skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The newest features I know of are a built in language auto translator, more fine tuned administrative controls geared towards specific members of other instances (something that's already fairly robust for both platforms), default instance wide progressive scrolling of large threads, support for editing posts.

None of these are earth shattering, but all of them are very contentious aside from maybe the admin features. In general, Mastodon aims to maintain twitter feature parity, which is why things like the translator and are added. The ActivityPub protocol also doesn't really support the idea of an edit directly, and many see it as the latest in a long list of steps of mastodon trying to own the protocol.

The progressive scroll / pagination vs load the whole thread thing is a constant front end argument within various mastodon/pleroma frontends and has been for years now. The problem is that unless you use one of the real minimal, 1337, hackerish frontends, threads with 300+ comments will send your RAM straight to frown town unless you have like 12gb to spare just for what is mostly static text.
Bandwidth =/= latency, and congrats, you are a very small percent.
you can remove them though
>Oh wait... they ruined that, too.

I lost you there, who is "they" referring to?
You probably want to use ML instead of AI then.
I think this may be because this is the first generation in human history to have endless distraction in our pockets, so that's become our "escape of least resistance." Any time we feel overwhelmed, we turn to diversion and distraction.

Pre-world-wide-web-in-your-pocket, what were your options when you needed a break from your regular life? There were definitely unhealthy ones, like drinking to excess, but even that often took place around other people, and it wasn't as easily available as doomscrolling. It's not half as easy to pull out your flask when you're on the train or in an elevator or standing in line at Chipotle for more than 3 minutes and become uncomfortable.

We're the first generation that never has to stand still and be uncomfortable, basically ever. If something is emotionally difficult, we can run from it.

Maybe this stunts us. Maybe it keeps us from gaining the perspective that the discomfort normally either resolves on its own, relatively quickly and in a positive way (i.e., the line quickly leads to lunch), or it inspires action, which might lead us to prove our own efficacy to ourselves when we realize we can do something to address the situation rather than just running away.

Adulthood is characterized by having the perspective that enables us to do unpleasant things in the short-term for the sake of long-term benefits. But if we continue not to need to face even the mild tedium of standing in a line without distraction, how are we ever going to convince ourselves of the benefits of doing anything we don't immediately want to do?
from my experience with friends and acquaintances over the course of my life, I have found a trend with people who care a lot about being perceived as adults - they are almost all very unhappy and unfulfilled in their lives. Not sure if this mirrors anyone else's observations.

It seems a lot of people believe the need to be responsible is inseparable from looking like you fit into a narrow definition of what is perceived as responsible.

But maybe I am just observing the result of living your life being concerned about how you look in general and not specifically about adult-ness.
So maybe we should permanently lock them in single island and throw some gruel and water at them so they don't starve? They could have all the time with each other they need with minimal emissions.
I think this is a symptom of a larger problem. Raspberry Pi tutorials don't have an unrelated GIF problem, but they do have a copied content problem. Mistakes just get reproduced.

I suspect both of these problems are a consequence of trying to monetize everything via advertising. Looking slick and funny is a way to get clicks,and getting clicks increases ad revenue.
One of the biggest childishness-in-adulthood trends I've noticed is people supporting Trump. I could see a fourth-grader falling for Trump's schtick, maybe even a seventh-grader, but beyond that age supporting Trump is just a sign that you have not matured.
Because most T&Cs are boilerplate nonsense

Because I have CC disputes as a backup

Because I'm lazy
Euro zone inflation soars to a record 10%, piling pressure on the ECB
Pornbub didn’t purge their user content, there is still lots of it, but they require age verification.

All of this action came down to child porn.
Attempting to share with a friend, this is amazing work.

Those in Brazil or other unstable countries should use this as a model and have something prepared before the worst happens.
There has been a blank new tab extension in Chrome for ages.
> Windows 3.0 came out in May 1990, 2 whole years earlier\

Oh yes. IBM, it seems, was late in getting the news Microsoft wasn't as committed to OS/2 as IBM was. I imagine what was said at IBM's top management back then.

What Microsoft saw that IBM didn't was that having a continuous path without breaks was more valuable than having an objectively better product. That's also why we are using PCs today and not Amigas, Ataris, or Suns.

At least we can also use NeXT machines. ;-)
Show HN: Devlogs a small CLI for personal logging on a project
Hi HN, I wanted to share a little cli i've been working on for myself called devlogs.
My assumption was that you get down to 70gb packages after using tools like oodle. But hell, I may be wrong there and may be giving most AAA devs too much credit.
I’d agree if you replace “smart” with “competent and experienced in the domain in question” and “room” with “the place where their decisions are going to be implemented”.
Your tools sound like a really good base for a PWA framework too -- have you considered that? I know there are 1 zillion web/ecomm agencies of all sizes that know they need to push into PWA/headless in the next ~5 years and only those with strong tech chops can really do that well and without risk today.

I can see a really strong prop at replatform to say hey just build a PWA with this and for phase 2 click this button and it's in the app store. That plays nicely with all the composable stuff going on and the want to not have 20 systems that do 20 different, overlapping things.

In ecommerce, there's a few people that have built headless/composable 'low-code' PWA offerings and I haven't really seen anything I think will win the lower end of the market as all that matures, but I'm confident SOMEONE will appear to mop that up in the near future.
The is the weirdness that I'm talking about. If interest rates are lower than inflation, it's impossible to make money without taking risk.
I would much rather see most of this be generalized to a parametrized bounded integer type, e.g. int<lowerbound, upperbound>.
> It looked like it was going to moan about people trying to have fun and do some self care.

That is basically the opposite of what it said.
Why Jump from the Safety of a Big Tech Job into Risky Web3?
I have to agree with you (and Jobs) here. The Windows key is related to Windows functions. I think using the Windows logo I this instance is particularly apt. As you pointed out, the Command key is really a very generic key and has no particular affinity to Apple or the OS itself.

I haven’t used Windows 11 yet, but the Windows key has become much more associated with premier Windows features beyond initially the start menu. Windows+G opens the integrated gaming experience (if you’ve enabled it, I believe) and even Windows+tab gives you a similar, but more modern experience over alt+tab. Windows+v gives you an expanded clipboard view and I think this may be where the line begins to blur a bit, but it’s still the improved Windows version of the paste command that is essentially the same across most OSes.

It has its utilitarian uses such as window management with Windows+arrow key, but that of course is an OS level action.
I have no idea, but it looks like they've been in the event space for a while so I would expect the logistics side, at a minimum, to work well. Running several events concurrently also lets them benefit from shared infrastructure and expertise instead of being a purely one-off thing. I'd probably consider it once the speakers are announced.
It doesn't say that at all.

It says that the scientific method is enhanced by having people with knowledge about a domain involved in the research.

I am not Japanese. I'm not Finnish. I've never been to Finland or Japan. If I write an academic paper about the educational culture of these two countries, you don't think it would benefit from having a Finnish or Japanese person involved?
It's been a long time since I used Windows 95, but I'm pretty sure most of the basic window manager keypresses were there. Stuff like Win+R (run), Win+E (explorer), Win+M (minimize everything) etc.
Yeah it’s silly, even when Spark is writing unstructured logs, that doesn’t mean that you can‘t parse them after-the-fact and store them in a structured way. Even if it doesn’t work for 100% of the cases, it’s very easy to achieve for 99% of them, in which case you’ll still keep a “raw_message” column which you can query as text.

Next up: Uber discovers column oriented databases are more efficient for data warehouses.
“The Russian president sees the world through the lens of maskirovka and provokatsiia.” [1]

Putin is a master of distraction and confusion, skills that he learned earlier in his career.

I’m not saying that he definitely orchestrated the explosions, but his methods are often opaque, and not immediately rational.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/putin-ukra...
Why is it better to decentralize the burden of checking the science behind efficacy claims?
Also recommended: Palimpsest by Charlie Stross. It's an interesting take on Asimov's End of Eternity that explores deep time like few others.
Not the predominant art form maybe, but I think they could have fundamental importance to a sophisticated culture. A culture that takes memes seriously, that can publicly acknowledge and defend/reconcile itself with truths that memes can so often reveal and illustrate so brutally efficiently (at times, not always) may be much more powerful than one that (often) dismisses them due to triviality / "fake news", or (~secretly) uses them to dismiss inconvenient facts (or, simply doesn't really take them seriously, etc).

Memes, the non-visual ideas kind (inaccurate generalizations, "fact"oids, figures of speech, cognitive norms if you don't mind stretching the definition a bit, etc) play a huge role in human communication, but this is so fundamental that it seems to be sub-perceptual and thus evades our attention and consideration.
Situation is dire even for contractors unless your product is already in production and has somebody on the government side advocating for you.
I mention both independently. And the point is that transport is not the bottleneck.
It took a little while but I found a page with a side nav bar, and thus a link to the gallery: https://goose.red/gallery
I suspect ungoogled-chromium[1] is not affected by google's changes to chrome://newtab . If anyone wants to stop using Chrome but isn't drawn to any of the alternatives, perhaps you'll like ungoogled-chromium.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium
I'm kind of perplexed by these startups that think kludging together a robotic arm with an existing piece of equipment is really the solution.

There are companies like MTI that have had automated fry stations for a decade or two now and can do exactly the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSb945i6wOk

Why does this fancy arm get all the attention when there are more streamlined devices already out there and tested in the field?
True - but most founders don't have any of those. I know many, many founders.
They were all broke as f*ck for years to build it, living off a spouse working ... to magically exit.

It ain't money, it's hard work eschewing the other opportunities many so quickly jump at. It's being there building long enough to have "the timing" work out for you. Or it's being so right with timing that you in essence lucked on that part of the curve out.

People don't like hearing this bc it's against their personal narrative.
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The pods would have to either read directly from Vault, or a k8s controller which has vault access. In big brain fashion, one could also hard fail on a db auth failure so new pods - with the new secrets - can be spun up.
I've also had the idea to add QR codes to Instagram pictures and when talking to potential customers, it fit none of their preferred flows.

I've often heard what you say, "it's just a matter of educating people", especially from marketing folks, but where is the humbleness of being educated by potential customers into their current workflows and inserting a product into that, instead of trying to change their flows - which most often doesn't translate all that well into real life - enhances them?

I also find the direct link to your product, without a direct relationship to the title to be a bit disingenious.
But if you’re not storing data as JSON, can you really say you’re agile? /s
The someones at Google are compensated significantly by shares of the company, traded on Wall Street, and some of them are compensated with even more shares if those shares do well.

Pretending the two are at arms length is a bit silly.
> And to add insult to injury their are an estimated 1.8 billion people in the world that do not have bank accounts due to things like fees and minimum balances or failed states. It's estimated there are 55 million in the US alone.

I would agree if miners were hobbyists with a spare old PC in their basement crunching blocks, but the network is definitely overprovisioned for the amount of transactions now and you and I both know that miners are in for the money.
What was born as an incentive to participate is now the sole reason to mine.

> But you know what? screw those people who can self bank using Bitcoin at zero cost and zero maintenance fees. Because you simply don't see value in that.

The cost is there, you just don't see it because CO2 is transparent.
who knew that not reading an article could lead you to the opposite conclusion of what the article is actually about! But a comment must be made on it regardless. On to the next one.
That's right, CEO needs to focus on those quarterly numbers. For example, Apple should never have let that phone operation cannibalize their perfectly good music player business. Total mistake to let a CEO have that much control and "vision."
There used to be an "adult movie" industry that was not porn, but was just... sophisticated movies that could be appreciated by an adult audience. But now it feels to me like 30 years after I outgrew comic books the movie industry is trying to get me back into comic books.
I posted something similar several months back, which seemed to be met with derision.

Countries could extract a great amount of tax levied on alcohol. It seemed to be far easier to collect, since once people are addicted it’s hard for them to stop.

It’s tricky to get a message across that’s counter to conformational bias, but that has always been an issue.

Jesuits teaching children, etc.
> In a few hundred thousand years we'll be very different..

And thanks to the magic of epigenetic regulation, I'd say we'll be pretty different in 600 years.

We are following the path of the social insects, becoming more drone-like, docile, and specialized.

Also more humane and selfless.

Also more childlike.
"If you think CIA incompetence leading to hundreds of informants being burned is bad, wait til you hear about a journalist publishing a story that maybe burned one informant for what they consider a good reason."
Why do you care if you harm the company long term? It’s not like you are tied to it’s performance forever. When equity and labor markets are liquid, why wouldn’t you make decisions that help you now, and cause long term hurt something you have no long term stake in? If you don’t, your peers will.
Hey, I threw knives as a kid, I had forgotten all about it. It was a set of "throwing knives", no idea where from. I also had a properly functioning South American blowpipe. Ah, childish things.
I disagree. The Earth will end, but not in the timelines they provide. In a million years it is unlikely we won't have the technology to hold the sun back from expansion. All we need are orbiting superconducting supermagnets to hold back the sun, tame volcanos, hold back cosmic radiation, etc. Asteroids would be nothing but mining prospects to humans in 1 000 000 AD.
This is one of my biggest wishes for basic UI correctness that I have no hope of ever happening. I woke up to the scope of this problem when I had enough of Android changing the order of clickable notifications in the windowshade. Of all of the things to try to present predictably and logically, this was one of the most important. It seems to me that it would be harder to let notifications rearrange themselves than not. And they didn't care.

This isn't even a new problem, or unique to mobile or dynamic web apps. Ever get an OS dialog box with hotkeys pop up while you're typing and you hit a key that responds to the popup and have no idea what you did? Remember someone sending you an instant message that steals your focus while typing, and you ended up sending them what you were typing?

Things should not move/change/appear AND be interactable at roughly the same time. When things move, they should become unclickable for a bit. When something is made clickable, all efforts should me made not to have it move or change. Browsers and some OS interfaces already do this with the "OK/Save/Run" button not being clickable until after a delay. But it needs to go further. There needs to be a screen flash and an audio cue when this happens so that you know it happened if you're not looking directly at the screen. Motherboard speakers should still be standard, so they can beep even if you have your audio muted.

If you must have both dynamic behavior and interactivity, then when you interact with something that recently changed, you should enter a disambiguation mode to confirm exactly what you intended to do, with buttons that are only active after a delay, and these elements should not move or change other than that.

Unfortunately I think the vast majority of people would see this kind of change as an unacceptable frustration. And the producers of the interface don't seem to care. Look at what happened when Android removed the ability to set ring and notification volume separately. I'm pretty sure they like it this way. Even accidental engagement is engagement for their metrics. It's why youtube rushes to put up the "play next video" button as soon as your original video is done. Or almost done, it feels like sometimes. To catch people who try to pause the video before it ends.
This seems like double-talk to me. The talk is about decentralization, but also bakes in the idea it will be done exactly to their specification. Nonsense, of course.

Not to mention mastodon already exists.
I know some will take this badly as its questioning one of the core holy tennants of software engineering, but I do believe its in part down to an overly strong interpretation of the phrase "premature optimisation is the root of all evil".

About a year ago, I was (sidenote, still am) looking to get a new computer. In my free time, I do game dev, so I wanted something powerful enough to give me some flexibility in that, but also weak enough that Im not making my game on a machine 10x more powerful than most people will play it on. Of course you test on other machines as well, but I believe poor optimisation should be seen as a bug, not just something to improve on. I've explained it badly, but hopefully you get what I mean. Anyway, I opened a reddit thread about this on r/gamedev, and got swamped by the old "premature optimisation..." rule.

Its not the first, or last, time I've seen this happen. And of course, premature optimisation can ruin or stall a project, but refusing any and all possible optimisation steps prior to it being a problem seems really odd to me.
This is the only thing I like about Apple keyboards.
For programming, their layout is so different than standard keyboards, it's horrifying (I'm talking about the AZERTY ones, don't really know about the QWERTYs) : for example
-_(){}[]*`!+= characters are on different keys.

Also, are standard keyboard still recognized as apple keyboards if you plug them on a mac ?
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Reading these it makes me wonder if they know about Urbit - it’s so much of what Jack wants that I’m really curious if he just doesn’t know about it.
It’s sort of like saying Amazon is a delivery company. It’s part of a division of their company, and a main component at that. But it’s not like SREs working at AWS know or care about logistics.
It's not intelligence. I've found too smart of people typically prophesize as an intellectual exercise rather than feeling the "I have to do something or I'm a failure so let's get building" of the lesser IQ's.
In fact there are a lot of expressions describing how most people born of wealth go on to lose it. From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves …
Personal opinion: the second. If the container is popped so you can read environment variables, you can read files too.
From your link:

> RAID is a waste of your goddamned time and money.

Backups are important, since they protect against most problems, whereas RAID only protects you from exactly one thing:

On RAID, when one disk has a hardware failure, the system keeps on running. In many cases, if you take appropriate precautions, you might even be spared a reboot when you unplug the failed disk and plug in a new, working disk. Otherwise you’ll simply have to shut down, quickly unplug the failed disk, plug in the new, working disk, start up and it’s all good again. You can even put off this downtime to a later, more appropriate time of the day. When the new disk is in the machine, the sync to the new disk can be done while the system is running, and the only system downtime is for physically exchanging the disks.

Without RAID, the hardware failure means that you:

1. Lose all files and changes since your last backup, and

2. Have significant downtime while you restore from your last backup. If done over the network, this could take a very long time, but even if restoring from local disk, copying takes a lot of time. While copying, your system is down.

Whether this means that RAID is a waste of your time and money depends on your personal tolerance of points 1 and 2.
> I was an 18 year old US Army infantryman getting ready to deploy to Iraq in 2007. I made the decision back then to not go, because ultimately something just felt completely wrong about it during training.

So you went AWOL? I’m a little confused on how an 11B E-2 can “decide“ he’s not deploying.
Private ownership of businesses, so long term consequences fall on someone with the authority to steer them right.
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I made a collection of places where a person with no prior skillset can contribute their time and energy to make the world a better place, often without needing to leave home.
Yes I'd never let any serious business issue be solved on a meeting. Tech talk etc, sure. Money is involved? Never. Or rather, sure, let's discuss - but then we send a written record of exactly what was agreed.
Maybe I’m missing some inside baseball, but what exactly is wrong here? Dorsey created Frankenstein and has regrets. I don’t see what’s childish about that.
I'm so tired of seeing people recommend Brave. Firefox is what the web needs. Organizational shenanigans aside, Firefox is the best browser on the market right now.
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We have removed most of natural selection from our evolution. It's entirely possible we could evolve to be H. G. Well's Eloi, served by mechanized Morlocks, or just that we extinguish ourselves after a couple centuries of Idiocracy.