skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
/r/DIY, and basically every other part of the easily accessible public internet where people used to build things died because the people who build things left those parts of the internet.

The people who actually build cool stuff left because they didn't like a bunch of people with little to no experience in the things they are doing telling them about how they should have done them and that should have worn more safety glasses, used more jack stands and that a Dremel is going to eat their hand if they use it while wearing work gloves. Nobody who's actually contributing content of any value is going to stick around somewhere they have to take shit from a bunch of internet riff-raff that isn't contributing anything.

There's calling out stuff that's actually unlikely to last and there's pandering to the safety crowd for virtue points and the publicly accessible internet is rife with the former while actual constructive criticism is proportionally rare. For every comment to the tune of "you should consider fastener X because your application is Y and that plays to X's strength Z" there are ten teenagers (or adults acting like teenagers) making some low effort jab about something in the building code, or some written list of best practices, they don't understand the reasons behind.

It takes time and effort to build something. It doesn't take any time and effort to make some quip about PPE so that a bunch of teenagers can click on an up arrow and you can get your fix. The people actually building things got sick of being used like that.
*Jimi
Nobels are not awarded posthumously, and he died in WWI.

On that subject, “Einstein’s War” is an interesting read on the interplay between WWI and the development of general relativity.
There are two parts.

1) Yes, you can build better encryption and privacy preserving technology. That is a technology and adoption problem.

2) There is so much you can do once the law says you can’t encrypt certain kinds of things and if you do, the state will be after you. That is a social problem. Our elected leaders aren’t serving us.

Not mutually exclusive. We have to do both. Build better tech, educate others and esp our politicians who can change the fabric of society.
Love the idea! What about something like this but for software? Could be an interesting way to learn a new language/codebase
Sit down dude. You think you are standing up for rights, but are making a case for weaker security by trusting, i.e. that MS and Apple won't backdoor you in an instant if they must. You are literally, actually, a shill, especially with this pompous presentation.

None of your list is better than nothing, if the authoritarians want your data. Except, maybe, Tor, and only if people contribute to running exit nodes.

If it isn't end-to-end, and only you know and control your keys, you are already doomed. In other words, you cannot trust any service with your keys. That includes https and signal.
Nice, this is very enjoyable. Will definitely pick this up again, after I get a new ergonomic keyboard.

Would be nice to also type code from famous open-source projects, to practice hitting all the parens etc.
You're right, it's not something I want to put off till it's too late. Thanks for the advice!
> you can import CSVs values as strings instead of numbers

Of course, but the problem isn't that the person who posted the comment doesn't know this - it's that many users of their systems don't know it. Most people are just going to accept whatever defaults Excel suggests and not know any better, causing problems down the line.
Sometimes when I really had to memorize things including nitpicky semantics I would retype them into diff. It works reasonably well and is a moderately enjoyable (if you're in the mood) mindless task kind of like driving.
This doesn't work because `65ch` means very different things depending on the font-size. You need to apply it to a parent class, so that it picks the base font size (I'm not actually sure how this works but in practice it seems to base it on the child <p> tag).

I also don't like the idea of "reaching in" and setting widths on all children. Feels like this could cause problems, especially on replaced elements like images/videos. Not to mention that it just feels wrong when combined with a component architecture, where I might expect a <Heading> component to control its own destiny. In fairness, my solution also reaches in to apply a grid-column, but grid-column is a property that only makes sense when combined with a parent's `display: grid`. So it bothers me less.

Enough people have brought this up that I wonder if I should have addressed it in the article... but then I realize, it's not my job to argue against or "disprove" all alternative ideas. I'm not claiming that my way is the best way, I'm just sharing a cool trick I found :)
Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe [podcast]
the lesson from this? advocating vegetarianism is one of the various HN taboos.
Did you require work visas in every country while you were a digital nomad and working on Canny ?
Doesn't that run in the "ch depends on font and font-size" problem e.g. with headings vs paragraphs again if you don't use wrappers?
That is true, but the prize was awarded to Genzel for “for the __discovery__ of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy” (emphasis mine), not for the (impressive no doubt) follow-up work, so my comment was done in that context. That being said, I should have been a bit more enthusiastic about the infrared group's work to not appear dismissive on their ongoing contribution.

Fun fact: looks like we're both in MPE (although I left two years ago).
I've always thought Nobel prizes are awarded based on the winners' works in that particular year so this came as huge surprise.

Too late for Hawking indeed, he could've very well been one of the winners today.
Fortunately I am not in the chicken sexing game.
This comment falls into the "...and then there's just bagging on people.", which the parent wanted to avoid.
A few years ago, I learnt of one of the surprising constraints for Frama-C: it may only depend on code that could be patched by the maintainers of Frama-C.

That's because Frama-C is meant to be used on highly critical infrastructures (think nuclear plants) even in highly difficult times (think world war).
Rotate through various VPNs as your initial portal, and throw tor in there as well.

Share your VPN with friends and family to provide some 'noise' (although that may be worth little overall - maybe VPN through friends and family home connections as well).
Hello -- I'm glad you like it! I believe typing.io has something like this, but for programming languages.
Yes. I thought they did for a long time, but having used them as a developer and project manager and seen the harm they cause, I learned that they destroy value by creating unnecessary bureaucracy which has taken on Kafkaesque proportions in recent years.

The only people who claim that these tools add value are people whose jobs depend on the existence of these tools. There are a LOT, a LOT of such people. I would say at least 90% of office workers today and increasing.
"it's not a waste of energy to spread depressing truths."

It certainly is, if those "truths" are not absolutes. Find a way to redirect your -- and others' -- energies toward something positive and constructive. Spreading doom and gloom, full stop? Always a waste.
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I mean a bad actor can easily use stolen/free wireless with a randomized mac on a machine that’s used for nothing else and not access any “usual” services while doing it.

This is more about ordinary people maintaining privacy in their normal daily activities, in ways that aren’t too inconvenient to use 24/7.

If a bad actor has the knowhow to build a custom platform they sure have the ability to access the internet in a way where they can’t be found by IP.

Governments still like to push anti-privacy laws because they help catch non-technical criminals who don’t put in a serious effort to hide. This is why they hate “built in” privacy protections in consumer software and demand ways around it, because they help protect even technically illiterate criminals.

What I'm trying to say is, the important question is how much do we want to erase privacy for 99% of people who use normal consumer software in order to help police catch the ~1% or whatever the percent of criminals is that also use normal consumer software, and just happen to also be criminals. The 0.01% of people that are criminals and have the resources and knowhow to actively try to avoid detection by building their own systems are not going to be caught in trivial ways (like tracking their IP to their apartment, vpn or no vpn, or tracking them through correlation from using their personal social media account from the same connection they perform illegal activity from) anyway so they don't matter.
Any way to run this on a shared hosting with PHP/MySQL? If that works out somehow I would give this a try over Matomo, which is just "too big" for my use case.
TCF 2.0
..but they fixed it with blockchain!!!!! xD
It reminds me of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Borges [1]. If I re-write Ulysses from scratch, line by line, is it still the same book? Is mine better than Joyce's?

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
Worth noting that not only was Spengler a key intellectual figure in promoting fascism (despite his later private opposition to Nazism), his 'Cesarian age' concept - predicting a dictatorship to succeed democracy - is at the root of much neo-nazism today. Specifically occult nazi ideologues like the Order of the Nine Angles have referenced his work in their eschatology.

Not sure that promoting the work of an anti-modern, anti-semetic, pro-facist, who's eschatology directly assaults democracy is useful or necessary.
You forgot "find a wordy way to criticize something while pretending you're suggesting an improvement so that you can pander to some viewpoint that it's hard to argue against with the demographics here being what they are"
Hey that's a really good idea! I'll add it to the ever-growing to-do list. Thanks!
Thanks! Yeah, an API is in the works. And design changes too, along with a dark theme.
Could you please summarise the predictions for us? It'll take me a while to get to, and through, Der Untergang des Abendlandes[1], so I'm unlikely to reply in a timely manner otherwise.

From what I know so far[2] I am prejudiced against it, in that ascribing seasons to civilisations (Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter) strikes me as being parallel to "technical analysis" for stocks: possibly useful for historians in description, but anyone who attempts to apply the model for prediction should hope to be lucky.

[1] I agree with the characterisation of the Washington Consensus as Faustian, and the title of this book might help explain why the Nazis were so obsessed with Saving The West (even if it didn't wish to be saved) from Jewish Communism.

Goebbels, apud https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141227

> "Die europäischen Mächte stehen hier vor ihrer entscheidenden Lebensfrage. Das Abendland ist in Gefahr. Ob ihre Regierungen und ihre Intelligenzschichten das einsehen wollen oder nicht, ist dabei gänzlich unerheblich."

European powers are faced with an existential crisis. The West is in danger. Whether their governments and their intellectuals will admit it or not is irrelevant.

> "Die Welt hat also nicht die Wahl zwischen einem in seine alte Zersplitterung zurückfallenden und einem unter der Achsenführung sich neu ordnenden Europa, sondern nur die zwischen einem unter dem militärischen Schutz der Achse stehenden und einem bolschewistischen Europa."

Therefore the world doesn't face the choice between falling back into its old divisions or joining a New Axis Order, but only the choice between accepting the military protection of the Axis or becoming Communist.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West

The propaganda importance of a Faustian West in decline to be replaced by a Caesarian successor was noted by Linebarger, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pag...

> "... in the political warfare field, [the Germans] succeeded in making large sections of world opinion believe that the world's future was a choice between Communism and Fascism. Since they and the Communists agreed on this the point seemed well taken. Actually, there is no historical or economic justification for supposing that those two forms of dictatorship constitute a real choice in the first place, or that the civilized and truly free countries need ever depart from their ancient freedoms in the second place."

I believe this report of a false dichotomy because it (enforced by armed private militiamen!) was also noted by Weil.
There's no escaping Maslow's Triangle.
It sounds like you're considering a human moving about a mostly flat world, rather than interacting with nearby objects. Also, I would argue that humans do still have a natural sense for traveling in the Z-axis, we did after all used to climb and plan paths in 3D.
Apple's T2 Chip Has Unpatchable Security Flaw, Claims Researcher
I've practiced typing by retyping webnovels.

I made it about halfway through Worm.
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I just think that calling chick sexing a "lucrative art" is disgusting to me, and I expressed that.

If that makes you re-evaluate your choices in life, that could be great for the chicks. I never called you a terrible human.
Dealing with chatbots and natural language interfaces in general feels like trying to make your grandma with dementia do work. For the things that she can actually help, you don't need her help and for the things that you do need help you need to understand the nature of her condition so that you can explain your problem to get a template response like a phone number to call.
Vim Keybindings in All CLIs
Noah, that you? :D
Is there anything that Bing does better than any other search engine?

I know DuckDuckGo is supposedly private. And has bangs & cheat sheets. But what is Bing's competitive edge? Heard it's good at images.
thanks for your comment.

Try get.ytub.link

or http://ytub.link

Still working on the ssl certificates for shortlinks.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.

In american irregular usage, it's a known word, but the primary reason someone would use it (other than incidentally or acidentally) is to effect an affect; that is to say, the author might have used this word on purpose to draw your attention.

This type of usage is much more common in, for example, poetical writings; it is also used semifrequently in opinion or persuasive writings. The author Stephen King employs this mechanism very frequently. He loves using weird americanisms to evoke a feeling of alienation from his audiences.
Easiest way to build traction around this effort is to write some stories suggesting Trump is trying to take away encryption (even thought spying has bi-partisan support).

The Trump angle will pick up mass media attention and the 'orange man bad' crowd will activate to make sure this doesn't get far.

There may even be debates on encryption and people may actually talk about encryption, privacy and policy.
Also works for human languages!
fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise,_California#/media/Fi...

You can see that the outer layer of the trees burned but they retained their form.

Seeing this I can imagine that tree rings for the sequoias probably have a lot to teach us.
That's a good guideline for selecting external dependencies in general, also for "non-critical infrastructure" software. A slightly more relaxed version of that guideline would be: "never use dependencies that you don't feel comfortable creating or maintaining yourself".
You are right on the cause of the issue. But the software does not HAVE to guess the type. If I paste something into Excel, I want what I pasted to be what's in Excel. Changing the type and inadvertently affecting the data isn't something any data software should do by default. And the fact that OP said they can't turn it off means that this is beyond a design mistake, it is a FEATURE. If Excel took itself seriously as a data platform, it would not make a change to any text by default.
You're thinking of PeerTube. Mastodon's lead developer is from Germany.
I take the down votes. :) Happily exchange votes for a bit of platform to express myself.
I guess the whole point of design or engineering for that matter is to get as close as possible to the bare minimum of essential complexity. Elegance comes to mind, if you are able to jump over several complexity traps.
In several years of doing this, I have not gotten one single piece of spam. Not sure if it's related, but I wonder if $COMPANY is less likely to sell $COMPANY@domain.com to a third party.
That’s exactly how I learned to code. Retyping code from Byte magazine, Dr. Dobbs, and Apple Incider.
Plausible is a gulp of fresh air in the sea of products and services that try to sell one's identity in exchange for a free service. I have started using it for one of my sites, then recently migrated another, and planning to do the same with the rest of my projects.

Moreover, Plausible being an open-source product, it gives anyone a chance to contribute to it and make it even better. As soon as I realised that it was written in Elixir/Phoenix, I just couldn't wait but find ways to help. Although my contributions to the project have been small until now, the guys were really kind and addressed the changes I pointed out almost immediately.

Great work!
The idea is great and the execution if flawless.

Great job and thanks!
> Heard it's good at images.

They have a pretty picture on the front page each day. That was the argument a client gave me once why she used Bing.
I’d be careful reporting things to the American police. You may get the other person in a lot more trouble than they deserve depending on their skin color.
It also lied to me:

Hey I'm here to answer your questions about Itemsy

Me: It appears you are using third party tracking after all

I'm sorry, I'm not using any third party tracking.

Me: You may be not, but itemsy is

I'm sorry, I did not understand that. Could you explain what you mean a bit more?

Me: Itemsy is using third party tracking

Itemsy is using Google Analytics to track usage statistics.

Me: And yet you said you are not using third party tracking

We are not using any third party tracking.

Me: You see, that's confusing

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you.

Me: So you are not using third party tracking but itemsy is?

Itemsy is not using any third party tracking.

Me: Yes it is. It uses google analytics

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Shall we chat about Itemsy a bit more?

Me: No

I'm a bit confused. Could you say that again?
How can a customer support chatbot that you can't control (in the sense that you have no control over what it's going to reply) ever work for anyone? It might answer all sorts of things that are absolutely not true.
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After recently discovering I type with 5 fingers on the left and with just 1 on my right, this is a great way to improve! Started working on Typing Academy but the randomness of the characters can be off-putting at times.

Example: “jkk asa dfg hjk ;ah”
This was explained by HST in one of his letters, which was collected in the excellent three book collection of letters he sent and received to his friends. Including many famous writers.

HST was always great in small rapid outputs of writing, which is captured well in his letters (similar to how his collection of articles are his most popular works, but these deserve a similar look).

He obviously had some sort of ADD and later on combined with a long series of drug/alcohol addictions, so it makes sense he was better in short blurbs. Even his most famous novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has a feeling of multiple long spurts on a typewriter.

Which is always how he wrote. Always also at the very last minute of the magazine due date and/or because he was running out of money and needed the next advance.

I believe this is common in creative fields. Long periods of meh and spurts of greatness.

Anyway the book series is here, usually called the Gonzo Letters:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/64386-the-fear-and-loathing...

Only the 2nd one has a Wikipedia page for some reason (the 3rd one came out in 2014) but the first one (The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955–1967) as a young writer who is often desperate and broke was most interesting IMO, even though his life or writing wasn’t yet as it would become famous for (but definitely still as wild) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_America
I mean, fair enough to a lot of the above, but you’re decrying people saying VPN’s are insecure then showing how wrong they are by talking about six otherwise unrelated security technologies.

The VPN’s people will actually use are a poor trade-off that will leave most people with a false sense of security at best, and probably with significantly less rights over what happens to their data regardless.

Don’t disagree with you on the rest of the above.
Serious question, as I'm probably extremely naive about these things - but why not just ban derivatives trading altogether? Does it bring any good to the world or is it just gambling for people bored of horse racing?
> They're not using Excel for any other NHS databases

I assure you that you're wrong. The SaaS I work for replaces a suite of independently re-invented Excel files used in conjunction with other SaaS. NHS trusts are our main customers, I can only assume the NHS is full of excel spreadsheets.

(Technically speaking PHE is not part of the NHS, it has more in common with the civil service in some ways.)
You can get both great quality and low latency by using wired headphones and microphones.
Packet is now Equinix Metal
The right to the copy/text? The right to being allowed to reproduce? The copyright holder is the person who has the right to do so. Seems ok to me.

In any case, it’s a well established old term now while Unlicense was coined long after unlicensed was already an established word with a different (opposite!) meaning.
Animals eat plants too, so you significantly reduce plant pain by consuming them directly. Also: fruit are plant based but are "given" by the plant, the plant survives.

Finally, a plant's "pain" is VERY different from animal pain. Where animal pain is in many cases/ways the same as human pain.