skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'd like to blog and write, maybe just write for yourself, don't put any trackers on it, don't put any ads on it.

The grind culture thing comes from people trying to make money off of their blogs. So, don't do it for the money :)

If you get to a point where your hosting provider comes knocking because you're generating too much traffic, you'll have a good inflection point to determine if there's some way to get the blog to pay for its own hosting without you having to change your approach (tip services are cool for this).
Yup, a friend of mine gets his morning coffee delivered every morning. I felt like Marie Antoinette when I stayed at his house and he ordered me one ('you have a coffee machine right here! are you mad?').
Guix has integration with software heritage. Not sure about Nix.
Blogs today are just being hosted on Substack instead of Movable Type installations (circa the early 2000s) or Blogger and similar. The platforms play a game of never ending musical chairs, the winners change, the game doesn't stop.

It makes sense blogging would see an integration move, that blends up some social media, email list, blogging, etc activities (social media, images/video/sound, email lists, text blogging/writing, pick a few and blend them). It's extremely obnoxious for the average person to attempt to do all of those things separately.
> personally i'm rather glad Peertube doesn't go much further trying to recreate the whole Youtube experience where a single actor decides on what you get to see.

Yeah, like I mentioned, PeerTube is currently targeted at those attracted to the premise alone. Most people don't notice things like you did, and they're not going to interpret the apparent lack of features as a plus. If it's going to gain mass-adoption, it really needs to work on first impressions.
The Kitchen Table Strategist
"But Blogger was shut down by Google years ago"

Yet I still use it?
They created WinPE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Enviro...) for this purpose. The full Windows "desktop experience" is not that well suited for this sort of stuff anyway.
It seems to me that the problem described is less one of discoverability and more one of lack of content.
Regardless, this gave me the idea that it would be generally interesting to have authenticity unbundled from Google. If you could create a subset of Google with the honest, transparent, human blogs/posts/websites, etc then you could search from content from those sites. It could be less news aggregator and more search engine untainted by money or robots. I’m thinking opt-in domains, with a small community selecting the domains/blogs.
I’m sure this is not new. But I surely earn for a more authentic internet.
The Dublin commuter network's probably about as complex as the Bay Area one shown in the article, but the LED maps never showed the whole thing, only the specific line.
The same Virgin Media of "Posting it to you is secure, as it's illegal to open someone else's mail." infamy.... [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914?l...
My YouTube usage is as follows. Open private Brave tab (prevents lots of tracking and all ads), search for a handful of channels, watch their new stuff, repeat in a day or two.

How would invidious improve or help with that workflow? Again I already use a private Brave tab to prevent tracking and ads.
Since they mention a DNS rebinding attack, I would assume the victim visits or is redirected to attacker.com. This then has all the JS to talk to the unsecured router API endpoints. Now after a few seconds the attacker.com's IP address is switched to 192.168.0.1 (or whatever the routers default IP is) and zap: the SOP is circumvented.
I love invidious, but this:

> The only issue I've had is that it sometimes refuses to play some videos because the media cannot be loaded.

Happens to me with lots of videos — about half the videos that I try to open if I had to guess. That makes Invidious pretty much unusable for me.
There's also a book about him by the same title.
Blogs are great, and I still read a lot of blogs. Quite a few of them I learn about from this site.

But the gold is really in the commment section. There is so much quality content and so much insight that I am not worried about the development of the internet. It is still a great place to be.
No love for Windows 2000? NT kernel with the classic Windows interface. It ran pretty well on Windows 98 machines and was extremely stable.
They are generally setting automatic tickets at a low cost and only for significant infractions. I think in MD it's like $20-25 per ticket and only when doing more than 10-15mph over.

That said, I agree with the sentiment that some penalties and rules do not make sense. Even the people who run the system know it. It's just that they get to use law enforcement or prosecutorial discretion to decide who to punish and who to let go. Which I believe fundamentally undermines the rule of law and leads to biased enforcement. I guess that's one good thing about the automated system - it treats everyone the same.
They put a lock on my deposit card without any problems at all. (As far as I know it used to be that they make an authorization request, but then doesn't "clear" it.)
In Norway, where hydro powers most of the country's energy demands, consumer energy prices are now around 100-130% above July-August rates. The explanation is apparently partly milder weather, with less rainfall and less wind. The other part of the explanation is that Norway is connected to the continental grid, and is affected by higher rates in Europe.
How would that help? Wouldn't it just make the problem much worse? Instead of futilely arguing against the kind of scumbag that turned Twitter into the vile cesspool it is today and is now infesting HN, I'd become another one of them!

I may not be any smarter than you are, and I can't solve differential equations, but at least I can remain less of an asshole, and continue making helpful contributions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28592961, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591650, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28467260, or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28466492 instead of sinking this place further into chimpanzee dominance games by launching baseless calumnies at strangers as you're doing.

I mean, I do hold myself above you. But it's not because I think you're even stupider than I am, which would be quite a remarkable feat. It's because you're spending your efforts to try to hurt people and I'm spending my efforts to try to help them.
Even for those of us lucky to have a proper processes protecting us, it can still be anxiety inducing.

After all, you're still likely to have to spend time and energy to defend yourself in some capacity, and you now think your manager isn't going to (or might not) have your back, either now or if something is going to happen in the future.
pizza_with_pepperoni_and_bacon_and_mushroom()

Wow glad I took out those boolean params!
I just wonder whether ghosting will be as socially acceptable in the future as it is today.
The way I see it, it's a bit like photography, which started as an expensive hobby, then got more and more mainstream with film processing shops all over the place. Then digital photography entered, first as low quality then with rivaling quality. Anybody who wants can now take high quality pictures, and almost everyone will occasionally produce a stunning photo; yet not everyone is a photographer. And that's ok.

As the internet grew, blogging became a popular format to write long form and publish it. There was a golden window where search was still new and hadn't yet been gamified, and before the platforms providing what veidr here called quick dopamine hits[1].

Seeing blogging expand and at the same time be instantly searchable was great... but didn't last.

Eventually a whole group of users wanted the benefits of exposure of their thoughts & content, without the hassle of writing long form. And I would say, for those users, social media is indeed the perfect medium. Those who do write in long form can still do so, it's just that discoverability has somewhat taken a step back.

I contend that it's not a huge deal, as a long form fosters a more thoughtful pace instead of rewarding instant gratification. Links between blogs do help with discoverability, it just that it's an organic process that takes time. Of course, the upside is once a blog is discovered, one can easily go back and read the previous articles.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28592479
Always strange that 'cuts' often involve spending more money. I guess the size of the pile is relevant, and I get that it's offset against potential future cost/commitment.

Person X at $100k is given ... $40k to quit now, because it will save company perhaps $260k in the next 2 years. But.. that $40k is coming from somewhere now, no? Maybe some is coming from other folks cut immediately without the big pile of cash?
I do think the ability to do phone calls is waning, though.

I've made 4 phone calls this year: to a buddy, to my wife, to an old friend, and to my fax/voicemail provider (JConnect) which decided to terminate voicemail service on the phone number I've used since the 1990s. (So I may be part of the problem I am describing — that number didn't ring any device, it only accepted voice messages and faxes, which it forwarded to me via email.)

Of those 4 phone 2021 phone calls:

1.) My buddy no longer has voicemail on his phone, and a recording just told me he was not available and to try again later. (Head kinda exploded.)

2.) My wife also no longer has voicemail! How tf did that happen? No idea but it was 2 months after the above call so I was less surprised.

3.) My old friend is old-school (hence the phone call), and still does have voicemail — but it was full. I assume because he never checks it.

4.) JConnect support's touch-tone B.S. support system did disconnect me a couple of times, requiring that I call them back... but it did eventually connect me to a support rep who helped me cancel my account. But: only because they are the kind of asshole company that engages in the common-but-should-be-illegal practice of letting you sign up on the web but only cancel by phone, as a method of retaining "customers" who no longer want their product.

So n=1 sample, might not be typical, etc. but I suspect the phone is getting less universal and less reliable over time.
BBS's are most certainly not the internet. They were most often stand-alone and independent, with offline networking in the form of FidoNet ("offline" in that FidoNet boards would dial up at regular times to transmit and receive messages from other nodes).

BBS's entirely predate the Internet's general availability (although of course the Internet is older than most people realize).
This is excellent advice. I have witnessed this on several occasions, and it's always cringe-worthy to witness and harmful, if not to the recipient, then to one or more observers, who more often than not have to suffer in silence. My most benevolent interpretation is that this is just a low-effort attempt at humour, poorly judged and which has gone wrong.

It doesn't take much thought, really, to consider that the office may provide employees a welcome change of scene from their own swirling domestic situation, and to have one leak into the other like this may be quite upsetting.

I have promised myself that if/when I witness this again, I will take the opportunity to tell the manager in question that his/her remarks were damaging to their own standing, and that they would do well to apologise ASAP, be that in private or in public.

Be a leader of people and times [1], not simply a manager of issues and tasks.

[1] as in, "experiences"
Imperva are awful. they've sometimes caused us a DDoS by their mitigation techniques.
China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society [pdf]
Show HN: I can never remember the English Phonetic Alphabet
Are you a non-native English speaker?

Do you sometimes have to give information over the phone? (your very long name, your cryptic email address, a Covid Test unique reference code)

When asked about how to spell a word, does your mind go blank and you have no idea which examples to give for certain letters? (Y for ... Yoghurt? D for... Dentist? Q for ... Queen?)

Or maybe you're a native English speaker with a peculiar accent, or you have a sore throat that day, or you're just feeling lazy...

Fear not, I built this for you: https://hbi73.csb.app/

You can read the spelling out loud if you like, or just let the Web Speech API say it for you.

And it's all available on Codesandbox if you'd like to tweak it https://codesandbox.io/s/stupefied-leaf-hbi73
Not to register an account, but any video flagged as any kind of explicit, suggestive or problematic content requires age verification. There was some flack recently as YouTube was requiring age verification for LGBT+ support videos.
Linux Mint has a new website – Finally
Can you explain [1] and the implications thereof?
France won’t export their nuclear subs.

That, plus the French nuclear subs need to be refuelled, and it’s a big ask for Australia to build the infrastructure to do that. The US/UK subs never need refuelled in their service life.
So your solution is to write code that is currently hard to read in the hope that someone will make a tool that presents it nicely in 10 years?
This post has several misconceptions and mistakes:

Never any locking them out because you noticed suspicious activity or anything bogus like that and making them provide personal details. That is abuse of trust and abuse of people

This misses why companies do this: to prevent account hijacking. It sucks to be locked out of your account, but it also sucks for someone to steal it. Various companies have made mistakes here, and some amount of false positives will happen with any detection system, but going all the way to "do not protect accounts" is not going to give a better experience for users on balance.

no one is writing them because there's no platform for them

Why not https://wordpress.com, or one of the many sites that hosts WordPress?

Blogger was shut down by Google years ago

Blogger is still running: https://blogger.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

Nowadays people won't share content simply because they don't trust the internet to share content to it. You have to provide for them to be anonymous and protected forever, which means letting people create accounts easily with just an email or something similar ... They have to be able to blog without thinking someone is going to bring it up and file it away forever and maybe they won't get a job because of it, or their tyrannical government will think they're an agitator and attack them or an adversary will use it for selective characger defamation sometime.

This just isn't something that a blogging platform is going to be able to promise its users. Defending against countries is really hard, especially when your users are doing things that are (wrongly) against the law in those countries.
Is it mainly about Schiphol or other airports as well?
The Peter Principle: Promotion leads to incompetence [audio]
> It's a good thing I'll never use HSTS

Always fun when you lock yourself out of your own website for several days.
This could be a nice OS for archive.org's browser embedded PC emulator environment: https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox . Not so fun to download 45 megabytes of Windows installation to try out some piece of shareware :)
Otomi is your instant K8s-based platform for the cloud. Open-source and free
There used to be a hacked version of Windows 3.1 in the early '90s that fit on a 3.5" floppy (I think it was called Windows Lite), and it was extremely stripped down. The use case was that it could launch Write.exe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Write), which let you present formatted materials onscreen similar to Word, so it acted sort of like a light-weight alternative to PowerPoint. Anytime I had to present on someone else's machine, I would use it to ensure things would work.

(Write.exe is still present in Windows 10, and redirects to WordPad, which replaced Write.exe in Windows 95.)
We are decades away from having enough storage to make wind and power a reliable power source. There is not even technology that would scale up enough to store a country's power for weeks or at least a few days.

China just has announced ambitious plans to install storage for 100 GWh by 2030. China's electric power generation capacity is 2200 GW (in 2020). That's not even enough to provide electricity for 5 minutes....
https://diff.blog is also a pretty good discovery resource, I've found.
Just gimme a RSS news reader UI for my family, friends, and fellow geeks I follow.

Call it blogs, myspace, friend feeds, listservs, whatever.

Banning newsfeeds (algorithmic outrage machine) would probably do it. Moots most of the gamification and engagement toxicity.

Then if virality remains an issue, nerf the gamification and engagement features. Retweets, shares, likes, and other bullshit.
Have you ever attended a local government hearing in a large city? It's filled with people on the dole, affiliated with a network of taxpayer subsidized nonprofits and social agencies, all promoting far-left ideological platitudes that the local politicians parrot for their own survival. There is no chance these companies could outlobby the forces against them. Basic policing in general is virulently opposed within these circles, I hypothesize because it precludes the alternative 'solution': more social spending, ostensibly aimed at solving the "root causes" of crime, but really designed to fill the pockets of Poverty Inc.

I think as a lobbying force to counter these destructive special interests, the best chance we have is property owners. If they organize at a larger scale, they could potentially fund their own army of local lobbyists capable of matching those of the beneficiaries of the tax payer funded social programs. Home Owners Associations already have some organization, and if they pool their funds together, could be a political force to reckon with.
"Snowflake requirements" for saying that I put into a job the effort that they're willing to put into me, and no more? That's not a "snowflake requirement", that's the bare minimum of decency. What right does a job have to exploit the power differential to force you to be dependent on them in unhealthy ways?
GP getting upvoted because managers are in the minority on HN

P getting downvoted because members of historically powerful groups and genders are not in the minority on HN
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3gy8hkVMqwQ doesn't work.

https://invidious-us.kavin.rocks/watch?v=3gy8hkVMqwQ works.
> third, they like to fly at 5 or 6 in the morning where most of the car drivers sleep (side note: according to city's rule, they can't fly at that time but they just pay the fine to do so...)

"If a fine costs less than the crime pays, then it's not a penalty, it's a cost of doing business"
EFlambe: A tool for rapid profiling of Erlang and Elixir applications
100%

It also explains how a lot of the guidance looks like projection - things they wish they’d been doing themselves ahead of the virus.
The 'Similar' is in relation to how Shoemaker-Levy was broken up by Jupiter's gravity, and that this object comes from a similar process.
I feel like you completely validate my point that people aren't willing to pay for content, the original sin making alternative monetization a requirement.

You're willing to watch the content, just not pay for it.

This is why concepts like PeerTube will never attract the majority of content, because it isn't free to make it, it isn't free to show it, it's only free to consume it.
To be fair, you don’t need JS in the exploited website to do XSS.
I don't know. I get kicked from corporate VPN frequently so it's typical to re-login a couple of times for every day. I also have to figure out how to remove lock screen for MacOS because it's really annoying to do so when WFH.

Other than that I don't have much complain. Once I log in VPN there is no more logins required so I guess my case is easier.
In medium/large companies, 99.9% of employees can be fired at the end of a HR process and that HR process is something only their line manager can start.

And while transferring an inept employee to another manager might save you some paperwork, it'll make that manager an enemy (unless the employee's performance is much improved by the move). So many managers would do the paperwork.
there's a reason many municipalities have banned small gasoline engine leaf blowers. I'd be willing to bet the decibel level from a wing drone delivering coffee, two houses away, and a leaf blower might be similar.
We have a big espresso culture in Australia, so a lot of people have espresso machines at home anyway. Compared to coffee from the shops every day it's pretty cheap to buy and run a consumer espresso machine at home.

That said, part of the fun of coffee is the cafe experience; covid willing, I still go out to cafes as well. Best not to optimize all of the fun out of life.
Yes, we are building on that API. It's referenced here https://github.com/micro/services/tree/master/quran. Unfortunately we're having some issues with our readme processing and haven't yet fixed. All credit will be given where it is due.
Can we maybe have a self-promotion thread? I'm at asemic-horizon.com
Why would you write, if not for other people? Unless you are just taking notes, that is the entire point of writing: To present your thoughts or knowledge to other people.
Finally the machine from Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" is possible:-)

Joking aside I find this highly fascinating. Especially since (apart from applications like the one in Kafka's story) the results from a good printer are probably practically indistinguishable for most people. Handwriting robots are one example of a technology that became good enough and useless at the same time. They are fun though and I love to see them in action. (OK, not the Kafka one but the one one from article certainly).
China’s government intimidates individual Twitter users in Canada
Policymakers seems to be afraid to say many things that need to be said. And scientists too. How did we arrive at this moralistic dystopia? What happened to the free speech supporting left of yesteryear? Is it their kids who are now rebelling by reverting back to puritanical style censorship?

Whatever the case, simply forbidding (with implicit taboos) one side of a discussion inevitably leads to bad policy (and research). I think this sort of toxic optimism (no pessimism allowed) is closely related to the decline of the American Empire.
Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers
I don't know why you're being downvoted. You have a good point. I hate these vague accusations of "that's environmentally unsound" which get bandied around, without any evidence at all and in the full knowledge that they're as impossible to refute as they would be to prove, just because it's an unfalsifiable way of attacking something you dislike. No one ever calls them out on it either.
Oh no! Sad to hear that...I'm not sure how to fix that problem, sorry.

We use Pilot's "Varsity" fountain pen, which is certainly lower end from the 45, but easier to switch in and out.
Observability in 5 mins and top vendors
I must admit, I don’t know much about networking. But do you have some more information there? My German cable router is in modem-mode, and I’d be interested in knowing what kind of routing it still does.
A valid use case for functions with many arguments are setup/init/creation functions which sometimes take dozens of configuration options. It's definitely better to do such setup operations in a single 'atomic' function call than spreading this out over dozens of configuration functions where it isn't clear when and in what order those should be called, or a combinatorial explosion of atomic setup functions, one for each valid combination of setup options.