skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why there's more content on walled garden social media instead of personal websites is in no small part Google's fault and not just because of Facebook and Twitter.

Google released several updates (such as "Panda") that greatly lowers the rank of domains that aren't linked to by major domains they deem to be trusted, such as those with edu or gov TLDs or whatever whitelist of domains they decided to add. There have also been updates that specifically lowers the rank of websites that are running forum or blog software. This was probably done to fight spammers but it has effectively killed off the long tail of topics.

This is admittedly speculation since the inner workings of Google search are not released to the public. But these findings have been corroborated by others on the internet.

I used to have a blog and several forums that used to rank highly for some niche keywords and over the years the search rankings started to drop off the front page while a single reddit comment with no content mentioning the same keywords would be #1.

I'd say that Google is very much to blame for this situation as they took the easy way out to fight spammers.
woooow this brings me back.
This is where it all started for me. Before I ever had my own computer.
This sounds like a pretty good way to do it. I'd still recommend some video recordings because facial expressions and gesture language are something I want to remember.

My only plan is to share with family members and ensure records don't get lost.
According to the article, the main problem of a financial police state where you cannot so much as buy a loaf of bread without permission and surveillance from the payment system, is that not everyone is included.
> While I understand per capita for fairness

It's not even really fair. Do those measures account for the emissions of everything we purchase from overseas? China is an outsourced factory for the world. It's hard to point the finger at China's emissions when a large chunk of the developed world's goods are produced by them.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
> Electricity and transportation is a regulated utility.

Maybe it's time to regulate payment processors and turn them into utilities. That or create a national payment processor that does one thing and one thing only (process payments) under a transparent set of laws treating every traction equally.

I have no love for Visa or Mastercard. I'd rather not deal with them at all if I had an alternative that was just as convenient. It kind of crazy that with our modern tech and banking system we don't have that easy alternative and still have to keep these dinosaurs around just to easily pass numbers back and forth between banks.
If your mic is on, I believe it’s HFP or something, it’s so bad I always have an earbud in my backpack. I’m not a native speaker and I don’t want to make work communication more difficult.
what do you mean by a similar graph if the original post only goes back to 1950 but japans goes back to 600?
Personally I wish they'd just stop with this snap stuff. Just adopt one of the free and open alternatives. Snap tech is open but the store is not. And snap apps were really slow to start last time I tried it.

Personally I just want traditional packages so I don't use Ubuntu anymore. But their long history of trying to peddle their own IP (UpStart, Mir, Unity, now snaps) is annoying to me. I guess they're looking for a monetisation model but it's clear that this never works out for them. In this case I guess the goal was for snaps to become a universal standard and them charging for access to the store for commercial software. Why else would they keep the store so closed?

But nobody else is even contemplating supporting snaps and it causes people to move away from Ubuntu. Derivative OSes like mint even go to the trouble of removing it. In the end they will have to give in and play ball just like in all the other cases. I think it's just a matter of time before they drop snap for FlatPak or AppImage.
I posted an article to my blog about a scene from Stranger Things where Astin's character brute forces a password by writing a BASIC program. It was such a great homage to the 80s.

https://specularrealms.com/2021/04/21/strangest-things/
Ah, so making assholes effective is the sin?

I hate to break it to you, but that applies to everything from bricks to aircraft carriers.
I am sorta in the same boat, because I grew up relatively poor I'm paranoid so I save/invest a lot and drive a Honda while my coworkers complain of dealer markups on their new Porsche :)

It would be a real bummer if civilization collapses and it would all be for nothing, but otherwise I hope to FIRE in a few years...
Yes the chemicals from the cane fields is the biggest issue that constantly ignored due to commercial interests. Really quite sad. The crown of thorns does far less damage.
Introduction to Streaming for Data Scientists
Great to hear Winamp is still being maintained.

One slight suggestion to this link is that it have SSL. It seems the benefits of SSL far outweigh the cons, especially when certs can be obtained for free via the likes of Let's Encrypt and the auto-renewing automatically maintained w/ something like: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/swag
How do you know there's not one already?
Aviron row machine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905467
In this tutorial, we examine the new YOLOv7 & its new features, learn how to prepare custom datasets for the model, and then build a YOLOv7 model from scratch using NBA footage to detect and discern the ball handler from players on the court.
I'm very sorry for your loss. The pain has been incredible for me.

I hope you'll get the opportunity to do it with your mother, doubly more so if she can shed light on your father's life.
The problem is mostly due to the Bluetooth Hands Free Profile's (HFP) limited 64-kbit/s bandwidth and the mSBC codec:

https://habr.com/en/post/456182/

Apple recently switched to a higher quality codec (AAC-ELD) with the AirPods 3 and Pro:

https://medium.marco.zone/apple-implemented-the-biggest-impr...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/430411/airpods-3-u...
Thank you. The minority rights and individual rights are cornerstone, democracy does not mean majority act as Emperors. There has to be strong guaranteed equal rights to all individual and minorities that allows them equal opportunity and recourse.

Its foundation is that all agree what we should all have as rights were we to ever find ourselves the minority, and those become the principles we cannot break and we owe to each individual to uphold. Beyond that, majority can decide, hopefully not stupidly and still considering minority's input, as any good leader should do, consider all data points relevant to best decision making.
> resource curse, where countries with rich natural resources are prone to foundering

Steve Jobs calls this out wonderfully here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4

> [...] the same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies. Like, oh, IBM and Xerox. If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or a better computer. So what? When you have a monopoly market share the company's not any more successful. So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people. And they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums. And the companies forget what it means to make great products. [...] the product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to the monopolistic position gets rotted out. By people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product. They have no conception of the craftsmanship required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts usually about wanting to really help the customers.
You just need electric trucks with one pair of drive wheels powered by electric motors. Maybe more if you want more traction, but an 18-wheeler doesn't need 9 drive wheels. It might have 8, if the tractor has two drive axles with dual tires. In practice you could just replace the engine with an electric motor and keep the rest of the drive train the same, as is done on many EV conversions now.

If the system is on the major roads, then that's where the major energy is being used. If you're stuck somewhere in traffic or waiting to load/unload, you're not actually using much energy.

Honestly I'd be okay with the energy being unmetered. I think the cost to society of CO2 emissions is probably greater than the cost of supplying trucks with free energy would be anyways, so I think it's probably a net win for society to have it as a free service. But there are also ways to charge for it if we wanted to go that route. Paying for the energy is a non-problem, you'd just need to decide on a policy.

Ideally in the U.S. this would be installed on interstate highways, at regular intervals. Maybe 5 miles on, 20 miles off or something like that. The overhead lines don't need to be everywhere, they just need to be in enough places that cross-country shipping is possible, and local shipping between major cities is possible.
AirPods, just like any other Bluetooth device, basically have two modes of operation. If you're just listening to audio, they use the A2DP profile, which lets one side send high-quality, stereo audio to the other, but not vice versa. The other profile, called HSP, works in both directions, but the audio quality is much lower, both for the headphones and the microphone. Therefore, as soon as you start using the AirPods' mic, your audio quality drops massively.

In fact, AirPods are slightly better than this than other headsets in some ways, if they're new enough and are connected to a compatible device, they use a slightly better codec than any other Bluetooth headset on the market, although they seem to have an obscene amount of noise reduction and other such filters.

Because of the fact that Bluetooth cuts out the higher frequencies, the effect is a lot less noticeable on male voices than on female ones, at least that's my impression. Women with higher voices, especially younger ones, are almost impossible to understand on some headsets, while some very masculine voices are almost perfectly clear.

If you desperately need a wireless headset that doesn't suck, they do exist, but they don't use Bluetooth. They are usually intended for gaming, so they offer low-latency, a much better microphone quality (although still not as good as what a wired mic can do), and work through a USB dongle. Therefore, you can only use these with a computer, not a phone. If you're going into that market, don't expect anything decent under $100 though, and you might even pay a lot more.
My job now (writing email newsletters for developers) directly traces back to the QBasic era, as I published a regular BASIC "fanzine" on comp.lang.basic.misc in the mid 90s and caught the publishing bug! I moved on to Turbo Pascal 7 shortly thereafter, alas.. :-)
>HN won’t like it because it’s Apple - but this largely improves the experience for the developers. While consumers get relevant ads without the unscrupulous on-selling of data.

No. Developers are forced to only use Apple ads, as any possible competing ads have been completely demolished. Instead of having a market of possible partners Apple is forcing it to only be them.
Ask HN: Is anyone out there “quiet quitting” and willing to talk about it?
I wonder if, like forests, corals tend to colonize an area first with fast growing species, which then get slowly replaced by longer lived species (forest succession). I understand that it takes a while for a forest to go from clean-field to a fully matured forest though.
Ahhhhh OK great, I definitely will just read up on twirp rather than ever trying to do this myself.
QB64 is a reimplementation of the language with all kinds of modern additions like networking and high-res graphics.

https://qb64.com/
My job now (writing email newsletters for developers) directly traces back to the QBasic era, as I published a regular BASIC "fanzine" on comp.lang.basic.misc in the mid 90s and caught the publishing bug! I moved on to Turbo Pascal 7 shortly thereafter, alas.. :-)

Another QB site well worth the visit is http://petesqbsite.com/ (not mine, despite the similar name).
> Do you have a CI badge to show build/test status? This signal would better reach important parties by emailing maintainers or automatically creating an issue.

I find a CI and coverage badge worthwhile because they provide a quick reassurance that the project at least has some form of test plan, which immediately distinguishes it from many other repos.
Whistleblowing is usually a way to redirect attention.
Are they using DRF? Because obviously mobile app can't use templates and Django doesn't default support REST endpoints, does it?
Read the rest of TFA :)
The original post goes back to 1354.
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We're moving towards the imaginary internet.

https://semiosis.github.io/about/

https://semiosis.github.io/posts/imaginary-internet-survival...

Better start encoding your personal mythology into code right now.
I'm very sorry for your loss.

I did this with my mother and have hours of iPhone video that I'm very glad for now; she died last year and I'll be able to show my future children who their grandmother was.

A few things for people who might want to try this in the future:

1. Audio matters a lot. My biggest regret is using the built in iPhone mic. I wish I'd thought more about sound.

2. Have a plan for sharing it with the rest of the family. I did not and I still don't, really.

3. Be clear with them on who can see this video in the future. That might change what they say or how they say it.

4. My mother had also recorded my great grandfather about his escape from the white army and travel to the US, but unfortunately the tape was not adequately preserved. Make sure the data is available for generations if needed.
The height of the HN middlebrow dismissal.

Just do some Bayesian filtering, SEO solved. Can't believe those idiots at Google never thought of it.

Do you seriously think spam filtering is this easy? Just one bayesian machine away from solved?
Those inequalities often produce confidence intervals that are excessively conservative.
> Germany is indicative of the world?

California is also set to shut down their final remaining nuclear power plant.

Source: https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-nuclea...
Never heard of this one before, looks great!
I'm sure they did thorough research on what "temperature" to set initially. They've probably already completed the research on the most effective way to turn up the "heat". Once you have a mechanism like that, it only makes sense to get the most value out of it. It's a dark pattern.
I wouldn't buy the tickets sight unseen, but I would trust you that it's actually a real place, actually in Croatia, and not being conflated with similar-sounding places.

Humans, unless they're disturbed or malicious, tend not to hallucinate things out of whole cloth.
Can you think of a better question??
but it's still probably easier to get a big DDoS with UDP reflection than through botnets directly hitting the target.

We were more sophisticated back then. So picture your netblock is 207.180.10.0/24 and you've directly connected all 200 computers on your Class-C netblock directly to the public Internet without any NAT. 207.180.10.0 is your network ID and 207.180.10.255 is your broadcast address.

Someone comes along and sends a 64 byte ICMP ECHO request to 207.180.10.255. And they get 200 responses. Literally every one of the computers on your entire network responds with an ICMP ECHO reply.

So now they can spoof an IP address from Victim IP address to send 1k ICMP ECHO requests to 207.180.10.255 and multiply their attack 200:1.

But now imagine instead of a tiny Class-C netblock they find a similarly configured broadcast address for a huge Class-A netblock. And their scanner counts 29,000 ICMP ECHO replies for each request they send out. Now their attack is multiplied 29,000:1.

And since they've been scanning for broadcast addresses on the public Internet every day for a month they have compiled a list of hundreds of them so the attack seems to be coming from everywhere.

https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/smurf-attac...
It doesn't matter if it's a website or Disney World. If someone is doing something that is against the law, the police should handle it. There is zero reason for visa, or anyone else to involve themselves (aside from informing law enforcement so that they can deal with the matter).
We migrated many of our critical protocols from JSON to protobuf, and the experience has been very positive. As your system gets bigger, and your teams get bigger, the value of a typed schema has a multiplicative effect on both reliability and productivity. In addition, a lot of basic features around managing transport, like load balancing, health checking, deadlines, etc. come out of the box.

IMO, performance is the least of the reasons to use protobufs. And if you're working on simple systems in small teams (or solo), then JSON is a better fit (because it's simpler to understand, debug, and iterate with.) gRPC is definitely not a one-size-fits-all.
Wow, great to see you here! What's your opinion of the FreeBSD stack in general for future projects?
> For example, somebody wrote an algorithm example full of $ii $tk $zx and so on and I asked them about this (who knows, maybe there's some logical reason to not use my_variable_name for example)

The only Basic I used long ago was in C64 and AFAIR only the first two characters were significant; maybe the person was (unconsciously) trying to write some kind of "portable" code :)
OAuth? You'll still need a DB, but at least no signups.
In this blog post, we learn how to build an unsupervised NLP pipeline for automatically extracting/generating glossaries and associated definitions from a given text document like a book/chapter/essay.
Part of the problem is the way that data is presented. Google indexes HTML, but wouldn't it be better if sites provided a standard interface to their [shareable] data, so that data quality, and searches could get better?
> Fines start at 10km/h over

This is not correct. A distinction must be made between:[1]

a) Driving up to 15km/h too fast outside of a city/village for more than 5 minutes or in two cases after departure is fined with 140 EUR.

b) Exceeding the speed limit once for a short time by up to 10 km/h outside a town or village is finded with 30 EUR. (11-15km/h: 50 EUR; 16-20km/h: 140 EUR; ...)

There is a tolerance applied to the measurement of 3km/h for under 100km/h and 3% above 100km/h. That should take into account the inaccuracy of the measurement; however, it does not guarantee that you get away with driving 83km/h in the autobahn, because the measurement might be a little inaccurate to your disadvantage.

[1] Source: https://www.bussgeldrechner.org/lkw.html (in German)
how do you know I'm not one? I'm appaled I'm not getting recognized
Here's my list of great programming books

http://deliberate-software.com/page/books/
Cybersecurity agencies reveal last year’s top malware strains
Feel the same way. I’ve made my own personal colour scheme over time by manually adjusting colours by eye (fun procrastination). Following personal and intuitive preferences this way has lead to a palette that is almost certainly not uniform but one that I mostly like.

I suspect a useful tool would be one that starts with vision science based uniformities but that then enables personalised tweaks, ideally with vision science guidance.

To your point, it matters what kind of tokens a colour is going to be used for. If they’re small (eg operators), then the effective perceptual uniformity is broken. They’ll be less conspicuous. Being brighter and more saturated would probably help. Perceptual salience can be tricky, and it’s useful to remember that our colour vision is flawed and finicky. Similarly but inverted for large tokens such as class names.

Beyond that, once you start modulating saturation and brightness to get a nicer look, you’re back into a 3D colour space where the evenly spaced hues idea starts to make less sense, or so I suspect.

Nonetheless, cool work! I would have liked to do the same if I was able!
It seems like we've all individually been able to find spam, and I'm guessing Google engineers that use Google for searching have the same experience. Is it just a matter of them allowing us to help train their algorithms? I'd be more than willing to report sites if I had the option.
I got QuickBasic from the warez section of the BBS I often dialed into when I was younger. I also played a lot of Lord.
I think the author is confusing discipline with... something. Discipline is not simply doing things you don't like. It's a trained mentality that helps you do what needs doing (or not doing, such as procrastinating).

Making some activities more playful, and therefore pleasant, has it's own merits, but life isn't so kind as to make the whole of your existence a playground. At some point, you really do have to buckle down, whether or not it is fun. A disciplined attitude will definitely be a benefit.
Java's? Or at least it used to be.
And it was simple and everyone had it in their Gmail. I used to use it with friends all the time! Then Hangouts and every rebranded disaster took its place. Since then we all migrated to Facetime, Zoom, Discord, etc. There was too much friction to follow Google's video chat decisions. This current headline just makes it easier for me to decide to never try their new products.
I like the idea of a search engine that acts as a sort of filter for known dark patterns along with returning useful results. Limiting on javascript quantity seems like a sledgehammer approach, but I like the spirit of it all the same.
I did read the second book but the problem is that from a story perspective another old book being a horcrux would be... kinda lame IMO
> From there a proliferation of variations on the format ensued, each home to a host of novel toponyms, including such gems as Divorce Island, Country of Single Men, Land of Spinsters, Mountains of Delay (Inhabited by Lawyers), Squabble Marsh, and Port Hymen (there's also a Temple of Hymen).

Very amusing.
I think this is more a thing outside of the U.S. At least in some European countries, it's required by law
"It's not 'everything the body needs'..." (eyeroll)
> This is something practically everybody in the US has.

You might be surprised. It is a valid fear, and I suspect folks that are older, and have families, may feel that way, but a lot of highly-paid, young professionals don't seem to understand that.

You will see this in action, as more and more tech companies start laying off their engineers.

I started off very humbly, and am constantly around folks that don't have a pot to piss in (and some of them used to be millionaires).
It's a little terrifying to see some QBasic zines I wrote nearly 25 years ago on that site.
Yes. I decided I have to get in shape. Weight loss is part of it and I am slowly working on that but some basic barbell work has improved things amazingly.
>This is a near impossible query for human beings

As is every query that we need computers for (e.g., a SELECT query that goes over millions of records).

On the other hand, expecting a search engine to find pages which at least mention both Croatia and Koh Lanta is a very, very, very low bar.

And it's going to be better than what Google is giving today.