skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "linux is an alternative to windows", as much as some people wish it was, it's simply not.

But it is? Simply just saying something isn't, doesn't make it so.

If I along with millions of others in 2022, can use Linux for all my needs and not touch the spyware that is Windows, Linux is as much of an alternative as iOS is to Android.

I think what you'd want to say is, Linux doesn't have as big of a marketshare as Windows, which is true but how does it not make Linux an alternative?

If millions of people can use Linux based Chromebooks and not think about Windows or MacOS, it is already a viable alternative. Maybe not for you, maybe not for someone else, but it is a real alternative whether you like the fact or not.
> If you wrote a book by quoting choice paragraphs from other books, without crediting any of them, presenting the new book as simply your pile of deep insights

This is quite literally how most of the Old and New Testaments came into existence. The authors of Matthew and Luke certainly didn't bother mentioning that they copied a bunch of stuff from Mark and whatever the Q source is (my bet is on either the Gospel of Thomas or some source thereof). Nor did the authors of Leviticus and such mention how they ripped large swaths of what's now known as Mosaic Law straight from Hittite laws and the Code of Hammurabi. These works are nonetheless considered pretty transformative.
What people are looking for right now are echo chambers. They’ll get bored after a while and return to Twitter.

A more effective solution is to opt out.
Is this list complete? It seems to list only a single Friendica instance. Or I don't understand how this list works.
Hello and I hope you have a wonderful day as well!

These last few years have been such a strange time for me. I feel very passionate about learning and experiencing new things but at the same time I find myself feeling not too passionate about anything. I typically find something that grabs my interest, holds it for anywhere from a few days to a few months where it sucks me in and I learn everything about it. Then one day I no longer find myself interested in it and I’m on to the next thing. Most recently I’d say photogrammetry, and smoking meat have been the two things that have grabbed my attention though I’ve kind of moved on from the photogrammetry at this point.

I’m currently looking for work but I’ve been trying to force myself to find something I’m passionate about as I’ve jumped from job to job just taking what comes along until I found myself too unhappy to continue doing it. I took a lot of programming in high school before joining the military as a linguist as I never did well in school despite loving to learn. Eventually as time went on I found out I was bipolar and evidently you can’t be in the military if you’re bipolar. Since then I’ve been trying to get a grasp on the whole bipolar thing and just kind of floated along from job to job (mainly in sales as it’s something I’ve always had a background in) and have just kind of found myself existing as life passes me by. I figure that maybe something will stick one of these days and I’ll finally figure it all out. If not, I guess I’ll just keep finding new passions.

What are you passionate about OP?

Edit: I guess I probably should’ve added in gaming as something I’m passionate about as it’s not something I always do but it’s one of the few things (along with reading) that I’ve never lost interest for though I do occasionally wonder if I would’ve been better off had I never discovered it.
We could choose to not have Twitter.
> Twitter as a concept really only has a single novel idea: being able to (sometimes) directly speak to people that you would normally never have the status or prestige to contact

What? I've been on Twitter a long time and this is just nonsense. It's about being able to speak to people.

> customer support for a company that has terrible phone lines

How is this "never have the status or prestige"? It's "don't have the time or energy to sit on hold for hours" at best.
Care to share which pains Rust solves over Python?

This is a legitimate question, I’ve also been back in the Rust game recently, been using Python professionally for 10 years, but except for performance I don’t see the shortcomings (Python and its ecosystem is pretty packed already with everything you can think of as of 3.10).

For me Rust is a game changer compared to my dearest C++ friend…
I actually don't mind staying late because programming can be fun depending on what you are working on. Having to leave at 5 pm because "time is up" doesn't sound fun.
Even if you unfollow everyone who occasionally shares outrage posts, there are still a lot of interesting people to follow. That seems to work for me.
For your laptop, have you tried virtual desktops tied to keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-1, Alt-2, etc)?

Also a drop down quake style terminal with multiple tabs provides the same rapid access functionality for the command line.
That's a chicken-little argument of false equivocation. There is often to always a level of security sufficient to make forced entry too costly.
Twitter is not a global town square. You can’t scroll two screens without logging in. The town is not in charge. The town square is unique for each of its users.
This is the mistake media and politicians make: you can’t poll Twitter or read your timeline to know what people generally think unless you statistically represent a global audience.
Can you provide a concete example? If you do, I am sure Rust/C++/C/Java/C# programmers can show you how to implement in their language.
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Not sure why you would make a photo of a sleeping colleague but besides that if I understand it correctly the person sleeping had managing role? I always like it when manager stay and be accessible when they asked you to work late. Nothing worse when a manager ask you to do overtime and then themselves go home. Quickly stopped doing overtime when that happened.
If you want hardware live encoding in AV1 then the Intel Arc GPU does that pretty well:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-av1-encoder-domi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctbTTRoqZsM

https://www.pcworld.com/article/827992/tested-intel-arc-av1-...

The fastest software AV1 encoder at the moment is SVT-AV1:

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/
This doesn’t fit the definition of fair use, if that’s what you are implying. Fair use is a balance between four factors, transformative nature is just one factor.

To satisfy section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act, you need to look at four factors. The first consideration is the purpose and nature of the work, which is where a determination is made as to whether a work is sufficiently transformative to be considered fair use of copyrighted material. There are other factors at play on this test, however. A court would look at what sort of commercial interest and benefit is being made from the use of the material, and even then they may decide that a non-profit motive is not sufficient to satisfy this test.

The second factor a court will look at is the nature of the copyrighted work. In the case of open source material, it is already published but most licenses quite rightly ask for attribution. A court may decide that not satisfying the attribution of the work may cause it fail this criteria, and prevent it from being fairly used. However on this point, I feel CoPilot may be on more steady ground as the work is already published.

Fair Use doctrine also factors in the amount and substantiality of the work being reproduced. It is the substantiality issue that will likely trip up copilot, as the code snippets in use may be complex enough in nature that it is considered a substantial part of the code. A court may well consider an algorithm that took time to create and test, although only a small part of the codebase, is sufficiently complex in that it took substantial effort to create and thus look dimly on its use in a larger derived work.

The fourth factor in play here is the one being argued by the litigant, and I feel will be extremely hard for GitHub to justify; that factor is the effect use of the code has on the potential market or value of the code. Open Source projects rely on volunteers and contributions. Substantial effort is made to actively maintain projects. It is not within the spirit of most projects to have people use unattributed code snippets, because it reduces the value of contributions and improvements to the code project. Improvements and contributions are reduced, and it is also hard to distribute improvements and fixes to any project that uses the code. In this regard, CoPilot seems to be completely violating Fair Use doctrine.

So as you can see, Fair Use is way, way more complex than most people realise. Many people think that a sufficiently transformative use of copyrighted material is sufficiently for satisfying a Fair Use defence, but in reality it is not.
https://archive.ph/zLgN0
First thing is, as father, lose your pride, lose your ego, allow others in life to take the front of the stage. Mother and children can come first, you can have your needs take a step back for a while.

This won’t be relevant till later, but…. My policy is to never punish. Instead, when your kids “misbehave”, start by questioning yourself if they know the expected behavior. Explain what is expected.

Be kind. Play a role. Support your wife. Earn the bread.
Feature set? That's trivial. A high school student could write it in a weekend. A text area where you can enter a very limited soundbite-sized snippet of text, and a page where you can see what snippets of text other twits have entered. Then add in follow, @-replies, hashtags, and image/video embedding. All of those features are trivial. They're mostly just references and basic HTML.

What's not trivial are the scaling and moderation and support personnel to handle millions of users. And of course, building the user-base itself for those network effects. And those are the things that are currently being lost.

But the whole thing was never good. It was just what was there. So yes, there could certainly be a (much better) alternative, a blog network for instance, or just about any other social media site.

And the idea of it as "the world's town square" is just laughable to anyone that isn't a long-term twit addict. It's never been that, and never would be.
I didn't say I quit because I found it hard to follow or read. I just never came across anything of interest on social media that I didn't hear about some other way. I don't have any interest in following celebrities or "experts." Anyone I care to have a conversation with I can reach by phone or email.

I was on Twitter for five years, LinkedIn since it started (quit two years ago), Facebook on and off for several years, Instagram for a while. I thought I would get useful information, job leads, and stay connected to my family and friends. Instead I got a lot of useless but seemingly urgent "news," endless spam and friend requests from people I don't know, and had to witness multiple fights about politics and religion and social issues that wouldn't have even started in person. I learned about bizarre conspiracy theories I wouldn't have known about, and got some strong opinions about things like gun ownership, gay and trans rights, and immigrants, but I can't say that any of that added to my life.

I have a friend who follows people like Sam Harris and tells me all the time what so-and-so expert had to say about some social or political issue. So what? How does what Sam Harris (or any "public intellectual" or "expert") thinks or says affect me, really? If I valued repeating what I read on Twitter to other people to make myself feel smarter or better-informed, or if I cared what Elon Musk had to say from his bathroom this morning, I would spend my time on social media I suppose.
I find even Nextdoor is more valuable to me than Twitter.
You can Google and find GPL'ed code.

Emphasis mine.

This is different from asking Google and getting code directly from Google without the license - that is, without any indication that this code was taken from somewhere that has a license on all parts of it, not just the parts that Google didn't bother to show you.
The idea of Twitter as the world's town square always seems odd to me because the level of discourse there is consistently horrible. Twitter is a digital theatre, not a town square.

The alternatives would depend upon what you’re trying to get from the platform, but they would include anything from other social media (for the more fun use cases) to traditional news websites (following political events) to HN/newsletters (tech news) to whatever else. Or just keep using it since the product matters more than the owner.
I moved off Twitter 2+years ago and deleted my account.

I moved off Facebook (many years ago) and deleted my account.

I moved off WhatsApp and deleted my account.

I moved off Instagram and deleted my account.

Life is better out here. Less rage, less FOMO, more reality.
crazy activists like Elon are persuading advertisers to not advertise on twitter.

their ads are just being shown to bots right elon?
> most new iPhones and Android phones by default will display the actual contents of your messages on the lock screen

On iPhones by default the contents are only shown after your face is recognized by FaceID.

That being said, I don’t like to have one factor authentication tied to my phone number, especially not when I’ve enabled two factor authentication in the settings. I guess the logic behind this decision is that they see your password as the weakest link, so for them 2FA is not so much about having a second factor, but about not being able to use the password as the only factor.
It's not magic. Most reputable locksmiths possess roughly these skills to nondestructively open locks for customers. Heck, with the $15k programmer setup, I can make you an infinite number of Mercedes key fob copies too.
The only real alternative would be an open protocol that allows free message broadcasting and redistribution, such that the server becomes a dumb relay, not the arbiter of truth. Kind of like email, but everybody can look at your mailbox. Some form of cryptographic identities would be required, so that multiple servers can host and distribute messages and it's the user that controls the keys.

Mastodon to me goes in the completely wrong direction, as it still keeps user identities locked to a server and gives the server admins way too much control. It's a bad copy of Twitter with even more censorship.

That said, I have little hope in this ever happening. All the money is made in controlling the user, so any protocol that actively works against that is pretty much doomed to fail.
I've read it and really loved it. Was thinking about that book just yesterday and mixing up some of the themes with The Aviator (related to time). With Laurus the main thing to me was the sense of a living in a world where people thought and valued differently, and not a kind of made for TV Game of Thrones modern-people-living-in-a-medieval world thing.

Have you read others of the author's work?
My eyes aren't quite as sharp as they used to be, but there is still a substantial difference between a 1080p monitor and a 4k monitor, even at those sizes. Can't use it to display that much more, but text is smoother.(A retina ipad has higher dpi than a 4k 17", the dpi on a 4k 17 is identical to my old 13.5" surface book.) I do wish windows would let you scale different monitors to different custom dpis though. You can do it if you stick to the 100%, 125%, 150% etc levels, but not if you want to do something like 114%
I'm 30. I realised this as soon as I entered the workforce. I can count on one hand the number of times I've work passed 5pm and I've never stayed after 7pm.
> Those formatting characters are always visible

My solution, when I coded my own word processor, was to use a single, invisible control character, '¶' ¹.

So, for example, bold would be enclosed by '¶b' and '¶B', and a first-level heading would be a line starting with '¶1'.

So, there exist characters in the text that are invisible but you know are there: you can insert the couple and delete it just like any other character.

¹(part of the extended character set - '¶' is easily accessible on some systems as [AltGr]+[R])
You say I'm completely wrong but then go on to make exactly my same point. Sure theft is possible and yes, a lot of the time the lock is merely a signifier that "taking this breaks the rules" rather than a substantial physical obstacle to breaking the rules. Most of the time people do follow the rules.

But, if the value is simply as a signifier and the rules of society are just agreement, can I replace all the locks with signs that say "please don't take this" and replace the police with just expecting people to be kind all the time? Of course not. The agreement of society is meaningless if nothing actually enforces any of rules. Enforcement may not be perfect, you indeed often can get away with crime, but for most people the expected payoff from stealing their neighbors keyboard is worse than the expected payoff of just getting a keyboard the "right" way from the store.

The cost to stealing the keyboard depends on the time spent in jail if caught, times the probability of being caught. The probability of being caught goes up the longer I have to fiddle with a lock. The lock doesn't protect the keyboard per se, it merely makes the expected payoff of stealing not worth it to most people.

Even if the door is left open, most people aren't entering your house for the same reason. If you're gainfully employed, the price of going to jail is high enough that you aren't going to start breaking into places even if you know for a fact the door is left open 90% or more of the time. The expected payoff of stealing from your neighbors isn't worth it.
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A few weeks ago I helped my colleague in India buy the Raspberry Pi and sent it to him via DHL. He told me that he spent a lot of time unable to get the right model of Raspberry Pi, so I wanted to ask in the HN: Does anyone need a Raspberry Pi? I can buy (various models) in China and send to you via DHL.

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$10 for 1 L of Smart Water. Is it wise?
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It's not a cultists devotion. It's business. Your competitor can exceed you if you aren't willing to pull all nighters.

Well run companies do all nighters, and aren't so cultishly devoted to a "work life balance" that implies 4 hour workdays on slack.

Well run companies also understand sustainability. Max effort will need to be demanded to exceed current capacity, but it is important not to rely on it as a crutch to get past poor design, poor process, or other management misfires.

This is something games are seeing now, most of the industry luminaries cut their teeth in an era where the whole game fit on one disk. They assume that the weekend long anger coding to bash that one bug is the same as what they're asking their company to do.
Hi, your comment really resonates with me. I pursued playing beach volleyball in the US at a professional level for several years, and though I was never a top-10 US player, I could hang/train with them and had a few good pro tournament results. During this time, I was a software engineer at Google and then a research engineer at DeepMind.

I get excited when I hear about people that go _deep_ into a hobby while doing their careers; it is hard, but absolutely worth it. Would love to chat more if you're interested!
It's down now and I didn't take photos. It's an end-fed (64:1 transformer) sloped 20 meter dipole at 65' (19.8 meters.) I built a pair of very good chokes to stop the common mode inherent in these antennas. Had it tuned perfectly using an analyzer and about 10 iterations of trimming.

I have large trees on a good bit of land in the middle of nowhere and I can do as I please. I just can't spend what I please. :) Unfortunately the tops of such trees -- the part I'm trying to hang stuff on -- move a lot in the wind. They are a poor foundation for a permanent antenna.

My plan is a horizontal multiband doublet at 70'+ fed with 600 ohm ladder line and an automatic remote tuner. That will deliver 5 or more bands with decent radiation lobes. About 50' of marine grade bungee will support it. The main thing I learned is that if you're hanging something from the twiggy, weak branches on the tops of trees it must be light. Just small gauge wire and support rope. No ferrites or coax or anything like that.
Haha. That's a low bar. I want "frustrating and tormenting crooks to no end."
On the slight risk of provoking a flamewar, gonna chip in with a warm take:

To me, Mac is like Linux - tons of options, more features, but it’s a bit trickier to set up just right and things seem to not stay right, it takes constant adjustment.

Linux was like using a Mac - it “just works” when I onboarded, less features but way less hassle. I much prefer it personally.
You use code search. For chromium it's hosted at https://source.chromium.org/chromium.

You can use filters to narrow down the results to the right languages and paths.
> Email re-skinned as a social network

Am I right in thinking that only allows communication between bi-directionally connected people (because you need someone's public key to send to them)? Because how would that work for, e.g., people with huge followings? Are they supposed to 'friend' everyone that wants to consume their output? (Which is one of the good things about Twitter - it allows uni-directional 'friend's.)
As someone that as never has a facebook or twitter, this is funny.
This is what I was looking for half a day yesterday! Will check it out. Sport is way nicer when social.
I was also curious what sports can help to replace specific gym exercises like dead lifting, only thought of cycling
> like a senator actually reading letters from his/her constituents

In the US, at least, I think it’s fairly well-known that politicians or their staff will often read (and handle relevant actionable items) in letters from their constituents. Things like expressing opposition to some legislation or requesting their soft power for some bureaucratic situation (e.g. expediting a passport application) are quite standard. Especially if your constituency isn’t too large *, there’s often an individual response when necessary even if it’s through a staffer.

* Smaller than a million people or so? US Representatives and state/local legislators are a better choice in many cases.
Tricking developers into writing useful code is 80% of the purpose of the modern engineering organization.
I guess real time doesn’t really matter to me in a roguelite. The idea remains the same: start, die, repeat until you get good enough to win. Hades just takes that to the extreme - the player gets permanent bonuses for playing and the story requires multiple deaths to advance.
> But what do you think? Do you think there's any realistic alternative to Twitter as the world's "town square"?

Nope.

So long as celebrities and politicians are on it the journalists will keep mining it for cheap clicks - it has replaced 'man on the street says' type of low quality reporting.

Whether at the BBC, Fox or CNN people sitting around doom scrolling in those offices are ordinary neophytes for whom FB/Twitter/Reddit essentially are the entire internet - regardless of political leanings every single news outlet weaves whatever narrative they want from it as there's always a Joe Schmoe (real or bot) with 4 followers to quote into 'people on twitter are saying X'.

It really doesn't matter if somebody builds a better twitter with more intelligent and useful discussions as that won't be useful fodder for media.
I find it funny you chose 'pipes or cigars'.

Not sure what country you're from, but now they've been banned from public places in the UK, you'd be considered a weirdo for suggesting that.

Pipes and cigars are loathed. People hate smokers now, they're considered pariahs now.