skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't some kind of new stuff. I'm not quite sure how old the XDG BDS spec is, but it's been at least 15 years; and the broad notion of using ~/.config rather than dumping stuff directly into ~ is older still.
Git Written from Scratch in Rust
I started seeing DDG TV advertising in the UK recently mocking Google tracking.
Just curious, what makes Disneyland or Mount Rushmore different than say the Eiffel Tower

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32844573

https://metro.co.uk/2016/02/19/gang-of-disneyland-child-pick...
Most people are able to use those systems, it’s just the demand to learn Hokkien/Min Nan/Taigi is fairly low and thus there’s nothing like Duolingo or Rosetta Stone support for the dialect, or many tutors nor language books for them.
Is that related to strace? Or maybe dtrace.
Also, an important difference was that there was an actual world war raging at the time.
I haven’t used a formal OKR structure in work but maybe curious about experiences in different teams.

I imagine this could be a useful guideline but could also become an issue if Results get tied to incentives.
If you are also down with requiring that your would-be contributors conform to his preference for email patches. https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/send-email.md

"SourceHut is not GitHub/GitLab/Gitea, and you would be ill-advised to treat it as such."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23038520

(And therefore, perhaps, ill-advised to recommend it as such)
Microsoft did actually make a "dark" XP theme. It was available "officially" available but they didn't really market it and it had limited adoption. I stumbled upon it and thought I was v cool for using it.

https://archive.org/details/WindowsXPRoyaleNoirTheme
Not a book, but I had a similar question yesterday and ended up finding this article https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BThe%20.... Goes into more detail than I thought I needed!
Stupid question, but does he understand the weight of what he did?

I say this because I was working on a startup several years back and one day I got chatting with my friend's brother about it. He seemed interested and I suggested he could help out if he wanted. Anyway a few days later I found that he listed himself as a "co-founder" of my startup on Linkedin.

I wasn't mad or anything - it was in such early stages it's not like it really mattered. But I spoke to him about it a few days later and he seemed really embarrassed about it and acknowledged he should have asked me first, but explain he was just really excited to be part of it and got carried away. I thought was kinda cool if anything because I sensed he didn't mean any harm by it and he just wanted to put his name to something he was excited about and the "co-founder" title sounds cool to some people.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that some people really just like titles and he may not realise why what he is doing is wrong. I'm guessing that's not the case, but worth getting his perspective first maybe?

Otherwise I'd echo what others have said here. Seems like a red flag if he understands what he's doing.
I think we are all getting there.
Yes, One Person Could Destroy the World
> I’m on year 15 with most colleagues in the 5-15 range, some approaching 20.

That doesn't counter their theory though, since people (presumably) won't tend to stay at jobs that aren't worth staying at. Sooner or later everyone finds their way to a job worth staying at and becomes another example of survivorship bias.

The biggest factor is presumably the company itself, some are much more successful and generous as a result while others struggle more and share the pain. But also within a company, there can be a counter-effect where making some jobs better causes more crappy jobs, for example if you're constantly pushing the less fun and career-dead-ending stuff onto the new guy while the senior people with all the political sway take the fun, cutting-edge, etc new tasks.
How's the accessibility of these interfaces? I believe you mentioned an intent to target the Web some time ago, implying that Web interfaces could expose semantics to assistive technologies. Is this still on the roadmap?
Ticket the World
A fun little project I've been toying with for the last few months. Let Jira and Philips Hue visually notify you when a ticket is created or updated.
Gamification is manipulation and thus disrespectful.
Japanese tried the same thing - dropping kanji[0] and kana[1] entirely in favor of romaji[2]. It failed primarily for the same reason that English spelling reform fails, which is that we the horrifically mangled and confusing orthography to distinguish words spelled the same way.

[0] Characters derived from Chinese. Each character has both an embedded meaning and one or more readings. They look like this: 漢字

[1] Characters that spell out whole syllables. The glyphs are typographically derived from kanji, but very simplified and without meanings. Due to medieval Japanese gender politics, there are two of them. They look like this: ひらがな and カタカナ.

[2] The characters you are using right now.
I think the closest anyone comes to that is substack

You can subscribe to all the publications out there, but it's the same worthless clickbait drivel whether you're paying or not
https://archive.ph/YcYKk
I mean, you can find a $20 beer in just about any city with an import specialty bar.
> Skepticism toward the state has evolved into more generalized distrust toward society at large, amplified by the internet.

the trust angle is presented too broadly. the article opened with how many close friends the individual has. i trust my close friends with my life. i trust my neighbors enough to leave my door unlocked at night. i trust the larger neighborhood to go on midnight walks with headphones, eat/drink at a new place knowing i won’t get sick, etc. these forms of trust are what allows for IRL friendships to form. trust in gov institutions, or any large-scale system is only relevant to IRL friendships to the same degree that connecting with someone across the country over the net is relevant.

> The healthier alternative involves rethinking internet infrastructure on pro-social ends: platforms owned by the people using them with community prerogatives in mind.

while i do believe this to be better for the individual, socially, i don’t expect this would halt the political trends. my digital life is 90% on independently-operated services like Matrix, Mastodon, git forges and good ol’ personal blogs. the more personal/supportive social norms in these areas don’t magically lead to an environment which is pro-the-status-quo politically. almost the opposite: many of the community-operated online groups doing something they feel meaningful want to bring that same meaning to the IRL, but run into massive difficulties that they attribute to the political status quo. the Nixos convention just held in France apparently handed out a “smash the state” sticker in their swag bag. naïvely pushing for stronger/community-operated online groups may just exacerbate the clash between the online social order and offline political order in the short term. not that i’m for or against that here: merely put forth as an observation.
I never said swatting was free speech. I know people who have been SWATted over petty Minecraft related disputes before, and I've had people threaten to call the police on me before and tell them that I'm going to rock up to a crowded event with a carbomb. It's a very scary thing, and I don't have an issue with outlawing false emergency services calls that aim to mobilize unnecessarily militarized police forces.

Luckily, Kiwi Farms has always denied having anything to do with swattings, and there has never been anything to substantiate the claim that people are organising swattings on Kiwi Farms. It is (or was) a public website, so if people are really planning this criminal activity in plain sight it should not really be too difficult to provide evidence for this.

The addresses on Kiwi Farms are already public. They're on the White Pages, public voter registries, WHOIS records, legal filings. Do you think that Kiwi Farms not sharing these addresses would somehow prevent a criminal from getting these addresses?

Edit: I completely misread the comment sorry, I thought your statement "swatting is illegal" was implying that Kiwi Farms had been organising swattings, etc. I'm not going to delete this comment though because I like to think its contents make a good point.
Great point. Personally I think this is a good thing -- I've never seen work as a great place to socialize, so I felt "left out" of that aspect of work life in the past. Now with WFH, maybe we'll see alternatives pop up more and more.
Anecdotally, this is relatively common. You have a lot of incidental social contact with other residents unless you go out of your way to avoid it. I've met some pretty interesting people this way.
Also there are desktop-less yet graphical ways to use Linux, such as tiling window managers
For those who don't follow the mailing list, it was actually Stefan who proposed renaming it. RMS agreed, saying that 'eglot-mode' didn't tell him anything about what it does (and that's even after recognizing the root "glot", which not everyone gets).
Because, as I mentioned in my reply, many children survive Covid and still have significant negative effects that lost long after the infection clears up.

Immune system battles are extremely hard on the body.
Yeah that’s exactly what I remembered: you could make some of the UI dark for sure, but it wasn’t a real dark mode like we expect today; there was still a fair bit of light colouring because it didn’t have enough flexibility?
This whole thing seems increasingly unlikely.

The moment Apple makes a serious play in the ad market, they open themselves up to a double barrel dose of antitrust litigation from Facebook and Google, they'll have the mother of all PR nightmares to deal with (Fb and Google campaigning hard on years of hypocrisy). Probably a fair few more problems I'm not seeing.
It appears the parent comment is engaged in the same activity as the OP author: speculation. No evidence is presented that Apple will not continue to engage in more advertising.

Here is some "evidence" that Apple will increase the amount of advertising. FWIW, MacRumors states that Gurman's predictions are usually accurate.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/10/22/apple-will-show-m...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/08/14/apple-plans-offer...

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/mark-gurman

Personally I found the patent applications Apple filed back in 2009/2010 claiming tactics for putting advertising into the operating system (one of which I believe is mentioned in the article) to be a signal that the company has no philosophical opposition to placing unavoidable advertising on people's personal computers. What other explanation is there for filing such applications. Perhaps they had plans to block others from using certain advertising tactics. Yeah, right.

"It's tougher to craft that Apple type experience while also selling out."

When I first purchased an Apple computer there were no "advertising services". Maybe different Apple customers have different definitions of the "Apple type experience". Who knows. Some might think Apple already "sold out" years ago. Today's Apple computers come with Apple's "advertising platform", and "advertising services" are part of the "Services" line item in Apple's quarterly and annual revenue reporting.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193220...
> To "quantify over" something is, in effect, to treat it as a variable whose value will range over some set. As a phrase, it makes clear what is a variable in your description.

That’s a rather non-trivial claim: see e.g. Williamson, ‘Everything’, Philosophical Perspectives, 2003, §§ IV and IX.
I have to wonder if it’s sort of like ads. Previously, if you wanted any entertainment, you probably had to put up with ads of some sort. On TV, there were commercial breaks. In the newspaper, there were print ads, etc. Then the internet and streaming and ad blocking came along. I never liked ads, but I would begrudgingly put up with them before. (I’d mute them, not look at them, fast forward, etc. But it was impossible to get away from them.) Now I have zero tolerance for them because I have tons of media without them.

Previously, you could put up with someone who had a few quirks or was a little obnoxious because, hey, that’s part of life and there are only so many people you can interact with in a day, and some of them suck. But now, I can find the other 10 people who like whatever band I’m into, or weird sport, or whatever, and I can spend a bunch of time with them. I no longer have the patience to hear about your stupid hobby, or your horrible politics. I can just walk away, go to my computer and hang out with other like-minded people. Just like here on Hacker News!
Replying late, because I was on vacation, but just in case anyone reads this:

There is a sense in which what you are saying is true. And yet, when people say "The dark matter distribution in the Bullet Cluster is <some non-trivial distribution>, they are not deriving that from the "few parameters" that describe the cosmological distribution. They're deriving it from what they see of the local situation in the Bullet Cluster. And then they say "dark matter explains what we see in the Bullet Cluster". That's what people are referring to when they say "a tunable parameter at each point in space".

Without that, you have something that explains cosmology, but not the Bullet Cluster. With that, you have something that explains both cosmology and the Bullet Cluster (and a number of other odd things out there), but you no longer have "only a few parameters".
> I mean 5-10 seconds for the free space to be updated doesn't sound extraordinary? With all the accounting ZFS has do, doesn't this sound like something you would want running asynchronously in the background?

If system is busy, sure, batching requests helps performance, especially on spinning rust.

In one that it isn't ? Why wait ? Then again checking space after every removed file (which I assume what the problem was here) instead of "generate list of files to remove, remove them, then go to sleep for an hour" is a bit suboptimal in the first place
Yeah language attrition is very real. I used to be a near native speaker of Hokkien and Cantonese, now I can barely understand a word after more than a decade of not speaking them.

Going extinct would be sad, sure, but I'm not sure that the effort required to not make it so would be worth it. Putting children through thousands of hours of education in another language, for what exactly? If I have kids, I'm not sure I'd be willing to put them through all that work for a nearly dead language. They're not gonna use it to speak with their peers, or to open up communication with another group of people, it's just preservation for the sake of preservation.
I'd double check with him that it isn't a joke. I have a dumb sense of humor and could see myself doing something like this to a friend :)
> WFH is only going to make this worse.

My social life has improved massively since WFH became the norm. I eat lunch with my neighbors most days, I work from friends places/they work at mine on the reg, and it is way easier to have the energy to go out for dinner/drinks/other activities after work. I went to Chicago for a week last month to hang out with my friend and his wife and no one had to take any vacation days to make it happen. Everyone's situation is different, but I have a tough time imagining that WFH is going to lead to a reduction in socialization on balance if people are now able to control their schedules more easily.
I'm curious about this too. I moved 7000 miles from my home town without much thought. It was just exciting. I've been here 20 years. I can still contact my close friends from home but we connect only once every year or 2. I'm severely torn between my current country of residence and the fact that, counting the years, I'll only see my parents a few more times before they pass away given I only see them once every year to 2 as I live so far away.

It often crosses my mind, I fully love the experiences I've had and the friends I made abroad but if I could do it over, I sometimes think, knowing what I know, I'd not choose to do it again. Sure, I'd give up those experiences and those friends but I'd have different experiences and different friends. My sister, who stayed put, clearly, by nearly anyone's definition, has had a full life of friends and family and achievements etc..., and she has none of the tradeoffs have having left loved ones behind and having to choose between them.
Debugging C with Cosmopolitan Libc
They were talking about the concept of carving out empty space to leave a 3d representation of the thing you’re interested in, which was the primary method in your comment. This can be done with images using the background segmentation, and cutting with the edge/profile of the object, for each 2d view, and assisted with other 2d to 3d methods.

It can be used for live 3d models with single (tracked and moving) or multiple (known and fixed) cameras.

If it was the same that I read, it was a neat paper, but I’m having trouble finding it within a few searches. I don’t recall I’d they used a point cloud or voxels, but the difference between the storage of the 3d structure as a point cloud or voxel doesn’t seem to warrant your response. They’re trivially converted to one another, in this context.
It was your interrogative, so I suppose if you open the discussion, you can also close it. An exceptionally wise choice.
I would probably just omit the "mercurial Spaniard" part, which feels like fluff to me. The statement "After Altamira, all is decadence" is interesting enough that it can stand on its own without the author needing to dress it up any further or attribute it to some part of Picasso's character or nationality. Let the reader decide whether Picasso is being mercurial or how relevant it is that he is Spanish.

Or if it really is important to highlight those two attributes (it's hard to say from this single sentence), then I would probably expand it out a bit to similar to what you have done.
I'm not the person you replied to, but just wanted to add something to help answer Q2. Communicating information to a large fraction of the populace is generally pretty hard because there are so many memes competing for attention, and true information doesn't necessarily spread faster than false information. Even so, it's pretty much common knowledge that the Iraq war was based on a falsehood, so communication does work well enough at least some of the time. Okay, so suppose we now collectively know that most politicians are liars and will have no issue with lying when it's convenient for them and they expect to get away with it. I think it's very common to find people who think this in western countries, actually.

Now how do we vote in such a way as to make sure we elect non-liars? Being a liar is not always visible, but maybe we can determine it by looking at whether the candidate lied while holding previous offices, and whether or not they get caught in any lies while on the campaign trail. We may also be able to make some judgment of a person's honesty based on how they make arguments, i.e. how they use statistics, and how often they omit relevant information that would look bad for them.

So suppose that everyone could perfectly identify who was a liar and who was honest. Would the electorate then vote only for honest politicians? Nope. A voter finds other things valuable in a politician besides just honesty, for example agreement on policy issues, or allocating tax money in a way that benefits the voter. Even if the candidate for party A is found out to be a no-good stinking liar, that still might not be enough to induce a party A voter to vote for the party B candidate instead. After all, party B is terrible. And there can be no party C that adopts the policy stances of party A but is staffed by honest politicians. Because of vote splitting in first-past-the-post electoral systems, two parties tend to dominate with outsiders having no chance of getting elected, even if the electorate prefers the outsiders. This is why we'd ideally want to use a more sane electoral system like score voting.
“It’s fine even if it’s fifth or seventh” - this is bad advice (citation: I’m a hiring manager). My sourcer will filter you out even before your resume hits my part of the pipeline, so you can’t depend on me figuring out if you are a good candidate despite your bad tenure.
> I've successfully run WordPress with the simply-static plugin, and a script to send to static hosting.

Interesting, simply-static never worked for me, only wp2static did and it had a lot of bugs.

> WP run on an arm64 instance that was only started when editing was needed.

How do you do this?, are you doing some kind of webserver container run trigger? Or running it on a managed platform?

> Besides WP, there are static CMSes that fit a modern workflow perfectly.

Yeah but they aren't so customizable and flexible like WordPress, the goal is to be able to create a whole static site without needing to write anything manually.
Its spoken by many people all around me. There's more to preserving a language than translating it to a foreign language.
I’ve found #2 is just not that practical. Too many plugins just aren’t that portable because they depend on underlying binaries (LSP support in Neovim for example).

Maybe minified, portable vimrc but even then, it makes me wonder, why not just copy all your dot files for your user?
Your Posts Should Be on ArXiv
Journalists need to hype something up
> you kicked the can down the road at best

How so?
Mind if I ask what location this is where your neighbors are so "neighborly"?
This would require you to host WordPress somewhere.

If you can host it on workers for example, you can get an entirety free, managed website just with one click(obviously someone would do a template to enable you to setup wp on cf pages if that was possible).
My "beef" is with companies that are not directly hosting the legal user generated content on KiwiFarms - that's the case with Zayo as an upstream ISP and Cloudflare as a reverse proxy. Harassment, if any, can't happen on the forum as I assume the people that are harassed don't visit it. Though that 3-step solution comment was made by someone else, Cloudflare chooses to ignore various illegal things with the argument "we are not hosting it." I don't think Cloudflare can sue Kiwifarms. And I think the process usually goes the other way around - law enforcement complains to Cloudflare to get something taken down. My point is law is above any AUPs or ToS and it's hypocritical for a company to claim "we don't host content" or no responsibility when it comes to illegal content but take down legal content because of pressure or political beliefs as if they now have some responsibility.
This is awesome that it was so therapeutic to you! I have several such personal projects that I occasionally work on for similar reasons, moreover to experience the joy of pure programming as opposed to the daily BS I deal with.

One critique (more of a suggested improvement) - the dropdown boxes don’t look/behave as they did in Win 98. They actually render as native select tags on my browser when focused and it kind of breaks the immersion. I’m pretty sure implementing this to simulate the 98 version would be a bit difficult and would involve some JavaScript (which I know you want to avoid), but it may be a neat challenge to tinker with.
Neovim (different, sure) supports treesitter so syntax highlighting is no longer “less-than-elegant”.
That's fair.

I think the part of the point about the EFF's political position still stands, my understanding was they're VERY big tech aligned.
They don't have to make a big play, they just need to creep it up very slowly.