skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the standard playbook of every Surveillance as as Service business though - package up a bunch of preexisting Free software, design a proprietary closed-world frontend, and market the hell out of it.

So while you have a point, I think "quite dishonest" is a bit too much condemnation. The stack is so big, with the majority of energy already being siphoned off by SaaS bundlers, it's basically impossible to rebuild the entire stack anti-surveillance-like as one big release. Rather we're going to end up with many approaches, each trying to solve a bit of the problem. The bit of the problem being solved here is really the popularization angle - making an easy touchstone recommendation for someone who is interested in privacy but would/could/should never self-host.

I quickly picked up that the Chat was Matrix, and assumed the tunnel was openvpn or wireguard (designing a new protocol would be a priori cryptographic incompetence). So perhaps constructive feedback to better summarize the underlying software for people "in the know" is worthwhile. But writing off the actual value-add of the project, the productization itself, mainly just results in hindering the ability of the Free community to market.
If you go to language-learning forums (e.g. the Japanese learning subreddit) you’ll find a lot of people who spend 95% of their time wanking with learning tools, and 5% (or less) actually studying. Everyone thinks the tools are the problem. Moreover, fixing tools is easier and less painful than doing the grueling work of learning a language. As a result, lots of people get caught in the trap of believing that fluency is One Good Tool Away. It isn’t.

The most important part of the parent’s comment is the one you overlooked: you need to listen and interact with people in the native language. The more hours you spend talking with people in your target language, the better you’ll become. Tools help on the margins, but there’s no magic bullet that will eliminate the time and exposure required.
Strongly recommend reading "How To Write Shared Libraries" by Ulrich Drepper https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/a/1/e/dsoho...

I recently dove into ELF files so I could convert ELF binaries to DOS EXE, for a little bit of retro programming with modern compilers. Not that I couldn't have used DJGPP.
I just finished Babel No More[1] and everything in the books goes completely against this article:

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Babel-No-More-Extraordinary-Language/...
If you make a dermatologist 5x more efficient, don't you replace 80% of them?

Or even better, allow them to spend more time on the hardest cases. And allow people with no access to a dermatologist now, access to a machine almost as good?
Agreed. Rust is another step in the right direction but I don't think it invented a new paradigm.
They kind of acknowledge in the study that it is essentially a garbage study. Didn't prevent them from publishing it though.

By the way, Russia pushed internet censorship to the population under this exact idea of saving children from suicide by censoring suicide ideas on the internet. And you can see from the comments here that people are easily convinced on such emotional issues, even if no actual facts are given.
I'd rank it well above all of your list except the wheel and the plough. It's just that we haven't seen the full effect of the Internet yet. There are likely innovations yet to come that will reshape society on a greater level than any of the others. We haven't had an information-age war the way that WW1 was an industrial-age war, for example. Large areas around drones, satellites, smart clothing, augmented reality, crypto-finance, etc. remaining untapped.

I'd rank the Internet (and software, in general) up with agriculture and mass-production as a fundamental technology for society. These both ushered in totally new eras for humanity (the agricultural and industrial revolutions, respectively) and new forms of wealth (land and capital, respectively). Similarly, the Internet ushers in the information revolution, where data becomes a fourth fundamental factor of production.
I think it has to do with desired quality. Hiring high quality engineers can be a difficult task even in the massive talent pool present in SV, and it’s only going to be more difficult in cities with smaller pools. That’s not to say that quality doesn’t exist in these places, but it’s certainly not as readily available.
LaTeX was written and basically frozen in the 80s/early 90s (LaTeX 2e is from 1994). The core ("kernel") of LaTeX cannot be changed as a lot of documents would break. Since then, a very large number of users of varying competence have written ad-hoc packages to extend or customize it. To change the appearance the recommendation often given is to write a .sty file, which is something of a dark art.

ConTeXt is from about a decade later, after some lessons were learned.

More here:

- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/223177/what-is-the-m...

- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4987/why-should-i-be...

- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1887/what-typesettin...

- https://tug.org/interviews/hagen.html

- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29979/how-do-latex3-...

- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/447566/health-of-con...

My impression: What you get with LaTeX is a larger ecosystem and greater likelihood that someone has already done what you need (in some package or other, though it may be only "close" and figuring out how to improve it may be hard). What you get with ConTeXt, at the cost of having to re-learn everything you learned about LaTeX and not being able to use any of the LaTeX packages, is a more consistently designed interface, a greater understanding of what's going on, more ease of modifying things (instead of the "there's a package for that" phenomenon), and best of all not having to "program" in the TeX macro "language" (you can use Lua).
Gosh, I found that movie so depressing I just had to turn it off. I very rarely stop watching a movie halfway through.
I think what we really need, the enabler of migration is, and always was, decent collaborative office suite. Acceptable collaboration level evolves over time, that's true, but otherwise requirements are the same.

There is no point is free/ethical/etc file storage if I still have to use Microsoft Office to edit files, which is neither free nor very collaborative. Text editors are relatively easy to replace. Google Sheets are really really hard to replace. Even Microsoft Excel seems somewhat inferior to Google Sheets to me now.
Agreed, just OSS software on it's own is great but these products need proper marketing and delivery.

If Purism is offering clean and transparent connections to services backing them combined with some sort of delivery (update) + support mechanism, that is already far better than just telling someone to download 5-6 apps + subscribe to 3-4 services (VPN, email server, backup server, etc).

It's not as ideal as a purely decentralized, multi-party system for securities sake, but it's better than what 99% of people are going to be using otherwise - in the real world.
Ask HN: Any smartwatch apps you can recommend?
Why would it matter? I can already I prove I quit several times via email timestamps. Still doesn't mean I'll front the tens of thousands to sue.
Thanks! I've been working on this for about ~6 months now and it's been exciting to see how I can enable non-developers to make some apps!
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I remember looking at photovine when it came out. I was only 11 but I thought it was a brilliant idea. And it was so much more colorful than any other Google apps I'd used at the time.
High cost, lack of support spell trouble for 2024 Moon landing plan
Agreed. See this paper for a reputable reference in this space: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21056
They said the company chose not to accept their resignation notice, so the dates are void anyways. It is a firing, plain and simple.
You hit the nail on the head why I had gone from MacPorts to Homebrew, and for me, the extra need for sudo was just an additional pain point.

Your last point brings up an interesting question in my mind regarding Apple's intentions for the CLI. On the one hand, they seem to care enough to add features here and there to Terminal, but then when you consider that the tools have basically zero chance of upgrades being incorporated for licensing reasons, I wonder if they plan to even have a stance on package managers, or if they are completely fine with that being purely in user land.
The entire CLI experience on macOS concerns me in as much as the OOTB set of tools will continue to work, but how much more fragmented will the experience get? There's already a good chance at running across some shell code online that requires bash 4 or relies on a newer gnu version of a tool.
Maybe this long tail of developers is too niche for Apple, but I imagine it's still important to many of their developers in some way.
Agreed, the bundle ("...to actually solve all of my digital privacy concerns...") is definitely the cool part in all of this!
> And human beings have thousands of years of being predominantly among other human beings.

When working remote there's still interaction with other people (just through different channels). And then there's that time outside work, which - under normal circumstances - is the majority of the time people are awake.

The alternative to "butt in seat in the office" (which can be pretty non-communicative, for example when in an open plan office where you mustn't disturb anybody) isn't "never interact with anybody ever".
It's legally bound to release all its software as FLOSS: https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/
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What does adding "old" do?
Depends not just on personal preference, but on the drunk friend. My old boss, who has a very pleasant personality when wasted, and opened up about all sorts of insights into how work was going? Great. Brother-in-law who starts being a dick to his wife and kids? Not so much.
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I see trackers for Google, comScore, Soasta, VigLink, Adobe, AK, Neilsen, and Taboola. Who knows how many more would be loaded if I didn't have ad blocking enabled...
But in this case 13 Reasons Why actually did have the stated effect. I don't understand the point.
Yes, in that case you probably need to parse a config file.

But you might also encounter DI config files for specific environments, like development where you inject MockMailer, TrivialLogger and InMemoryDatabase instead of RealLifeMailer, CloudLogger and ActualDatabase.
Show HN: A better rating system for YouTube
I don't know where to talk about this, but I have to get it out there. I have a great finding to share. It is absolutely ridiculous to rate according to how many thumbs up there are, because videos always have 90%+ of thumbs up, and it doesn't show the actual quality of the video.

My system is to look at the proportion (thumbs up)/(thumbs down). On an average video, you'll notice that ratio is 20. Very commonly. But for exceptionally good videos, it'll have 30, sometimes 40 ratio. We can better see if a video is merely good, or exceptional.

Everytime I watch a new video, I do the calculation in my head, and it's annoying that it isn't the default rating system. It should be the default, because it is just more efficient, and it's not complex.

I wish people could upvote this and that it'd be seen by Youtube people. Thank you
A news article talking about George Hotz's original PS3 hack was released January 25, 2010. The PS3 software update that removed OtherOS was released April 1, 2010.

As I recall, ultimately Hotz managed to compromise the device's root key, and Sony determined that it was impossible to protect the key (after replacing it) as long as OtherOS continued to exist.
I signed up for the free version to reserve my name.

However, I'm going to hold off on paying for the service until I see how it evolves over the next year or two.
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This is a tough one. I watched the first season of this show last month and I'm still traumatized. Like not in a "Netflix is bad for producing this" but because it's utterly heartbreaking. If you're of sound mind, I'd encourage you to watch it.

What I find interesting about the show is how polarizing opinions are. I've seen some online comments about how this show is an unrealistic tale of miscommunication, which may well be the most reductive unempathetic thing I've ever read online.

If I had to hazard a guess I'd say that those who don't relate to the issues raised have never experienced this loss of social connection (as well as the far darker things that happen as a result in this show).

As for this increasing the likelihood of suicide for those vulnerable to such thoughts, it wouldn't surprise me if that's true. But does that mean it shouldn't be shown? That's a problematic precedent. We have alcoholics. We still sell alcohol. We have gambling addicts but we still have gambling. Which of these is OK and which isn't?

Perhaps we'd be better off if we tackled the issues that create a permissive culture for bullying and ostracism (eg "kids will be kids") that makes life hell for so many kids in the first place?
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Interesting, can you please elaborate more?
Why is it this in netflix?
This is what usually happens. The employee is terminated everywhere but on payroll, so they can't come in, have to return all equipment, don't have any access etc. The company basically didn't want to pay those extra checks so they pulled this stunt.
I don't think the problem should be approached from a "great market" perspective. The market for Hacker News is quite niche. Yet, it has become a great community for the curious of us. Almost hardly replaceable by any of the communities/websites who have great market potential and wider audience. So niche is probably a good thing here.

Driving a critical discourse (on something like Health or Hacker News) between scientists, journalists and the general public can potentially create more appreciation for scientific progress (which might often be dull and slow indeed) and provide a feedback loop for how science is/should be communicated or even done.
I suppose that’s fine if we’re agreeing it’s a last ditch effort
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Have you tried using the built-in ClearType Tuner to tweak the rendering to your liking?
I think csound is mature system for programmatic generation of sound/music. How is this different from what csound is offering?
How much harder would it be to build an ebook reader?
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Most of the CCTV isn't operated by the government, though.
I agree but would also add that poverty is sort of a moving goal post, so I don't know if it will ever be completely eradicated.
[Disclaimer: I edited and published the piece and own theprepared.org] I think the answer is "yes," at least to an extent. I think the big limitation is the degree to which software projects are mission-focused, and also the degree two which they span generations. The former does exist in certain places, but the latter (intergenerational development) is pretty hard to find.
How are the relationships with Ableton who are also in the Web Audio space and users of Juce?

They've built a Music Learning platform with Elm (afaik): https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

Elm wants to target WebAssembly, wouldn't it be able to compile to Soul too in theory?
It usually happens when employees are fired/laid off, not when they leave voluntarily.
Welcome to the modern web!

I highly recommend uBlock Origin [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
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Shows post using the older site design I believe.
Maybe the term paywall isn’t the right one. I’m referring to the premise that you must pay the monthly fee to use the product and whether that is really any more ethical than ad supported products that are free for anyone in the world to use regardless of income.
haha. if you think dependency management is bad in python you should take a look at go :O
This is one of my favorite takes ever on the way we teach literature K-12: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2112

I definitely had some English teachers who were simply bad. Your 'sentence' experience resonates with my teacher who insisted that the five sentence "hamburger" paragraph format was inviolate and marked any paragraph shorter than five sentences as 'incorrect'. (Good luck obeying dialogue rule that way...) But I had a lot of others who actually knew about their topic and cared about teaching it well. A lot of them were open to multiple interpretations of stories; one even managed to competently outline "death of the author" and explain why "the author intended..." wasn't always the right way to look at things.

That was where the problems of the classroom format became painfully obvious. The way we read books wasn't centered on keeping kids interested or even promoting deep analysis. Rather, it was shaped by the need to assign reasonable amounts of homework, and to practice writing brief essays without referencing the text - because that's what standardized tests require. The length and pace of book discussions was based on how long it took to finish the book at 30 pages/night, which also encouraged discussions that were completely invalidated by the next days reading. And the ideal "result" of a book was 40 minutes of writing on a single thesis which had to be simple enough to produce without opening the book.

The result was that we simply didn't learn a lot of useful things which didn't fit the format, like contextual analysis or studying an author's canon. Meanwhile, lots of the things we did learn - close reading, deconstruction, death of the author - came through in ludicrously contrived examples that made them seem idiotic. Failing to teach a subject is a shame, but actively leading students to hate the subject is shameful.
I am not sure, I think moderator should change your title. I copied this text from the rules page https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> - many letters are useless relics from the past, twisted, accentuated or silent.
> - similar sounds can be made by so many different combinations: au(x), eaux, ot(s), o(s), ô, oh...

The same can be said about English "two", "write"?

I would say even more so: the amount of silent vowels, silent consonants in English is rather puzzling for someone coming from a Brazilian Portuguese background.

I still remember as a kid trying to get by the concept of not saying the S in "island" or just ignoring the K in "knight", "know" and "knowledge" or G in "align" and "design".

I studied English as a kid and then French, German and Spanish as a teenager and early 20s. In the "pronunciation from written form" department, Spanish is spectacular: an absurdly regular language in this department. German was unexpectedly regular and quite manageable to grasp in my experience. French coming in third place but yet shows some rather high degree of consistency — once you get the gist it coming with a close-enough pronunciation from the written form is doable for a new learner of the language.

I would not say the same applies to English, and the amount of loan words it takes from other languages doesn't make it any easier to someone learning it.

> And we don't even agree on how to say it, rose is not said the same way in Paris, Toulouse or Nice.

Again, dialects/accents variations are not a French exclusivity. I understand you are not comparing say inter-country variations (like Irish accent vs a Texan accent, Quebecois vs Parisian French ) but rather intra-country variations, but yet, Northern Germany German and its Souther variations are quite distinct.

> - rich and complex system to explain the chain of though or events. It's powerful to use, but it's surely hard to learn, and even harder to master.
> - verbose. If you a used to go to the point, well...

Yeah. Romance languages are verbose :(
There's no way that parent drinking behavior isn't a strong indicator too.
The design of the charger is shockingly good. I would prefer that 10x to my apple charger disk that is constantly slipping off.
Why would you ever balance your test data? If 80/20 is the actual population distribution, the sample that forms your test set should conform to that. Balance all you want in train/validation sets, but never the test set.

Not balancing and using ROC is a terrible combo, but the metric is the problem, not the lack of artificial balance.
Disables their recent redesign and reduces the amount of javascript and bullshit that comes with the update.
Thank you for posting this; I can see that this evaluation came very easily to you because of your experience and expertise but to me it shows how much knowledge is required to evaluate something like this. There really should be a protocol defined around this kind of study that encodes the criticisms that you make here (and others) and stops publication of this kind of thing in its tracks.
When I go to college football games I drive by the fraternities on my way to park. I'll see quite a few folks sitting on the front lawn seriously messed up. Usually a buddy or girlfriend standing or sitting with them keeping an eye on them.

I'm older so at the old people bars or parties, you just don't see folks drink them self into that state. I assume that sort of filters out to the sad drunk bars / folks at home as you age. I didn't get it when I was college, I don't get it now, that doesn't look fun.

They must think their classmates are drinking a lot, but it's pretty clear it's not nearly as much as they think, as most of their classmates seem capable of carrying on a conversation and standing up... meanwhile they are not.
Throwaway here. Agreed. I wonder if showing young kids who are being bullied videos that promote that the "purpose of life is to get through it without killing yourself" actually serves to implant suicidal ideas into the young child's mind. Reflecting on being suicidal for many decades, I recall distinctly being pulled aside and shown this video as a young child in public school in America.
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How come the Open connect team is more receptive to remote work? Harder to find people to work on FreeBSD and low level C code?
Seriously, came to say this.

Speaking wise it helps a lot.
You stop worrying about the conjugation or sentence structure etc, and just communicate with the other person.
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Example: if a doctor asks you about suicidal thoughts in a negative phrasing (e.g. "No thoughts of harming yourself?" or "You're not planning on doing anything silly, are you?"), then you're significantly less likely to admit to suicidal thoughts. We have clinically effective interventions for reducing suicide risk, so even very subtle stigma could cost lives by stopping people from coming forward.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379679/
The second season doesn't do it any justice. She starts re-appearing to the main character (Clay) and is able to talk and interact with him. It's supposed to be him imagining her, but it's really sickening how they present it as 'you don't really go away'.
Avengers movie adds gas engine sound to Audi's e-tron in product placement fail
You'll get the 'old' design. Check with your "private mode" browser :

- https://www.reddit.com/
- https://old.reddit.com/
Smart Tool to check multiple hosts states over SSH
Your typical $30k watch has way more than $1k of highly skilled hand labor that's gone into it. Agreed that the component prices don't add up to close to $30k, but throw in all the other overhead typical of manufacturing and selling luxury goods, including labor, advertising, servicing, maintaining physical stores, etc., and the profit margin on those watches is gonna less than, say, selling Internet ads.