skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bottom of the page says it was updated today, now it says this:

> Are these stories personalized to me?

> For the most part, no. Most recommendations on your new tab come from a general list of the best of stories on the web. But Pocket is actively exploring ways to deliver personalized recommendations in a way that vigorously protects users’ privacy. Importantly, neither Mozilla nor Pocket ever receives a copy of your browser history. When personalization does occur, recommendations rely on a process of story sorting and filtering that happens locally in your personal copy of Firefox.
That's really a good point, I like the idea of the slider solution! Maybe with some tiered pricing, that would also make it very easy to explain.

I think a limit on functionality would not go over so well since you have to pay for it and then getting limited by tracked user plus functionality.
Ask HN: Is There Standalone Feedback Collection App?
Hello,

I am looking for an app for collecting mostly internal feedback from testing a web app.

I imagine this app to be able to open a topic raise some sort of unclarity or bug via a "thread", where you can discuss and resolve the problem, marking it correspondingly.

I'd like to add list of acceptance criteria to the topic and allowing multiple users to check them.

I'd like to upload screenshots, screen recordings and various files to it.

I don't want this app include into my product, I want to have it standalone.

I think I can make process work in Jira, but.. It does not really feel different than having collaborative document, where you need to play with formatting etc.

Maybe I am completely wrong and this is not the way of handling internal development feedback, in that case, are there resources on how to properly work with it? Current struggle is that discussion in Jira gets crazy and having an overview is really hard.

Does such tool exists? Any suggestions?
I would love one of these, but with Lua as the language instead. Its quite possible with something like LOAD81, from antirez[1] - but I guess I'd love to see a full-blown desktop OS with Lua at the core, and not much else. I guess booting directly to a tekui[2] based editor would be nice, too.

Something about having a clean boot to a single-language environment which appeals to me more and more as the decades go by.

[1] http://github.com/antirez/load81.git

[2] http://tekui.neoscientists.org
> EXIM is much easier to configure than postfix. Postfix is faster than EXIM.

You might have the two reversed?

I don't have hands-on experience with Exim, but every "getting started with email" document on the internet seems to recommend Postfix as easier for a beginner to install.
Time to fork, I guess.
Self defense is the general principle, and one of the things it offers is independence from the police.

A long time ago maybe that meant not having police at all, today it means that the police can be fired.
Vitamin D determines severity in Covid-19 so government advice needs to change
Right - that seems horribly wrong. It shouldn't be allowed for law enforcement either.
This is how I introduced board gaming with my children. There are kids versions of some of the more popular games like Settlers and Carcasonne which can be fun as well. We also play No Thank You, Evil! which is a lot of fun as my kids have wild imaginations and really enjoy playing pretend.

Especially in this pandemic moment it has been a very useful technique to have around.

Of course even in role playing one doesn't require a boxed game to play. A few dice and some cards often suffice. Simplifying Microlite20 [0] and throw in a kid-friendly setting with some problem solving is a great way to pass the time and see how your kids think!

[0] https://microlite20.org
> and used Skype and other tools a lot. IIRC, the windows apps we used didn't like not being close to the video hardware.

Indeed. I used to keep a Windows box for the smartcard reader bureaucratic obligations with the Brazilian government that I never managed to accurately emulate on VMs.

I'm happy things are much better now.
> And Linux... on the desktop... still not there.

Disagreed. Besides HiDPI, which is not an issue for me, I don't experience the other problems you mentioned.
> "Just don't buy "Windows certified" laptops..."

All x86 servers, PCs, and laptops are designed to run Windows by adhering to a specification issued by Microsoft and certified by running a suite of compatibility tests provided by Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/hlk/). The free OSes are piggybacking on that; there is no independent, neutral standard for the architecture of x86 PCs.

> "My Librem 15 and Lenovo T400 both work flawlessly for many years. They are designed for GNU/Linux."

Linux isn't even listed as a supported OS for the T400 on Lenovo's support site: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd005598
it's only a matter of optics.

do you think there are honest and fair government bailouts?
I did not mean to say nothing has changed, but, as a naive listener, the interpretation of baroque music, and especially Bach's cantata, is not radically different now from what it was in the 1990s.

Bach's cantatas under Karl Richter are totally different from Gustav Leonhardt recordings just 10 or 20 years later. Add 20 years to get around 1990, and Philippe Herreweghe, Masaaki Suzuki or Christophe Coin bring some obvious changes. For each of them I can't notice deep changes in their more recent recordings.

But I admit that I can't name any conductor for Bach's cantatas that has started conducting in the 21st century. I don't think I have any recording like this. Recommandations are welcomed.
> Maybe, but Debian policy reserves the right to break your programs in future updates, right?

I'm pretty certain packages wouldn't see a change such as removing sysvinit support files unless you upgrade to a new major version (i.e. upgrade from Buster to Bullseye). In that scenario, sure, all bets are off. But in that scenario you could also just find the package missing too, so no amount of sysvinit scripts will you if the binary itself is gone.

> If you just want to use the most common thing with everything being easily packaged, why would you be using Debian rather than, say, Windows?

Wat? A pretty basic Debian Buster box I setup recently has close to 200 systemd unit files from just 24 Debian packages. Are you seriously suggesting that I should remove systemd, install... some other declarative service manager, and then write/find appropriate unit files for all of those services?

> The things that traditionally set Debian apart from Windows are the same things that set something like Devuan apart from modern Debian, IME.

I'm glad you made sure to classify that as your opinion.
Is this AMD entering the ARM market again or Samsung using their Ryzen branding?
Yes-ish:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Internet_Archive
Ervaringsdeskundige
Life imitates art when it comes to tech; it's a hydra of an ouroboros[1] eating its own tails with its many heads. We did this to ourselves?

It’s already happening in India and China. I’m sure it’s happening here too, with an added startup component with the example of Clearview AI. The big companies get in on the action too:

‘There are many companies that offer facial recognition products and services, including Amazon, Microsoft and FaceFirst. Those companies all need access to enormous databases of photos to improve the accuracy of their matching technology. But while most facial recognition algorithms are trained on well-established, publicly circulating datasets — some of which have also faced criticism for taking people’s photos without their explicit consent — Ever is different in using its own customers’ photos to improve its commercial technology.‘[2]

'In the 1998 Hollywood thriller Enemy of the State, an innocent man (played by Will Smith) is pursued by a rogue spy agency that uses the advanced satellite “Big Daddy” to monitor his every move. The film — released 15 years before Edward Snowden blew the whistle on a global surveillance complex — has achieved a cult following.'

It was, however, much more than just prescient: it was also an inspiration, even a blueprint, for one of the most powerful surveillance technologies ever created. So contends technology writer and researcher Arthur Holland Michel in his compelling book Eyes in the Sky. He notes that a researcher (unnamed) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California who saw the movie at its debut decided to “explore — theoretically, at first — how emerging digital-imaging technology could be affixed to a satellite” to craft something like Big Daddy, despite the “nightmare scenario” it unleashes in the film. Holland Michel repeatedly notes this contradiction between military scientists’ good intentions and a technology based on a dystopian Hollywood plot.'

'In 2006, the cinematically inspired research was picked up by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is tasked with US military innovation (D. Kaiser Nature 543, 176–177; 2017). DARPA funded the building of an aircraft-mounted camera with a capacity of almost two billion pixels. The Air Force had dubbed the project Gorgon Stare, after the monsters of penetrating gaze from classical Greek mythology, whose horrifying appearance turned observers to stone. (DARPA called its programme Argus, after another mythical creature: a giant with 100 eyes.)'[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/millions-people-upload...

[3] [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01792-5
Please stop arguing, you're agreeing with both of us.

I only replied originally because I thought you misread the original comment.
Being a lifelong Windows users I am always baffled at comments such as these because I have never experienced any of those issues except for maybe the Windows update happening for a couple minutes when I shut down. I'm no gamer, but I am usually cramming my computers with high CPU IDEs, VMs, crypto mining software, and anything else I can fart around with. Am I doing it wrong? How can I have this terrible experience?
Chicago uses a straight analog repeater system
For what it's worth — my Chinese-speaking friend tried this on his iPhone using voice dictation in Chinese. He was able to voice dictate 法轮功 — 'Falun Gong' in mainland (not traditional) Chinese with no problems.
Show HN: Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page
Google is shutting down Zync rendering in the cloud
> I have enjoyed tabletop games less and less as the number of 'things' has increased.

There are many, many, MANY games exploring the opposite end of the design space. If you want simple, there are designers and publishers working on that.

I mean, there's also Mage Knight, but lots of people love Mage Knight. It's a big hobby! Very few games will appeal to more than a small subset of the fan base.

I don't want to recommend anything as such (I have no idea what you're into!) but games like Azul, Splendour, and Patchwork have been super popular recently, and are very clean, minimalist designs. Or a couple steps up the complexity level, Wingspan.
That sounds like you're talking about the dropdown menu that shows up below the URL bar, but the problem is the URL bar itself expands outside of its bounding box when it gets focus.
Could you explain what's so good about the Windows Terminal? I've tried it multiple times and been disgusted every time. The grayscale smoothing looks ugly as hell, the font is large as if I'm elderly, you can't even right-click to get a menu in the window, and opening Settings fires up Visual Studio of all things with GUIDs that I have no idea what to do with. All I see is it has tabs which I've lived without in every single terminal. What exactly are people loving so much about it? What brilliance am I missing?
Why do I have to opt-out of this? This should be opt-in.
“I don’t know why they were willing to do that”.

That’s why we have trials by jury, to determine guilt even though we can’t read minds.
The speakers really are amazing. They're good enough that the MBP can be used as a standalone cordless TV without headphones.
I'm not even sure the T&C even matters _that_ much. Facebook is a private platform, they can likely take anything down they like.

This is a "moral" judgement call really, about the content of the post. Twitter/Jack decided one way, FB/Mark the other (was cross posted on both platforms).
If your definition of "safe" is so strict that it declares that's not safe, that's fine and your decision, but it's not a definition you can live by. You're not actually holding your actions in your life to that standard, because you can't be. It's fundamentally broken to do risk analysis without considering the possible benefits as well. Otherwise you end up with the answer to literally everything being "It could be harmful", with no countervailing possibilities, and your heuristic says "no" to everything, including doing nothing. You can't live that way.
Hello, I've used to rely on HN to discover new blogs, but recently I feel like a lot of content is just news article and very often several time the same news which reach the front page (even though still a lot of blog posts become popular). This has already been discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093990 in case you are interested. This is disappointing for me because there are still a lot of people who submit quality blog posts every day on HN and those content are just mixed long all the other posts and most of them never reach the front page.

So every day I go through all the links posted the current day on HN and keep only the non commercial blog posts, (and I removed the ones that reached the front page) there are not that many of them, about a dozen every day, and I build an article listing all those links.

(Note that some blog posts can end up being popular on HN after I created the daily article)

Feel free to subscribe, this is on substack but this is completely free. Somehow a substack blog is very quick to create, even if I hate their product.
When I was a kid other kids either had ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 or BBC Micros. (yeah - I knew one kid with a Dragon 32 poor sod. And someone with an Atari 400 or 800 where I was jealous of the hardware palette tricks and game cartridges)

Anyway - The Commodore seemed the worst option in terms of habitability. Any graphics or sound programming largely consisted of poking random locations in memory. The included BASIC had no direct support for any of the interesting stuff.

The quality of the BASIC was also poor. The Beeb probably had the best implementation at the time with the Spectrum coming second.

So - I guess what I'm saying is the C64 is a strange role model.
Talking about any issue should be encouraged, especially in the workplace. Heck, how many hours do we spend there? [0] Our lives do not stop at some door or sign-in page. Yes, reality is much different. But we should strive to hear all voices, especially in times of divisiveness. Shouting is a lot better than punching. And if that doesn't show how far we are down this slippery slope ... man oh man.

[0] Yes, this gets complicated. Yes, it has been complex for a long time. Yes, law is mostly settled on this. Yes, lawyers are expensive.
> The problem is a lot of people are staying indoors right now with nothing to do and are discovering twitter/reddit for the first time.

Don't forget YouTube. My mother in law started with YouTube videos on Bible studies in her native language and somehow got spun into some kind of conspiracy theory black hole. We worked to talk her down from the more crazy stuff (apocalypse predictions, Qanon, etc) but it's been years and she still watches her YouTube "news" on the daily so she can keep "informed"
The problem is that the flaws of humans tend to be random and stochastic, while the flaws of machines tend to be consistent and systematic. This is the at least the fifth example of Tesla missing stationary objects on the road.

Humans might have a judgment failure every so often, but they might realize how unsafe they are and change their behavior, or drive less, or get their license taken away. A machine consistently crashing cars has no self correction protocol, and will consistently make the same mistake over and over.
Do you have a better solution? Perhaps you should bring it to market.
It's currently a prototype, so I haven't fully finished integrating all the computer vision algorithms which means that it may miss some data in certain situations - but the purpose at this stage was just to see if this is something people would genuinely use and to get general feedback to help me decide what features to prioritise going forward.
Often they are, yes. It’s relatively easy to use an USRP to generate alerts when someone is using TETRA nearby.

But sure, other agencies may generate false positivies.
I recently paid for a Debian VPS instance, and when I logged in it had Exim already installed.

(I think it was running by default, too, but I don't trust my memory. I uninstalled it pretty quickly.)
What if someone lives in Taiwan or the United States or Singapore or anywhere outside of the PRC? This is exactly the type of sociotechnical pressure the PRC wants to enforce over its diaspora.
I'm using same trick with my 5 years son. In past I've tried kids editions (like ticket to ride first jorney). But they become boring too fast. Plus kid like to play "real" game, not game for small kids.
Originally, with Magic: the Gathering the exploration and interpretation of the rules was part of the game itself. At this point, Magic id mostly taught by other people that know the game well and introduce it to new players. I think there is less of a family that has never played and buying a bunch of packs to build decks and play. Magic just isn't setup for that today.

Anecdotally, I tried to find a fun solitaire game to play during lockdown and ended up getting Arkham Horror. After reading a ton of rules and even watching some YouTube videos, I still felt like I never truly understood the game and haven't really played it. I can't image cracking something like Gloomhaven and reading through the rules.
How to create SAML providers with AWS CloudFormation
Great job!

After Squeak changed its license from the original Apple one to Apache it still wasn't accepted as free software by Debian because of a lack of C based tools to examine the image. A Virtual Image Viewer like yours would have solved that (specially if it could compare two images).
Get a Hack RF or other SDR and then just run Unitrunker on a computer.
Seconded. Also check out ComputerCraft.

I'd love a club for this kind of thing.
> I think part of the issue is that people try to jump into the middle of something which has evolved without going through that evolution themselves

This is so true. I use a small subset of Org's features, and I have grown my workflow really slowly.

I also have very minimal dotfiles, yet I consider myself an advanced Emacs and Unix user.

It doesn't need to be a timesink. Also, as you say, complicated workflows are the consequence of iterating through many years and are likely paying off the efforts multiplied by a big factor.
The Importance of Personal Development and Avoiding Toxic People
I'll probably try fixing that horrible location bar improvement with some custom userChrome.css https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b...
I already removed some unused items from context menu and it feels great. Sadly, userChrome.css modifications are considered "legacy" and probably one day will be removed.

Why can't we have customizable browser UI? I'd prefer Firefox to be more like KDE and less than GNOME (feature and configuration wise). Early versions of Opera had amazing customization options, and now - all browsers are same-ish.
It strikes me that by reserving “grana” for branch of a tree, and “branch” for source code branch, you have created a more precise language than English for these concepts.
Motionia – JavaScript builtin ondemand animation library
Motionia - JS builtin ondemand animation libraray!Create animations by just one line of code within 3 seconds.
I haven't been this tan in years! It's been really easy to go outside for a walk, I hope to keep it up in the coming years...
hah that was my first thought as well; I've always been tempted to try it, but I was dubious about whether I'd have the discipline to keep the cards organized, and I feared that if I tried to make myself a piece of software to do it that I'd get so distracted by writing the software that I'd never write any notes. So I'm curious to give it a whirl now with someone else's software :)
Why do they even remove the option to change it to your liking? It's... madness.
I know elisp and I never use it for org-mode. Actually all of my use of org-mode can be summarized in this short comment.

I use org-mode as 'outline mode.' I only do this with it:

* asterisk denotes a level

* asterisk next to an asterisk denotes a sub-level of a level

* sublevels can have sublevels, effectively making them a level, by the above rules

Then you press tab to expand a level or sub-level, press tab again to contract a level or sub-level.

That's it! I tried some of the org-mode add-ons but never found them useful; this is the only one I use regularly.
One thing that I have learned with large datasets is to add pagination in queries/APIs and always do them server side. Client side paginations are not good enough for large datasets.

Also in general, always query less data than more and then request more as needed. For example, lets say you are loading a table for users. You could have 2 million users in the database. Do you really want to query all 2 million at once even if you have optimized the code and hardware for it ? I would say No. Query may be a few hundred at once and then query more as needed.
What ages do you recommend those games for?
In my city we have seen several peaceful protesters (some quite some distance away from police) be nearly killed by less lethal ammunition. Being hit in the head or neck by a rubber bullet will drop a person to the ground unconscious instantly. This means they can even hit their head again against pavement. Nobody has died yet, but they are clearly extremely dangerous.

We have also seen the use of tear gas. I don't want the police to hurt anyone, but I haven't seen any long term damage from its use.

If police are going to use force, from what I have seen, tear gas is less dangerous. It is still awful. I'd rather it not be used, but I just wanted to share what I've seen.
Yeah but i dont live in america and so dont give 2 shits. Its wasting my time.

Also the docs on github are old, deprecated aka useless.

I"ll never use react router again if I cant help it.
Open-Measure is an open-source, not-for-profit initiative of IAM professionals
Ask HN: How do you find an *expert* in CS?
Say that you're trying to implement a complex new feature, or that you've found a critical bug in your system. The time arrives when you see yourself staring at the screen without answers. You've tried Stack Overflow, Google, Github, IRC, anything! What do you do? How do you find someone to help you work that thing out?

Disclaimer:
I'm asking this because I'm working on a project that aims to help people finding experts to unlock their critical issues. And I need to first understand if I'm the only one seeing this as an something that needs to be improved.
> I hope you like high heat, high fan noise, and thermal throttling issues (common XPS issues that myself and others have experienced).

Highlighting these as issues on a machine compared to a Macbook Pro is kind of hilarious. Macbooks have notoriously bad thermals and throttling.
Linux has "perf." https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

It's easy to use and very powerful. I've used it with C and Rust and had great success.
What is the current behavior? For me it is:

single click: select all

double click: select word

single click after selecting something: place cursor
What can users do to help the Internet Archive in its time of need?