skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What exactly do you mean by smartphone on wheels?

A car that requires a subscription or an account to use all of its features. Or a car that requires me to use a big touchscreen while driving.

I do like all kinds of modern conveniences, like lane assist or semi-autonomous driving on the autobahn/freeway. I like it when the media center is smart and can play Spotify and show me a list of radio channels with pictures and so on.

I don't like it when the media center or the GPS is too deeply integrated into the car, I've had too many cars where the radio became outdated quickly. Ideally, you should be able to buy the car and the media center separately like in the olden days, but I think that ship has sailed.

What I don't like is car makers using DRM and other tech to extract more money from me. Cars are ridiculously overpriced anyway (First, cars loose a lot of value the moment you leave the dealership. Second, the dealerships are able to give crazy discounts on the list price.)
I'm sure this will be killed off just like the CHIP computer
Discoverability based on more specific categories, like "humor/comedy" "movies" "advice" would be more helpful than trying to triangulate between what a writer/author reads and what a new reader is reading. Writers who are more open-minded subscribe to newsletters that have nothing to do with the content they write about. If a reader is interested in more "humor" writing, for example, it doesn't make any sense to suggest a travel newsletter simply because the author of the article they are looking at reads it, and you are deeming it higher quality because of that when it may not really be better than other newsletters in the same category but rather a reflection of a personal relationship the author has with another author. To a lesser extent the same goes for the readers of a publication. People have eclectic tastes and are not monolithic. But as a reader if I'm enjoying an article under the category "movies" then I would appreciate seeing articles that are tagged with related terms like "film" "cinema" "movie recommendations" "movie reviews." The lack of tagging or more nuance in the categories Substack offers really limits discoverability.
A line that becomes great(er) after you've read the book is not what most people would think of as a great opening line. Personally I think a plain line can work as well as a more baroque one, and that's in general what Wolfe does so well. Fifth Head of Cerberus left a big impression on me for that reason.
I'm far from a fan of Hitler, but I wonder why it's possible to talk about Stalin as an inspiring figure when the number of people he has killed is comparable (if not greater) than Hitler's victims (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...)? Ok, they were mostly "his own" people, but arguably that makes it even worse, not better?
Waterproof jack connectors do exist.
I might be in the minority but my love with the 7-11 sandwiches and most bread in Japan was very brief. I like crusts that aren't soft and nearly all bread and sandwiches in Japan are very, very soft without much bite. Most of the bread-based food is also just way too sweet, even the savory things.

The 7-11 sandwich shown further down in the article is probably one of the worst ones you could get (IMHO).

(I'm European if that matters in this discussion, not from the USA)
I don't think that's on Google.

The hotel industry is super heavily targeted with SEO spam. They're almost on par with online casinos in how much effort they put into manipulating search engines.
App notifications are not a feature but a detrimental annoyance.

Also useless, because it is very likely you cannot read the article at the moment you receive the notification, because you are busy.

I don't know what Substack is, but it seems similar to Medium, and as such an app is unnecessary. You don't need apps to display and read text, I already have a web browser. Distraction-free reading? Just make sure your pages are compatible with Reader View, or better yet, make a distraction free design in the first place.
Ask HN: Domain Name Registrars in EU?
What EU based domain name registrars are you using and would recommend?
What about 1347? Or 1816? Or 1914 and the 40 years that followed? Worse years did exist.
The Fritter app has this capability, if I remember correctly.
Spot on. Criminals will not be affected by these new laws. Perhaps this one is just a precursor of another law
I use the Xfinity one all the time (and have customer-owned equipment in my end, so I don’t even provide an Xfinity hotspot at home).

On that one, you login with your Xfinity account.
https://perfect-privacy.com if you're from Europe (they have most of their high bandwidth servers with good peering in Europe).

They've been raided multiple times (and are used by a lot of criminals - I think it's actually a good indicator when fraudsters trust your privacy service).

Raid in Rotterdam (Servers): https://torrentfreak.com/police-seize-two-perfect-privacy-vp...
Raid in Erfurt (Admins Home): https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2010-August/...

Also: Perfect-Privacy found an exploit (dubbed Port Fail) which was present in a lot of other commercial VPNs (PIA, nVPN, ovpn.to) and reported it to them before disclosing it publicly: https://torrentfreak.com/huge-security-flaw-can-expose-vpn-u...
> They don’t really care about anything or anyone other than themselves.

He's got a point, although I don't agree with some of his conspiracy theories (Which would be stronger if there was leaks or evidence). This virtue signalling sort of invites and signs people up to only care when it happens in their neighbours backyard but rather when it is happening to the rest or other parts of the world. Either way, you shouldn't play the virtue signalling game.

Remember the mainstream media's reporting on this 'happening to people with blue eyes and blond hair'? [0] Congratulations, they have just proved his point.

[0] https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1497974245737050120
> It's possible the author you linked was inspired by this as well.

More than possible; I'm pretty sure it's deliberate. They like to take well-known, even clichéd, elements and re-imagine them in new and creative ways.
This reminds me of LittleBits [1] many years ago i bought a kit from them that was really very expensive and had some fun. The only problem is i never touched them again after the first couple of weeks of playing with them. However, they're certainly an excellent learning tool for kids and beginners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LittleBits
They are quite good with nice general tutorials. Took a look at their openvpn ones when i was still at another provider. You can also sign up with leaving little data and they have been around for a while. I also never saw a mullvad ad, i think they live by (imho earned) word of mouth.

Thats not to say that they are perfect, your experience may vary with your use case, but in general i havent seen anything to complain about. Not something you can say about many of the other providers.
> Nikola Tesla and his every time crazier projects with no practical viability

I’m not sure this had to do with ego. He just seems to have enjoyed building crazy stuff.
I don't do that much on current events anymore but you might find my substack interesting: https://atis.substack.com
> Recently there has been some unfortunate drama with Basecamp and DHH but has the community and atmosphere around Rails always been “steeped in unnecessary drama”?

I haven’t been engaged in the Ruby/Rails communities for quite some time, but, yes, way back when I was, that was a key distinguishing feature between the Rails community and the non-Rails-focussed Ruby community; the Rails community was full of drama.
...the sources said Macron had been struck by how different Putin was to the man he had met in his summer residence on the French Riviera three years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-macron-found-dif...
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/

"Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official FreeBSD release. The freebsd-update(8) utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity."
>If someone job hops I don't recommend them for further interview rounds. Even in an agency setting were turn over is high. I don't want people like that on my team.

You can get assured, people don't want someone like you near them, too. You are doing them a favor. :)
A compelling but strangely simple opening indeed (and in the article). Heard some analysis on this that speculated that this is a heavy implication that Ishmael is not his real name, which makes the fact he wants to use a pseudonym a hook to read on.

(I also saw an amusing tweet once, something like:
Moby Dick has one of the most iconic openings in literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales")
It feels like there are almost as many CAD programs as there are programming languages with the big caveat that all the opensource CAD programs are terrible (FreeCAD), barely used by anyone (think SALOME) or underdeveloped.

FreeCAD isn't even terrible for any good reasons. If I had to dumb it down it would be "politics" because FreeCAD insists on certain puritanical design choices that have no practical reason to exist.

In FreeCAD, "Body" is a single solid, if you have an operation that fails to create a single solid, you just get an uninspiring error message, you don't even get to see a locked preview that shows you how far off you are from a valid single solid! Ever wondered why the 3D view of FreeCAD and Catia look so similar? Because FreeCAD is using opencascade. Catia has no single solid restriction so this artificial restriction is twice as enraging!

In FreeCAD datum planes must live up to their mathematical counterparts! Officially planes have no orientation i.e. a default direction. Yet when you try to attach a sketch, it will align the sketch based on a random position and you can even use the transform feature to rotate the plane! The first thing I have to do when I make a new sketch is draw an arrow that points up and then rotate the sketch so it actually points up! The demands to let planes show their hidden internal orientation have been shot down because planes have no orientation! Fantastic!

It's very similar to how relational algebra specifies sets of tuples but actual RDBMS allow you to have duplicates. Break the damn eggs, omelette tastes good.
My phone so far can't kill me, at least it's extremely unlikely, "my" car if does not obey a command might kill me or kill someone else leaving me as responsible for that. That's an important difference.

Also my phone need a certain level of complexity "my" car have NO REASON to from my own personal perspective: I do not need a connected car. I do not need a car where the OEM have the control and I have not. Such choice for cars are made for the sake of OEM, of surveillance capitalism, not for end users.

Also I do my best NOT using "my phone" exactly because of the crappy crap it is, I'll do my best to be desktop-bound, FLOSS desktop, I can't do much for UEFI and other fw crap, but at least they are less invasive and untrustable that Android/iOS.

For me, for cars and social evolution in general there is only one option: a big push from the people that mandate open hardware and free software making surveillance so heavily punished that no one have interest to steer in that direction.
I just don't know I'm sorry. I've also heard it's an issue, but I don't know how to go about finding produce that's particularly good or bad in that regard.

I'd guess a concentrated product that's developed specifically for detoxification, such as those linked below, may be free from toxicity. But this is a suggestion, not advice; I always recommend seeing a professional before taking these kinds of supplements.

https://iherb.com/pr/bioray-ndf-plus-gentle-heavy-metal-deto...

https://iherb.com/pr/planetary-herbals-cilantro-heavy-metal-...
Building a Sustainable, Federated European Cloud: A Vision for Europe
But why? I use it more now
Yes. When you're fighting for literal survival, if you're so married to virtue signaling at that point that you don't fight the existential threat first, you're probably fucked.

Do I like nazis? No. Do I associate with them? No. If working together with one is how I stop some jackass from killing us both, am I going to do it? Sure as hell yes.
> Yes, everyone who has the feature turned on is pooling their resources together to create a common utility that everyone with the feature benefits from. I fail to see how this is an issue.

They didn't opt in to it. That's the issue.
Forever according to their webpage - [https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free], maybe it will change. I just signed up and created the instance, nothing special.
Off topic; I really liked the design and typography. Seems to be hosted on Gitbook (if case anybody was wondering the same thing).
Drone likely flying from Ukraine crashes in Croatia
White lists are more effective at containing the maelstrom of drivel Twitter can throw at you.
Sending arbitrary SQL for remote execution feels very much like a remote shell, and can quickly turn into one with a misconfigured or buggy extension.
Not weird but I can share what has worked for me so far.

I'm pretty skinny but like to eat junk food and candy. My target weight is 80-82 kg. When I hit 90 kg I don't feel good about myself. Pants too tight etc.

First time I hit 90 kg was 2013. I tried intermittent fasting 8/16. This worked really well for me at that time. I lost weight really quickly. I could even continue my bad eating habits within the 8 hour window where eating is allowed and still loose weight.

I've stuck with a 8/16 diet with cheating up till now. Beginning of this year I hit 90 kg again. My old intermittent fasting diet did not seem to have the same effect any more (granted I cheated quite a bit at the end). I tried mixing it with Keto, counting every kcal, grams of carbs and fat in a log book. In one month I lost 8 kg so I think it was successful. I'm off Keto for now but I may be a trick you want to try. My main takeaways from Keto is that it really does take away your cravings. I could also do longer periods of fasting (did 36 hours two times) which I think would have been very hard for me when on a carb rich diet.
Also:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
The British should be careful to not throw stones from their glass kitchen.
Locking is non-trivial, don't just use flock. Use the maildir method and check for stale locks; it's atomic, portable, and NFS-safe.

Using Ohmycron is better than nothing, but it doesn't handle timeouts and stale locks and some other useful things. Seems like we still need a better universal wrapper for cron jobs.
It's probably also important from an information bubble point of view:
you selected those accounts you follow and with time you start to know them, so you have an idea of their opinions and biases and you can probably better judge of trends of opinion in a specific context.

With an algorithmic feed, it's probably easier to get biased into thinking that what is shown to you is representative of trends in the rest of the world. (even if we are conscious of the information bubble, our brain probably makes this construction).
I don't own such a complicated car contract so I don't understand: if you don't own the car, how can there be an aftermarket at all? Don't I have to give it back when I'm done with it, so I have no car for the aftermarket? I think I severely misunderstand one of the sides, because it doesn't make sense.
It's really hard to monetize being kind and respecting each other.
On the carbon footprint: Ethereum will adopt proof of stake soon, of course you can trade NFTs on other chains but at least there’s an effort to drop the carbon footprint to very low levels. That’s more than you can say about most economic activities that have a large carbon footprint.

The scams seems like a very weak reason. The internet is full of scams, is the internet evil?
Well, I got over 200% in the last 5 years. And my current employer will give a raise of 20% after one year with them. This was negotiated before.

In short: if you are unhappy with your payment, you have to realize owe more to yourself and your family than to some random company. Find another job, negotiate as much as you can and move on.
IMVHO that's *alone* it's a proof that actual narrative "Ukraine is the democratic invaded country and Russian the dictatorship invading it" is just propaganda, so *far from being true*.

I have not much sympathy for dictators in general, but the fact that's Putin is a dictator does not means the others are good and democratic people and that's *must be* learnt for the sake of our democracies because actually our own propaganda sound exactly like Chinese one, no more "news", no more "truth", no more "debate", just single-party official directive. In China the single party is formal, have uniforms and a flag, here it's anonymous suit and tie, no flags, but the rest is exactly the same.
>To be honest, I don't think DDG has a future purely because of the name. No way I'm telling non-techy friends that as I'll just get "what? Ducky go? Duck what? Are you being serious or is this a joke?"

Only as a side note/JFYI, naming something, particularly if aimed to be international/multilingual, is particularly tricky, duckduckgo may well sound funny to your friends, but - as an example - kagi (in Italy) would be pronounced the same as "cagi" which is a reknown historical maker of men underwear, to the point that "a cagi" is sometimes used as a synonym to "a tank top", and surely it would make some people think it as a joke.
I think the most blatant the censorship and editorialization get, the better for everybody. It is a shame that at this point of the internet we are still depending on 3-4 companies through which most of the content that gets generated passes.

The technology for content distribution in a distributed fashion has existed for decades, the only thing that is missing is a clever way to build network effects over that technology. We have a couple dozen available technologies to communicate with people without depending on those companies. But while most of them make it very easy to communicate 1-to-1, or 1-to-few, it is very difficult to grow those networks much bigger than that.
Okay! ;-) There you go.

> the right to make their own risk analysis

I really wonder where this comes from though. Do those people analyze the airworthiness of an airplane before boarding it? And the credentials of the pilot? Or do they just trust the airline, and their country's regulator?
Lmao, if you crypto weirdos had actually made some good things, then these ideas would be DOA.

Instead, cryptocurrencies became: scams, deflationary traps, scams, money laundromats, scams, digital casinos, scams, programming competitions where being first place means you steal someone else's money, programming competitions where NOT being first means you lost all YOUR money, and yet more scams. Whilst also driving up the price for consumer electronics to run these scams - because in order to run them you need unreal amounts of computing power to run a bad append-only ledger.
DIY sonar scanner (practical experiments) – a good introduction [video]
This is absolutely bonkers. We urgently have to regulate these companies. They cannot act as curators just when they decide to.
That's oversimplifying it. Banning encryption is a form of censorship (because words don't need to be manufactured), and censorship, as far, as I can tell, does have an effect.

For example, criminals who abuse children to produce pornography aren't going to follow laws against having child pornography. Does it follow that laws against the posession of child pornography have no effect in curbing abuse?

I think they do. Being seen with child pornography is a huge red flag indicating that you might be an abuser. Plus, the demand is lower. I see no reason this couldn't apply to encryption too.
Meaning, was it a good idea to have implemented Firecracker at all?

Every choice taken has consequences. Different choices have different consequences. Avoiding a choice has consequences.

Linux is (still) coded all in C. It is a terrible choice, but it works well enough to keep a billion phones and a billion websites operating. Language isn't fate.
Sometimes I find this very depressing. Nietzsche's the rare philosopher who wrote very clearly. He spent his life struggling to be absolutely clear and make himself understood. But the vast majority of secondary literature is just completely wrong, sometimes to the point of almost being libelous - I have Bertrand Russel's section on him in a History of Western Philosophy in mind as an example.

The end result is that most people have no idea what Nietzsche thought and believed, but he gets held up as an example of something he spent his life fighting.
Most social revolutions only occurred because the people in charge were incompetent and almost completely clueless. As long as the regime can co-opt (or otherwise remove) the potential leaders of this revolution and commit to some modest reforms it can survive almost indefinitely (without external interference, e.g. climate change, plague or war) at least this seems to have almost always been the case historically.
Consider the case of how to create a very strong facial recognition system, without relying on photos of actual people. This system provides a data generation capability suitable to produce a training set with billions of "people", none of whom have had their privacy wounded by having their specific face in the training set.
inwx.de
"“In five years, the penis will be obsolete,” said the salesman."

Steel Beach - John Varley.
Interesting, thanks for elaborating!

I have had similar thoughts: Having a low-level representation that only makes sure that a geometric object you reference actually exists (and does other low-level validations), then have a wrapper around that, that provides higher-level operations and makes sure your model is also manifold.

This isn't thought out yet, just some stuff I've pondered. Thanks for providing more input to my thought process!
> Swiss BIS

It's weird to call it swiss BIS, the place where international institutions are headquartered is not usually relevant :) We don't say Swiss FIFA, or Swiss WHO.
Makes sense for Chrome's behaviour, but that means Firefox is ignoring the "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff" header, which it supposedly respects: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/04/07/firefox-75-will...

Also, upon further investigation, I think both browsers are displaying the AVIF for me. It has quite a bit less detail than the JPEG, so it's identifiable.
Not much different than a remote invocation of any other database (ok, this is more "tool-friendly" so it may open up to more attacks). But your point stands.
This might fix that: https://dorverbin.github.io/refnerf/