skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why, then, do you subject yourself to it? I simply can't understand why someone would go through the trouble of using nitter, constantly clearing cookies, or using browser extensions _just to use a service that is hostile to them_. Especially because you and I both know that these workarounds aren't going to work forever, and soon enough you'll be scrambling for another hole in the wall.

Network effects are real.

I only use Twitter to read posts that someone linked to. I would prefer these posts to be hosted elsewhere, but I have no control over that, just like I cannot control the messenger apps that others are using. I currently have three options for communicating online:

1) use the platform/protocol that someone else picked, directly or through some other tool

2) convince them to use the platform/protocol that I prefer

3) stop sharing content with that person

I think the only way out of this is regulation that breaks up walled gardens. Companies have no incentive to open up their gardens to competitors, so we may have to apply some force.

> Cut the cord. You don't need twitter. You don't need reddit, which has been employing similar patterns recently. The internet exists beyond these walled gardens. Take some time to reflect on your relationship to this technology and the people/ideas whose presence in your life/mind is dependent on it.

The cost for that for many people is losing connections to friends, family and other contacts, unless their peers migrate at the same time. That Signal moment was a bit like that when many people moved from Whatsapp to Signal. My wife was finally able to get rid of Whatsapp without losing contacts.
The fact that most bluetooth headsets/buds have too much latency for gaming/video probably contributed a bit to that state of affairs.
I'm not familiar with Calibre but AFIK, all kindle books have DRM.
I think I know these moments and phases. I have a printed list of this https://eponis.tumblr.com/post/113798088670/everything-is-aw... right across my desk. It helped my type of mind more often then I'm willing to admit - even when I was kinda okay, because I encourages me to look after myself which I have not been tought in my life before.
> Change their desktop picture to My Little Pony.

We've been doing this with pictures of Mariusz Pudzianowski (a Polish weightlifter), most people learned to set up their screen lockers pretty quickly. Definitely more effective than spamming people with reminders about security policy. Fun times.
This line of thinking exterminates itself. It is better to have kids and raise them to actually take care of the world around them, otherwise the sum total of future culture will be shaped by people that don't care about that.
Ask HN: What are your daily rituals?
I've just read [1] which relates to remote software teams and their rituals.

As an extension to this, what are your daily rituals? What benefits do they bring you?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30940747
Otto von Bismarck
No mention of forwarding a port on your home router + dynamic DNS here in the comments yet. I would appreciate recommendations for dynamic DNS providers.
Same, it's disturbing:

* OP: "If a distro with 60k packages cannot accommodate one or three extra packages for an official flavor, then someone is an idiot, and that idiot is not me."

* Moderator came and ask to not talk like this.

* OP: "Censorship, simply because I used the word “idiot” without naming anyone in particular!", and OP continue.

* Moderator close the tread.

* OP: "Then the little Stalin closed my thread".

This is not serious. OP doesn't named anyone but hide himself with a general attack to package maintainer (maybe this maintainer is alone). Hiding its attitude behind word meaning is something my 9 years old son is starting to do and I try to explain him its not a valid excuse.

OP should revise it's social expectations.

It's hard enough to keep big open source projects on rails without having childish attitude like this.
You were still wrong about the name.
Most likely it is fake news unless we have independently confirmation. This is a general tactics of Russian info war, saturate the news with false information to confuse and cause info fatigue.
It's from 2017, and has been discussed previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15649062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254122
Your implication that anything expensive is closer to a scam is of course nonsense. An MRI is very expensive, but it is not a scam. An oncologist is expensive, they are not a scam. Therapy is expensive and it is not a scam (because it works for most people, most of the time).
It has nothing to do with it and Torvalds made very arguable claims.
Shanghai lockdown snarls busiest port and China supply chains
I couldn't find a screenshot/video of the headline feature, “Preview on localhost”, is it just me?
The difference is capitalism.

The name has some prestige, but it would be difficult for "Nicolas Bourbaki" to leverage "his" mathematical fame to accumulate wealth in a way that allows "him" to advocate a particularly fringe theory of, say, virology.

Wolfram, on the other hand, can leverage Mathematica to get rich, and use his riches to continue to push NKS, despite zero (or less) interest from physicists.
> trying to tweak vocabulary towards making them sound like they are of
the same level of importance and impact as rituals or ceremonies, with
what those words mean in the social and religious senses, is really an
attempt at manipulation.

I absolutely agree with you, and it's all around us, and becoming
normative. We work in an industry, only 40 years old at most, that
believes, with near religious fervour, that it's purpose is to
radically redefine the very nature of life, work and society [1]. (I
was given this super interesting link to the Barbrook Cameron essay by
another HN poster [2].)

> When the form and content of your practices change every 6 months,
and vary wildly because the things you work on, or because the
hierarchy mandates you to

"Move fast and break things" isn't only about technology. It's also
about breaking extant norms and transvaluation. One of the sinister
sides of digital technology, in my opinion, is precisely this lie of
omission with respect to "disruption". It's not just about
"progressively replacing old and inefficient", a disruptor weapon can
be turned on anything to gain the ends you want. That makes an even
bigger nonsense of the already ridiculous notion of technological
determinism, because at the very least you now have to ask "determined
by who". Which gang of breathless neophytes will be telling me how to
live my life today?

[1] http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideol...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=30931517
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And also you start looking for alternative chips which reduces demand of the original chip which make the producer produce other chips with higher demand.You can see from example delivery time for Nexperia products going from 3months to 6 months, then 1 year .
That sort of account-based marketing is a different kettle of fish. It's only worthwhile if you're targeting big prospects who will spend enough money to offset the costs.

That said, ABM is increasingly popular for businesses where it makes sense. Why waste time and money filling the marketing funnel when you can identify preferred customers and invest in building a relationship with them.
>If that is the case, why was there so much drama about canceling student loan debt? The earnings of these people allegedly increased but not enough for them to pay their loans off?

Drama? I think I missed that, I don't watch the news much, got a link?

The problem is the entire university system is broken from a cost basis, and the school loans are part of many things hurting the economy. The idea is you give some debt relief to the people most affected by the high loans and that helps the entire economy. I don't really like this idea because it doesn't fix the problem creating high debt.

>Woke-ism has captured most of higher education and stifled free debate in a number of ways. You effectively can't challenge certain ideas without being ostracized (e.g a debate about whether affirmative action is good policy).

You watch the news too much, university is where you learn and is working great, stop listening to Fox news and the NY Times :)

>I didn't say all humanities are bad. But I would tell anybody getting a degree in psychology or philosophy that it is money wasted. If you want to study those things because you like them, by all means do. But don't expect it to be the thing that assures your future financial success.

Go check the data, def not money wasted. Philosophy majors are some of the highest earners :)
> KDE5 never seems to be the default choice of desktop environment

Apart from KDE Neon, and Garuda, and...
> In my daily job, I only use Emacs to develop in Fortran

Emacs is not so deliberately shaped for touchtyping as vim and it uses only one CPU core unless everything else (correct me, I really want to be wrong). But I want to switch to Emacs because of I've heard about org-mode.

> IMHO, it is has much more value to always keep the same shortcuts and macros than switching to a specialized IDE for each language, and loosing this consistency just to have one or two special features.

You are so right! What a pity that our text editors were written by people not by gods, and QWERTY layout was composed by Satan itself who can bother even those people who do not use QWERTY (like having not so handy navigation in vim whose navigation is somewhat QWERTY-shaped).
"setting aside policy" any software can do rm -rf /

The whole point of Linux distributions is having policies to protect the end user and enforcing them.
This is my position as well. I've probably had every combination of surround sound setups imaginable, but nothing beats a really good 2/2.1 setup to my ears.

My takeaway has been that if 2 channels sounds crappy, you need to look at the room, not adding more damn speakers. It's just like shiny cloud tech imo.
Reversing Sound Blaster X7 Control for Fun and Linux Support
What do you mean by attempts? https://opalrb.com/ seems to be a rather active and production-ready project, isn’t it?

Maybe it’s not the most popular project out there, but I don’t see a reason to flag it as a mere attempt.
You are describing a paid friend. That is indeed vapid and baseless. Therapy is something you seek for meaningful long-term change in an area of your life that you see as an impediment to living. All health care is (or should be) focused on that question: What do you see as a problem. If your therapist just wants to sit down to listen to you vent for an hour and asks for $100 for it, find a new therapist. Preferably one that went to school.
I actually quite like it. Matter of opinion.
It breaks some python scripts which expect that pi is a variable.
Three cities (presumably Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane) is a weird way to describe Australia's population distribution. Perth is basically the same size as Brisbane. "We still only really live in two/four/five cities" all would be more accurate.
It sounds a bit as if he's saying "leave now, before we make it either illegal or impossible".
That was the norm maybe 15-20 years ago. These days it's a mortal sin to throw from something that isn't derived from Error.
I once installed Linux with Gnome 3 on a USB stick and used that as my primary operating system for six months. My number one application was a web browser. I don't think I ever bothered installing anything other than code editors, language runtimes/compilers and steam. Gnome works just fine.

The only annoyance was the breakage that Wayland introduced in 2016. Suddenly you couldn't screen capture the whole screen anymore. It's kinda the same issue as switching from python 2 to 3 but the difference here is that it is a major upgrade that is worth the effort. The reasons why python 3 isn't backwards compatible are incredibly petty for the most part. However, firefox has received Wayland support for screensharing and some people developed a plugin for OBS. Wayland works just fine now too.
Energy: What does the UK's new strategy say?
I do dynamic DNS by updating Gandi LiveDNS entries thanks to their API and a botched shell script.
3DFX did not dethrone any CGI giants though. The PC did, but at the time it was by getting an Evans & Sutherland or similarly novel 3D accelerator for like $3000 and a copy of Maya or 3DS Max for like $1500

Which had enough power to dethrone the Indy or O2 at a fraction of the price :)
Basically any decent normal DNS provider (eg Porkbun or Gandi) will have shorter TTL than most forwarding nameservers anyway, and have APIs that are fairly straightforward.
Leaving room might also reduce file fragmentation.
> has been discussed

There seem to be 0 comments on either of those pages.
Apple: Friday Night Baseball
I have a paid license for Sublime but I still feel like I’m looking for the “right” editor for me, and if I find anything that looks like it might be it I will happily pay (after a small free trial to see if, like Nova, it’s not for my use cases).

My gut tells me there are a lot of people in this situation.

[Edit: since Go is my main language and I want to learn Rust, I will definitely be giving this a try!]
China accused of cyberattacks on Indian power grid
Scientists discover microplastics in deepest section of the lungs
Goodhart's Law (Popular formulation): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Synergies: A performant and distributed React Context State
I know that both T-Mobile and Comcast have both ignored user selected non-DoH DNS settings by force in the past, either by DPIing port 53 traffic or static routing major public DNS servers toward their own resolvers.
And kangaroos? Okay, so their knees are possibly somewhat more inconspicuous, but looking at a kangaroo skeleton, what to my eyes looks like their ankles also actually is their ankles.

Whereas with birds the confusion comes in because

a) they're walking on their toes, so what to us looks like an ankle is in fact a toe joint, and then moving further up what we think looks like a "reverse knee" is in fact the actual ankle, and

b) their true knees are usually hidden somewhere beneath their feathers
I have not found of what I do think in the article.
As opposed by your "trusted" partner ie. your internet provider? Ignoring that these are the organisations that keep getting hacked, they also outright try to monetize your DNS queries whichever way they can (even falsifying real sites).

And that's ignoring the obnoxious government interference ISPs tend to implement through DNS. From piratebay to youtube blocks.

You have to trust someone with DNS. And Firefox's trusted partner is better than the current status quo.
Does it support searching regex expressions in all files in a directory as well as all open files?
What's actually a convenient way of transferring files across a network if scp is being removed?

Update: Thanks for the replies. I should've done a bit of extra research about scp first. Guess this is an example of Cunningham's Law.
The Success of Third-Party Apps on the App Store [pdf]
Ask HN: How do you deal with clients' requests for tasks that are “below” you?
Say you're an experienced mid-career web programmer, and your (good) client has been using a "no-code" solution to cobble together a website. They can't get it to do the thing they want, so they turn to you to figure it out. Do you do it to keep them happy, or politely turn it down?

How do you approach this dilemma, specifically where actual coding rubs up against these services that are no fun for people who write code?
Inventing The University by David Bartholomae (1986) [pdf]
Anyone with common sense will read Nature or Science from sci-hub :)
SOCKS without password authenticatin sadly.
>Indeed. The problem is that a lot of operating systems still don't support it at all yet.

Which one exactly? Android has it called "Private DNS", Linux supports it with systemd-resolved, Windows 10 too (don't know the build number at which it starts). Apple with OS 11 and iOS 14.

The main issue I see is that there is no support for both in every OS. "Private DNS" is DoT, while Windows 10 support is DoH. Apple has both.
The goal of the AGPL is that anyone can run a SaaS based on someone else’s code, as long as their own modifications are open as well.

Just like the GPL ensures that while Microsoft could take Linux and sell it, they’ll have to make their changes open again.
Is this level of detail in a hand made object really surprising?

The Avogadro Project involved making silicon balls with a mass of 1kg and surface irregularities of the order of a few nanometres. Achim Leistner, a master lens maker, finished the spheres by hand as he was able to feel surface imperfections of the order of a few nanometres.

A similarly skilled person could have lived in 1500 BC.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/making-the-worlds-perfect-ki...
My denon receiver comes with a microphone and an integrated calibration tool
Yeah, I've been wondering this too... I've disabled a lot of things like experiments/normandy and telemetry so I'm wondering what I'll have to find and disable now.
I wholeheartedly agree. It seems that there is no middle ground these days between Web- and mobile-inspired GUIs that have taken over the desktop (even in the macOS world) and doing everything via the command line. I feel the same way about GNOME 3's shift to mobile-influenced UI/UX paradigms; sadly this shift also occurred in Windows and macOS.

What I believe is needed are UIs for power users and developers. Nobody stays a novice forever; we need UIs that facilitate the tasks of technically-inclined users, something more ergonomic than CLIs but not oversimplified like modern UIs. Some examples of UI/UX that addresses the needs of power users are support for scriptability (such as AppleScript and Visual Basic for Applications), composability (such as OpenDoc [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E]), WordPerfect's Reveal Codes that allow writers more fine-grained control over formatting, and a demo I saw of Symbolics Genera where the CLI shell assists the user in completing the command (see https://youtu.be/7RNbIEJvjUA?t=380 for a demo of how that interfaced worked; while it's a CLI shell, it's much more ergonomic than any Unix shell I've seen). I would like to see more UIs that fit the needs of power users.
> Zas Editor reparses your code on every keystroke without compromising performance. Having a maintained AST at all times brings many intelligent features to the editor.

How does this work in the presence of syntax errors? 95% of the time you're writing code, your code is syntactically invalid, because you've started some new construct but not finished it yet, so you need syntax highlighting, code completion, etc to work sensibly in that situation. Getting that wrong is what killed RLS, IIRC.
I imagine it was that apps were doing it anyway, and it was better to use the system browser that might actually be up to date security wise than have the apps bundle their own which was was based on nine month old code and horribly insecure more often than not.
If it works, starship could indeed be revolutionary, but China is not Russia. I expect a working, and perhaps even cheaper, Chinese starship clone, in short order.

America and the west's real secret weapon is the thing that produced starship. Free and open societies which foster enthusiastic innovation.
I need add, I thought that a lot of people avoided crypto because of losses when investing or trading. TradeCast is going to help people avoid unnecessary losses and define their risk profile.

Is there another reason you avoid crypto?
I appreciate the effort that goes into these products but I find the market position weird.

Case in point: by the time I add a keyboard case to my 11" iPad Pro, it weighs more than my MacBook Air does and it's not a lot smaller. I think I should just take the MacBook Air with me. That has the same CPU, storage and memory and I can run full stack on it fine.

That is not to denigrate the usefulness of the iPad, which I run a big chunk of my life on, but editing text or code is one place it really doesn't add up.

The killer app I find with my iPad is when you need pen input. For drawing, doing route planning in OS maps and general research and note taking it's an amazing little device.
I would charge more than I normally do because it's obviously some stuff you are unfamiliar with. If you start becoming their maintainer for that solution you should be charging enough that you can pay someone else to do it and make some profit.
You're right, but I made the assumption that people want to play around with DNS resolution.

For even better privacy, you'll need something like dnscrypt or enable DoH in your local bind/unbound/knot/powerdns server. Preferably ODoH to have complete privacy, but I don't know how commonly that's implemented yet.
> better ventilation legislation

Why worry about ventilation and masking - particularly in schools - when one could spend that time looking at data showing who is actually at risk, and how to protect them.

Spoiler: for this pandemic at least, the risk group simply isn't healthy children. Or indeed healthy young adults. Or maybe even anyone healthy under say 45[0]

Our 8 year old had a PCR-confirmed Covid infection three weeks ago, as far as we know that's the first case in our immediate family. He's not vaccinated.

For him, it represented a four-hour headache. No fever, no sore throat, no cough. He's finally been allowed to go back to school this week.

[0] https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
Yep.

You know, in ancient Indian legends there are characters who one can now perceive as LGBTQ people.

Granted, the accuracy of the stories as a whole is questionable — but the very fact that such people are mentioned means the idea existed even back then.

Maybe if somebody looks deep enough they can find something similar in ancient Greek/Egyptian/Chinese literatures as well.

Just a thought. My hypothesis could totally be wrong.