skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Richard Stallman browses the web via email.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).

> perfect to keep an archive of important stuff

Most stuff is not important.
There was also a lot less diversity (in some ways) however with Web 1. You were fairly likely to be talking to someone quite nerdy or at least with similar hobbies. The barrier to entry is also of course much lower now generally. I agree the upvote / downvote system can SOMETIMES disappear a valid opinion but I cannot currently think of a better way to self moderate discussions like we have here.

The same thing does happen to an extent during in person conversations but the barrier for both making a challenging statement and "downvoting" a challenging statement or action is higher.

HN may not be able to actually BE what Web 1.0 was but it seems to make an honest attempt at it in the modern world.
IIRC you can chew gum in singapore, you just can't buy or sell it (similar to weed laws in certain U.S. states).
This could seem pithy, but as a middle-aged software developer with a comfortable existence, I recognize a lot of where you're coming from.

I think that it's hard to reduce work hours too - it's how a lot of us in industry define ourselves; commits, features, bugfixes and projects are how we look back and measure success.

But reducing work hours and taking time back for yourself is part of the solution, I reckon.

I took a week off work a little while ago and went for a 300+ mile multi-day cycle ride (stopping in at restaurants, bars and hotels along the way -- nothing fancy, but all different experiences and conversations).

I don't know if it's realistic to spend more than a month doing that -- or whether I'd begin to feel guilty because not everyone can take the opportunity to -- but it genuinely improved my sense of self and health, for a while at least.
Current answers are dealing with the technical aspect of the question, I'm gonna go in the other direction slightly.

I've gone through a couple of leetcode style interviews recently. Basically it's either you've seen the question or have done a similar style question. I don't see how you can solve a question like that during an interview otherwise.

I'm sure some people can solve things like that on the spot, but their minds must work differently than mine.

I liked one of the comments on leetcode.com that basically amounted to:"some guy wrote a phd to solve this problem and 30 years later we're now expected to solve this in under 30 minutes in artificially stress induced conditions".
I suspect the side panel version
All python projects using Flask<2 that failed to pin their transitive dependencies (which is unfortunately somewhat common) are failing builds due to a breaking change, as of today.
Meta's VR platform hits 300k members
It’s dumber than that. The chrome extension requires *.facebook.com host permission. It can literally do whatever it wants - add friends, delete your profile, etc. You could write this same article about gmail, twitter, etc, any site in the world. The author just doesn’t understand chrome extension permissions
I can appreciate your POV, but your experience is not the same as mine. DIY and maintenance is a thing of the past. At least the kind that I think you're referring to.

If you buy hardware that's well supported and proven, that isn't a thing anymore. You already have to do that with MacOS, so why should Linux be any different?
>Anecdotally, it works fine if implemented up front.

Parent of a young child, can confirm your anecdote with my anecdote. My daughter's screentime has always been strictly enforced, so there's nothing to "cut back". She reads a lot of books in her free time without complaint.
Driving E-Ink Displays
I believe the major browsers deprecated this a little while ago. You can still use basic auth and everything, just not via a URL like this.
A couple generations now have been introduced to email via Webmail rather than email clients so it's momentum and most people just don't gaf.
It's not that you have valid uses for your devices. It's that you trust yourself with the self-control to not to use the devices improperly or in ways that could be self-harmful, or, if so, to be able to bear the consequences. Adults can also drive, but children can't. There is no inconsistency there, either.

Writing as a parent who has had to deal with children staying up late at night, way after they should be sleeping, and looking up things on devices that I would consider inappropriate for both children and adults.
Even if the Laws were real (they're not) they won't work if all you have to do is add some adversarial interference to some neural thing to make the robot think that the human is not a human, or, even better, another robot that will harm a human. Then it's a moral imperative under 3LoR to destroy that "robot".

This trick also works on humans: you can often circumvent their "protect humans" programming by simply messing with their classification system to label a human as "terrorist", "infidel", or even "unemployed".
Maybe it depends on the cities but where I live, these scooters are limited to about 12.5 mph (20 km/h), and are supposed to share the space with bikes on the bike lanes and road, not on the sidewalk.
So while they are indeed parked on the sidewalk everywhere, I do not see them as dangerous at all.
Related:

The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20845112 - Aug 2019 (72 comments)

A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18989705 - Jan 2019 (30 comments)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy talked about this...

> THE WISE OLD BIRD: Listen. Our world suffered two blights. One was the blight of the robots.

> ARTHUR DENT: Tried to take over, did they?

> THE WISE OLD BIRD: Oh no, no, no my dear fellow. Much worse than that. They told us they liked us.

I tweeted about a similar situation a while back: https://twitter.com/riskable/status/1477405779699564546
May the stars, the galaxy and all forces of nature combined push me away from any Windows OS from now on and, at the same time, pull me towards Debian and its likes.
they make so much money they can disregard user expierence
Logging in and password recovery are two tasks that usually happen to extremely fatigued users. I'd like to briefly state that I absolutely loathe a lot of modern design decisions when it comes to authentication flow - the two page challenge system (first U/N then password) in particular provides an overly opaque login process that breaks a lot of password managers. That said - forcing the user to fail to auth before they can land on a page that lets them recover their password is a bad design. A lot of users know they've forgotten their password before they even try typing it. If it takes 3-5 failures to actually get the information on how to recover an account you'll lose a few users before the first failed attempt (they'll just walk away from your site) and most users by the time they've failed twice. Users have been trained that three failed login attempts can lock you out of an account - most will not just spam "blakdnasfnasnjsaja" into the password box three times in the hope that it gives them a forgot your password prompt... nearly none will do that five times.

On every page or widget you ask for authentication for you should have a clear nearby link that says "Forgot your Password?" this link shouldn't be in the standard information display text color (i.e. maybe black or a soft grey) and un-underlined because "it looks slick" - it should be obvious as hell, it's probably one of the best places to make sure of the old "color: blue; text-decoration: underline" styles[1] just so that users that are unfamiliar with your standard link coloration have absolutely no confusion.

I consider myself to generally not be a design oriented person, but I've seen this particular mistake cost so much business over my career that it is a hill I'm willing to die on. "Forgot your password" links need to be clear and constantly accessible - you should push back aggressively against anyone who wants to pop a little paper clip in there with a speech bubble of "It looks like you may be having trouble logging in" or anything else that deviates from those three words. When we're frustrated with a site we all just want to see "Forgot your password?" in blue and know immediately what we need to do - we never want to need to endure your design decisions or technical limitations to get there.

This component needs to be easy.

1. Ubisoft is a great example of this - they've got an extremely javascript laden login page for UPlay and yet "Forgot your password?" is written using that precise three word spell and is in "I'm a link from the 90s" blue - they decided to remove the underlining which is a frequent design decision these days (one I disagree with) but otherwise they're making it as blatant as possible https://account.ubisoft.com/en-US/login There's a bunch of stuff I'd complain about on this page (including the fact that on my browser on a 1080p screen I somehow end up with two different scroll bars) but it knows what's important.
I don't think it gets quite to the level of customization you want, but I find Feedly to be very good and is definitely cross-platform. Give it a try if you haven't. The for-pay Pro model has some extra features, and I have had good luck contacting their support.
> some healthy skepticism (EDIT: in the "trust, but verify" sense) is warranted, even towards one's doctor.

That's fair, but for all you know OP is making stuff up, has been misdiagnosed and 50 other things that could be true that would make their well intentioned unqualified advice utterly irrelevant and dangerous to boot.

Just like you shouldn't take legal advice from ACs on the internet you shouldn't take medical advice from them either, especially when they're novelty accounts promoting diets that have been used to 'cure' everything from cancer to epilepsy, Alzheimers and TBC. Extreme skepticism is warranted there. As for your doctor: assuming they're a diabetes specialist: you should put your faith in them, and if you don't trust them then you should go find yourself another doctor, not start taking randos advice.
windows 7 still the best
Yes, and it makes sense in some cases. Supervisord is awesome for this.
I've never read so many words and understood so few of them. This is some really complex stuff, kudos to the author for this deep dive, it clearly took a lot of work.
Oh, I expect that you'd use NN NLP to do accurate parsing/tagging/NER then write rules based on the output of that parsing.

If you look at https://explosion.ai/demos/displacy, you can see the high-level information you can extract from sentences nowadays, which better matches our understanding of how grammar rules work.

And that's an approach that does generalize to languages like Japanese.
Engineering Org Structures– The QRF Team Model
> So for fun, I wanted to see how many steps it would take to get the information contained in those alerts into a usable RSS feed.

The author did it for fun, but if you ever find yourself in this situation and need a solution fast, consider Kill The Newsletter[1]. Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source[2].

[1]: https://kill-the-newsletter.com

[2]: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
Also see: interesting boring technology

https://www.cat-bus.com/2018/01/far-from-boringmeet-the-most...
Why Cycling Critics Are Wrong About Winter
Funny how back in 2015 node.js was seen as some exciting unstable thing.

In 2022 it's honestly the most practical choice for me - I'd like to play with other stuff but if I had to a put a backend together quickly I'd undoubtedly reach for node.

(Though I realise I'm missing the forest for the trees here - your boring technology is not necessarily mine).
Unfortunately this is often the case for hiring. It shouldn't be, but it is.

When it comes to promotions it's a shitty employer that doesn't tell their people how to improve.
Have you tried to message that guy? I'd love to read his response.
From UX perspective Windows 3.11 was the peak of Windows and it went downhill since then. Every time time I use Win7 or later for more than 10 min for anything other than browsing my blood pressure goes up.
Pinned tabs + containers + bookmark sessions makes keeping things silo'd on the internet much easier.
> Outlook is part of office or windows

This is yet another option, Outlook the email service. Neither Outlook the Office application nor Outlook the bundled free Windows mail client have ads (currently).

This is only the free Outlook mail service web interface.
Oh I see, your main issue wasn't with the UI design, it was with the UX design. The original intention was that it acted as a gateway to content on the internet - like with Google.

Unfortunately that UX isn't the best because most sites linked to are slow, annoying or broken in some way. Imgur fixed that though.
I agree - this could make an excellent discussion on its own. I bet we would see a large variety of opinions - the internet enabled all kinds of new methods of communication which in turn inspired different dreams in different people.
If you're being attacked with a wrench, wouldn't you want to avoid deniable encryption?

If there's no way to 100% establish that all the money has been extracted, an attacker might keep going indefinitely to see if there's more.
Blackmagic Davinci Resolve is a good Premiere replacement and can replace parts of AE. It runs well on Linux.

Pixelmator on macOS is a good Photoshop replacement.

I got nothing for Lightroom or heavier uses of AE. Or Excel.
Well I have 3 years before Win10 reaches EOL and then I'm moving on to greener pastures. Linux desktop has matured enough for my needs.
You lost me at „cron is good enough”. Cron is not even remotely good enough on any project which becomes anything more than a simple POC. Maybe You also run production servers in gnu screens? Come on.
But there are basically doing everything now? And it works for the vast majority of people
NATO is said to be planning a VC-like fund for some of the reasons you have stated: https://sifted.eu/articles/nato-war-startups/

However, I also think some defense tech might have lots of civilian applications, like the Internet.

I know they are looking after e.g. autonomous submarine drones. I can imagine the same tech would be able to power non-manned surface vessels.
LLVM is also more modular. The front-end and back-ends are well decoupled and it’s possible to work on them separately. Useful for a company that has to target two CPU architectures.
If your threat model is the police, a wrench could be a best case scenario for you. If you can prove the police took a wrench to you during an interrogation you're definitely getting the case thrown out.
Scientists demonstrate self-awareness in fish
OK, I was a bit presumptuous. Replace "you" with "the public at large".
Background on RichardIsAFuckingIdiotControl: https://mcfunley.com/from-the-annals-of-dubious-achievement
Have you ever done hard drugs?

Edit: This is being downvoted; if someone wanted to disagree, they could respond and say "yes, I have both done hard drugs and played superstimulating video games as a nine-year-old, and there's no comparison".

I have done both, and I think the comparison is valid.
The copy is extremely manipulative.

They're playing on the idea that users will think "Bigger ads? Why the hell would I want bigger ads? This is obviously a trick to try to get me to click that.", when in actual fact, Microsoft don't want that.

The choice is actually between having ads show up as faux-emails (making them difficult to avoid) and having them show up on the side (making them easier to ignore, despite the "Bigger ads" copy). They want you to pick the option where you don't have banner blindness.
This is part of the research I find more exciting, but the challenge is to actually make this work for things which aren't MNIST. I might be wrong on this, but I haven't seen any novel learning rules deal with Fashion MNIST or CIFAR so far. MNIST can be solved based only on image statistics and is a bad check in this regard - almost everything can learn MNIST
this feels both clever and stupid at the same time - not you but the software games you have to play.
What happened to just hiding the power cord or keyboard :) That's what worked for my parents when I was growing up. But we also only had one "family" computer as the internet and PCs were expensive.
A Neuroscience-Backed Approach to Team Building
I definitely enter urls into my address bar. It would be absurd to assume I’m alone. My meters are ppprk.com (for Passport Parking) so I type in ppprk.com.
That's a pretty different situation than what people who walk around cities for transportation deal with. I have no objections to banning scooters, bikes, etc from recreational pedestrian areas.
A lot of the replies here are recommending Ubuntu - I'm going to recommend PopOS.
It's built on top of Ubuntu, but comes with a newer kernel (better new hardware compatibility), graphics drivers, and some sensible defaults.

Some optimizations for laptops with graphics switching is great too.
I'm only speaking from the POV of sports but every NFL, EPL and Champions League game I've watched has seemingly been packed/sold out.
Once again, shouldn't that be controlled by the browser? The users browser is making the request, not the website.
I pitch this at work as "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology", and explain that it's a phrased coined by former Nintendo engineer Gunpei Yokoi to describe how Nintendo consistently delivers unique and profitable gaming experiences: innovating by combining old, reliable technologies in new ways.

Attaching a large and successful company's name to the principle helps it go over with corporate types. Think how much leverage has been gained for HTTP APIs simply by saying "Hey, Amazon does it!"
Those are very large numbers for something that doesn’t work very well.
Logging in with a MS account automatically uploads your documents to their cloud?

Cool…
Begging website operators to implement RSS is a dead end. If it worked, RSS would be ubiquitous and we wouldn't have these kinds of futile submissions that preach to the choir.

Instead of hoping every website operator in the world does something, it seems far more scalable to centralize efforts into a youtube-dl style repository so anyone can host their own website-to-RSS gateway.
They care a lot about those people. The USG runs billions of dollars of MS software on classified/offline networks.
A hybrid solution involving C++ and Rust would make your operational costs soar. No sane person with a budget they're being measured against would ever advocate for that. This gets to the whole problem I have with Rust - I don't see its value proposition. If I have an existing C++ project it makes no economic sense to migrate to Rust. If I have a greenfield project then what is Rust bringing me that Go isn't? Keeping in mind it's far easier to build a team comprised of competent Go developers than it is to build one comprised of competent Rust developers. It seems to me Rust fills very niche cases.

What am I missing?
I would love to do buy gstreamer course to learn more, I am finding the documentation hard to navigate on the macOS platform, it seems very linux friendly. Keeping an eye for study materials.
You're right, it's not a silver bullet but it is another defense for the probable cases that they didn't make a copy.
Can you not? I play Rockband on Linux with a real-ass guitar, I had no idea that random gaming HID didn't just get passed through like any other controller.
Heavy Linux user since about 2000, was my main desktop (and laptop!) operating system from about 2002-2011. Mainly Mandrake (mostly early on), Ubuntu, Gentoo (on the laptop, and elsewhere—probably my most-used personal distro), and Debian. I most recently gave it a serious go about a year ago (Fedora and Ubuntu, plus some Void [Void was pretty nice!])

Can confirm it's a mess and there was no hyperbole in the original description. The only reason I didn't realize it back in the 00s was because I was only comparing it to Windows and pre-X macOS (well, and BeOS, but I was under no illusions that was a viable alternative). And, spyware and adware aside (not to dismiss those, they're why I still consider it unsuited for serious work) Windows got a lot better over that span.

In hindsight I can tell that I'd become blind to all the time I was losing to it. I'd lose 30 minutes or a whole day fucking with dumb shit that I never should have had to, and a week later I'd have told you "no, Linux isn't that hard to keep up!" I'd trained myself to avoid doing a bunch of stuff with my computers because it would rarely work and often trigger glitches or crashes (like drag-n-drop operations). Now, when I periodically go back to it, that stuff slaps me in the face so hard it's impossible for me to miss, now that I'm not used to being slapped in the face daily. Missing functionality and software doesn't help either.
A few years back I lost 30 lbs over the course of a year using Lose It. I didn't make any major dietary changes other than reducing total caloric intake. I found that ballpark estimating calories for restaurant food was fairly easy and close enough. I never weighed my food. I even went over my caloric budget fairly often and would just make up for it the next day. Overall, it was surprisingly simple to lose the weight but I did find myself hungry more often than I would have liked. After regaining that weight over the last two years, I recently bought an exercise bike. I'm hoping that the regular exercise it provides will help suppress my appetite. I have been thinking about picking up Lose It again, and this thread has convinced me.
I have very little understanding of what all this means
NSA, Facebook, LexisNexus (neé Seisent), others, have uniquely identified and track everyone, in near realtime. There need not be any bots, sockpuppets, fake accounts.

Alas, fraud is Facebook's biz model. Effectively preventing inauthentic activity would reveal the lie. Better the bureaucratic kabuki, shielding Facebook (and others) with the respectable veneer of plausible denability.
If violence was an option in this hypothetical, it would have already been used to get the password anyway.
(another way to look at it: it's your time, ultimately: and you get to decide how to spend it)
Any statement that history has shown keeps being repeated with very little factual support to back it up. His comments on FSD come to mind as do some of his comments about how far along Tesla is on various products.
Data Intuition Case Study: Grain-Free Dog Food and Heart Disease
I've wondered where they came up with their formula, because it's not obvious and the results are so clearly wrong in many simple cases. The best I can figure is that they just re-worked some some formula from back in the green-screen CRT days and it's just laughably inappropriate now.
You don't pop the min, you pop the top of the stack.