skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the spikes behave a bit differently than original, but I haven't compared. You can't run through them because they will activate and kill you, but you can slow walk safely. But in this implementation I slowed walked right on top of them (they activated but didn't kill me - that's correct) and then I started to run and I was killed instantly.
> GNOME 3.8 made hard dependencies on logind because it was default in Fedora

Looks like we're still in disagreement about this. As far as I can tell, there was never a 'hard' dependency of GNOME 3.8 on logind; logind was an optional dependency[0].

> beyond functionality that can be summarised as "SysV initd plus dependencies"

I would attribute that to the lack of similar "service manager" functionality in other "boot managers". That comes down to the hesitancy of these "boot managers" to embrace the role of "service managers". There's tons of functionality that the systemd project (not necessarily the pid0 binary) introduced to make services run consistently and reliably. They paved the way in that regard and we're still waiting for contenders to catch up.

[0] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-Marc...
Based on what content I see getting taken down I have a hard time believing this.

Any data available showing the type of content and the frequency at which it’s seen?

I handled abuse reports for a ISP in the late 90s and the majority of it was shock/offensive stuff like lemonparty. The real severe things were few and far between even then.
There are many assumptions here. I manage several servers, but many of these are co-managed. Second, it is not foolproof - muscle memory is very strong and for sure sooner or later I'll type rm again. Third, it doesn't prevents the use of rm in scripts.

That said, an accidental removal of files has never been a problem for me (an accidental chmod -R caused me more woes once), and these days with snapshots it's a complete non issue.
Unfortunately a lot of twitch streamers get some very unpleasant spam attacks - things like racist chat flooding using bots.

Requiring an account to be verified, or a follower, or in extreme cases a subscriber is the only practical response as twitch moderation tools are practically useless.
yeah but I think the context is important, if I am talking with developers/sysadmin there are some things that I would expect to be interesting, which I feel are matched when I speak with tech people in their 30s, but I have had many coworkers in their 20s that sometimes I have little in common with, but yeah I guess if I was an electrician or else I would be interested in that kind of stuff, I guess my mistake here is that I consider every one on HN either a dev or a sysadmin, but as my previous message, I was not talking specifically about that person specifically
Netflix & Spotify are currently worth $275bn & $45bn. I think it's quite unlikely that such results would be achieved with a pay-x-get-y store model.

Even Disney & Universal, themselves enormously valuable companies, are greedily eying the platform model. It has everything they want. Recurring revenues. Content pushing abilities, which is usually the most strategically important asset. Platform monopoly potential, where most artists/studios take your take-it-or-leave-it terms.

They don't hate you. They just do whatever is most valuable to them. They don't care about you. They may or may not value your custom, but that's about it.
It was a tongue-in-cheek comment, playing with the absurdity of NFTs being used as certificates of authenticity in art scams.
Yeah this is true. When I say people I'm working from home, they look with pitty. When I say, I'm working remotely, people's impression change.

I don't know why this is like this, but it is true for me.
> anyone doing eCommerce online is effectively beholden to their payment provider.

ProviderS. Plural.

Yes it will cost more to integrate with a different API, but not an enormous amount.
How did the previous generations cope with the battle of video games being so addictive, or film and television, or rock music, or fiction books?
> The 3% of Linux desktop users would disagree.

If we consider this statistic to be meaningful in this case, then 97% of people don't care. That's enough to be able to generalize.

> What I really fail to understand is why people don't hedge. They are collectively willing to pay millions of dollars every year in perpetuity for a product, but never realize they can help fund an open alternative for a much lower cost, and that once the product does what they want, they won't lose access to it?

Discord is not a paid application. I've never paid them a cent in my years of using it.
I agree. Most of the best non-fiction books I've read don't have a 4.5 Goodreads score. They spark some controversy (many people expect to agree on a book they read), or they are not for everyone (topic-wise, level-wise, etc). It works the same for everything (movies, food). E.g. the best average score for movies is for the best average movies. Unless it is so niched that it is only read by people deep into a subject (again, then a high score says little about general quality).

But even for the >4.0-rated books, I find the collection bizarre.

E.g. "Metaphors We Live By" is here somewhere in the middle (at least got 4.08), while for me, it is the single most insightful book about human language as a way of thinking. "Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research" by Stanislav Grof (4.34), a book that unifies & classifies psychedelic experiences (going beyond "good vs bad trip"), religious experiences, and CPTSD - is not even on the list. But sure - this book is not that popular. Yet, "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennett (3.88) is not even on the list - just to name a few.

So instead of pretending that it is some collection of "mind-expanding books", let's make it "Favourite books of hackerkid", assuming they read them. If not, then "a random collection of vaguely mind-expanding books".
Huh? To be fair I primarily use Linux because it's the most ergonomic operating experience and tends to get out of my way, where I feel like I'm always fighting against the UX of Windows or OSX. The licensing situation is a lovely bonus but I don't think it's reasonable to suggest it's the foremost reason most users install Linux
I don’t understand how the exact nuances of their order regarding my selected example are of interest to you in this discussion, or how those nuances contribute to it. You’ve pointed out what you believe to be a fact, one somewhat contradicted by their plain language wording here [1], but haven’t yet explained why you’re presenting that to us at all. Please do explain.

[1] https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/5053.pdf
The product is _designed_ to be something humans will relate to and "become part of your lives", much like a housepet. Watch Amazon's own intro video narrated by the little girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtb8RRj5r4

At 3 minutes the little girl says "Echo loves to to play music" ... i.e. it's expected that children will project emotions onto Echo, which in turn means an implied level of trust they will have to the device. Also the girl in the video is using at times _without_ parent supervision...

So sorry the whole "it's just a dumb device designed to search the Internet and you should know better" argument doesn't fly here.
They've sent out cease and desists to every project trying to create an alternative experience like TUI for those on lower resources or want to cut a lot of the 'crap' and tracking out of the app.
If you want to counteract this tendency, consider getting them into (competitive) sports. Nothing will work right away, they will have to „grind“ (train/practice) a lot, failures are all but certain; but hard work and perseverance get rewarded, and the successes are all the sweeter. As a young guy who has had a modern and easy childhood not unlike the one you describe, many of my most cherished memories come from competing in a sport.
DRM is a way to harvest the userbase for ekstra profit.
Permanence, long lasting messages and cross-server replication are one of the primary selling points of the Matrix protocol.
> I bugs the hell out of me when I open discord with hundreds of new messages in different channels that I am assumed to want to keep track of. Yes, you can disable notification but …

I really don’t understand how people can think that having everyone self-host and maintain things like Quassel on a Raspberry Pi is a perfectly reasonable solution to the UX shortcomings of IRC, but then also insist that having to spend 30 seconds adjusting the basic settings in Discord is an unacceptably difficult task.

At some point, this conversation isn’t actually about UX or functionality. It’s about hating the new thing and clinging to the old ways.
I run a mail server [Ubuntu + Postfix + Dovecot + Sieve], and then use a service , (for me - Postmark[1]) to actually send the mail.

The integration is extremely easy to setup [2], and solves the deliver-ability issue. Most of these services also take care of the DKIM and DMARC setup, so it is much easier to get things right. And they all offer debugging tools if something isn't sending or returning correctly.

On the other hand, they are not in privacy abusing position that Gmail is, and I also don't have to worry that they will close my account with no recourse, as Gmail once did to me.

The biggest downside is no email forwarding. There is no way to do email forwarding using a service, since they only send mail from approved senders. (There are Bad Idea solutions, such as rewriting headers with SRS. Don't.)

And of course, I need to pay for sending. Mailgun used to have a generous free tier, and Amazon SES is decent at $1/10K mails, but things add up. I chose Postmark for many reasons, but the pricing of different companies is worth looking into if you are sending enough mail. (Sendgrid and Mailchimp Mandril, for example, have a unlimited per deliveree charge, that could conceivably be cheaper for some use cases.)

OT, the only reason that I support PoP3 is for Gmail: The only way to "check an external account" to write and send mails in Gmail is PoP3.

[1]: postmarkapp.com
[2]: https://postmarkapp.com/support/article/832-can-i-configure-...
What do you mean with "legal and process and regulation"?

Regarding "fraud detection" - isn't that a self made problem of payment processors? When the settlement is instant, the merchant does not need to be afraid of fraud. Bitcoin paid via the lightning network is paid and can not be taken back.
Ask HN: How to minimize a smartphone's battery consumption?
I'm not looking for suggestions that mention carrying power banks or charging strategies, as this is for in times when I won't be able to use them. Don't worry; this is a hypothetical question and I'm not in any problem.

I want to be able to maximize the phone's potential as an offline, portable computer.

What I already know:
- Using airplane mode to prevent antennas from drawing power.
- Keeping screen off as much as possible.
- Removing any and all memory consuming widgets and live wallpapers.
- Use a pitch black wallpaper. Useful at least on an OLED display.
I would not have considered my post lengthy by any stretch. Sean Carroll offered nothing in that short video other than an assertion that the mind is the brain, and then some consequences that follow from that raw assertion. I have done no worse than him.

As for what the mind might be if it is not the brain, that is not a short discussion. As a pointer, take a look at various substance or property dualist views, or monist views such as that of George Berkeley.
Is still Paris a great place to develop games? I heard that the studio responsible for Netflix's 'Arcane' AKA 'League of Legends' TV series are in Paris [1]

[1] Fortiche Productions, a small Paris-based studio who specializes in creating animated projects with a unique blend of 2D and 3D art. src https://www.techradar.com/news/inside-arcane-netflixs-animat...
> provide much more functionality than just replacing a switch.

There are alternatives that provide the desired functionality without the undesired bits, and convenience should not be an excuse to accept products that violate your freedoms and privacy.

> deserves to be electrocuted

Deserve what it comes is not the right idea, but they are definitely partly responsible for it.
I, for one, like the barrier entry, think I recently quit the company I was working for because asking for help was like the first thing in case of an issue instead of researching a solution, and I couldn't deal it with a paid job, imagine how could I deal with it by staying on a discord channel where people (I have the impression) think that documentation is lava ^^
You have to create an account, agree to a shady ToS, and solve hCAPTCHA sudokus leaking data over to Cloudflare, and your session isn't saved when you restart your browser so you have to go through that whole annoying flow every time you want to use the web client.
Could they be using Stripe Connect for this?

https://stripe.com/connect
> The 3% of Linux desktop users would disagree.

Please avoid putting words in my mouth, particularly when you are blatently wrong.
Netflix is a problem for every password manager, since they insist on using their own onscreen keyboard. Even if you’re on Android TV, you can’t switch to the remote app to copy & paste a password. Very annoying, but I’m starting to think they’re doing this to make password sharing more of a bother. (Even if it’s just one sign-in being more of a chore)
My black Pilot Vanishing Point, from Itoya in Ginza, is the crown of my collection. Great story and fantastic pen, although for sentiment it can't compare to the Montblanc my father gave me for matriculating from university.

Fun timing to run into this article, I have the pen and fresh ink sitting next to the converter as a nice project to work on during the intercalary week.
This same pattern comes up a lot, whether it be mathematical notation, programming language syntax, or scientific jargon. Some people crusade against them, while others (typically practicioners of the respective field) insist that these constructs are useful.

My hypothesis is that it's a bias from limited information. You have something with inherent complexity to it: math, music theory, physics, code, you name it. In order to represent those complexities, complex jargon gets formed. An outsider attempting to understand a given field is likely to have a (in these cases correct) assumption that the field is complex: if it wasn't, then they wouldn't be putting effort into understanding it.

In their effort to understand it, they eventually run into something they don't understand immediately or easily. They then assign the majority of their perceived complexity of the system to that first thing they got stuck on.

So instead of thinking "programming is hard" they think "reading/writing source code is hard". The practicioners of the field, with the benefit of hindsight, know that picking up the syntax/jargon/notation was in fact far easier than understanding the concepts they represent. But the outsider can only see the immediate challenge, which is the symbology.
There is one in the presentation
I'm aware of all of these monitors, but most are discontinued or unavailable. Luckily I've recently been able to acquire a used LG 5K monitor and it's pretty great most of the time, but my model has some display quality problems.
> I suspect not likely to return.

Phone pics have so quickly become the “default” look that full-frame wide-aperture shots are now becoming almost an affectation; one that can cause comment in itself - like choosing Polaroids or b&w film used to be.

I wonder how that will play out. Filmmaking opted to go back to “blurry” 24fps even when higher rates were available, but the convenience of phones generally always wins.
If you are American I would recommend “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville. Very easy to read and has some really mind opening lines. “Americans are cartesians without ever having read Descartes” still sticks with me to this day and I last read it over ten years ago.
Never saw this word employed as anything else than euphemistic "whoreish". One never ceases to learn!
Ok, remove any cynicism. I just don't want the phone call, I don't care how 'warm' the other party finds it.

Up-thread they said they explicitly asked for email instead after taking the cold-call. What's the good faith reason for insisting on a warm phone call when it's not wanted?
They also remove almost all the supposed decentralization and trustless model benefits of bitcoin
It is immensely interesting to see the de-westernization of modern archaeology .. it seems to be being forced by the artefacts themselves, which provide ample motivation and evidence that western ideals need not be applied to ancient ways.

It is one of those subjects where the intersection of religious fervour and scientific rigour has produced endless falsehoods - yet with every scrape in the dirt we get more and more truth behind human history.

As an armchair fan of archeological endeavours from Gobekli Tepe to the forests of the Amazon, I can only hope that the elevation of Great Zimbabwe in the human lexicon results in further enlightenment with regards to our human history. It is very rewarding to see the veils of christian political movements falling from the stage of archeological accomplishment. We need more of this.
All the reflexive anti-capitalism/anti-corporatism aside, the emergence of company-backed hubs such as Github has been a massive accelerator of the success and overall relevance of open source. When FOSS was confined to Linus Torvalds and co, sharing postings on Usenet groups, transparency and adoption stayed low and larger adopters rather paid intermediaries like Redhat to mitigate the risks of what was perceived as "niche software". Today, open-source is an undisputed standard and has a bustling scene of creators - made possible by easy-to-use and accessible tooling and hubs. Operating these isn't free - but in difference to OS itself, I don't think there is any inherent conflict between providing OS infrastructure and a profit motive. Maybe there will be a fully decentralized, blockchain-based version of Github with individual users contributing for the value they receive in the future, but until then Github - whether owned by MS or not - remains a massive enabler for OS at large.
I love your artwork, some of it reminds me of this style that I have bought prints of https://www.mateo-art.com/ You need to add the option to have prints delivered like they do!

Also, on your site it took me too long to realise that the 'next page' image was a link.
Tragically, due largely to Covid, Muji has only one store left in the US, in Manhattan.

I'm hoping they can bring them back, though, there's nothing to compare to. In the meantime, online shipping works fine for what they happen to offer on the website, and that stock has increased recently, which is encouraging.

I can recommend their luggage in particular, there's just nothing quite like it.
If you give me the option to verify my account for 1$ or something like that instead, I'd much prefer and just use that and accept it as an alternative. If phone number is enforced as the only option, I find it hard to believe that spam is the only reason you want it and that the phone number won't be used for other things (in the future).

As has been said, there is sadly little reason to trust a company in that regard. Usages of user data are always expanded upon, official (or unofficial) promises from companys aren't worth anything, and leaks also happen all the time.
These are not political reasons for 'pushing' the vaccine. They are reactions to the government being held back (by political/ideological reasons) from pushing the vaccine.

Studies have indicated a positive health benefit for children, so let's get on with it. No politics needed to make that judgement.
Discord's search cannot look across multiple "servers". If I remember saying something to one of three groups of friends, but cannot remember which one it was, I need to repeat the search once for each "server".
In particular, scheduling over the phone avoids a lot of back-and-forth about which time works for whom.

There is also a legal concern - phone calls often times cannot be recorded so one can be more loose with their language.
$50 order here. Good damn marketing.
The data is received via OTLP (Otel protocol) and almost immediately inserted into ClickHouse buffer table in small batches. Simple and very efficient.

Tail-based sampling will require buffering spans in memory for some time, but tail-based sampling is not implemented yet.

Cloud version also uses Kafka to survive surges in traffic, but I guess "personal" / company version does not need that as much. So no need to introduce additional dependency.
For older kids, I think bricolage and manual labor can bring some of this attitudes you talk about.

The digital world is mostly done. Everything, from social networks, to videogames is studied to avoid frustration, be addictive, and generate a dopamine rush. When not, like competitive gaming and so... the skill gap is too big and the entrance barrier too high

Manual labor cannot be so easily simplified and automatized. Yes, you need to perform a task and, if it's common enough, you'll have a Youtube tutorial at one click reach. But that's not so easy in the real world, because you'll eventually find obstacles and unforeseen problems. Usually, the uploader is a skilled guy for whom, some situations, are not even worth mentioning, but will be a problem for a newbie.

Furthermore many basic manual task are not to be found in Youtube, because they're too specific. Yes, you can find a tutorial on how to hang something to a wall, but you need to hang an object of an specific shape, between two walls corner, where some other object is an obstacle.

In those cases, you're mostly on your own, but the task is achievable
> I consider every one on HN either a dev or a sysadmin

Again. Even if 100% of people on HN are devs and sysadmins, why do you assume that your particular interests are a must for everyone on HN?

Or that everyone on HN would be interested in spending time to set up a Raspberry Pi with a media server and IRC bouncer?

I'm a dev. I have far more interesting things to do in my spare time than that. Far more interesting to me.
>3

Discord servers can be configured to not require an account

>4

Each message has a URL. You can easily copy a link to a message.

>5

Discord allows you to search all messages in a server and use filters too.
Ask HN: How often do you use Git commit history for projects you work on?
Biggest issue is how hard it is to maintain bridges, specifically bridges to closed systems like WhatsApp.

Also list time I ran it synapse was a monster to operate requiring lots and lots of resources.
I think it’s a mistake to assume that developers can, or should, only talk to each other in one specific way.

Every project I’m involved in has some mix of ephemeral chat and more permanent, long-lived communication. It could be as simple as a Discord and GitHub issues. Everyone understands that the chat is for quick conversations and GitHub issues is where things are documented for collaboration.

In my experience, trying to force everyone into a single mode of communication becomes more of a problem. GitHub issues are impossible to follow when they have hundreds of side debates that should have been chats. IRC logs are impossible to consume when you have to search for vague keywords through endless months of backlogs to try to parse out specific topics.

Let people discuss things where it fits best.
Actually pay for the content. That is hire people to generate/review and vet it.
> if it weren't a horrible shade of yellow-green

You may try any of different methods of making it white again: https://www.howtocleanstuff.net/how-to-whiten-yellowed-plast...

Looks really neat using Peroxide method: https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-learn-how-whiten-you...