skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Screen readers can surely handle Greek just fine, the only problem with the given spelling is that it uses "lookalike" glyphs instead of corresponding characters from the Greek alphabet (eg. use of "mu"/µ for "u").

Of course, I am sure some screen readers will simply take a custom text preprocessor that will turn l337sp34k and similar spellings like this one into regular text, but I am certain none of them have it as the default.
Seconding this. Some of the smoothest, least obtrusive apps are on iOS.

If you're dead set on Linux I suggest looking at OpenMPT. It's a classic tracker app, very mature, and officially supported on Linux through Wine. I was using trackers to make beats at 10 years old, and these days it's much easier to find samples. It's at the right level of complexity for a kid that wants to write sequences and maybe add in some recording, but isn't ready to spend hours and hours on audio engineering.
If they could just do decent job for github first :) this would be great.
We currently use it and migrating away as maintaining jobs, spec, etc and having proper comment triggers from github with clear job reporting requires person working full time.

And im not even talking about their traffic costs. In the times when traffic gets cheaper and cheaper they charge a fortune and even increase the price.
That’s interesting. Why does all of engineering live out of New York City? Cost of living?
I see, thanks for reporting.

This contextmenu issue is sure showing me the ugly side of frontend development :/
> just use Monero

The on-ramp to "just use Monero" isn't that simple for over 99% of users I'm guessing. Also, if they have your IP address logged, does it even matter how you paid?
Does superbase basically give you a pgAdmin accessible instance to play with, then generate a JSON API using postgREST? It's not 100% clear to me from skimming the docs.
Havent used Facebook in ages, so cant say what they have become. But one of the primary reasons why i left FB was because it had become junk, and was of no value.

Will i go back and use it because it has a new design. probably not, as i believe FB's core approach has not changed
Unfortunately we already have an Android tablet (Samsung) and I would prefer to avoid the integration challenges with an Apple device in an non-Apple environment. Would be open to any (paid or unpaid) apps on Android though.
Wow. You seem really out of touch with humanity with your zealot goals, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGinowoYu4 (use auto-translated subtitles if you don't speak german)
It's amazing to me how you don't consider any of these major drawbacks as problems. The Samsung 840 evo was a disaster and here we are celebrating more of the same.

While I completely agree endurance can - and it is - be managed with software, rewriting data every 20 days is a major, major drawback. To me, it is a regress
Amazing work, but just some feedback, I'm running Opera 70.3 on an Android phone, and navigating the map filled my navigation history with a large amount of links to a given lat/long, I'm guessing they referred to where I touched while rotating or zooming in.

Anyway, edge case browser and all, but thought I'd raise it in case it's an issue.
> they are a weird and anti-environment news source

This is a bizzare assertion that's trivially disproved. Just searching for 'environment' on Newslaundry brings up articles hilighting environmental destruction and advocating conservation:

https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/03/04/india-faces-an-enviro...

https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/03/07/how-deadly-is-the-env...

https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/04/23/its-possible-to-have-...

https://www.newslaundry.com/2019/12/18/the-western-paradigm-...

It's Jaggi Vasudev who is a fucking charlatan.
Mostly hacker news. When I like a post, I subscribe to the site's feed. Takes a while to build a good index but it's worth it.
The VPN provider does not, but the owner of the data center still can store whatever she likes or some entity asks her to store.
Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home is now open for business
Why would you say that?

DOS .COM programs were pure maching language programs with no OS-specifics like headers or syscalls (though running in real mode, they did expect BIOS interrupts), so that makes sense to me: they are trivially portable.

The most famous one was COMMAND.COM.
Gross abuse of the media.
Instagram is moribund. People's accounts are being stolen left and right, users' feeds are full of unasked-for shit, and "stories" are an absolute mess.

Facebook and its properties are dead. Good riddance.

TikTok is next, of course. Just ask Vine.
Charter Communications Hit with $7B in Punitive Damages
PyO3 – Python Extensions in Rust
What did they move on to?
Ask HN: What habits apps do you use? Why do you like those apps?
Anyone using habit tracking apps like Loop[0], it can be mobile based or web based.

- What habits app do you use?

- and what do you like about them?

- and what could be improved(cons) in them?

[0] : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits
Nevermind anesthesia, what about every day during sleep?
And for the rest of us :)

https://readline.kablamo.org/vi.html
> Car violence strikes pretty much at random.

This sounds like an extraordinary claim, what data are you using to get there?

Completely unpredictable and impossible-to-prevent car crashes do happen sometimes, but they are a very tiny minority. Most car crashes have a clear chain of events that led to them that could've been prevented.
She is already using that web based application on her laptop - thats how I found that she created the mix :) Was just curious if there is a workflow that is more commonly used for her age group.
This was me twenty years ago. So mandatory disclaimer, I was classically trained from the age of like 7 to 20.

I can't stress enough the value of private instruction. Keyboard and voice lessons are relatively inexpensive (not free, of course, but not the biggest luxury) and access to a keyboard or guitar (those especially!) and a teacher who can show proper technique to play and sing is really great. Music is taught primarily in a master/apprentice form and more important than doodling in a DAW is getting someone to show you how to doodle. A relatively inexpensive keyboard and some lessons on playing will go further than any software. Personally I took keyboard and later recording/production lessons and it really gave me the tools to create.

For the tech part, you need three things. A mic to record the voice, a midi keyboard (if you go with lessons you'll need a decent keyboard anyway, and most can be plugged into the computer with USB these days), and a DAW (digital audio workstation). The cheapest form factor now is an iPad with garage band, which is famously user friendly. If you're committed to Linux, bitwig is great but your kid will need to do a lot of self study and practice with YouTube tutorials. Something that can't be beat is a smartphone or tablet with voice memos recording them playing and singing. Audacity can do that.

As an avid Linux user with a lot of experience I will say it sucks for beginner audio work. Get a Mac and use GarageBand, it just works.

If my kid wanted to make music I'd get them a keyboard and lessons, then a voice recorder to make the music. DAWs are essential for pro work but it's a lot to ingest for beginners. Most teachers will be familiar with how to use them these days, ifs standard fare to teach in college.
Long time user of PyO3 and partially as contributor/maintainer.
This framework is pretty much amazing. We used it heavily to optimize workloads in a safe and maintainable manner and can help you oxidize Python code bases
Your parents are the only ones left on Facebook. As long as that demographic can sustain it, so be it. But nobody under 70 is going to be on there much longer.

Actually, red-state cousin-humpers might still be on there a while longer. They have no place else to go, after Trump's predictably shambolic attempt at creating a competitor.
I use a simple formula: epoxy if I need strength, CA glue with activator for everything else.

(oh and wood glue for woodworking projects)
I don't believe the article mentions it, but apparently plenty enough to generate that kind of top line.
Here's a pretty cool video I found on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3eBtuGlqSo
Yeah it started off basically private, social, with people you care about and has gradually slid into people you don't really know commenting on non-social stuff.

Nobody I know uses it anymore and we were Facebook's core audience when it started. We all just use WhatsApp now.
There is surely a version for Linux. I have been using it in my computer with Archlinux [1] for a couple of years with vim (there are at least two plugins [2,3]). It works pretty good. The only thing is that when running it locally it kind of uses a lot of resources. So not so good when you are with your laptop running on battery.

[1] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/languagetool/
[2] https://github.com/dpelle/vim-LanguageTool
[3] https://github.com/rhysd/vim-grammarous
Seems like you are new to the world, not only new to VPNs.

You might start investigating the state of planet earth by reading e.g. https://rsf.org/en and will find many other hints for more sources.
I'm truely impressed. I don't know if this will become useful in real software, because you'll likely have dependencies (which in turn depend on OS features) pretty fast. But nevertheless, one of the coolest projects out there!
In a few years, that is to say after the war, I'm sure they'll be able to import Bosch gearboxes again, and resume building the vehicles they built with those gearboxes. But not during the war.

As part of a peace deal, yes. Something like "Ukraine gets all its territory back, Russia gets permission to buy gearboxes, bearings and other unexciting wonders of modern engineering".
I think they're pretty reasonably priced burgers.
> windows 11 isn’t essentially different

That's only if you ignore all of the differences! 8)

There are many big and small differences that people just gloss over, because they feel it doesn't apply to them, or they don't even realise it's there.

Windows 95 used to crash if you looked at it wrong. It was horrendously vulnerable to malware, even across the network. Its "maximums" were hilariously low due to many remaining 16-bit internals. Programming for it was a PITA, even in 32-bit mode. Its network capabilities were woeful. Multilingual? Yes, but only in some combinations at a time. No hope of mixing, say, Chinese and Hebrew in a single text box. Poor text input in general, poor accessibility, etc, etc, etc...
Since the beginning of mobile apps people tried to build habit apps. What works best for me is just sticking to the 4 simple rules around building lasting habits from the book Atomic Habits:
1) make it obvious, (2) make it attractive, (3) make it easy, and (4) make it satisfying.
The assumption is that every CMS provides a feed on `/feed`, and with a good chunk of the web running on WordPress, which has RSS in the OOBE, you'll find plenty.

For anything that doesn't, I run a scraper to turn its content into an RSS feed that I'll get.
At least Shopify are being open about the reasons for their layoffs and doing it swiftly. Unlike Facebook who are just going to reduce numbers by managing out a number of employees (either through firing or stressing people out so much they want to leave) by ramping up performance targets.
> Information security isn't just about software and hardware -- it's at least as much about policies and processes.

I recently came across these, which really helped me to understand the basics:

- https://fly.io/blog/soc2-the-screenshots-will-continue-until...

- https://scrty.io

- https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html

It was an informative read for someone who had paid little attention to this stuff.
A matter of how long it managed to stay around.
> Given that our perception of introversion & extroversion is on a scale, what is your definition of "very long".

That's also on a scale.
>Everyone needs to know how happy Matt was. Not always, but recently. People need to know what demons he held at bay. Real ones.

We live in strange times when we can look into space with incredible resolution, but even artists don't have the tools to express the inner structures of their mind that makes them feel bad.

It's strange that Chemistry could identify the structure of so many molecules without ever seeing them but we can't do the same with the structures of the mind.

What are the obstacles that prevent us from reasoning about our mind structures like we reason about software?
Yes, the $6K/month is for paying people for data transfer through their networks, so through a Helium Hotspot. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
https://myanimelist.net/

It's become a social media site for weebs. I'm disappointed that imdb or goodreads hasn't matched MAL's level.
Thanks for the recommendation - available on Linux + its nice that they also have a starter pack. I made a note for this for future.
Yes! Of course it was ***2, brain fart!
That's down to lax caretaking, and yes I've smelt it too. But my house has not a whiff of anything untoward, unless winds force air down the chimney and you can smell a bit of smoke. You will never smell anything cat-related (and yes there's a cat).
I refuse to gamify and disassociate myself from my own body as such by turning it into a metrics tracker, I use none. Seems inhuman.
My friend group has gravitated heavily towards stories, which seem to be much less impacted by how the feed is curated.
WhatsApp isn't dead, but it isn't really monetisable. We'll see how Telegram Premium goes - personally i have it, but i doubt many people are willing to pay for a chat app with tons of free alternatives.
I never mentioned money, where on earth did you get that from??

I’m saying the most efficient queue is a stack. End of story.
So, recently, I've been having a problem. I can't control the way my desktop or programs look, nor how I interface with them. For me, control of my environment takes priority over aesthetics but doesn't explicitly exclude them. The nature of the work I'm getting done changes depending on how I do it, which in turn is shaped by the GUI, or what appears and its mechanics.

I want to tell my GUI how I want it to look, feel and work, not the other way around. In my opinion, although CDE is nice and functional, and definitely more so than any recent desktop I see, I'm not sure if I can hold it up as 'the way', if it won't let me decide what that would be. I can just say it works, and well, but it's not 'optimal' if I don't get to change it, just like I can't reach in and rip out every little hamburger menu in modern apps by the seams.

To me a fundamental control problem still exists. CDE restores lost functionality, but I am left to wonder: what do I control?

All that aside, this is a great project, just for proving that someone can get all the modern engines to behave and show consistency again. That's a gift.
Bitcoiners in general say this too. Blockchains don't make sense except in the single, highly specific use case for which has already been implemented.
Google launches Street View in India years after rejection
Google ads is pretty bad too but facebook's business portal / ad manager / whatever they call it this week almost seems to be designed to be a nightmare to use on purpose. I sincerely hope a player comes along to disrupt this market with a product that is actually nice to use and offers decent customer support - these shouldn't be unrealistic wishes!
"I won't trust an individual who won't even use a real name"

That's the hard privacy-killing argument of corporations. And only cultural change can help it.
Used to use PEM nuts for mounting industrial controls onto panels.
Throwing hardware at performance problems is a fallacy most of the time. At least when you have the knobs to turn at your disposal, like in software development.

Benchmark your build to understand why it's slow. The first thing that jumps out to me is you're using WSL which has non negligible penalties in a few cases. Have you tried dual booting into Linux and running everything natively?

Once you do: benchmark!

It sounds like hardware isn't the problem here, but your tool chain. I don't know enough about it to give insight but it's worthwhile analyzing and googling to see what is taking so long and how to make it faster.
it's an open area of research as far as i know. the technical terms are "private information retrieval", "private information query", "homomorphic encryption" and "secure multiparty computation."

it's some of the coolest stuff in cryptography but it also tends to be experimental or very computationally expensive. zero knowledge proofs are the simplest form i know of.

as far as i know, row level end to end encrypted databases with indices that preserve privacy do not exist yet, but i fully expect that they will.
Something I observed very early on in my career is that bugs will have to be fixed no matter what. You can put them on the todo list and fix them later, or fix them right now. Either way, you're going to have to do the task.

It's like a conservation rule in physics, for every bug found, a bug fix must eventually be implemented. Bug in, fix out.

But... if you leave a bug lingering, then it can cause test failures for unrelated code development. It can trip up other developers. It can cause false positives until resolved.

So the only logical conclusion is that all bugs must be fixed ASAP, otherwise they have a "multiplier" factor dependent on how long they're allowed to persist. If left unchecked, this can blow out exponentially, until you're unable to efficiently fix bugs because you're tripping over thousands of other unfixed bugs while doing so.

You would think this kind of thing is logical, but no-one ever believes me. There's just slow blinking and then a slower repeat of the same old mantra: "We'll fix it... later?"
I'm on Firefox Android and experienced the same issue.

Had to close the tab to get back to HN.

Aside from that, really impressive work. Well done.
Did you ignore the OP's long tail mention on purpose? It may very well be not the majority wants, so we cannot be talking about wishes of any singular "people". And for this reason, this strategy may no be suitable for "growth".

But as a solid, sustainable profit source? Are you claiming that only a marginal number of people want this, or what?
Newly found Lightning Framework offers a plethora of Linux hacking capabilities
FWIW, I built an iOS app for this sorta thing https://flathabits.com (fully offline, no server, no ads, no sign in, no social, data is all yours).
CSS: The Important Parts
Struggling with CSS is a common practice, here we explain how it works and common problems that can appear in your code.
> Is the "state degree" vs. "Ivy League degree" thing that common in US society?

In certain circles, yes.

Usually these circles have many people who have gone to Ivy League schools — lawyers, financiers, and consultants are professional communities in which a sub-group of these folks can commonly be found (esp. in the Northeast Corridor).

Note that some of the perceived discrepancy is misplaced. Most/all top students at pretty much any flagship state school would fit in quite naturally at Ivy League schools (probably top half at least, tbh). They probably just didn’t want to go to an Ivy or didn’t want to jump through the right hoops to get into one. Most people either find themselves accidentally doing things that Ivies like (winning something or doing something of note at a regional, national, or international level), or they make a concerted effort to do so.

If anyone has been in that system and taken a look around, it’s not hard to see the patterns that are needed to drastically increase the likelihood of getting admitted. Great grades and high SATs alone just doesn’t cut it.

The doors that elite schools (esp. the top ivies and Stanford) open to its members is impressive, imho. Is this fair? No. Is it the present reality. Yes. I expect it will remain this way for decades to come.

In terms of prestige, I will add that there are quite a lot of Ivy League students/grads who don’t come across as being very smart (they are smart enough, but definitely won’t blow you away or win any awards for intellect), but their “prestige” probably comes from something else (sports is very, very common, and demonstrated strong leadership is a huge winner).

As a side note, I will add that the American system is the opposite of Japan, Korea, and China, where the most prestigious universities are all national public universities.
I've had it on a few generations of nuc's and an XPS 9590 (where I disabled the nvidia card). I use it for DevOps mostly. So no gaming, don't have time for that anyway.
What is your vendetta here?
Why do Fire Departments still exist?
Instagram isn’t dead, but it does appear to be doomed. At the moment all it does it buy them a bit of time to find a way out, which they almost certainly won’t (as they’ve had a longer period to do so already).
‘DUCKTAIL’ malware attacks hijack Facebook ad and business accounts
However, one scenario would have you operating heavy machinery more often.
Amundsen famously used his sled dogs to feed both the other sled dogs and the men of his expedition.
Something that a lot of people forget is that the pondering of those highly-respected thinkers was due, in large parts, to them hailing from influential and rich families.

Russell? British aristocracy. Von Neumann? Heir to an Hungarian and newly titled magnate. Wittgenstein? Wealthiest family in Austro-Hungaria. De Broglie? French aristocracy. They, of course, were insanely smart, but putting that intelligence to such a wonderful use was enabled by their background.

This is a sad state of affairs for researchers today because, by default of having the pre-existing money to explore, they must become subservient to it: grants and fundings.
The majority of the world is not circumcised. The majority of the world is not dealing with an STI epidemic; some areas are, and only with some STIs. The US has a very high circumcision rate and a very high STI rate for what the proponents of circumcision would like you to believe. The two are only correlated due to a third variable. Circumcision simply isn't a good replacement in any circumstance for sexual hygiene. Don't mutilate children to control for the root variable.

Males are born with foreskin for a reason. Much like one is not born prozac-deficient, the majority of males are not born with some evolutionary "excess".
Is it against HN rules to just flat out call bullshit on an article?
Yes. The (not Windows/Mac) did not ever in the history of anything introduce (the pretty thing).

My guy, several (pretty things) are out there. Look up 'pretty linux/bsd/(niche here) desktop' and be amazed.
Until it starts failing in the field and causes fire.
Making too good open-source solution would ruin the business model of these guys.
I bet that most of the meaningful features are not included there. (I haven't looked into the code, just pricing).
> Building an Instagram clone the way it used to be is fairly trivial these days. I could probably throw one together in a few months, but growing its popularity is practically impossible these days with such entrenched incumbents and no niches left to start a user base with.

Setting aside the fact that the social media platform you are cloning is probably going to sue you for copyright infringement if it takes off, you'd still be fighting the network effect. I'm not saying it is impossible, but I doubt that building a clone of a product will successfully move people from the original. Signal and telegram haven't been able to best WhatsApp.

Building it in a decentralized way probably makes it even harder.