skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are sex-themed text adventures (e.g. Drive-In in which you're at a Drive-in movie theatre with a date: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=gksf13iptntcx5m6 ) but most of the people writing "amateur literotica" are middle-aged women and the pre-VGA era PC has far fewer of those proportionally.

In terms of more conventional erotic literature (not branching narrative) that takes off more with widespread access to the Internet because it connects writers and audience. Today authors can gently shade over, from giving away fan-fiction on AO3 to producing cheap Amazon e-Books that make you enough to buy a coffee once in a while, to getting paid professionally to churn out stories for an outfit like Harlequin that can afford actual editors (even if you read two Romances a day like my mother, the fact Jim got taller and grew a beard in the course of a single chapter jumps out, not to mention the fact his older brother's name changed, and so she can tell if she's reading a story that a professional gave the once over before it was published). The Internet also caused readers to explore more, instead of buying a box of a dozen Edwardian-era Romantic fiction novels at a time, knowing that's more of something you like, when it's one click away why not find out whether you're into werewolves, or gay relationships, or the Wild West, or whatever? If you hate it you can click away and be reading yet more stories from the early 20th century British Empire in seconds.
Fire doesn't need any organization. It just needs oxygen and a spark. And I don't see how these protests are "well organized". People are just running, burning, and disabling government buildings. It's just like fire to me.
In the UK many smaller hotels have a public bookshelf where guests can swap their holiday reading
> Lots of weird extremely Russian-patriot sounding comments in this thread.

This kind of nonsense comments appear whenever there are people with positive comments on China or Russia. I guess my top level comment on this thread will be one of the "Russia-patriot" ones. For the record, I am an Indian living in Malaysia - I simply choose to read proper sources and be informed of geopolitical events rather than parrot US propaganda. I learned to do so after reading a book by an American, often mentioned in HN (the book is Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman).
Businesses ruined their web sites and everyone's browsing experience, not law makers.
I don't think Google Reader killed RSS. Sure, it was nice to have a common place to discover feeds but I don't think that was enough to make or break RSS.

I think the failing of RSS is that no major browsers have RSS indicators anymore. Defaults are king and if users need to install an extension, view source and search for feeds, paste the URL into a reader and hope that there is a feed or click an RSS link and wonder what this XML is then >90% of users won't use it.

If browsers add a "subscribe to this site" button that opens your reader or redirects to your "app store" to get one then there is a decent chance of non-trivial user adoption.
Longreads is great... I actually thought that was the one shutting down and just breathed a sigh of relief
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Hmm, I can definitely do it when talking to my child, where I mostly refer to myself as papa. To be honest, I’m not sure why I do this.

It’s papa that is tired, not me.
Seconded (I’m in academia, my wife is in government).
Use other people’s money to get into crypto
I'm bookmarking this and showing it to everyone that claims Julia is the next big thing. Kudos for really exercising the language despite all of these painful shortcomings (you must be a very patient person).
Net Metering Rethink: Rooftop Solar in Trouble
Google hit with 150 mln euro French fine for cookie breaches
One has to presume that they have priced this and found the non-cloud version over-all cheaper.

Labour isnt expensive if you're operating towards a minimum needed to function, and your systems are sufficiently operationally stable.
Hongkong: CitizenNews Will Cease Operation
That last part is key, authoritarian countries operate in the same way a criminal or mafia organization does. Any significant trade will have money siphoned out of it through corruption or just outright theft. It doesn't matter who you deal with in the country, the regime will take a cut somehow.
Or from SIGBOVIK? [0] :(

I commend to you the classic paper "Lowestcase and Uppestcase letters: Advances in Derp Learning", in the 2021 proceedings.

[0] http://www.sigbovik.org/
I don't know the specific implementation of stack exchange/overflow ads, but given the blatant disregard they've shown for the community I'm not expecting they've done the privacy-preserving thing
> to distract from the actual disgusting things they do.

I dislike war and all its horrors as well, but curious, what do you think would happen if a 'magic' event occurred and the US decommissioned its military presence and all advanced technology, command center software etc.. (MSFT/PLTR/etc) ? Surely no other country would abuse this in the next 100 years right? right?
Simple RSS for Android is still available at F-droid. It's 14 years out of maintenance & it still loads(with warning) & works for my feeds. Some give just a summary, some the 1st paragraph and a few still supply the whole article.

I am always on the lookout for a simple, decentralized, modern alternative, if anyone knows of any.
My first points are not that I want to use the space in such way - I too prefer to have it all clean and minimalistic. The problem is you *cannot* when you *need*.
I recently switched to a Micron pen for my diary (i.e. bullet journal) after years of using a pencil (favorites include the Musgrave Tennessee Red and the Blackwing 602). I like the extra precision they afford, but I did need to get used to the drying time.

They are widely available at most office supply stores, too, in the drafting/drawing aisle.
In my earlier reply to GP, I had forgotten about space exploration, and I think that is a major technological advancement that would amaze someone from 1922. However, I still think that someone from 1922 would expect such things of 2022 in a way that someone from 1822 would not expect of 1922. 1822 - 1922 is the difference between being a barely-technological world to being a fully-blown one, in many, many fields.
I never said that it was easy, I'm simply rejecting the idea that you're legally obliged to use the USD.
There's a nice RFC on machine naming - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1178 - but sadly the practice of giving machines memorable and distinctive names has largely died out at workplaces.
The screenshots also show that these accounts are created using the in-app features that allow individual operatives to generate 'temporary' email addresses, activate phone numbers and by-pass programming limitations, and email and OTP verification set by WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Telegram.

How do they verify phone number OTP's? Do they have access to SMS data through telecom companies too?
SMS OTP's are insecure anyway.
> What exactly are you supposed to do as a developer?

I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. If you were asked to kill someone, clearly you wouldn't say "what are you supposed to do anyway" and go off to find a murder weapon since the answer there is rather obvious. What makes being asked to violate a different law different? (Assuming you find the request morally objectionable, I've probably violated laws that I thought were counterproductive for everyone.)
> vocal minority

A vocal minority that gets paid a cushy upper middle class wage and can afford to “pay for every website view”.
spend a few minutes doing the assigned reading before the lecture
All company names in daily wtf are Initech and Initrode
“When two elephants fight, it’s the grass that does suffer”
When would it chime 4 times?
That's why "to galvanize" is a thing.
antonyms for eccentric

common.
conventional.
familiar.
normal.
Reading thru comments made me realize how narrow minded people are. You have to have embrace some principles and understanding of the life, ethics and technology before blaming the crypto world.

1- Anything can be abused, just because something is abused that doesn't mean it should be banned. Want to stop child abuse? Don't ask people to stop having children, go after abusers!

2- The fact that governments can print money whenever they want is a scam and some clever people want to be free of it. Demanding this is not a crime!

3- If you don't like it, then don't use it! It is simple as that.

4- If you don' know what decentralized means, you may start from what democracy means. And after finishing that, you should understand that when 51% of the population wants to ban the remanining 49% of people to live, it's no longor called as democracy, but fascism.

5- In order to understand crypto, you have to understand how paper money works and essentially how the world works in the first place.
I live in a suburb with a power station that was converted from coal to gas in the 70s. My older neighbours have told me that they had to careful when hanging clothes out to try, lest they got so dirty that they'd have to wash them again.
Is it public in a way that even those not staying in the hotel can leave and/or get books from it?
First off, congrats on your success.

One question - I know you mention in the article that your project was becoming a bit of a burden, but do you think you could've taken it further with a bit more time?
Fair enough. I'm not particularly good at web dev so maybe there are better ways.

In the spirit of the law, yes maybe it should be less about mechanism and more about policy. The law they got fined over was that "accepting tracking cookies should be as easy as refusing them". I do think its possible to amend that to say _something_ like "both accepting and refusing should offer a simple program accessible mechanism to do so". Combined with the existing law, it would mean the mechanism/API can't be made arbitrarily difficult to reject but easy to accept. There will be room for debate here too, but it fundamentally is possible because the banners have to use such a mechanism.
> Cookie banners should be made as much annoying as possible so that people hate it and begin to protest that law.

This is exactly what the advertising industry wants: You are confusing GDPR requirements with advertisers' malicious interpretations. GDPR doesn't require annoying your users; advertisers have chosen to require that all on their own.
This is absolutely insane and I'm so glad there are still companies and industries that don't give a fuck about any of this.
Tesla Model S with prototype battery covers 752 miles on single charge
I have not seen any evidence that they are directly behind it, but I am pretty sure that the various US services jump on oppurtunities as they see them. In particular in the former Soviet union.
Will software developers be the new heroes of the analytics world?
Damn straight. You stacking sats too? I buy BTC at least once a week. Yeah, 2021 BTC was all over the place and didn’t 5x like Eth. But I am very confident in its future.
Remove the words "of CS" from this paragraph and give this paragraph to every college (and high school) freshman. Well said.
Aw jeez. Every time a thread like this hits the front page, another increasingly expensive gets added to my collection. This time, Tactile Turn Bolt. If past is any indication, I will be fascinated by it for a month and then it will just travel alongside everything else, with my 10 other pens and pencils and 3 notebooks (all 5% filled and then forgotten).

Oh well. Whoever receives my inheritance will have an interesting time with all these. I hope they don't just immediately discard them.
I remember using this during hikes as a reminder to take a break and get some food and water into me.
Is Secure Boot ancient history? TPM 2.0 requirement? The quasi-requirement of a Microsoft account to use Windows? Ubiquitous telemetry that's impossible to disable? Cortana that cannot be removed and employs precarious workers without a confidentiality contract to transcribe everything people say and have no idea Cortana is recording? Blocking standards-compliant mail servers silently?

Microsoft is still a strong force for evil in this day and age. I only wish they were disbanded during the antitrust investigations of the 90s instead of putting Apple on life-support: the world of computing would be such a better place without both Apple and Microsoft to shit their monopoly on our faces.
I think it also has something to do with consciousness. Eccentrics are aware of their weirdness, they just don't care what others think.
Weird people don't know that they are weird.
There is also not really a way to enforce a physical concert ticket, but with a NFT, the owner can prove ownership and authenticity of the ticket (for example when re-selling a ticket), without relying on collaboration of the issuer of the ticket. The issuer can show that they created a fixed number of tickets and are not over-selling the event.
Given Initrode reference at the end I'd guess not. It's more of a BOFH vibe I think
No, the system is maintained by one single part time dev. That's the entire dev team.
Based on comments here, daddy doing it (unconciously) seems fairly normal.
Apparently the CIA also got in on the action, producing a fake sex tape of Sukarno, in order to kick off a revolution (to oust Sukarno).

More details here (along with the KBG story):
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-and-kgb-tried-to-bl...
Stocks because (you own part of a company which has assets and/or produces income), real estate obviously.
I use a random group of words as variable, etc. names when I can't think of them fast enough to stay in the flow. I find it easy to remember what each one does, and can go back and rename them to more reasonable things before doing a commit. It only takes missing one inexplicably named 'deodorant' variable, for me to want to sink into the depths of the Earth at the thought of people thinking I'm one of these eccentrics.
Worked out pretty well for India, they still court Russia and the US
Typically those people are prosecuted though, or at least they know to expect it. I don't think it's the same situation here.
I usually dig through the shit sites do to reject. But Facebook, Google and previously TechCrunch are so bad I actually accept on a whim (in private tabs, of course). Each time wishing for a strong punishment since it's clearly illegal.

Finally the regulators do something.
That is a very good point. I guess I am a South Korean through and through :p But I think it's just really hard to have those values when you either swim or drown (or at least you feel like you will drown). What I mean by reducing wealth inequality is to have more safety nets in place and increase the value of labour compared to capital gains so that people feel like they can breathe and look at other things in life that are valuable.
Sounds a lot simpler than the accumulation of dark patterns that web devs have implemented so far.
We are so prone to seeing patterns in randomness
Ubuntu Touch OTA-21 Release
It's great! It has surprised me for while that companies just didn't do it, it's quite well known.

One thing I'm slightly worried about is that they are not going to do the symmetric "accept"/"decline" all but actually make you click 3-4 times and accept/decline each cookie category (similar to how you have to refuse the google one currently atm), that would be properly annoying.

But let's hope not! This will certainly improve the situation.
Which makes no sense, but it is on the path towards the aim, that is, total submission of the "servers", one small step a time
Back in '82 I wrote a little Vic-20 assembler that would write over the memory used by the font, so I could create tiles for video games. The first test I made was simply a picture of John Belushi from an "Animal House" still. I showed that at the local Commodore store, and they asked to use it for their display computers and asked me to present at their computer club. After the presentation, a few days later, I started to see all manner of nudes being created with my little program by quite a few people.
Ah the glory days, when most of the time all you needed was one interview.
HE.net is advertising "Get BGP+IPv6+IPv4 for $0.09/Mbps!" in public
That's a fictional piece, right? Right??
https://archive.is/JCPbk
This website has taught me so much about travelling when I was in my early 20s, and I've been living out of a backpack ever since.
Ask HN: How to Write Readable Code
Hi HN, I write code and unit tests for other departments in my company. For me, writing code in a programming language feels natural, so I like to use the notation of the language itself. A colleague likes to write code more like prose so someone from another (non-IT) department should be able to read it. How do you deal with this in your company?
I think I read an article about this a few days ago, but I can't seem to find it anymore. Does someone still remember this?
If you go into the SwiftKey app and select "your tap map" it shows how it has arranged your keys for you.

Here's what it looks like for me https://i.imgur.com/cB6hYGW.jpg
Unix in the Browser Tab
Whether a certain amount of inflation is good or not, is definitely not up for debate. Nobody wants something that is a medium for value to become so valuable that you can't use it for its original purpose.
Paraphrased in the present, I guess.
> So, the relativity of "oh no I wish our best and brightest did something more productive with their time" becomes extremely apparent very quickly. Is it really that tempting to debate when you know the outcome of the debate?

I'd argue that the fact that we got to the point where the options are what you described might be an indicative that they (we) were never the best and brightest in the first place.
What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living?
This is about the dialogs on facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com. Not about dialogs on other sites that may or may not use ad networks.
HN & Reddit are my #1 & #2 go-to sites each morning.

I concur with the OP, with the additional note of accepting "being sucked in" to Reddit's dog-themed pages. I'm a sucker for an adoption story.
When I was seven years old, I had an uncle with a grey beard and an eye-patch that would take me out on walks and tell long stories about his history as a sailor in the merchant marines. He had been at sea for fourteen years and visited just about every country, even the landlocked ones he would say with his signature smoker's laugh. Uncle Robert tapped his pipe on the heel of his boot as we stopped. Not that his tale stopped, it would go on and on, but on this particularly vibrant autumn day I didn't mind that the old man didn't quite seem to make any point in his meandering story with endless fractal-like asides as the dappled sun played teased the pile of pipe-ash on the ground. I sometimes wonder if he talked just because he couldn't stand the silence and the memories of what really happened out at sea.

I think a lot of long form content sadly is long in order to be long, not because it has particularly much to say. Instead you get an overlong mess of barely relevant anecdotes and flourish that don't add to anything other than the length of the piece.

The problem with quality writing is that it takes time to think through and time to produce, and time is not something that is afforded journalists and writers today.
> but long-distance data transfer was normal - and the fax machine sending pictures was overseas was just two years away (1924).

"Quantity has a quality all its own"

-Joseph Stalin

Saying the fax let us move information long distance is like saying global trade was around in the middle ages because Macro Polo. The quantity difference is so big it becomes a qualitative difference.

I can arrange to have an arbitrary industrial doodad show up on my doorstep from literally the other side of the world while taking a shit. I can stream 1080p to/from damn near anywhere on the planet. In 30sec I can get answers to specific technical questions that would have taken hours for the president of the US to get an answer to in 1990. The list goes on. Communication and information are just so much more abundant than they were even 75yr ago.
Sad to read, but a truly exceptional life lived. May he rest in peace.

I highly recommend reading his autobiography. Even if you're not biologically inclined, it opens a window into a world when academia was very different from today and a brilliant mind that, through systematic thinking, trailblazed some areas of biology which are fields of their own today.
We could distribute the mining farms to people's homes to warm them up, this way everyone wins.
A python that knows python and linux is enough to support the up time needs and evolutions of this particular product. Actually a part time one.

The entire team is composed of half of one dev.

I'm 100% sure it's way cheaper than anybody that has AWS on resume.

Of course, some things have to give, like the global CND, and some data guarantees.

Everything is a compromise. It's all depend of what is important for your project.

EDIT: also, my comment was not meant to oppose the article, but rather confirm the view that you should calibrate your setup to your project. Doing so will lead to great savings in hosting, and project complexity. A lot of projects don't need the cloud.
This sounds fantastic. I should totally do this.
Yes, tests are good.

At the same time, my measuring stick is always, "Is the customer happy?" Software will never be perfect, so a zero bug rate is not a reasonable goal. Happy customers is quite a reasonable goal, and when they are not, their concerns direct where you need more quality.
And in almost one hundred years, we still haven’t made much progress on the fundamental questions in quantum mechanics, other than perhaps Bell’s theorem in the 60s.

I wonder if Einstein, Dirac, et al. would have thought in the early 1930s that the measurement problem would remain unresolved and that there would still not be a consistent theory for QM and GR almost a century later.
If I had not known we were talking about a 2022 bug, I'd have not guessed that Y2K22 meant 2022. I'd have guessed it was using the same convention widely used in electronics for writing component values, which would give 2220.

That convention is instead of writing something like 2.2 k you write 2k2, using the scaling suffix as the decimal separator.

I don't know how this convention came about put would guess it is some combination of it being more compact which might help with legible labeling on a schematic diagram or PCB, and of it stopping bickering over whether the decimal separator should be '.' or ',' on projects with an international team.