skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I meant is that oil enabled fundamentally new things like personal car transportation, plastics, space age materials and cheap and convenient gas heating.

Solar can still provide all of that, but it's not a revolution, just a substitute.
See also: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Why-does-G-have-tampons-in-me...
(when I worked there, there were tampons in the labelled men's restrooms, which confused a lot of people)
fd takes less time, would recommend
> The big picture: Rev. Rob Schenck, a former anti-abortion leader, previously told the New York Times that he learned of court's 2014 decision on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby weeks in advance, prompting a review from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

That's evidence. Testimony is evidence.
The leaker was most likely a clerk or other lesser official, not a justice.
Indeed. I think it even deserves a name. The "XYX problem"?
It's providing energy with fewer intermediaries soaking up profits along the way, and can be done "anywhere" the sun shines instead of where resource deposits are concentrated. Entire political classes will be (and are) mobilized to push against this. There is a lot to lose for a lot of people.

That and a huge % of the stock market's value right now is built up of energy companies. Especially here in Canada.
Yes but can a microwave make a microwave?

Not only could a humanoid robot make a microwave, it could even make a copy of itself.

And if it didn't have the parts lying around it could get into a car, drive out to the mountains and start mining the raw materials to build the parts.

Can a microwave do that?
Power didn't start corrupting people yesterday. That sentiment is pretty much the entire reason why the US government was designed to have three branches that checks and balance each other. You don't need to trust anyone in particular if you can trust the process.
There's a detailed writeup mentioned in the post https://www.synacktiv.com/sites/default/files/2023-01/sudo-C....
"Obscure dark techno from 1990 Berlin" yielded a playlist with a 2009 remaster of Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk is one of my favorite bands, but it's not obscure and it's not from 1990 Berlin. On the same list are a bunch of bands and songs which I would enjoy, but are not from Berlin nor from 1990.

I also tried "Cover songs which are much more famous than the originals", and after spot checking the list, it seems to be originals - not covers.

I gave the same prompts to ChatGPT. It wouldn't even try with the first prompt, but the second prompt yielded a decent list.
cf (DE) https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/riemann_hypothe...
Sure, I completely agree with you. No argument there.
On Windows, the fastest way seems to use WizTree to scan the whole hard drive (Takes only a couple seconds to scan an SSD, and even my 2 TB spinning HD with >900,000 files takes less than 15 seconds) and then search the results for the filename.
You might be right, but your comment comes across as cold blooded.
I maintain the position I have had ever since Twitter sold people on the ridiculous idea of "API keys": the correct path has always been adversarial interoperability (as we did back forever ago when people built alternative apps for instant messaging services); if Twitterrific had been designed to use the same API and authority as the official app--maybe as a fallback, if nothing else--Twitter would not have been easily able to kill it... they could try, but it would be a cat and mouse game at best, and the only real recourse they would have would have been to try to detect API abnormalities (which Twitterific could quickly fix, and frankly the skeleton crew at Twitter today likely couldn't do well anyway) to directly punish the end users for continuing to insist on logging in with alternative clients (as Snapchat is forced to do); and, while it is easy to just shut off Twitterific's API key and tell the users "too bad", I think having to take the war to Twitterific's userbase (as the app would be able to keep working forever, with only momentary brownouts) would be a tougher pill for Twitter to swallow, given that it had way too much marketshare at this point.
Music for high-level shitposting – https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3PRcPyTztdE3YJBjcsQnRk

Wrote the prompt as a joke but the end result is not bad at all!
Your article states that one person says he did and two people say he did not.

The guy who claimed it is a known liar.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/reverend-who-accused-supreme-c...
This feels a bit more like the power & water was cut off to the beach house, but I like taking metaphors one step to far.
For very obvious reasons you don't need to run any nodes, craft any malware, or scrutinize a target's layer 3+ OPSEC, in order to break Tor. You simply go to tier 1 ISPs and buy up IP datagram headers going to/from entry nodes and you win. The only solution is a constant rate of fake traffic to the guard node.
Why you should learn sign language
The Maybe Monad
Wonder if they will use some of the IP they've built up to move into the Mastodon Client space. While there is already a nice crop of Mastodon clients, it seems like there is no dominant 3rd party client yet.
Warning: Samsung browser on Galaxy S10 hangs when opening this URL.
Well, if he was promised 100% sunshine, he might.
You're being silly. Why are "answer the question as stated" or "deconstruct the person's entire life to find their ultimate problem" the only logically consistent possible courses of action?

If someone asks a question that suggests something might have been misunderstood, there's nothing wrong with probing a little to find the reason for the question. Maybe the person really does know something you didn't, but it's much more likely that by asking clarifying questions you'll save theirs and your own time.
With the note that I still don't understand how these incidents relate to leftism at all, or even with elected Democratic officials, I did look into these two things. (https://archive.ph/jN2Up is a non-paywalled version of the first URL, btw)

For the Yale incident, it seems this was basically just some people being mean to a couple professors because of an email blast they sent out. One of the professors still works for Yale and the other quit a year later, so it doesn't seem that anybody was fired over it, just more spilled ink. The one who quit has since had a book on the NYT bestseller list so even voluntarily quitting doesn't seem to have really hurt her career.

In the Mozilla case, this was basically just some people saying they disagree with the CEO of their company about gay marriage, and he eventually resigned. Even if he was really forced out by the board or something and the "resignation" is a nicety for the public statement, this just seems like a "risk" of making millions of dollars being a tech CEO. If your employees are gonna quit over some political donation unless you resign, your choices are basically: 1) let them quit, 2) don't write the check, or 3) write the check and resign. He probably didn't know he was choosing 3 when he wrote the check but lots of things in business are like that, and he probably could have chosen 1 if he'd actually owned the company but apparently he didn't. Also, he is now some other flavor of tech CEO (Brave Software, which seems to be trying to market a browser while also running what is presumably a crypto scam?). Again, no real consequences.

If "cancel culture" is just what we call it now when rich, powerful people have mean things said to them then yeah, it hardly seems to matter at all.
The spiritual benefits of material progress
Thanks for your efforts, and sorry you had to hear piles of angry Tempest users at times.
and we know one if them is a liar

https://www.theepochtimes.com/reverend-who-accused-supreme-c...
Well you can get the linear non-algorithmic timeline in the official mobile app, works perfectly for the time being
Why ask me? GP is the one who found the car but had it re-stolen, ask them why they didn't recover it.

There was also a recent HN submission where a blog post author used a GPS tracker to find their car but relied on the police instead of recovering it themselves, with predictable results. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442044
This is absolutely humiliating for these 3rd party people. Twitter shows no respect whatsoever for these devs.

You wanna shut them down to show more ads? Fine. But at least communicate and let them know upfront. What a sh*t show.
To be ultra charitable, if I bought a subscription for the app as a brand new customer and the very next week, Twitter revoked their API keys and kills the app entirely, yea I’m probably asking for a refund.

If I had been a customer for years and years, obviously my calculation would be different.
> If someone wants you compromised, you will get compromised, it only matters how many resources they are willing to throw at you.

Wants who compromised? What are they going to do against people who use no pseudonym and never originate from the same machine or the same physical location?
Looks like Target stopped supporting schools through Target Red Card in 2016?

https://www.ptotoday.com/pto-today-articles/article/6232-tar...
https://quantum.country/

it has built-in spaced repetition cards
Did you know in advance that there would be no fees on either end? Was this an exception or is this just their standard offering?
Perhaps the leak was not by a justice and they could hold a member of the staff to account.
Twitter officially bans third-party clients in new developer agreement
Absolutely. And this is a mere request from them, not something they can actually tell their customers. Apple is the sole judge on whether you shall receive a refund. The actual maker is not involved in that process.
Fritter supports this, and much more, without even needing an account or an API key! The beta version has a lot of nice features and a fresh UI.

https://fritter.cc

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Fritter
In my UNIX learning history I skipped straight from sed to perl and didn't use awk. By the time I had switched to python, awk sounded awfully "old" to me.

I went back recently and read more on it and now I understand: it was an excellent interpreted programming language that gave semiskilled programmers some things C didn't, like associative arrays, all nicely packaged within the UNIX frame of mind. In an alternative universe, perhaps awk, instead of perl and then python, would become the scripting language of choice.
It took them 4 or 5 years just to do this release, since it was first announced. I feel like "they just dusted off an old license" is not a likely explanation.

Probably took 5 years just to get through all the lawyers at Apple, and this is what we ended up with.

Remember, the default answer to almost any question poised to a lawyer is "No."

:-(
Sure:

Amazon started its history with a deep affiliate system whereby "anyone" (capable of creating an affiliate account) could create affiliate marked links to get a small profit share on items sold, plus marketing reports and other information (which only grew more detailed over time). Because of that, affiliate links are everywhere on the web. Advertising companies themselves also use them both to get an extra cut on the advertised item and also to get those juicy marketing reports for ad spam.

Originally affiliate marks in URLs were easy to spot, they were just query parameters (after the ?) and removing all query parameters removed affiliate info from Amazon links. (There are still ancient ones out there like that.) After a while, and I don't know when the transition date was, these started to get embeded sometimes "steganographically" in other parts of the URL.

At one point, as a blogger with bloated ideas of my own influence I set up an affiliate account for myself. For a few years after that, I liked to use Amazon in "Affiliate mode" where it had an extra toolbar at the top that would let me at least take any link I was looking at and replace any affiliate marks with my own. I could use that to stop sending marketing info to links that I had followed (and sometimes make a couple pennies back on purchases, like one of the world's dumbest credit card rewards systems).

The way Amazon Smile operated is that it basically earmarked the money that would have gone to an affiliate for the charity of your choice. (I wouldn't be surprised if Smile had just been implemented as a pseudo-affiliate, which also adds to other conspiracy thinking that Smile might not have been that hard to maintain from an implementation standpoint.) Because the charity was set in your user preferences there's no use for affiliate marks in URLs, so none of the smile.amazon.com URLs have affiliate marks at all because they don't need them.

So the easiest way to take any www.amazon.com URL you could find in the wild and make sure it didn't have any affiliate marks and wouldn't send data or cash back to an affiliate was to simply replace www with smile and let Amazon's own backend refresh the URL without affiliate marks. This was useful for cleaning your own browsing histories of marketing data and also for making sure that if you were forwarding links on to friends and loved ones they also weren't accidentally sending tracking data back to some affiliate with no real need to know.
I hope no one ever kicks you when you’re down. You might want to consider extending others the same grace.
Show HN: A spreadsheet that can connect to 1000 APIs
We launched on Product Hunt today with a spreadsheet that's pre-connected to 1k+ APIs (no code or configuration required). Would love to hear what you think!
A decade of the berkeley math circle and concrete mathematics
I filled out DoD form for TS clearance years ago and answered honestly that I had smoked weed and done coke in college. That's what my boss said to do. He said if they caught you in a lie you were finished because that meant you could be blackmailed.

EDIT to add: Ironically he had gotten in trouble for phone phreaking as a teenager.
Procedural generation for 3D content is something quite common nowadays - see Substance Designer as an example.

AFAIK the people behind kkrieger tried to push their tool for commercial use at some point but it didn't seem to catch on - but that was years ago.
Take away the subsidies and see how long that lasts. Where I live the solar panels get covered in snow every winter. Yet the power company won't even hire teenagers to clean them off. They stay that way until the snow melts generating zero watts of electricity in the meantime.

It's obvious they only find renewables valuable for the subsidies, not the energy (what there is of it) they produce.
I don't understand all the people "calling bullshit" on the reason Amazon provided. Of course Amazon's reason is bullshit. Amazon knows their reason is bullshit. Amazon knows that you know the reason is bullshit. It's called saving face.
>IBM mainframes run the banks.

And the airlines, and the logistics companies
The gaming industry was not sanctioned and there are no export controls on video games. What do you want them to do? If by "sanctions evasions" you mean telling people to buy virtual cards to pay for games or gift cards I will tell you none of that is illegal. How exactly would banning Russians from Steam save anyone anyways? Savvy Russians have been using VPNs for everything for a long time now, it would make no difference.
Exactly. It was also a way to train customers to navigate directly to Amazon instead of through search engines (where Amazon pays for ads).
Interesting. I'm not sure how common annuities outside of defined benefit pensions are in the US. My impression is not very.

I've noticed them mostly in the form of charitable trusts (which can offer the benefit of basically shielding large asset gains from taxation). But it doesn't seem to be a widely-used investment strategy in general. Maybe it's more common if someone doesn't have an interest in passing down any money.
unless I'm turning the pads on full velocity, every single sampler, sequencer, midi controller, etc is going to destroy my hands with pain within a few minutes of tapping around.

I find its much easier to just edit velocity manually after the fact.
Apple releases Lisa source code
All Aboard Take a Trip on Sydney’s Ferries with Street View
I wasn't trying to suggest that "not objectively worse" was the baseline, of course!

What I was trying to express was that in many cases, it seems that users interpret a new design as worse simply because it's different and unfamiliar, rather than based on its objective merits.
> If I pay for something and don't get the promised value why should I be the one who eats it?

Why should the developer? It would be wrong to say "You won't get a refund" but that's not what they're doing.
Steam Machines were not popular but they paved the way (they never stopped working on Proton) for Steam Deck which is very very popular.

Now making a game work on proton doesn't mean it works on Linux, means it works on a new popular portable console.

This thing runs God of War [1] at the same performance than a regular PS4 but on Linux over Proton in a handheld, it's incredible.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xvZkRSpQoE
After 20 years of digital photography, this is the way:

YYYY/YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD.SHASUM.IMG_NNNN.EXT

This lets you keep date metadata on individual files moved or copied out, detect bit rot, etc.
It's a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation that they're applying to their own projects. So Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.[1]

MediaWiki 1.38 and later bundles Vector 2022, the prior 2011 version of Vector, the pre-2011 default MonoBook, the responsive alternative Timeless, and the mobile-only skin Minerva.[2] MediaWiki admins can still set whatever skin they want to use in LocalSettings.php. $wgDefaultSkin is still vector, the 2011 version, as it has been since 1.18.[3]

1: https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/

2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins

3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultSkin
It's hard to overstate how much of an impact third party twitter clients have had on Twitter and the broader mobile landscape - like the post mentions, the word 'Tweet' and blue bird twitter icon came from third party clients! The Tweetie app invented pull-to-refresh, used by every (both) mobile operating systems.
Yeah, it was hard to believe what I was reading there. Building something that can't stand alone as a product without a 3rd party API is always a big risk for a developer. When it blows up, should not be made the customers problem.
Those are pretty big use cases but not "authorized". Nevertheless, they are real use cases.
It's the plot of Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.
The basic point is that no-one pays for a Twitter client expecting it to keep working if (say) Twitter closes down or pivots into a rideshare company or decides to close down third-party access to the platform. On any reasonable viewpoint that's a risk accepted by the purchaser, not the app seller.
That's a bit unfair to the insurance companies. They have a pretty big say in what happens and also run mainframes.
> We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter – a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer.

They just documented it. Another after-the-fact policy like @elonjet got.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-new-developer-terms-ban-thi...

"The 'restrictions' section of Twitter’s developer agreement was updated Thursday with a clause banning 'use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.' The addition is the only substantive change to the 5,000-word agreement."

Anyone with a shred of empathy would've given devs advance notice of "we're destroying your business".
It was a request and not a demand, if you value the service the dev provided the community more than the money, you might not refund it, otherwise, presumably you will. Recently I had a pizza come an hour and a half late because the restaurant was swamped, and I'd already gotten hungry and eaten something else. I tipped the same amount as I would have otherwise because the tip, in my mind, isn't about rewarding great service, it's about providing a livelihood to the employees. (Were things different for restaurant workers, I might feel differently, but in the current incarnation stiffing someone a tip isn't denying them a bonus, it's denying them a wage.)
I suspect this will be a highly divisive comment, but - the `greycat` character in these vignettes exemplifies the "knowledgable asshole" stereotype that does more damage than good.

The division is likely to be as to whether this is a good and justified thing - "if they couldn't hack it, they don't belong here" // "respondents do not owe politeness to dumb questioners" - or not. As with many questions, I suspect the answer is somewhere in the middle (though closer to the "or not", IMO).

And just so this comment isn't entirely meta-commentary and actually delivers some value - a broader guide on "asking technical questions" is here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (FWIW the "How To Answer Questions in a Helpful Way" section supports my suspicion that a gentler approach is more productive)

EDIT: I _maybe_ take back the "does more damage than good" claim from the first paragraph based `thethirdone`'s comment below - greycat-likes are probably still a net-positive. But they _can_ do better, pretty easily, and we should push for such improvement both personally and in communities where we are seen as leaders.
Something else I’ve found extremely useful in getting into maths topics is the Princeton Companion to Mathematics - it doesn’t have exercises but gives excellent overview essays of a wide range of maths topics - expensive to buy (mine was a present) but should be available in academic libraries, say.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Tim...
It's still dead.
Right, it's as much personal flattery of the king as it is a statement of allegiance to and gratitude for the institution of royalty! I'm sure the Civil War must've been quite a scary time, and I have no doubt that he's sincere about having greater peace and safety under the the restored monarchy. It's a really fascinating glimpse into that time period, beyond just the history of science.
Small business whose significant chunk of income just evaporated asking to be nice with them seems fair.
This was linked from "The State of the Awk (2020)" on the front page earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34438560

See also "AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited" also linked from that article: http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
CS50P and the accompanying videos on YouTube:
https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQjrBD2T3817j24-GogX...

Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQrJ0TkZlc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw