skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be ideal to have a "private" RSS feed for paid sub, I agree.

For now I use feedbin, which lets you subscribe to newsletters with a custom feedbin email. Other readers also do this.

The downside is that your substack login address has to be a feedbin address.
Hello Sandwich Guide to Japan
>But these alternative search engines kinda just remind me of why people started using Google. When I use them, I don't get spam

In the past few months at least half of my Google searches have had spam in the top 3 results. Literally malware domains that community-made filter lists are aware of but somehow Google chooses to share anyway.
Honestly, I'd just like a product hunt kind of thing, but maybe not for digital stuff. If I wanted to buy say, a mattress, I don't want to go through all these SEOed "reviews" on Google.
The Cult of the Sando
This one had no comments when I added mine.
the author is still alive for those wondering.
This is Apple we're talking about. I'd expect a 27" Studio edition to pop up this fall. I did buy the 2020 iMac and maxed it out with RAM, but then (regrettably) sold it for profit because I feared it would EOL by 2024.
that's weird that they mostly ignore the comparison to stylegan3:
https://nvlabs.github.io/stylegan3/

it's not a nerf based solution but since the goal is high resolution image syntesis..
Ultimately this is too idealistic. When everything including search engines can be used for spam and propaganda purposes, this reduces the value of the service.

On the other hand, if you censor too much then the service also becomes a part of ideology. It is hard to find proper balance but still we should attempt to do it.
A heart attack in the US can cost over $1 million to survive. Hope this put things in into perspective.
Do you mean their potential (mis)use is creepy, or are you genuinely scared by their "abilities"?
Do you know if Safari will ever support one of the newer formats?
Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened March 10
>One reason Kubernetes is so fast

I spit out my Pepsi at this. Some of us have actually used kubernetes with 5,000+ nodes. It's orders of magnitude slower than Mesos
I’m assuming you had the privilege of knowing your biological family, in which case it can be difficult to fully understand one’s motivation behind attempting to locate them.

“Anonymous” sperm and egg donors that are able to be found and contacted at least they knew they what they were signing up for in that 3rd parties would be using their gametes to have their own children. In this case, someone who had banked sperm for their use in the future only had it instead used in this situation.

This article brings attention to the dismal state of the fertility industry that has no professional accountability despite providing services to create new life. It is rather insensitive to trivialize what this person is feeling by calling her selfish for wanting to know who her father is as if it’s some luxury and lacking in empathy to dismiss these feelings by simply stating she is in denial. In addition to the trauma caused by learning that she was donor conceived, learning that clinic royally fucked up has robbed her of the opportunity to establish contact with her biological family due to the situation the clinic put her in.
> How many academic scientists end up being buried in managing science, particularly seeking funding?

Today??
100% of successful scientists.
Harpy on Android is pretty solid. Nice UI and loads fast. I seem to have some issues viewing threads when navigating to them from a retweet but I may just be missing something.
The US is not currently invading Canada and bombing Toronto.
You've already posted an article on Japanese sandwiches, and it's currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635550

HN doesn't really need multiple simultaneous discussions about Japanese sandwiches. You can always post links to related articles as comments in the existing discussion thread.
The main update is that JPEG XL is still not supported out of the box by any web browser, so it's not something you can use just yet. But if you're just looking for a comparison, there's one here: https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/
After WW1, the USSR and Germany were kind of the parias of European politics, that made them natural partners of convenience. And as you said, it was Germany that broke that partnership as soon as it did serve them anymore. The Wehrmacht owns a lot of its existence to the secret programs they Reichswehr ran with the Russians when they were still bound by the Versailles treaty limiting the German military.

I came to appreciate the interwar period as being at least as interesting as the two world wars, it is highly complex, wrought with conflict and so formative when it comes to WW2 and even the Cold War. This period is also tremendously under covered, maybe not in the East but absolutely in common German history lessons. But not diving deep into that period, so much context of WW2 is lost.
neeva is not respecting GDPR.

They have checked checkbox newsletter by default. Moreover, why they need a name for registration?
I would bet there’s a phenomenon at work here where you can addict almost everybody for a short time by doing X but long term a few become hardcore addicts and most become alienated.

It’s hard to tell that your actions have changed the kind of user who is most engaged until your platform is destroyed and consists of users who barely pay attention and addicts that feed off of each other and not much else (Facebook).

Metrics lie and optimizing for certain performance metrics ends up optimizing for exploiting human weaknesses which is actually somewhat uncommon in the population, which explains the process of optimizing your platform into irrelevance.
The WMD scandal was recorded live during Colin Powell at a UN conference. It was broadcast by pretty much all American news outlet.

The only difference between the US and Russia is the the US is a lot more subtle when it comes to generating propaganda.
While a fun read Joel on Software always seemed like a what-not-to-do blog to me.

The complexity for the sake of complexity!

No, you don't need to write your own programming language and compiler to deploy a webapp across multiple platforms.

No, you don't.

Whatever the problem is.

Yes, I understand it's complex but really, you don't.

(Even in 2006 when you couldn't just stuff your whole support stack into a container.)

Trust me.
Kagi +1

I love blocking domains without uBlacklist.
I'm failing to understand what this is.

Is stripe adding crypto support to the existing API (USD, EUR, and now some crypto coins). Or are they just allowing crypto businesses to accept fiat?
The hardware is very cool. The start of the integration with the dashboard is neat, but I'm not entirely sure how useful it would be other than making a video like this. Perhaps something like OSC or something could help keep it modular from a software standpoint and not so toy seeming. I also think a lot of software has whole knows what layers expecting hardware to not just suddenly disappear. Appear is maybe less a thing.
It seems pretty clear to me that the setting is symmetrical, and disabling it prevents your device from being discovered by other devices and from sending messages about other devices it discovers:

> Find My can use the Find My network to help find devices even if they are not connected to the internet and, for supported devices, even if they are turned off or erased. Devices in the Find My network use Bluetooth wireless technology to detect missing devices or compatible items nearby, including AirTags and compatible third-party products registered to your Apple ID, and report their approximate location back to the owner. If a device is turned off or erased, that location is also visible to members of the owner’s Family Sharing group with whom they have chosen to share the location. The interaction is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple cannot see the location of any offline device or reporting device. When your device participates in the Find My network, it can both be located by the network and anonymously help locate other missing devices. You can choose to have your iOS or iPadOS device not participate in the Find My network by going to Settings > [your name] > Find My > Find My [device] and tapping to disable Find My network.
NRX = neo-reactionary, for those not up to date with the latest political affiliation acronyms.
I don't cheer for dead Russian soldiers. I weep for them. It is a terrible tragedy that they had to die. And yesterday 1200 Ukrainian civilians died in Mariupol.

The video is propaganda because it mixes some real events by trying to present that all Ukrainians are like that or at least that the Ukrainian leaders are like that. It instigated war and now unexperienced Russian boys are being killed. And in Russia it is even forbidden to tell that there is a war going.
ExpressVPN works great for geolocked streaming services, which is all I ever turn it on for.
Steve Jobs vision for the original iPhone was to only have mesh networking to connect you to the internet and keep mobile carriers out. Looks like someone picked that up once enough iDevices had been sold.
8 Best Toasters of 2022 - Good Housekeeping
Published: Dec 9, 2021

Best toaster 2022: 12 toasters for every kitchen
Published: Jan 12, 2022

For a laugh I tried "best toaster 2023" and there are already two worthy pages.
this reminded me of that p2p sqlite project...i can't recall the name but seems like something like this that runs on mesh networks would be a game changer

you could create databases that can't ever be taken down
Are you claiming that the search results currently being downranked, i.e. Russian propaganda, is the "real information?" If so, who is that making richer?
It’s been mandatory since 2018. Browsers will reject certificates which have not been publicly logged.

Perhaps next you’ll wonder if it’s as simple as compromising a CA and a CT log? Nope, as browsers require cryptographic attestations from multiple CT logs. If you’re using Chrome, one of those logs has to be the one operated by Google.

Also such collusion will soon be defeated by SCT auditing https://www.hardenize.com/blog/certificate-transparency-sct-...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16G-Q7iN3kB46GSW5b-sfH5MO...
This site is maliciously messing with Reader Mode.
BBC is just way way better at it, way more subtle, having been doing this for 100 years. When push comes to shove they toe the line just like Russian or Chinese media. RT just doesn't have the same funding or talent to make stories more sophisticated. Obviously, the gov must hide any links to BBC to maintain the appearance of free press. But I'm sure pressure is exerted one way or the other, for example:

> From the late 1930s until the end of the Cold War, MI5 had an officer at the BBC vetting editorial applicants.

Looking at how UK and EU now outright banned Russian TV and media, I think it would go unnoticed if they started removing or just not hiring certain inconvenient journalists. Certain thoughts are just forbidden these days; it's career suicide to even doubt the gov line, just like during covid when it was practically forbidden to question gov measures or vaccines.
Educate who and how? What concrete steps should be taken right now instead of downranking manipulative information warfare?
JS disabled here and all I can see imagewise is the single mugshot of the author. Apparently you need javascript to show pictures. Is this deliberate perhaps. I wonder how much the JS weighs.
What will nuclear war be like?
What is the threshold for how informed someone must be in order to be allowed to give consent or make their own decisions here? What responsibility would you place on Apple here versus on the consumers of its devices, specifically?

More than likely if you ask for more than what exists what will actually happen is that another blurb will show up in the long terms of service that most people don't read and people aren't any more enlightened about what exactly their device does.
For sure it isn't. Let's imagine there is a imaginary currency λ which isn't affected by inflation. That way USD will have x% inflation when compared with λ and EUR will have y%. Those x% and y% will reflect all price changes in their respective economies.

If banks wouldn't give up to gold standard we would probably see almost no inflation since gold is a finite resource while fiat money are not.

We can even judge inflation by rising gold prices.
Blog dds: 2022-03-10 – The sorry state of software quality
We are all the result of decades of exposure to our own cultural environments. I grew up in Brazil, in a very racist, repressive, and misogynistic society, under a dictatorship, and I still have to police myself to avoid falling into the traps that were indoctrinated into my self. Each and every day I have to stop myself, take a step back, and actively decide to be a better person than the one I was raised to be.

That guy may be an a*hole, but I wouldn’t say isolating him will help drive the realisation he’s wrong and hurting others.
I think this particular usage of monopoly is suspect/leading.

Tile has a monopoly on Tile devices. Ford has a monopoly on F-150s.

Yes a company has a monopoly on its products in many/most cases. That doesn’t mean they have a monopoly on the market though.
Then again I wouldn't qualify peanut butter and jelly as sandwich, but as cake... Specially if the bread is sweet too...
The destruction of Portland exists only in the mind of people who won't turn their TV off. I've had commenters on here tell me it's been burned down and they can't leave their houses.

Although "a highly desirable city" isn't the most accurate description of Portland either. It's more like a theme park for white people with waxed mustaches.
Don't we have something in the HN rules saying about always assuming the best when in doubt about comments? E.g. I'm not Russian, nor do I support murder, the war Ukraine or excuse any war crimes. And regardless here I am constantly complaining about a "stereotypical Western worldview". Why? Because I grew up during the Cold War, which means a lot of history, especially about WW2 and Communism, was, as it turned out, clouded by Cold War and anti-Communist propaganda.

Context matters, history isn't happening in a vacuum. Trying to get as neutral a view is good thing.
Considering the number of currently occupied countries by atleast some of the NATO members' armies, you could still get A LOT of death calls for many of the people, that mainstream media considers "the good guys".
So much stuff fucks with the color profile of the images, the browser, the OS, the screen. I wouldn't be surprised if only some of the test images have a color profile set correctly.
Or Roger Penrose. Don't know if he's still publishing but he's 90 now and he had papers published in 2011, which must count him as old.

The author also seems to forget recently departed physics genius Steven Hawking, still working until his death at 76 afaik.
arguably that assumes that the operator that each letter denotes is self inverse.

in the general case, y⁻¹ t⁻¹ i⁻¹ l⁻¹ i⁻¹ b⁻¹ i⁻¹ t⁻¹ a⁻¹ p⁻¹ m⁻¹ o⁻¹ c⁻¹
lol you think it's different developers but it's just me evolving over 8 years and not bothering to update the old shit
After my mom was bed ridden for some time, I reluctantly installed some Alexa enabled smart bulbs and switches, so that my mom could operate it by voice commands. But I made sure that I created a separate wifi guest network with low bandwidth to ensure Alexa / smart appliances don't waste the bandwidth unnecessarily (even if they leak the wifi password).
The browser with built-in ads lol?
Reminder: https://neilzone.co.uk/2021/11/brave-browser-less-privacy-re...

i.e. the browser redirecting you to affiliate links without permission?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browser-brave-busted-f...
Why is it a foregone conclusion that it's about straightforward monetization, or even monetization at all?

What if it's actually a way to hide specific topics or sentiments from the timeline? If the algorithm of what to show first is a black box, scales can be tipped just like Google does with search results.

If it's a pure chronological timeline, you either have to be blatant in not displaying the tweets you want to suppress, or let people see them.
Shot in the dark here? Which Government are you talking about? Saudi? Where being gay is a death sentence?
No? How about the US where being Japanese was illegal?
China's got the most people, perhaps we take a wold wide vote to see?
Biggest land mass?
Millionaires per population (the 1%)?

Who would control the creation of the keys? I mean which tech vender would control access to my android phones encryption? My phone was made in China, and the chips inside it were made in China. They also have the most people, so it seems fair they control the keys.
May I ask you why Pop OS! I think there are much more stable distros out there. But sure, you do have to tinker with linux the first time to make sure every hardware is properly supported, but afterwards I have to say it may be the most stable out of all three. I have really nasty software bugs on Mac as well, random process going 99% CPU, slow downs, etc.
Well, the problem with your second point ("free speech") is that it tends to attract and retain a specific kind of writers: those who aren't accepted anywhere else.

Substack already tends to specialize on hyper-conservative and anti-woke ramblings; I'm curious to see how this will play out in the long term.

And I also think that the very model of Substack (subscribe to a specific writer, instead of a newspaper that typically bundles many different voices) also attracts readers that are ideological/obsessive.

That's a feedback loop that could end not well.
Taiwan invests in next generation of talent with slew of chip schools
My favorite are at CircleK. It's not the hot dog necessarily, but the nice ones have a good, fresh toppings center. It has coleslaw, and that's my favorite to put on top.
subtitle: an amazing trip through the uncanny valley
Yeah I have as well, I think it's both to be cute and to signify that they're equivalent."'IN GROUP' is an obsolete version of 'IN ROLE'" might mean that it was a subset of the latter with different behavior.
In the war situation, I assume everything is potentially misinformation, and want to see statements from all sides.

I mean if you read Western media, they will literally write "Russia is putting out a lot of disinformation", so that would be at least one claim I could try to verify myself, by looking at actual Russian media.

But the more important point is, how does DDG decide what is misinformation and what is not? Sure a search engine always has to try to rank information by some criteria. The issue I have here is with a manual interference in the algorithm that seems politically motivated.

Realistically, I guess we should be thankful that at least DDG points out that they are doing that, whereas others are simply doing it without telling anybody (on all sorts of issues, not just this war).

Also, I think some "internet savvyness" has to be expected from search engine users. The assumption that just because some statements by Putin show up in search results, people would just flat out believe them, is rather insulting and belittling.
I talked with some Russians who assumed their country would unpeer with the West. I asked about Starlink and they were pessimistic, saying that the receivers would be banned and smuggling them in wouldn't work. An extremely severe and depressing prediction, but who knows these days..

If things truly did get that bad.. Setup a number of highly focused/directional wifi links near the border, ideally with irregular transmission schedules to make it harder to catch. Use a popular decentralized multiplayer game's protocol (e.g. Minecraft) as cover for P2P requesting and distributing content.
I don't buy them often enough to notice any trends, sorry. They all seem about the same. Sometimes a corner seems stale or something.

I was under the impression they're just delivered on a truck from a third party. I don't think the station (or brand of station) makes them.
Yes it does. But how to people manage that don't make these IT job salaries? How do "regular" Americans survive such an event?
It's mostly a matter of principle since I assume internet searches to be closer to a postcard than a letter. I could write about some health-related thing that is potentially embarrassing in a postcard, because I doubt the post office cares, or that my mail carrier reads postcards, but I'd probably prefer to put it in a letter delivered inside an envelope.

It seems like better practice to learn which sources tell mainstream, reliable information about things like bordetella vaccines and regular nail clipping, before I get really emotional about an anal gland that needs to be expressed or before my person finds a weird lump on my front leg.

More seriously, back to human medicine, I am disappointed that so many reputable medical information sources with read-only information prevent Tor network users from accessing their information even though malicious Tor users aren't able to add misinformation.
A bit off-topic, but seeing some of the Ask HN threads recently, I get this weird feeling that some people might just be asking some questions for data mining. Call me paranoid, but this, the one from yesterday with weight loss, just feels weird. Get to know the people of HN, like those silly questions on social media that were used some time ago.
I used selenium. Really like it and very well maintained.
IIRC the first ever successful prosecution for "hacking" rested on the
idea of "stealing electricity" (see [1]). This is the prototype of
all hacking laws from which 'compute misuse' laws derive because it
was an indisputable example of loss/harm.

How does this foundational principle not apply to Apple 40 years
later?

[1] The Hacker Crackdown Book - by Bruce Sterling
What sort of response is that? I'm sorry but yes, it is. You can very quickly look this up. Small island nations and city states aside, there are only a handful of major countries more populated than England.
That's slang from the Apollo missions: https://www.history.nasa.gov/afj/ap11fj/cm-107_graffiti.html (search for "all balls")
Lyttle Lytton Contest
I don't know anyone who uses Mastodon, and whenever I've tried it every instance seems barren. I would love to ditch Twitter though.
Yep, looks great as a toy, but seems not-that-ok for any serious use, because for static setups, all the alternatives are a lot cheaper, because they don't have to be modular (eg. touchscreen display for controlling home automation).

But I like the concept for areas such as schools etc., because it makes it possible to try a bunch of different things very fast.
The Steam Deck now runs Windows
> One notable thing was the number of times Nazis were entered into the picture, and it is strange that no one is talking about it.

The violent phase of the Maiden square riots looked like postapocalyptic neonazi live action roleplaying. Clear nazi esthetics. I guess many of them were to, in hindsight.

It is strange becouse I guess the Ukraine gov. does not need the Azov batallion anymore. They probably can't get rid of them (easely) even if they wanted.
What is the recommended way to not code like this?

I always take care to not trust raw user input, and add rate limiting and request size limits. I'm sure there is more I can be doing, but this is not my area of expertise.
"As long as" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
> What we really needed were clocks that automatically kept pace with sunrise. It would have been difficult to build self-adjusting mechanical clocks, but with today's computer-controlled clocks it's easy.

https://qntm.org/continuous

> Not all countries would be likely to adopt sunrise standard time. [...] To avoid confusion, I think it would be best to adopt one international standard time system.

https://qntm.org/abolish