skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seinfeld did a bit about this:

>Of course when you're a kid, you can be friends with anybody. Remember when you were a little kid what were the qualifications? If someone's in front of my house NOW, That's my friend, they're my friend. That's it. Are you a grown up.? No. Great! Come on in. Jump up and down on my bed. And if you have anything in common at all, You like Cherry Soda? I like Cherry Soda! We'll be best friends!
Ask HN: What desk do you use?
rss is already dead, its just weeding out unused parts.
> It cost them nothing to keep it other than the additional maintenance complexity, while removing it upsets the admittedly small at present userbase that use the features alot (like myself).

Sounds like they're being pragmatic then by removing a not so popular feature that has the potential of adding maintenance complexity.
Awesome! Can I contribute? In other words, how can I, as an experienced backend developer (Java, Python, Scala, Ocaml, some C/C++) but a complete newbie in space, hardware and/or realtime systems, contribute?
Some of the earliest homegrown Japanese sci-fi prominently featured heroic, humanlike robots. I wonder to what extent that was a symptom of existing attitudes vs. a cause of later ones.
I was trying to ask the parent to expand on the many things he was claiming lol
I use to say this as a joke that if Australia sells itself to USA, they will have 10 more big cities.

Australians tend to overstate the nature of their desert. It is true that a large part is very hot but then they can have few more cities long the coastline with desalination plants.

But all those sort of things are possible only when you have adventurous people trying to implement radical ideas which the USA gets in disproportionate numbers thanks to its immigration programs.

Australian immigration is only about high skilled immigrants and they do not attract the likes of Steve Jobs to Elon Musk.
DOGECOIN! SHIBA TO DA MOON
While there no doubt has been great deal of changes in our schools since I was a kid (00s) and teachers have a great deal of freedom when it comes to planning how they teach, I'm fairly certain this kind utopian student freedom is not ... what happens. For example, Ministry of Education [1] provides a pdf of distribution of lesson hours (and if you are curious about the details, you can buy a digital version of the national curricula, which is a bit silly: such documents should be publicly distributed). Whatever the kids' true passion is, 6 lesson hours in a week are allocated for mathematics in grades 1-2.

edit. There's a drought of suitable official documents available in English, but see this [2] helpful document by City of Helsinki Education Department from 2014. It describes the picture about the daily life in schools the Education Department wanted to present to foreigners. Granted, things may have changed in 4 years, and such official documents should be taken with a grain of salt, but I'm inclined to believe that mandatory classes in Swedish still include grammar lessons about possessive pronouns.

[1] https://www.oph.fi/english/curricula_and_qualifications/basi...

[2] http://www.hel.fi/static/opev/virasto/opevsivuten/koulututuk...
I think you (and some other commenters here) are making the mistake of saying that because we cannot predict the future perfectly, that we are absolved of any responsibility for thinking about negative outcomes.

> programmers should not try to determine how society will react to technology

That is exactly one of the most important parts of our job.

Do you think doctors should not think about the wider impact of treatment decisions? Legislators should not think about the second-order effects of the laws they pass?

Yes, prediction is difficult (especially about the future, as Yogi Berra said). We all know this. Most of the things that most programmers are doing have known and predictable effects, because most of what we are doing is not new. If we had no idea how society would react to technology, why would we even develop it? Of course thinking about the effect that your work has on the world is a basic responsibility of any human being, how it could possibly be otherwise?
The title:

> Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely

Vs the actual result of the study:

> 46% of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone

I would have thought everyone feels lonely sometimes and I'm more suprised it is not higher. The title is clickbate.
I had thought the author meant airport terminals, and was waiting for an insight to come that never did.
There’s also BLESS and Hashicorp Vault. I have a penchant for Teleport.
Maybe. I was thinking that a deep theorem is one that is apparently only explained by a wealth of previous complex knowledge, but perhaps that is not the accepted definition of depth.
It's a convenient difference, but I don't think it actually impacts anything.

It's an indirect way to address the level of resources you have at your disposal, which is itself only important for the scale at which you can capture the data.

In general, for the things people are OK with citizens doing but not OK with corporations doing, they mean an individual could not do it at a scale that bothers them. I'm specifically curious about what that scale is.

Certainly for me, there exists a hypothetical scale at which an individual gathering and recording detailed observations of other people becomes a little unsettling. Perhaps not criminal, but it falls into a "wish it didn't happen" bucket.
At work, whatever desk is built into this cubicle system we have. At home, a folding table, because it doesn't impede me getting to cables underneath or outlets on the wall, which is pretty important to me.
Have you any idea how popular podcasts are these days?
That’s why informed public debate is not about adding warning stickers to things, it’s about creating competent laws that robustly protect the public.

In your example, the result shouldn’t be warning stickers, it’s laws specifically against building guns with your 3D printer. Or if right to weapons happens to be enshrined in your constitution, it’s aboyt legal liability protocols being amended to take into account the fact that a perpetrator used a weapon that they built in their 3D printer as opposed to a regularly procured weapon.
I just learnt I independently "discovered" Kolmogorov complexity in my graduation thesis, while comparing the information content of a program and of its refactored version.

The only obstacle to attaining a Turing award is probably being 50 years late, and realizing it 10 more years later...

No buono!
Wonder how pricing compares with http://www.jouleboxpower.com/. The batteries seem to be the large cost in these energy storage solutions. Removing them and using hydrogen in propane tanks may reduce costs significantly.
You would have to change the OpenPGP standard - other implementations would have to follow that.
Why hasn't anyone done for OpenSSH what Jason Donenfeld did with Wireguard?
So all a device needs to do is play sound and they can retrieve you bluetooth make, model, and serial number. There's your replacement for the unique ID that Apple supposedly killed years ago. They just need to look at your bluetooth device identifier.
I used to be like that until I actually shipped a product. The realization that you're accountable for something works miracles. Especially if it's a B2B product where your user base is much smaller but they're all paying customers. If you fuck it you lose clients, simple as that.
You can't get anxiety over missed experiences that you have convinced yourself to despise, I suppose. Too many rejections after trying to make new close friends? I don't need them. Too many rejections trying out for an improv troupe? I don't feel like doing that anymore. Etc, etc the list goes on and on.
Could this be because people who are in the process of learning things like that are more apt to use them and show them off?
Is this data collected by Spotify, or __all__ data Spotify has for a user? That is, it's certainly possible for any given service to gather / aggregate data from sources other than itself.
It's really weird to see a professor parroting the line that the Luddites were motivated by reactionary technophobia, rather than fear of losing their livelihood and seeing their families starve.
At the extreme, there are all kinds of evil ideas that are technically possible but not widely implemented. This can be seen by how easy terrorism is compared to how infrequently it is carried out.

I'd rather not list out a bunch of evil ideas, but I think any engineer with a bit of thought can come up with plenty.
Here's a video of a family that lives off grid you might find interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Pe_u_4q5M
Some costs of making new stuff aren't reflected in the market price. For example the CO2 cost of refining, or the pollution cost of the factory that makes it.

Rather than tax CO2 or pollution, we instead prefer to subsidize recycling.

Why? Dunno.
Most men aren't psychopaths, but a small fraction are. Perceiving all men as such even if there's a low chance of it actually happening...
Those are really neat, thanks for sharing!
This saddens me as I didn't have much need for RSS when Google Reader was around. Currently my news apps keep "learning" what I like and have become increasingly useless so I signed up for Feedly to create a less filtered feed of things I actually am interested in. The RSS support in Firefox has been great in helping me find feeds to add.
I found an X509 oriented device relatively easy for ssh (for gpg it is naturally harder to use these non gpg devices with some kind of bridge daemon).

Assuming Linux or OsX where your distribution has an opensc that already supports your device, ssh is only about 3 incantations of magic:

https://nilsschneider.net/2013/06/20/epass2003-quickstart.ht...

But there is no safe way of getting away from having 1 pin.
use wireguard with telnet/ftp bound to it
Edit: above comment was a sent to wrong post...
HN !== /r/dogecoin
I like the headline for the issue from September 1992:

Is Unix Dead?

Soon Unix will face its most powerful adversary to date: Microsoft Windows NT. Will Unix Survive?
IRC...

But yes, Slack is basically IRC with a built in bouncer.

And i case people wonder, a bouncer or BNC, was a personal proxy that would be running on some server somewhere, and that maintained a presence on the IRC networks for you when you logged off.

And when you logged back on, you got a log of all the traffic on the relevant channels and direct messages while you were gone.
Is there a form of exercise you enjoy? Even walking is fine. Put on a podcast and go for a stroll (longer the better). Then afterwards, use the momentum and sense of accomplishment to push yourself to try something "strange" or out of your comfort zone. I think with Uber/Lyft drivers, I agree that the conversation in the car is very fleeting, so it's important to invest and try to build new relationships that will be more long-lasting (e.g. like a sports club, board games group, book groups, etc).
Agreed. I just tried to find a feed reader for my phone and those two creeped me out for sure. No way I’d give them my email address.

Why do you need my address in order for me to view RSS feeds from somebody else?
I accidentally replied to a different commenter thinking it was your reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17680544
>the path you'd get from drawing a line on a Mercator map

Fun fact: this is called a rhumb line, ie a line of constant true bearing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_line
Is this a problem primarily in certain parts of the world or is it wide-spread?
4. Not be based in the US.
op literally said:

> To be safe, you need to carry the vm and other dependencies with you.
What's your point? do you think mozilla should continue including un-used features in their browser just because you like the technology that underpins them?

I think RSS is cool too, but that's not an argument for why browsers should integrate RSS feeds in their menu structures. Whether RSS is dead or not isn't an argument as to whether firefox's live bookmarks feature should continue existing. People don't use it, so it got pulled.
It's not really as bad as that. Futures exchange allow traders to bet if stuff will go up or down with traders on one side betting on up and on the other side on down. The exchange itself doesn't take a position. If the moves are too big sometimes the loser can't pay all their losses and in that case the winners don't get all their profits. It's business, or gambling if you prefer, working in the way it was kind of planned.

I'm short bitcoin futures myself on bitmex at the moment and it's all in the T&Cs that it works that way. In fact on bitmex your liabilities are limited to your deposit which seems a sensible way to do things. I'd rather risk not getting all my winnings when things go my way than risk them coming after my house if they go the other.
What is this new transportation concept developed by our leading scientists? Toll roads!
Welcome to the 21st century's version of innovation!
Will we ever solve UI? UI is the meeting place of tech and user, and in a sense it is THE problem for humanity right now. UI informs how we tend to use the internet, and for example we are currently involved with UIs that tend towards consumption (e.g. discovery mechanisms, feeds, etc). To solve UI would imply a certain optimal way to live our lives, if that exists. I agree with you that UI is unsolved and extremely complex, but I don't think it something to be solved as much as it is the political heart of technology.
"What happens if our software works exactly how we intend and we gain the ability to really manipulate people in a certain way?"

This is still really difficult, and quite ethically fraught.

When I was in high school and college (late 90s & early 2000s), I was one of the techno-utopians who believed that the Internet would usher in a new era of censorship-resistant free speech, free information, and free exchange of ideas with people across the globe, regardless of whatever walk of life you happened to come from. It would give a voice to marginalized people regardless of how niche their views are. By and large, it succeeded in this, and this site (HackerNews) is an example of that. I have no idea who you are or where you come from, and it could be literally half a world away from me, but I can still post this comment, and probably hundreds to thousands of people will read it.

Yet nowhere on our radar screen was the idea that maybe we wished some of those marginalized groups would stay marginalized. That in addition to giving a voice to dissidents and hobbyists and nerds and subcultures, we would also give a voice to racists and militants and pedophiles and drug traffickers. Why would we even consider them? The definition of "marginalized" involves being "out of sight of the mainstream". Yet now, one of the main complaints being levied against Silicon Valley companies is that they aren't doing enough to police hate speech or kick undesirable groups off their platforms.

And then this is hugely ethically fraught, because I'm sure that from the perspective of people in those groups, I'm the evil powermonger, and they are just exercising their human right to believe what they want. Silicon Valley has remained largely libertarian in outlook, but what if people get their wish and it starts cracking down on undesirables? Who's to say that your group would actually be one of the desirables? The new boss starts to look an awful lot like the old boss.
If anything, the Armageddon scenarios that the media like to play out (which are utterly terrifying - an end to routine surgery, cutting yourself gardening potentially being fatal etc.) could have caused a shift in the "I'm ill, give me antibiotics", so in that way, has been just as useful as other controls put in place.
Neither does inoreader.
Some won't even allow an international phone number. They demand a local phone number...

Have fun with that...
The halting problem is uncomputable too, but any given Turing machine either halts or never halts (even if we don't have a general procedure for determining which). There is no third choice.

Similarly, there is definitely a shortest program that outputs a certain string and then halts. We can't always make a program to find it, but that shortest program exists nonetheless. There is no other choice! If there is no shortest program to output it, how can there be any other program?
This may sound silly, but does any aspect of this take into account which language is used to print the string? Suppose there's a language where a single dot "." is the command to print out some particular string. Then that string's complexity in that language is the shortest possible, and so forth. I guess that language's implementation would somehow have to contain a representation of the string, but that just begs the question of what meta-language the language is implemented in.
Hi, American here, supporter of (almost) unrestricted free speech (more the free exchange of ideas than speech itself).

However I do not support unrestricted harassment. I'm a guy. I have a dick between my legs. I think it's easy to forget that if you DON'T have a dick between your legs, you often times are verbally abused, followed, and otherwise harassed, even if you're pre-pubescent.

It's all fine and dandy to say "If I don't support someone's speech, I'll just ignore it!" until a person twice your size is following you down a dark street at night talking about the sexual things they want to do to your body.

Someone talking about a political opinion making me feel "unsafe" is a stretch, and I wish people wouldn't confuse exchange of ideas with safety. However, someone following me around harassing me and verbally sexually abusing me isn't free fucking speech. It's harassment.

Granted, I don't know what this law will do about it, because I'm assuming harassment is illegal already in France, but I just wanted to point out that the speech you are arguing in defense of is not an exchange of ideas, it's threatening and bordering on sexual violence. I also want to point out that unless it has happened to you personally, it's easy to say things like "just ignore it."
Parent did not say snacking causes obesity, only correlated.

And you did not address his main point: that when one snacks, insulin goes up. It's a contributor to obesity, and as I understand it, is not controversial.
The robot will see you now: could computers take over medicine entirely?
Live Bookmarks always seemed like a solution in search of a problem.
Show HN: Shade – a quick-and-dirty glsl prototyping tool
You can use the keychain to store keys, but if the key is ever saved in the old (broken) format, you've got a problem.
Am I correct in my understanding that the vulnerability depends firstly on the leaking of the private RSA key? (as a rogue NPM module could do...)

How can I tell if my file is vulnerable once leaked?
If AWS didn't use Linux for servers and Apple chose to buy BeOS instead of NeXT, would Unix be around as prominently as it is right now?
at work we use http://www.haworth.com/products/tables/height-adjustable/pla...

at home https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S79046038/
IMO, intuitiveness is overrated.

As one snarky joke goes: only the nipple is intuitive, everything else is learned.
First world problems, eh?

You gave them your blessing to do all this and more when you bought the phone and didn't reject it when you read their terms and conditions for its usage.

iOS has always been a walled garden. Apple is proud of that fact.

I'm sure nobody could stop you putting your own OS on top, or hacking it wide open... But I don't think you have any right to force Apple to alter their software to allow you to do anything.
Uh, what have notifications anything to do with RSS? Practically all all web services and mobile apps for it offer them.

Social media, on the other hand, is an alternative solution to the consumption of information, not inherently a better form of aggregation.

It is mainly the addiction to social feedback that attracts people to social media, while RSS is a boring stream of data you've specifically decided to process.
Digging in your heels when your central point is refuted is not a great strategy, and your reply seems to indicate that you're prepared to move the goalposts.
And I don't need the hassle to figure out who stands behind them and if I can trust them. Most of the time there isn't any good reason to trust them anyway.
Can patent trolling be decreed as an offense, or it is too much gray area to define and detect it reliably? Is the action punishable under another offense category, e.g. fraud?

If not, what are your thoughts on what can be done to dissuade bad actors from engaging patent trolling, and seek the end of the "scourge"?
Users shouldn't have needed to know the name. They should have just seen the logo, clicked it, and been magically subscribed through whatever their reader of choice is. In most cases that is and was how it worked... works.

The problem was always getting users on board with it. From inception the kind of person that would struggle to use RSS and lead to its eventual downfall was using webmail and thought their browser was the entire PC besides Solitare back in the early 2000s. For them, getting some arcane "where should we open this link" when you clicked a subscribe button with the RSS logo completely shut them down. I'm not sure if Firefox's "live bookmarks" ever worked intuitively.

Add on to that I'm not sure if IE or Safari ever supported RSS, had a reader, or anything of the ilk and it was DOA. The remotely informed user would have just used Google Reader, but there was no mechanism (and I don't think there even is one today?) to transparently feed RSS links into a webapp reader.

I know at at least one point Firefox was defaulting RSS to Google Reader, but I don't think IE or Safari ever did, and that was at least 60% of the browser market at the time not providing a usable experience for a syndication format. Thats how it ends up dead on arrival.
>dynamic, fair toll for road use could reduce congestion.

In addition to the explicit imprecision, in a significant range, demand will be inelastic and simply result in higher tolls without commensurate reduction in traffic and will end up hurting those of lesser means.
They use satellite imagery in some cases too: https://www.digital-democracy.org/ourwork/guyana/

Drones are useful because you can immediately respond to logging action, you don't have to wait until Google Earth updates which could be weeks or months. It's also significantly higher resolution than satellite imagery (whether that makes a difference).

Digital democracy do some fantastic work, and their mapping tool is open source: https://github.com/digidem/mapeo-desktop

https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/innovative-mapping-tool-for...
I used an iPhone 5S until iPhone 8 came out last year. I'm still using a MacBook Air from mid 2012. Do the amortized cost math and it comes out to be way cheaper than the internet & mobile data costs for those devices.
It certainly wouldn't be as prominent, and the ecosystem wouldn't be as rich. But it would still exist - the things that people like about it would still be there, and it had momentum before those things you mentioned.
The real means to fix that is to make the popular browsers redirect rss feeds to readers. You should be able to pick one, but if you don't set a reader it should default to something reasonable like feedly. The main barrier to adoption RSS has always faced is that for most people who don't know what it is the links are dead and do nothing except sometimes offering an arcane and unhelpful prompt for a program to open it with.