skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good analogy. Neither should. But if I, a New Yorker, am ticketed for jaywalking in Phoenix, that’s their right. Them’s their streets. A lot of the bickering about vaccines comes from people who want to be in and benefit from urban centres yet not conform to their rules. If someone stays home and works remotely and orders Instacart, I don’t think they should be mandated to vaccinate.
I did enjoy this tome too :) It's amazing how many well-researched and detailed biographies of US presidents are out there. The Rise of Theodor Roosevelt is another one, only managed to read the first book. What I find interesting is how the men behind the scenes have wielded much of the power even back then.
> Perhaps one might say that this is an example of how complexity and cost of production is a bit detached from the customer's willingness to pay. The most complex software product, the operating system, is essentially given away for free.

Spot on. Not that long ago we used to pay for OS, even beta versions of OS. Nowadays, most complex software products imaginable, like OS, browser, search engine, social networking... - are all free, and over the years we as a society have been slowly drawn into an expectation of these to be free. Of course someone or something is paying for it, as all these also "magically" generate hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue. And when someone shows up with an idea to actually sell such product and tries to create a business where user is also the customer, and incentives between the user and the business are aligned, they are usually looked at with a raised eyebrow.

I am personally of the opinion that you always get what you pay for and that one should not shy away from paying and supporting products they love. I hope we are building one such product, that some people (and admittedly you need to be a little different to use and pay for Kagi) will fall in love with.
Yes! Reusable menus, finally!
I just want to pre-empt the inevitable bitching about systemd to say I think it’s awesome and incredibly useful and consistent and powerful and I’d take it any day over the mess of stuff that filled systemd’s duties before.

Sure it isn’t perfect, but what software is?

And let me ask a question, if systemd is crap, why does every major distro use it? If it was truly crap then surely the distro builders would use the alternative?
> Do you have any idea of how much money is lost on scams via Western Union?

Which is why we try to move away from that kind of thing, and part of why we're seeing stricter KYC, 2FA requirements and so on. Consumer protection is a hugely valuable part of civilised society, but funding it is a prisoner's dilemma - if you make it optional then people make the individually rational choice to skip it, which is fine until you reach a tipping point where so few people are opting in that the market allows scammers to thrive.

> Do you think that Craigslist should be drowned into a see of ineffective regulations because of all the scammers that are there

Really objective phrasing there lol. No, I think Craigslist and the like should be subject to effective, proportionate regulation (and, sure, in some cases that might mean shutting down a marketplace where there's simply no way to run it and have it not be full of scammers, and I'll defend that as the right decision for the overall public interest), and I believe government for all its faults is better at doing that than blockchain operators.
Subsequent owners care about resale value and it informs their purchasing decisions.
DHCP protocol actively avoids specifying a policy - that is for the system administrator. It defines three 'mechanisms' for allocation [0]:

* automatic == permanent address
* dynamic == finite (time-limited) and possibly re-assignable to a different client
* manual == assigned by system administrator (and simply conveyed by DHCP)

Static leases outside any 'pool' are "manual" allocations.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2131#section-1
No, I don't live in a tent, not at all! I have a gym membership that costs my family $500 a month. But, when we go there, we get unlimited classes, a pool, hot tub, sauna, steam sauna – it's good for our physical well-being, and it acts as extra rented real estate. They offer an hour of child care included per visit, so it's a break from parenting while we work out.

$5 tea or coffee is just flavored water that I can make at home for 50 cents and minimal effort.

Obviously, to each their own, but $5 tea was a bad example.

And a $10/month search engine is a bad deal when ad blockers are free.
Well UNIX is "a pun on multics", so how about EUNICS? The S can stand for systemd.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd init system, IPC layer, and other vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the systemd system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of systemd which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the systemd system, developed by Red Hat. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the systemd operating system: the whole system is basically systemd with Linux added, or systemd/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of systemd/Linux.

(/s)
> OpsSec is and should always be part of the vocabulary for anyone dealing with crypto seriously and they should know that they need to have a plan for the inevitable.

So, this is just for someone who is already part of the technological and economic elite? Things like "how do your heirs recover the appropriate access to your wallet upon your death" is something that someone should think about before they buy their first bitcoin?

The thing that keeps turning me off of cryptocurrency is the appearance that a small and vocal group of people are trying to set up an alternate libertarian fantasy economy that only benefits the upper echelon of society that are educated enough in the nuances of the technology so that they don't encounter any number of foot guns and irrevocable and anonymous scams that is founded the fancy technology equivalent of a "name that star" catalog (with all of the associated competing ones that can name the same star too).

So, how is the average person supposed to take advantage of the cryptocurrency economy if they're the type that forgets their passcode on their phone where their wallet is stored and have found it easier to buy a new one? Or for the grandmother who kindly helps out the county password verification agency who calls up to check on if her bank account is secure enough?

How is cryptocurrency better for these people than the already existing banking systems and title transfer system where the system itself has human checks in it and can reverse things when a scam or fraud is discovered?
You guys are using y.js to implement the world right? Are CRDTs commonly used in the video games space? And if you don’t mind explaining, why did you go with y.js over Automerge?
I think Google sync allowed a type of mirror mode too.

Personally I just call both types sync, and remember it can be bidirectional or unidirectional.
Work hard and solve a big, complex set of problems. Solve them well. Offer the solution as free open source. Work some more to offer extra functionality and fix the bugs. Become the internet's villain.

Come up with a commercial solution to a simple problem. Ex: file sharing or password management. Make it slow, insecure, privacy violating, lose people's data. Make millions, become a hero.
Donut.c, but Written with Jq
I read the first and was incredibly unimpressed. Does it get better? I love the premise, love many other sci-fi authors & series, I thought this was going to be an obviously good one.
All of these things are nonsense.

Accusing someone of bigotry while arguing that their speech shouldn't be censored is not inconsistent with the position that their speech shouldn't be censored. It's just answering speech with more speech.

His "support for Putin" is some kind of farce where he'll e.g. speak approvingly of Snowden being granted asylum and this is taken as proof of loyalty to the Kremlin.

He appears on Tucker Carlson periodically, typically to advocate for Assange. It's not obvious why saying the same things he does anywhere else is to be condemned just because he's saying them to the audience of Fox. Should we not be trying to convince them of anything? Why is that bad?

He consistently calls out CNN/NYT/WaPo/etc. when they get something wrong, presumably because these are the media he actually reads.

No one seriously denies that Russia attempts to influence US elections, as they always have in every election for decades. What many deny, because there is no credible evidence of it, is that Trump colluded with Russia. The people providing non-credible "evidence" of this have since been caught out as frauds and one is currently under indictment for lying to the FBI.
I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? back in June, and watched Blade Runner a month later. I loved them!
Yes. We fully embrace the iCloud/CloudKit security model. All chats live in the private database of the owner, and are shared with others through the iCloud sharing facilities and the shared database. And yes, while it all goes back to iCloud share links in the end, we built our own layer of invitation links and connection requests on top of that, which provides you more support and context, until you finally have to accept the iCloud share link.

I agree it is an interesting feature, works well, and I wonder why aren’t more apps built with that. Perhaps one reason is that the developer experience is somewhat esoteric. It took me quite a while to figure out how it all works and how to put all the pieces together.
We already triage by behavior - an alcoholic has a lower priority for a liver transplant than a fit man. Your view is idealistic and works when resources are unlimited. When resources are limited, we have to - and already - make decisions like these.
Road trips? Plural? How many times have you had to pair your bluetooth to your car...
You just described lean fire, which is a thing some people do.
Would anyone care to explain to someone who isn't 1337 in the inner workings of Linux, why systemd makes modern Linux not very UNIXY anymore and why everyone seems to hate it to death?
Yeah, and it's not even the funniest one of a bunch of different phrases. I really prefer adding dogs instead of horseraddishes: "да и пёс с ним".
It’s unfair to compare pricing between two totally different products, especially when one of them is owned by one of the biggest companies in the world with millions of paying customers and a vast suite of products.
Depends of what a website is for you.
I'm going a bit further than not accepting them, I'm almost at the point of chuckling at the idea that you believe them. Your justification here for China having the most effective bureaucracy in human history is that they've lied to you with a straight face. Which is ironic since they probably do have the most efficient bureaucracy in human history. You've been suckered, these numbers are transparently divorced from reality. In the worst case they are lying to us. In the best case they just aren't bothering to report the stats that they keep internally.

"China is easily the least individualistic, and most collectivist, of the major Asian economies."? They have a population of 1.4 billion people! A full 17% of the earth's population! Sure on average they may be fairly communal, but that doesn't change the fact there will be some really huge pockets of weirdness that will get COVID (much like Singapore where the problem was ghettos and the disease was contained elsewhere). They aren't going to be enforcing any sort of uniformity over a country that big without switching on the mind-control waves in Ye Olde 5G infrastructure. Which is to say, they aren't. There has been at least one million-person COVID outbreak in China. Probably more than that.

> you quarantine and do whatever it takes

You're handwaving the part where you come up with a theory on how this is possible. Other countries tried better quarantines than China can achieve. Like Taiwan.
> systemd-homed now makes use of UID mapped mounts for the home areas. If the kernel and used file system support it, files are now internally owned by the "nobody" user (i.e. the user typically used for indicating "this ownership is not mapped"), and dynamically mapped to the UID used locally on the system via the UID mapping mount logic of recent kernels. This makes migrating home areas between different systems cheaper because recursively chown()ing file system trees is no longer necessary.

I wish it was possible to pull a hard drive from one Linux system, and plug it into another, and mount the ext4/etc. partitions in a "removable" mode which ignores permissions and mismatched UIDs, and grants full access to the files without needing to be root.
> the landing page of GitHub annoys the shit out of me. Every damn time. I don't wanna register with three clicks if I already have an account.

?

If you're not signed in, `Sign in` is available on literally every page in the upper right and one click takes you to the sign in box. If one click is too many just bookmark github.com/login.

If you don't want to sign in the search box is also in the upper right on every page to take you wherever you want to go.
I registered for the beta, I must say I have low expectations, but I'm ready to be positively surprised ;)
I think there’s a misunderstanding. The [DHCPServer] section is tied to a [Network] unit. The [Network] unit has an address range. The [DHCPServer] section has options to reserve a range for dynamic leases. There is also [DHCPServerStaticLease] sections to assign static leases. However, previous versions of networkd did not allow the static lease to be outside of the [DHCPServer] dynamic range. Now, the static lease can be outside the dynamic range but within the network range. So, pretty much what any other standard DHCP server can do.
This week I have just learned that systemd has an alternative scheduler in addition to cron.

At this rate systemd will probably become another new OS on top of Linux similar to Android.
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson

Essentially a book on how the best in the world structured their learning to master their skill, and how you can incorporate to what you want to master.
What's going on with the "Sentinel 2" text in the subheading on the US colours by state graphic?
I don’t follow how a new startup/system management architecture makes it “not UNIX”. We do put OS X in the UNIX column, after all. POSIX and all that.
Lol

I used to care a lot more. Frankly, what I do now is make sure I can use an OS and that I am depending on more portable software where I can. I find myself in Windows, OSX, and Linux land, maybe now I should just say Systemd Linux land and pretty much have something other than the OS to worry about.

Ideally, the OS gives me few worries.
> Now that Brexit has happened and the UK's laws have changed to something sane

Interesting perspective - in the main everything around international trade got a whole lot more complicated for us here in the UK since leaving the EU.
Thread by Pinboard owner about Telegram countering Signal app's claims
> You’re proposing that before the law was implemented in 2010, people were not hearing about the dangers? That the previous 30-odd years of MADD were not seen nor heard by the citizens of British Columbia?

Something explains why the law was passed in 2010 and not 30-odd years before. How do you know the same thing that caused legislative action isn't the same thing that caused the behavior change?
It's a bit outside of what I regularly read, but I semi-accidentally read a romance novel called Paladin's Grace. You may or may not dig it, not sure how it stacks up against others in the genre but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
It's already here.
It's called Kotlin. And the community loves it so much that even the mighty Google had to adopt it.

It's production tested in the largest and hardest java ecosystem out there - android apps.
Cool! What is the tech stack behind it if you don’t me asking?
YouTube channel where I make Python for Finance tutorials ~$5K/month.

https://youtube.com/parttimelarry

Revenue sources: ads, affiliates, sponsorships
Nice idea! If I was in AU I'd subscribe for my kid.

Do you think you'd have the same issues in the US or Europe, is it just local distributors don't have that much stock?
The performance of the device is actually a huge factor for TTI specifically
I would love to have something to compress the raw files from my camera. They're huge, I have to keep a ton of them, and I also need to transmit them over internet for my backup.

I tried a few standard compression format, with very little luck.

Canon has devised a very smart (slightly lossy) compression format for newer cameras, but there's no converter that I know of for my old camera files.

So, unless I shell out large amounts of money for a new camera, I'm stuck sending twice the data over the internet. Talk about pollution...
>It's slowly growing, but to be honest the pricing needs to be increased. Profit margins are paper thin (ha!).

Looking at your site, the first thing I noticed is that you use AusPost (I'm assuming you'd be paying MyPost Business rates).

Especially for larger packages within the same city, Sendle generally has better rates and turnaround times.

Have you looked into alternative logistics options?

>>We can't deliver different books to different subscribers because she'd then need to produce additional activities & resources for each of the books.

Is there a reason you can't ship new customers books (and resources) from your existing back catalogue? This could solve the inventory problem too.
>You're basically defining capitalism as "some people have lots of money"

Perhaps the most realistic definition.

You could also restate it as "most people don't have lots of money"

Regardless of how much you yourself actually have at the time.

I think it's good to look at "capital" as "other people's money" (OPM).

Of course if you have enough of your own you might not really need any of OPM if you don't want to get involved.

OTOH in that case you might be one lending out some of your own "underutilized" money to others who are "interested" in OPM of some sort.

The repayment includes the interest intended to compensate for the risk & delay in repayment, so it simply means more of OPM is coming back than yours that went out.

If none of this OPM was changing hands there would still be the same amount of capital.

But the capital-ism where the system is structured so financial rewards of labor are subjugated to the financial rewards of capital itself according to its magnitude would not be as much of an actual thing.

And it's this feature that can be exploited by greed in the most disadvantageous way compared to less OPM-oriented financial foundations. Regardless of the mathematically enhanced returns to the most shrewd capitalists, the greed itself subtracts from what actually could have been overall.

As the magnitude of the money that most people don't have a lot of, becomes less significant compared to the some people who have lots of money, the unlevel playing field tends to tilt toward the vertical as a function of greed.
Static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo are perfect for this :)
Sure, I see what you mean. And a crippled alcoholic may truly and desperately believe that her alcoholism does not cause liver problems.

Yet, she will still be deprioritized for a liver transplant when compared to a fit individual.

We cannot take people's delusions into account when giving care. But what we can take into account is "will they make the most of this care?" And for both the alcoholic and antivaxxer, the answer is a resounding and objective "no."
This is the dumbest possible conversation and I’m out.
As a semi-related subject, I like to use the SingleFile extension to save pages as one static HTML file for archiving purposes.

Got a ton of saved pages and articles from HN in my dropbox that I can read where I want later without worrying about dead links, ghost edits and other live annoying things.
I built a new Pinboard.in client for iOS and macOS called Pins (Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881622)

If it were back in the old days, I would've charged for it upfront for $5 or so. Instead I decided to make it free to try with an in-app purchase to remove all limitations. Targetting a niche customer base that have already paid at least $22/year for a Pinboard.in subscription and are likely to be disappointed by the current offerings meant I was able to go for a more sensible price. Right now the full unlock costs $15 and includes 3 platforms (iOS, iPadOS, and macOS) with family sharing enabled.

I was able to recruit 100+ beta testers and added some much needed features before launch. Since then it has been a steady pace of one update every month or two which adds either new features, UX improvements, or bug fixes.

The app is highly rated (4.8/5 overall rating) and has a good number of loyal customers who follow me on Twitter (@GetPinsApp).
Java is for pussies, in Javascript you don't even give ***** if it is literally "null" or "undefined".
Comparing customer service of Facebook to a mortgage servicer is tricky because of the value and the volume. Facebook has orders of magnitude (I'll get 10,000x more) content to moderate than a mortgage servicer where they really only answer questions when something goes wrong (3x every 5 years) the stakes are a million times higher.

The options for social media are really free (or cheap) to use and occasionally bad moderation or pay $5 per post or comment ($10 for risky ones) that see multiple human moderators to limit abuse and false positives. Or no social media. My point is the amount and quality of moderation people say they want is more expensive than they'd pay for these services, but there's still a lot of value to them, so we're left with imperfect moderation.
I have never understood why footnotes are added to the bottom when we have an interactive medium available at hand? Why not leverage <details> and <summary> to show them in-place without breaking the flow and without listing them all at bottom?

See your comment as an example. Why list all links at the bottom rather than in-place?
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (father of behavioral psychology) was incredibly impactful.

A few notable runner ups:
- The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick Mckeown (as fitness enthusiast this was a giant gap in my knowledge

- Principles by Ray Dalio (this is incredible and I need to go through it again)

- Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green (best book on investing I've read in quite a while)
Your post is basically my problem with how people talk about bad trips. You made the term "bad trip" ambiguous, scary and sound random. You're saying something might happen but no one can tell you what. Yeah that's horrifying, what is this horrible thing, Ill let my imagination run wild.

But if you can be clear about the risks and how to avoid them I think you'll come out fine. I don't think if psychedelics were playing some game of russian roulette like you suggest they would actually be useful in therapy.
This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_a...