skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know how a government would enforce this. Nor if we want them to.

Mandate that services over a certain user threshold expose open interfaces to which competitors can bind. That has worked reasonably well in banking and telecommunication.

> Also kind of funny that you mention federation as an implciit solution and then complain about email.

Unlike Mastodon federation or SEPA bank accounts, there is no legal requirement for the old service provider to assist in moving accounts, and I was talking about Googlemail which ties an entire person's identity across a multitude of services to one account. The person in my scenario lost everything from their mail account to the apps bought on their smartphone.

> Having a better service isn't grounds for a monopoly alone, that's just plain ol' competition.

Agreed but there have been many cases where the "better service" just bought up the competition. Adobe is the best example, and up next I'd classify Atlassian. Both of their respective stacks still show the signs of integration after decades.
> (...) they decided a while back to start taking a political stance as a business; they terminated existing customers, with no notice, because they disagreed with political actions of the customer's home country.

Can you provide any concrete evidence that supports your personal assertion?
The problem is just how much water air can hold... humidifying even a small room takes gallon and gallons.
Heads up - your bottom two buttons don't work for me on Firefox or Chrome (Desktop)
Hi, I been running Conduit in a "Allways free" droplet at Oracle Cloud.

Its been working without problems for a single user setup (no VoIP though).

I hope you get an idea of the minimum resources needed.
Lightbulbs on Aliexpress have been amazing and much more durable to the ones I find in the supermarket. Buy from some dealer that specializes in lightbulbs, more than tech or home gadgets in general. Some of those no-diffuser E27 LED ones can be a real migraine starter when looked at directly, but they are bright and feel like matching the expected color temperature unlike many dimmable+color smart ones I have around, where it felt more like a hit or miss. There are some low flicker ones too.
> allowing 7.5 million to override 60 million, simply because they physically live in an area that was formerly a different state several hundred years ago would be disenfranchisement on a vast scale

Like how in the Electoral College here in the US, one vote in Wyoming can have almost two orders of magnitude more impact than a vote in California when it comes to electing senators, as each state gets two regardless of population [0]. Similarly, when one looks at the extent of gerrymandering, it’s clear that the winners, and especially one party in particular, love to redraw the lines to cherry-pick the voters that will elect them while excluding others that might challenge them [1]. For presidential elections, the difference between a Wyoming voter’s say and the average say of a voter from any other state is around 3.18:1. Worst-case is of course California, where it’s about 3.6:1 when compared to Wyoming, or said another way, a vote here is worth 27.7% of a Wyoming vote. [2][3]

0. https://wallethub.com/edu/how-much-is-your-vote-worth/7932

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2021/nov/12/gerrymander-redistricting-map-republicans-democrats-visual

2. https://fairvote.org/archives/the_electoral_college-population_vs_electoral_votes/

3. https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/how-much-voting-power-do-you-really-have-in-your-state
Anything other than bitcoin is centralized. (BTW, ETH is PoS so it's inherently centralized despite the number of validators.)
Yet, it causes "the pain of paying" and micro-transactions in general go directly against common sense and general marketing ideas of building a luxury/exclusive hassle-free feeling brand.

Especially since the payment process at those upscale hotels often was/is seperate from the room-paying process and was a total hassle (making an account through some crappy GUI, entering credit card details manually, etc).

It definitely felt super cheap and greedy to me when I stayed in those up-scale hotels for work and wanted to use wifi.
There are various stakeholder interests which need to be balanced. As much as people like to invent nefarious motives, in reality there likely important players on the internet who have valid use cases for fingerprinting which cannot be broken carelessly. Efforts like WEI try to address their needs via alternative means. I agree that it's bot a guarantee, but it certainly seems like a possibility.
Bit too close to `Incel`.
Reminds me of the first time I used antiperspirant. That day I had to do some physical work like moving boxes and scrubbing some shelves.

My forehead was pouring sweat, like that scene from Airplane[1], and I just couldn't understand why. I mean I was used to getting sweaty but nothing like this, I had trouble seeing for all the sweat in my eyes.

That's when I realized my armpits were bone dry, and made the connection to the antiperspirant.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewIUeSgPo70
Does CloudFlare proxy your website without your permission?
turn off animations and it flies
After looking at some translations, my take is: it seems they can confirm diamagnetism, but they have not confirmed zero resistance, and they think it is due to more impurities than there should be in the lab sample they were able to make so far.

I think that might actually be bad news: Wouldn't that indicate that the apparent Meissner effect was likely just normal diamagnetism?
PSLV Debris
Didn’t nearly all main SEC personnel publicly say that Ethereum is not a security?

Hinman and SEC pushing him to say it: https://blockworks.co/news/sec-hinman-eth-not-security

SEC chair Gary Gensler: https://decrypt.co/138334/gary-gensler-sec-ethereum-not-secu...

SEC prev chair Jay Clayton: https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/us-sec-chairman-jay-c...

Hester Pierce “crypto mom” ironically has never explicitly stated a position on Ethereum

What are they going to do now, backtrack on their own public statements?
Pretty cool, I had a little chat in german and then the last translate button wouldn't work, the chat disappeared after I clicked around the rest of the interface. Main thing that seems missing is there is no feedback on the grammar and spelling or things that should be said, so perhaps you need a second model + prompt to analyse the inputs of the user in relation to the conversation and critique it as a language teacher in terms of spelling, grammar and contextual relevance, suggesting an alternative that the teacher would have said?
It's still broken for bridges when compared to synapse. Bots rarely register, and sometimes you have to manually log into the account etc.

On the other hand, their dev matrix channel is very active. Props to that. Still...beta software.
Matrix is more like a state synchronization service than a way to send messages. If I join a room on another Matrix server, my server will begin maintaining a copy of that other sever for me to use how I like. If I shut my server down for a day, it will sync back up when it comes back.

I’m not sure if XMPP works like that, but I always thought it was more like email: send a message, maybe retry a bit, but that’s about it. Not sure how transient things like presence, read receipts, and typing notifications work either, across servers.
Would tax-sucking regulators and governments who want power to dominate the public want something decentralized and free?
Year in development. What do you think about Cample.js framework?
Great job creating this!

Not taking anything at all away from what you've made, but a small personal and super pedantic gripe - I despise any time a software uses "I", as in, "I'm examining your connection". It is a piece of code, not a person, it is not an "I".
Playing devil's advocate here: Given that there is not a shred of evidence that we have found so far that supports the idea of the existence of the Proto-Indo-European language, why are so many linguists (and researchers from other disciplines) continuing to invest in research with a firm belief/assumption that PIE ever existed?

Is it because it would be a career ending move for a linguist to conduct research that assumes that PIE did not exist? We have seen this before in history where researchers are punished for researching topics that go against the leading voices in the field.
This is one of those things that make me appreciate XMPP. There’s no expectation to duplicate the entire history of chatrooms. Many MUCs default to the last 20 messages, which is usually enough to let you catch & jump in on the conversation. Costs of running my server have been quite cheap.
The same way they latched onto agile, Agile, Scrum, DORA, and a bunch of other keywords.
Sure, but also HIV, hepatitis, and other nasties.

This article appears to be a more poorly written copy of one that was posted earlier that went into more detail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927096
And let me rephrase as well: be a Julliard, SI Newhouse. It doesn’t matter: if nobody fucking cares about what you do… they don’t fucking care about what you do. You aren’t going to change that.

One of the smartest people I know was a Julliard instructor. I love hearing their stories about their experiences in that world, but I can easily see why their “talent” didn’t translate into real world success. Despite their genius in musical interpretation, there taste is completely non-normative. Are you really arguing that the world is wrong and they aren’t?

It doesn’t fucking matter what you think matters. It only matters what _everyone else_ thinks matters. Feel free to downvote that opinion — I might be cynical but you’re wrong.
People just blindly extrapolate. Things that are down: math and language skills, transportation speed, life expectancy. Things that are up: manufacturing costs, mental health conditions, incarceration rates. Batteries and rockets are better, but well below expectations. CPU performance is well below expectations. Parallel computing improvements are satisfactory, I suppose.
I started with "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant. It introduced me to the high-level strands and terms in philosophy by studying the works of eminent philosophers.
Audiobooks are also great for slogs. You just keep walking, and the boring part of the book just keeps happening at you. No getting distracted and putting the book down etc.
You can always mount in an S3 bucket and use that instead of the local drive.
The ability of the US government to tax any companies or individuals residing in the US seems pretty “real” (more-so than gold anyway..)
Absolutely. In fact, you're almost perfectly describing the JsonAPI standard for returning errors: https://jsonapi.org/format/#errors

One improvement I'd steal from theirs and drop in yours - constant (or enum) string codes. It's a lot more scannable when debugging/reviewing/maintaining than having to look up integer codes in a table.
Is it really incredible if no one thinks it’s incredible?
Article about Wikispooks from 2020:

https://www.insider.com/conspiracy-theory-wikispooks-huge-tr...

>Wikispooks was founded a decade ago in the United Kingdom by a former businessman named Peter Presland, who has denied facts about the Holocaust and is a prominent promoter of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the Israeli government was behind the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to radio interviews featuring Presland.

>In May 2010, Presland wrote in a note archived online that his website would be a "collaborative project aimed at building a comprehensive reference source of deep political structures and events, together with the people and organisations connected to them."

>Presland doesn't produce the website's content alone, as other users are able to submit and edit pages, like on Wikipedia. But according to the editing history of the site, the only changes to its main page in the past five years were made by Presland and a user named Robin Upton, whose profile page on Wikispooks describes him as an "economic dissident" and says he was born in the UK in 1970. When reached for comment, Upton told Insider that he tries to remove "verifiable falsehoods" from the site.
Great, so both are in horrible economic shape. What difference does it make?
Mathematicians HATE this weird trick! Learn how he constructed a basis for the vector space of real functions without the axiom of choice.
Who here is defending land lords? They are useless.
> Vasquez had previously spent more than four years in prison for two felony convictions — making false statements when obtaining unemployment benefits and attempted armed robbery — before starting work as an Uber driver, according to court records.
Hmmm.

From the entry, Obama, Barack Hussein:

“His presidency was noted for the rise of big tech, social media, revived russophobia and new wars in the Middle East although he promised no more Middle Eastern oil reliance.”

Soooo… economic growth, identification of Russia as a clear and present danger, and on his watch the US achieved energy independence and became a significant oil exporter.

Uh, not sure there is anything else to say but, mission accomplished?
This is why I roll my eyes internally when business leaders talk about wanting employees who are passionate about their role. When forced to choose decision makers will size up an individual contributor’s performance KPIs not their passion. e.g. Did you close enough sales? Was your butt planted in seat on schedule? Did you generally resolve problems for them or create them? Saying anything to suggest otherwise is a trick to distract you from keeping your eye on the ball.
Interesring study but I'd rather wear polyester either way because it doesn't grind bits of you off when it gets soaked with sweat.
GitHub supports mermaidjs natively.

I prefer plantuml but mermaid is nice enough.
Is there a guide to teach these reluctant sysadmins how to evaluate, plan, and choose between all these different methods ?

For me, I find the hardest part of securing systems are usually to decide what is good enough for the current situation.
There’s a standard format for errors in JSON described in RFC 7807:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807

People shouldn’t invent their own custom error JSON when a standardised format will work.
yes I agree. Pretty cool. I had a chat in Danish, and it would have been good to get feedback on my spelling and grammar mistakes
Because they are not. There’s no inherent value so classing them as securities makes a lot of sense- just like derivatives and other financial instruments
Listen to the first five episodes to this podcast to get started. If you like it then keep going. https://www.philosophizethis.org/
Not liking crypto is one thing, but one needs to have serious issues to deny the fact that there is a lot of tech involved in crypto regarding cryptography, decentralized computing, and double spending problem just to name a few.

Perhaps not the best solution, that can be argued, they can be used for nefarious purposes too, but there's definitely good engineering work in crypto field.
Anything that is "super important and critical" will need to be validated on the server no matter what. But by pre-validating things in the browser, the user can have a more intuitive, seamless experience. Is the username you're typing already taken? No need to press the submit button, then scroll around trying to find the correct error message, we can give you feedback while you type.

You are right that there are tradeoffs, and I agree that client resource usage is under-analyzed, but sensible use of client-side code can make things like forms, visualisations, tables, etc much easier to use.
They might believe their prior statements on the matter no longer apply since the transition to proof-of-stake? (I am not saying this is a good argument, but it is one I think I have seen people come up with.)
These threads amuse me.

If adamgamble's speculation were the case, I'd go to jail for things I'd have illegally signed in our SEC disclosures attesting to the sources of our revenue and any government contracts. Suffice it to say, I like not being in jail. It's really, really hard for public companies to be part of some grand conspiracy for so many different reasons. So… once we went public I kind of thought this silly speculation would end. But guess not.

Beyond that, if you think about it, it's a way better business to run Cloudflare and serve the world than serve some US intelligence entity. That's just per se true. So if that's the case why would we ever do anything that would remotely compromise the trust necessary to, you know, be Cloudflare?

Lastly, here's a funny story. Early in our history one of our investors suggested that we talk to In-Q-Tel. Here's how naive Michelle and I were: we had no idea it was the CIA's venture capital arm. So we showed up in their office on Sand Hill Road. It was weirdly austere compared with other VCs we'd visited. And lots of security cameras. The partner at some point came out and greeted us. As he was walking us back he looked back right before we crossed the threshold back to the inner offices, "You're both American citizens, right?"

"No," Michelle said. "I'm Canadian."

"Oh." the VC said. Then you can't come back here.”

"I'm not going back there without her," I said.

"Ok, well, I guess we'll have to do the meeting in the reception area," decided the In-Q-Tel VC.

We had a very cordial meeting and then left. As we were driving away Michelle said, "Those guys were weird." And that was the end of that. Never talked to In-Q-Tel again.

But maybe it's the Canadian equivalent of the CIA/FBI/NSA we're beholden to??! ;-)
>Innkeeper in 13 century: "I need signals of some kind to know whether a visitor is likely to be malicious or not before he enters." - See how ridiculous it is?

That innkeeper would have used the signal of how the visitor looks. If a visitor was being malicious and got kicked out, that person could not just come right back in as the inkeeper would be able to tell that he was the same person as before.

Also your metaphor is not great because WEI can only happen after the first page load since it requires the site to use javascript to use the api.
But… why? There are so many other competent, detailed, graphically rich flight sims that I think would run on that and not look like the Star Fox 64 alpha tech demo.
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Even you can watch YouTube videos of more tutorial, btw you can try YouTube ReVanced to watch without Ads https://revancedapk.org/
Very nice! I suspect a lot of people will be dismissive of this, same way people dismiss the usefulness of inaccurate tools such as Google translate for learning languages. Similarly to Google translate, though, I believe this can be very useful if the user remains critical of the output. It would not surprise me if this becomes a "must have" tool for language learning in the future. My only major complainants so far is that it doesn't support my main foreign language (Japanese), and that the website lacks mobile support, but I'm sure these are both planned for the future
Sorry for the delay. I was writing our Q2 earnings script rather than checking HN. And John (CTO) is in Lisbon where he's probably just waking up. Also: he's on vacation this week.
Anyone outside of English speaking countries should get ready to be detaulted to crappy AI voices instead of the original English without any option to disable it. Happened with subtitles as well. I don't think there's any way to disable subtitles once and for all on all devices. They come back even if you turn them off everywhere. I constantly have to disable them manually. If that crap starts with sound as well where I cannnot set a default, I'll just use a third party way to watch the videos.
What you've written is a great illustration of what tedunangst said people are doing.

The proposal literally is not about extensions. The only context in which extensions are mentioned is to explicitly say that the mechanism is not for policing the installed extensions or other browser features.

So how exactly are you determining that this is what the proposal is really about? It seems that it can only be by ignoring the proposal text and making up your own ideas of what it is about.
I would recommend jumping in the deep end and start reading primary sources from the east and west and all the places inbetween. Once you start reading and searching - perhaps university library catalogs, you will find many more. Guttenberg and other free ebook sources are great because most of the greats are well out of copyright.

Kant "Metaphysics of Morals"

Singer "Animal Liberation"

Plato "Repulic"

Einstein "Philosophical Works"

Hobbes "Leviathan"

Rousseau "Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men"

I have a degree in Philosophy and it is the best thing ever.
That's why in KDE, you can also search for the program "description". E.g. if I type "Editor", I get back Emacs, Kate, etc.
I'll state right here: all these are still true. We'll get the canary updated. Checking with legal and trust & safety why it hasn't been for so long. Likely just slipped someone's mind. Will make sure that doesn't happen again.
Also, for anyone unaware, Dostoyevsky is no longer alive and from what I can tell did not assist in planning the current Ukraine invasion
Ask HN: Domain Cost of X.com
Just curious to know how much elon paid for x.com?
Blank pages on Firefox Android too and the internal error.

I guess they'll fix the demo site if they get news that they are on HN. Not a good first impression though.
I grew up reading all kinds of articles and books about how engineering itself is a career track and I believed it. However, when I looked at the great engineers, it seems they eventually turned into executives. Jeff Dean, for instance, is one the greatest engineers. He has deep technical skills. He is versatile, as we can see that he made key contributions in storages, distributed systems, and machine learning. Yet his end game? SVP of Google. And how many people can really be Jeff Dean?
JSON covers syntax not semantics. This means you can build the formats you want on top of JSON by only describing the semantics without having to make decisions about syntax or write parsers.
This is good for crypto.
The did have a BSL2 lab, and they did quite a bit of work. But yeah, the state of the art has advanced since I worked in molecular biology.
I think he registered it in 1992 and so possibly paid nothing, or maybe $35?

(There are stories going into further detail which I haven't read.)