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>I genuinely would be missing out on a lot of content if people would stop providing RSS feeds, especially for blogs that only update very sporadically.

For me, that's the real value of RSS even if, truth be told, I'm more inclined to just find stuff through Twitter, here, etc. these days. I agree on Feedly. For all the hate on Google shutting Reader down, I've always seen it as an effect of not many people using RSS rather than a cause.

(I'm also sympathetic to the srsly Google? How much effort would it have taken to keep it going? argument. But, as has frequently been mentioned, working on Reader would probably have been career suicide or at least a guarantee of stagnation for anyone involved given the way Google operates.)
GitHub Pages, Firebase will do free static hosting, Wix has a free plan, etc, etc
“Exactly like that, but smaller” is less interesting and less hard than projecting completely new things within plausible bounds of known physics, or speculating new things that might require new kinds of physics but some plausible Levenshtein distance from present theory.
Makes sense... I like the idea behind this, and I really hope your startup catches on. There is a definitely a huge need for it.

I can't tell you how many times I've been tasked with UI time-to-interactive Optimization, only to come to find we have great performance without all of our 3p requests. Yet, business/product/marketing don't understand or care, they want to eat their cake, and have it too. It's a terrible situation to be in when you have to report to a non-technical manager.
Some mentioned to me recently that most teenagers may have never used a non-touch phone. It's obvious to them that iPhones and iPads are around and work the way they do.

But I still remember first using the iPhone 3G in 2008 and how it felt like magic to control a device with my fingers, to zoom into a photo with a simple gesture.

I wonder what technology will make them (and me too!) feel like this. Perhaps an electric car? I've never driven (or even been in one) but from what I hear they're much quieter. Maybe it'll feel like magic if I ever get one.
> Except we agree to those bills beforehand.

I'm sure those who paid them did too.

> When the number of people involved in a conspiracy go up, the likelihood of that conspiracy being revealed goes up.

And when they're all involved, nobody is left to care, investigate or prosecute.

> Once again I will ask is there any evidence for this conspiracy beyond these circumstantial connections?

The evidence is everywhere. They do favors for specific people and groups and get paid by those people and groups. It's really not complicated.
I mean, that’s one take. Another take is a hedge fund who bailed out AMC with debt for shares was richly rewarded, and some of the public short selling hedge funds like Melvin still lost their shirts.
> 2. prominent politicians decide to jump in themselves without doing due diligence on their part, for some cheap political points.

Erm, the politicians who jumped in (Cruz and AOC) kind of do this crap all the time. Its no surprise to me. No different than Cruz jumping in to the "stolen election" crap a few weeks ago.

That's the thing about "Populism" today. Its about following and agreeing with meme arguments without having any deeper analysis. I think its fine when the memes are stupid / joke level (ex: Bernies mittens is kinda funny). But even in joke/stupidity levels (ex: Bernie's mittens), there's a level of conspiracy and unreasoned / counterfactual / direct lies that aim to shift public opinion. (On the right: Bernie's mittens represent how the pandemic has closed shops, believe it or not. Which is why the right is willing to meme the Bernie's mittens, corrupting the left's interpretation of the image)

Its how things operate in today's political atmosphere. I can only hope that we Americans grow up and learn to see how stupid this strategy is eventually. Welcome to meme warfare. (At least in my social circles, the Bernie mittens meme seems to be leaning towards the left-interpretation of the story. But there's constant meme warfare to change the meaning of these images).
Why it’s “conspiracy theory” to think it could have been done by some previous advanced civilization?

The fact is modern people is still not able to build the great pyramid of Giza with such precision and within proposed timeline.

And it’s not just the pyramid but there are simple things such as a block of granite, like the unfinished obelisk, weighting 1200 tons. The strongest mobile crane in the world that could operate on sand would still struggle immensely when trying to lift that, moving it few hundred meters would be demanding project. But they say these blocks came from hundreds of miles away, across Nile and over some mountain. We do not have capability to do that today. Not even close. But don’t believe me but do some research on your own.
That sounds remarkably close to magical thinking. It’s easier for me to believe that the complaints about counterfeit goods are coming from a vanishingly tiny but vocal minority than that I’m the tiny minority somehow surrounded by a cloak that prevents me from seeing the counterfeit goods.
Redditor loses millions by holding on to GameStop
Not really:

* CEO gets a golden parachute and finds a new job. A competent CEO will always find a job. A turn-around is risky, and a failed turn-around will have exposes and will ruin a career. Easier to stay-the-course.

* Workforce is laid off, struggles for a few weeks, and usually finds new jobs. The layoff sucks, but turn-arounds involve equal layoffs (and indeed can be harder to find jobs after; my employer went out-of-business is a mighty good reason to leave a company). Employees also hate change; in many cases, finding new jobs like old jobs is easier than re-qualifying.

* Shareholders lose a little bit of money, but are pretty diversified, and from a 50 trillion market, GME even at its inflated valuation is around 1/20th of a percent.

... and new ventures come in and fill the gap.

Capitalism is built on survival-of-the-fittest. If a company is not fit, it's sometimes more humane to kill it and replace it with a fitter company than to keep it straggling along. Companies aren't people; they're abstractions. There's no moral remorse to replacing a company with a better one. If you're running DBCorp which has a mediocre, buggy product, and a mismanaged workforce, and I run DBInc which takes your customers, hires your workforce, and has a high-quality product and well-managed workforce, in the end, everyone often ends up happier.
I've mentioned this on HN before, one pattern I've noticed is a lot of sites tend to truncate their RSS feed so you have to click through to see the full article etc. This is mostly OK but kinda frustrating, as in the before-covid times I used to ride the London Underground a lot where no celluar signal is available in the tunnels - so my offline RSS reader would be useless.

So I wrote a little web service accepts an RSS feed, and then crawls each link in it, parses the HTML to extract the text using one of those text extraction libraries, and then "republishes" a new version of the feed (with the full article) which I then subscribe to in my RSS reader so I can read the articles offline, e.g.

example.com/rss?feed=foo.net/artcles/rss

I've never open sourced it though because I guess it's a bit of a grey area - the sites want you to go to the full URL so they can show you ads etc
Ask HN: Non-tracking email newsletter software?
In the vein of Fathom and Plausible analytics is there any non-tracking email newsletter subscription manager and sender that isn't riddled with tracking codes?

I realise there are solutions like SES out there, but really looking for something that can manage subscribers and help create the emails, and I'd rather do it in a way that doesn't invade any privacy.
> Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it

I would rather not do my own content discovery and content curation: I see those as literal chores that have to be done before I can consume content.

Like all chores, I'm not keen to do them. Despite years of practice, I'm still not confident I am great at them on my own, and I have the option to employ someone more skilled.

Twitter has done a good job of these chores, making discovery and curation easier (like the parent article, I feel frustrated that Twitter is now broken from this point of view); TikTok does a great job, surely better than I could do myself.
Not at all.

The past few days they've shared not only the largest long holders of these stocks, but also the pension funds that were boosted as well. A few teacher pension funds got a good uptick and they were sharing that around.

The cats at wsb might be self proclaimed retards, but they're not that stupid. They know lots of other folks are going to make money off of them. You know, if you actually visit the sub, you'd know that.
All the doctors websites around here, including for specialists, use google fonts and google maps etc. I assume there is some metadata involved there too
The article says that RNA encapsulation is the big bottleneck. This is a touchy microfluidic process. That needs to be accelerated. While few companies make those parts, more could. They're made by a process similar to that used in a wafer fab. A low-rez wafer fab, like the ones used to make MEMS gyros and such.

Part of the problem may be that wafer fab people and drug production people don't talk to each other much. Someone should get them talking.
Might come to nothing. Might lead to "oh, we can make that easily".
So, correct me if I am wrong, but you are saying that uniqueness when it comes to data regulation is different than uniqueness in information theory.

Even though I generate a random salt when hashing passwords I wouldn't use it to select a user out of a database because I don't check for collisions by ensuring a unique salt that has never been used before. The chance of a collision is tiny, but I still don't want to do it. But this would still qualify as unique under data regulations?
Funny. I tried that while writing it, but it didn't work. These are the character sequences the VT-300 series uses.
amazing article i give 10/10
>did everyone a disservice

I suspect they didn't do a disservice to their own bank accounts. Random internet strangers care as much about you as do politicians and hedge fund owners.
Me too. Using Tiny Tiny RSS on my NAS for years now. Love it!
Could DNA sequence be used as a private key / seed for a Bitcoin wallet? It does make sense?
The errors are non-random. That's why they use machine learning to figure out those errors. You could, of course, also just do traditional statistics on sequences that you want to sequence all the time. I've done that with plasmids before, and it works pretty good. I think there are a few papers on it too.
best thing i've ever read
I kind of think everyone recommending their favorite rss reader is missing the mark. During the google reader days, rss was provided by everyone, and blogging-like publication was how you did things. The internet just isn’t like that anymore and no matter how nice your reader is that’s not how things are published.
> The WSB moderators really did everyone a disservice by letting obvious misinformation flood the subreddit.

Well, on the flip side a lot of redditors learned from the school of hard knocks, which is the best teacher in a lot of ways. Moderators suppressing posts won't teach a lesson you can only learn by losing money.
> It gives them far more power and freedom to build courses.

This is a sign of a good UX.

One impactful thing the FSF could do is create a case study the history and incentive structure of this project and extract lessons on how to structure other projects well.

> it has a terrible UX for students.

Just to check: Do you mean that it is frustrating UX or that it is unattractive? People often think that UX means graphic design.
The people who adhered to the original plan (to overcome the million person prisoners dilemma) of setting a limit sell order at 420.69 should still have made a ton of money.
Yeah, that's definitely handy, or the ability to right click on something and click "Go to definition" to jump right to it. I'm not saying it's worthless, but all of the legwork to get that to work isn't worth it to me.
We work within the infectious disease space, so I'll give an example from our work that is still personalized medicine: Faster detection of antimicrobial resistance. Every infection will be resistant to different antibacterials/antivirals/antifungals/antiparasitics. What if we could get the patient on the right antimicrobial for their specific infection faster? There's strong evidence that timely administration of correct antimicrobials in septic shock results in improved mortality.

Nanopore sequencing very much has the potential to deliver this personalized treatment, without looking at any human genes or panels. If we could rapidly sequence bacteria in the bloodstream and predict their antimicrobial susceptibilities, we can make a difference.
HFTs were printing money throughout this entire ordeal due to volatility and inefficient trades
Aren't there RSS-readers that offer something like the reader-mode you get on web-browsers?
If you're okay with feeds generated from the home pages of those sites, the Feed Creator project I work on can generate feeds for them:

* Reuters: https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F...

* AP: https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F...

Relying on the underlying HTML attributes of the page to generate the feed does make these feeds much more brittle, but it's one option when the sites choose to switch off their own feeds.
I would actually like the opposite of this. Having newsletters and other such “no-reply” emails go directly to an RSS feed.
TESS Discovers Sextuply-Eclipsing Six-Star System
Same feeling, in a way I regret to have continued after season 3, I were warned that season 4 was not on the same level as the previous seasons but to continue to watch.
Season 3 ended so beautifully.
The Simplest Way to Pay Vendors and Contractors
Sure, but I will absolutely mention that the PDF of this study has a snazzy but hard to read layout. So I'm not done reading the whole thing. But there's certainly a lot I noticed that seemed 'off' about it.

Namely, this quote "This drumbeat of accusation has had consequences." You'll notice that most of the paper revolves around linking conservative voices to misinformation and justifying removal based on that fact. I definitely get the sense that the paper is setting up an argument that censorship of conservatives actually makes sense and is justified because they spread so much dangerous misinformation. But it's also asserting that censorship isn't going on because of how many people are following conservative voices on social media.

To be clear, this is my interpretation. It's the sentiment I get from reading this as an average person. I have no doubt a conservative person would feel even more strongly than I do that this is a biased paper. I do not have the ability to present anyone here with a scholarly analysis or some kind of academic-grade proof that this is a biased work.
In the UK we have instant transfers between bank accounts. For larger quantities there can be a bigger delay.
Regardless of the financial minutiae being specifically discussed here, the financial transaction regulation needs to slow everything way down and add randomized jitters. It needs to be somewhat plausibly in the range of human perception and response. The jitter needs to be an unknown as well.

Essentially this will undermine the undercut advantage the bastard big traders have, disincent/delay manipulations further into the chaos uncertainty windows, and many other things.

It may take blockchain technology to decentralize and enforce this, one of the few actual uses for this that the famous "blockchain? probably need a database instead" article debunked.
More Than a Refresh, Episode 1: Karthik Ranganathan, YugabyteDB CTO
The full power of social media may be too powerful, both to the individual, and also possible threat-models to society.

The problem is that anonymous posting also have problems of lack of accountability. So we need to watch out for how to balance and use this power for good.
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I have it from different DPAs that encrypted data are not PPI under the GDRP. The case might be different for passwords but you have to think around the corner a bit: You compare two hashes when you compare a password - you don't compare the password itself (the actual string in the form) - so what Identifies you as the person to the computer is not your password but the hash. So the hash itself is PII.
Why isn't this true for encryption? Well good encryption in principle should not look different from random data. Will the same file encrypted with the same key produce the same outcome? Well - no. At least it shouldn't. So its not possible to identify someone with it like with a hash value.
I can only speculate about the rational but this is the only explanation that come to my mind.
>Exactly, the securities industry doesn't even need a decentralized blockchain, Quorum with its hot-swappable consensus models and EVM-compatibility for all existing smart contracts would be good enough!

Right, but I still think the comparison is good because blockchain should establish the minimum performance, and the financial industry, which can allow centralization, should be able to do much better. In terms of securities, it doesn't. Bitcoin is settled within an hour (6 confirmations), without the requirement to put up collateral that scales O(n) with the value of the transaction (and volatility).
This sort of monetization of the Presidency would have shocked 18th-Century sensibilities. An example:

George Washington was a big supporter of canal-building. To honor Washington, the Virginia legislature decided in 1795 to gift him shares in two canal companies it had established. Washington agonized over what to do, because accepting the shares would give the impression that he was using the Presidency for his own personal gain, while rejecting them would be insulting. He also wanted to publicly show his support for the canal projects. He ended up requesting that the shares to be used to fund a university and a seminary.

Washington's status at this point was already secure enough that nobody would have seriously accused him of corruption, but he was extremely wary of doing anything that could in any way be perceived as self-interested. The fact that former politicians are taking massive speaking fees from businesses that their policies affected looks corrupt, and that in itself is already bad enough.
i heard the guy who wrote this article is really cute and good at linux
Perhaps for electric aviation? That is an application where high peak power can make for a takeoff on a shorter runway.
> I wonder how much effort it would take to connect it to a Raspberry Pi.

Should be quite easy. You'll need a USB-serial adapter for the Pi, and a cable with a 9-pin serial adapter on one end and a 25-pin on the other.

Now, the way my luck works, it usually turns out that my random assortment of serial cables means I end up with the USB converter, a null modem adapter, the serial cable, and a 25-pin gender-bender just to get all the wires in the right order and fitting into the ports properly :)
Nah when I see a headline rife with lies I don’t waste my time trying to choke down the dishonest pablum therein.

Academia has a serious leftism issue, they have very little credibility left among those to the right of Mao and Stalin.
This is new to me and it looks awesome! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Tesla bought the premiere energy storage capacitor company.

https://www.maxwell.com/
Volatility earns hedge funds huge returns.

There are a very select few retail investors that really made a lot of money from this hype.

There were a TON of professional traders that probably thought this was like shooting fish in a barrel.
For people not reading the article and thinking this hedge fund was short these stocks:

> In December, AMC signed a commitment letter with Mudrick Capital that called for the hedge fund to buy $100 million of new secured bonds that pay 15% cash or 17% deferred interest. In exchange, Mudrick received a commitment fee equal to about 8 million AMC shares.

ie, this firm indirectly bet on an AMC recovery, investing in them as “distressed debt”, but the recovery in their stock came true suddenly.
That's a lot of those buzzwords that do not address the question of why negotiating for labor resources should be any different than some other resources the company needs.

What's more, all of those buzzwords can apply to the relationship between any other supplier as well. In addition, corporations are themselves a highly collected bargaining unit. They may nominally be a single entity, but they represent the financial interests of many people.
Know, Prevent, Fix: A framework for shifting discussion around OSS security
> I tried using WordPress but it took too many custom plugins and configurations and I still got bombarded by spam signup requests

I understand the Wordpress pain. My solution was to pay Wordpress.com $35/year to give me a hosted Wordpress instance. There is just one switch you need to flip to make the whole thing private. Family members have access through their own usernames.
To a person dealing with the IRS over millions, a whole team of lawyers at $1k/hour each is a drop in the bucket. to a person who cheated uncle sam of $2k, its cheaper to settle (even with penalties) than to hire a single lawyer to represent them. That is why the IRS loves going after the little guys, they don't fight back.
How do you identify Feedly subscribers? Isn't there a single request from Feedly that it uses for all of its users?
The race to the bottom design of most blockchain tech also facilitates defacto central authorities.
Same problem as all biometrics. Data about you makes for a bad password. It can make an ok username tho.
One the best parts of RSS is you can read a blog in your preferred typographical style instead of, for example, white text on a black background.
It seems to work well enough in nextdoor interestingly- but the circles are location based
PS I think this would be a great open-source standalone tool as well.
hnrss is great. This is what most news sites get wrong, they might have RSS, but it gives you every new article and that can be over a hundred per day. And then they eventually conclude that no uses it and thus RSS is bad, when it's just their thresholdless implementation that's bad.
> the first sentence gets downvoted.

Pretty sure that's because it's a mix of unsubstantiated, controversial, and incoherent.
The sites I followed have become bookmarks :(
there is also BLINK by Facebook

https://github.com/facebookresearch/BLINK
I was about to agree, but then I realized it's not immediate that Set Theory has practical applications either.

However, Set Theory is essential to build mathematics.

Taking points from: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/10334/what-practical-appl...

Analysis, Number theory, most of modern mathematics rely on set theory, even computer science in the definition of Turing machines and dealing with infinities there are implicit axioms of set theory.

Likewise, perhaps category theory may not yield immediate applications, but it can be useful as a language (like a programming language, natural or mathematical) to express mathematical ideas, and to build mathematical systems and foundations.

I'm not sure how closely it relates to Category theory, but Homotopy Type Theory has yielded the fantastic Univalent foundations, a seemingly more modern and simple foundation for mathematics. This line of work also yielded a solid basis for Proof assistants.

I don't know enough about functional programming to comment...
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