skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m happily using CloudFlare pages. The reason I haven’t tried Netlify is that after the free tier everything seems a little overpriced. I didn’t go for Vercel because I don’t want to use Next.js and I’m afraid I’ll run across some limitation because of this. I was already using Cloudflare as a CDN for S3 and GitHub pages, and their offerings seem to be growing quickly and wanting to compete with Amazon rather than the static hosting companies.
People say this all the time in all kinds of product categories. They are nearly always wrong. There's always some feature you didn't think of.

Plenty of good and useful features have been added to podcast apps since the first one shipped.
I have a keyboard steering related question. I like key control, but I do find the on/off nature of keyboard turning to be lacking.

First let's move WASD over to the right by one key, so ESDF.

S and F would now turn slightly.

Now let's add A and G and assign those to more extreme turning.

Is there any driving game which has done this, or at least has some sort of configurable system where it could be tried? I assume it has to exist somewhere if it is at all usable.
The concept you're looking for is linearizability. Basically, it's the idea of being able to pretend that your distributed system is a single node with a single source of truth. An example system that has this property is etcd: https://jepsen.io/analyses/etcd-3.4.3

If you want to learn more about this, take a look at Designing Data-intensive Applications from Martin Kleppmann.
Doesn't seem to work correctly for me on Firefox (on Windows, with an Nvidia 1060 ti), fine on Chrome. On firefox I get an orange triangle in the lower right corner, and that's about it. Moving around causes the texture to build up in that triangle.
Building a European Cultural Backbone: ActivityPub
Classic Hackernews hug of death.
Electron uses chrome everywhere, Tauri uses the system webview which is very different and vastly inferior.
Isn't Lean Startup and its derivatives about taking a systematic approach to going from cool idea but blind/no market, using Validated Learning to gain insight about a market, failing fast on what doesn't work, and (assuming you're in the ballpark of a viable market) move towards Product Market Fit? ie. not totally out of your control, nor totally within it.
If you had any interest beyond repeating hearsay, you could have stumbled upon keffals addressing this head on.

Attempting to associate LGBT people with pedophiles is as old of a smear tactic as gay people being visible in public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSqJddReAjg
Oh no!

Anyway…

News and especially politics are banned topic in many social circles. I think Facebook has simply illustrated in grand fashion why this was the case.
Leaving the garden was hard, but good for the Eloi, which we are slowly turning into.
Here is an even bleaker concern: Looking at North Korea, I've been wondering if with modern technology totalitarian regimes are a one-way street. With the amount of surveillance in place in NK, I am unable to see how any form of resistance could be mounted. NK is behind in tech. How much harder to topple can a system like NK be with the latest tech. China seems to be moving in that direction. Surveillance coupled with modern propaganda methods for full indoctrination.

I also perceive a larger weakness for liberal democracies towards propaganda and in particular the flooding the zone with shit approach. These two things together have me very, very worried. If there is a force moving you towards a state that's very hard if not impossible to leave, it stands to expect that eventually everything will end up in that state. In this case that would be authoritarianism or totalitarianism.
It already exists. BTDigg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTDigg

And sibling comments show there is a community of folks doing this.

People also do it to Tor’s DHT too for discovering hidden services:
https://donncha.is/2013/05/trawling-tor-hidden-services/

You can’t really stop open source tech like this from existing by choosing to not open source your implementation. You just end up staying out of the conversation yourself. The community will still build it if there is a desire for it.
Stable Diffusion just generates images so they are doing something on top to convert to SVG. Hard to tell how well the svg-ification is of the resulting image.
The vim-adventures game introduces a surprising number of advanced concepts I would say.
I'm currently on level 12 which is about text objects, for instance.
Addresses aren't copyrighted, and workplace health and safety and discrimination or doctor patient confidentiality don't really fall under this because this information like addresses was already public. And if this information becomes public, whether illegally or legally, you're allowed to republish it. Data breaches get shared all the time and that's legal to do because it's considered public information. You are allowed to publish books and news articles with names and addresses in them, or your legal opinions even if you haven't passed the bar exam (also it's worth noting that this is an American idea) and that's not illegal, so why not websites?
Obviously there's a lot of mental health issues at play here. But I can't help but be horrified. Someone with such an intense desire for privacy has their entire life and personal affairs laid bare in the New York Times. It sickens me. It feels like tabloid levels of exploitation.
Heh, I like how you handwave American judicial precedent away like it doesn't even exist and the multitude of laws enacted where a small group of people committing acts gets laws affected against all. Do we want to go into all the online protection acts enacted recently?

Even actors like the Unibomber had a huge impact on things like bomb detection in mail and airplanes. Now imagine the modern Unibomber, instead of attacking randoms went after senators. The moment the class protected by wealth and power comes under attack from AI technologies expect a raft of laws limiting and restricting them to be enacted.
I wonder if the decision-maker could have been wealthy enough that thousands of dollars felt insignificant to them. At some point, you lose sight of how much things cost, because the answer is almost always "not much".

Reminds me of Jessica Walter's character in Arrested Development: "It's a banana, Michael - how much could it cost? Ten dollars?"
Who would want to be a real worker now? Teachers, Nurses, construction workers, factory workers have to be at work every day. Either their wages need rising or WFH office workers need a big pay cut.
Static hosting combined with server-side dynamic content modification using postgres was the interesting part for me.

Static hosting has historically been seen as exactly that, static and immutable.

Things like Cloudflare functions/workers can turn static hosting into dynamic content delivery while maintaining (most of) the benefits of static hosting.

Granted, this can be done whether the underlying content is hosted on Cloudflare, AWS, or a server in your garage so long as it’s proxied/CDN’d by a service like Cloudflare or Cloudfront+Lambda@edge, etc.
What is really annoying is that Cloudflare pages will strip the file extension off of your html pages, and perform permanent redirects to those new URLs. Now if you're intending on moving to a new hosting service that doesn't do that (cgi-bin), all Google search results to your site will 404.

Github pages and likely others also supports this format, so moving between those two services doesn't exhibit this problem. Moving to cgi-bin will.

I'd suggest Cloudflare shouldn't try to establish their scheme as canonical url and rather implement github pages behavior, but what do I know... I'm just hosting an old fashioned blog, not a JAMstack/SPA/whatever thing
not sure what fetish you mean exactly, but is your answer on topic ?

You can retrain SD without NSFW images, is this enough? I suspect not, because what if Timy in his basement trains SD with the face of X and the naked body of Y and then makes a nude image ?

You know what makes rational/logic sense ? |Follow the money, an open source model like SD makes proprietary ones like OpenAI and googles lose ton of money, like a giant pile of money Californian billionaires will lose , so they use their money to create drama.
I am trying to take this comment at face value. Do you really think other governments are that much better in terms of values you described? There are differences and not small ones between major nation states, but, well, factors listed are not unique not China.
>Wouldn't by definition many moral opinions necessitate that one try to get them enforced in some way? You're kind of just downplaying morality overall, arguably.

No? There are a vast array of moral opinions that can govern your actions but not others. That is to say, you don't have always have moral responsibility for the actions of others.

Similarly, there's a wide array of opinions on what actions are appropriate to curtail a moral behavior of others.

I would agree with the parent post that hard lines governing others can be quite dangerous.
I’m all for native UIs, but if you must go cross-platform, it’s often not worth it. Why bother with the specifics of Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS. Just build one mediocre UI to rule them all.

Electron does not have to be slow, just how web applications in general do not have to be slow, multi-megabyte monstrosities.

I bet you would be surprised if you knew where even specialized, sort-of-embedded UI is moving. Hint: it’s not native.
I have been "warned" for asking similar questions here, tread carefully.
One is a repository of code that you or I can run on our own machines.

The other is a publicly accessible website that got a kit of public attention because it could easily be used by anyone including novices to pirate content.
Having worked with some J2EE early in my career, I also had trouble mentally mapping "middleware" to an "interceptor" function when first encountering these "hip" frameworks
No. Though I would note their abysmal population pyramid and lack of immigration is a recipe for failure.
I don't understand why that would apply here. Mind connecting the dots for me?
I use eglot (via doom emacs) and it works but configuration always feels like a slog--the language server it wants to start is often not in the PATH, or is configured incorrectly or something. Javascript's eslint/prettier/tsc are particularly finicky. I'd love to have some method to denote that the presence of .eslintrc/eslint in package.json means run format-on-save, otherwise don't. But I also can't really see how it could be _that_ much better on any other editor?
Sounds similar to the "heaven banning" concept. That was fictional as far as we know, but it's obviously technologically possible. https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561
Yeah, I felt that earlier phones had more flex in the shell vs innards, which absorbed the impact; my Galaxy S2 and S5 were also famous for scattering parts all over the floor upon impact (case, battery, etc:), which was hilarious but I also felt (perhaps wrongly) it helped dissipate the energy of the impact. They also tended to have a very very tiny "lip" where the shell of the case would touch surface rather than screen if you put them upside down.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for how to spend a learning stipend?
I typically buy books with mine but I'm open to new ideas this year. Curious to hear what others have spent theirs on.
This all depends on your perspective. If you want to believe tech has gone to the doldrums, that reality will manifest for you. Meanwhile people will be creating Raspberry Pi server clusters in their bedroom and hacking the planet regardless of surveillance capitalism.
> Are you saying that students with money to spend on tutors don't do better at the JEE or Chinese entrance exams?

Some will do, for sure. However, when tests are challenging enough, teachers and talent become dominating factors. Good teachers make sure that students work hard and have access to illuminating exercises to realize their full potential, and students with insufficient talent will not excel in those tests no matter how much tutoring they have. After all, tutoring is not education. Of course, I may have been biased per my own observation: the distribution of student performance in my schools hardly changed due to tutoring because my teachers simply gave challenging enough homework and exams, which did a good enough job to remove the advantages of tutoring, if there's any. Using an extreme example: yes you can find the best coach for you to prepare Math Olympiad, but you'd be able to cross a threshold first before you can even understand what the coach talks about. Similarly on the level of JEE or national entrance exams, I may spend 10 times as much time memorizing some patterns while my classmates whoop my ass by simply attending classes -- this is also why I think the progressives are doing a deservice to poor kids or minority groups. They could've raise standards and build better public schools to help the talented stand out, yet they choose to lower standards and really damage the perception on the otherwise truly talented group.
WebRTC as currently implemented has very hard and by its nature has very low audience caps. There's a reason why WebRTC-to-HLS gateways exist; WebRTC by itself isn't substitutable, and if you're going to act like this I'd think there's a pretty significant onus upon you to provide something substitutable.

The substitutable thing is "another content provider that does HLS or equivalent", and we're back where we started, because doing so independently, as discussed in another subthread, either costs a lot of money or comes with compromising tradeoffs, as well as a support burden that somebody has to pay for and do.

Independent web video is mostly awful. The best answers are bad ones. Sorry.
E as in Emacs, glot as in polyglot?
You really have to define successful. Get Xi to change a single policy? Get someone else to take over as Chairman of the CCP and Secretary General of the Politburo? Put a democracy in place?

Those are all different goals. Similarly, and as an analog, concerning Russia some people talk about Russia pulling out of Ukraine, some people talk about a coup deposing Putin and some people talk about new, real, elections.
Isn't 256GB RAM kind of limiting for this type of workstation? Or is it possible to combine it with standard DIMMs?
When a chore pays more than your day job, people often find a way to get it done.
You are (once again?) changing the actors and the power relationships between them and pretending it doesn't matter.

It's one thing to have "your friends" moving from one network to another. It's a completely different thing to have a network where there is an owner who can kick you out unilaterally.

None of the people that are using Ethereum Classic are disallowed to ever use ETH if they so want. They haven't been censored to continue participating in that network. It's just that to participate they must accept that the consensus of truth has changed.
Xi's Total Control in China Injects More Risk into Chaotic World
What's the incentive to build tech like this? Or, why is it valuable for someone who is shadow banned from knowing they're shadow banned because they don't get reactions?

This doesn't make sense to me, because it seems like a huge amount of investment to...what? Get them to see more ads instead of getting sick of people not reacting to their trolling and leaving entirely? If the return on investment is high enough for this to be practical, it suggests the community has a toxicity problem that itself needs to be addressed. What makes so many people so angry and toxic?
Authoritarian government, blatant IP theft, hostile takeover of Hong Kong, hostile threats towards Taiwan, orders of magnitudes more censorship, etc.
One issue I've seen raised is committee assignments meaning power often are by seniority, so that also would have to change. Unlikely.
I do not understand the benefit of making a variable immutable. How do you do for loops then?

If I am not mistaken PHP introduced the goto statement just recently.
When my sister was sick the best thing we had was an entire church community helping us out - people taking turns babysitting, various people bringing food to us, people I barely knew and friends of people I barely knew offering help, people simply hanging out and being there for us, tons of people who had been thru similar things telling me I could call them at any time (I never did because I had trouble asking for help and acknowledging my emotions back then)

What I’m getting at is I’d assume the more of a community you can get around the situation, the better - and the greater the variety of needs that can be serviced (emotional or time-based) and the longer lasting that help can last. In a similar way to how constructing an org can be a lot more robust and capable than trying to solo a project

Sometimes just having someone(s) do some PM work to manage funeral arrangements, life insurance arrangements, closing down accounts, manage beneficiary distributions etc can be very helpful if motivation/discipline is hard or stressful to come by

Food for thought: after my sister and dad passed I had tons of people ask me how I was doing / “please you can talk to me anytime” and I’d say “I’m good” even though I was plagued with burnout, depression, anxiety for a few years etc. I’m in a much better spot now, but what I’m getting at is there can be a problem of that it may be near impossible to actually know how the person is doing, especially if they’re the type of person who doesn’t like sharing emotions or being a burden on others. Not exactly sure what you can do to fix it, just pointing it out
One might apply this argument to HN, where mods can silently ban people so that those who are banned don't realize. I mean, are you going to create your own HN? It doesn't matter if creating HN is easier than creating an ISP if the task is practically unsurmountable.

Isn't the issue here freedom of association? When in conflict with freedom of speech, which is more important, and why?
>>You know why all internet traffic goes over port 80 and port 443? Entire generations of admins

Now we have conflated network admins and sysadmin. Different things.

the reality is that was largely ISP's not sysadmins that caused that by throttling, shaping and in some cases out right blocking traffic.

Throw in some laziness by devs as well, it is widely inaccurate to lay that out the feet of sysadmins.

> Similarly ORMs also got a healthy nudge from DBAs who decided it was their job to protect the business from ever doing anything new.

Lots of ORM's were written by people that were DBA's because they were tired of devs that did not know how to construct a proper SQL Query, and thought that Select * was the always the correct way to return data.

This idea that devs had to ride in to save the industry from evil DBA attempting to block everything is a complete revision of history

>>my opinion plus decades of listening to devs vent

I am not sure how a circle jerk is proof of anything? devs in many cases may have gotten rid of sysadmins, but now a new beast is emerged that is making life hell for both sysadmins and devs alike. The "Cyber Security Analyst" and if the devs thought sysadmins saying no was a problem, you have not seen anything yet. Unlike the sysadmin cyberSecurity will be backed by compliance, insurance companies, and standards organizations. They will have actual teeth, and actual power something the sysadmin never had
Do you have any specific example use cases where you're seeing success?

I'm asking this both with regards to ML/prediction related work and the "boring" work.

I'm working on a direct to consumer digital pathology service with a clinical background as opposed to data science/ML. Really curious as to what type of new services we could try invest in to improve what we offer.
My browser is not supported. Maybe they should tell me why.
And thus Skynet is born.
For anyone wanting to dig deeper, I think the term "flat file CMS" has been coined quite a while ago (and is what the author is aiming at with the Git-based flow).
I'd agree that "lack of options for (accessible) visual editing UIs" is true, while flat-file-, database- or API-powered (which in the end is a wrapper over a DB, usually) CMS seem to exist for any reasonably popular programming language - with different levels of maintenance/recent development happening, granted.
I just went to check it on the iPhone App store. I know that ratings might not mean anything? but, I noticed it was rated 3.9 of 5 stars vs several other podcasts with up to 6x to 90x more votes and 4.5 to 5 stars.

Is it just a popularity contest or are those other apps better?

Podcast App (4.8, 228k votes)

Google Podcasts (4.7, 10k votes)

Overcast (4.7, 33k votes)

Podcast Player - Castbox (4.8, 98k votes)

Pocket Casts (3.9, 2.8k votes)

Stitcher (4.8, 4.7k votes)

Discounting the apple podcast app (4.9, 973k votes) since it's built in and therefore has an unfair advantage.

Might explain why it was sold if it was clear it wasn't winning. I certainly like the idea of a player that doesn't report to someone my interests.
Did the Pandemic Change Your Personality? Possibly
https://archive.ph/mPEcE
Warning. This link brought my aging laptop to lock up. I’m on Firefox.
It's not "urgent" as in "step off of the train tracks or I'll get hit" kind of urgent.

The article specifically puts climate change at the top of its concerns, which is a "step off of the train tracks or you'll get hit" problem if there ever was one -- but in slow motion, of course.

The point of the article, as I read it, was that these problems really are urgent, but our brains and our politics trick us into not seeing them that way because they are either (1) slow moving or (2) call for tedious, fat-tail responses (rather than sexy, exciting, silver bullet fixes).

Rather than "yeah, I should get out to the gym more" a better analogy would be: "Okay, it's time to face it -- I'm definitely an alcoholic. If I don't change my ways, it may not kill me tomorrow, but it's definitely going to catch up with me soon enough. So I better start figuring out a way to turn this boat around, before it heads over the edge."

Which is categorically different from the "aspirational" sense of urgency you seem to be describing.

The ability to discern that certain problems are, in fact, "urgent" (despite their being slow-moving or incremental in their effect) is one of the highly valuable traits that enables some genes (read: species or individuals) to succeed, while others fail.
I'm not American, but it isn't only America that has this distrust/hate.

China's government isn't compatible with (what we think) western democracy. Just this week a video was released (Manchester I think?) of China's Embassy guards trying to drag protestors inside the embassy while exerting violence (which they have no mandate to do) and if not for a British cop, the protestor would faced a worse fate.

There is documented instances of Chinese 'police stations' in various capital cities that exert pressure/violence in these cities at the whim of the ccp.

Industrial espionage is reported and just about expected from the Chinese companies/ccp here in Europe.

Pressure on politicians, public institutions, professors, etc for saying something that is sensitive to the ccp/Xi.

And these are just in our European soil (among many other things). If we go on about how China deals with Tibet/Taiwan, muslims, zero covid, etc etc, it is just a style of government that is in direct opposition with what we expect, and the fact they try to make us bend the knee of them, makes a lot of people not like any kind of Chinese influence in their turf.
The big clue is that the name is different. "The Wire" vs "Wired".
Also think Servlet filters