skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A replacement for "pets, not cattle" could be "goldfish, not trout" [0]. Due to certain beliefs around the latter.

Has that come up for anyone?

Maybe unique to us?

[0] Not my idea. Source: a colleague.
Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions or feedback :)
I turned my original RPi (I think it was the one that launched in 2012?) into a noise machine in my bedroom, thanks to scripts from a friend. It dutifully starts rain noises in the late evening and stops them in the morning. The original one my friend made does a better job at fading the audio over time (something is wrong with my ALSA config), and also switches to birds chirping in the morning to wake him up.

It's a great use-case for it as it's not very demanding, and essentially doesn't require networking aside from NTP to keep the clock up to date.
If Matrix.org adds a dedicated “user feed” feature for public facing timeline then it could slowly gain traction. The protocol and infrastructure is already there, just need to build functionality on top.
Comments also promoting / proposing Wikipedia's Current Events [1] [2] [3] [4]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417715

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417336

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417454

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417439
If these "predator" domains are of a serious concern, would it not be advantageous to your fellow Greek to add them to a public block list so that all can benefit? I assume they serve no legitimate purpose other than to track? If that's the case, a blanket block list for all people who run PiHole/AdGuard/uBlock et al could be useful!
I go to reuters.com/world to have an idea of international affairs, mostly to avoid being oblivious.

It's factual enough not to induce rage/emotion, and superficial enough so as to not be a time sink.

Every other form of news/media I feel is a rehash of reuters/AP headlines but with all the emotion/clickbait involved.
Sure, so I guess you're being willingly misled here because the most important thing is dunking on red states due to your politics. So, if some random article says "Dallas is less safe than NYC," you are forced to believe it even though the article weighted covid vaccine rate at 90% and murder at 10%.
> There is literally nothing that happens if I know what’s going on there.

> Nothing at all. It distracts me from my family, friends, work, and myself.

> I have no interesting insights or original thoughts about it, and if I did,

> absolutely no one would care. So why read it?

Do you vote or participate in politics in any way or do events in the news directly affect your life? One reason it's rational to read the news: If you don't read the news, then you're at risk of lacking important contextual knowledge about society and social norms. It's pragmatic to keep track of these conversations to avoid embarrassment and to not behave in ways that might offend others. I find it useful to be aware of contentious issues on which I might have a side or a stake.
I love this comment. It feels like you've understood exactly why the platform exists. So glad it resonates. Thank you.
I don't know for sure because I don't have any relatives or other people of that age I regularly interact with but I wouldn't be surprised, I know 11-12 year olds using it tho that would be early middle school not elementary I guess.
Depends on the appeal. If you are appealing an in-house FTC judgement, for example, you have the choice of any circuit court that you do business in and can pick the one with the friendliest case law.
It conjured up images of suffocating someone with a pillow, while they run a marathon in the desert. Pis get pretty warm, I haven't looked back at my B+ for a while but I don't think it was a heck of a lot cooler than the more modern devices.
Long enough to allow for nuance. Short enough to compel clarity of thought. That's the goal :)
This is a strawman. Most people knowledgeable of the topic do not blame Germany for increased carbon emission, but for 1 - high absolute carbon emissions when compared to France and other countries who did not discard nuclear 2 - a low relative decrease in carbon emissions when compared to the improvements they could have achieved with the same amount of money.
Oh that's strange. Not sure why that's happening but I'll look into it when I can. Thanks for bringing it to my notice.
I have gone long periods of the last decade of just skimming the headlines and being very selective of what news I consume. I try to stick to news that is something that directly affects me. Then there are periods that I look at news more than just skimming headlines and notice how much is just repetition and how little information is added in each repetition.

The most disturbing fact for me is the thing when news push narratives. One example was the short squeeze on Gamestop. Hedge funds had overleveraged their shorts and people took note. The media was on the side of the hedgefunds glossing over the fact that the funds got caught redhanded with shorting more stock that was available in the liquidity pool. I commented this on one article and a reminder that back in 2008 that this particular news outlet had stories about regulation of stock shorting for these very reasons and that they glossed over the fact that hedgefunds where doing something bad. My comment was removed, but I noticed more than one antisemitic Rotschild banking conspiracy comment just left there to reinforce a narrative that there are people out there talking about "evil jews". News can't be trusted.
One of the reasons I moved from GitHub to SourceHut is the user-hostile political activism GitHub was throwing in my face. Like including the command to quietly rename any branch you're on to "main" in the instructions for uploading an existing repo.

I'm still not sure how I feel about this change. One can see it as activism, but at the same time it's still done with respect to users and I tend to trust the maintainers here to be reasonable.
You should take a second opinion.
I wonder if this would make a good SMS mule

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-xe300/
When crowds of people start acting like fluids (2015)
Motorsports are drifting towards inevitable real-life F-Zero and Wipeout style electric hovercar racing. Don’t fight the future.
No. I do want to know what is going on.

As others have pointed out the news is no longer just reporting or analysis, but also has an agenda. Not reading the news is not a solution. My solution: read news from multiple sources, and extract the actual news by removing the coloring of the source and their agenda. This is not foolproof but works better than not questioning the possible hidden agendas.
I get the idea of "done" software, but this software here has 3rd party dependencies. My biggest concern is not that it's not done, but that there are security issues inside the release.

WriteFreely is not a tool that counts lines in a file :). It's a rather complex application that needs constant caretaking. Especially because it's facing "the internet" :).
Tesla is a public company right? Why does it sound like Musk is directing resources from an unrelated business to do work on his personal investments.
UK battery firm Britishvolt averts collapse as funding secured
The question rather is: Who still knows Digg? I do. ;)
Yet in the European country I live in, taxes have not stopped growing throughout the last 20 years. The government just finds different ways of spending the money, not necessarily related to the welfare system.
How does its encrypted messaging protocol compare to Signal?

Does it have anything comparable to the Double Ratchet?
Isn't that the original Facebook? When FB started everyone used their real name there which was unprecedented.
To me a live copy with delayed sync sounds like a backup. What defines a backup for you?
Can't we move over from silicon? I've read about countless tries to design CPUs based on different principles and materials like carbon, optical and even biological modeled systems. So far our best results still come from trying to shrink silicon transistors.
A link to that would be awesome if possible
Universal health care history details: it came about in the 1950s/60s in the poor post-ww2 conditions, and is now in 50+ countries.
Hey. You're right. But there are lots of folks who don't have the time to build and maintain a site themselves.

Besides, I'm hoping to make Nicheless more than just a micro blogging platform. My goal is to make it into a space that encourages groups of people to share their thoughts without fear, and eventually let the exchange of those ideas percolate into real life discussions.

It's still a long way out from becoming that, but it's the goal. I've written a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission
If you want a broader mix in conjunction with pay-per-article, take a look at https://blendle.com/
nohup is POSIX, systemd is decidedly not. That makes it systemd’s responsibility not to break nohup, and more generally not to require non-admin users to be aware of it.
Phrasebooks are dying out
ya i think it worth doing this what do you say
https://archive.ph/SSq5p
This is the winning answer. For most other applications it's either; "It can do <thing> _slowly_" or "It can do <easy thing> but is overkill".

Many people forget that the Pis have a wealth of peripherals accessible on the GPIO headers.

I suppose those interested in EEPROM programming and IIC, SPI, and UART probably know this though, and probably (like myself) have dedicated devices for that task.

Still, I have about 10-15 Pis from B+ to 4B sitting in drawers, the Pi Zero (2)s are the devices I find the most use for, so I'd love to bring some back into commission but OPs solution isn't it for me; I have powerful hardware with a plethora of storage and redundancy for that.

Once upon a time, with my OG Pi, I had a GSM "HAT" (before they were called that), and wrote a little API in C/C++ that would text me, so when my UPS detected power down/power restored I'd get a text, followed by another with my new IP address (because it wasn't static). I still have the Pi and "HAT" but don't really need the SMS part anymore.
I just ran into this. My bank used to send codes over email, but for some reason a couple of months ago they decided SMS was the only option.

I said "So you're forcing people to have a phone with a plan?"

"Yes."
No worries. Being european and living in Asia for more than a decade I can say cultural differences is something that may be an obstruction to good cooperation.

Whichever you choose hope you'll get a balance you are looking for. All the best in your venture :)
which type of highlight is this can u tell me
Can anyone elaborate on this? Cryptography course at my university covers blockchains and we were never made aware of this. And academic community in general seems to be unaware, not a single blockchain talk I attended drew attention to this.
English Wikipedia: October 2022 Statistics
If power, heat and efficiency are valid concerns, we might as well try to optimize the software, use less abstractions, go for the code that use the least CPU cycles, use less interpreted languages, more AOT compiled ones.
I get a strong "pretend-humility" vibration from this.

e.g.

>> I've got 30 domains and I've only done something awesome with 3 of them. Sometimes when I log into my DNS manager I just see 27 failures

So, I'm sorry but yes you do seem phony after all.
You do not become the richest man on earth if you are not intermingling with political actors and institutions on a grand scale. It might be shock you to hear, but the man does not need your support to defend himself.

It speaks of his PR department that you think he does.
This looks great !!
A few nitpicks:
- does not work at all on mobile, even with the browser's "desktop mode" (i guess it has to do with the highlighting hook)
- a landing page explaining what this does would be amazing
You kind of just described https://ground.news/
Totally within. And that’s part of the problem.
I know no one wants to hear this but... Facebook.

It does the same thing. With less character limit, more functionality and equally huge (actually bigger) user base.

Sure we can all go and re-invent the wheel for the 800th time (I am still fond of my ex company myspace!) but if you just want to move away from twitter TODAY there's Facebook (and instagram)
And given the degradation of the postal service and passenger rail system since privatization, one might accept growing government as the lesser of two evils.
You are absolutely right.

The thing I do not understand is why people favour updated 1970s-style UNIX, e.g. Linux and xBSD, when more modern sophisticated later Unixes are right there for the taking, such as Plan 9 and Inferno.

My cynical suspicion is that it's because they are just too hard to understand. I know that I struggle to myself. The conceptual model of '70s UNIX, and (to me) horrible primitive tools such as Vi, are easier to understand than the richer, smarter OSes of the '80s (Plan 9, with integrated networking, proper namespaces, and the whole LAN as your workstation) and '90s (Inferno, which also abstracts away CPU architectures and replaces C with something cleaner and safer).
Because it's not an easy job and people would have to devote significant free time to it.
> > I tend to feel disturbed by how little it presents as reporting, and instead, how much it appears to have an agenda.

> If you don't read the news, then you're at risk of lacking important contextual knowledge about society and social norms.

Unfortunately there's very little news that doesn't have an agenda. So I'm not getting the news. I'm getting someone's opinions with various facts spun in a way so as to try to get me to vote one way or another. Is that a better way to be informed on how to vote?
But then you'll have less control over traffic control. With nextDNS you cannot see what app or device is calling for specific domains.
High Speed Trading? With an AI? Really? You're clueless.
Does a Pi that old support thermal throttling?
Good luck. I’m rooting for you.
But still, many server mobos have more than one socket.
I’m pretty burnt out, but also not in a position to just quit. I feel like it’d just be trading one stressful situation for another (new job would likely have the same issue w/self-pressure).
I look at the news and I see almost ubiquitous low-grade dishonesty. It's not that the people writing it were deliberately trying to lie, for the most part; it's that they wanted to persuade, or just push a worldview, and very few people really care all that much about being honest except in the abstract. From left to center to right, and to all corners of whatever political compass you favor, the people writing the news are usually spinning things in order to manipulate you. Fact checking probably helps, but it's easy enough to deceive without literal lies if you have any skill with words. Institutional reputability may help for a while, but any institution with a reputation for truth has an incentive to slowly burn that reputation by bending the truth just a little bit, and then a bit more, and so on. And of course every side angrily accuses every other side of being dishonest, and they're all technically right.

I can't resist quoting Lord Vetinari from Discworld:

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“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people,” said the man. “You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”

He waved his thin hand toward the city and walked over to the window.

“A great rolling sea of evil,” he said, almost proprietorially. “Shallower in some places, of course, but deeper, oh, so much deeper in others. But people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this will triumph in the end. Amazing!” He slapped Vimes good-naturedly on the back.

“Down there,” he said, “are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no."
Hard agree, I was just about to say that. The entire tone of the piece is kind of "I'm so awesome and then this...".
That made me laugh a bit, thank you! Yes, I guess we have a habit of comparing with coffee, perhaps because we drink so much of it! But I think it's healthy for the software community in general to have multiple ways to make money off your work. Sometimes I really get annoyed when something is a SaaS, I never really own it. I think it's all about putting things into perspective, hence the coffee example. How much do you pay for gasoline each month, or electricity?
I don’t quite follow. You say “news” but then mention only social media?

Even if I completely stopped using social media I wouldn’t stop reading and watching news. I read news on news sites and newspapers, and watch news programs on TV (yes regular broadcast television).
_If_ we ever get to the very frequent use of rockets (either for use in space or for on earth transport) we wouldn’t need to keep a rocket on standby. We would ‘just’ have a cargo on standby at a busy space port, confiscate a rocket about to launch, put the cargo in/on top, and fly.

That’s a big ‘if’, though, and the other arguments still stand.
The UK Environment Agency pension fund is backing Europe’s biggest climate VC
Getting involved in local politics was what helped me to scratch the itch of doing something to improve society.

At least in my area there is a surprising large number of things the city council can do to improve (or not improve) the everyday lives of me and my loved one.

I love that those decisions are usually very accessible in that they don't concern themselves with big sweeping legal frameworks and fundamental political ideologies.

Even without being a council member it feels nice to ride on a bike lane that you helped to bring to live.

You don't "win" everytime of course but you tend to learn a lot about how other political factions think on a local level.
On android it really is great, and if only they supported iOS - they would be the next WhatsApp or more!
With so much invested in Silicon it is hard to boot up a whole new paradigm. In that sense working with Silicon is much easier / less friction relatively speaking.
Is reading news often really necessary? Is it wise?

News is so specific and subject to biased coverage. Really most news should be replaced with general statistical trends. One doesn't have to examine those as often and the generality abstracts away the emotionality and hopefully bias.
Sensationalistic because of their need to sell attention. Especially rage is profitable. In other words, the agenda of news is to earn money with advertisement and not giving useful information.
I think there is a lot of room for nuance here. Surely you don't think that quoting greek playwrights is equivalent to communicating effectively. :)
If I was a junior reading this with all the examples that were used, I would very likely feel worse than before, which defeats the claimed purpose of this write up.
Ah yes, the false equivalence of “I just want a news source that actually critically evaluates what leftist politicians in power say” with “I wish they would bring Hitler back”.

> There is no such thing as a neutral news source.

No there isn’t, but there are news sources that try to be critical of the points they normally support and don’t let people get away with bullshit for “the greater good”.

NPR (KQED in particular in the Bay Area) just went batshit after 2016. No more news, just wild conspiracy sessions about Trump nuking countries, etc. It was no longer about events, it was about how every presidential tweet made the hosts and guests feel.
I’m no expert, but I think the main moat that Chrome has here is its web store where users find extensions and developers submit their extensions. There’s a review process which whilst far from perfect is labor intensive and still helps catch rogue extensions. Hard to open-source this part of Chrome.
I don't know any archaeologists that think Norse greenlanders spent their entire lives farming in the fjords.

We shouldn't discount that the medieval Norse were among the most prolifically literate societies of their day. They wrote a lot, which is why we have so much information about Norse Greenland. It was primarily a local subsistence economy focused on extracting marine resources to trade back east. Greenland and the high north was therefore the center of Norse activities. L'anse aux meadows seems to have been a comparatively minor, sporadically occupied staging point.

The Norse were expert expeditionists, but expeditions are hard and continental North America very remote. Declaring it "not difficult" to travel inland (for unclear / no obvious reasons) is premature. It probably happened to some extent, but we're not talking anything remotely close to the midwest, or even the modern US in all likelihood. Moreover, the basic model for preservation we use involves exponential decay terms. The odds are huge against us finding anything left by a minuscule population sporadically present for a short time (almost certainly <200 years).

As for genetic studies, Native Americans are relatively well-surveyed. Genetics is hard, but it's pretty clear to everyone that the white tribe myth has its roots in colonial cultural narratives, not lost Norse explorers.
Won't work. Twilio is one of the many VOIP companies that are blacklisted by banks.
systemd just released a new version, according to HN [1]. What if we published a uniform interface to a smattering of different scripts, as scripts?

It would be like asdf for daemons.

For cron, we could mark a `cal` output with a pattern, and it would emit the necessary cron:

January 2022 February 2022
1 2 3 4 5 ... 1 2 3 ...

> 1/1 1/2 1/3 1/4
Pattern matching... Done.
Oh, you'd like to run it (d)aily or (w)eekly?
> w
The cron pattern for that would be:
0 0 * * 0
(C)opy to clipboard, (q)uit, (m)ore?
> C
Copied. Exiting.

It would let us investigate sequences (or skipped sequences) as certain colored vertices in a graph. Or something like that, maybe.

And submit a patch to each init daemon to add similar capabilities.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33416599
Exploiting Static Site Generators: When Static Is Not Static
Yeah breaking the unwritten rules of the game, like not often seen is basketballers under-arming free-throws. It's unsporting, not even Michael Jordan did it (ooff, he took that personally...).

Under-arming was done in modern international cricket once and ruined sporting careers.
Have you considered moving? Many bigger companies in the EU will finance your relocation and do most of the paperwork for you and your (close) family.
Exactly. I wouldn't go as far to say that it's better from a technological standpoint than other open social media protocols [0], but the fact that it's somehow tied to Twitter changes things. If Twitter chooses to switch to an open protocol, it will likely be Blue Sky. And based on my understanding of the texts between Elon and Jack, Elon is open to the open protocol idea [1].

Btw, you can sign up for their own client for Blue Sky here (beta waitlist): https://bsky.app/

0: https://atproto.com

1: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23112929-elon-musk-t...