skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't read "the news" anymore, but I do read/consume a lot of primary sources. So full videos/transcripts of speeches, white house press briefing almost daily, congressional hearings, debates (in full, not clips) etc.

My cycle is usually:

1) See some news event spawning on twitter/reddit/news frontpages.

2) Research it (by that I mean: look for a primary source that the news article being shared was based on and read that)

3) Despair at how the aforementioned are trying to use these events as wedges to drive people further towards hatred for one another.
I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed. It’s not social media that is entirely bad, rather it’s the notifications and infinite scrolling feed which cause cognitive overload. I changed my consumption habits and don’t open news apps mindlessly.

I’m not on most social media platforms as well. I subscribe to the print & digital New York Times. Reading the paper is old school, but I find it relaxing and I absorb a wider array of information vs what recommendation algos would feed me. I subscribe to ESPN/Cricinfo etc for specific sports that I follow.
By dismantling they mean making public statements about making improvements and then weeding out people who express joy.
>human efforts should be directed to the pursuit of social and moral progress and the increase of leisure, not the competitive struggle for material wealth"

What about not directing anything and maintaining a free world where any individual can pursue what goal he or she sees worthy?

I grew sick of governments or groups of self appointed elites trying to tell people how they should live their lives.
You have chosen to have a different risk tolerance than the person you’re replying to. They explained their threat model, you disagree. That doesn’t make you right or them wrong.

It’s simultaneously true that for your model they’re being naive and for theirs you’re being paranoid. That’s fine.
It sounds similar to a technique we used in video games to solve collisions so you didn't miss the interval - using quadratics to solve the swept sphere.

In fact so much of what is on shadertoy looks very familiar to video game 'game physics' programmers because a lot of it is related to collision detection. See the Orange book on real-time collision detection (Christer Ericson) for a lot of good code.
This is a situation in which self-regulation does obviously not work, and we are in dire need of legislation.

2FA schemes must always support TOTP.

Potentially, as an alternative, 2FA must not rely on SMS, as it is not secure.
I know performance is very much off the table, but wouldn't it be better to face the CPU side of the board out so you have less thermal throttling?
Did you build in any detection/reset for wifi hardware issues? I'm jaded and assume this will be a thing with everything prior to the rpi4. (Mostly my experience here is specifically the rpi3b)

Of course, could be the USB wifi more reliable.
Does not work for me because it somehow prevents reader mode in Firefox.
> In that example, xidoc requires a human to manually align ascii chars to make it look pretty... That's a job that computers are good at!

What do you mean? I'd say that's true of either every or no language, depending on if your editor has an align plugin. How does your proposed CSV-like format solve this?
I tend to think about it differently: Some ideas get reinvented and simplified until only the idea is left. And the idea then seems so obvious to everyone that no one considers it necessary to have a reusable implementation. That isn't the same as NIH. It is sharing ideas rather than code.
Dude is literally talking about Atari. It’s surprising they didn’t have better source control by 1992; Apple certainly had centralized source control and source databases by that point. But Atari was basically out of gas by then.
I’ve booked a psychologist appointment for my TikTok addiction. I spend 1 to 4hrs a day on it, and about half that on various other news like HN.

I’m in a double sandwich: Since Covid, I have utter disdain for real-life people, who would miss no opportunity to destroy our lives, such as borrowing a trillion and endebt us for generations just to fuel a stay-at-home policy that destroys social links and physical health, and more generally play the class warfare game (I live in France); and at the same time, if I stop scrolling on TikTok to keep my mind occupied, I immediately have dark thoughts because I’m unoccupied at home.

That’s it. I’m in the post-virtual world. Connections with other humans not necessary. Nor pleasant. Youtube tells me stories before I go to sleep. HN wakes me up with news. My main goal in life is to move the needle on the dashboard of my revenue at work. I’m a caricature.
Which apparently was also implemented!
>they're totally free to put extra conditions on the compilation

Yes, they are. There's no question.

The issue is to do with morality, not legality. It simply isn't right.
Local pornhub cache will take care of ~30% digital needs. Add piratebay, torrminatorr and couple other trackers and you are up to 50-70% of all traffic.
I did something similar to this 9 years ago using BTSync, it's a great use case!

https://reustle.org/btsync-pi
I heard it said once that Science is news, everything else is gossip.

I don't agree fully, but it has stuck with me.
I remember that back to childhood when I simply couldn't comprehend how it worked and it made me sad.
> The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It is a flight simulator in under 2 kilobytes of code, complete with relatively accurate 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics, loadable wireframe scenery, and a small instrument panel.

> IOCCC Flight Simulator runs on Unix-like systems with X Windows. As per contest rules, it is in the public domain.

https://blog.aerojockey.com/post/iocccsim

Oh, and the code is shaped as a plane. Pretty awesome.
Hey, someone rediscovered xinetd
So the richest get even richer, at the expense of everyone else. How is that not a pyramid scheme?
The behaviors are in fact pre-programmed. The distinction between environment and agent is in my opinion an un-necessary and misleading one. The agent is at is and the agent "acts" as it acts as a union with its environment.
the problem here is the definition of a better person. sure, people in germany were manipulated. but not all of them. there were people that knew what happened was wrong and that didn't allow themselves to be manipulated. the point is to instill that kind of awareness in everyone.

so even if someone thinks they are a good person, it is possible to show them that what they are doing hurts other people, and that they are not as good as they thought they are. the same goes for prisoners.
Colorado family investing in the future of camel milk (as autism therapy)
Having been employed in tech for over 20 years, I have found myself leaning further this way over time. The simplest solution is usually the best.
That person happens to be the leader of the Asahi Linux project. In other words, closer to byuu's hacker circles than almost any of us.
humble brag. I had that on an interview once and I'd never heard of the technique but somehow a inspiration from the heavens and I was able to invent it on the spot. Sometimes knowing something is possible is a great motivator (plus the time pressure of the interview)

But I guess what really happened is that when you come up writing assembly code at a low level it's a lot more obvious when you've been neck deep in bits, shifts, and logic ops all day.
Liballocs: Meta-level services within Unix processes with typed allocations
I’m going darker by the day. I don’t seek out news, and when I do read it, I tend to feel disturbed by how little it presents as reporting, and instead, how much it appears to have an agenda.

I could do better. I followed the Ukraine-Russia war for a while, and although I wasn’t glued to it, I put too much focus on it.

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?

I think it’s worth getting a sense of where things are every quarter or so? Over time I feel myself moving further towards that kind of pattern, and I spend far more time interested in my little corner of the world. I read relatively more local reporting and look at what’s happening with my municipality, the mayoral and council proceedings, try to find out what’s changing with local problems, etc. But even that isn’t a requirement.

I’m getting involved with a 50 year plan to help restore a watershed. Things like this seem infinitely more important and worthwhile than the news.
It's extremely weird and frankly scary to me that you assume Facebook and Twitter are "the news" or even good news aggregators. Both had significant Russian and other foreign actor influence.

Pick your news sources of choice (newspapers, websites, tv stations) and use those. Not what someone on 'Facebook' might tag as such.
Yes, I have done exactly what you described recently. I live in Ukraine and all our mass media are wartime-censoured, so I got rid of them first. Russian media which are speaking not from Russia usually are good source of info about war but I seem to be overloaded with war news, so I got rid of it next. Russian IT sources like habrahabr.ru are steadily degrading in quality of content and fraction of content per adware, so I got rid of it as soon as I understood I really can read HN without a translator which happened this year. Other parts of Cyrillic Internets were degraded way earlier and there is just nothing to read except of torrents with old books which I use to read very often. For me there is easy to stop reading news in my mother language because our culture is dying.

So, except of HN I have only Youtube time sucker and I really miss the times when my Internet connection used to be too slow to watch videos. But I appreciate YT for be a source of information from both camps, I use to consume roughly equally amount of war information from both camps for not get polarized. Consuming really low amount of information and not having a smartphone allows me to read a lot of books and even keep progressing in Mathematics not because of job but because of joy.
I have noticed other analogies between computer behavior and real life.

Basically security and similar attacks that were practical on computers have now become practical in real life.

Think of one person annoying a business. But now what the same person annoys a business repeatedly? Or someone and all his friends annoy a business repeatedly? attack, denial of service attack, distributed denial of service attack.

there are probably lots of other examples
Even when being honest with yourself, is this what you thought I meant?
I limit myself to listening to NPRs 15 minute "up first" and on occasion the daily from the nyt. That's what I keep it limited to and it makes me feel informed without the anxiety if the 24 hour news cycle.
This is something I have been missing in KDE for a long time!

How does one use it?

Is it a script I can put somewhere on my laptop and then the borders will have outlines?
Under most circumstances I can't imagine a reason to bother powering on a 10 year old system, short of nostalgia. The costs of running it will quickly eclipse the costs of buying something newer and more efficient.

Of course, there are plenty of edge cases, like needing something bare metal that has a particular sort of software compatibility or IO requirements. Some industrial computers still run 486 chips with ISA buses for this reason. These sorts of systems will have been engineered with longevity in mind from the outset though.

Other edge case, just for fun: embedded style systems like the Raspberry Pi. These are tiny, low power, and can be used for specialty purposes for ages. They are also engineered on nodes and setup in a manner that will likely leave plenty running successfully in 10-20 years' time as it is.

It is really only since we've entered the era below TSMC's 7nm node that longevity has become much of a concern at all. It would take a whole essay to even TLDR the constraints of why that only becomes very relevant in the period where those nodes start to become known as "mature", and this is already enough of a tangent, so I'll just leave this breadcrumb of a presentation on the lifecycle of silicon process nodes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrOuBkYCMQ
I like to try and get a sense each day of what is happening in our dystopia.

I start with mainstream news first thing in the morning to see the prevailing narrative / propaganda people are being fed.

From there I go to broadsheet left and non-loony right-wing sources to find alternative perspectives.

I enjoy critical thinking amd take everything pretty lightly, so I don't really get too upset about stuff. Life and relationships are far more important.
> The idea behind Pets is that Configuration Management of individual hosts shouldn’t be harder than administering the system by hand.

Just administer it by hand and back it up.
How the TNG minimap was made
If Brandolini's law is true and if there is gonna be a ministry of truth, then that ministry probably needs to grow exponentially and suck up all other ministries until all BS is eliminated.

[The Ministry of Truth] was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

https://bookanalysis.com/1984/ministry-of-truth/
a pi can make a good standalone NTP server, and the older ones use less energy and can probably use a battery backup to continue during power glitches.
Being uninformed is the best thing I've ever done for my life. You too can have this for the low low price of $0.00 and for a limited time you also get more time than you can imagine.
It's one of those things where people who hate it talk a lot about that, but people who like it don't have much to say.
Not stopped, but shifted sources. A lot of standard media is a rehash of what you can get to directly these days. For example I can follow any number of reporters on the ground in Ukraine and analysts they retweet. Why would I read the same thing in a word-limited article 3 days later?

There are some exceptions of course, like the long form articles in the Atlantic for example.
I personally enjoyed coding very much 30 years ago - first professional gig doing C (moving on from Basic / Turbo Pascal).
The good: Fun projects to work on, and no cargo cult programming BS. Lots and lots to learn, programming books were your life.
The not so good: No Stackoverflow for answers to problems other have already uncovered and resolved. Reinventing the wheel, making the same mistakes other had already learned from...
They're still predicting shift away from silicon is another 5 years out. No, really. It's been 20 years+ at this point they've been developing alternatives and they can make chips but they're far from being competitive with silicon in any metric. It's called single crystal complex oxide or SiC
Possibly, but also assuming it's an actually sophisticated analysis and not an naive one, like the Martinez Democracy vs Autocracy study that western MSM loves to peddle. NBER (one of top eco think tanks) did a sophisticated night lights study of PRC in 2017 - same year as OG Martinez study using naive methodology as Henderson original work from early 2010s - and found PRC's reported GDP was actually _underestimated_ using night light data. But for obvious reasons this study by multiple staff economists at the FED doesn't get any attention in western MSM, but one by an assistent prof of public policy somehow does. Almost as if it's good self marketting considering Martinez keeps updating study with same rudimentary methodology every few years to get clicks.
Looks nice but... Why dies it take up to two seconds to display author name on the explore page? :)

Edit: and all other pages.
Ministry of Truth. Orwell foresaw it.
I stopped watching and reading the news about 6 years ago. I’ve never felt better. It always put me in this negative feel bad headspace.

The content I consume now is HN, Reddit, and direct sources of things I find interesting or want to learn more about. I stopped Twitter within the last two years because it was too much, “let me tell you why X, click thread below for 5 reasons”.

I’ve been told I’m ignorant or that it’s embarrassing that I don’t know about current events but honestly I don’t really care and it feels great. I’m able to focus on what I really care about and be in a positive headspace.
the only way to get rid of corrupt leaders is to create a civilization where everyone is educated to be that better person.

what i am proposing targets the nature of every human being. including those that would otherwise rise to become dictators. at least they may become benevolent dictators. this is a long process that will take multiple generations. we won't be able to educate everyone today, but we can educate their children and their grandchildren so that in the future the potential for corruption and war is drastically reduced.
> Its a "big" for small docker containers

Aside size, last I looked it required a lot of hoop-jumping to get systemd to run inside docker at all.
Background removal is impressive. I uploaded and image with a complex one and the system removed completely.
> Research suggests less than 1% of "crypto" usage is for criminal activity.

I’m really curious to know where this statistic is coming from. Spend a day following other sources [0] and you’d be hard-pressed not to come to the same conclusion.

[0] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
Your understanding of political history is very limited and simply wrong. Look deeper at the history of 19th century campaigns. There was plenty of attacking and discrediting going on, often using language that would shock modern readers.
It depends on how you react to the news.

When the pandemic came around, as an avid reader of news my family managed to accumulate large amounts of N95 masks, toilet paper, bottled water, and ordered work from home equipment early. Beat the rush and many had to wait for those things.

News of the tech layoffs, well, I make sure to refresh my network periodically is what I will say.

News of the problems with air travel made me look more closely at various priority programs at airports so I would not be caught up in them.

All manner of little government programs have been useful to me at one point in my life or another and I have mostly learned about those through the news.

I will often donate to causes I learn about in the news.

I wish I had the time to consume more.

To me the idea of cutting out news for one's mental health would be like ignoring medical problems to avoid having to think about them. Refusing to know about something doesn't change the world.
A binary rate-monotonic scheduler. It was in the Ada realtime executive for an avionics box (there was no OS). It executed tasks at 5 rates, each half as fast as the previous one. It was dead simple, something like (pseudocode)

counter = 1

do highest priority stuff
case counter
when 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15
do high priority stuff
when 2, 6, 10, 14
do medium priority stuff
when 4, 12
do low priority stuff
when 8
do lowest priority stuff (1st half)
when 16
do lowest priority stuff (2nd half)
end

counter++
if counter > 16
counter = 1
end

This was called on a timer interrupt.

I was like "what the heck does this do?" followed by "that sure reminds me of binary trees" and finally "whoa! cool!"
That was an excellent read. Thanks for sharing.

Always love blog posts that cite Knuth.
Hi! I'm trying to follow your guide but when I try to install the amd64 packages, it gives a bunch of errors saying it can't locate any of the packages. I understand that the command you posted wasn't the original one that you used (and the original was lost) but any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
... Huh. Yeah, that's a really short list of distros, and omitting nix and guix seems like a weird thing in this space.
The 18 wpm referenced a 2021 paper using a different approach where the user imagined writing with a pen on paper.

No speed was stated by the article for the "imagine-speaking" technology that it's about, though presumably they have yet to match that 18 wpm record. But the author says:

We’d like to enable paralyzed people to communicate at a rate of 100 words per minute. We have a lot of work to do to reach that goal, but we think our approach makes it a feasible target.

100 wpm would be slower than an average speaker but a bit faster than a quick typist.
Again, this is all about what you interact with. I don’t see that.
One of the most fascinating short stories on the topic:

https://www.marketingfirst.co.nz/storage/2018/06/prelude-lif...

The whole book is great as well.
Yes, I've stopped consuming most daily/live news. Once a week (Sunday), I'll read current events articles or research a subject heard in passing.

Focused time is the key - I try not to idly scroll through news/information.

I don't think it's ill-uninformed to be choosy about your attention. Most "news" is written to move ad inventory, not inform you.

I think Gen Z is especially keen on "information diet" being as important as physical diet/health. Met a 22 year-old who was rocking a flip phone like the one I had as a teenager (20 years ago).
He's going significantly faster than the other cars, since he doesn't have to slow down to try and maintain traction on the turn
> In 2022, I would almost expect to see mobo designers and chip manufacturers start rolling out deca-socket designs for compute and automotive use

It's called the PCIe bus. And before you say "but it doesn't meet my needs / it's latency is too high / it's bandwidth is too low", come up with some ideas on how to do that better rather than just say "add sockets".
Even worse than Antarctica might be working in a US DoD "vault" or SCIF. Many of us encountered this problem in recent years as various DoD organizations bought into O365.

For a while, I had to enter a password and then get an SMS authentication code once every 24 hours to login to Teams. The problem is that cleared spaces don't allow any personal devices (there's no cellular service anyway with TEMPEST hardening) and the unclassified (NIPRNet) workstations are usually blocked from connecting to websites like Google Voice and some commercial webmail services. The authentication code would timeout after five minutes, and that didn't always leave enough time to exit building, get to my phone with cellular service somewhere, and then re-enter the building and return to my workstation with the authentication code. If you always worked at the same desk, you could set it up to make a voice call to that desk phone number for authentication, but I didn't always work at the same desk.

My own solution was to use my personal Google Voice number for the authentication code, have Google Voice forward those messages to my personal Gmail inbox, and then have Gmail forward those emails to my official DoD email inbox. (Our official email wasn't yet on O365 and only required our smart cards to login, which later became the method for O365 login, thankfully.)
I wish Windows ran systemd--seriously. Windows services and low level functionality is just a hot mess of cruft, decade plus old UI and configs, etc. Please jettison it all and give a consistent declarative way to manage it all like systemd does for Linux.