skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the HN guidelines say not to criticize a website's presentation, but Substack's new Medium-like subscription popup has me thinking something else.

With the resurgence of desire for decentralization, I wonder if publishing too could leap into a p2p or widely-federated model.

I assume authors are the ones opting into this behavior because they want either tracked followers or monetary subscriptions. (VC-fueled platforms probably urge the authors to consider it.)

A system not tied down to a particular platform could reduce the friction. Micropayments + p2p / federation seem like they could work hand in hand. You'd see interesting content from all over the Internet bubble up into your feed, and you could opt to follow or subscribe (similar to Patreon or Github sponsorship).

We'd finally be able to tweak the algorithm directly. Tune it to our interests, the discovery coefficients we want, and filter out known uninteresting content or bad actors. No more BlogThatIHate.com or InsufferableProductFan5.

Bookmarking could exceed what any existing product can do. You could combine your feed/interest graph and bookmarks with your own personal approach to note taking and knowledge management. Instantly access quotes, data, and relevant materials. Your database would be portable, too.

The cooking blogs you follow would be locally or cloud searchable with a nice gallery interface, and you could harness the semantic information within them to build shopping lists. (This, but for all applications. Photography, art, sports, gaming, code, debate, ...)

Medium, Substack, Instagram, TikTok, etc. can't build that. It's too many products. That's why turning this into a shared protocol / data model and reusing the common pieces would allow more innovation and reuse than ever before. It's one of the original ambitions of the semantic web, but finally looks like something we understand enough to be able to model.

Nevermind the politics. This would be amazing from an innovation, shared rails, reuse, and remix perspective.
Isn’t that period when Europe pulled ahead technologically in every way from antiquity? For example many civilizations pursued alchemy and why only in Europe did it turn into chemistry? Same with astrology into astronomy. Wind power, metallurgy, ship building, farming, stirrups (using the weight of the horse with the rider) with spears, cathedral building, the university system etc. The eastern empire thrived until the Ottomans overthrew in the 14th. It has to do with reason and progress and the systems that drove those. I think a larger part was the translation from Greek to latin between 1125-1200.
What if we extrapolate a little into the furure. Copilot-likes and SDs become useful tools for knowledge/mastery extraction and application, much better than today. Will people want to create new knowledge, or will they be satisfied with reshuffling existing one? Will opinions change if people realize that there is no point in creating something new (it will be generalized), and existing is easily reproduced without them (classic “took our jobs”). Can it all happen? How do you see it?
This is a cool idea! I would love to use this. I don't know how it works or if I'm using it right, but I tried this example: "swift ios upload picture multipart/form-data". Something I was just yesterday searching in Google.

The results are not great, first 2 are links for crystal lang, something about Salesforce, general REST PUT, and the rest are other things not related to Swift or iOS. I would have expected results specifically related to iOS or Swift since those were the technologies I specified.

How should I rephrase this query to end up landing at pages like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29623187/upload-image-wi...

Which is the page that Google took me to, and the one that solved my problem.
.. very Cuban. This kills foreign investment, and possibly results in retaliatory seizure of land overseas owned by US nationals.
it has already been a couple days, but here is my $0.02 (for context, i have played cs:go for 3k+ hours):

this game has much more going on than games like mario, and even dota 2. for one, audio matters! also, there are more inputs to train, such as walk, jump and crouch.

this is a great start, but a lot more needs to be done before it can be called a complete solution.
It’s a good point. But in an ideal world you should be able to work more and “exceed expectations” without raising the bar to “meet expectations” for coworkers.
Why would they never buy it? Art, crypto, NFTs, etc never pay dividends and have markets for them
When I deny offers of tea in Europe I feel the host is offended.

Is there any truth to this or am I stuck in my head?
Imagine you need to choose a server every time you wanted to surf the net and some server you may not see certain things
Interesting language support [1]. I might try it for some of my Python/Node projects (though it's hard to see a Python IDE that better than PyCharm).

[1] https://docs.helix-editor.com/lang-support.html
In 2020, CAP_BPF was added to allow the use of eBPF.

For most programs, you'll use a combination of CAP_BPF, CAP_PERFMON and/or CAP_NET_ADMIN. For some edge cases (such as hardware offload), you'll need the entire CAP_SYS_ADMIN (basically root).

I wrote more about this here: https://mdaverde.com/posts/cap-bpf/
The advantage of squirrels over ants is that the former are a lot better roasted than the latter, giving sustenance to both the listener as well as the narrator.
Here’s a hot take. China did it right by not selling land and only selling a 75 year land lease agreement.

US would be better off if land was owned by the people and reclaimed by the people after a generational time period.
Great idea, terrible execution. Seems they want to maybe bring a product or marketing person on board.
Twitter is a great place for creatives to pitch their shows and get scooped up into a studio if you can put out some high-quality work. Mastodon doesn't seem like it has any solid use case to that end.

Craig McCracken, the creator of PPG and Fosters Home has consistently used his Twitter following to boost other creatives by retweeting their work and LaikaStudios has been a great place to see BTS work on their stop-motion projects.

These sites all seem to have some grandiose plan but at the end of the day, the long-standing use case is just a place to build a community, collaborate with like-minded people, and ultimately just take a break from real life for a few moments by scrolling down your feed to consume some content.
As someone with mild social anxiety, doing this results in greater distraction thinking about it than any gain from the actual process.
You may want to read the FAQ:

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

Note that the most recent prior posting was several years ago so easily fits within the FAQ's description of what's ok.
As with email hosting, what stops you to choose instance served by a company? Let's imagine Google Fedi+, MS Fedilook or Proton Fedi hosted from some bunker in Switzerland.
Where I am, there are very often boxes with "to take", there's a city wide Facebook group for giving things away, and our German nextdoor clone also has many people give things away for free in the neighborhood. For books, there are also public bookshelves, and for clothes, there are charitable organizations.

I've used all of those multiple times (mainly to give things away, but also getting things for free), and it's not a hassle at all.
I said it before, I'm not paying so Mastodon gets popular.
It's either open source no strings attached I can change what I want or nothing.
The same sort of people who decided it'd be interesting and/or fun to snag an extra phone line and set up a BBS back in the day, I suspect.
I agree about talks and podcasts. I have found some useful material on YouTube, but I ignore the comments. I can also read books, magazine articles, book reviews, and web sites that don't have long comment threads that quickly spiral into meaningless arguments and toxic behavior.
Against Duolingo as a language learning platform
So, like H1B but worse; if you're an immigrant but not a permanent resident, if you get stopped at the border for a visa error your house gets seized?

(it's quite bizarre how this story seems to have brought out a desire on HN for Soviet levels of state controlled farming!)
Well, I mean there is always the good old: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”

But there definitely is something strange with Tesla valuation. It’s above their 5 biggest competitors combined. Plus their multiples are way off compared to the other players in their market. It doesn’t look particularly sustainable to me.
I gave this a couple of tries but my vim muscle memory is actively hurting me the longer I try... I would love if this had a - at least somewhat closer to - vim-mode, because all the rest, LSP, startup speed, etc, is excellent.
In the case of farms that rely on fossil aquifers, there is no way to address the problem other than shutting the farm down completely. If the farm relies on an unsustainable source of water, then it doesn't matter if the farm is owned by Americans or foreigners; it isn't sustainable no matter what.
No, it's "comprised of companies", or "companies comprise [the index]". But I promise you it was phone autocorrect that messed me up there.
The point of the person you are responding to wasn't to really defend whether the idea of unbanning Trump was good or not: it was to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to explicitly move to a decentralized solution like Mastadon if that's your concern.
Handling it less like email and more like a “well if it blows up ah well” is part of the featureset in my opinion.
I developed a fond appreciation for wine during the pandemic and am grateful for this discovery. The vast majority of people still drink alcohol responsibly. The anti-alcohol lobby has been especially active since COVID and it’s not clear how neo-prohibitionalism will move society forward.
Orangeburg Pipe
tweet it louder, bird!
Nobody is gonna go to a replacement without most of the people switching.
Repair services for consumer products were only ever economically viable in an era of cheap labor. Failure diagnosis and repair requires a higher degree of technical skill than assembly line production. The people capable of doing that work can now mostly find better jobs than doing retail repair work.

This is a positive change for society as a whole, but it does increase waste. Instead of repairing it would be better to use a system of refundable deposits to encourage consumers to return broken devices to manufacturers for recycling instead of throwing them into landfills.
Yeah, I too wish that CSPAN were as popular and subscribed to as CNN, but for some reason, people don't find uncommented live streams of House committee and city council meetings interesting.
What do people even know of Georgia? From where I stand it seems like most people are completely out of the loop of the whole Georgian-Ossetian conflict. I think most are even unaware that the EU had blamed Saakashvili[1] who allegedly triggered early legal response by Russia.

But then Russia supposedly took it too far and for some reason now everyone thinks it was Russia invading Georgia when it was actually Georgia invading Ossetian Tskhinval, which happened to have a defence pact with Russia, triggering the 5-day war.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-georgia-russia-report-idU...
I love helix. It’s my daily driver at work (python) with occasional hops over to VS Code for a graphical debugger. Would love if anyone has tips for getting the python DAP working in Helix, though.
Netflix Ad Tier Launches Today in Eight Countries
One thing I really liked about it was the UI experience where as soon as you typed the first character of some sequence it started showing you all the other option starting with the same character. (Try pressing space or Ctr-w in Normal mode)
It made the whole thing far more explorable and I really thought it was a good experience although clearly not yet on par with something as fully mature as vim (but also with far less technical baggage).

The first thing I did on my vim setup was installing an extension which gave me very similar command completions.
I wish they wouldn't call it that.
A 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle does not have precisely 5000 pieces :)
It's always worth remembering that Roman and Greek ideas (themselves partially built on Egyptian notions) in mathematics and science continued to be developed in North Africa, the Middle East and India during those 'thousand years of Darkness', and that store of knowledge was itself critical in turn to the following European explosion of knowledge beginning in the Renaissance. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Agricultural_Revolution#I...

> "A 13th century observer claimed there were "5000" waterwheels along the Guadalquivir in Islamic Spain; even allowing for medieval exaggeration, irrigation systems were certainly extensive in the region at that time. The supply of water was sufficient for cities as well as agriculture: the Roman aqueduct network into the city of Cordoba was repaired in the Umayyad period, and extended."
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I wonder if spiders index this page...
Actually I’ve been doing just this for just over a year. Took TSLA, FB/META and a few others over time out of the S&P 500.

https://pebble.finance/p/f7dc6d732363464487ca5a84a00ce24a

Note: I’m one of the founders in the above. Basically built Pebble to for passive index investors (like us!) who want to be safely/easily diversified but in a manner where we can still express individual ideas/needs. New launch coming soon :)

Outside of Pebble - Fidelity Managed FidFolios will get you close. Not the S&P 500 exactly but their own US Large Cap portfolio which you can customize.
> Drinking huge volumes of water on the order of a gallon per day is important for general health

I don't believe that is true, and excess water can be dangerous by causing hyponatremia.
Show HN: SimpleDraw – Draw with Simple Shapes
it's a simple tool I made for myself in a weekend. Sometimes I want to create images using just shapes like circle, rect and line, but doing it programmatically. p5.js seems too complicated, html5 canvas API seems not so friendly.

with this tool, you can create shapes the object way like ActionScript3, using unified API. some examples:

https://simpledraw.limboy.me/?snippet=WZ7XCoc_t11
https://simpledraw.limboy.me/?snippet=4HrI_AhNPsE
Because for capitalism everything must be profited of, everything is disposable, short term gain is better than long term planning, and the earth has infinite resources, there to make the usual 10 people even richer at your expense.
This reminds me of the super old joke "iPod, iPad, iPaid"
I forget who exactly said this, and apologies if I am butchering the proverb, but:

"If you're right but your timing is wrong. You might as well just be wrong."
So its the propaganda channel of the EU on activitypub?
Yeah, my point wasn't that weed was harmless. It was to show that alcohol is so bad that even replacing it with another vice was a massive improvement. Don't dispute that weed prevents me from being my physical or mental best.
Probably because Europe is facing toward the sun at that time. There’s always going to be part of the planet that can’t see it. This one covers much of the Americas and East Asia.
Dividends are sufficient, but not necessary!
To be fair it is far closer to a modern vim (modal and with a lot of similar mappings), which also gives it quite a bit of competition.
> As far as stability and safety is concerned, I personally consider macOS N-1 to have the best tradeoffs.

This is what I settled on years ago. The only exception was using Monterey on the new Apple Silicon macs. I upgraded to that earlier than normal.
This film is from 2019, and the tech has advanced substantially since then.

E.g. have you heard the voices from https://play.ht/ ?

Those capture inflection and tonality quite well, and are able to reproduce near-natural sounding laughter, pauses, and other human qualities. I wouldn't say it's perfect just yet, but give it another ~5 years and it will get there.
I'm not sure what your issue is. Mastodon is open source. You can download it right now and stand up a server without payment or permission.
What to blog about
Social accounts are monetizable & part of peoples brands now - “well if it blows up ah well” might be fine for you or for me, but might not be for others.
>Mastodon was created because its developers thought Twitter didn't have enough censorship

You got it backwards. Mastodon was created back in 2016 when Twitter censorship was starting to get way out of hand. Its description was "A decentralized solution to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication."
Oh you know. It always has to be some kind of a fundamentalist end-of-the-world vague exultant scenario, or it just wouldn't be stimulating enough.
Love to see Lotus out there and excited to see where this goes next!
Yeah I get your point. I tried for years to make social media into something useful for me, but the effort didn't pay off. I can't recall anything of significance ever coming across my Twitter or Facebook feeds, or on Instagram, or on LinkedIn. My wife uses social media to chat with her friends and share photos, but even that limited participation has led to arguments, and I don't get the value of seeing what someone had for dinner or learning that they got a new purse.

I freelance (programming and system admin) for a living. I had a customer earlier this year who wanted to screen me over a video call before committing to a project. He asked me for my LinkedIn and Facebook accounts so we could "connect." When I told him I don't use those platforms he expressed shock and asked how customers could find me if I don't use social media. I asked him "How did you find me?" Obviously not on LinkedIn or Facebook. In 15 years freelancing I never got a single professional lead through social media. I suppose some people find it suspicious when they run into someone who doesn't use social media -- what are we hiding? In any case I got the project and the customer communicated with me by email and phone.
NETINT (https://netint.com/) offers hardware video processing units that work with several codecs, including AV1.

There are also hardware encoders, in card or appliance form factors, from established broadcast suppliers, such as Ateme, Haivision, Harmonic, and VITEC.
You mean like how MS Windows ran on the DEC Alpha as well as X86? Or how Linux runs on X86 and ARM CPU's?

It’s not the same thing.

A macOS hard drive could boot either an Intel or PPC Mac and all of the apps ran on both types of machines.

Apps that were “fat binaries” ran natively on both processor architectures.

Same thing today with the apps and the operating system running natively on Intel and ARM machines.
I mean from the fundamental Burry warning makes sense. At its heart, a stock market is a way to exchange ownership in companies. The point is for people who want to be owner to buy from others.

If you are buying blindly, pricing doesn’t work anymore. Same with speculation which is tolerated because it brings liquidity and helps prices converge but is very much a by-product.
It's an interesting idea but the paper doesn't have any pictures of what I'm looking for - the locations of devices overlaid on a photo so I can see through walls.
And even the login problems aside, I'm even more galled by the fact that our system of bank checking accounts allows anyone to fat finger mistakenly debit (ACH) money from your account, and it's up to you to discover and get that reversed.

I know all the historical reasons, etc. but this is still ridiculous to me. All the security in the world, and I still have to worry whether my brokerage funds are missing some each month.
I hope you don't read any OpenBSD slides... ;)
In the semantic sense? No, or at least probably not if that's where you jump to. You're still thinking in terms of syntax.

Think in terms of business rules, not the code structure: What's one thing your API does?
My girlfriend has been drinking NOMO from crux fermentation project as a lower carb alternative.
My current architecture is built around batch ingestion[1], and doesn’t (yet) have a way to do incremental updates. This is great for getting coverage—there are a lot of long-tail results in my search engine but not in Google!—but it does mean there’s more lag and the results aren’t instantly up-to-date.

[1]: e.g. for StackOverflow, I download an XML dump of the entire site once a quarter: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2021-09-04-stackexchange
I think this is the reason why in-person work environments will be more productive over the longer term for any larger organization. Not saying I’m against remote work, as I actually prefer it myself.
I tried looking for people today and it was so slow, nothing worked. Can they really scale?
That’s about the only use case I use. Helpful for cooking, when working with kids and you want them to know you set the timer, or you’ve crawled into bed and are barely conscious enough to realize you didn’t set an alarm.
Uhm, I am not sure I get the relationship: if anyone can get verified, that's only a win.

By "verified", I assume Twitter has verified that their identity on Twitter matches their real life identity, and I don't see a problem with anyone having an ability to claim that. What's wrong with Jane Random being verified that she _is_ Jane Random?

If people are basing their trust not on someone's identity and history, but on their celebrity (blue mark so far), that's where the problem is.
I understand that people have different opinions about Tesla. That’s not only fine, that’s also important. I just find it really weird when people have been saying the same things since 2016 (frankly, for much longer), proven wrong time and time again, about demand, production and stock price, among other things, and still do not concede even the possibility that there just might be something that they have been overlooking.
> "if we do a majority vote, we'll all be 100% behind whatever the decision is because we trust our imperfect democracy to be good enough".

That's never how majoritarian democracy has worked even in theory, let alone practice. There have always been people resisting the majority decision, specifically because the majority is not always right.

And this presumes, of course, that any of the "democratic" societies of today's world are actually democracies rather than oligarchies.

> tantrum

That you'd write off recognition of an existential threat to humankind's existence as a "tantrum" is telling, and suggests that no, you have not been reviewing "all the evidence" with anywhere near enough depth; it's a bit rich to accuse climate activists of all people of "tantrums" in the context of rich people being prevented from enjoying a disproportionately wasteful and destructive luxury and calling in military police over it instead of, you know, taking a train or gasp flying with the poors in First Class.

Point being: if you're already willing to prioritize billionaire luxuries over the planet's ability to sustain life as we know it, then no amount of civility on the part of climate activists is going to change that; you'll just find some other excuse to dismiss them while we all continue to stare down the barrel of a self-induced extinction event.

> the rest of the people, those who you need to convince

The ones we need to convince are the ones with the actual power over the global socioeconomic system designed to prioritize profit over all else, Earth's biosphere included. Coddling those in charge hasn't worked; the rich and powerful should be entirely unsurprised that the responses to them largely ignoring the well-being of their subjects might escalate.