skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long until my new desktop wallpaper?
> Right now though, one can argue that this actually gives more data than before (i.e. tracking + topics instead of just tracking), but try to think about the situation in the future.

Right. From a privacy perspetive, the goal obviously has to be to eliminate third-party cookies and various covert fingerprinting channels. That's what the whole "privacy sandbox" is about. Why does that proposal need to include a component for ad targeting? Because the other parts will be literally unlaunchable without that.

The German government, and by extension the EU, is pretty much controlled by the German media publishers. Whatever they want, they will get. They're even allowed to deploy the blatantly GDPR-violating "accept tracking, pay a subscription fee, or you can't read the article at all" consent dialogs, with zero repercussions. And what those publishers want is to continue tracking everyone with third-party cookies, to the extent that they are demanding the EU block Chrome from deprecating them[0]. If we want to kill third-party cookies, there must be some solution that even Axel Springer et al will have to concede is good enough.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/eccf5514-8b83-4d85-8305-f882adf5d...
> These standards led us to everything that has ruined the old web

That’s the entire contention, though. I don’t think the standards really had anything to do with it.

The only thing that even comes close is maybe DNS, since it ties web pages to specific organizations, so a page only continues to exist as long as an unbroken chain of custody keeps it there. But Gemini doesn’t even address that (ask IPFS and FreeNet how it’s going).

But mostly, browser vendors created the standards. And most of the current browser vendors became dominant browser vendors by using some other business to gain an edge in the market: Google used their ad business, sure, but before them it was Microsoft using their operating system to push their browser on people, and they largely just ignored the standards.

> entire thing has to be done in entirely different way where there is no possibility of repeating history

But does Gemini actually do that? What stops your client from making ad-hoc extensions to gemtext?

No amount of writing, or lack thereof, can stop evil Gemini browser vendors from just ignoring what the text says. You need something else to make sure that power players don’t just ignore the rules you set out.
FusionAuth Adds OpenAPI Support
docutils is a lower-level system than Sphinx

https://docutils.sourceforge.io/

Note also that the "help()" function

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#help

reads out these comments and prints them on the interactive console.
The opposite of supersample would be subsample.
>They can't do cheap labor 24/7/365 forever

Yes and no. China can't, no, but history tells us exactly what will happen. Japan used to be the "cheap and crappy electronics maker". At some point the population has been lifted enough that some other poor country will take over the bottom jobs. Likely somewhere in Africa. It is not as if China at some point will start to fall back to where it once were and even if it did all it would do would be to hold the production in China instead of the next country.

>Eventually we'll both need to rebalance price, jobs, security, and so on.

That will never happen.
I didn't realize how prescient was Dr. Evil in Austen Powers.
Here's my thought: most employees are quite risk averse, and businesses have been able to take advantage of that in order to negotiate better for wages (better=lower wages). The pandemic essentially forced people into being more comfortable in taking higher risks. It turns out that marginal increases in risk taking translate into wage gains.
This was certainly evident with some covid restrictions. Hamper the education and mental development of healthy children to protect the elderly at all costs
No I think the real insight is that production systems benefit from professional log monitoring tools more and dev environments benefit from real time light-weight on-demand immediacy of tailing.

He is increasing our understanding and awareness and warning us of the trap of tailing production systems because we get so used to doing it in dev.
I'm "obese" my medical standards but wear a size men's medium with a 34 waist simply because I workout a lot. BMI is a terrible estimator for anyone that lifts heavy weights. I can still run a mile in under 8 minutes too.

I'm always shocked the medical community still uses BMI in 2022.
Walter, watch out. You want to talk about dumbing down? California is considering a new law in which every computer language must have a keyword 'quine' which prints 'quine' . And none of this looking under the hood stuff. That's doing your own research. Trust the computer science! :)
They both look like they might be similar sizes in an illustration like that, but the Hubble mirror is 2.4 meters, whereas the JWST mirror is 6.5 meters, which has 7 times the light-gathering capability of Hubble.
Targeted spam is still spam. Unless I have asked for a recommendation, do not give it to me. Ultimately people are just used to advertising, although they still hate it when it shows up in their mailbox or on their doorstep in the form of a salesman.

Topics will just be another datapoint. A respectable ad agency will still try to collect as much information about you as possible.

Next up, integration with your operating system.
You know it will though.

If I as a user had the ability to select the subset of the lists of interests and ensure that only those interest categories are ever signaled to a site then I'd almost be fine with Google's current proposal. However, we all know Google will most likely never allow end user control and will go to great lengths to obfuscate what data they are actually sending to sites.
High Lead Levels Found in Majority of Malaysian Paint Brands - https://ipen.org/news/high-lead-levels-found-majority-malays...
The only situation where it would stop being "against my will" would be if Google advertised Chrome as "not a web browser, but rather a tool that I can use to leak my personal habits voluntarily."
I don't know if you've heard, but Russia and the USA haven't been best buddies for quite some time...
Install a Linux VM, run command-line Docker inside the VM.
No offence to anyone involved in this genuinely exciting and humbling project:

Please stop putting me on the edge of my seat until we’re just about to get our first images (many months from now)

I was excited about the launch, and happy to know it went better than expected so that there is extra fuel, but each milestone is burning me out. Let me know when the tests are done and we can view the images of distant objects.
I do 4 mile runs 3x a week. Play pickup basketball 1-2x a week. Lift weights 3x a week. Do deep breathing exercises at home (i.e. hold breath for 1 minute, 1.5 minutes, etc).
Real lessons http://katz.fastmail.us/scientist.html
they still mostly fall into the lines of established genres. Where are my Strategy/Adventure hybrids like great Dune 1? [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game)
He's also in the middle of a coast guard series he filmed last year. Pretty interesting stuff.
and it all stems back to "share holder value".

Which is just a business buzzphrase for "Greed."

The West is being eaten alive by its own greed, and the Chinese are just watching us do it.
They provide a mild amount of stimulation, motivation, and reduce the barriers for getting into flow. I also notice a bit of a mood boost and anxiolytic effect from both of them. This contrasts with a lot of other nootropics that seem to increase anxiety and irritability.
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Yeah, the changes in IQ described in studies on lead exposure are much smaller than gaps between races.
The notion of pouring hot water over plant leaves is not something that had to be "stolen" from China. For example it's been known in Ancient Egypt already.
> It’s not clear that increasing physical activity will actually reduce obesity.

But it's clear caloric deficit does. Physical activity can create a caloric deficit, but so can your diet. Just like revenues and costs, these numbers can't be taken in isolation.
Justin Richer on API Security with OAuth 2 [audio]
You are doing that right here (narrative with little data). Even the NPR article says "the labor force participation rate remains significantly smaller than before the pandemic and it's still hard for employers to fill open jobs". There is data to back this up and it's not just a narrative.
More importantly, both Apple and Fujitsu use custom designs.

Fujitsu has the fastest-ranked supercomputer with their custom ARM, and Apple felt confident enough in their M1 ARM to evict Intel.
What is the vector for lead exposure from paint? Do we think they are all eating it, or that their parents/landlords are constantly sanding it for some reason and not simply painting over it?

edit: Why am I being downvoted?
I doubt that people consume coffee because of its cognitive enhancing effect though.

I don't really believe there are no side effects, ritalin and coffee certainly have some. I also wouldn't want to use cognitive enhancers to solve problems. That said, I think it shouldn't be illegal.
China never was ahead.
For me this is 1. developing an intuition for which stars will have resource-rich planets, 2. arriving at the planets and actually doing the mineral scans to reveal sometimes huge deposits of whatever minerals, and 3. actually picking up the minerals without losing all my landers.

The first time I played through I lost all my landers a few times and wrote off those rich planets as impossible and didn't keep track of where they were.. then when my landers became better able to navigate the seismic / weather incidents forgot where they were. Now since I have Forbidden Plot Knowledge I can just jump right to the part where I have all the tech I want and am nearly unstoppable right away.
There were talks that people with certain SNPs don't feel modafinil.
> I feel like there is some huge conceptual divide here

The conceptual divide is that Google cares nothing about individuals' perspectives. To them it's not a user-agent, but rather a corporate-agent. Rather than producing software that represents users interests, users are treated as surveillance feedstock to be monitored and exploited contrary to their best interests.

This is the same theme as when their snake oil "security" requests you jump through hoops despite you having entered your longstanding secure password - they're talking about their security rather than yours. The same theme as when they relegate you to robosupport hell. The same theme as when they show you endless CAPTCHA images because your browsing setup has not leaked enough information about you to satisfy their surveillance collection. The same theme as why they don't allow you to set a billing limit for Google Cloud. The same theme as why they deprecate an older product because it doesn't fit their org chart. The same theme when they throw yet another monolithic dump of Android over the wall and consign millions of advanced technological devices to becoming e-waste.

This is of course a common perspective held by any large corporation, but Google is especially bad as their business was not built around receiving revenue from users directly. Rather they only profit by doing what they do "at scale", and that scale is large enough to make it so any individual simply does not matter.
Please consider supporting OSS destinations as well! They share the same values as you and could make for some interesting partnerships. I understand you have to have the big SaaS names, but that’s an opportunity to differentiate from your competitors !

Ps: experience is poor for https://oss-docs.castled.io on mobile, I cannot see a menu to switch pages
Its nice to be able to design things around Sci-Fi. However, still in 2022, there is no spacecraft that allows EVAs anywhere.
Operation fear is ticking along nicely
Calling the Space Shuttle "mostly reusable" is laughable. It cost 1.5 billion dollars per launch[1] whereas a reused Falcon 9 costs 50 million to launch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
This description of the "toxicity model," triggers on ostensibly negative words, but really, they're just words we use to show polarization between figure and ground.

Toxicity is poorly defined because it's an in-group euphemism for a kind of gendered disagreeableness, where its opposite or positive case is passive and agreeable, even passive aggressive. If there is such a thing as masculine aggression, there is also feminine aggression, and a lot of what we talk about as toxicity is really a criticism of masculine aggression using the lens or perspective of feminine aggression tools. I'd propose that when we say something is "toxic," we're talking about something that violates feminine norms around in-group alignment, security, reputation, reflection, impressions, "not a good look," etc. These are all things that require an imagined third party observer to potentially interpret and be offended by them, and are not codified by rules. Encoding this into an ML model is a lost cause, because you would need to reflect them through an AI that ran on pure neurotic animus to get a sense of whether something was toxic, or "not a good look." It's like assigning a sentiment score to someone saying, "Nice hair."

The example in the article of "Fuck dude, nurses are the shit," is ranked as 98%+ "toxic," because it has two frickative swear words associated with masculine aggression traits (disagreeableness, provocation, profanity, rebellion, dissonance, loudness, etc.) and easier to write rules for - except those rules would also need to incorporate whether the phrase was an expression of aggression, or using the opposite to be wry, ironic, or in the case of the example, to express awe.

I don't think we understand enough about psychology and people to really create effective moderation models with ML, and ML will necessarily create a kind of mean reversion in the discourse they monitor, which means all conversation subject to it will tend toward neutralization, which is essentially death. (Maybe we should fork an ML project for linking language with Jungian archetypes?)

We can keep trying, and applying it as a fast search scheme for prioritizing outliers to human moderators, but pleasing an ML model is a recipe for intellectual sterility. I'd even argue the inflection point in the growth of social platforms is when moderation creates this kind of mean reversion, and you are left with the bland platitudes of blue checkmark types, being cheered on as you "grind," and boomer memes that aren't as funny as Family Circus comics. It's just death.
>it has some pretty racist/right wing garbage posted

Did you examine Twitter rules on "hateful conduct"? [1] If some tweets break the rules just report them, hopefully Twitter will remove them or suspend the whole account.

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...
Decentralized Lambda-like service for Web3 DApps
Do you use it on it's own, or with other automation software like home assistant or openhab?
You cannot possibly blame the Chinese government or the people for the Corona virus. That's just insane.

Granted, the official response wasn't good. But a virus pandemic was ever only a question of time. It's unlikely it could have been prevented wherever it had started.
In the GPU market? I doubt Nvidia sees it that way with its current share of 83%
I read "Man Who was Thursday" and some of his other works... He always struck me as more of a "contrarian" than anything else. If he lived in a time when Christianity/Church was gaining popularity I think he would have declared himself a devout atheist. Reminds me of the "true neutral" alignment from the old Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks.
Good grief git is big.
I'm inclined to agree that some folks who stayed home (by choice or not) found that ... it wasn't that bad and doing so to find something else probably seems easier than it was before.

My wife is possibly taking a leave to care for her father ... she's thinking a lot about if she wants to go back. If she wasn't taking a leave that first step / time might not be there to decide to do something else.
As with anything else, your chances increase with the number of processes you have running.

If it blindly reads the pid and sends a kill signal, your odds are pretty good with a limit of 32K pids on a busy system. If it confirms that the process name matches an expected value, you have less of a chance.. but if your process name is bash, java, or python, maybe not as good as you would hope.

I don't have things crashing a lot, but it's naive to pretend that it never happens. It could result in two things: the rc system telling me that everything is fine or the rc system sending signals to some unrelated, poor, unsuspecting, processes.

I don't need a process monitor just for that. I have systemd. :-)
I wish it were easy to get custom keycaps. I couldn't find anything that fits my keyboard so I bought a few different sets and mutilated the best candidate with a mini drill. Not very economical, nor does the result look that clean. And, well, effort.
> Any effect that’s dwarfed by cars might as well be nothing, there’s no sense worrying about a splinter in a broken leg.

Now we’re conflating several different things. The overall contribution to AQI metrics might be dwarfed by cars, but the overall mortality is not - estimated rates of mortality from smoking related causes is higher than the estimated rates of mortality from pollution.

There might be no sense in looking at cigarette smoking to reduce AQI metrics, but there’s every reason to look at smoking to reduce premature death & hundreds of billions in unnecessary health care expenditure, right?

I don’t want to play armchair researcher and defend that paper, it just happened to be a primary source that I found online. If you want to pick apart the methodology, it’d be better to find a different primary source that empirically demonstrates that proximal secondhand smoke is not harmful.

I take responsibility for sending a slightly wrong impression, I didn’t mean to suggest that smoking is a huge contributor to pollution per-se, I see my comments implied that, but I was only trying to say that outdoor smoke in urban areas is a real risk factor to non-smokers, that exposure to secondhand smoke downtown is a very common occurrence, and it seems to be supported by some research. The point I was making is that secondhand smoke can and does affect people outdoors even if it doesn’t push the AQI, and the reason is proximity - smokers are on average hanging around much closer to non-smokers than cars are. The bulk of cars are far away on the freeway, while the bulk of smokers during the day are working near me, pre-pandemic anyway.
This might be something to check out:

ImportYeti

https://www.importyeti.com/
Thanks for addressing this. I think your approach of radical transparency goes a long way to quell paranoia around how HN works.
The “great resignation” was always suspect.

Think about it - who would take care of all those people in the western world. I could see it happening in Asian cultures, but in the west? Nah. It’s not in us.

I mean seriously, did we ever check ourselves to think that people would just stay home?

Sure a certain percentage will — and that’s actually a good thing, especially families where both mom and dad worked. Since the cost of child care the and the benefit of caring for your own child is so great.

But with most government subsidies ending, I see a lot of parents getting pretty antsy with grown kids at home.

Let’s get real, people are going to have to get off their tukuses that they have been sitting on over the last few years and head back to some kind of work.

It’s good if they choose something more satisfying, but most people will not have that luxury and the world does not owe us anything.

So back to work you lazy bums!!
I just moved to the suburbs and, while it is winter, I'm surprised to see that my wife and I are usually the only people walking to places. Even ones that are hundreds of feet from our door!
"HN's main software runs on a single core", wrote a moderator when I wrote to ask about why rapid (<2s?) subsequent actions were rejected by the server (ie. like a post and then favorite it).

This was November 2020 and he mentioned a big overhaul was in the works (of both HN and Arc, the programming language in which it is written).

We've seen new features since then, but the throttling is still there so it seems to still be the same situation regarding fundamental infrastructure.
Is there a way to scan my immediate area for an AirTag?

I would buy a device I could plug in to my car's USB that would alert me if an AirTag was near.
They do! It's nowhere near on-par with the Windows release but it can play your music: https://www.foobar2000.org/mac
Show HN: We made a playable web version of our word puzzle game
Hi HN, I'm half of a two-person game studio called Milkbag Games. We made a mobile & PC word puzzle game a few years ago called Sidewords. It's a unique blend of spatial puzzle and word puzzle. With the current Wordle craze we realized we could make a web-playable version with Wordle-style emoji sharing etc, so that's what we did.

We obviously don't expect it to be anywhere near as popular as Wordle, but hopefully people enjoy the spatial puzzle aspect of it. We aren't worried about making money, it's just a fun way to get more people to play our game.

As far as tech goes, the original game was made in Unity, but we decided to make this version using Pixi.js to cut down on load times. We do some interesting stuff to pre-generate puzzles (using dancing links/algorithm x), which we can talk about if there are questions about it.
Have you taken Rust appart yet?
Why so many 'Jeopardy ' champions are computer scientists
There IS a Mac version of Foobar2K now; check the site! Just discovered this myself. However, another commenter mentioned that it's quite incomplete/different.
The article seems to point to data that provides a variety of reasons.

Having said that I'm also not writing a news article so I think the standard for not having data is a bit different. I don't expect any random person on HN to source everything ... like I would a news article.
> I'm working on losing some weight by dieting but I just don't like sports.

What have you tried?

I discovered relatively late in life that I really like lifting weights. I'm really happy in my own zone with some music in my ears just pumping iron. Picking up heavy things and putting them down again, getting stronger.

I never even considered trying for so long because I was so burned by the whole "sports"-thing which just isn't my jam at all. Competition does absolutely nothing for me, but struggling against something difficult and overcoming is different. It's a problem to solve, a skill to hone; not a competition to win.
I dont think a programming language can be _magic_ when talking about syntax. Syntax is something that one knows or dont know but no magic is there.

It is like saying limit in math is magic.

I could agree that we can evaluate if it is magic a library or a standard library.

More to the point: In the Ruby apps that I saw so far and articles I read I get a different feeling: more and more the community is promoting clarity, explicitness, simplicity.

I somehow feel that from Ruby 2 forward metaprogramming is seen as last resort. Almost no guideline promotes magic in Ruby code by default. More syntax is actually removing the need to do “magic tricks” with the language. It makes explicit in some cases some things that people were doing with DSLs.

I feel that magic was more present in Ruby 1.9 for example than now even if syntax was more limited. I was solving a lot of things with metaprogramming, monkey patching, calling private attributes and more. Now I will not approve my own code from back then if I will see it in an MR.