skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Phrases like “benevolent dictator for life” have become pretty widespread

I dont think anyone said "for life" here. The thing about business "dictatorships" is that they are naturally temporary. These people will leave of their own accord or be fired if they're incompetent at some point. And if the very top doesn't fire these people, making themselves incompetent, then their business will struggle to sustain itself.

It's not like a dictatorial government which can rewrite laws and use military force.
There's no single "Android" OS in the same sense as Windows. Do you mean AOSP? You can edit the source code and remove it yourself.
Nobody wants to use Windows Search but some Microsoft PM thought it's because people don't know what that box is and need a label to find it and use it...
Or it's not so much the outcome that is skewed, but Emacs attracts a certain type of people in the first place. This is not a doom, rather a boon.
This could be easily solved not by removing the comment but by unlinking it from its author (e.g., make the author of a “removed” comment be “None” or “Null” or whatever)
> writing permanent its log files and swap partition

If this is the problem, the solutions are no swap and log2ram https://github.com/azlux/log2ram

I also noticed that Armbian logs to a ramdisk. I didn't investigate the implementation and if its contents survive a reboot.

The only real problems for me are that the SD card will eventually fail no matter what (I mean, much sooner than a SDD or HDD) and that there are basically no Pis at sale at a reasonable price. As a platform it is nearly dead.
Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
I'm starting to work with C and would like to build a webserver. I've found a few interesting writeups but would love to hear from the community.

What's your favorite book/post/lecture/whatever? I'd also be interested in opinionated writeups/positions.
Well that sucks. But commercially businesses fail all the time. Sometimes you get a heads up and can plan accordingly. And other times it’s like FTX and the site is down the next day, after a major scandal.

The only thing you can do is own your data, running on servers you own, at a domain you own.

The internet owes you nothing.
I've been using Emacs for over 25 years, sadly I missed this survey.
What about the pivot from "This is a private company. Free speech doesn't apply" to "This is censorship of free speech"?
>> It’s been a little trickier as they’ve nerfed its abilities as public uptake has increased

this is what I've observed as well. There were some things that ChatGPT was doing spectacularly well in the initial days. Now, for the similar queries it is just pointing to the source for more info. Or telling me that it cannot access the web and / or just asking me to do more research by using other platforms.

I wish there was a stable diffusion equivalent for ChatGPT alternative.
Do you have a source which isn't Elon Musk? Using Musk as a source for claims in this seems a bit silly to me.
Playing the karma roulette for some involves posting anything you find on the net, tech related or not, and seeing what sticks.
> I have serious doubts any business will be ok paying for a tool that outputs nonsense (or worse) 1% of the time ... As depressing as it is, most business is treated as seriously as life-or-death.

I did not thought about it, but it's true that if a company employs a truck driver or a surgeon, and if someone dies because of a mistake of this employee, the company is not endangered.

Yet if it uses an AI tool the company may be forced to abandon it, with serious consequences in terms of business.
I mean a market selling houses that will never be lived in and exist solely as a speculative investment for foreign buyers, one where corporations and funds behave like feudal lords while people remain renters their whole lives and get evicted at will.

I'm not surprised you don't understand what I mean when I speak of the value of housing if your first thought is Warren Buffet. The value of a house is the stability, safety and shelter it gives to the citizenry, it's allowing people who live in it to prosper and to build families.
>In most other cases that has been released illegitimately in the first place though

There is plenty of information in public records like people's addresses that are released legitimately. An address is enough information to SWAT someone.
This Internet archive link proves that this has existed for years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201105015447/https://twitter.c...

You can appeal a link from being blocked by using this form.

https://help.twitter.com/en/forms/authenticity/spam
My prediction: The Rich will continue to get richer and corporate profits will continue to skyrocket while the poor continue to get screwed over because the global economy is in recession while in fact the global elite continue to profit at the expense of the common man.

Ok, not much insight there (aka ‘same as it ever was’) but I am always fascinated about how easily human behaviour can be moulded, moderated and distracted simply by reducing the amount of crumbs left on the table to create infighting and disharmony instead of focusing attention on where the money is going and to who.

I mean, I get it - When the choice is between paying the bills and keeping a roof over your head or fighting for social justice and equality then the choice (on an individual level) is an easy one but I'm always disappointed that the populace are so easily distracted and divided by the creation of artificial scarcity and that they/we/us continue to fall for it every single time.
Probably not. Although it might be easily implemented in hardware, I think most solutions currently are software.
The crux is to pick the loudness threshold and the adequate time-window for Real Time analysis/processing.
Presumably left unfunded?
You can't back up your followers, but as long as the old instance exits, is not banned and is cooperative you can move your followers from one instance to another. Yes, that's a lot of "ifs" and doesn't help at all if the instance you are on is already defederated, which was the point that started this thread.

I think Mastodon is a tiny bit better than Twitter in that, at least you have a chance to move as long as things are good. If that makes a practical difference, I don 't know...
1 femtosecond = 1e-15 seconds.
I think people mostly take issue with the hypocrisy of claiming to be a paragon of free speech while censoring all kinds of things because Musk personally dislikes them.
It's an opaque system that outputs opinion without proof. It's entirely incongruent with law. Honestly, I find the premise dystopian.
If you wish, use the source. (Almost?) all early webservers were written in C.
Can you not just completely remove the Search widget from the dock?

And instead just use WinKey+F as a keyboard shortcut.
But does "what is" really beget "what should be?" I'm sure what you describe would be very helpful but I don't see how it could eliminate disagreements on direction.
How does one get PCBs with all the components wired in? I've been prototyping for a while, and it would be great for me to learn how to start putting stuff in cases instead of having wires dangling around.

I was looking at PBCWay just yesterday, and the process is unclear.
If I say that I need some parts, do I have to source them, or can PCBWay/alternative do so for me?

EDIT: what software does one use to draw PCBs for production too? I've seen a few options online, perhaps a better question is what preferences there are. One thing I'm curious about is whether that software will say "you need this much resistance between these 2 components".
Such as Tumblr
Sounds like cheating will be trivial in this game as you can just “correct” GPT’s idea of what is in your inventory ;)
Counterpoint: In many simple cases it absolutely is okay to use public CA certificates for internal hosts.

Point 1 will incentivize you to not create complexity where no complexity is needed. Just do what Let's Encrypt does, it'll be fine.

Point 2 is true, but you can just as well use public DNS names.

Point 3 is something to be aware of, but likely also just a reminder that security by obscurity is no good idea and never was.

The advantages of using a public CA: It makes a lot of things simpler for you. You don't have to bother understanding the various complexities of X.509 and a PKI structure. Other people will make sure your certificates are well formed, your keys comply with common recommendations etc. pp. And you don't have to worry how to get that root certificate on a variety of devices.
There must be an easy way to simulate the load on that truss and calculate the number of bags it could bear, no?
So many horror stories. As a counter point I'd like to say as a brown person my stay in Germany was nothing but pleasant. Everyone was super friendly and tried their best to talk to me in English. I wish I learned some German. I lived there for about a year.
Just take your time and get familiar. I wemt through some teething troubles but have found it to be worth it.
So he’s just like Bill Gates in the 90’s. A little douche with an ego and deceptive business practices.

Not sure why no one mentions his asperger's syndrome because that’s an obvious mastodon in the room.
I realized this year that I have been struggling to get into deep focus at work for a long time. In my case, the main two things preventing focus were anxiety and ambient noise, and they play off each other. Ambient noise tends to distract me and keep my anxiety high.

I bought a pair of decent reusable earplugs and built a ritual of throwing them in whenever I want to be productive. To my surprise it was incredibly effective. When the ear plugs go in, I get right into the zone in minutes.

Another trigger I use to tell my mind it’s time to focus is to close my door. Even if I’m home alone, something about closing the door serves as a cue to my mind.

These are low cost things you can try and you will know immediately if they help you. If they don’t, maybe you can identify similar triggers that do work for you.
You can still remove Search from the dock in Settings\Personalisation\Taskbar
> Why Twitter should feel threatened by this clusterfuck at all is a mystery to me.

I don't want to be too glib, because your technical concerns are legitimate and well-argued. But... have you actually tried using it?

It works fine! It doesn't work as well as Twitter and has rough edges, but at this point it's well past the "will it work?" stage. There are real people there posting real content and engaging in real ways. If Twitter were to disappear tomorrow, people could all just move over and... it would be fine.

So it's OK to criticize, but the idea that it's somehow fatally flawed seems weird to me. It works fine.
> he’s entitled to do what he wants with what he owns

As has been said already many times, the debate is not whether he has the legal authority to do this, the debate is over his hypocrisy of claiming free speech absolutism.
> edit the source code and remove it yourself

That is not a realistic option.
This kind of friction at even getting started doesn’t bode well for Mastodon’s success - forcing people to pick a server: how do they choose?

Go with the one everyone talks about? Closed to new signups. Pick some other one, run the risk that it closes (the owner gets bored, it becomes too much work, they find keeping it up and stable too hard). Or else that it gets “defederated”, and hence you get effectively banned, because someone else disagrees with moderation decisions of the owner which are nothing to do with you personally. And even if none of that happens, and the server you pick turns out to be a good one - then your friend asks you how to join Mastodon, you direct them to the server you use, but it is closed to sign-ups due to popularity, so they have the same issue.

I can’t be bothered. I’m sure I’m hardly the only one.
Almost every other tweet on my feed is mocking Musk. The tweeters aren't banned
I simply quoted the linked article to save you some reading time. AP News also mentioned temperature as a possible cause.
Yeah so instead of worrying about all the stuff you are worrying about, I've just been using Mastodon and its been fine. I see the toots from the people I follow, I find the people I want to follow. Its been fine.
Qwik.
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My dad had a laptop in the mid-90s that had a floppy drive, and I think a parallel port, too.

The Butterfly was meant to be used with a docking station, but I never managed to get my hands on one. I just enjoy looking at it and thinking what a great laptop it was in its day. I'd like very much to have one with a fold-out keyboard today.
It’s also not massively violating copyright. Napster was shut down through legal action.
Isn’t the simple answer, just stop using Twitter if you feel so strongly about this n
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha says compaq sold "all Alpha intellectual property" to intel in 02001, so probably they haven't made any money from it since then

also though any us patent filed since 01995 expires 20 years after filing, so any us αxp patents filed in the period 01995–02001 have expired already, and us patents filed before 01995 expire 17 years after issuance, so we only have to worry about pre-01995 us patents if first dec and then compaq and intel managed to delay their issuance, lemelson-style, until 02005 or later, which seems extremely unlikely

so αxp is almost certainly already open-source as an isa

dec's implementations are i suppose not open-source though, and casual glancing around on opencores and the like doesn't turn up any obvious candidates
Elisp is really easy though, far easier than trying to write a VSCode plug-in.
Main feature of Obsidian is that unlike TidlyWiki it can save.
If users are confused by this process, then maybe the explanation of the process is the problem, not the users.
You're either 20 or haven't met a 20 year old in a looooong time.
Radicalization is very interesting. Rather than talk of a person being radicalized in a paticular way (medical/religion/politics/flat earth etc) can a person become susceptible to radicalization across the board? Can someone be "radicalized" into taking radical stances in every context? I have seen older relatives fall down this hole. Every little thing is now life-or-death, order v chaos. Musk might be on that pattern.
Being largely unfamiliar with C, I would prefer conceptual resources over source code. The why is more important than the how. Hopefully that makes sense?
Doesn't make my computer unusable when it kicks in and hasn't at any point during the last 20 years.
I think the real difference is that the excitement came from the technology being brand new. In the 80s this was the future. The future has been around a long time now, and that turns it into the past. Oldies such as us are quite into the past, but kids not so much. The generation before us, it was all electronics and radios.

Kids today want to make the kind of games they play. Except that’s not really possible of course. Roblox, youtube, that’s the kind of thing they can actually do _and_ is the future as they see it. Poor kids. Robotics is the edge I’m trying to push; better than that other crap at least.
Not the OP, but someone else who was unaware BIPOC was problematic. TIL! Read up a bit on it -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC has some more context.
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I hope that someday you are able to escape the confines of your limits and servitude. There is a vast universe beyond this tiny spec of dust called Earth.
Pretty sure Musk was discussing freedom of ideas.

That said; many of us also thought Kanye shouldn’t have been banned. Few on hacker news agreed lol

You either have absolute freedom of speech or none, in many ways.

That said, I appreciate that at least people are being told why they are banned. The prior set of billionaires who owned Twitter often wouldn’t say why.

Blocking links to competitors, blocking real-time tracking of people, and a guy telling the world how great hitler is are fairly mundane / reasonable things to block imo.
I have seen a bit of that but most including myself still hold the same opinion. A private silo is not a free speech zone. Twitter wasn’t before Elon and isn’t now and never will be.

There’s layers of irony here. All the “libs” who were supposedly pro censorship ran off to the actual free speech zone. The Fediverse is almost uncensorable since you can hop instances or just run your own.

There is a difference though. It has no algorithm that boosts “engaging” content like craziness, hate, and trolling. I’ve always thought that what the far right was so mad about was loss of a free propaganda ploy that involved baiting the algorithm. You can always have free speech in a million places but a free promotion machine isn’t easily replaceable.

Of course the worst excesses of “cancel culture” were also driven by the algorithm. Moral outrage mobs increase engagement just like racism and wacko conspiracy theories do.

I personally hope centralized all encompassing social media burns. It’s driven all the craziest excesses everywhere.
It shouldn't need HTTPS -- DNS itself supports cryptographically signed updates.
Which type of job you will/want to be doing in 2023?
> asperger's syndrome

Elon Musk just _pretends_ to have Asperger's. I know plenty of people on the spectrum, they aren't assholes.

There's also the "Ye's bipolar disorder" effect. Its a challenge I'm sure to have it, but I also know people who are bipolar. Anti-semitism is _NOT_ on the list of symptoms. We can criticize Ye's anti-semetism without making fun of his bipolar / mental illness.

So even _IF_ Elon hada Asperger's (and I'm not convinced he does. I think its all pretend for more clicks / his public relations image), there's nothing about Asperger's that makes you a self-contradicting asshole.
For those who don't really know what Emacs is (besides being an editor), I found this overview video from Steve Yegge as excellent. I never used Emacs, so it was very informing for me:

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

One particular aspect that intrigued me: you can extend VS Code (and similiar), but it's a lot of work and boilerplate to create a plugin whose actual functionality is 3 lines of code (let's say toLowercase()). In emacs, you can just write those 3 lines of code and that's it, that's your plugin.
i am on kde so this is never a concern for me. anything and everything is customizable because they believe their users should be given a choice. compared that to apple/gnome (i even read in an old apple design magazine/books that users are stupid and should not be given choice to change the "design") but this is trying to move towards that but then you "still" have an option to change the taskbar with a third party one so windows is still not apple like yet....

the problem is, i choose apple, i know i am getting into a walled garden where people are expected to follow the way apple wants them to. kde is on the opposite end. Windows until win7 at least or as late as win10 was more towards kde than apple but it is trying to transition....

the problem is, people who use windows "expect" windows to be customizable and that is giving them grief. i'd stay people are having trouble adjusting to the Microsoft vision of moving to the apple side (because of actual nefarious purpose at least)
Adding to the point on flexibility, not that anyone would do this, but SAN certs technically have no restrictions on sub-domain wildcard names but public CA's will not allow more than 1 sub-domain wildcard because they would lose money doing that.

In a private CA one could not that one would add as many wildcard sub-domain names as they wish.

e.g.

*.some-name.private-tld
*.*.some-name.private-tld
*.*.*.some-name.private-tld

and so on. Again, not that anyone would do this, but CA's will not permit it for financial reasons not technical reasons. They would instead have one buy a restricted signing cert bound to an apex domain+tld and I only know of a couple of CA's that even have that option and it is not an official offering. One has to be a partner of that CA. More common is to have customers buy one wildcard sub-domain cert per sub-domain level.

Another reason one might use an internal CA is to remove all public CA trusts on hardened systems and document this in SOC1/SOC2 controls as one of many mitigating controls for data leakage. Intra-datacenter communication can be forced through a MitM proxy in addition to VPN's and deny anything that is not specifically signed with the internal CA. This is not a common setup and only a handful of orgs would need such a control, but they do exist.
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GPT3, Stable Diffusion etc. will really kick off. People will start accepting these blackbox Big Data sequence prediction models as a new norm, a powerful assistance for all sorts of domains. There will be some resistance but the argument that one doesn’t need to understand digestion in order to eat food and survive will eventually settle and the path of these models becoming a natural extension of our minds will be laid out. We will see different interfaces (speech recognition, OCR) and pipelines being created to fit these models into real problem solving pipelines and address their inaccuracies, i.e., with additional fact/spec checking and computation logic. some successful startups and products will emerge mostly from folks who already started their ventures into this space.
That search bar's part of the home screen app, which you can replace. Search for 'launcher' on the play store.
classic hackernews. We need more of these
It's sad because I liked Windows, but at this point if they keep doing this stuff I'd rather change the OS than the task bar. I still get all sorts of hardware and driver trouble that require arcane commands buried in old forums to fix, but Windows' UX is getting so much worse every update.
GDPR exists right now, actually, and most instances are far from in compliance.
Not when the instance you are on is banned or otherwise disappears and you use your exported data to "revive" your account on a different instance (with a different handle), which is the scenario I proposed above.
How exactly is he radicalized? Because he suspended 7 journalists for 12-24 hours for doxxing the flight with his kid on it?
Doesn't Apple do something similar however? When you turn WiFi off on your iPhone a prompt appears saying that it's better to turn it on for "better location tracking" or something like that.
For Huberman Podcast I imagine he pays someone to do the annotations manually, so they're accurate. But on most videos I've found Whisper's annotations to be more accurate than YouTube's default annotations - not to bash YouTube's, they're still great but occasionally you get some weird annotations
Windows 11 does have the option to remove these items including search from the taskbar. The person asking the question wants to leave search on the taskbar but remove the text "Search" from within the entry field for the search widget.
Some things are there, but real tedious, yes. I haven’t found something convenient and if you’re not root, some of the useful things are inaccessible.
SSL certs can be free and auto-renewing. set and forget
> I mean so far moderation on Mastodon seems to work, but it still does not sit right with me that we basically replaced a dictatorship with the (benevolt) oligoply of the group of most popular server's owners.

Elon Musk has made some dumb moderation calls, but he seems open to changing some of them in response to popular feedback and media pressure. I don’t know if the same is true of those people. If new Twitter bans whoever, odds are high everybody will hear about it, and if they shouldn’t be banned, odds are decent it will be reversed. I’m not sure the same is true for this “oligopoly” for whom few know who they are. Seems even worse than Twitter as far as transparency and accountability goes