skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've taught a stripped down emacs/org-mode to my partner to manage a hand-crafted meatspace recipe book. Their only "computing" otherwise is done on a smartphone (no laptop or desktop usage at all).

They use org-mode to give structure to the document and then export to HTML with and embedded .css I made with appropriate styles added. This .html page gets printed from Chrome and cut up / added to the recipe book.

My partner couldn't be less interested in tech/computing, but is using emacs as a tool to create a handmade art project. I dunno about weirdest, but this is my example of how emacs can be anything to all peoples.
Dynamic Range Compression
"Today the Government has far less influence over your daily life than large corporations and you employer." ... let me know when the average employer has the right to bust down your door and shove a gun in your face because you decide to grown some weed in your basement.
And if your politics do not agree with Hacker News, then expect pontification about how the first amendment only applies to governments and not large corporations with massive network effects.
Being made to nibble little bites of text one at a time is a distraction. Images depicting clumsy or irrelevant metaphors of easily understood things are a distraction.
I personally would like the ability to—for example—disable logging into my password manager from outside the US. It's been a decade since I last left the country (no particular reason), and if that changes, I can change the setting before I leave.

Could an attacker use a VPN? Sure—and there are also plenty of evildoers in the US. But it's an extra barrier.

What I really don't want, however, is for my password manager (or any other service) to make these decisions for me. I will probably travel some day, and when I do, I don't want to be locked out of my account due to "unusual traffic" (yes, it is unusual for me to travel, that doesn't mean it won't happen).
You do not like their product. They do not care to engage you. Win-win! Except that you need their product and they still do not care about you as a customer.

If you are going to trash my product, I'm absolutely going to block you. If I have a say in what the company that sells that product does, I will absolutely have that company block you.
This was made in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris
“ I don't understand why many liberals defend a corporations freedom to silence speech but get angry when conservatives in the government do it. ”

Because it’s a false equivalence that has nothing to do with being “liberal”.

The government has the power of coercion. No corporation has that by law.

In general, you are conflating the right to free speech with the privilege of easy armchair dissemination of one’s speech. Simply, your right to say anything doesn’t extend to forcing the world to disseminate and listen to what you have to say. Frankly, that extension is very much 1984.

In extremis, Trump has the means to publish a newsletter and nobody is stopping him from doing it.
No need to use SVGs for an emoji favicon. Just put the emoji and a space at the beginning of your <title>.
Not only possible, it's actually required by Facebook's business model. The set of things that people actually need to buy isn't large enough to support Facebook's scale.
It is a scary proposition that an elite few media companies can control the voices that reach the public. Definitely room for abuse there. Not sure how best to address it for all parties concerned. Censorship at this point is just easier. Perhaps it always will be.
His fundraising isn't even that restricted; it goes into a super PAC that can use the money for essentially anything: legal costs, future campaigns, transfers to other politicians he likes. He can even pay himself or family or cronies a salary out of it if he wants, and maybe he'll have to do that when the Trump Organization runs into a wall because it can no longer finance its debts.
It's easy to throw these big numbers around, but do you ever stop to consider the actual cost? Let's do some back-of-the envelope calculations to help us consider the human cost of a 5B telescope.

The Median US household income is ~68,000/year[0]
The Average income tax paid by someone in the 50-75K income range is $4,600/year.[1]
The average working career is probably around 40 years.

5,000,000,000 / 4,600 / 40 = 27,173

To fund a $5B project, 27,173 people (more, actually, since this is household data) could have worked for their entire working lives, with every dime of federal income tax being spent on that one project!

I agree that the JWST is a worthwhile project, but let's not pretend that it's a bargain.

[0]https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...
[1]https://www.fool.com/taxes/how-much-does-the-average-america...
The three letter agencies may have known better, but they weren't setting wages for the country. And, as you said, "the fear propaganda was still strong". So I don't think your position can logically work if 1979 is the year things started to change for wages.
I wonder if the trigger happy cowboys who flagged this story as soon as it appeared on the front page would have done the same with any other unknown person in place of Trump.
Apple Podcasts continue to be plagued by technical issues
So I was thinking like this - if you have a data set with 200000 variables and 70,000 examples how would you find a model without using a search process? On the other hand if you have 20 variables and or if you understand which of the 200000 variables are the ones to worry about then you can build a model by hand. I guess that also statisticians are working to summarise or create insight about data while ML is working to create a prediction (although statistical models can be used to do that too).
If the government allows companies to buy all the avenues to free speech, do you really have free speech? For reference, North Korea has rights to freedom of speech and assembly. But it definitely does not mean they actually have that right.

So arguing that the façade of a private company being allowed to shut you down is somehow rational is nothing beyond absurd. If you cannot express your speech anywhere because a mob disapproves, you don't have freedom of speech. Freedom of Speech is not "Freedom to only listen to the things I want to hear." Otherwise there is no free speech, just what is culturally acceptable.
According to the budget table, when the project started in 1997, the budget plan was 500 million. Today its close to 10 billion.
For me, using Firefox on a Mac, the slides also switched instantly.
> … you need tools from convex optimization. So it doesn't feel appropriate to teach it in a standard machine learning class.

Those topics were perquisites to taking ML at the grad level when I took them. You either had to have relevant courses in your bag or convince the prof that you could handle it.
It's meant to be clicked through quickly in a live presentation, like a tv show, not the 'book page' style that most people have a harder time with absorbing. It's not a blog article.
What TOS? He posted nothing violating TOS, considering how far worse is regularly overlooked just because of political origin. ...which is the point of the suit.
If he were serious about winning, he'd have his lawyers do their homework and file a credible case in the proper courts. But his fundraising appeal went out immediately.
At first impression this seemed nice; a call to use a less capable machine for a while, which would certainly make developers more understanding of people with lesser hardware, reduce e-waste, etc.

But on closer reading, this seems instead to be, in effect, a call to migrate everthing to cloud computing, and to abandon having your own computer at all and rely completely on locked-down platform locally. That would not really be something I could get behind.
I appreciate the response. I clarified the method that I am using on the comparison page, but did not want to go into too much detail because it was taking more real estate than I wanted it to.

I will extend that text by saying 1 ping is taking the average time of hitting the URL 5 times. The reason for taking 5 readings directly after each other is to filter out any network related issues and noise on the graphs.

When you see a spike in the x axis, it means that was the average latency of hitting that URL 5 times for that interval(every 10 minutes).

I am doing it every 10 minutes because I want to show the variance not only for a single region but especially across regions. If we were to take the p95 or even p99 tail latencies over say 100k clicks, WarpURL will be significantly faster.

I don't think I am being dishonest in my claim?
Facebook marketplace is such a gold mine, it's so annoying.

I had 3 pieces of lightly used Ikea furniture I wanted to get rid of. 2 weeks of craigslist with no bites. 2 hours of facebook market place and I offloaded them easy.

Completely anecdotal here, from within a small city. But people trust FB market place much more than CL for what that's worth.
Yeah, I tend to agree with you. But it doesn't stop me from understanding both perspectives, each of which at least originates from a logical place (before morphing into political soundbites that must survive in an environment that selects for emotional engagement, not logical coherence).

Personally, I continue to believe that the algorithmic newsfeed is the primary source of these problems. Perhaps that's where we can find some common ground to take a logical first step. I propose that we regulate any Newsfeed with >100m impressions per day, to require and default to a "chronological" sorting order, with any preference expiring after 30 days.
This is primarily because the US had decided that housing is going to be the primary driver of wealth for the vast majority of people.
That's quite a stretch for justifying garden-variety flamebait.

As it turns out, you're wrong on the facts as well. YC got out of China years ago. But none of that ever had anything whatsoever to do with how we moderate HN. It's much more straightforward: we don't want predictable, tedious, nasty flamewars on HN, we want the opposite.

That's literally all there is to this, even though I routinely get accused of being a secret agent, stealth activist, or some other sinister entity just for doing this silly job. The only non-obvious mechanism at work here, indeed the sole aspect that isn't brain-dead in its obviousness, is continually trying to figure out new ways to explain this to the community.
Except the contract says "we may need to update these Terms from time to time to accurately reflect our services and practices.".

Do you have the same liberty to change the terms? No. You are free to stop using the service.
I don't think you're looking at the right thing. When I load reddit.com with no ad blockers I'm seeing 1.2MB transferred over the wire for a total of 18MB of uncompressed resources.

Edit - after waiting about a minute it crept up to 5.2MB transferred for somehow the same amount of uncompressed resources.
I don't use Facebook very often, but anecdotally I've gotten a decent number of solid ads for things I've ended up buying (mainly keto-friendly foods/snacks).

I don't think I've ever bought something through a Google or reddit ad, or if I have it was a long time ago and/or with less frequency, and I use both of those much more actively than Facebook. reddit ads will sometimes capture my attention/engagement, though, whereas Google ads tend to be more like noise that I tune out.
Mac OS (speaking as a two-decade Mac user) still needs a third party tool just to expand or snap windows properly. And its accessibility options are poor.
Lol, the art of milking people has been perfected since then. You kid also won't have the same expectations as you of not paying for dlcs since that's just not the world they're gonna have grown in.

Hell, even car companies are trying their best to turn cars into a subscription service.
BSD was actually grafted into Mach early on, it wasn't something NeXT did.
Spacecraft can change their orbits. You don't fly in a straight line to get there but yes, spacecraft can pull up to it.

The delta-V for such an orbit change is exceedingly small compared to the cost of a launch.
No it’s not: the root <svg> element must exist in the http://www.w3.org/2000/svg namespace, or the file won’t be valid SVG and won’t be rendered.

Alas for my beautiful short form that won’t work after all:

<link rel=icon href=data:image/svg+xml,<svg/%3E>

I’ll just have to settle for this:

<link rel=icon href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'/>">

Note, however, that by making it a valid SVG file, the browser will render an empty favicon, rather than saying “this page has no favicon” and either leaving the space out or putting some default icon in instead. Consequently, `data:,` is almost certainly preferable.

(If you’re not sure why I worded the namespaces remark so rather than just talking about an xmlns attribute, here’s some valid SVG: <foo:svg xmlns:foo="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"/>.)
Of course the comment was dripping with it. What else is an internet one-liner like that about? Let's not ignore the obvious.
Don’t all gas stations require you to precisely match their position and velocity? Like how do you fill up your car without doing this??
Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties psychedelic pop
I had exactly the same thought.

But perhaps the author wanted to drive the point home :-)
“10 items or less” is just fine
Hi, I totally agree with you that nobody would pay for tracking their time. Infact, a lot of free tools are already available to do the same. People know when they're wasting time and often want to (because of boredom). I'm just wondering if it's possible to build tools that can help people take decisions ahead of time which changes their behaviour (maybe with a little bit of properly designed gamification). Thoughts ?
I would say "PR program" more than jobs program. NASA is the public face of the DoD/NRO spy satellite tech. Most of them are just looking back toward Earth at you and I instead of looking out into space. Compare to these programs which had over 4x the budget of JWST in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Hole

e: For example, KH-11 shares parts with the Hubble Space Telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen

'KH-11s are believed to resemble the Hubble Space Telescope in size and shape, as the satellites were shipped in similar containers. Their length is believed to be 19.5 meters, with a diameter of up to 3 meters.[5][23] A NASA history of the Hubble,[24] in discussing the reasons for switching from a 3-meter main mirror to a 2.4-meter design, states: "In addition, changing to a 2.4-meter mirror would lessen fabrication costs by using manufacturing technologies developed for military spy satellites.'

Notice how that says KH-11s, plural.
I just checked. I had ~200 spams in my folder (they dump those older than 30 days). That's down from tens of thousands in the past. I doubt that people have stopped spamming; I think they're just dropping the really hyper-obvious ones (e.g. with viruses).

Of that ~200, exactly 1 was incorrect -- an automated out-of-office email in response to a MailChimp mass email. That's not spam; it's just boring.

There were several dozen messages from the Red Cross that shouldn't be spam, but I've unsubscribed numerous times and still get them. (They even say "you've already unsubscribed".) So I finally started marking them as spam.

I think I may have received one or two false negatives in my inbox in that past month, but overall they seem to be doing a really good job.

I dunno why my experience is so different from yours. This is a very old email address which must be in every spammer's database by now.
Hi thanks for your sharing your usage! I'm very interested in doing this. I tried to use a sqlite database (using dbrowser gui) to handle my resources for my researching. But I'm not a programmer so I struggled to learn SQL.

Couple questions:

How do you handle mistyping the wrong tag? Is there something you use that could lint mistakes?

Is there a way to show all the tags that's available or you've used? Like grepping to show all the unique tags, but in emacs.

How do you handle stale links (links you no longer visit)? Delete them, move them, mark them stale or something?

If you wanted to see everything related to say tag1, tag2, keyword1, and keyword2, is there some way to like "grab" all those links and view them in a separate buffer? I guess it's more like filtering and reactively changing the list to show you what you want.
Why Does My Cat Bite Me?
You need to preface comments like this with:

"If everyone had the same job as I do.."

Try and tell your doctor, waitress, or mechanic that their workplace doesn't respect them for making them come into the office, and wait for your common sense to kick in.
Even if we kept national politics partisan which I'm personally against for a number of reasons, the petty squabbles and power plays of Westminster are utterly irrelevant to the functions of local government and should play no part in its selection.

Non-partisan democracies do exist, some of them are even directly associated with the UK such as the Falkland Islands and the Isle of Man which are roughly the size of a British parish and a council respectively.
That isn't housing prices being sticky, that is house prices following supply and demand.
Speak for yourself, but some of us don't have social media.
But that puts us back where we started:

FB, et. al., will argue that they are blocking unwanted messages based on reasonable analytics. So we will continue to see exactly the same type of feed curation as today.

The only difference (maybe) is that a platform (probably) can't just wholesale ban a particular person... but I bet that even the phone company is allowed to ban a person is deemed to be sufficiently abusive or harassing.

The fundamental problem is that there is a vocal minority who really, really don't want to believe that they are the vocal minority who everyone else wants to ignore. There isn't some magic set of laws and regulations you can create to force the silent majority to listen to you when they think you're dumb and annoying.

The first amendment grants you the right to speak and the right for people (who wish to) to listen, but it doesn't grant you the right to an audience for your speech.
Hi!

Yann, co-founder at Koyeb, here.

Yes, we considered Consul as a service mesh but found that it was too strongly coupled with the network and task layer of Nomad.
We were looking for something highly customizable which wouldn't get into the way.

Also, the multi-tenancy features are paid features, which might have been difficult to sustain economically for us.
I wish that was a moto.
Adjusted for inflation it'd be about $2.5 billion this year. So it's almost exactly 2x.
It was cheap internet flamebait that guaranteed a degraded discussion. If people have substantive comments to make about such things, they need to clear a much higher bar.

Moreover they need to do it in a way that avoids generic tangents, and the GP was a classic generic tangent, sucking the thread into the nearest black hole:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Only tangentially related, but is social media a net positive for society? An argument could be made for any of those things you named alongside it which have now become modern essentials, but does social media belong in that list? Instead of democratizing access to social media maybe the answer is to cut off the tentacles these firms use to maintain their grip over our society?
There are countries where mobile phone operators will give you free Facebook Messenger/Instagram (sometimes WhatsApp), but not Telegram or Signal...making the use of a Facebook product practically mandatory if you want to connect with certain people.

Saw numerous banners when I visited the Philippines, here's an example: https://smart.com.ph/About/newsroom/full-news/2019/11/08/sma...
Amazon on AWS: Seamlessly integrating physical and emerging digital technologies
Tristan Harris, the author of this presentation, wound up leaving the company.

I guess it didn't work.
The original budget was a guess. They didn't know how much the telescope would cost because the required technology didn't actually exist at the start of the budgeting process 24 years ago.

Now that technology does exist, and it turns out it's quite expensive, which drove most of the cost increases. However, since then the budget increases have generally paced with inflation.

Source: your citation.
oh, I didn't expect you to have experience with them. kudos and shimmy. I know that there are plenty in greenhouses, but not having grown them I have been under the impression their fungal relationships are so misunderstood that there must not be many varieties in circulation. I know most are endangered in my area in the appalachias. If you'd ever like to grow an odd one and need help finding mycorrhizal fungi or substrate I could probably help. Orchids and and fungi together are akin to sophonophores in my mind, floating around the woods like a man of war waiting to sting the right tree.
It seems like this is a leaked internal presentation from Google, not meant for public consumption.

That's what I take away from "Google Confidential and Proprietary" in the bottom right.

Some more context over what this is and who wrote it would be immensely valuable.

Edit- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27764579
Understanding handwriting at the same level as a human requires a general AI, as handwriting is usually so sloppy that it is impossible to tell what is actually written and you have to use context to decipher what it probably said.
I was willing to believe that Trump had labeled Pence a traitor on Twitter, but couldn't find the tweet. The nearest one seems to be:

"Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021"

That one is hardly friendly to Pence, but stops far short of branding him a "traitor".

Or was there one I missed?
> Or do commenters here actually believe that npm audit should treat a DoS of a development machine as a non-vulnerability?

I believe that npm audit should treat a DoS of a development machine by a trusted developer as a non-vulnerability. "Code I (or a fellow committer) wrote uses a lot of CPU" isn't a vulnerability. If I care to prevent this, I should run said code within a cgroup with limited resources, not panic about theoretical expense in one part of the codebase while necessarily allowing arbitrary execution elsewhere. "npm audit" is crying wolf, just as the author said.

I like the proposal [1] near the end: "If I own an npm package I need to be able to tag a certain transitive vulnerability category as not affecting my usage of that transitive package." This is particularly important for npm given things like create-react-app but would also be a good idea for "cargo audit" and such.

[1] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1412380714012594178
I wasn't aware that '<<' is a shell directive. That often happens when I mindlessly copy code snippets from somewhere else.

https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html