skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valkyrie Lists Bitcoin Futures ETF on Nasdaq
Mm, you're right, but Geocities might be less interesting to historians than an archive of all internet history.

Also, as someone who has trained a few large GPT models, I think ML has a chance of preserving a lot of this data. Training datasets are only growing larger and larger, and although those aren't updated (yet), there's no reason to think they won't last for a long time.

I imagine that in 500 years, imagenet2012 might still be around as a historical curiosity, at least somewhere.
Using Firefox or Chrome solves this problem as you don't get full quality for Netflix on them, hence there's no address collision as you resort to using Edge (or else?) for Netflix.
I'm not the person who made that claim, I'm just linking articles discussing what the claim was in reference to.
The CSS-in-React Landscape
What was your route into your first job?

I am in IT and I've been around coding since 2007 but never for work. I've gotten myself out of tutorial hell and I'm building a Java/Spring app to help some biology friends, but my resume is all IT. I can't seem to even get an interview.

I think I need a portfolio but seems to take ages.
i am very careful. i prefer any other nations products. japan, china, almost any country in europe, lots in south america. but the US has constantly disappointed. and not only recently, but throughout the decades.
The original comment said:

> Trump signed an executive order to allow people to "silence and cancel" Twitter users after Twitter added a fact check to a single Tweet of his.

Which people were allowed to silence and cancel others. The links you cite contain nothing of the sort. Rather they have to do with procedural rules around section 230.

The only actual link is the second one, from the governmental archives. Your first link is an image of Trump signing an EO against anti-semitism. Unless you're in favor of anti-semitism, I'd personally feel ashamed of posting such a thing and claiming it's bad. But... to each his own.

> My executive order calls for new regulations, under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, to make it that social media companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield. That’s a big deal. They have a shield; they can do what they want. They have a shield. They’re not going to have that shield.

My executive order further instructs the Federal Trade Commission, FTC, to prohibit social media companies from engaging in any deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce. This authority resides in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. I think you know it pretty well. Most of you know it very well. I would think you know it quite well, right?

EDIT: for those who read this later, the original commenter in his zeal to paint me out to be some ignoramus, posted this image of trump signing a purported EO on censorship that was actually one meant to combat anti-semitism. What drove him to do this... I cannot say.

https://firstamendmentwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2...
Doing stuff @ Reddit via this sort of thing.
There are very few of Trump's allies that would ever work for him, either as an employee or a contractor. They can see his modus operandi clear as day.

And yet somehow there are always suckers that he can convince to do his shit for free. Of course there is a promise of payment, but the check never arrives.
I'm currently using two laptops, both running Win 10 with local-only accounts, and I've never had to disable internet access to do so.
The weak link is the children - would you take out and read your great-grandfather's book every year? Now take it further yet and eventually it gets boring and not done anymore.
Think of plants in competition with each other. The compete for water, nutrients and light. In a forest setting, light is at a premium. A common strategy is to grow upward as fast as possible to capture light and also to shade competitors.
Yes.

Any company that tries to play games with CoL is a red flag, to be honest.

It basically mean they can't attract the best everywhere (since you know top performers are already working for SF level comp for remote companies) so good luck competing.
Ah sorry, then. Thanks for attempting to substantiate.
If competition makes stuff better, and a large company like Google can make one at "a pittance", it's worth asking -- why isn't there a privately created global satellite navigation system yet? GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO were created and are operated by state institutions.
> I watch videos often in X11 which is supposed to be impossible because of this "tearing" thing, but somehow it doesn't bother me at all.

It doesn't bother you or you don't have tearing?
Why Developing Countries Can Make the Top Covid Vaccines
Ask HN: Is it ethical to purchase Facebook ads?
A lot of recent evidence points to Facebook and other social media platforms as being addictive, divisive, misinformation-ridden, and destructive to society and democracy. I personally tend to avoid them as I don't feel they add much to my life.

I'm considering advertising a side project on Facebook. But - ad money is what fuels this particular beast, and pays the generous salaries of those keeping it running. So maybe the ethical thing is to not supply any additional dollars, however small, and bid up the value of the captive attention of their user base?

Not that my ad purchases would matter statistically, and I should be wary of getting on a high horse here. And there are many other ways to make a positive difference to the social media dilemma - better regulation, disciplined use as a user, etc.

Anyway, curious what others here think about the ethics of purchasing social media ads.
I agree price gouging laws lead directly to shortages. Take the recent toilet paper shortage. What is a more preferable outcome, not having toilet paper available or having to pay 4x as much for a roll? Because the latter is illegal we have empty shelves instead.
In my case, it is 'n' + '↓' + enter
You could say that Russian hackers are a form of privateer. Don't think that's what OP meant, though.
I'm a Neuralink alpha tester. I configured it to open an HN tab on every device when I wink my left eye.

Do I win?
In that world, military would just contract with commercial providers and use commercial GPS, same way they already spend hundreds of billions of dollars on products and services provided by private companies.
This is a detailed, depressing and really damning view of the current state of the world. Some general thoughts:

1. Some things are clearly not Linux's fault, like proper support from NVidia;

2. The decision to make device drivers part of the kernel (as modules or otherwise) is really showing itself to be a problem. Interestingly, this was one of the drivers behind Fuchsia since device drivers are a huge pain point.

3. Some of these were news to me just because I hadn't attempted to use them (eg the 10 bit color depth issues). That one's kinda sad because it doesn't seem to even require such hardware to expose those issues. Just set your color depth in xorg.conf and watch the world burn (apparently).

4. Further to (3) it seems like a lot of issues remain unresolved just because they don't affect or aren't prioritized by the devs. Possibly they might require large architectural changes. Whatever the case, this is the negative of not having central product direction. Of course there are benefits to that too but this is a list of issues;

5. The Wayland list is damning as it reads like serious architectural errors were made for something that was meant to learn from X; and

6. PulseAudio continues to be the answer to the question nobody asked.

This should be sobering to anyone this with even a modicum of objectivity because it reads like a list that will never be solved.
Maybe try Automattic if you don't mind working with WordPress, PHP and JS. 1500+ people, lots of autonomy, hiring for a lot of roles.

https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/automattic-tc1/
> Can anybody point out a better recorded example of Spector's wall of sound?

"River Deep - Mountain High" is probably the pinnacle of the wall of sound that Spector did. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Lehkou2Do) That said, you aren't going to get the clarity you're accustomed to because of the layers and layers of sound required and the fact that up until the mid 60s you were dealing with only 2-3 track recording. The Beatles didn't get access to 8 tracks until late 1968 (Sgt. Peppers was done with two 4 track machines), and 16 tracks weren't common until the early 70s. Wilson did Pet Sounds by initially recording the backing tracks on a 4 track, piping that mono mix into track one of the new 8 track console Columbia had installed, and then using the remaining channels for vocals (one channel for each member) and sweetening. I'd say the best quality recording of Spector's wall of sound is "Let it Down". (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gyk_gvuIoI)

That said, if you've listened to Pet Sounds and "Wouldn't it be nice" then you've heard the wall of sound.
I second Pop_OS. It's the first distro that "just works" for me. I installed it on my laptop(a lenovo legion with an nvidia GPU) about a month ago and I haven't had to make any system-level modifications to it. I downloaded it with NVidia drivers packaged in already and out of the box I could set display scaling to a cozy 125%. I love the window tiling, and being able to explicitly set floating windows too, which to me goes one step beyond Windows/MacOs default window management behavior. I can snap VS to the left half of the screen, a browser to the right, and set a floating window that I'm reading from(examples, code snippets, figma) on top that doesn't go away when I switch focus between VScode and the browser.

Previously I was using MacOS with an app called magnets for window snapping(something built into windows) but there still weren't any utilities that could consistently let me set floating windows ala iPadOS behavior.
I read this as magical girl interface until I finished reading the article and looked again....
> I agree, but I can tell you that a lot of my Facebook friends (who are all people I know IRL) who post pro-trans content have posted stuff calling her a TERF and/or transphobic.

I do think she is pretty blatantly transphobic. I mean she wrote a whole novel which just rehashed the old trope from Dressed to Kill to drive home the point about how dangerous she thought it was for males to be in women's spaces. That's some commitment.

> FWIW, I agree with your take on sports. but that's not what I was alluding to. I was alluding to my recent experience which is that it seems to be fast becoming socially unacceptable within large parts of the transgender movement to talk about someone's physiological sex

Maybe that's true? Thinking on my own experiences, I transitioned mtf when I was a teenager like 15 years ago and since then I've blended in and lived a pretty normal life with a husband and an adopted child, I had some uncles and stuff who would bring up physiological stuff but only as a sort of gotcha or subtle dig at me or later my husband (to make it clear to him that despite being a masculine cis man they think of him as a homo). I think it's pretty common for trans people to be gaslit with like "yeah but your chromosomes are male so you're a male" in bad faith to the point where it always looks like a dog whistle when someone brings it up.

I'm sorry you had negative experiences as a feminine man. I can obviously relate. I think it's harder for feminine men who are attracted to women since as a gay guy before I at least had a community to be kind to me.
Linux has been improving, but rather slowly in several regards. PipeWire, Wayland, and a few other core technologies move things forward for sure, but the fragmentation is always an issue. That said, the iOSification of Mac caused some significant regressions (which I believe they have now recovered from) and Windows resource consumption makes many things run better under proton emulation that on the latest systems.

The truth of the matter is, Valve and Google are the ones who have really made Linux more viable, via emulation, base components, and the availability of web apps underpinning most users' daily workflows. All systems are viable for 80+% of users.

I am glad Linux (as a wider community) is free to admit its shortcomings. Those who think this is bad for Linux's image, well I care more about having working software than effective marketing.
It's called music theory though? I agree it's a bad name, but that's what it's called..
NB updated as of two days ago, despite the 1809 title.
> Check if your hardware supports your OS before you buy it. Guess what? Then it all works great.

Not even then. I have a Ubuntu laptop direct from Dell (who has been selling Ubuntu laptops for 14 years), and every time I go to open it the battery is dead. So it's plugged in constantly. My cats love to sit on the closed lid because of how warm it is. Ostensibly it's asleep, but to the touch I can tell that it's running hot, and that's why it's dead within a few hours of being off the charger, even if it's not "on". I mean, it runs hotter sitting there idle and off than my new Surface does when it's on and compiling my Rust code. That's sad!

This is a laptop direct from a hardware manufacturer who supports Linux. This kind of thing was a problem when hibernation first became a thing. Okay, understandable. But 2+ decades later, in 2021, I can't purchase a Ubuntu laptop directly from a manufacturer that has this figured out. That's a problem for Linux. It's one thing to fall short. It's another to fall short for 2 decades.
> HS literature cirriculum having zero relatability to students so they're unable to comprehend why the books are "great"

I've called it "an overdose of Dead Poet's Society" before. Shakespeare plays, Steinbeck, Moby-Dick: they'll all make the majority of the class tune out if they're presented as a treatise on the human condition. Shakespeare is meant to be performed on a stage, not read from a book. Discuss his codification of character archetypes and plot tropes, perhaps even some wordplay choices. At 16 years old, "a treatise on the human condition" is pretentious puffery. Even those teacher's pets who take it seriously are merely LARPing as well-rounded individuals.
I will add the fall of GNOME. Effectively GNOME has erased itself from the ecosystem through botched TOPAZ.

And through Gnome as a proxy, we now lost GTK, which has morphed over the years from the Gimp Toolkit to Gnome Toolkit.
That's exactly where brisket comes from*. It was not considered a good cut of meat, so it was provided to the ranch hands. They figured it out.

*at least to the bbq legends/mythos of bbq in texas
As a dev involved with some of the cited technologies, or using them for commercial products throughout my career (desktops, phones, smart TVs, cars, gaming gear): This is is a low-quality, badly researched piece. The amount of actual errors or conceptual misunderstandings in it is so numerous and overwhelming it is difficult to respond with anything other than exhaustive blow-by-blow refutation. The incorrect claims are not limited to Linux, either; a lot of the technical info about Windows/MacOS/Android are equally incorrect.

That said: It makes me yearn for what a well-researched version of the same piece would look like and what it might accomplish as a signpost :-). A lot of this "what are the major problems, and what are we doing to solve them" information is currently rather fragmented and distributed over presentations at Akademy/GUADEC/XDC. The closest to a decent aggregation I can think of would perhaps be Christian Schaller's updates on what the desktop team has in store for new Fedora versions, but even that is selective by nature of the product.
In a PDF or normal program there are clear semantics what is text and what is something else.
On a canvas, everything is just made up of pixels. You'd need OCR Software to detect what is what and they won't ever be 100% correct unless you use only text and fonts which are made to be recognized by OCR Software.
Yes, I agree that it is the natural thing to do. Maybe building / reaffirming cultural identity through these names is what I was trying to convey.
This isn’t a technological answer, but set up a trust fund for the purpose. None of us know what web hosting or its equivalent will be in 109 years, let alone 500, so the only real solution is to ensure there will be somebody around whose job will be to sort that out.
I don't understand what you're getting at. When you develop for Xbox, do you connect a keyboard to your Xbox and launch Visual Studio directly on the console?

What do the Xbox or XCloud have to do with developer marketshare? They're targets, not development platforms. Are you arguing that the Stackoverflow stats are wrong?
There was an interesting article online a few years back, can't find it now. It claimed that humans can't make anything that will last more that 16 million years. This includes any kind of nuclear pollution. Sure we might get lucky like Jurassic fossils, but not intentionally.
I was thinking about the Xbox One. Someone opening a shrink wrapped version in 30 years will have a useless brick because it needs to connect to Microsoft servers for the initial setup. I am not exactly sure what it does during this first exchange and how much of it is hardware/software but I'm pretty sure none of it is done in the final user's best interest.
"Whataboutism" is a thought-cancelling phrase. Truth Social is going to be silenced with one or more set of tools (AGPL or something else) just like Parlor was silenced.
There is a massive pool of engineers that if payed FAANG*1.1 salary would work on anything. As long as they set salaries correctly they will not have any issues recruiting talent.

You also seriously underestimate number of people pissed off about having spout the latest woke tropes to continue being employed at FAANG, those will go for much lower rate.
It's not a slog. On the contrary, it is perhaps the ideal book for reading while sitting on the loo, or whilst having a bath. The chapters are mostly short, and typically cover different aspects of characters, plot, and other stuff, and are easy to read. Once you have read it through once to get an idea of the plot, you can just dip into at random, or re-read favourite bits. I used to keep my paperback copy in the bathroom.
Will eFuels save combustion engine? (interview about Prometheus Fuels)
Or, to be honest, a "more productive procrastination hack".
Absolutely, the Truth platform will likely fail due to inept management, legal troubles, learning that moderation is actually a hard problem, etc.

I just want GGP to know that there are plenty of smart people willing to work on such a project (assuming they get paid) - and I want to combat this idea that the "other side" is just a bunch of bumbling bozos who don't know the difference between a bit and a byte.

There's likely also a small number of people who would work on this just because they believe in Trump's ideology, and would like to see Truth exist more than they'd like to get paid on a regular basis.
Screen tearing is something I've seen happen a few times across different hardware combinations. Sometimes it just works out of the box (e.g. my laptop using Intel graphics on Arch Linux experiences no tearing in any application) sometimes its a huge problem (e.g. my Raspberry Pi using ARM graphics experiences mild to severe screen tearing). Whats really confusing about the Raspberry Pi example is the conflicting info online. Some people swear turning off composting solves it, others say turning if on solves it. For me turning if off sorted it even tho this went against most of the advice I read in Raspberry Pi forums etc. Most of my experiences with Linux has been somewhere in between of the two extreme examples I've just described.

Meanwhile Windows literally just works on every device I've tried it on. I can't remember the last time I saw any screen tearing of any kind on a non-Linux device. Whenever I'm out and about and see screen tearing I'm like "Ah it's running Linux" and chances are I'm right.

For what's its worth I use Linux as the only OS on my ThinkPad and love it. I do acknowledge its flaws though and graphics is an area with room for improvement.
Huh? You don't get full quality on Netflix in some browsers?
https://permanent.org/
This is exactly what they claim to be solving.
Now if you trust them is another question.
Most people do pay taxes in their home country.

You can't be a tax resident of nowhere. In Canada to become a nonresident for tax purposes you need to establish tax residency elsewhere.
This is some "I am 12 and this is deep" level of logic. Or in other words, what is "not feasible" is expecting companies it literally just shut down if they get their data ransomed.
> You dismiss without offering alternatives

Yes, that's true. If it's so painful and engenders so much debate to make the obvious point that Mao and Bastiat are incompatible, then why add to that pain by trying to make other, more debatable, points.

> I am saying the key idea is harmony from liberty.

I suggest that this is not a good reading of Mao or Bastiat.

For Bastiat, he was not interested in harmony but in wealth generated from private enterprise competing in the market system. For him, private ownership of capital and the right to buy/sell is a subset of "liberty", but that's very different from Mao's use of this term. Moreover Bastiat was not really interested in harmony as someone like Mao would understand it. Bastiat knew, for example, that the laws granting monopolies to everything from the making of buttons to wool to fishing protected people's jobs, and liberalizing these markets would lead to a lot of people being out of work, which would not promote social harmony, but some chaos. What it would do, is allow people to buy suits, candles, fish, for a lower price, thus improving living standards.

One of the things people don't realize is that France was prone to having famines under the medieval guild system. Liberalization of the economy put an end to all the famines. When moderns read these economic debates, they think it is like republicans versus democrats -- but there was real stuff at risk in these debates, like what is the best way to grow enough food? Bastiat insisted that getting rid of all the political stuff and just letting people grow all the food they wanted and sell it to the highest bidder would be the best way to end famines. Mao's approach was the exact opposite. He wanted only political power to decide who could grow food, how much, and who got the food.

Bastiat was targeting all the ridiculous bans that one wasn't allowed to sell a hat unless they were a member of the hat maker's guild -- that was Bastiat's target. Together with all the market bans that one could only sell in this region, and if one wanted to "export" food to a different region of France, there were so many tolls and problems that it became prohibitive. Thus one part of France could be in famine with a surplus of food in another part, and no cost effective way to get food from A to B. This is what Bastiat means by "liberty".

When you read someone like Mao or Bastiat, you have to understand the society they were in and the conversations they were having with others in that society, responding to issues current in their time. You shouldn't lift the disembodied texts, pick up a few sentences, and then start up the spin machine. Really you shouldn't read either of these without spending an appropriate time studying history and especially the intellectual history of the period in which these texts were written.
Are there non-Americans doing this?
Replacing Sass
At some point in time I drilled this sequence into my fingers:

ctrl-t, ne, ctrl-w

i.e. new tab, start typing news.ycombinator.com, immediately interrupt myself and close the tab.

These days I have hn mapped to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.