skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 2007 Core 2 Duo laptop. I think it wants to keep going and be useful (outside of the worthless IIRC GMA 965 GPU), but Dell only released XP and Vista 32-bit drivers (both are dead OSes for modern apps), and finding and installing drivers for Vista 64 or 7 was difficult (I didn't try 10), and I kept getting random touchpad hangs on sleep-wake (broken on either the lock screen or the logged-in screen), audio hangs, etc. It's a better experience on Linux, though you have to use EasyEffects or similar to add audio EQ to compensate for the poor-quality speaker response curve. Xfce and MATE run fairly well (I haven't tested if KDE can hardware-render on a GMA 965), but 4 GB of RAM requires micromanaging, video playback is arduous, and running web apps (Discord, I'm trying to migrate off Google Docs one way or another) is a lag-fest.

One notable aspect of laptops that's improved in the past decade-plus is multitouch trackpads. I have a 2013 Ivy Bridge laptop with "two-touch" tracking (the Linux kernel calls it Elan V3), but the multi-finger detection is deeply broken (a second finger will register at the wrong point if you tap lightly or near the edge, the two points tend to be displaced towards the same X or Y position if they're close but not identical along either axis, and both reported finger points tend to be displaced away from the actual touch point towards periodic quantized Y and probably X positions). I use it with edge scrolling, but that struggles too because the touchpad is bad at sensing touches right up against the edge, it's hard to even feel the edge with my finger, and the Linux kernel has a bug that halves the size it thinks the touchpad is (which I had to patch locally and rebuild the psmouse kernel module on every kernel update). I think MacBooks were ahead of PC laptops because they reused multitouch tech from iPhones, which Apple initially purchased from FingerWorks.

One notable regression is a decrease in modularity, ease of disassembly, and repairability, caused by the rise of integrated keyboards into palmrests, nonremovable batteries (at least modern CPUs are more efficient), soldered RAM, now even soldered storage, in the pursuit of slimness and planned obsolescence.
I think pricing might be biggest stumbling block and is probably the hardest to solve. Platforms want their oversized cuts, delivery is personal service so always have lower limit which is somewhat high. And restaurants themselves already have rather low margins.

Quality is just natural progression. Good food survive and bad food keep being replaced with new restaurants. Just like traditional restaurant industry.
> we already add patches to make Mozilla's telemetry opt-in ...

Thanks for mentioning this. I haven't checked Debian in ages, should do so.
A restroom that's practical for the cook to wash hands every single time is a lot harder then a nearby walk-to restroom.

These add up fast.
Which specific inventions?

The US largely copied the British through the early 20th century.

Then started copying the Germans and Russians.
Didn’t Zuckerberg implicitly support trump at one point? (What he is doing here certainly supports trump.) In the hope trump would ban TikTok. I thought that was why the Biden admin put Facebook in the doghouse.
Since that time, there was a point Apple was nearly bankrupt. Also since then they partnered on another new processor technology and put that one in the Mac. Then they got rid of that one and went to Intel chips. Only recently did they develop an ARM core they considered superior to the desktop competition. The whole Newton/eMate line were nice but were marketplace flops.

Apple plays a long game, but saying they funded ARM in the mid 1980s so they could slowly grow those cores by themselves for themselves in 2020 and later ignores a whole lot of history about both Apple and ARM.
Yes, it can be exploited - which is why terminals are adding confirmation steps to pasted multiline text (to avoid running the commands without user even seeing them).
Orwell: You and the Atom Bomb
Mine doesn't have a pam_smartcard.so line(?)... It has pam_rootok.so, but adding below that doesn't work. Odd.
> Simply visit kindlehnbeta.pythonanywhere.com on your Kindle’s browser.

That's not simple at all, you need shorter URL.
I wish I could remember the source, as I believe it had more context.

May have been Tim Wu's The Master Switch, though that doesn't quite seem right.
Where is the Rust Hello World example on the manual teaching new generations to check for print errors?
By now, I'm pretty sure everyone who was going to use Slack has used Slack.
> Well in the EU credit/debit card fees are capped at 0.3/0.2% so while not exactly fair it’s not a huge deal compared to the US (where everyone is paying for credit card users rewards and cash backs).

And cash has it's own processing fees (security - cameras, register, transportation; counting), which are also hidden. Some smaller places (e.g. cafés) have moved to cashless payments only, because the costs around cash, and the hassle involved at every step, is too much.
I think you may forget about Afghanistan, 1979.

And yes, I really think that. I do not think many sensible people believe in a looming Russian invasion of Germany.
>This is not something we can really put into words easily since we never intentionally learned it themselves; just acquired it.

I'm from America and this was taught in primary school. At school you learn a lot about English grammar. I'm sure it's similar in Japan with Japanese grammar.
You coukd say one of the big leaps with canals, beyond the initial ones that expanded/followed existing rivers and remained flat, was the building of aquaducts to take canals across valleys which of course is heavily associated with Romans (though as far as I'm aware that wasn't used for transport of anything but water).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_lat%C3%A9ral_%C3%A0_la...
The Guardian manages [at least some of their inventory] first-party. Their products and rates are refreshingly transparent.

https://advertising.theguardian.com/

They may well use backup agencies for selling unfilled slots.
At FB I unabashedly made a bunch of obnoxious (to partisans at least, maybe to everyone) criticisms of the fucking stupid Red Team/Blue Team thing. I took grief from colleagues/peers directly (which is clearly in bounds) but if anyone retaliated in terms of my career I never saw a shred of evidence about it. FB had the stated mission of "Making the World More Open and Connected": I posted a bunch of pretty-fucking-non-mainstream shit on my personal account and FB's leadership was always scrupulous about leaving my "personal" Internet presence completely out of it in a way I found very consistent with that mission statement.

In fairness I was a pretty equal-opportunity partisan politics attack dog, maybe it just canceled out.

For a counter-point, Apple seems to have been willing to set their ads business back by years to whack someone over a critically-acclaimed book that had been published for years before the auto da fe was held: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-h..., so maybe there's some dice involved.
I guess you must be really pissed off at something because you're not making any sense.

Couple of things

1. How do you focus a text field without a keyboard? Mouse or touch only? No TAB, no up/down keys for scrolling, no escape, etc.

2. You can disable all non text content in a web page. This was always possible

I can go on and on but what's the point?
How many food trucks come with a restroom? Or 4 walls and a roof, assuming that’s required to cover a shelter? Or a connection to the sewer system (which sounds pretty tenuous for a food truck, you need to find a parking space with a open sewer connection?)
Paywalled so I couldn’t see what startups were mentioned.

If you’re on macOS and/or iOS, I’ve been testing out the browser Orion from Kagi. It’s not perfect, yet. Though, I see the merit in a privacy-respecting WebKit-based browser. It’s a good working beta at this stage.

They’re doing a more unique method to thwart fingerprinting. And I believe they want to eventually build out variants for other platforms. It could be the next best alternative browser in the future.
> That leaves 1460 bytes per TCP packet. 10 x 1460 = 14600 bytes or roughly 14kB!

Where does the 10 suddenly come from?
“Locally smart but globally incoherent” of a great, pithy way to describe many systems/projects/organisations I’ve worked with.
Using saltpetre for cooling drinks (2013)
> Excellent tools spread through the best kind of word of mouth.

They did that already. Years ago, they did that. Now everyone knows about slack.
I see people struggling to find the correct initial keywords to search on all the time; and I have the same problem trying to google domains I don’t know. But this can usually be solved with sufficient effort, though I don’t know many people who are willing to put in that effort.

But more problematic is when people don’t know there’s a problem to google in the first place — it seems to do the job — which is usually resolved by both education and experience, but is ultimately a result if they don’t know what they don’t know.

The knowledge is generally out there, but you need to know you’re looking for it, and it’s only in the common/trivial problems that it’s so obvious that the compiler/tooling/customer just flat-out tells you you’ve missed something
> “We have a lot of conservative-leaning folks in the company as well, and to be honest, they don’t feel safe to express their opinions at the company,” Dorsey said. “They do feel silenced by just the general swirl of what they perceive to be the broader percentage of leanings within the company, and I don’t think that’s fair or right.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/14/17857622/twitter-liberal-emplo...
There's a talk that made the same points: Signal: You were the chosen one.

https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-196-signal-you-were-the-chose...

Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32244795
A textbook case of "brand proliferation".
How needlessly wasteful
The things that happened and were said by Trump during his presidency was so unfathomably bad that I don't think the US will recover its status abroad for a long time. It doesn't matter who gets to be president next. The fact that a grifting Russia-owned mobster with an equally grifting family got elected to the highest office in (arguably) the world, is still hard to believe to this day.
Think of it as "tagging" users. Instead of a user fitting a single pre-defined category, you can add tags to a user.

To give an example, let's say you have both a Discord channel and a Slack channel with the same 10 people working on a project, 7 of which are software developers. To mention the developers, your Slack option is either @everyone (including 3 non-developers) or individually. On Discord you can create @developers and add only those seven, not bothering the other 3.

You can really go buckwild with that basic concept: only admin can tag @everyone, only @talkers can join a voice channel, only @projectmanagers can run some bot, only @collaborators can post to #project, @watchers can read #project but not post, while those that are neither @collaborators nor @watchers don't even see the channel... And in #otherproject you can have those same people in totally different groups and with different roles.

Way more customizable than by just having public/private channels and @everyone at your disposal, as Slack does.
I really like the build-in statistics provided by Heroku. It is the main reason for staying with them. The statistics are basic but clear enough to keep an eye on an application (my apps are mainly in golang).
How to stay cool the Japanese way
Although they are even worse because they are an example of "vertical integration" -- they own both the manufacturing of many of the major eyeglass frame brands as well as many of the chain eyeglass stores such as Lenscrafters and Pearle Vision as well as being the real owners of the optometry departments found in stores like Target and John Lewis.
You're right, my mistake. Happy to see though that the current Wikipedia page cites an archived version of a first-hand source though rather than FB's suggestion
How can you possibly measure that?
Seems like a natural thing to have in keychain.
In the US any sort of restaurant establishment is most likely by zoning required to have some amount of parking.

The cost of the land and asphalt for a parking space is $5-10k for a surface spot, $30k for an underground one. Two tables wouldn’t pay the interest rate on that, especially if multiple are required.
Personally, I 100% believe that UFOs and alien life both exist. After all, it would be hubris of the highest order to claim that we could identify every aerial visual phenomenon. And I find it extremely hard to believe that in the vastness of the universe, this infinitesimal speck we live on is the only place that the thing we call "life" exists. What I don't believe is that UFOs and aliens are connected, or that aliens routinely visit this planet.

First of all, if aliens did visit this planet, why here? There have to be many more interesting planets to go look at than Earth. If they stumbled on this planet by accident at some point, why would they bother to come back? Even if there aren't more interesting places, what's the probability that an alien being could even breathe the air here? I'm not willing to go full on Signs and speculate that contact with water might be deadly to them, but it's pretty reasonable to guess that aliens would have evolved in places with significantly different atmospheres than Earth has.

And, of course, none of this even touches on the vast distances in interstellar space and the level of technology that it would take to come here. It's certainly conceivable that aliens who are 5 million years ahead of us in societal development might have such technology, but how probable is it? And if they had that level of technology, why not just send a stealthy probe with the alien equivalent of a Really Damn Big Telescope(tm) and park it somewhere out in the asteroid belt if they're that interested in the antics of 7.7 billion primitive bipeds? Nothing really seems to add up for me in the direction of "aliens visit the Earth frequently and UFOs are evidence of those visitations."
I agree with the point you're trying to make, but not your sentiment.

To quote the guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community"
The experience of being taken on wheels from A to B is very easy to make the same. Especially when Uber requires modern cars (reliable) and drivers are chasing 5 star ratings. Everyone is friendly, offers a mint, talks if you want or stays silent if you want, drives safely and finds the destination. It is just a tighter set of requirements and judgements than with food which
is way more subjective.
0.3/0.2% caps are for customers accounts (and don't cover missed payments which can be punitively charged). merchant fees can still be very high, and silently passed on to customers. The fact that the law obfuscates what the CC companies are actually getting from a transaction should worry us, as they can sneak merchant fees up each year without push-back from the general public.
Most people don't really want to be wealthy so they can fly in private jets and wear bling, they want freedom from the daily grind and stress of wondering if one false move in life will see them lose everything.
Would one say the same thing about GitHub?
it'd be trivial to trick users to copy the wrong text with only CSS.
And as time progresses, new laws are no longer common sense ("don't steal, don't murder"), but become increasingly cumbersome, while still acceptable ("don't drive a vehicle unless we license you for vehicle use") and ultimately problematic ("You can't own sulphuric acid"). Before too long, laws become criminal, and those must not be obeyed ("You have to believe this or that, or at least shut up about what you really think, because doing otherwise may hurt people").

Too many laws make everyone a criminal, for eventually, everyday, innocent behaviour becomes criminalised.

When you arrive at thoughtcrime, it already is too late.
If you join any cryptocurrency related Discords you can dial the random scammers up quite a bit.
Or just look outside once in a while? This seems very short on POC to me. Let's see a proper study before we fight tech with more tech.
> The people who were hosting vibrant communities on the free tier now have the hard job of cajoling people who have no intention to pay into paying. I don't see a problem with this frankly.

The problem, as another commenter points out, is the price. There just isn't a pricing tier that would make sense for people to pay as individuals to participate in an informal community (especially if even only some members could not afford it). I can't imagine more than $5/yr really working - probably only $1-2.

Well another problem is that they don't actually have a way for individuals to cover their own memberships; you'd need a community leader to set up a GoFundMe/equivalent, fundraise every billing cycle (which is logistically taxing and damages community feelings), etc. Yuck.

For color, I'm part of a professional network slack (alumni of a company) that people derive a fair amount of professional and personal value from. Important business and career networking, fond friendships, etc etc. Roughly nobody in that group is poor, or even US-middle-class, but the willingness to pay the current lowest tier for us is absolutely not there. Not even close.
Not sure. I have done both an I think it is 50-50. I would probably recommend a site and a thin wrapping app for people who prefer that.
It's depressing how dismissive people are of the story.

Don't let hatred, bias and mainstream media take over your critical thinking abilities.

When you open yourself up to news from all sides, you can form a better picture and opinion on what's going on.

The biases from law enforcement and the media are clear to anyone with an open mind.
I think bike routes can and should be more direct than car carrying roads.

So the idea of just expanding the roads is okay, but better to look at existing footpath, canal, disused rail infrastructure and make that first class. Cycling through parks and forests and along rivers just adds to the delight.

Banning through traffic and parking near the school at dropoff pickup time also tilts things in this direction and reduces the cars on the roads for bikes to dodge.
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>those soups from that kitchen all taste the same

this got me thinking - the photos of the store fronts are basically garages, with few or no tables and chairs, and few or no delivery vehicles. you'd expect in a massive city with 24/7 food services, and a large surface area to nab unsuspecting customers, there to be a fleet of mopeds awaiting outside. but instead the address given is probably just where the businesses are registered. box ticked, nothing checked. the actual "kitchen" and delivery mechanism could be based anywhere. e.g. the nearest/dirtiest friend/family/gang member to the delivery address. are we to trust that the one running this scam adheres to food safety standards? or any standards for that matter
The US military doesn’t know where 6 of its nuclear weapons are
>They cleared most of the forests for agriculture and kept and 'farmed' the ones they coppiced for fuel for a long time after clearing the rest. When they no longer felt they needed wood as fuel, they cut down more rather than managing them as they had for hundreds of years.

It's not a simple story. There were distinctly regional transitions and pressures from things like the expansion of urban centers that created demand for food which could not be mined unlike fuel that could be both mined and grown. Other factors like the spread of horses for ploughing (displacing oxen) and improvements in agricultural machinery were also important. The growth of distribution networks (canals) was also very important. Still copicing was practiced commercially right into the 20th century, and some copices were not cut back - they were just abandoned. You can see these weird old trees out in the English countryside today.

So it's accurate to say "wood as a heat fuel was scare for some people in some places". Conversely it is fair to say that coal displaced some other fuels including wood gradually, and that the use of land for crops other than wood became gradually more attractive.

https://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/62_1_WardeWilliamson.p...
In the future please think a little more before sharing misleading information and ill formed opinions. It’s exhausting to deal with.
And paying $12 p/m for a tool you and your wife enjoy and have been getting value for years is not an option, because…?
I don't get it. Why did we ever consider the algorithms of private corporations as a fundamental or viable avenue for free speech to begin with? The owners and controllers of private algorithms will always have the ulterior motive(s) of protecting their interests.

The fact that we (the software and information industry worldwide) have conditioned any society to think that algorithmic feeds are a representation of reality is the real problem here, regardless of how many or how few corporations are participating in that.
They do still have a free demo!
I was referring to stories like this (there are others as well):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

The firm, Targeted Victory, pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children. “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,’ ” one campaign director said.
I do not have former colleagues as I have been here for < 1 year, but that’s a good suggestion, thanks!
You can find thousands of comments of the form “This is no different from…” which exhibit temporary amnesia about the devil in the details. It’s hard to know if something is a harmless analogue of something else. And too often the precedent isn’t even a good precedent.
I've always felt that the suggestion of having two keys seems kinda cumbersome, especially for webauthn. If understand it correctly I need to enroll both keys, by physically having them present? Then I need to remember to enroll the second one whenever I sign up for something (or keep both keys with me, which kinda negates the backup perspective).

For SSH it's probably easier since I can just have both public keys accessible for adding it to new servers and keep the token somewhere safe.

My preferred solution would be to generate the private key material outside of the secure enclave (but on a offline device or something), write it down on a piece of paper and then transfer it in to the enclave/hardware device.

That way I could just restore the same private key if the physical secure enclave is destroyed.
Global Energy Crisis Spurs a Revival of Nuclear Power in Asia
It's completely unrelated. LibreOffice can open most completely binary DOC or XLS as well, they were just reverse engineered. It has nothing to do with openness.
Show me where they discuss sources of error - as a paper it's poorly written, I mean what kind of academic whacks this into an abstract and decides it's OK.

"We present a broad range of UAPs. We see them everywhere."

Everywhere? In the cupboard at home? In the local movie theatre?

Nowhere they discuss sources of error - it's a description of their setup, and then a straight dive into here's a taxonomy of all the UAPs. Plus, there's not enough there to reproduce their rig if indeed UAPs are "everywhere".