skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They fulfill the same desire with less effort.

Most people didn't blog in order to produce great art or advance human knowledge. Those who did, they tend to still blog.

But most regular Joe bloggers just wanted to share ideas or experiences with other people, connect with them, and hear _their_ ideas and experiences. Writing a 500-word blog post was just the means to start a chat in the comments section. For them, Facebook or Twitter do it better.

I remember when Tumblr started (it didn't have a specific culture yet). Some of my blogging friends opened a Tumblr just to share links and pictures, and kept to WordPress for long-form posts. Eventually, they quickly started spending more times in link exchanging and commenting on Tumblr than on WP.
Never heard of Bochs before, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Bosch AG had an emulator for some out-of-date PC hardware config, given the breadth of components (automotive especially) they do. I've found out about much crazier things than that on HN.
Of course social media hit blogs hard on its day. I miss the times when a blogger would publish how bad her morning went, pictures of his new dog, or how great was the latest TV launch. This is basically all gone to social media.

But I also think that the coffin in the nail was given by people like myself subscribing to too many sites that provide RSS feeds. Seems like a good idea, having all that info in your newsreader, but after all The Verge, Hacker News and a few other media can dwarf any personal blogs so your reader basically is infoxicated.

The best way to discover blogs is... also reading blogs.
I used to love photo-blogs. Not just single images like IG and the like, but just random photo-blogs where the people who took the pictures share a bit of thoughts/stories behind the pictures no matter how trivial. My biggest inspiration back in the day was probably Jon Olsson before he started video blogging instead.

So I have started doing so myself and really enjoy the process of putting them together and sharing just because it is the kind of content I like to consume myself.

If any of you have good recommendations on photo-blogs then please let me know. I will sure try some of the search-engines and discovery tools shared in this thread already.

And for shameless self-promotion here is a link to where I will post going forward: https://jesperreiche.com/category/photography/
Shameless plug but I was also interested in the magic behind these mesh networking tools, so I wrote my own toy version that was very much inspired by the tools you mentioned. I blogged about it here: https://www.samlewis.me/2021/07/creating-mesh-vpn-tool-for-f...

The short answer to your question though is that the packets are sent over a secure tunnel.
Its not right or left or conservative its anti-authoritarian it makes perfect sense that "hippies" are now considered anti-vaxer. They want to decide what "drug" they inject and no gov should decide what isn't allowed and also no gov should decide whats mandated to inject. If its voluntary they likely dont care at all. The whole term "antivaxxer" is biased anyway. Most people now pushed in that group are not against vaccines they are against mandating, pushing, incentivizing, shaming etc. people into getting it especially if the gov is behind it.
These convenient Windows builds on torrent sites can be compromised with keyloggers, preconfigured remote desktop backdoors and crypto stealing packages now :(

It is interesting how the use of these underground builds are prevalent enough to be worthwhile to compromise
Wow, I'm floored by the quality of the search results.

For example, I'm a huge fan of obscure Brian Eno stories and interviews and articles.

Using the default blend for "Brian Eno", I found http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_interviews.html which is truly a labor of love and the most comprehensive list of articles (with links to them, too) I've ever seen.

Not in a hundred years would I have found this using Google.

Thank you for building this!
But how many people saw how pointless working 9-5 was when they’re making low pay that barely covers daycare? They changed their spending habits and one parent stayed home with the kids.
I believe the you have a different definition of "invented" than the author and myself.
Cloudflare vs. Other CDNs
Good for the author that they found what works for them.

I wouldn't call the article "How to use the Internet in a healthy way", though. There's no discussion on what constitutes healthy and what does not, how to tell reading from procrastination, or exploring a new topic from doomscrolling.

Knowing what the author does is pointless when we don't know anything about them. If someone says they're a programmer with ADHD, we probably face similar challenges, so they'll have my interest. If someone is a parent of 5 with their own business, I respect the hell out of them, but I won't be able to relate.

I find Nir Eyal's advice way better.
Out of curiosity, what is the evolutionary purpose of grief in your opinion?
Not according to the OAuth 2.0 RFC, which is titled "The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework": https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749
Can you reproduce this issue with other peertube instances? Also, what region are you from, and where is the failing instance located?

Distributing videos requires good connectivity so it's not a surprise a smaller instance which is not seeded by other instances elsewhere have a hard time serving you. See also: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-following-instances?id=i...
Glad to hear that! Yes, I agree with having good defaults and orienting the program toward finding them first; I understood that this part from the article referred to this.

The thing is I'm a firm believer in putting the user at the centre of decision-making in automated processes, especially in AI tools that combine multiple sources of data without a clear of model of how they arrive to their solutions.

Too often these process provide their result as a foregone conclusion, and leave the user helpless if it is not the right one. By providing hints on how the process has arrived at that outcome, the user can form a mental model of how it works and learn how to use it more efficiently, or for which situations it is not suitable.
That’s not comparable. As I said, most businesses believe they offer a good product. Claiming ‘it’s the best in town’, when that’s clearly only your own biased opinion, is hardly deceitful.

Making a letter look like it was personally handwritten by a human when it wasn’t is a lie. It is intended to convey an idea that is not true: that you have been personally chosen to receive this offer, that a person has devoted time to getting in touch with you, that this offer is probably not being sent to everybody and therefore you may have been specially selected to receive the offer, because a human being chose you.

The equivalent is a restaurant using pictures of a kitchen making pizzas from fresh ingredients in their menu, but actually serving microwaved frozen slices. Sure, they never actually said they were selling fresh pizza, but… they knew what their customers would be thinking.
Brain scans of Black women who experience racism show trauma-like effects
There's medium. But medium is a horrible mess. There's Dev.to which is at least usable and something I will visit.

There's a couple of problems with blogs.

- Sometimes I only want to subscribe to an author's certain topics

- There's still no good RSS reader; I use feedly, but its load-time puts me off it big time (I've tried plenty of others)

- The tendency to sign up for walled garden platforms rather than platforms, or simply use normal websites, that federate well

- The practical death of web rings for discoverability

I've been thinking about the last point more: I don't really want to submit to a search engine's algorithm; I want someone's curated recommendations.

Once I've have those curated recommendations I want something that lets me aggregate and interact.
> I have only tested this with Windows 98se.

Win98SE the last windows i actually enjoyed using and believed it was an improvement over the its predecessor.

Nowadays im afraid to run modern windows without a VM and a firewall.
EDIT: I am watching the video now, and made my comment below before I started watching the video. I realize now that my comment is somewhat outside the scope of the video itself, but I'll leave the comment up anyway, because I think it reveals a similar conclusion as the video.

I'll take a stab at what seems to me to be an insurmountable problem for AI: vision. And not just vision, but "seeing". Pretend I am standing next to a table, and the AI successfully identifies me, and identifies a table next to me (which, in itself, is a very difficult, if not impossible, thing for AI to do right now). Now, let's say I sit on the table. Now, we ask the AI, "Am I sitting on a table, or sitting on a chair?"

Further to the point (and a less "human" scenario): Musk has been attempting for years to make a lights-out facility for building cars. As of yet, there are still many things that a robot cannot do, or a human can do faster and more reliably, in spite of throwing billions of dollars and millions of work-hours at the problem. Another example: shoe manufacturing robots. Another example: brick laying robots. Another example: pipe welding robots. None of those can even come close the a human's ability to adapt on the fly to small variations, or to learn new behaviors. AI sees the world in a very low-resolution way, and humans are generally unaware of how much "constructing of the world" our brains do compared to the input data it receives from our senses. Replicating this is going to take more than a GPT3, for example.
Think about it from the context of a virtual machine. To the virtual machine, it doesn’t know it’s not a real computer. But, under some circumstances, it is possible for the VM to escape and affect the world outside its universe (ROWHAMMER). Why wouldn’t there be a ROWHAMMER for the universe?
I think you should probably make sense of the criticism being levied at you, even if it appears at first off base. I had basically the same thought as the guy referencing Moloch, although I generally avoid the impulse to moralize to others about their life choices.
Lithuania: Sylla, Murauskas, Canka, Doualla – Bonga
Having spent time in Singapore, plenty of crime never makes the news. Talk to some of the folks who do their National Service with the SPF.

But yes, it’s definitely a low crime jurisdiction but I don’t think enforcement has that much to do with it.
One use-case I’ve seen for MAC VLANs is specialized audio transmission (AES67 maybe?) where data is sent over multicast.

Never really fully understood how it worked, but when developers wanted those applications to be hosted in containers, there was a lot of talk about MAC VLANs :-)
It's rare for me to be hungry at all until I've been awake for some 2-3 hours. I imagine it might be something similar.
Several UK domestic energy suppliers are now on the verge of bankruptcy it seems, and seeking emergency loans from the government.

At this time of year almost all of their customers will be many hundreds of pounds in credit with them. That money is supposed to be protected, but still it's a bit of a worry.
> This "delivering medicine in inaccessible spots" is simply not true. We can already deliver Coca-Cola everywhere on Earth reliably.

Your comment is so profoundly wrong, and yet so confidently written. You're comparing Coke, a long-shelf-life mass market product, with (often) emergency/low-latency delivery of products which would be impractical to stockpile in every remote village, even if they could affort it (e.g. certain types of medicine and consumable medical products, blood, etc.)

Coke doesn't need low-latency delivery - they can use high-bandwidth + warehousing. This isn't possible/practical for some types of products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_drone#Healthcare_deli...
Once raven get more experience, it will no more like splashdown coffee.
You can't compare 1/3rd of all plants being down with the volatility of wind power.

On November 3, 2015, German wind power generated only 0.2 GW. Its power rating at that time was over 40 GW. How do you want to compensate for that?
Jihadism in Africa is an issue for Europe and the West as a whole so others can be involved.

No-one is going to help you preserve your own territory, quite the opposite. National territory is always a vital interest.
"Safety" in a city is an outcome of a very large number of interconnected factors. It is not under the control of any one mayor or police commissioner. More importantly, perception plays a large role in how people judge the safety a city or a neighborhood.

"Safe" is also very hard to define. Safe for who? Safe in what sense? It's a giant grey area and no one has ever been able to "solve" the crime problem. Getting tough on crime doesn't work, nor does endless social programs, nor does sweeping it under the rug.

Hopefully Adams will take a pragmatic approach and do what he can without making it worse. I wish him well.
Zipline is delivering blood to 25 hospitals and clinics across[Rwanda] every day. Zipline is betting that transporting lifesaving medical supplies, which are often lightweight and urgently needed, will be the killer app for delivery drones.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-the-air-with-ziplines-medical-d...
Just to resgister an account? Is this a new change? It's the first I hear of it, and I have family members with GMail accounts who were <18 only few years ago.
The usual explanations for the prior crime wave were exogenous—crack cocaine and leaded gasoline are the two I’ve seen most frequently.

On the other hand, this latest round seems to be the result of poor policy choices.
Well, you're in luck. Wordpress powers 42% of the Web!

I'm sure much of that is blogs, right?
Oh yeah, just checked it out. I thought it would just do the "Watch later" action. From the subscriptions tab, it is easier to do this now.
Unfortunately, this is the honest answer. The best bikelocks in the world can be cut with a $100 cordless angle grinder and $20 carbide blade. I watched the CCTV footage of the thief walk up with a Dewalt multitool and hack through my $50 U-lock in 30 seconds.

The same technology that can propel a Tesla to 100km/h in under 5 secs is also the same technology in new cordless powertools. And the theives steal those too!

Your only real defense is for them to have something better to steal. Make your bike uglier!
sounds like the old tilt sensor from arcade games could be useful? start blasting an alarm if the rider is not around and the bike shakes
The Psychology of Betting Big and Losing It All
Why don't you consider them advantages?
There are a couple ways to approach it in Common Lisp, probably a few more than I have here.

One, optional and keyword arguments can have defaults.

(defun calc-formula (ia ib &optional (gain t))
...)

Two, you could use a dynamic variable and a closure. Outside the body of the let the gain var returns t, within the body of the let it returns nil.

(defvar *gain-enabled* t)

(defun calc-with-gain (ia ib)
...)

(let ((*gain-enabled* nil))
(defun calc-without-gain (ia ib)
...))
Complete nonsense. If you voluntarily agree to not leak secrets and do so anyway its not protected under free speech. You also dont get jailed for speech but for the act of breaching some agreement or other law.
If the market operated more efficiently, everyone would benefit. The question is, would it be more efficient?

I can imagine some kind of federated system where restaurants put out a contract in response to a customer order, workers bid on it. Maybe there's even blockchain based reviews.

It seems that efficiently connecting buyers and sellers in the delivery labor market, without an middle party to collect huge fees, would be beneficial to everyone.
Something big just hit Jupiter
"You are a mini-tyrant in training"

He is tyranically fighting parental tyrany? How ironic.

For every happy hamily I know one that's fucked up.
Once you are 18, you are free to escape abusive parents, and that often means you loose their financial support. Sometimes thats what you have to do
And still there is a way to reliably reach even the remotest areas where people live. Getting medicine there can, at least to a degree, piggy bag on that.

Unless it is a AI powered blockchain drone, that would be unbeatable!
My goto to tool to get WindowsXP down to ~100MB (drivers mostly):
https://www.nliteos.com/
The fallacy is that there are other ways of society to “subsidize” the research, e.g. via taxes. There is no need for the yuppie and the coffee.
Evolution of offline information networks:

Printing press -> Radio -> Television

Evolution of online information networks:

Blogs -> Podcasts -> Videos

What is interesting is that:

1. Podcasts > Videos since they can be consumed in more places than Videos

2. People love and consume long forms podcasts (>1 hour)
I really don't think it's a great idea to be "compatible" with a commercial product that has no link with the project: it can change at any time and break things.
I applaud your adroitness at self-deprecation, but I think it's pretty implicit in your comments that you hold yourself above other people, or else you logically should be simply imitating their views:

> I think you're giving the humans far too much credit. Some humans, and most larval humans, are capable of doing that kind of thing. Most of them just imitate. After puberty, almost all of them just repeat their previously acquired behaviors except when imitating. Instead of reasoning, they just rehearse past memories and fictional scenarios, unable to distinguish reality from fiction. Most of them can't remember what they ate for lunch yesterday or the license plate of the car that passed two minutes ago. They engage in complex verbal behavior that's ultimately incoherent, to the point that often even severe senile dementia in a human goes undiagnosed until its victim is in a new situation where their previous mindless habits no longer apply.
> There is no beautiful syntax for destructuring all that stuff with default values, unfortunately.

Actually there is one: records with default values.

https://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/records.html
Onslaught games were enough fun to finally tempt our group out of Quake games.

One dude was utterly unable to run the vehicles, and then after a couple weeks he shows up one day and he can drive! Everyone comments on it and then after a couple games he confesses: he's recruited his 11yo son to play for him when called on to drive.

They played as a father and son team most of the rest of games we had. Much more effective than just Dad alone. Never did talk him into getting the kid his own computer; Mom wasn't happy about letting the kid on that long, he was supposed to be concentrating on TV like a normal boy.
I’ve got one topic that gets a lot of referral traffic, and then people follow the other more rambling personal stories. Twitter and YouTube drive a lot of traffic too.
What about copy pasting functions and make variants? With a hint in the name about what the variant does?
Copy pasting and modifying seems like a safe low effort working solution.
Is this considered bad practice?
You can have a GPS unit installed in the frame, e.g. from PowUnity.

That won’t stop anyone stealing it, but it should vastly increase the chances of recovery.
Original story here - https://theconversation.com/brain-scans-of-black-women-who-e...
Yes - and all the people the author remembers with nostalgia are probably on Twitter now, doing more or less the same thing but with worse quality overall. Twitter gets a bad rap because of the hive mind (and it deserves every bit of that reputation), but there are tons of just normal people on there talking about their lives. In a way, Twitter made blogging much more accessible - most people couldn't sit down and write a 500-1000 word post, even one or two a year, but they can tweet every detail about their day, their projects, what they're thinking about and so on.

Of course, it's not the same as a blog. I think the length "requirement" of a blog made it so only people with the time, dedication and skills (or lack of self-awareness) would keep them going, so if you were reading an established blog a bit of selection bias was at play. On Twitter you can tweet garbage day in day out and still be on the platform for years. Heck, you'd probably gain a significant following.

I might be coming off as a Twitter fan or something but just to be clear: the site is cancer. It's impossible to stay on for longer than a year and not have your brain melt off by how it works, and they're becoming more and more closed and restrictive by the day. It's a shame because there's clearly something about the site that interests a mass audience, but I wish there was a service that was like Twitter but better. I know Mastodon exists but outside specific niche audiences it's never gained traction, but I hope it does take off eventually.

Maybe the same applies to Facebook/Instagram/Other major social media provider as well, but I don't have any experience with platforms outside Twitter and Reddit so I couldn't say.

Edit to expand on something: I mentioned that Twitter is interesting to mass audiences, and that's actually more important than you'd think. Speaking personally, before I went on twitter, I don't think I'd ever consistently read content posted by women. It's a natural result of being in a male-dominated industry and following male-dominated interests. On Twitter, though, because there were so many people of all walks of life I quickly followed a lot of interesting women who posted great content: women who were activists, historians, academics, homemakers and so on. That really was why I stuck around for so long on Twitter despite how awful the site is, and why I think any serious contender has to appeal to the normies, so to speak.
It will be interesting to see the uptake in the 2 to 12 age range.

It’s one thing to get the vaccine yourself, especially if older and at risk.

But kids have a much lower risk of severe Covid symptoms and a much higher risk of untoward side effects or unknown long term affects.
The hope for most of the investors is to undercut the competition out of business, build customer loyalty and then hike prices as far as I can tell.

Which seems to miss that even if they succeed at doing that to the incumbents, they're then vulnerable to the next investor's subsidised business doing the same to them.
As I said, France has not been a strong ally of the UK (again, cant speak for US or Aus, but may be a similar situation there) in the past or even very recently, why you would expect differently the other way around I don't know.

Also doesn't look like this was a "breach" of contract, just a cancellation. A breach implies what was done is illegal in international law, a cancellation implies they simply went elsewhere.
Google doesn’t get enough credit for destroying the blogging ecosystem. It was a masterful stroke of evil on many levels.
Really, this is why we can’t make any progress. Because this is such a common response to anything.

Go back to when you learned your first programming language. EVERYTHING was weird. I honestly don’t understand how after that, brains solidify and think anything after their first year of learning is weird.
There are bike locks which do basically that. The only way to disarm them is to use the key, or pick them, and few thieves have the skill to do the latter.
> a society where strange people can make outsized constructive contributions even if society at large is trying to hit them with all the bullying tools it uses to make people stand in line

This is a huge generalisations: what "bulling tools" and what "strange"-ness? Social pressure can be used for bad, but it can also be used for good - it binds the fabric of society together.

There's that principle in tech of "not tolerating assholes/toxic people". How does someone strange differ (according to all opinions" from a (perceived) asshole?