skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less a protection schema and more a canary schema. I use plus-addressing for basically every online account that I create that does not need to be professional in nature. The benefit is that if I start receiving emails from Foo.com sent to myemail+bar@example.com, I know that my bar.com account got compromised and I can do something about it to limit my exposure.
A Raspberry Pi is the perfect playground to get started with self-hosting. It is cheap and barely takes up any physical space.

Pi-Hole and bitwarden are simple enough applications that you can host both of them on a pi. Plus there are plenty of guides available online to guide you thru the process if you do get stuck.

I got started with self-hosting pi-hole on a raspberry pi myself.
In Lit, yes. It's hand-crafted web components with support for one-way data binding by parameter passing. Any other updates are by event notifications, as the commenter said.
> "In short, it will lead to privileges deciding who can work for Apple, not who’d be the best fit."

Doesn't forcing people to work with home lead to this more? Not everyone has an available, suitable work space at home, and those who don't or who have noisy families etc (generally less white, male, etc etc) are likely to miss opportunities they could have taken in an office.

Making this a social justice issue is a weird, speculative way to deal with this. Why bring gender and race into it, why not just argue the merits (which do seem to be in favour of remote work). Seems a silly letter to me.
This is the same mentality that asks the skilled problem solver, "Why should I pay you $150 when it only took you 2 minutes to solve my problem?"

There are so many things wrong with this post, not the least of which is that Walmart exerts perhaps the most downward price pressure of any retailer in the history of retail. If you want to sell your product in a Walmart store, chances are you will make a deal where you are left with the tiniest sliver of profit for yourself. You might even adjust your manufacturing ethics to meet the price demand from Walmart...

And with other items, such as an eco mattress... perhaps it is greenwashing, or maybe it really does take into consideration offgassing and other factors which are (or should be) important to humans who will spend 25% of their lives in close proximity to the product.

This feels like a hit piece paid for by some PAC.
I can do that without Tailscale though by just using the WireGuard app. What is Tailscale adding to this?
Exactly the same issue I ended with. It might need some modifications. I'll have a dig
I've been playing Four Against Darkness. It's not really a solo roleplaying game out of the box, because the 'role playing' aspects of it are extremely minimal. In fact, out of the box it's really more of a P&P roguelike. Having said that, a fair number of people have written additional source books, blog posts, etc. where they tack on role playing aspects to the game. I did come up with little backstories for my four intrepid adventures (Bernice, Elsie, Mildred, and Evelyn: four 1950s housewives who inexplicably find themselves exploring a dungeon), so when I play it there's at least a little veneer of role playing involved.
> I'm not sure you realize just how quickly that can all go away (and does).

So why hasn't it died quicker than it should have years ago as many have incorrectly predicted then?

> Blockchain companies are a dime a dozen. They don't all last forever.

And who said that the 'companies' did last forever? Why do you think I said as long as?

I'm just wondering if the whole thing is guaranteed to totally go away 100% and to be absolutely used by no-one since clearly someone also thinks so. That is my question.
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Apple Podcasts app. It keeps changing and changing and never ending up in a holistically usable state. Most of it is good but then you lose your queue or can’t restart what you were listing to without going into the app or it keeps picking some random podcast to load when you open it. Also, it’s a constant struggle to figure out if a tap opens an episode? Or plays it? Or opens the show? It looks great, you can find new stuff pretty easily, and the IA is good but, day to day, it’s a complete PITA.
The problem is those private gardens don't give you a chance to take a walk in them, and they don't connect together in any way to make them friendly for birds.

I live in a mid-sized city in the States, and all of our streets are tree-lined. Our fields too, which used to just be grass for sports, are getting more and more trees planted.

And the Roman water is potable, yes, and delicious because of the limestone it filters through. Although if you drink or fill a bottle from the bottom of the sprout, instead of putting your finger underneath and letting the water spurt up from the little hole, someone will tell you that's disgusting, because that's where the dogs lick. Nevermind that the water coming out the hole is still touching that bottom portion of the pipe.
To my point they don't have to live exclusively in suburbs or cities. Exurbs, towns, villages, acreages, boonies, entirely off-grid, etc are all options. There's a whole world out there--it's pretty mind-blowing if you've never ventured beyond suburbs before.
I feel like the mindset the author has is how they perceive the world. Things are purely utilitarian. They only serve a basic purpose so why spend more for "underwear"

I had this mindset for a longtime, shirts are shirts, bacon is bacon. Why pay more when I can get the same thing at Walmart/Safeway on sale for hella cheap. Partly this came from growning up poor and also neurodivergent.

Getting older and having enough money to try the "expensive stuff" I realized that food and products have differences. The differences are subjective, so everyones experience will be different.

But the different experiences made me appreciate the care that some companies put into their products. (granted there are repacked huckster bullshit, but you find out real quick)

Later life motto: "Just try it and be objective about how it makes you feel"
There is an often quoted rebuttal to this which goes "this isn't helpful"

...I would say to those people, neither is being optimistic (i.e. unrealistic)

This person is not the best writer I'll grant you that...and an OS in forth isn't exactly the best way to prepare either but that's irrelevant to the central argument that we are...on a not particularly long timeline, doomed if we continue a pattern of behaviour that we have done now for 300 years.

It isn't being pesimistic to say we are in trouble here, nor is it "unhelpful" to be that way. Positivity and individualism were the two stick that we used to beat the world into the state it is in and the first step to fixing any problem is acknowledging it.

So you don't think it's helpful to point out the gun pointed at your kids? Ok let's do helpful stuff then.

We need to stop buying phones every year that are synthetically slowed down, we need to invest in public transportation that runs on renewable energy and reduce the number of gas and deisel engines in use significantly. We need to find ways to recycle the precious metal we painstakingly extract from the ground and we need to reduce our reliance on travel in a world where we can talk to anyone at anytime with virtually no delay.

But none of those things happen until you can get people to understand the inconvenient truth that this is not going to last and that requires you to put aside your feelings on the matter.

Responding to the truth with "this is not helpful" is...not helpful
Yes, I do federate (I also use it for IRC and you need federation to access the liberachat IRC-Matrix bridge). Besides that I have just one other active user.

I use synapse as the server and Element as the client. I had tried out a bunch of other clients a few months ago, but found Element to be the most mature.

My experience has been pretty great overall. There were a few early issues (relating largely to a slightly weird network setup) but otherwise it works very well once setup.

Recently when I was trying to setup Mastodon, I realized how much more mature the setup process for synapse was. The setup needed for networking is better documented and they have a tool for testing if federation is working (and if not, attempting to provide an explanation why). This made it relatively easy to set things up correctly for my network compared to Mastodon, where I finally just gave up and setup a digitalocean droplet instead.

Functionality wise, everything works pretty well, E2EE requires a bit of preplanning to maintain across devices (ie. Keeping a backup of the keys or having the key store setup) but that's reasonable. The spaces feature needs a bit of UI polish but otherwise provides a similar hierarchical channel grouping system as Discord and Slack.

I can't really think of any other particular criticisms I have of it except that to administrate a server we still seem to have to lean on a third party application, synapse-admin (or hand write curl requests), it would be nice for it to just be incorporated into the client or into the server. I haven't had to use it much due to not having many users, but I imagine it's pretty relevant for servers with more users.
Interesting. That's a non-starter for me as well.
NAT breaking, I can have a wireguard network with Tailscale where every device only has an RFC1918 address and a default route.
Another OAuth2 server, that's well on the other side of the heavyweight spectrum vs. keycloak:

https://github.com/curveball/a12n-server
And its easy to compare the cost of the cloud running your hardware to the cost of physical hardware. However, its much more difficult to compare the indirect costs between the two, and that's where I think many people go sideways.
Yes; of course. Sorry, I was thinking of the hypothetical scenario in which copyright was abolished.
It comes down to perspective and how you value your money and your time.

For some consumers, for example, a 2x difference in price is a huge deal, and the time spent figuring out the best product at the best price is very well worth it.

For others, they'd rather pay 2x (or 5x, or 10x) the price to get a higher-grade product without having to spend time and effort shopping around and comparing things. They want a good product but their time is worth far more than their money, and buying the more expensive product is actually a way to buy back the time they would otherwise have spent in comparison shopping, doing a return of a bad product, etc.

For yet other people, they buy higher-end goods (especially clothing, cars, etc) because they want to show off. I don't really understand this compulsion but it's definitely a factor for some. In that case the more expensive brand is better in part because of the fact that it is more expensive.
Employees only started getting mercenary because the companies treated them like fodder. Listen to any union labor song to get an idea of how they were treated. Companies wouldn’t even pay you in money (only scrip) until the workers revolted. It’s really a bed made by companies, so they better lay in it.
Yep. It turns out that companies that make and sell more chips can afford to innovate chip production at a faster rate. Intel lost that edge when they allowed the mobile phone market to slip out of their grasp because of its lower margins. Now it's the primary market for high end chips.
A lot of us here at HN are likely going to end up in leadership positions, so a thought for everyone is, if you don't like the idea of "the MBA's" outsourcing everything, or contracting, push back against it.

It's not going to happen. Every time there's a working conditions post on HN like the recent one about Nintendo, half the comments are to the tune of "if you didn't want to get treated like dirt you shouldn't have been a contractor" as if they foolishly pushed the wrong button on the career vending machine.
Opex is fully deductible each year the expense occurs, wheras capex requires amortized depreciation over the life of the purchased item. Makes it harder to calculate taxes.
I don't think Bitcoin is a scam. It attracts lots of criminals of various forms due to the lack of regulation. I don't get the part about funding terrorism and illegal activities. Surely dollars are still the most useful currency for that?

I think digital currency is here to stay. Further, I think most people are wrong about it what it will mean. People seem to see it as some utopian freedom. What I see if a cash replacement that has traceability on a scale which was never possible before. And it's all public (at least for most of the coins). If your government said tomorrow that all your cash would be converted to a digital currency like bitcoin but all existing regulation would be in place then they could watch literally every cent you spend. Further, if it stayed public like bitcoin, so could advertisers. They wouldn't need to place like buttons all over the web to watch what you're doing. They could just watch your account. Using any kind of anonymisers would be made among the harshest of crimes so you cannot escape the observation.

I hear a lot of proponents saying digital currency is the way to reduce the power of government and the banks. I think, in the end, this will give both power on a scale never before dreamed.
I think they are taking advantage of the fact that many consumers feel their is a quality deficit with products but don't know where to turn to actually find things that aren't mediocre or cheap, particularly in the "doing well but not really rich" zone that some single people and time-scarce double income groups have.
> AFAIU, historically 12-TET is really a compromise, sacrificing some harmonicity to simplify and enable having symmetrical 7-note tonality in any traditional mode starting from any point in any scale

It is. And it's a surprisingly lucky compromise. By some metrics 19-EDO, 22-EDO and 31-EDO dominate 12-EDO for traditional (5-limit) music theory. (And of course every multiple of 12 does.) But if you want strictly better thirds and fifths, the smallest EDO that qualifies is 41.

For anyone interested in big microtonal scales, there's a great website[1] that will render a touchscreen-friendly virtual keyboard with whatever scale and layout (provided it's hexagonal) you want. Don't worry about all the menus to start, just pick something from the first menu, "Tuning\Layout Quick Links".

[1] http://terpstrakeyboard.com/web-app/keys.htm
I wish I could find a project that would recognise a cat by its appearance and open / close a cat flap based on that.
It could also make a noise or other distraction at cats that are recognised to deter them from tampering with the cat flap.
The cat flaps available on the market use a chip to identify a cat, but this is a terrible method - it doesn't work more often than it does.
Many times my cat was attacked by other cats because it couldn't get in and now it is scared of cat flaps.
I write regex all the time and I can't read a regex. It's a powerful tool and that's a very valid complaint about it.
I laugh when these "brave new age" practices find their way to academia, where they actively interfere with every step of the intentionally perpetually-unfinished, half-assed, single-use software that they make.

But why are s/w developers worried? As long as tons of advertising money find their way into glorified blogs, they will get paid, no matter how much complexity they invent to justify their workload.
For a webpage [0] about visual art, the art itself disappointly gets less than 5% of screen space. When you present art you're supposed to present the art. This page is a massive waste of empty space, asking the viewer to employ a magnifying glass to see the thing being talked about.

Here's a quick mockup of how I'd do it:

https://hypertele.fi/temp/i7b46v465q3c54qtvh.png

The gallery page [1] doesn't even work. Clicking on an orb just makes it black, nothing happens.

[0] https://www.dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs

[1] https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/gallery
Link doesn't work for me. 404s
I'm in an odd state with this. I refuse to let myself slide into apathy and not have some level of action. I register voters, I support climate activities (financially, letters to representatives, and lifestyle changes) and look for opportunities for local action.

I do this despite truly believing it won't matter and things will just keep getting worse. I'm smart enough to know I'm not smart enough to be confident in that assessment, but it is what I believe and feel. I simply can't face myself in the mirror if I allow myself to be inactive or uncaring because of my own forecasts for the future.
Even as a British person, I am not sure if this is sarcasm and a wonderful example of a satirical take or not.
A person can hold any view they want (organizations such as the BBC aren't people, and they can't really "hold" views, but I digress). I think that if they spread that view, when paid/supported/otherwise made to exist by whatever entity that view is benefitting, it's advertising. And if it's political in nature, then it's propaganda. The British state funds the BBC and relies on it to show the world what the UK is all about, and to me, that's qualifies as propaganda.
Mechanical Watch (Bartosz Ciechanowski)
They don't mention it, but there's a privacy benefit to generating usernames. Most users are predictable/lazy and will use the same username on every website. However, tools exist for finding accounts across services that have the same username. Generating a unique username and storing it in your password manager would make it easy to evade these tools.

https://github.com/topics/username-search

I use different usernames per-site, but I tend to take a couple seconds to think of something (hopefully) clever.
If they can do it it’s not impossible (they’re just people after all).

With an open source implementation out there, anyone can do it merely pulling a Docker container, and without paying Tailscale.

Regardless I manage a dozen users with no issue using Embarks container; once they’re setup I touch nothing.

Paying people is not working with people; it’s working with a specific group. Open source is working with people.
And people will call your language "bloated", and say "I only need those specific features which will allow my language to be developped faster/faster to compile/easier to learn/etc" and we're back again to multiple languages. Of course your simple language will then grow, gain more functionalities (since eitehr you will add them, or you will be replaced by something that adds them), etc. Then people will find your language bloated, create a new simple language. We've been through this cycle many times already. Same with frameworks (micro vs fully featured), databases (SQL vs NoSQL), web stuff (server rendered HTML vs JS).
I agree with the general sentiment, but I would add that Go is a very simple language. It's probably the simplest language I have ever used (besides C).
Ruby is great, and I know people who swear by it, but I've yet to come across a GNU/Linux distro which didn't come with Perl installed, while Ruby is not a given in the default, e.g. my current Manjaro.

The compatibility really does stretch back all the way to '94.
imagine a world where enabling free access to knowledge makes you a most-wanted criminal
It’s like reading: “Ford is outsourcing the fabrication of its new flagship EV line to Tesla”.
The question is not whether it's possible for a central bank to maintain a policy that leads to only moderate inflation, but whether your central bank will maintain such a policy. You seem to think that being a "developed" country will guarantee that. Like the highly developed country of Germany in the 1920s perhaps?
Founder’s Choice
I don't know if it's been hugged to death but I can't load the demo. Hitting the wayback machine shows a splash page but then it never loads beyond that.
God damn it ;~;
Just spin up a Rails app, pop on a Postgres DB, tailwind CSS, job done.

(Only half joking.)
Perhaps only barely fitting the definition, my most used application is ESXi on a intel Mac Mini which runs VMs for Ubuntu & Windows.

I lost the ability to use Windows software that interfaced with devices over USB when I got my M1 MBP - or so I thought - until I learned that you can share USB devices over the network to a VM running on ESXi.

So now I have my windows ham radio programming software (uses a USB-Serial interface), my Toyota diagnostic software (uses a specialized USB-OBD2 cable) running on a VM. I can VPN into my home network and attach the devices connected to my M1 Mac to the Windows VM from anywhere.
> Bandwidth Restricted

> The page you have tried to access is not available because the owner of the file you are trying to access has exceeded our short term bandwidth limits. Please try again shortly.

TFA has indeed collapsed already.
Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network.

Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix.

Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-prone, and time-consuming—like, I don't know how someone who's not a computer nerd can actually manage to buy and use it, now. It's really bad.

All in Docker on a used workstation, running... IDK, Debian, I think? It hardly matters, because Docker. I don't even mess with Systemd or whatever, I just let Docker figure out what should be started when based on what I set each container to do (restart-unless-stopped, I think? It seems to start them at boot and if they crash, which is all I need).

I hosted PHPNuke and PHPBB on Apache2 out of my basement for years so they'd be contenders for some kind of lifetime total-hours-running-the-service, but that was a long time ago.
If you want privacy, don’t broadcast your thoughts to the public. Use cash. The modern (tech) economy is built on data collection, so if it’s used anywhere on line it’s available everywhere. Perhaps it’s time to look into how to spoof or screw up data collection to ruin their ai/ml models?

This was considered by tech leaders a dead issue 20+ years ago: https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Probably because we buy the expensive thing to compare and can't figure out what makes it different from the cheap thing.
I live in the suburbs. And I’m anti-car in as much as we can and should do more to make cars less necessary for day-to-day life. Make schools walkable. Make basic shopping walkable. Build mix-use town centers instead of strip malls with acres of parking.

Doing these things frees up space for other things. That could be housing or green space.

And if there’s less traffic overall, it becomes easier to get out to the mountains/forest/etc.

I don’t disagree that true nature is different than groomed parks. And I like nature. But I’d rather not spend 3 hours in suburban traffic to get to the mountains that are 40 miles away.
Interesting that today I've also seen the headline that California is almost capable of 100% renewable energy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/02/califo...

It doesn't seem that the 'total collapse of civilization' would be so strongly tied to the oil industry as the writer suggests. If there truly is a reducing EROI in oil, it feels more likely that that industry would start losing resources to other renewable energy sectors. If things were as dire as he puts it, I would assume a bigger push for nuclear energy as existential fears start to outweigh NIMBYism.

"Unlike the climate changes challenge, the energy challenge is imminent: peak oil is now. However, it is important to note that the effects of climate changes and peak oil are cumulative: raging forest fires, "once in a century" yearly floods, bomb cyclones..."

How are those events tied to 'peak oil' specifically?