skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, that’s cool, but maybe a bit problematic if the language of the license means they’re all in violation of it.

I understand from your perspective this whole discussion probably looks silly, because you know what’s in your mind.

There are just too many stories of this blowing up in someone’s face (mostly due to legal, not due to actual enforcement) :/
Hello fellow New Englander! Do you know what produces NH’s energy? I believe in MA it’s mostly natural gas, though solar is growing (I’ve got solar on my roof and my electric bills have been in the single digits all summer).
>"The realm of free software is home to surveillance by the network" - what does that actually mean?

Easy! Let's look at the words one by one:

* "The network", implied being the only one relevant to the reader, must therefore be The Internet

* "surveillance" means "observation", "looking at things", in the most general sense. How can The Internet look at things? The computers don't have agency; so we must revise "The Internet" to mean the people on the internet. Which is, for all intents and purposes, everyone.

* "Realm" means kingdom. In common usage, "Realm of..." means "everything relating to/comprising/surrounding ...". So "realm of free software" is just, well, free software and how it's used.

* Being "home to" something means that something is always there when we talk about concepts that lack agency, like the ability of people to look at things. "A is home to B" means that B is inherently a part of A.

So, putting it all together, we have:

>People knowing exactly what you make and how it's used is a part of making and using free software.

Or, to say it less clumsily:

>When you make free software, everyone can see how they're made and used

Simplifying further to:

>Anyone can see how free software is made and used

...which is, of course, the entire point. Duh.

Anyone; there you go, you're welcome!

PS: speech like that is exactly what Orwell wrote against back in the day[1]. You will enjoy reading it.

[1]https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Nice. Is there an easy way to download it all? (beyond scripting one)
Similarly, it took a few months of learning to read Haskell before I felt comfortable writing more than just a couple lines.

I like the idea of code reviews in an interview though! Seeing how someone approaches a new code base would be a really pragmatic way to evaluate them. Having them make a targeted change to a smallish unfamiliar program would be informative as well.
I'm curious what the author thinks about the navy seals. Would they be successful taking his approach? I don't think so.

I think some people respond to the lovey-dovey caring approach that he takes and others respond better to the strong, aggressive approach that the navy seals, and his coworker take.

My biggest criticism of the author is that he makes a strong moral judgment that his way is the right way and any other way is wrong. For example, he paints his fellow teacher as an evil person who abuses her students.

I'd even go so far as saying this encapsulates one of the reasons we are so politically polarized these days. I think the left has a tendency to act like this guy and the right wingers get sick of people thinking they're evil.
Did anyone else here ever use/would recall a Windows XP district called ‘TinyXP’, which would run under some similarly phenomenal specs?

I spent years using that; especially in VM’s!

In the early days of Intel Macs, I used TinyXP almost exclusively in Parallels. :)
The jig aligns two axes! The jig is placed at a specific tooth (x) with a known Y offset. By placing the pen in the hole on the jig, both x & y are resolved
"My disdain for web browsers is well documented1."

Ha, I am not the only one.

I do like links though, somewhere around 2.3pre2, with stunnel or haproxy for up-to-date TLS.

Someone submitted an "improved" version of linenoise the other day, which added UTF-8 and ANSI codes by default.

But I prefer to avoid Unicode in the console (cf. terminal, I do not use a graphics layer plus emulator).

This is an example of enforcing developer preferences on the user where the result is added complexity. Perhaps nowhere is this added complexity more evident (obvious) than in the "modern" web browser and websites.

Links does not try to enforce its authors preferences too much on the user; for example, it has compile time options to disable utf8, ipv6 and getaddrinfo. The user makes the choice, not the developer.

The fundamental problem with "web development" is that its extremely aggressive in enforcing the developers (or web development cargo cult) preferences on the user.

Anyone remember that period where many commercial sites were a hollow shell that loaded a Flash animation. Perhaps a precursor to todays "SWAs". Funny, the Flash idea didnt last long. It died out long before browsers stop supporting Flash. These "trends in web development" are tiring and annoying.

Gemini doesnt allow for that level of "creativity". The focus is shifted to the information, not the presentation. The user comes first. The protocol may refelect the authors preferences but the result is reduced complexity.

Great project.
I think, if we want to leave out the question mark, we have to switch to an indirect quote (reported speech):

> He asked me what time it is, and ....

Now we have an embedded wh-clause, not an embedded quote. Embedded wh-clauses are not questions.

(One piece of evidence: subject and auxiliary are not inverted, appearing as it is rather than is it.)
You're comparing apples and oranges. This is not a risk, revenue, or trust discussion. The discussion was that credit card payments are not guaranteed due to chargebacks. This is a truism and has nothing to do with the percentatge of chargebacks that occur.
>You get a few thousand people that want to build a house but can't afford land,

This exists in a way. "Off the plan" apartment buildings are sold before the building is actually built. If enough people buy it, the construction goes ahead. If not, you get your money back.
Generally no. There are a couple of sites where this may occur but we quickly resolve it via the in-app rule updates.
"Build it and they will come" startup myth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UoiO51BIIo
Not a single mention of the Technocracy movement[1]: get the frak out. This one huge ass pro-*coin energy burning horseshit caltrop poison shit article, with zero respect, historical placement, or conceptualization. What a fucking shitshow of an article. Shame on this crap.

AND ALSO: technocracy now! "Technocracy Now!" (Chromium & Vermillion!)

One of the random core ideas of technocracy, amid others, was to make energy a primary currency. Far more than imperial vs metric, I think this would be an ultra-interesting way to re-perspectivize society to have a more real appreciation & comprehension of what underpins the world. Those bricks? 17.4 kWh each. Those wood timers? 23.1 kWh each? (numbers made up.) That taxi ride? 7.4 kWh. The idea of energy as a currency is interesting, & to me, there's a very interesting allure to universalize the idea of value with a cost of production, which is, ultimately, also 100% capturable/representable in terms of energy.

Worth pointing out, Howard Scott, a key figure in Technocracy Movement, and a key instigator of the "energy theory of value" was himself some what a dubious character, & the short collapse of the "movement" seems related to incredulity around him. None the less- particulars aside- I miss & think there's a lot of this re-perspectiving that I think our current, well set modernity lacks, that could deeply enrich our views of the world. Energy value of the world is a neat perspective. Trying to enable the technocrats, especially under a de-politicized banner- is also I think a very powerful possibility.

I guess I shouldn't be so offended. This article purports to be a full decade before the Technocracy Movement. Ford seems to have captured "energy theory of value" well before this dubious Howard Scott character. So thanks for raising this. I was unaware. I think there's a lot of not-remembered perspectives on the world that we ought try to look at, attend to. Forgive me for not being super enthused to the original-industrialist nor one of the most capital energy-wasters of modernity as core reference points for these conceptualizations. Personally I don't find bitcoin nor many other of the prevailing factors to be a strong agent of the central ideas of technocracy now, of energy theory of value. To quote part of their 1938 writings,

"There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financiers, Rackets or Racketeers."

Unlikely. But an interesting trend-ing to monitor, consider, & shape our perspectives, actions, & belief towards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
My wife recently had a snap meeting communicated after hours, saying all staff have to be in the office and present at 8:30AM no exceptions. They didn't say why, and this was a small business (~15 people).

To anyone who has been working a while, that absolutely stinks of redundancies or other tough measures that have to be discussed en masse without rumours getting ahead.

Turns out they just hired someone new without telling anyone and wanted them to get up to speed so they don't look like a clueless bunch with bad communication. Meanwhile everyone in the office is worried they'll be the one fired.
Nice work! I noticed it accurately picked out solaris and associated a few recent comments, none of which were about the operating system.

There was a fantastic HN comment[0] which actually spurred me to buy and read it. Do your queries go back far enough to pick this one up? It's an interesting example where one sentence mentioning the author alludes to an association with the title of the book in a sentence that is explicitly about the OS.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170979
> While you wait for your appointment, research your condition using any of the free, high quality medical knowledge bases on the web, and/or connect with a community of other internet users with similar afflictions to get advice/perspective.

And now not only your running nose is still there, but you are also very anguished and cannot sleep well, just because it might be the sign that you have a cancer and will die alone in terrible suffering in a few months while ruining your family with debts.
Yeh, I had actually briefly looked into after writing that comment and found the same - interesting that Paul came up with his own version of LISP to do it in.

If you wanted to remake it in a modern framework though, what stack would you personally opt for? I think Postgres or MySQL for the database is a no-brainer, but what about the quickest approach for the rest (bar of course simply cloning the repo ;) )
Microsoft has made a big deal out of this being their way forward, but the only way to logon to a Windows Server is to use a password (unless you count a Smartcard) and their answer for how this all fits together is pretty much "let's just talk about our cloud services". I don't think this aim is going to reach the majority of organisations any time soon.
It sounds like they're saying these would be living biological cells, so it'd be powered by you.

Gotta be honest though, that kind of creeps me out. As much as I do understand that not everything living in my body is me, the idea of implanting other living cells is kind of disgusting on a fundamental level.
"Are you really not aware that when people are mentioning Texas' easy regulation many times they are literally often talking about zoning?"

Source? The ones I have seen say "business-friendly regulations". They also mention companies moving their headquarters to the state, which means taking advantage of incorporating there, which extends to out of state worker, for which zoning does not apply.

The cheaper housing is why many individuals are moving to TX.

"They can accommodate plenty of housing fine."

If the infrastructure is only set up for single family homes and the land is covered in them, then you would need massive infrastructure updates which the cities can't afford, and you would also have to demolish many existing homes to make room - what a waste.

"No there is no circular logic here. As I already noted the larger burden of the cost of housing comes from zoning restricting the amount of buildable land."

Do you have an economics background? Can you explain how the labor cost suddenly decreases as the demand for labor increase and their costs stay the same?

"... and find the "too many dense already" line of logic ludicrous."

My position is more nuanced than that. It seems you've already made up your mind and dont care to explore my position. Good luck.
I grew up in West Virginia. I'm not going back to 'the south'; people there would slash someone's tires if they found out they're gay. In contradiction to the history of the state, confederate flags fly over every half dozen trailer parks on the 30 mile one-way trip to Walmart (the only supermarket). Multiple bomb and shooter threats every semester at a school with 900 students. My high school graduating class had 1 non-white student to give you an idea of the cultural diversity your child might be exposed to. The jobs are leaving and not coming back. I personally know someone who died of prescription opioid abuse. Would you want to raise a family there?

(By the way, the county where I grew up is considered 'progressive' due to its proximity to the NOVA area)
‘Staggering’: New Research Shows That Child Obesity Has Soared During Pandemic
(2017, at least, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886333)
Right but my point still stands.

Even if you look at the trust chain:

They would’ve signed intermediate certs along the way.

The intermediate certs would’ve had Expirations before this month

Certs signed with the intermediates would’ve expired sooner too.

They would’ve stopped signing Intermediate certs for this a few years ago.

So what’s the actual risk here? Are there certs out there that have this Cert as a root, with expirations past the lifetime of this root cert? How would that have even been allowed?
I think my younger self’s quip was indirectly a reference to Wall’s list of virtues. That said, it’s ambiguous (to me) whether working to avoid work satisfies the first cited definition. It’s simultaneously lazy and non-lazy.

Of course that dichotomy is applied frequently in programming. It could easily be described as “redefining the problem”.

But in my early programming experience it was trading time dedicated to education and hacking in exchange for avoiding manual effort. I learned to programmatically access MP3 metadata so I could update my blog when I posted new songs I recorded, rather than typing out the information directly. That’s literally why I became a programmer, because I got tired of typing some stuff twice (as I had already typed it in iTunes when converting to MP3).

That certainly feels more like what I colloquially understand laziness to mean, than the cleverer reinterpretation used by Wall to describe what I understand as work substitution in programming as a non-novice.
Why downvote without comments?
Vgpnn: Diverse Generation from a Single Video Made Possible
I don't think anyone here suggests a global delivery stoppage...
I feel like the levels of abstraction people use to make common sense improvements sound bad is extraordinary.

It isn't Ring's fault that domestic violence is messy and sometimes even video isn't enough to settle disputes when looked at by a third-party. The same argument against Ring (aka often times they don't lead to arrests) could be used for getting rid of motion detectors, calls to the police, or witness testimony altogether. If the standard is perfection then nothing is helpful (including costly social services calls which seems to be the subtext) but its clear a patchwork can be helpful.
People are still finding bugs which existed in XP.

Ones which existed only in XP and not later? I doubt it. On the other hand, as for the bugs which exist only in the later versions...

Sure, except that the vast majority of malware doesn't come from a remote attack.

...then where does it come from? Don't say "users installing it", because that's nothing more than an authoritarian excuse to take away freedom --- and as the saying goes, "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
I'd say it's misleading to say viruses reproduce asexually. Viruses are produced by infected cells.

If the cell is infected by multiple viruses, sometimes there's crossover where the instructions for one get mixed with the instructions for another. So, yes, multiple mutations can end up being combined of they infect a single individual.

It actually doesn't even have to be the same virus. This is how many zoonotic diseases develop -- take a piece of a virus that can attack humans and combine it with a different virus that doesn't attack humans.
I wouldn’t say all of the 26-49 are screwed. A portion of those folks might be choosing not to pay for healthcare. They may be screwed if they get sick, but in general, if you opt out of paying intentionally and don’t get sick…you kind of “win”.

My biggest issue with the ACA was that it really didn’t fix the 26-49% and in many ways by mandating people buy insurance, especially young families making less than around $75k a year. made things worse.
The next person to read that isn't going to say "Wow this is so clever." They are going to say "Wow this guy didn't know about booleans."
> Why should I use Windows, when Linux is catching up and not using these horrific anti-patterns?

Don't worry about choosing, little by little the Linux ecosystem (distros, applications) is/will be catching up with these horrific anti-patterns too. After all, it is now in the hands of the same type of guys, who apply the same reasoning (1. how could I improve my piece of software if I don't put telemetry everywhere? 2. Security! Security! Security! Please let me auto-update 3 times a weeks, put a camera in your house, oh and by the way, give me your car keys, it's for your own good.)
U.S. Copyright Holders Want Tougher Anti-Piracy Measures in China
I don't quite get this... it sounds like the author mostly has issues with the HTML part of the web, but much of this seems to focus on the HTTP part.... why not keep http and just make a replacement for HTML? Writing an http server is very simple, too
> - Reduce stress.

That's nice, but hardly actionable in my experience. If stress were that easy to reduce why wouldn't someone have already done it?
Religion isn’t the answer, it’s a space for the question.
I don't think I'm understanding your threat model. It feels like you are waving away the trust chain required to obtain and execute trusted ROM programmer software. How can you verify that the software you are running is the same as the software that others checked?

But suppose I grant that the ROM programmer software is trusted. I still don't see how that sidesteps the problem of needing to trust the OS environment. Once your assembler is running, how will it get its input and write its output? How will you obtain the output of the the assembler and run it in a subsequent step? How will that subsequent program get its input and write its output?
> Laziness is the quality of not being willing to work or use any effort

That’s a description but for all the explanatory power it has, it may as well say “laziness is when you don’t have God with you”.

“I’m not going to pay you tomorrow”

“Then I’m unwillingly to work”

“Being unwilling to work is laziness”.

Or

“Why can’t you get moving on that project?”

“I don’t know”

“Then you must be Godless. Next!”

Calling someone lazy is a lazy dismissive non-explanation.
Exactly!

This is the author's book, Laziness Does Not Exist - https://smile.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1982140100 . The author has a gimmick they are milking.
Edit: Just noticed you said funcs and not func results

This isn't really true, since they'll still capture their closures and will definitely be able to reference other constructs like classes, etc
Recent and related:

OpenSSL 3.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443714 - Sept 2021 (54 comments)
Superhuman Email – Turn Chaos into Calm
How was your experience with them? Mine wasn't too great a few years ago - I switched, everything was great, had that nice fuzzy feeling inside that I'm using a pro-freedom/anti-censorship DNS, until a couple of months later when the DNS server just stopped responding. Surely I must've simply been unlucky I thought, so I switched to another instance but the same thing happened a few months later.

I love the idea in principle but it didn't seem to work for me in reality.
Having provoked you so with a daring headline, the author’s ploy is to draw you into their actual writing, in which they will explain the nuances of their arguments. If you cannot be bothered to move past the headlines, you’ll just be provoked. If you’ve read all the text and are still not convinced, you’re entitled to your opinion.
Writing an http client, on the other hand, is rather complex.
"It's as simple and painless as letting us record the unique biometric markers in your right hand or forehead, and then you're on your way to enjoying the global economic system that you're required to use.

Just make sure you agree to the 13,000 word self-updating terms of service, and don't use our devices to express any opinions that go against the set of socially acceptable beliefs that our company expects all its employees and users to hold."
You could keep them in an encrypted disk image.
What’s something interesting to read that’s on Gemini?
> Fuck the USA health insurance system. I want everyone involved in keeping it this way, DEAD.

That’s approximately 700k people. That seems a bit like an extreme reaction, TBH.
> you are an unpleasant person to talk with

I'm glad you picked up on my tone. I'd suggest not writing pointless criticism.

Them: "Hey, we wanted to build an API!"
You: "What if you don't build an API, and just download a file? That's the same right?"
you win the internet today... pinky. but tomorrow is another day...
Well that’s the thing. You can retrospectively trace the tip back after it’s become a story. But before then, you can’t really tell signal from the noise.
Here are the major past threads. Others?

Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27490769 - June 2021 (193 comments)

Gemini Space - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26670464 - April 2021 (27 comments)

Agate, a simple Gemini server written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401158 - March 2021 (34 comments)

Beyond the Web: Gopher, Gemini, and the Rise of the Small Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26359454 - March 2021 (5 comments)

gemini:// space - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986378 - Feb 2021 (170 comments)

The Tragedy of Gemini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807633 - Jan 2021 (28 comments)

Hacker News over Gemini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225810 - Nov 2020 (21 comments)

Show HN: Taurus – A Concurrent Gemini Server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045130 - Nov 2020 (5 comments)

A Gopher View of Gemini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005307 - Nov 2020 (9 comments)

A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730408 - July 2020 (347 comments)

Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23161922 - May 2020 (75 comments)

Gemini – A new, collaboratively designed internet protocol - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424 - May 2020 (62 comments)