skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Thank you for giving Nicheless a try. I read your post a little while ago :)

Regarding your questions:

1. The URL will auto generate and append a digit to the end in case the title of the post has already been taken before.

2. I don't think of Nicheless as a replacement for a personal website or blog (I have both, maintained separately). I want Nicheless to be a place for more experimental thoughts. A space for ideas, a minority of which graduate into more polished articles on your personal blog. Also, I want Nicheless to be a place that facilitates exchange of thoughts and ideas between existing social connections, both IRL and online, and not with the primary focus being the open network on the internet (like Twitter). I've written a bit about it here:https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

I'm aware that the positioning of the platform is still a bit fuzzy, and a lot of my goals aren't exactly obvious to users, but I'm going to work to improve on that.

Thank you for giving it a try, and for taking the time to leave your feedback here
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I’ve been living in Tokyo and Yokohama since 1983 and am as much of a Tokyo fan as they get, and I readily acknowledge how ugly Japanese cities are in general. But after buying a house here twenty-three years ago, and comparing my experience with those of houseowners I know in the U.S., I have started to see some beauty in that ugliness.

Many of the people I know in the U.S. live in attractive neighborhoods full of nice-looking houses and well-kept front yards. While some of that niceness is due to the owners’ own initiative, much is the result of zoning restrictions, homeowner association rules, and the like.

The only zoning restrictions on my house in Yokohama are limits on total floorspace and land coverage and fire and earthquake rules covering building design and materials. I can paint my house any color I want, pile whatever junk I want in my (tiny) yard, and hang whatever laundry I want from the balconies, and no one can or will say anything about it.

As a result of this tolerant, low-regulation regime, the neighborhood I live in is, like most neighborhoods here, an unattractive mish-mash of mismatched houses and apartments in many styles and states of upkeep. If that’s the price of (relative) freedom, I’m happy to pay it.
We have multiple iOS devices in our family plan, including multiple iPads.

This works for now, with our current array of tech. My company offers a free sponsored account with one of those companies that offers after-death account and paperwork services. I intend to look into it, but don’t want anything tied to employment or to a company that’s not as likely to survive as it is for 20 years.

Also, I should mention, all my passwords are in 1Password. That’s a known password too.
The first televised World Series spurred America's television boom, 75 years ago
I've been on a team that ported a production system from MySQL to PostgreSQL, because we wanted the ability to add columns without downtime (this was a few years ago before MySQL gained the ability) and we wanted to build features using trigram indexes.
What is the alternative hosting yourself now?
German cops arrest student suspected of running infamous dark-web souk
Also, I forgot to mention. I don't have any plans of getting $$ from VCs as of now. Nicheless is a side project that I run because I believe it should exist. I hope that doesn't change in the future, unless I have no other option.
> It feels like the time is ripe for something simpler and more modern to replace* systemd.

Well then do what Poettering did and write it.

It's threads like this why I am eternally grateful that Linux kernel uses a merit driven approach and not concessus driven one.
Surely the answer here is to add tools to the rescue system. You could make the same complaint with systems that use file systems not yet supported in rescue systems, such as zfs, btrfs, etc.

Why would you limit what can be done based on the current abilities of a rescue system?
Try foreign news outlets.

Most big newspapers have English language versions of their websites [0]. Sure, yeah, they are biased too. But their biases are somehow easier to spot to me. And they tend to have biases that I don't really care about. Like, AUS newspapers are really biased towards AFL or NRL coverage, but I don't really care about either.

Also, newspapers that are pure propaganda are good to read too. Like ones out of China or Iran. They are very clearly designed to try to steer you in a direction. So, it's kinda fun to read them and see what they are fearing this week or whatever. It's like a inoculation, I think.

Then you go back and read you own country's news and can somehow see the biases better, or at least tell yourself that you can.

If you can read another language, it's also a great way to keep up with that language. I can read Spanish, so also choosing to read the news in Spanish is a great tactic too. Seeing the difference in coverage and especially in advertisements is eye opening.

Like, watch Telemundo, they really think something different between the Anglo demos and the Spanish demos, the ads are really something.

[0] Except for the French ones, for some reason. Their English language sites tend to be pretty terrible.
I'm guessing you're referring to the stiffener that helps the second stage engine's nozzle hold its shape?
Unofficial fix emerges for Windows bug abused to infect home PCs with ransomware
Musl is mostly a good libc.

There are some very unfortunate ideological choice made by its author but they are not the one you quote. The reluctance to give developers a way to detect Musl from C code would be a better exemple. It’s both annoying and counterproductive.
> I have not reached the point of why aria label is code smell before giving up

The main point was that they often see it used to label non-interactive elements, when it should only be used for interactive elements. It's a useful point to make, but that's not a code smell, that's faulty code.

The author should have chosen a better title, e.g. "Think twice before using aria-label".
I don't know if it was intended, but "système D" in French means hacking together something with whatever you have available. D meaning "démerde" (literally getting out of shit or a shitty situation) or "débrouille" depending on the language registry you want.

It's a rather common expression.
I got a Garmin watch and it has a feature called “body battery”. I noticed this doesn’t recharge at all after drinking, even if I felt I slept okay. I always suspected pot affected my sleep quality too. If something isn’t working out in your life, sleep is one of the best things to work on to try to fix it.
that's the thing about remote work - all jobs are near you now.
Fluidic Analytics Helped Researchers Elucidate the Mechanism of Aducanumab
> Those OSS RISCV designs are academic largely.

Someone probably said the same thing about the STM32, now we're here.
Linux world gains ability to repair exFAT drives
Storing API keys in Git, nice.
I use Twitter more than I should - though in a read-only context - and I don't understand what "diversity of thought" is missing at the moment. You can go on any leftist's Twitter and see replies calling them communist, calling trans people mentally ill, etc. The only stuff getting banned consistently is either incitement, like calling for "death con 3" on a group of people or outright racial/gendered slurs. There are mass-reporting campaigns (targeting individuals from both "sides"), but these are usually overturned and are not entirely Twitter's fault. Sure, better moderation would improve the outcome in mass-reporting cases, but it's less a case of bad policy and more a case of Twitter needing to invest more in moderation. Something I think is less likely now that Twitter is loaded up with debt.
no, the backend has no reason to see `foo%20bar` - you escape when you're combining that string with other strings (ie into HTML, into a SQL query, etc.)
https://archive.ph/HAiSP

"Jack Dorsey has rolled his entire stake of Twitter shares, worth nearly $1bn at the buyout price of $54.20, into the privately held company he founded, which is now controlled by Elon Musk."
> This is absolutely, scientifically, false.

You are overly confident in an unhelpful way here.
China promises its digital currency will offer 'controllable anonymity'
"I wouldn’t be surprised if vercel tries to buy react and its team."

Meta would have nothing to gain and everything to lose from that, highly unlikely they would be interested.
A million terabytes is an exabyte, not a yottabyte.
SmarterEveryDay has a great video explaining this audio phenomenon from a previous Falcon Heavy launch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ImoQqNyRL8Y
Trivial except for the remotely sysadmining an Android phone part. That's doable, but requires some work.
Some humans, maybe.
Starting your own company can be pretty much this, but you'll have to build something other people want.
Ask a lot of questions, try to discover what the other person is interested in, and imagine if there's anything about that thing/activity/place/person/whatever that you might also find interesting. You don't have to fall magically in love with it, just try to find something -- anything at all -- to like. It helps create a genuine emotional connection.

Even if it's just the weather. Some people love snow because of the adventures it represents. Others hate shoveling. Some love rafting in the summer. Others hate having to come into work sweaty. Whatever, point is that gives you a different dialogue paths to go down, almost like an RPG, as opposed to "Yeah it's fine, thanks".

People don't really connect until they find mutual likes or dislikes. The conversation up till then is mostly just a warmup, a silly song and dance that nobody particularly likes... but it helps you discover if you might have things in common.

It's nice that, online, in a forum or similar, you can skip right to the topic at hand. It's a safe space for the purity of intellectual discourse, where minds can operate and interact without the constraints of physical reality -- the body language, the facial expressions, the anxious biological impulse to evaluate strangers before trusting them. But in the real world, a million years of evolution forces us to interact differently, to build rapport only slowly, until both sides are comfortable enough to become a part of each other's inner circles. Sometimes that happens within minutes, other times it takes longer. And conversation is just one way to make that happen... not necessarily the best way, just the one that's often the most readily available. If you can supplement conversation with other low-stakes activity (beer, games, bike ride, whatever) even better!
A community for Black software developers
Interestingly, this weekend's wall ride had a similar result - a car ahead stayed high, forcing him to slow down and preventing the pass. The difference is that in this case, he had already passed five cars, and passing the sixth was irrelevant in the standings result.
True if you know what you're looking for. But apparently discovery is highly underrated by many.
Seeing those boosters land will never get old. I drive by one on my way to work every day and it's just amazing how large they are.
For one, a real public square isn't anonymous. To add to your example, get thrown out the tavern too many times and they will eventually not let the person come back. This person can't simply create a new account and sneak back in.
Indeed :) I have seen them all (answers).
Now that Falcon 9 landings have become so routine, it feels surprisingly wasteful to see that mission profile with the center booster burning up without even trying.

I wanted to write something about that lack of center booster reuse on falcon heavy feeling irrationally worse than a single F9 launch in the non-reusable profile (for a slightly higher payload iirc), but then I discovered that the non-reusable F9 profile hasn't happened in quite a while. Nice! When they started with the reuse, I was expecting the full payload profile to be a far more regular occurrence. (even if in hindsight I see that none of my reasons for that expectation make any sense)
An alternative to this is to expose this to your local network and use tailscale to connect to it so you do not have to carry it around while being secure.
Well, it depends on your needs. Do you have any requirements for performance, latency, etc? You should check https://qdrant.tech/benchmarks/
The feature set is also pretty different. You should choose the one fitting better to your needs and is simple to set up, use, and also deploy and maintain.
Disclaimer: I'm from the Qdrant team. Feel free to reach out or join on Discord https://qdrant.to/discord We are glad to answer any questions.
Computer Security Technology Planning Study (1972) [pdf]
I would love to hear what you think fire codes and occupancy limits have to do with Twitter and social media.
Breach used in this case is really spin. Calling it what it is, a "inadvertent disclosure" puts the blame where it belongs.
> There are many reasons to not like systemd and the creator, who incidently after leaving the GNU/Linux is now working for the same company that sought to destroy it, Microsoft.

Yeah, well... Microsoft is probably soon to be one of the bigger Linux developers out there. As the profit slowly drains out of the desktop their core business model is going to be increasingly dependent on open source and Linux.

Just in case anybody reading this is a big fanboy of Linux... This is what winning feels like.
> Ever seen Mad Men? There was literally a full floor full of human beings typing out bullshit letters on typewriters because computers didn't exist in the era.

That's my point: those people received salaries for typing out those letters, making the cost of it clearly visible to the business.
I like the landing page and the example posts. 300 words is a good middle ground between the twitter firehose and SEO-baiting thoughtfluencer essays on Medium.com.

But, Twitter too was once simple and hassle-free.

What happens if this takes off and some crypto-chastened VC starts sniffing around?
You're thinking of Smokey Yunick, and that's just a taste of his antics

Check out the "reverse torque special" where he reversed the direction of his engine, so the tq pull would naturally turn him in the correct direction for nascar

Or when he modified the roof and raised the floor to get a more aerodynamic car

Or when he qualified with wheel covers, and cut them out before the race ( rules didn't stipulate you had to cut them before qualifying )

The guy was a legend, and I think racing would be much more interesting if we had more of him
This is fantastic. I currently live in Rocky Mountain National Park where I climb, hike, and ski nearly every day - my partner also works for the Park Service. We have been using Gaia and love it but your UI looks fantastic and I'll get it installed.

It reminds me of a very simplified interface of CalTopo.

One question, are you open to PR's? If so, I'd love to see slope angle added into this in the same format for avalanche awareness along a trial.

Great work!
Wire wrap is the most reliable form of construction, used by NASA for many years for this reason - the wrapping of the wire around the square pegs creates a small cold weld at every corner.

Plus when mulitlayer boards were not really a thing, wirewrap gives you all the layers you want, more or less.
Both capitalism and communism do lead to murder, this has been empirically shown.

Both white supremacism and communism can lead to harassment and murder, but they won't necessarily do so.

Homophobia, for example, is not always explicitly violent (e.g. saying that children should not be raised by gay guys is not an explicit call for violence).

Btw: Could you be more precise in your meanings and terminology? "Hate" for example is understood in a few different ways by different people.
One issue I have with nushell is that on macOS they use the `Library/Application Support` path for the config instead of the `.config` making it awkward, their reason is that the former is the correct path of application data, while none of the other CLI apps I use do this, every other app just points to the `$HOME` dir or `.config` dir.

I used it for a while but I switched back to zsh, maybe in the future when it has a stable release I try it again, was too much hassle to update the config on almost each release. Also didn't worked well with some utils I use that has specific initialisation for each shell (i.e. rbenv).

Otherwise nushell seems to be a good contender for an alternative shell.
Sales and marketing people aren't the face of the ad though.

I'm more comfortable with "Coca-cola pays me money to make ads on behalf of Coca-cola" compared to "literally any company pays me to pretend I'm just a regular person who discovered this cool new product and it's so life-changing that I have to tell my loyal followers"
Thanks, Chris! I didn't launch here though, I was just pleasantly surprised because a kind soul decided to share it :)
Major South African retailer accepts Bitcoin payments
If the project site is better written and has the same content, yeah, I would prefer to see it.

But this is not the case here.
Windows 8 sucked
NEON isn’t a great SIMD design and is rather old. Everyone’s already needing to start porting to SVE for ARMv9 anyway. At that point, porting to another ISA at the same time isn’t a huge deal as you’ you’re already in the code.

If you put RISCV and ARM assembly next to each other, you’ll see that RISCV is much easier for humans. The vector extension is also much easier to understand than SVE.

I believe porting old NEON too RISCV vectors will be easier than porting to SVE.
I would say it’s also a mix of nextdoor - both of which are still just as toxic.

Tempted to say the problem is just the internet breeding toxicity in general. Maybe we could all do better with less internet and more nature time
What you're doing is kind of like claiming society values Powerball winners over engineers because Powerball winners make more money.

> When someone posting videos of themselves testing lipstick or 10 dollar dresses makes more money than dozens highly trained real engineers that build physical goods necessary for the betterment of society and the world as a whole

Some people who do that almost every single day for years eventually work up to that. For every one person who reaches that mark as an influencer there are 1000 more who do that work and make... zilch. It's like winning the lottery with a little bit of agency sprinkled in.

Equity is a thing, but I don't know many engineers working for zero dollars on the hope that one day maybe they'll get lucky and become one of the minority of engineers who make any money...

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Also:

> why we have a child book author running the entirety of hard work of generations of people that built the German industry into the ground.

huh?
Zuckerberg hit the lottery with Facebook. It was a success despite of him. Right place at the right time and all. It wasn't a formula that could be repeated, so Zuckerberg is SOL. The key to playing poker is knowing when to fold. Zuckerberg's vanity won't allow him to do so and ironically enough it's the main reason why he won't succeed again.
Yes, and I've held that opinion for a long time, and expressed it wrt. marketing in general here many times. But there are degrees to how blatantly one gets paid for defrauding your fellow people, and influencers are near the top of it.
Yeah, you would have to raise the one-time payment constantly in order to keep up with your own recurring costs, the more users you have the greater your costs will be.
I'm really sympathetic with this. I don't think another "improved" social media or blogging platform is the answer.

Even if you have a perfect way to fix the social problems with social media, it's still a massive time and productivity sink.

I don't have enough time in the day to read every interesting article and blog post, let along engage in debate or add a meaningful comment.

Nor to I have enough time top write thoughtful articles about things that I am thinking about, let along ready any comments people might have.

This reminds me that I should be disengaging from even more websites (this one included).
ASK HN: Managing Kubernetes TLS Using Vault
Hi guys, I've been doing Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes The Hard Way (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way), but I've decided to go even a harder way.

So, I've decided to manage the infra in terraform & build full CI/CD pipelines, and I'm stuck at generating and distributing TLS certificates. (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/blob/master/docs/04-certificate-authority.md)

Doing it with bash script's & cfssl would require me to do some hacky stuff inside my pipelines, and I'd rather solve that too with terraform.

I've been thinking about provisioning an off-k8s HA Hashicorp Vault cluster of VMs built with packer and use vault terraform provider to generate all the needed certs.

But I in general kinda suck at understanding TLS, or more – the related PKI infrastructure, chain of trust and how it works, my brain seems kinda resilient to it.

So, looking for an advice on how to approach it.
Working at Google Sucks
They wouldn't have given a hoot if a herding dog dies? Or if they're not companion animals or working, why are they there?
> Your argument

My argument is having an additional layer of protection just in case. Do you wear a helmet only on the days you fall off from your bicycle?

> you should rely on a piece of software that might have unsafe defaults

Well, if you just took the helmet with you but never bothered to wear it...
Right. Evolution is still cool.

Expanding beyond CPU sockets sounds like a reasonable expectation, instead of cramming everything on one die.
I'm going to screenshot this thread so I can look at it repeatedly. Thank you for this.
It's advice they give to working musicians. You need to be good at music, but you need to be fun more than you need to be good at music. You can be the best guitar player in your area, but if you're a drag then they'll just hire the second best guitar player, since most working musicians don't need to be the best.

This is unfortunately advice along the same lines as "be attractive". It's not something that's fair, and it's not something that's universal, but generally speaking if you're fun and attractive, you'll have an easier time achieving success. That's perhaps a bummer to realise, and again not a universal truth, but for most people it's actionable advice.
This is cool. My single favorite app I. This category is MapOut. Seems to be pretty similar, 100% offline topo maps with additional things like route planning, detailed trails, GPS, etc. The killer features for me are the detailed offline mode so it works great no matter my reception, and that I can email GPX or any other export format and within 30 secs the route I emailed is showing up on my app. Really makes it easy to route create on a computer and send to MapOut with no fuss.

I have no affiliation, but it’s the only paid app I appreciate as much as I do.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mapout/id477094081
Yeah, it did O.o

2249 public boolean isUserAGoat() {
2250 if (mContext.getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion >= Build.VERSION_CODES.R) {
2251 return false;
2252 }
2253 // Caution: This is NOT @UserHandleAware (because mContext is getApplicationContext and
2254 // can hold a different userId), but for R+ it returns false, so it doesn't matter anyway.
2255 return mContext.getPackageManager()
2256 .isPackageAvailable("com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator");
2257 }

https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/maste...
It's a reference to a very old (and since removed, at least in my version) Chrome Easter egg where Chrome Task Manager had a hidden column called "Goats Teleported".

See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31482