to do.

As a basic notion, the whole idea of the state acting as if people should be treated like little children in situations where their actions don't cause non-voluntary damage to others is just plain toxic in so many ways.
Thanks for the reading material recommendation! Very interesting topic
2600 was really limited to its tiny amount of memory. It really limited games to one to a few genres, and at very low resolution.

64 kilobytes of memory was not cheap in the early 80s. But very much worth it. A nice XL/XE demo (of an 800XL using a Unocart A8 adapter) and great Atari channel on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHQaT1Ei28

https://www.youtube.com/@paulwestphal7336
We do! And for a long while most of the resources will come from Earth. However you can't keep doing that forever as the costs will grow to an unsustainable level.

If you could magic up a civilization on Mars today, it'd exponentially cheaper to launch materials from Mars to elsewhere in the solar system than to launch those same materials from Earth. Similarly it'd be cheaper to dig those materials out of the ground for use on Mars than it would be for them to be used directly on Mars.

Counterintuitively, it's cheaper to launch materials from Mars to Earth's Moon than it is to launch them from Earth's surface to the Moon.
Do you really think developers are going to lower the price of their app people are already willing to pay for? I agree the 30% Apple tax can inflate prices, but I'm more inclined to think developers will pocket the 30% instead of reducing their apps price, especially companies selling a product (e.g. Twitter).
Not all employees are full-time. I worked retail summers and weekends when I was in school, and was an employee of the retailer...
I lived for a few years in a place where no word is taboo.

What you don't realize is that when no word is taboo people tend to invent nontrivial sequences, or entire monologues to regain and further enhance the effect. Which I think is better than inventing pitiful euphemisms. It's almost poetry.
Thanks for the reminder about the article that turned Bloomberg into a joke. But do note that the author is Mark Gurman, a fairly prolific Apple analyst. I suppose he implies that he has anonymous sources.
> My concern is that scenario won't exist.

Why wouldn't it? It's the reality of Android, why would it work any different on iOS?
Maybe a silly question:

Why do you need 1Tb for repos?
What do you store inside, besides code and some images?
I admit it was a lot of words, but I believe that lot of words already answered most of your points. As for the rest...I generally haven't found it to be a good use of time to answer that sort of cross-examination. The bulk of the community seems quite happy when we explain our thinking in good faith and don't do anything too extreme, but the cross-examiner is usually impossible to satisfy. I'm not talking about you here! but in my past experience, patiently answering a cross-examination usually only produces a longer cross-examination. I'd rather spend those resources making HN better for the rest of the community.

But you did get me curious to see if I could find a past example of this kind of title edit. I did find one from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30680267. We changed "Google Fi Illegally Bricked My iPhone 11 Pro Max" to "Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)" That's a typical example of HN moderation because we not only took out the sensational/disputable word, we also added the year—which besides being a normal edit, has the side effect of damping the riler-upper aspect. (The internet only likes to get angry about fresh things.)

Re the Tiktok bit, you seem to be asking about this post: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103 - Dec 2021. I couldn't find any record of us moderating that post, so my first thought was that perhaps we just didn't see it. But I commented several times in the thread, so that can't be it either. Given that https://twitter.com/Naaackers/status/1471494415306788870 was exactly the sort of riler-upper that we routinely downweight, and in this case neglected to, my guess is that I was too busy in the comments and forgot to look at the article.

In a case like that, it would be normal to add a question mark as a way of making the title more neutral. We did that, for example, here: The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33343681 - Oct 2022 (246 comments)

Now I have added another lot of words. I hope some of this is useful!
I solved a problem in my workplace. As in, people were bookings rooms using a book. So I made a booking system.

Have a think about problems people are solving with spreadsheets. This may give you some ideas.

Also consider integrations. For example, I have another product which exports timetable data from spreadsheets to Google Calendar. Why are people putting timetable data in spreadsheets? That's not the problem I am getting paid to solve :-)
I think part of the issue is that as a society we moved too far away from what we are. I was raised on a farm. I saw chicken heads cut off and sheep slaughtered, but it was all done in.. what is the word I am looking for here.. in a non-industrial manner. You knew you were taking a life and you tried not to make it ( edit: unnecessarily ) painful and not a pointless sacrifice ( in western society anyway some ethos definitely developed over time ).

But buying a mcnugget at mcdonalds removes that clear connection between life and death.

<< It feels like a distraction from thinking about fixing the way the hens get treated through their miserable lives.

It is a distraction, but I believe it is a valid related point nonetheless.
really interested in reading this if anyone have a non-paywall link.
> A big enough company (like Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon) could easily push their store

Or any shitty IoT company. When people pay $400 for an instant pot or $800 for a robot vacuum or electric scooter they’ll download any spyware app to make it run. Plenty already required sideloading apk’s on Android.
Part of their job is to make sure that the nuclear stockpile is still reliable. Since they can't actively blow up a nuke nowadays, they instead rely on experiments and simulation.

However, like a lot of the Department of Energy's work, their nuclear research also relates heavily to civilian applications. They are not 'bullshit' for the press.
> but at the very least, they are countering Big Tech.

Honestly, I think this is partly to do with the fact that very few of these "Big Tech" companies are founded and primarily operate in the EU.
Sort of related - anyone know of an open source tool that can repair video streams that get broken during the download process (using youtube-dl) due to internet interruption.

Everything I've researched into this says that it cannot be done because there is final metadata that gets added at the end of the stream that is missing. This does not seem right - if you have already download frames of video there should be some way to recreate any metadata instead of being left with an unplayable broken mpg file.

The internet has many shady third party paid products that claim to do this but I don't trust them.
Just bringing your stuff with you from one state to another could make you a felon, making people very locked in from moving across certain states. Someone in Idaho would become a felon for bringing their (Idaho legal) AR-15 into California while the person in California would become a felon for bringing their (California legal) weed plant into Idaho.

A lot of these states have backdoor ways of keeping out culturally incompatible folks from moving state to state by making mere victimless possession of certain items disproportionately linked to certain American cultures into felonies.
There was a publisher, a distributor, and the retail outlet all taking their cuts.

Then you also had to pay into a marketing fund for those big full color inserts in the Sunday paper if your software was sold at the big box retailers.

You also had to eat the cost of returns of unsold inventory after you issued a new version.
H-bombs use the hydrogen to produce more neutrons which boosts the fission process. It still is a fission bomb.
According to the sign, it is simply not possible to sign away one’s right not to be surprise-billed.

Also, I’ve seen ERs that have patients sign little digital signature pads without ever showing the patients the legalese in question. I don’t see how that could possibly hold up in court.
It used to be free, with no signup, and it was great. Now all I want is something that is exactly what ngrok was in 2015.
I worked on a set of extensions for mattn/go-sqlite3, written in Go, inspired but a little further along (in functionality and test coverage) than SQLean. Useful if you want to see examples of this in Go or are using Go rather than Rust to embed SQLite.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/go-sqlite3-stdlib
And that's entirely on them, international bank transfers within the EU take mere moments now.
>Actors themselves, however, are sequential. That is, each actor will only execute one behaviour at a time. This means all the code in an actor can be written without caring about concurrency: no need for locks or semaphores or anything like that.

I mean, sure, it's nice not to have to build this behavior in Java, but it can (and I and many other have) be built in Java, and then there's still Java's massive code base available. I have yet to do it in Rust, but Rust probably has great support for just this.

But let's not pretend that this solves all problems related to "concurrency", such as race conditions. In fact it specifically only solves problems where the individual state of an actor is completely independent of any other actor. Sure, that's a lot of places if done right, but in those places, a queue driven FSM in Java does the job.
That is trivially true at the extremes of energy input. If you input an infinite amount of energy you will not get an infinite amount out.

But that’s not what we’re talking about. This is a physical process which is known to be exothermic for the energy ranges we care about.

As another example, raising the temperature of a flammable material 1 degree from room temperature will probably not light. Ditto with 2 degrees. But eventually, if you raise the temperature high enough, you’ll get more energy out than you put in. That’s the type of process we’re talking about now.
Switching phone ecosystems is a hell of a lot harder and more expensive than installing an app. (And the Android ecosystem is honestly not good either.)
In what way is mobile phone software a free market?

"Simply not buy Apple things" means "buy Google things." There's no way around that if you want a functional smart phone. You either pick red or blue.

If there were 5-10 full-featured phone OSes out there, your point would make more sense to me.
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> In the real world when the bank runs out of dollars the government will give me dollars instead.

Up to a point.
elegant solution. Thank you for sharing.
A whole lot of images?

I personally would love to be able to store datasets next to code for regression testing, easier deployment, easier dev workstation spin up, etc.
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> Apple is discussing the idea of mandating certain security requirements even if software is distributed outside its store. Such apps also may need to be verified by Apple — a process that could carry a fee.

So ... can they do that? It's pretty safe that if it's allowed, they'll do it.
The smarter KVM switches, well, KV switches, would simulate a keyboard even if you're not connected to the server, but the dumber KV switches were dumb, so you'd have to select the rebooting server so it could see the keyboard. Then you'd adjust the bios so it doesn't require a keyboard to boot.

That's just how it was in the old days.
We've added a log tailing feature into our product UI which also has a basic find/filter. It's been enormously useful for cases where something weird happens as you can immediately access the last few mins of logs.
It's based mostly on WhatsApp and as such it is subject to change.
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I definitely see this as the biggest downside.

However, as someone who doesn't deal with these big companies to begin with, it wouldn't affect me at all if they move out. It would just fast-track me to recommending alternatives to everyone I know.

I already migrated my whole family into iCloud for photos and own Nextcloud server for Google Drive alternative. It's been great. Obviously not the average user, but I could see people sticking with Apple's services over Google's.

Might get a huge base of older adults off of Facebook for good if they decide to leave the App Store.
I have so many but the one I always look back proudly on was non-technical and fairly devious. I was a disaffected middle-schooler. I had lost my science book which I would have to pay for if I didn't find it. I had, however, "procured" someone else's science book. The problem was that all the books had been numbered on the edge by the teacher who kept a list of which student had been issued which book. I wanted to somehow make the number of this book match the number of the book I had lost but they looked nothing like each other. So ... I took a marker and crossed out the number on the book. Then I wrote the _same_ number right next to it. Then I took it to the teacher. I said "Hey someone stole my book and tried to pass it off as theirs!" The teacher took one look at it, said something like "what an idiot" and then proceeded to update the list with my name for that book instead of the original owner's. I don't know what happened to the other kid - it never came back to me. I felt bad later but believe me it was a deeply satisfying minor victory for me at a time when not much was going my way.
The listed use cases for applications in the link you provided are:

- Application file format

- Websites

- Server-side database

Under not recommended they essentially say, very high volume and highly concurrent access.
What does this do that nixops doesn't? I manage a couple of droplets on DO with nixops just fine...
THIS.

Not quite a century ago, a couple of my uncles raised & sold capons in a small rural American town. It was a side business, male chicks were ~free, and they did the caponization themselves.
The latter might be a tax thing.

For example, in The Netherlands we have the "vrije vergoeding van extraterritoriale kosten". Long story short, if a Dutch company recruits an expert worker from outside The Netherlands, they are allowed to pay 30% of the salary tax-free for 5 years. Considering the salary tax at that level is nearly 50%, it's a significant difference.

I would not be surprised if other countries have similar methods to recruit foreign high-quality workers.

As for the former: it might be the case that the position is funded by an institution requiring a certain percentage of people employed by the project to speak the language. Stuff like that is not at all uncommon for subsidies.
Alternatively, it might simply be the working language for the company. If you're going to develop a platform which will be used solely by people in Galicia, with an interface in Galician, it is not too weird to expect the people creating them to understand the language as well.

But yeah, Europe is a diverse continent. You can't really work with a one-size-fits-all model.
Hi! The main strengths of Shipnix right now is ease of provisoning and deployment. And I will continue to add convenient starters that gives you a readily bootstrapped server in several technologies.

Most of what you would need to do is either in the UI or in the source code. They complement eachother. And I think it's a great way to learn Nix.

The NixOS configuration lets you set up LetsEncrypt and domain names declaratively through code. That's one of the strengths in my opinion, but taste might vary.

This also means no vendor lock-in. That being said, it might be that not everyone gets value of it.

I created this because I wanted something that organizes my servers nicely, saves build logs for debugging, lets me easily rollback if a build fails and is easy to managee and deploy.

Thanks for the feedback. I will work further on communicating this in the docs
yes definitely. It should be easy to add s3-compatible providers (which are numerous, since s3 seems to be the defacto file storage API now).

We haven't added "BYO" functionality to our hosted Platform because, frankly, we already spend a lot of time debugging various quirks and network issues - even for infra which we provide. Adding an extra level of opaqueness at our current team size would be very stressful from a support-perspective. That said, we're designing/developing so that it's possible and we'll continue to assess as the team grows.
It's true, Minecraft absolutely had like 4 layers of red tape Mojang had to go through to sell is program. Same with WinZip, WinRar, XSplit and many other applications.

Or do they mostly just support PayPal, Square, Amazon Pay or direct credit card billing?
As a Linux user, I love that there’s a kind of device I can recommend my non-technical friends and family without worrying too much about their safety or privacy. Is it perfect? No. But the risk that they’re fooled into installing a malicious app is still a lot lower than with mandated side loading and app stores with lax oversight.

I.e the gatekeeping my government wants to prohibit is the reason I’ve been recommending these things. I guess I’ll have to switch to recommending AwareGo security training for everyone
I thought that was known by everyone. The big thing is how the software deals with the raw data and that is different for each phone maker.
I can see why someone familiar with the law would be comfortable speaking with the police, but it's tough for a lay person to know if they are being lied to or will inadvertantly say something seemingly benign that causes them grief. Given that police are allowed to lie with impunity and might become your enemy, it's almost all downside for oneself to speak to them.

If cops were obligated to be honest in more respects I would be more willing to open up, but of course they don't want any restrictions in that area. Cops in the US want to be able to lie whenever it's convenient and also have everyone trust them, but that's not a very fair bargain for the general public.
If it was already decided to be funded, yes it would have been under DoE. Though I believe the weapons aspect had a very major contribution in deciding for it to be funded at all. It was proposed shortly after the nuclear testing ban and has been a big part in fulfilling that area.

I'm not trying to correct you, but adding context for the weapons aspect.
I don't think the mass killing of billions of baby chicks should be justified because it's "an instant death". Just because there are other issues worth fixing doesn't mean it's a distraction, that's just a silly mindset. We should work on both problems.
I think Apple lowkey actually wants Jailbreak to continue as it's a pool of free novel ideas that they can then implement in iOS. But what % of Apple's customers JB their iDevices? Probably not more than 5%, and that number is likely decreasing too. For instance, I used to JB my iPad and iPhone up until iOS 15 when the features introduced by the OS passed my needs *threshold*.
The NIF is not intended to be a power plant, and inertial containment in general is probably not a great design for producing power.

This is scientific breakthrough. The best point of comparison is probably a fusion bomb, which requires an initial fission detonation to create enough pressure and free neutrons to force a net-positive fusion reaction. But at the NIF they do it using only lasers… incredible.
I remember a friend working on a Symantec project that was localized to German. They used a translation program which resulted in the dialog box basically saying "Have an abortion, Retry, Fail?"
Surely the fix there is to improve the regulations rather than banning it?
Reversion of price levels to standard increase slope is actually termed dis-inflation.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032415/what-differe...
I know a feature is 'no funny abstractions', but would something like devenv.sh help achieve more or less easy support to multiple languages quickly?
Sadly, the PDF tool is not as good as Edge's. There is still a lot to improve.
> Multiple paths towards a more sustainable future is better for everyone.

That is debatable.
That's fair - my first sentence maybe isn't always true in isolation , but I think in the context of the second one it is. Obviously it'd be ideal to invent new ranks between the existing ones, instead of the inflation.
Rather than speculation it'd be useful if there was more hard science on the subject, you know by actually doing long term experiments on life in space being exposed to these heavy ions.

You can find scientific papers on a lot of subjects where it's hard to get at objective fact arguing one way or another and it's hard to tell how factual they really are.

Also why would you quote the "upper error bar"? I'd like to know the size of that error bar and what the median is.

> The upper error bar right now for a 1000 day Mars mission is upwards of 20% risk of radiation-induced death; most of this is from the heavy ion component of cosmic rays.

This is just an argument that you need to bury things in regolith, at least early on, until we get better shielding designed for heavy ions.
Do you remember when there was a tiny blip in production for COVID, and suddenly the shelves were empty? What do you think is going to happen if 100 nukes go off and wipe out strategic chunks of the USA?
Al Seckel on Richard Feynman (2001)
I'm always fascinated by the sheer and unfathomable amounts of energy that is thrown around in these events. Just thinking about the fact that a single spoonful of neutron star matter contains more mass than Mount Everest fills me with wonder about the world we live in.
If only it was cheap enough to take regularly...
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