skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Markdown have a bit of fragmentation problem. CommonMark and Github variant have been nice steps forward, but for code I'd like to have some more extensions rolled in as another standard. For code docs in particular ability to just embed text diagrams would be great, you can hack around that with PlantUML but then you need to have stuff that supports it...
Yeah, fair enough, there's a tiny, tiny sliver of humanity that has no interest in fun

You should quit repeating "3 inches from face" though since it's misleading and pointless. There's this thing called a "lens" which can make something appear farther away than it really is, and they use this bold technology to make stuff in VR appear far enough away that it actually tricks your brain into thinking it's really there in 3D space
twitter is pretty great if you use it right. Calling it a toxic cesspool is overly dismissive of its value
Public school teacher pay is based on education level and years of service. Nothing else. Public school results are significantly worse than private schools.
This is a great resource. One thing to watch out for if you're using this to practice listening skills in a foreign language, is that not all regions seem to be tagged correctly. I clicked on Spanish, then the Mexico tag, and the top video was of someone with a Spanish accent rather than a Mexican or Latin American one.
I think it's illegal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse act. Also, what should the government do when it finds something? What if the site operators are unresponsive or cannot be contacted? There are a lot of practical problems.
Thanks for the reference. I've heard numbers thrown out but never anything asserted as an actual researched number.
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They missed it
What happened to me? All the big social media sites send me to an information prison. It makes using the internet not fun anymore if you can't break out of your information bubble to get a different perspective! There's no "common knowledge" anymore and that development is fueled by people giving away their valuable data willy nilly. I just don't want that, I hate it actually and I think it's very dangerous tribalism and it's not has reached its peak yet, though more and more people get annoyed after noticing all these information prisons.
Are those employees able to speak all the world's languages?
I'm astonished at how aggressive the schedule is. Artemis 1 still hasn't launched, and they're planning to put people on Artemis 2. I'm surprised they're willing to risk human lives on a rocket that flew exactly once before.

Then they plan to go to the moon on Artemis 3, in a Starship which has also never never flown. As far as I can tell, they will have never mounted a Starship on an SLS before flying one all the way to the moon.

I would have expected a lot more unmanned flights. It seems to me that technology has reached the point where they could do the entire thing without any humans on board, proving at least once that the thing could make it to the moon and back before risking lives on it. Rockets and flights are expensive, to be sure, but losing astronauts is very, very costly to your reputation.
Too busy spying on citizens. And maybe they want to use vulns for their own gain.
Obxkcd: <https://xkcd.com/488/>
I agree that "short attention span" doesn't seem like it belongs on Musk's very long list of negative qualities, but a reminder: he was not an initial founder of Tesla, he bought in a year later and claimed to be a founder until he was sued and reached an agreement[0].

0. https://www.cnet.com/culture/tesla-motors-founders-now-there...
No worries, hopefully someone benefits from the discussion as to how and why HN titles sometimes end up the way they do.
The guy is kind of known for making obvious blunders out of the blue or at least acting like he is above things.
I've done it on iOS 9.3.5 and it worked in Safari at the very least. You need to import it first and then activate it from the settings afterwards, I believe.

iOS changed the exact procedure a few times so you may need to Google around for the exact steps you need to follow.
Yes the iOS app was rewritten relatively recently and is excellent
What do you do, steal one from the grocery store every time you buy milk?
> The ROI of this could be tremendous for someone in tech.

Sure, but if someone in tech is seeking help it's better to start with ADHD therapy (not "coaching") from licensed medical professionals, utilizing their insurance to offset the costs.

The issue a lot of us are trying to raise in this thread is that the program seems designed to take advantage of the lack of understanding about therapy versus coaching and cash-only versus insured programs. They make it easy to pay and get connected with someone, but if you're looking for true therapy (not "coaching") then you want to go through traditional channels. It will likely be cheaper with most tech insurance plans anyway.
No argument there. Just pointing out that it's common for head count to be larger than the visible product justifies.

Uber cut their losses. Twitter needed a change of owner to get there.
>But it doesn't hurt the pubic good if my house gets repossessed...

Actually it does when large number of houses get repoed. it did happen in 2008. that was because of securitization & rating mistake by banks but that speaks to my point, if the banks have a bad valuation model & give out unservicable loans then they have to eat the loss, just that everybody was doing that in 2007 because of repeal on many laws around such speculation.

this seems to be a similar thing as long as it does not happens to be systematically tilted towards overvaluation but I'd argue businesses (esp public ones) are more closely watched and market does a semi reasonable job of valuing them over time. personally there is not a whole lot of growth left in twitter (or FB) except for changing to a new business model like identity verification or eat into FB's lunch ;-). But as I said we'll see.
Ask HN: I bought Polymail (YC S16), what should I do with it?
Hey HN, as an early user of Polymail (https://polymail.io) and friend of the founders, I invested (with money I didn't really have as a broke founder) in the company because it filled the huge gap left when Mailbox was shuttered soon after its acquisition. I really love productivity and communications tools, and love the vision Polymail had, to create the "Slack for external communications."

After years of iterating and building a ton of power user features, the founders didn't see light at the end of the tunnel, were looking for a soft landing, and I really wanted to be sure the product stayed around. I'd used and loved Polymail for so long, tried all the newer superlative-laden email tools, and found everything else to be too clunky or complicated.

I think that email still has a massive distance to go, and it hasn't evolved enough since we all were sharing invites to get early access to Gmail.

I have my own experiences and ideas, but I'm curious what you think... what do you find most frustrating about managing email? What would make it worth paying for?

Finally if you're interested in productivity/email, I'd love to offer give you an extra long trial on Polymail in exchange for your feedback and guidance. Just let me know you're interested here: https://forms.gle/urn2dNYyEH5dcPuH9
I know Germany provides the same service as well, but I don't know how fleshed out it is really. So far all the mails they sent me have been not very helpful.
My take is that this was always part of the plan.

Whatever Elon settles the suit for will be far less $ than actual severance would have been.
The thinking in April was probably they can sell off a bunch of crypto tokens they create. Some of his texts reference this or using it to pump Doge.
What are the differences between RSS and Atom?

Most of my experience with RSS is just for podcasts.
True, I recognize this is the trade-off. You cannot have perfect secrecy and perfect accountability both. Lately it seems like we're suffering a crisis in confidence, so maybe we could relax the perfect secrecy a bit to regain that trust.
Didn't someone try to start a JSON based RSS standard a while back?
Yes, but equity holders don't have mandatory service payments. So they can't force a bankruptcy. Too much and it might make it a poor investment, but it doesn't affect cash flow. It's not a public emergency if a big company becomes too diluted.
Aren't (fairly predictable) second-order effects a bummer?
I mean, I agree with you, but that's kind of a non-sequitur? The reason I want control over my software/hardware is not the same as the reason I want to own a firearm.
They had a fiduciary duty to do it.
> When I got started with the web 15 years ago, it was advised everywhere not to rely on user agent strings and rely on feature detection instead,

Which is reasonable advice for a code running in a browser, not for a proxy/CDN (and you don't want proxy inserting it's own js).
What is "regular markup"?
I found my Linode-hosted site was down this morning. I logged into the Linode console, rebooted and it came back up.

Generally I've been very happy with Linode over several years.
> ingest copyrighted works and emit derivative works

The compression ratio for Stable Diffusion is 1:25000 or more, 5B images into 5GB. I think you're overly dramatic about it. Not even a single pixel from an image. And a snippet 2-3 lines long of code, that 99.9% of the time is generic, is not worth all this scandal.

There is a distinction between learning and replicating an idea vs. the expression of it. AI is entitled to learn ideas from copyrighted works even if authors don't approve. Only expression is protected. Even API names are ok.

I think the natural balance would be to set filters that restrict replication of copyrighted code. And that's it, every kind of derivative is ok as long as it does not look overly similar to any copyrighted code. But excluding code that is generic and replicated in many sources, because that doesn't deserve to be protected and it would just stunt the model.
It'd be pretty easy to automatically implement in their publishing system, I think.
No. The Voyager loan was denominated in crypto and at current prices represents only $200 million of liabilities (assuming they haven't already repaid).

https://cointelegraph.com/news/alameda-research-happy-to-ret...
Quite a few other countries have solved the gun violence problem via gun control. The US could too.

It's pretty logical that less guns = less gun violence.

You will never be allowed to have weaponry that can seriously challenge the US military in any meaningful way, that govt resistance part is a pipe dream.
You can’t sue someone in advance of wrongdoing
South Korea scrambles jets after detecting North Korean military flights
we has one of these as well. they were great for overflow during big holiday events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system
In my case it was out-of-country website with a local TLD.
Not that this answers all your objections (it does not, caching might be a problem!)

But sets are also a mere log(n) away

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-0.6.6/docs/Da...
> And remember to do it again every time the binary is updated :/

Depends on the way the file is replaced; if it's overwritten and not deleted + created, the flag should stick around I believe.

> Bad idea! nobody is supposed to own no files at all. You run untrusted services (or untrusted users without account; something like anonymous FTP access) as nobody. This would potentially allow the least trusted entity to change your configs.

You're right, should've used root:wheel rather than nobody:wheel. Oops...
I looked it up, it wasn't (in Denmark). He said he always does it that way. I printed out and gave him a copy of the relevant regulation. I'm sure it made all the difference...
The user base/social graph of Twitter is a thing of value, but given the changes over the past week, it's also in a tenuous position. How many newsmakers want to be in a place that gives any airtime to a community without standards?
Can you also add greek? I'm always on the look for good content for my children but can't find much in my language :(
> How often do you check your unauthenticated ESP and /boot for malware?

I don't, because it's not something I so far cared about. But if I started caring about these sorts of attacks, I would not rely on board firmware to check software on my disks:)

> vast majority of people aren't competent computer owners or users.

Vast majority of people don't read HN and are not interested in the boot process. Those that do are more relevant, and I suspect many of them don't welcome Mr. Poettering's agenda.

> They don't know what to do on a technical level with malware in their boot process.

I'm not suggesting they should. But Mr. Poettering does not discuss origins and possible ways to solve this problem, e.g. using free software from reliable sources only and auditing software and hardware we use. He presents his (an the secure boot complex's) preferred solution to a problem that is complex and probably will try to "gently push it" on distributions like he did with systemd (his words).
... via a swift kick from capitalism in the ghoolies ...

"Fate loves irony"
concur - i propose twooter.com
Yeah, Stripe gave a similar severance and the top comment is how generous it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450753
Computer assistance can prevent over-votes and warn of under-votes. It also resolves any "voter intent" questions (i.e. hanging chads). It can also format the printed ballot to increase the speed at which a machine can read them.
I came emotionally prepared for today (I hope enough).

Thank you for your point. Actually one of our members was recently working on a career change and their coach helped them get a job relatively quickly. Of course, the success is the members' and not the coach's! But the member cited it as a massive help :)
Seriously, why is sudo so complicated? Most of the time, all sudo has to do is hash a password, check that hash against a file, and if successful, run a program as root.

Why can't we just have a minimal version of sudo that does just that and only that so the majority of smaller servers and home users can run sudo without fear of a security bug ever other month? Preferably using the same executable path so that everything else doesn't break.

It just seems like most of sudo's security bugs come from weird obscure features almost no one uses. Like that time sudoedit had a security issue. I didn't even know that command existed until it broke things, and it still seems pointless when you can just run "sudo nano" or "sudo vi".
The Chinese version distinguishes simplified from traditional characters. It shouldn’t do that.

The German version is a little meh. Top categories are something like “howto”. It seems like you used a very simple word-based algorithm to create the categories?
None of this moves the needle on your assertion that COVID was "just a cold" or that it was a sort of collective psychosis. You've identified measuring errors and some badly done logistics - hazards we have when considering a large scale under any circumstances - and from there you leap shear light-years to your conclusion.
I can't think of anything, but Twitter is responsible for a lot of major projects out there.

Bootstrap comes to mind - and while that's not something I foresee them "selling", a company large enough to produce a F/OSS project of that size and complexity surely has any number of large, mature products that they could sell or monetize.

Also, the key part of the LBO playbook isn't making quick cash from selling off assets - it's divesting the company of cost centers and investing heavily in profit centers. If you're able to sell the things that aren't making you money, all the better.
In the case of freedom of speech, the First Ammendment doesn't establish a right for citizens, it establishes a prohibition to Congress:

"Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"

I really don't see how this can be taken to mean that a private company can't establish a rule abridging the freedom of speech.

Note that there is another part where I would agree that it establishes a positive right:

"Congress shall make no law [...] abridging [...] the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"

The language here does seem to assume that there exists a right peaceably to assemble, so you could argue that private companies also have to respect this right, even if the amendment only explicitly calls out Congress for this as well.
Yeah this was absolutely amazing. Blake did a great job curating the contributors and the comments led to some great conversations sometimes.
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Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369951
The new Dodge Charger EV will (probably) have a fake exhaust sound.

Anecdotally I can always hear Toyota's EV's better than most, especially when backing up.
JSON is more readable to humans, while still being great for machines
It goes both ways. Employees get to quit at a moments notice, leaving the company scrambling to find a replacement at potentially great costs. The internet is replete with stories of employees quitting, leaving their companies in shambles trying to figure out how to fill the void. I choose to care about my employer and my employer chooses to care about me. I could make a lot more money at a company that does not care, but I value that relationship more than money. Everyone should have the choice.
Yep. Just bake them in the oven on low to dehydrate them.
The difference in tax burden is give here: https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm . It varies quite a bit by country, but the contrast with France/Nordics is particularly large
"Everyone" ?
Why can’t two economic measures correlate without having A cause B via “measurement artifacts”?
> this debate should be focused around what individuals want and expect from all this without impacting others

I don't see anyone in this thread doing otherwise.
With Ubuntu's AppArmor you can run a lot of software without hassle because the ACLs come with the OS package.
> , I consider Musk and Trump both to have the same approach to media:

I think you've hit on more here. I think Musk has become associated with Trump. I think that might be because Trump is the champion of the losers of globalisation, and Musk is also a hero to those people because (a) he has created a lot of manufacturing jobs and (b) is creating a sense of patriotic pride in some of his achievements... just see SpaceX staff chanting "USA USA". I'm not criticising anyone, just drawing a connection.

So I think after reading these posts and talking to others, that Musk is hated because he is part of the war between left and right. To praise Musk is to praise Trumpism, and to hate Musk is to show you are against Trump.
Which site ? I've been in Fremont, then London with basically zero problems (few scheduled migrations for when they were changing hardware)
Why would it be shady? Traditional exchanges like the CME have "seats" that entitle holders to discounts and are sold at hefty prices. FTT is simply a tokenized version of an exchange membership. It makes perfect sense, and is really no different than a Costco membership where paying up front allows you to buy in bulk at a discount.
I am taking a step back – HedgeDoc
Then i'm not sure what the solution is.

I would say that we can have different devices for different peoples' needs; I personally want the ability to purchase a device with an absolutely locked-down state where no unauthorized or unaudited code can be ran, and currently iOS gets pretty close to that for me. But that is being taken away by laws like the EU's new sideloading law. Even if, after this is passed, I go out and make my own phone that serves my interests, I am forced to limit how many I sell if I want to keep it operational.
Whoa! You're the author of Gnod?

I've used your site gnovies.com and gnoosic countless times and recommended it to friends! Really great tool and I discovered both movies and music I otherwise wouldn't have found.

Example I input: Bladerunner, Inception, and Ex Machina into gnovies and discovered a movie called Upgrade that I thoroughly enjoyed, and otherwise wouldn't have known about. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/)

Appreciate your work, thanks!

PS What do you work on in more recent times?
Turns out employment laws are a thing and employees have some rights. Yes.
Even the synthetic Darned Tough socks are pretty good. I actually don't own the merino ones.
You could say that, but I would point out to its resilience and suitability as a medium for long term information containment. Literally thousands upon thousands have been found. Imagine if one were to try make it last longer :)
Yes. That's been the default for decades, and is why I tell people not to rely on DNS hostnames.

IP all the way.
> I have stopped subscribing/following anything/anyone online.

Same.
I even wrote a program that allows me to follow people on Twitch without being logged in there.
I made a bash alias so I just need to type "f" in the terminal when I want to see who is live.
Otherwise I use newsboat for things that have RSS feeds and w3m bookmarks for everything else.
W3m has a really nice bookmarks page that is just a list of links that you can access with alt+b;
very convenient when you want to quickly go to a page.
The article goes into detail answering these questions, in case you haven't read past the first paragraph before sharing your opinions;

"The company uses cheap, low-quality sand that's been rejected by builders instead of high quality river-sand which is used in vast quantities for construction, leading to a global shortage."
Do we know who specifically that is? Because they're going to own a pretty (societally) important property.
Does CFAA restrict government interactions?

If the site operators are unresponsive then that sucks, but it would still help secure those that are responsive.
> Back in the day, more people used to include a list of blogs they follow on their own blogs, I thought this was a great practice.

I thought the same, and so I built a sort of webring/blogroll functionality in my website project, together with an accompanying OPML file so these lists are easily shareable. I did the same with a microblog/timeline, that had an RSS counterpart. The web is already 'social media', if you ask me.
one simplified way to visualize this: create a corporate entity with the debt raised from investors (typically investment banks)--this entity will have a bunch of cash, the debt it owes for that cash, and no assets--and have that entity buy the target company. the cash gets sent to the old equity owners to relinquish their claim on the target company but the debt (and assets) stays with the merged company.
Unfortunately, this website has an issue with scrolling
https://www.jsonfeed.org/

Is an attempt to move these to json.
> This is long overdue and the pain is a result of accumulated managerial debt.

The pain is the result of Elon Musk overpaying 3x for a company he didn't want to buy and aggressively cost cutting to lower expenses.

1 billion a year in debt interest payments due to the 12 billion in loans he took on to purchase Twitter matches reality more closely than "accumulated managerial debt".

> Twitter will be fine operationally.

I'm unsure how anyone can say this with any confidence.

> Letting go of these people also makes room for more wild thinkers and hacker types to join the party.

I think I met you at a gathering in SF once and had to walk away from the conversation.
I don't think that's really true. True believers are willing to sacrifice for their beliefs. Most woke crazies can't handle the slightest adversity or pushback, when management is no longer on their side it's over