skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's parsimonious of me, but "hacker" includes the idea of "pushing hardware into uses not intended by the manufacturer."

This is an API that's being straight-up handed to you by the manufacturer, a manufacturer that historically has had a challenged relationship with the various hacker communities that have formed around their products.
I wasn't aware of the rule against "Take it or leave it". Just yesterday I encountered a similar situation, visiting a popular German website (Heise online).

Screenshot of the "consent as a condition to access the service" https://imgur.com/a/neJya1e
> The FSF and Stallman are the only assets for FOSS.

The FSF doesn't even support the use of the term "FOSS".

They support the idea of libre software. The broader "open source" community is much larger than the FSF or RMS.

The GPL is the third most popular FOSS license.
“In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”
> despite being interesting.

glad to hear it. i guess maybe that's what i subconsciously aim for when i write things like this; hoping for things that resonated with me to also resonate with others.

i agree actually that it's willful misinterpretation of the person's comment. i think maybe the seemingly thoughtless presence/use of the word profit in this context just jumped out at me, as we're swimming in a pool of constant and endless capitalist realism. i personally appreciate it a lot when others challenge and expose our cruel and unsustainable material reality, so my comment probably comes from a desire to contribute to that critique.
Is it really worth it? I'm not sure what benefit people get out of either LinkedIn or Facebook. They seem like not only a time suck, but also a great way for presenting your personal information for people and corporations to harvest. Personally I value my privacy and data over whatever miniscule (if any) tangible benefit I would see from using such a service.

This isn't even mentioning the rampant misinformation and divisive bullshit permeating the platforms (yes both of them)
And Yandex has a $0/yr plan (unless they got rid of it and I’m just grandfathered, not sure..)
I recommend you read Marx, who explains at length about the difference between use value and exchange value. Not all labour is useful, but all profit is generated by labour.

The overall global rate of profit has been steadily falling since the beginning of capitalism; this is not disputed by bourgeois economists. Destroying capital is one way to reset it, which did happen in the 80s as well through war and closing of “old” industries. Along with forced privatisations, which opened up more of the economy to commodity production for profit. And along with deregulation and violent suppression of labour movements, to reduce the price of labour. Neoliberalism is what temporarily raised the rate of profit in the 80s.
(Cory Doctorow) The Future Is in Interoperability Not Big Tech: 2021 in Review
Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace? It's fear! Fear and blood!
It probably would be possible to turn A Deepness In the Sky into a TV series, but it would need about the same high budget and first season run time as the Foundation series (10 hours?) to really go into sufficient depth on the 3 different cultures involved, and the order of events in that one book alone.
I think they're removing the requirement to have an oculus tethered to an fb account if they haven't done so already.
Webb Space Telescope Launch Media Kit [pdf]
Indeed, Reader/Writer framerwork provides buffering (esp. now).

However, in my experience the writers are not very commonly used which is a stark contrast to BufferedReader that's everywhere (it comes with readLine()). Instead, writing is commonly implemented via encoding/conversion/etc. to a byte[] and then written directly to the output stream.
It seems like you're skimming the content because you have a pre-conceived notion of what you want to be true. Both links explicitly mention social isolation and loneliness as being driving forces in the negative mental health impacts.
The latest edition of Nemeth, et al., Unix/Linux System Administration says basically the same thing. Spam filtering, for example, is a whole horrible thing that will be essentially a full-time job for anyone running a mail host.

Hell, about two years ago I gave up on self-hosting. Unwanted email got to be the vast majority of what I was receiving and spam filter software ate more memory than my itty-bitty host had, meaning I would have had to get a bigger, specific mail host. (As it was, the IMAP server was the biggest process running on my host.)
TriNet is pretty nice as an employee, I can’t say anything bad about them, and I’m sure it saved money and time for the last two tiny places I’ve worked at. I want to hate the idea of it, because it’s really strange compared to some other places I’ve worked with in house HR, but on every occasion I’ve needed help they’ve quickly returned my emails and immediately given me the answers I need to get my pay or benefits in order. I think I would prefer to work at companies with this sort of arrangement every time versus having to deal with the one or two two HR managers you’re stuck with elsewhere.
The US funds Wahhabis all over the world, from Syria to Kosovo to Iraq to Xinjiang.
It actually doesn't determine it by the country the request is coming from.

How it works is fully documented here: https://github.com/ladjs/i18n#i18nmiddlewarectx-next

1) Check URL (e.g. if /de or /de/ then it's a de locale - as long as de is a supported locale)

2) Use the custom function (if provided by the detectLocale parameter) for locale detection

3) Check the "locale" cookie value (or whatever the cookie option is defined as)

4) Check Accept-Language header

Regarding nothing being translated, there was an issue with our locales folder sync and that's being resolved soon!
As always, the standard gimmick of neoliberalism is to pin the blame for the collateral damage of its policies on the relatively powerless people who refuse its self-serving "solutions."
Why associate the comment you replied to with Trump, and why is associating that comment to Trump enough to dismiss criticism of publishing continuous polls as "far-fetched conspiracy theories"?

There have certainly been massive polling failures (and obvious push polling) in elections over the past decade that can be discussed rather than being dismissed for the sake of partisanship. The organizations who actually do the polling discuss these issues constantly without accusing each other of being deluded.
Without a reputable source for these claims you're just spreading misinformation.
My project was a 3d in-browser escape velocity clone (think Endless Sky.) It ended up with an impressive feature set, mediocre graphics, not nearly enough world, no real game loop, and no players: http://flythrough.space

My mistake was building it totally in secret for most of its life. I worked on it for years focusing on adding features that maybe nobody wanted without validating the product/market fit or generating any buzz. By the time I was "ready" someone had gained way more steam on their own EV remake, even getting the author of Override to endorse it, so the fact that I had a working prototype didn't really matter, the community that I thought would be receptive wasn't interested.

I learned that you need to build something worth playing first, including some kind of game loop, before you try to get people to play it. Turns out noodling around with a hacky prototype isn't something people find exciting even if the whole community is centered around noodling around with mods and hacking. People won't mod a game they don't love in the first place.

Since this project, I've committed to building smaller prototypes and validating concepts before I go all-in on building something polished and content rich, and thought I haven't shipped anything this big since, I have met my personal goals.

Full retrospective: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2020/08/flythrough-space-retrospect...

The conclusion: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2020/04/dont-remake-an-old-game/
unfortunately as long as you’re sending email to other people you’re subject to Google’s filtering rules, so it may be easier to work with a provider that operates at a scale google cares about… it’s all a racket if you ask me… their algo can doom any individual self-hoster to perpetual spam hell and they’ve got zero service
This isn't to be dismissive of your feelings but consider finding a therapist, it sounds like there's a lot you're dealing with right now and having someone to nudge you in the right direction can help.
I don't like this idea. Nobody will read your comment in this case. I prefer comments to be visible by default without having to run extra tools. Also, usually a commit adds many functions and classes and it's difficult to describe them in one message.
That starts to sound suspiciously like an extortion racket.
ISS is in a very low and eccentric orbit. I think boosting from ISS to a geo transfer orbit, let alone escape, is more expensive than just going straight to escape velocity.
Have you considered adding business or enterprise subscriptions[0]? B2B users are a lot less price sensitive[1] than consumers especially when you're competing against a free product.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781133

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13843743
One counter-vailing fact is Republican internal polls showed Trump losing up until election night in 2016. Polls they did for themselves, which they did not share at the time, showed him losing.

Aside from this, to influence opinions with sharing polling information, one just needs to change the question, or the audience, or both. "Should the US seek peaceful resolutions with Russia" will get a different answer than "Should Biden oppose Russia's military buildup on Ukraine's border". You can tailor the question to the answer, and have Americans either supporting or opposing abortion, or whatever.

Also, a poll of everyone will yield different results from a poll of, say, likely voters. You have to look to who is polled along with what is polled.

With these things done, there is little need to fudge the numbers, other polling organizations can ask the same question to the same demographic and get similar answers.
There are lots of specific things one could mention - moderation, text focus, down voting, etc, but I think unfortunately the big differentiator is that (as far as I know) HN doesn't make money.
People have been doing that with Honda Civics for decades... Now if they put all that energy into build quality and making sure that auto pilot doesn't kill anyone, we'd have something impressive... :/
Yep, previous version was exactly that! I decided to package it up to make it easy to give to instructors who wanted to use Pathbird.

Way more than half of the effort on this project when to looking in to how to distribute the kernel.json file (I ended up copying from ipython). The actual code that runs is little more than a Popen.
Maybe this was just a glitch in the matrix:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210419133815/https://irmmw-thz...

"We do not provide LaTeX templates as this generates technical issues with the IEEE process. If you nevertheless decide to use LaTeX,...", seems like a slight discouragement.
I'm missing some of the "brewing financial storm" in some of the stories/linked on the front page of this site. It's also ~50% Forbes "sites" articles, which HN has repeatedly and correctly noted often lack basic editorial and factchecking oversight.
And of course, At the Dam, one of my all time favorite pieces of non-fiction

http://deathray.us/no_crawl/others/atthedam.html
Can you really call a list comprehensive if it contains a ton of incorrect entries?

Just because someone talks a lot doesn't mean they know a lot, just like a long list isn't necessarily comprehensive just because it's long
Iirc, the minimum value for a datetime type in SQL server used to be 1/1/1753, for the same reason.
"Pay a few dollars to smarthost, for instance."

Do you mean pay a few dollars to use someone else's email infrastructure? Or do you mean pay a few dollars more to set up a dedicated mail host in a better neighborhood?
That's a pretty sophomoric response. It's fine to disagree, but I took the time to explain my position in detail, I'd appreciate it if you'd do the same.

Were there any errors of fact in what I said? Or did you take issue with my analysis of those facts?

Do you think degree mills provide a net public good?

Was everybody arrested for protesting after the death of George Floyd actually involved in rioting and looting?

Do you believe the incursion into the Capitol Building was performed by Antifa?

Was Steve Bannon not convicted of wire fraud and money laundering?
Some of them aren't even languages. Like another commenter mentioned, it's just a list of things. Which makes me wonder: why is it on HN
There's a workaround... Just manually flip the high beams, shift through drive modes, vigorously alternate turn indicators, and pump your brakes furiously.
The video says the LED tail lights aren't as bright. The ones I got for the tail lights are brighter. I still had to get a matching flasher for it.

The LED headlights come with a shade so they shouldn't shine upwards into traffic.
Why did you use the word “propaganda”? Why not “education”?

Regardless of the time period, I would simply propose focusing on educating current and future generations that men and women have equal rights.

If you dig into history a bit, you’ll find that state-sponsored persecution - ethnic, religious, or otherwise - is almost always guaranteed to backfire in the long run.
They're called "SYRYN Swimbuds Flip and Waterproof MP3 Player". Just got them a few years ago as a quick, inexpensive Amazon purchase. Looks like they're a bit more expensive nowadays, but not too bad.

They work fine-- only ones I've ever had, so I have nothing to compare them to. I can confirm they've survived over 200 hours of lap swim, though.
Wear compression stockings.
There are some technologies that should not be created.
More stable than the lira at this point
Some of the most outstanding things are precarious and not as well supported as they should be.

Especially those times when one single individual makes such a significant difference.

Think about Einstein, most of his life people had to face that there would be no suitable replacement once he was gone for any reason.

Christmas can mean many things to many people, of course even a miracle if you would like.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
- AEinstein

"I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

Frosty, Redbone w/ Dr. John:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXfDBH2bij4
No, it's the other way around. You can already no longer create a non-Facebook Oculus account, and some time next year they'll require Oculus accounts be "upgraded" to Facebook in order to use the devices at all.
Russia did it in 1918. For this reason, the "October revolution" happened in November.
Honestly this list is way shorter than I would have expected before clicking, and most of it is very niche stuff (not on the scale of "the entirety of GNOME", for example). Also, some of the entries have notes like "likely usable without systemd if someone puts in the work".
> one of the best things you can do is disable all forms of mobile app notification from twitter, facebook, instagram apps.

This is the trick. When you engage communication on your own terms, the outcomes are better - for you, and often for the rest of the world. Facebook looks totally different when you aren't just reacting. Much easier to focus on the things you really are interested in instead of what the algorithm wants you to pay attention to.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where's the evidence that any public health measure adversely affecting children worked any benefit to the old?
We're working on Spam Scanner because we weren't happy with rspamd nor SpamAssassin or any other archaic or non-trivial closed-door tech.
See https://spamscanner.net for more!
> My kids' mental health would be pretty heavily impacted by the death of their grandparents.

Hopefully that's not something you could spare them with.
In the spirit of the season —- I hope things go better for you as time goes on. Many of us were isolated or lonely when we were younger, and the last couple years haven’t been easy for anyone. It sounds like you’re doing lots of things right — working a job, going to the gym, and trying to date — these are good and worthwhile things! The process of growing up and obtaining social acceptance can be a long haul and you may wish to look into therapy for some specifically tailored advice and a sympathetic ear.
If this was a jailbreak to control the lights, people would be a lot more excited. Tesla closes off their hardware to hackers - not exactly the spirit of hacker news
Just keep the profile private and limit friends on FB. I try to keep the number of FB friends at Dunbars number.
Everybody makes mistakes. Being senior doesn't make you infallible, or otherwise we wouldn't spend huge amounts of resources building tools that are essentially mistake-catchers: smarter type systems, linters, static analyzers and so on.

Also, senior people are more likely to make the kind of mistake explained in the article than less experienced developers. This is because:

- They are more focused on the "big picture" (algorithm correctness, general approach, system architecture, etc.) than on minute details.

- They tend to read less documentation because they don't need to reach for it so often.

- They have learned that a mistake such as this one can be easily corrected, and hence dedicate their attention to more important matters (avoiding data corruption for instance).
I know plenty of people with nicknames (generally, fake last names) on Facebook. They just have to "look" real. Perhaps use your middle name as your last name.
I‘m a Russian language learner for many years. When you listen to Putin what he tells his Babushkas, you now you cannot trust him one word. BTW, I recommend to listen to him as a learner: He speaks slowly, very articulate with clear pronunciation, so he can tell Babushkas that foreign power are threatening Russia.
perfect idea if you're small b2b company b/c the trafic is super low
I've had real trouble with digital ocean as they just don't want to get involved in helping email providers at all. They don't want to do anything with managing IP reputation.
It's the other way around. The people making enough money to retire early also have fewer working hours.

It's people who make the least money and can't retire who work the most hours.
Hilariously even the most proficient Portuguese English speaker cannot
understand a word I say when I turn and converse with a fellow Brit, or an
American. I don't notice any difference, but I guess my perfectly enunciated
Queen's English turns into incomprehensible gibberish.

As a native English speaker, it's easy to underestimate how nuanced and even culture specific our language is, even compared to other English speaking countries such as NZ or AUS.

For example, I have learned that when I'm communicating with folks in India, who speak wonderful English, that I can't use common American colloquialisms such as "shooting yourself in the foot" or other similarly colorful language. It has no context for them, and the point is lost.
"By randomly marking your email as spam without any recourse."

Correct.

I'd like to describe how badly this is implemented:

I run my own mail server and I have a 15+ year history of emailing (mywife)@gmail.com.

On a regular basis (mywife)@gmail.com will email me, and I will respond to her email and my response will go to her junk/spam folder.

And there is no alert, no bounce, no notification.

Let's unpack this:

Google (gmail) knows that these two email addresses converse back and forth, regularly, with a 15+ year history. Google knows that their own user initiated this conversation. Google knows my email is a response to their users email. Google knows my address has never been marked as spam/junk.

So, what kind of unimaginably bad heuristics would have to be in employ to allow this to happen ?

To be honest, this wouldn't bother me that much - I don't think google owes me anything and my wife doesn't pay for their service. What makes me so, so angry is that they behave this way without any notification or bounce email.

That's just shitty.
that’s true, and unless you trust someone in the inside you can’t rely on a company reporting accurately about themselves… plus the tide at a small company can turn in an instant, just look at basecamp
This is true for speaking but listening is impossible.

The vast majority of people do not speak using the simple terms that are in those 100 top lists.

As an example - I would guess that from my previous sentence, "vast", "majority", "simple", "terms", "lists" and possibly more would not be present, and that's in only one relatively simple sentence.

I can "speak in" probably ten languages, but I'd only say I can really _speak_ bidirectionally in one or possibly two.
Fine print in insurance contracts is probably the only fine print I ever read.
The facts about fetal cell lines and Covid-19 vaccines
The classic forum style is part of the appeal to me. It walls off typical social media users in favor of people willing to embrace the platform for what it is, not what they are trying to make it via IPO.

If the communities I am part of (or built) weren't so entrenched and interesting I'd be happy to move from the front page of social media back to the front page of the internet.
Who's "we" and what makes you think they have any control over the matter?
Different things work for different people.

My main frustration is with the need for social media to drive dependency, addiction, and engagement.

I am weary of content and UI controls that increasingly are overly monopolizing my time just to get to a point that is often totally a waste of time, and/or not funny.

If social media algorithms were actually accurate in determining what I really like to watch, instead of just being dedicated towards steering me towards consumerism (that I'm not going to engage in anyway) my feelings would be different about it not being a useful friend anymore.

I just use it in small doses when I'm bored or waiting for a project to render or build now and as places to collect/share my shower thoughts and funny things I find.
I think taking a shot every six month is totally worth it if that will let your grandma live two years longer.
Personally, to me it sounds like some more of the same fear mongering crap. Most likely baseless and useless besides for bringing in the operators revenue
Not just US universities - those stories have been widely reported in Australia too. I’d expect it’s happening everywhere…
Mochi is not online first, it is offline first.