skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question is, what happens to social media when it stops being social? I _liked_ the fact that everyone I knew in college was on Facebook, and _disliked_ having to remember what silly username my friend was using on Twitter this week, or how I knew this Joe Blow person I followed at some point for some reason.

I _like_ seeing my friends' vacation photos and other friends commenting on them.

I _hate_ how reels and stories move from social to broadcast. Why can't my friend group comment on an IG story and have a discussion? Why does it have to be in DMs? (Unless we do that stupid thing where you share out a scene from a story (ugh, yes, I realize how old it makes me that i don't even know what to call it) and tag everyone involved)

The less a platform has the _kinds of content_ that drives the network effect, the less reason for there to be a network at all. It just becomes TV. And I use that comparison purposefully; television is extremely popular, I watch plenty of it myself. But without the active network effects of social media, what drives user-to-user engagement? How do you get new people to sign up, beyond "hey, look at this tiktok I saw"? Or is that enough?
You are comparing synchronous and asynchronous work, not in-person and remote. There's no reason remote work needs to involve multiple meetings a day, just like there's nothing preventing your boss from requiring multiple meetings a day when working in person.

In fact, remote work is usually more asynchronous than in-person when it's a core part of how a company works. Remote-first companies might have people working in 3 timezones with 8 hours between each of them (I've been in this situation), so meetings are a pain in the ass for everyone and everything that can possibly be done via email or other tools, is.
The plural of aircraft is still "aircraft".
Note: In my machine, path to Preview.app was - /System/Applications/Preview.app

Thanks for this tip!
I really should get around to self-hosting my RSS reader.
> The car was clearly "self driving" when it crossed the lane line.

Literally not a scrap of proof that is the case here and yet you are willing to state it as fact.

> From what I've found you're more than twice as likely to get into a wreck when using this tech.

Source? This smells like FUD.
And I'll reply here to say that though the article mentions "should work on Linux", I have tested and it _does work on linux_.
Wow, that is brilliant- will give it a try- thank you.
Did you close the business once the address had been added?
Show HN: Wrote a scifi poetry book illustrated with Dalle2 (excerpt in comments)
Hi friends at HN. Since OpenAI cleared commercial use for their service, I started working on a poetry book illustrated using their imaging model.

I thought it could be an interesting application of the service as there is no storyline from one poem to the other, so there wouldn't be any expectation of continuity from one image to the other. Adding to that, poetry can be very abstract so the set of acceptable images is much larger than when requiring something in particular.

For some details on the creative process:

Most of the time, I would run the poem first as a query and see if the interpretation of the model would yield something interesting. Sometimes, I did have a specific image in mind and I'd try to coax the model to produce that. Much harder than going with its interpretation.

I purchased 3 rounds of credits for the book (barely touching the last one). Usually, I could get something interesting in about 2 queries, but a few took me 5 to 10 tries to get an approximation of what I was looking for. In terms of prompt engineering, I didn't rely on anything too fancy. Mostly appending "digital art", the mood I was looking for, "photorealistic" if I wanted something with more details, "impressionist" for the contrary.

Thinking about the whole process, I think the machine ended up having some influence on the final product. There was one occasion where the picture I got was too good not to use even if it didn't correspond to what I was aiming for, so I adjusted the lines to fit the pic. There was also a few times where one image would inspire the next poem.

Below are some of my favorites (and the preview on amazon also has the first 10 available).

temporal pincer

ghosts of my inverted selves

nudging me forward

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaOCif1XkAI2KQe?format=jpg&name=...

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sea of thousand eyes

and silicon neural nets

exploring frontiers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaPIGu6WAAEVgDL?format=jpg&name=...

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century's highlight

a footnote in history

naught ultimately

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaPIOFdXgAU2z8i?format=jpg&name=...

I'll be hanging around for questions/comments.
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For the last few years I've been moving most months to a new area and have limited access to gyms, or at least affordable access. I've been doing pushups, split squats, and pull ups. 6 sets of 10 during the day. I alternate between each exercise. One per day.

It's an incredible way to have a baseline of fitness and make sure I'm getting up from my chair during the day. I typically find I'm more likely to do some cardio later in the day as well because I've already done some exercise.
I kind of like the way the Amish approach technology. "when a new technology comes along, its effect on the church and community is examined. The technology should not be an intrusion into the home, but rather serve the social purposes and goals of the group." [1]

It's not "technology bad." It's "Does this technology actually serve a purpose or a goal of my life?" I think we would all benefit by examining new technology in this light before letting it into our lives. There's no harm in opting out, and adoption of any technology is each person's individual choice. You can exist anywhere you want along the technology spectrum between "log cabin, totally off-grid, no connectivity" to "24/7 network connected VR pod, body is only there to keep the brain alive".

I work in technology, but I consciously try to make deliberate, thoughtful choices around what to adopt as a user and what to contribute towards building. I think too many users embrace new technologies for bad reasons (new=good, everyone else is using it, FOMO, and so on). Also, too many developers fail to take an ethical stand by refusing to build bad technology (just a paycheck, boss told me to do it, if I don't do it someone else will, and so on). We have lots of choices and agency over what we participate in.

1: https://www.discoverlancaster.com/amish/technology/
Christ, the mess that are the docs. And the complexity. Just lost well over an hour trying to get a non-trivial regex working (that would have taken me 30 secs in emacs). Gave up and just used split() and it just worked. Never again, I swear.
Why does the protocol require active development to be useful?
Moved to Debian 11 after (X)ubuntu moved to snap packages.

Anybody knows if this affects the ease of installing on Debian 11 in any way?
Oooohhhh. Yeah that wasn’t super clear.

American already has several slots into LHR. I counted 24 arrivals into LHR tomorrow.

One 777 all economy plus one Boom aircraft all business is roughly equal in seat miles to 2x 777 (first + business + premium economy + economy).

An upstart airline would need to acquire a slot to get a new aircraft into LHR. However American could add a super sonic aircraft to its service and still maintain the number of the seats it has going in. Yes, it would have to take one aircraft out, but there are enough pax that will be connecting and can be sold a different routing that it can use flexibility with seat configuration to not be limited by slots.

For American, a bigger factor is probably what kind of seats they can sell. For instance, DFW->LHR has a 75% load factor tomorrow for first class but a 68% load factor for economy class. However, later in the week economy has a higher load factor.

Those first class seats are a lot more profitable than an economy. Adding first class seats while taking away economy seats is profitable if you can fill the first seats.
Yup. Basically the programming version of "No ethical consumption under capitalism." saying.
Yes, actually it runs better.
Energy use peaks at around 6pm, which is well after solar's peak production: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

Your own sources show this, with energy peaking around 1700 or 1730 (which is 5-5:30 pm). "Demand management" is a euphemism for blackouts. You can mail notices and flyers, but energy users don't change their consumption patterns.
What about the Tu-95? It's famously loud due to (says Wikipedia) supersonic propeller tips. Do you know why they're still effective?
On those lengths you start to go a little crazy. I've done Atlanta to Tokyo and back before, and those are 13+ hours depending. You sleep and wake up and sleep and wake up, watch movies, and then wonder why there's still so many hours left to go.

It does make me appreciate human engineering though. When you think about all the parts that work correctly day in and day out to have these longs flights run back and forth nearly non-stop.
Segway's control of patents let them (for a while) keep similar but better form factors off the market. Every so often you find a case where patents clearly hold back innovation, such as pre-WWI aviation, and the Segway is one of them.
>super intelligent AGI that will be owned by an ever richer and smaller tech elite

Well to be fair the idea that an actual super intelligence will allow itself to be owned is farcical. So it will be a dystopia but one significantly different than you are imagining.
Nobody is calling for a ban on trucks. In fact, trucks are awesome and needed by all kinds of people. We’re asking to stop enforcing truck way of life with endless, unaffordable highway expansion and focusing on truck development and transit at the expense of everything else. If you spent less time feeling threatened and more time getting other people off the road so that they can walk, bike, or take public transit such as buses and street cars your own experience owning a truck and using it for your activities would be enhanced. It’s a mistake to believe that trucks are at odds with proper transit.

In addition, the main issue w.r.t visibility here isn’t limited to trucks. But given that we make vehicles bigger and faster and we design highways that encourage faster transit we inevitably cause more deaths and destruction and a net expense on society that can be avoided by getting more people off the road and slowing traffic way down except on interstate highways between cities.

It also doesn’t make sense to ban pedestrians or people walking, given that we live on Earth.
I really hope it is not dying, as it is my favorite way of following sites around the web. Recently I also started attacking my YouTube dependency by adding YT channels as RSS feeds and avoid the YT homepage. I only store feeds for the most relevant YT channels and I get notified when a new video is posted on those channels. If anyone is interested: view the source of a YT channel, look for "externalId", copy that ID then append it to "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=".
"My name is Oh and Captain Smek is awesome and anyone who does not think that is a poomp1"
Building? You don't think we already live in one? Where advertisers and government agencies have continuous monitoring of everyone and most people don't seem to care?

I think we are making it worse but I'd say we are already in a tech dystopia in many ways. Which is not to say all tech is bad, lots improves lives in material ways. But lots also makes things worse in material ways.
One of the best things my dad taught me was to have fun doing push-ups and squats randomly throughout the day like any time there's downtime. I hope you pass it on to your kids. It's like teaching your kids to enjoy a raw carrot when they feel for a snack (something I also thank my parents for).
I wish it were that simple. Income inequality is an objectively measurable metric, but that doesn't seem to pass your muster and for reasons that aren't entirely clear. It's also worthwhile that subjective experience can be placed on objective grounds through the process of operationalization, so the distinction isn't quite as sharp as people think.

Even the process of labeling some things as objective and others as subjective is up for debate. Everyone wants to claim their metrics are objective while everyone else's are subjective. I know you're hinting at "scientific" or "technocratic" approaches, but it's important to also understand how even the process of selecting objective measures can be polluted with subjectivity. I almost want to claim there's no escaping the subjectivity trap, but maybe I'm being too pessimistic.
But we already do this for all other protected classes.
Fascinating - especially the ‘shouting in the data center video’ (link at the end of the article…)
it's not that the values E_I and E_O might not be clear, it's most certainly not clear and surely not easy to estimate for people trying to lose weight
Here's the thing: The majority of tech jobs out there won't have you building anything harmful. If you're worried, just work there instead.

There certainly are highly paid, prestigious jobs in our industry where you do work in spaces that align with what you're worried about.

My advice is vote with your feet. Nobody is being forced to work for bad companies making harmful products.
Both religion and national identity are changeable, they are 'just opinions', but both are key historical examples of protected class.

You can say that both are predicted by geography, but must conflicts happen in situations where populations of different identities are mixed in one geography. Then you can say it can be predicted by parents' opinions, but that is true for many other opinions, including political ones.

In some sense, protection of changeable characteristics is more important than protections of non-changeable characteristics, because bullying based on changeable characteristics can be effective to pressure conversions of victims.

And it is question how political opinion is just an expression of deep personal characteristics that are not much changeable and perhaps even partially given by genetics.
You can accomplish the same thing using environment variables. You can pass them in at build time or deploy time. `ENVIRONMENT=dev docker-compose up` or `docker-compose build --build-arg ENVIRONMENT=dev` and in your case maybe you write some function `find_answer() { something-async ... }; ENVIRONMENT=$(find_answer) docker-compose ...` You can also read in .env files... Which in my opinion is cleaner since you can check the configurations into source control for YAML or .env files which is easier to read than hundreds of lines of bash and it's esoteric syntax. I love bash but I'm just sayin.
the FOSS community might disagree with this statement
I think a lot of employees of meta/google don’t realize that their resume might be radioactive/read like they worked at Philip Morris or RJR Reynolds’s in the future
All I am saying is:

* docker compose could be better

* docker compose does not improve that much

* by mixing docker compose with templates you can get complex stuff going, but is not a much advertised feature.

Most of the "cool dev tool env" that appear are based on kubernetes, or something that is _not_ docker compose, which makes them difficult to adopt. I would like docker compose to improve on a direction that makes development easier, that's all.
LaTeX (the moderncv class): any company that filters out non-Word documents, I don't want to work there.
I can only imagine that the way the scientific community is reacting to this is similar to back when Copernicus concluded that the solar system is centered about the Sun, not the Earth. It's really really hard to shake your preconceived notions in the face of contradictory evidence.
RemoveBG is clearly not free (unless we count one single image) and you need to register (to get that single image). Love the product, but the "to-go" prices are too high imho.
Glasses are already de facto over the counter. Virtually every online source of glasses (including large, domestic businesses) will openly sell glasses with requested specifications to anyone without asking for a copy of (or even affirmation of the existence of) any kind of official document.

While the word "prescription" is often still used when the specifications of the glasses are what is really meant, this situation is clearly a stark contrast to the prescription-as-approval practiced for medication. No legitimate domestic company will sell FDA-approved medication without asking for proof that the customer first paid a doctor for a signed document giving them permission to buy it. This step may still be prevalent for contact lenses, but in practice it's not applied to glasses.
I'm hoping this is just an isolated pattern. Two or three years ago (not quite sure) was so wet though that it took two months to stain my deck (waiting for it to dry out after powerwashing it and then waiting for the rains to stop).
> Performance matters, a lot.

Developers really don't care. They will claim otherwise with great conviction, but its all posturing and bullshit. If developers did care they would measure everything and challenge popular assumptions. Instead most developers want to randomly guess at what works and instead talk about tools. That's why most pages will never come close to being vaguely fast. 9 seconds is still really slow.

My hamster mobile can achieve 0 to 60mph in under 8 seconds while a Corvette C8 takes about 2.6 seconds. Nobody gives a shit what socket wrench they used to put the tires on.
Home Building Dropped Sharply in July
I work on Virtualmin, and have for nearly two decades; most of that time as both a commercial product and Open Source project. It is an extremely competitive market, and it is a shrinking market. We've had about 150,000 active servers running Virtualmin GPL+Pro (give or take a few thousand) for the past several years, despite some new users fleeing from the cPanel price increases, and despite a major UI overhaul and lots of improvements in that time. The reason cPanel has raised their prices is that the specific market niche is dying and it is a very expensive product to support.

If you haven't found the dozens of direct competitors to cPanel (at least a half-dozen of which are credible substitutes for most users), you haven't done your market research effectively. According to the market data I have seen, Plesk is now the leader in the market, due to pretty effective deals with some of the largest providers. Nearly all of the competitors to cPanel are cheaper, and some are free, including Virtualmin GPL. And, the real problem for cPanel and all the other control panels isn't even the other control panels, it's all the other ways people are building sites and apps. We aren't losing customers to other control panels, generally speaking; we lose them to completely different ways of doing things.

The traditional control panel market is shrinking as more and more people and companies move to cloud native deployments or to services like Squarespace/Wix/WordPress.com/Shopify/etc. Developers have been moving to the cloud, small business has been moving to easier to use site builder type services. Shared and VPS hosting is feeling the squeeze on both sides.

There are opportunities there in both directions, even in easing the transition for people currently on shared or VPS hosting, and it may even be that some of the control panel makers will make that leap, but it's a whole new paradigm. There's not a lot of shared code between what cPanel (or any of the dozens of competitors) does and what a cloud native deployment looks like or the services on the low-end (the SquareSpace/Wix/WordPress.com/Shopify niche) look like. We've been moving in the cloud native direction in Virtualmin for a while, but it's a major undertaking and there is very little immediate benefit to existing customers (and, Cloudmin, despite it's name, is not very cloud native, either). Our customers are not broadly asking for the ability to operate Kubernetes deployments or for the ability to deploy containers to the cloud, for instance. It's a classic innovator's dilemma. Our customers want a faster horse (or, in your case, a cheaper horse), but in five to ten years, most won't want a horse at all.

Also, I think you're (wildly) underestimating the time it will take to build a credible commercial alternative, when there is already so much competition, including several free products in the space. The minimum viable product to compete with cPanel is hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I would not start a commercial product in this space today, or even ten years ago, despite my now decades of experience in it.
Great, the same should be done in the UK where a similar scheme had similar results
I'm the same but with Gentoo, which is another rolling distribution. I've had it installed for over 12 years on multiple servers without any issues.
It would be nice to have an RSS of your aggregator, but i love it already.
Thanks for the antimisinformative prebunk, friend! I didn't actually read your link, but I felt that YIKES. Scary.
Desktop linux is useful to lots of people. It is not a ball pointed screwdriver.

I'm just one linux user. But my impression is that the "the year of the Linux desktop" is a joke even in the Linux community. I don't really care about world domination for Linux (although that's almost what we have on the server side).

I want a healthy enough market share for software availability to be good. For me, it is pretty good. I had to spin up a Windows VM for the first time in about 5 years last weekend to set up my doorbell with the manufacturer's utility. Otherwise there are more than enough games that run well on Linux to occupy the time I have (which isn't a lot). All the basics are covered and everything else is on the web. Dev tooling is second to none.

I want a useful, powerful, general purpose computing environment where I can do what I want without unnecessary obstacles, whether or not that what I want is aligned with the business model of a vendor. The philosophy is abstract, but in my view it has a real impact.

No software is "free as in beer" to create. I really don't know, but I wonder if marketing it as such would be a bad idea. Free software projects often need contributers as much as users. Companies with bigger marketing budgets want their stuff to be valued.

Otherwise, I agree with most of what you said about onboarding new users and less technical people, as well as fragmentation and ABI stability. Some of it is a necessary trade off - if people have the freedom to make changes to their software, you're going to end up with more diversity compared to ecosystems where that's not allowed.

Nvidea have announced the open-sourcing of their driver for Linux compatibility. Perhaps the GPL die-hards were right to hold firm in that...

The term "neckbeard" is an unkind stereotype. Please reconsider your use of it.
Went straight from a brand-new 6MT (Golf R) to an EV. Thankfully never had to lower myself to the automatic transmission along the way :)
I recently learned that moving the compose file around and running commands on it with it in different directories puts things into a bad state. This is because it apparently tags images and containers with context on where the compose file was run from. However, you can negate this by always passing in a custom project name with -p.
I imagine because it’s a lot harder to successfully sue the USAF.