skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it weren't for software pirates, countless old pieces of software (esp. DOS-era games) would be forever lost now. Society owes software pirates a huge debt of gratitude for keeping historical digital data archived.

However, I feel your perception of the piracy/p2p communities might be dated. I think they took a bit of a nosedive a while back when Netflix reigned supreme, at least for movies, but due to the fragmentation of streaming services and the constant removal of content and increase in prices and now the crackdown on account-sharing, movie/TV piracy seems to be alive and healthy. I'm not so sure about music piracy though; the streaming services there haven't made the huge mistakes the movie/TV services have, so having a single streaming service for music seems to be quite popular these days because it's so convenient. Software piracy appears to be largely dead, thanks to the move to SaaS and online gaming. But my perception could be quite biased too.
I don't think that these two things are comparable in magnitude.
> So.. we’re back to the beginning. Did they lose the home and turn to drugs, or did drugs eventually lead them to a place where they couldn’t keep their home?

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. The systems problem of what is causing their current problems is often more involved and more complex than the historical question of what was the root cause (or were the root causes) of their current situation.

> If it’s the latter, then simply gifting them a home changes nothing.

In software (as long as its not self-modifying), the root cause(s) of an incorrect behavior are also, pretty much by definition, exactly the things you need to fix to achieve the correct behavior.

With systems where problems change the the system, the cause or causes that the problems trace back to in time doesn’t necessarily tell you anything about what you need to do to resolve the problems that are currently present.

its true that “simply gifting them a home” (or “simply gifting them behavioral health treatment service, on the other side) isn’t going to solve the problem with co-occurring homeless and behavioral health (mental health and/or substance use disorder) problems. But the degree to which each of those is true does not depend on which problem is the historical antecedent of the other. Homelessness doesn’t stop being a complication to behavioral health treatment because the behavioral health problem occurred first and caused the homelessness, and behavioral health problems don’t stop being a complication in addressing homelessness because the homelessness occurred first and created the behavioral health problems (and those are all true combinatorially if you throw in the physical health problems that are also likely co-occurring, which may either have preceded, or been caused by, or in part each, the homelessness and/or behavioral health problems.)

There are domains where “what came first” is the key question to ask in solving a mixture of current problems, but that’s not generally the case, and its not specifically the case with the kinds of problems at issue in this thread.

> Further.. you’re suggesting that without a home people _cannot possibly be mentally healthy_ and will ultimately be forced into alcohol or drugs. Do you really believe that?

No one said that; looks like a strawman.
Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with
Biggest problems I have faced for home networks : ISPs are poorly configured and do very shady things sometimes like DNS hijacking. More often than not poor ONU firmware or hardware means you will see weird things like latency spikes or straight up packet drops. Sometimes IPv6 won't work if the ONU is in bridge mode etc. etc.

This post is overkill but what mostly works for home networks:

SQM - like cake sqm in openwrt - will work wonders if don't have a great ISP. I have seen as much as 5% packet loss on one ISP who said thats acceptable for a home network. Just reduce the load until a point where packet loss is really low. Then use a DNS resolver. DNS resolver will be much more reliable like unbound for your local network as packet loss has cause really problems with DNS for me. Cheap home network equipment dns is not reliable. You could really just buy a cheap Pi and run a local resolver. It would work a lot better than your home router. You may also want to consider replacing the ONU. This is rather easier than you think. The ISP ONU are really bad. A cheap NOKIA SFP GPON is like 20$ on eBay and if you can figure out the PLOAM password and Serial and Mac and VPN ID of your ISP, you will be able to simply swap it for a more stable link.

All in all I would suggest for a simple home setup: get a cheap SFP GPON and replace your ONU. Get a cheap router (either router on stick with Rpi4 for <500mbit or x86 box with SFP for hitting 1gbps with the SFP GPON) and run your own unbound resolver. Get some APs and either wire them or get a cheap mesh router 3 pack on amazon (you can get a wifi 6 3 pack for under 150$ these days on sale) and run it in AP mode.
The original article looks much better in "reader mode" which dumps the styling for a standardised page - no more need to read the folksy mock-handwriting font.
Cruise, Waymo get approval to expand driverless vehicles in San Francisco
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/rNyct
Why wouldn't you get a way with anti-freeze?
Not sure the satire at play here? Is it because he gets mentioned a lot when people refer to outdated science about aging, or that he himself is quite active in the media?
I remember using extensions on Firefox android years ago. Is my memory failing in this or did they remove them before putting them back?
Japan has a birth rate of 1.3. It's in-line with most other developed nations. The US is at 1.6.

The country you're looking for is South Korea, at around 0.8 last I checked.
imho it should be a video page like ted talk
Undocumented endpoints that return JSON are pretty fragile!

One of the benefits of catching them in a Git repo is that it helps you spot when their structure changes in ways that may break code that you write on top of them.
> Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist's concept.

This was illustrated in the movie "Galaxy Quest". The aliens saw the humans' TV show about space exploration, and designed a ship that exactly matched the fictional ship depicted. But they never saw a bathroom on the show, so they had to make up their own design...
Show HN: I made a tool that makes React faster automatically
In brief: I'm Aiden, 18, and have spent the past 2 years of high school working on Million.js, an open source React alternative with 11K stars on GitHub and hundreds of thousands of npm downloads.

Recently, I released automatic mode, which detects slow React components and automatically optimizes the reconciliation phase. It's still in beta but chugging along. It's around 70% faster than React on the JS Framework Benchmark and you can see how I did it here: https://million.dev/blog/virtual-dom

Interested? Check it out here: https://million.dev
Things like this make me thing the idea of basing society on monogamous marriage is unrealistic and doomed to failure. It only worked in the past when work prevented couples from spending much time together, and social pressures prevented them from separating.
You can sell the BitCoins you don't mine
Archive -> https://archive.ph/3h5ZD
I had bought an used enterprise server (Dell something), but it just used too much power and made some much noise. It's not as professional or reliable as op's homelab, but I'm now hosting most of my stuff on an Intel NUC. It's a much better fit for my use case and budget
I interpreted this title as referring to minicomputers, as opposed to microcomputers. Unfortunately, it's about things like NUCs, RPi, thinclients, and Dell-style compact or very-compact[1] PCs.

[1] Some of Dells smallest easily mount between a VESA-compatible montior stand and monitor. From the front of the monitor, it can appear there is no computer connected to it.
It sounds to me like GP thinks Nomad still IS the right tool if they’re freezing its version.

Problem is with the license not the tool. It’s nice that you’re trying to do what you can, but it’s like trying to sell roof insurance to a homeless person.
You need to reproduce the bug to know if your fix works. Not always but that’s how most teams operate. Particularly because you typically won’t pass review without some tangible improvement.
There are undoubtably many cases where therapy is needed to help someone who is stuck, or so badly hurt or damaged they really need some one elses help to get past where they are at..

But, TBH, my experience is that in a fair few cases therapy is for people that just can't be honest with themselves.
This is beautiful and inspirational! I am about to redo my messy homelab and have two questions:
1. I don’t see any labels attached to the cables, how do you know which-is-what?
2. I am on pfsense too but I was considering a move to OPNSense, would you explain why you choose pfsense over opnsense?
Thanks
It's easy to judge without knowing the situation.

I can assure you, I am empathetic as are the rest of the family. The person in my life (my father) is not forced to do anything and they continue to do as they please. They don't want help, so we do not pressure them needlessly.

I believe people have their habits and we must accept them to an extent. Unfortunately sometimes ones way of living can negatively affect others close to them. My mother is the one who had to live with this. She is the one most deserving of sympathy.

I did write my original comment in a distant and judgmental tone. It was to write what I had observed through experience about the behaviors related to hoarding.

It may sound negative but, my father is my father. I don't dislike him.
“AI is the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem.” – PG
It's the solution to far more problems than its developers even knew existed.
Well, that simplifies a lot the choice between Nomad and Kubernetes.
writing graphql resolvers by hand was what I did in ... 2017. I've been using postgraphile since and couldn't be happier. I don't think I've written a single line of Apollo in 5+ years.

And with postgraphile, and a remix/next BFF, you don't even need a backend!
Although I can see how it could be useful now, a "Human Deformity Detector" app still seems strange. I can see this being abused to make fun of actual people or at the very least amusing someone who discovers their selfie has a high deformity score. If it works as advertised people who consider themselves deformed now have an objective ranking system I guess.
Oh, I see what you mean.

Yeah, there's definitely a lot to be said for breaking up your scraped data into separate files rather than having it all in a single file.

I have a few projects where I do that kind of thing. My best example is probably this one, where I scrape the "--help" output for the AWS CLI commands and write that into a separate file for each command:

help-scraper/tree/main/aws: https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/tree/main/aws

This is fantastically useful for keeping track of which AWS features were added or changed at what point.
to be actually honest and without any speck of trolling, I am at the opposite. I am actually planning to build a workstation and get a redhat enterprise workstation license. the only problem, though, they only have annual subscription. what I want is: one off license (just like windows desktop) and supporting a business entity's ongoing effort to curate and improve Linux ecosystem.

why not donating a certain amount of money to some distros instead? there's an expected level of entitlement when it money's involved.
> However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is in the spirit of open source.

There's a license that actively prevents this. It's called the GNU GPL.

Has anyone here identified any forks that predate the license change?
Really well put. I don't like the idea of going to a therapist because I tried one once, and did not have a good experience. Yes, I could probably keep trying therapists until one clicks, but instead I decided to read up on CBT on my own.

So I have been doing "behavioral experiments" which help me challenge my irrational negative thoughts by surfacing them and then taking action in the real world to "gather evidence" and prove to myself that those negative thoughts were irrational.

It really is amazing, but the only problem with this is that you have to keep doing it and failing at it for a long time. I have given up and gotten back on it so many times, but that's the key -- to keep at it despite everything, with no excuses, for a very very long time. Expect failure, and keep picking yourself back up, again and again.
it reminds me of the saying: the golden age of sci-fi is 15.
(Happy Render customer) — Looking forward to the updates on this feature.
> What's wrong with patch email chains?

Nothing (aside from the lack of UX/UI, but some might see this as a plus)

> Or the current existing wrappers around git that allows for distributed review chains (i.e. git(hub|lab), etc.)?

They are centralized. I must have access to github.com to do my review and when git(hub|lab|random-pet-project).com disappears, so do all the PR reviews.
Because when apple does it you can assume it only works on apple devices, such a bore. How people can get excited about vendor lock-in beyond me.
typically done via hacked bot farms that cost the attacker nothing other than the fun of rolling out standardized scripted attacks on poorly configured servers.

Why they do it... well:

Competition suppression

Vindictive nastiness

Fun

Just because you can (the world is your sandbox)

Other reasons that might not occur to you but are very real for the attacker...
My perspective is more like the parent's. As someone who has grown up along with open source, I've found it surprising recently how up in arms people are about how critical the ability for anyone to commercialize a project is for the definition of open source. To me, I care a lot about whether I can see how software is implemented, and modify it for my own use, but it has never really occurred to me that I need to have the right to commercialize any arbitrary project.

But :shrug: I guess different people care about different things, is what I've realized watching these discussions unfold.

But I do think this purist perspective on open source is just going to result in more Snowflakes and fewer Hashicorps, because why bother with this fight?
Cloud revenue is a subset of Subscription revenue, and Subscription revenue is mostly Support ($101.9M). In fact, 3/4 of their total revenue is Support
I had friends at the time who made six-figure gains from buying INTC calls during the initial panic. Fortis fortuna.
Doomoji
So he's saying that it's like Listerine: inventing problems that oh! just happen to have the solution here. "Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis." https://www.nspirement.com/2018/02/16/was-halitosis-invented...
>We don’t believe this is in the spirit of open source.

Open source seems to be evolving from being truly open source to being a variant with financially driven contingencies. HashiCorp have created great OSS over the years and am grateful for it. I understand their intention behind this move, but having a financially driven motive drive their OSS is not a good thing. I'd rather they not open source any of their code than put such limitations on it with these licenses.
Thanks for the response anurag.

We really like Render but are running into issues with Cloudflare blocking requests that are incorrectly flagged as malicious (our service passes code blocks over HTTP, similar to Replit).

Not to mention our site was down for way too long this evening…

We’d consider staying if we can bypass Cloudflare altogether. Render has been stable otherwise.
If they made their tools AGPL, they themselves couldn’t build a cloud offering with additional, closed-source features.
It's not weird at all to go public before profitability, that was even the standard in tech for the longest time. The IPO was a _fundraising_ event, not a dump-the-company-on-the-public-and-move-on event.
A Month Later
> Where can you find congress agree to drone strike some dwelling in Afghanistan?

Congress generally doesn’t seek to separately and redundantly authorize specific attacks once it has generally authorized the President to use military force, whether it was the bill passed in 1941 stating “the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial Government of Japan”, or the bill passed in 2001 stating “the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”
Btw there are Chromium based browsers on Android that have allowed extensions for a long time. I do not recall the names as I’ve been on iOS for years now but I know they exist.

EDIT: It’s kiwi and yandex browser apparently.
Is this American-specific culture? Athletics seem disproportionately more important in a school than academics or anything else. That's just bizarre. In the country I came from, students who work hard or are good at a subject, any subject, would earn respect, just like those who are good at sports.
Waymo’s next chapter in San Francisco
Your memory is failing you. Been using firefox android ( stable and beta) with the addons (ublock etc) since a few years now.
I think it's very clear, but lots of people don't like it.
Yes. Firefox on Android used to be basically identical to Firefox on the desktop and it was great. It supported all extensions that the desktop version did.

But then they decided they needed a mobile-specific experience and created the current dumbed down version with limited add-on support.
> There's no Lucene "competitor" to Elasticsearch.

Apache Solr, which existed long before Elasticsearch was conceived.
Cloudflare just published a resolution 7 minutes ago.
Is this anything you'd be willing to share publicly?

How did you determine the scope of a chunk of memory? I believe you need this to run any of the GC algorithms.

I checked the hboehm documentation (1) and in the section on "Locating roots" it says "you don't want to know":

-Runtime stack(s): you don't really want to know.Need consistent caller-save reg. snapshot

-Static data segments: you don't want to know that either.

-Very platform dependent
 But you only have to do it once per platform.

(1) https://www.hboehm.info/gc/04tutorial.pdf
I don't live in a house, but in an apartment. Running a gas grill works - it's the same stuff that the gas stove is burning - but running a generator indoors is just asking for getting killed off by CO poisoning.
But it's not an order of magnitude higher than other countries like Canada or Luxembourg. It's 50% higher.

Why did you avoid addressing that question?

And saying "them's the fact" doesn't really change anything if you don't address the fact shown.

And I as said (and you ignored), you stand a 20x higher chance of dying in a car accident. Do you avoid using cars at all? If you have to travel in a car, do you say "I'm not doing that! Too risky!"

If not, why would you be concerned at all about something with 20x less risk?
Well, if PG means AGI, then of course intelligence is the universal solution.

(If he means AI classically intended, thank you for the encouragement. And for the encouragement about getting to AGI too. And to that implicit about General Intelligence in general.)

The twitterish lapidary style must have played a role there.
This makes the free plan less then useless, it makes it a footgun. I'd rather a service offer me a time-limited trial and then cut me off rather than play with my data like that. Someone who's less experienced might disagree and lose their data instead, and isn't that a bad look for everyone involved if it happens.

If you can't afford to offer a viable free plan, don't? If I go to a baker and they offer me free breadcrumbs, they should at least not be mouldy.
I guess your choices are fine tune on some RLHF, or system prompt. System prompt being the cheaper option :-). But this is one of those cases where perfection isn't needed. If someone is trying all out to make it say something wrong, they will find a way to succeed (that also works on Humans)
You could install custom extensions on Firefox Android. Now you have to jump through hoops to install anything that isn't blessed by Mozilla.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767789
Looks neat in theory, but in practice how is the experience? Can anyone who used it give some feedback?
You obviously hand wave alzheimer and dementia. Human don't know exactly how brains works. The computational storage is just an estimate of what we understand von Neuman computer storing data 1 and 0. In every psychological test conducted on human mind, they clearly have a limit.
I believe the way the OSM community goes about "enforcing" the license is lacking on many fronts, which I suspect is a sentiment shared by many (but not most) mappers. I have a proposal for addressing the problem a part of which is mass identification of the users of the tiles and the offenders, but also introduction of a (hopefully) community-acceptable way to enFORCE the license.

As a first step I wanted to get at least rough numbers about the scale of the offenses. I will present the proposal either on the legal talk list or write a blog post.
Oracle, SUSE and CIQ Go After Red Hat with the Open Enterprise Linux Association
I would recommend that SkillAI would give more granular and specific steps.

I tested a few topics, and I got results which aren't really helpful, as they're too generic and have no explanation.

It basically boils down to:
"Learn basic concepts -> learn intermediate concepts -> learn advanced concepts -> Keep up with new trends"

While that sequence is obviously true, it will hardly be news to anyone who ever attempted to learn a new skill.

However, I like the general idea of a "gamified" skilltree, that shows you your personal progress. Maybe add "rite of passage" goals for each skill step.
So, I don't think this is a generational thing. I think most people of all ages and generations have mostly just not thought about this. But the reason more people are thinking about it now is that the distribution model has changed on a way that has highlighted an existential weakness with this model.
Wiz, the Aggressive $10B Startup Shaking Up Cloud Security
i dont care about "valuation" but where did the $1B go? expenses? salaries? CEO getting a fat bonus?

stuff like this is surreal to be honest. I'd like to set up a unicorn like this, raise a bunch of money, take half and split. i wouldn't care what happens to the "company", neither do these people apparently.
What is there to like in this? It’s almost like they took their inspiration from dystopian novels. Take the decentralised vision of bitcoin and invert it to a centralised system. Aggregate biometric data on a massive scale with those who “opt in” having no sense of what they are giving up for the pittance they are receiving. This all brought to us by the same person who has told us that his latest tech hit has a very real capacity to destroy the human race. It like an entry in the competition to become the next Bond villain.