skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing the law is useless when the law doesn't protect you.

As a student my landlord wanted to do electrical work that required me and my partner to vacate the property. The law states that he has a duty to provide alternative accommodation. We brought this up and the response was simply that we'd be evicted instead.

Fuck private landlords. They can go do actual work for a living instead of leeching off of society.
Isn't there at least Tails and Sails?
Automatically Scaling Drone CI with Gitea
Models like ChatGPT and Stable diffusion will go the way of self-driving tech as everyone realizes they are not good enough to replace any actual human work.
So you pipe curl to bash
Github encodes the apostrophes in repo names to prevent copypaste code execution from the "Code" button but doesn't mind using the same in raw user content.
The author puts himself in the spotlight a little too much. Only at the end it became clear this is about a production by apple about Williams.
Elon suspends Taylor Lorenz's Twitter account
The article cites the second and third ranked instances as the most active instances and prevalent CP communities, but both are japanese so I'm going to guess it's mostly drawn artwork.
When I pause it’s because I’m trying to compose a response and my emotions. Sometimes too fast a response sounds less credible and often times it is — I’ll ramble on a bit longer than I’d like or talk my way into my larger point, possibly losing my audience or saying half baked things. It also often prompts more details from the person I’m talking to to fill the void. This gives me more context so I don’t just answer the superficial question. But mostly it helps keep emotion out of my response.

As an aside, while I’m OK-to-uncomfortable on the receiving end of the pause, I get wildly enraged when people say, “I don’t understand” without trying to play back or suss out meaning, eg “I don’t understand, are you saying…?” I find it wildly dismissive. But that’s probably on me.
This sounds familiar. It's usually when I've decided to resign in a few months because thing don't change that I start not giving a fuck and actually enacting change. I wonder how to break that cycle.

It might sound easy to "just don't give a fuck sooner" but it's exhausting. The constant uphill struggle is not something I want to live with.
It's a completely reasonable request that has been granted countless of times now.

>I do feel like the only way this request was granted was due to total ignorance on the part of the court of anything about how the internet works.

This is absurd. The court ideologically disagrees with you about how the internet should work, not about how the internet works. This does not suggest that the court is ignorant of anything.
Show HN: Really Simple Notes
I made Really Simple Notes after getting frustrated with other note-taking apps.

I found that I was spending more time formatting my notes than writing them. I like the sidebar navigation that Coda provides, but I hate how slow Coda is. I like how fast Google Docs is, but I don't like knowing that all my data goes to their servers; who knows what they are doing with my data?

That's when I decided to create Really Simple Notes. It's an offline-only, no-formatting notes app with a sidebar to navigate notes.

I've found that as I use it for personal notes, my productivity has increased significantly. I'm no longer fretting over formatting or waiting for things to load. I'm just writing notes.

The app is totally free, so I hope you'll give it a try!
The article is simply complete FUD
My just-so story for the pilgrims: they had been afraid their children would grow up too tolerant, living as they did amongst the dutch.

(looks like that was indeed part of it, but they were also driven out by economic and political considerations. The cost of living was too high, and political turmoil seemed imminent:
https://www.history.com/news/why-pilgrims-came-to-america-ma... )
unless they are German American :)
That's a bit too simple view. Another case where the often applies is older people about to die, but family arrives and demands more active treatment and care. Known as the daughter from California syndrome https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/daughter_from_California_sy...

Doctor's job is to give available paths and explain possible outcomes, their likelihood and side effects. If your options are die today or die in 3 days while a machine breathes for you and you're drugged like crazy to avoid the pain... no, they shouldn't be pushing you to live.

Then, there's the whole range where it's not 3 days, but 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 years, etc. with different levels of discomfort.
Because blockchains are definitely not built for that..?
I don't see a 30% figure on that page.

Also the figures on that page include people born abroad. I know a few people who can speak 5+ languages. But they weren't born in the UK.
I am a little younger than the days of decentralized social media, but I caught the tail end of it. To me, Mastodon feels like an “email address” for social media. I think a lot of people are so used to centralized platforms that it seems crazy to have it be decentralized again.

I suspect as Mastodon grows, there will be more servers that become popular and will likely host the bulk of people, in much the same way that gmail pulled in the bulk of email users—but it will still be possible to have other “addresses” too. The idea is starting to grow on me.
What are some resources to help train your voice?
Previous HN discussions of Nostr:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749061 (11 months ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 (22 days ago)
Given this story from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021944 it's easy to believe these stories about companies having awful support departments that can only be contacted via social media side-channels.

Can you post anything public to confirm Stripe's department isn't like that?
No, your position is extreme individualism. Most societies have taboos on suicide. Attempted suicide was illegal in most of Europe and in America, and is still illegal in many countries ranging from India to Singapore. Assisted suicide remains illegal except in a handful of pathologically individualistic western countries.
It's like a judge ordering you to hand over your keys to the person living underneath because you have a water leak you refuse to fix.

Perhaps the water leak was caused by someone else, but it's still in your apartment.
They'll then just ban links they can't open. They should serve some sort of content instead.
Yup. HP-UX on Itanium hardware. Legacy software is the reason.
It doesn't. For me, it still puts the local language results first.
Strong chance of moving to 100% piracy forever if Gabe, or his replacement, bends the knee.
I know of exactly one site which had a .tk TLD. Here’s why they switched to a .com in 2005:

https://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=388

“tailsteak.com

Alright, so I'm finally fed up with Tokelau.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice island, but they just aren't answering my mail.

I suppose most of you have noticed, by now, the fifteen-second ads that present you with beautiful women and fish when you surf to tailsteak.tk. Those are not my ads. I do not obtain revenue from them. Tokelau's domain name referral service just started putting them up there without so much as a by-your-leave. I have contacted their tech support and enquired if, perhaps, they might consider removing them for customers willing to pay a certain amount. They have not responded.

Of course, I have had access to tailsteak.com for some time now. So henceforth, I will be directing my viewers there. It's the same site, the same host, and, in truth, the .tk address has been sending you there for months. But now it's official. Note the change in title graphic:

tailsteak.com”
The BBC say it's ~£86k in 2020. Not too far off.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53628115
It is the if e universal platform. He’s just getting rid of the toxic people that thought they were immune to the types of canceling they’ve asked for more of previously.

Live by the cancel, die by the cancel, I guess.
This is being echoed throughout the thread but Mastodon instances whose TOS is similar or stricter than Twitter are also being banned. This is why I feel it's anti-competitive. The thing that makes yours a false equivalence is after looking up Rumble it appears to be a centralized. This is more like if Microsoft decided to block servers without the Windows Server headers citing the use of Linux servers in illegal activity. Windows server likely does make up a small amount of CP servers but that's not something within the control of those software competitors. In both instances the only link between illegal content and the vast majority of legit users is using a competing software.
Sometimes I wonder whether these Atlas Obscura articles are entirely made up, some kind of funny-if-it-was-true fiction.
If you think the journalists suspended were all 'far left propagandists' there's not much more that can be said in this discussion. You're too far gone down your own rabbit hole.

I wish you luck finding your way back sometime.
Likewise, I find that browsing through a bookstore or library is still much more enjoyable than trying the same thing with an online shop when I don't have a certain book in mind and am just trying to discover some random bit of reading.
2023 being the year startups have to show profits so i see lots of big companies going bankrupt

Lots of investment moving to AI based companies

New wave of companie focusing on AI hardware too
What if your server that is run by a hobbyist suddenly shuts down without any notice? If they had an accident for example or they got hacked or whatever
I don't know if I understood you correctly, but I don't think this is true. I have not tried it but as long as you have your data you can always setup your own instance with it. Ideally you have a server backup but if not there is a script that can convert the ordinary Mastodon export (the one you can do as a regular user in the UI of any instance) into a form suitable to import into the database of your instance.
The low maintainer/user ratio could be explain by the low barrier that Emacs provide to extend it in comparison to other editors like vscode.

Most people I have met using vscode use it very vanilla, maybe thet use a handful of plugins bit non of them have written custom code for it.
All Emacs users I have met though were quite fanatical in customizing the editor.
Exactly. At its core Obsidian and similar apps allow you to make notes, connect them easily _and search for them_ using GUI. That's it. That is how I try to explain what it does to someone interested. These modern apps are a huge step forward, if someone prefers emacs or vim/fzf - no problem.
“This Tweet Is Unavailable” – Musk Escalates Shadowbanning
Apologies, reading it I got stuck on the same sentence about 3 times and gave up. If you want, I don't mind giving more constructive feedback on what's wrong.
What would be a politician's ideal outcome of a stint in politics?

I think that Trump and Berlusconi and Cheney and Netanyahu all aim for maximal wealth (and minimal imprisonment) for them and their buddies - and they do very well on this front! So are you sure they are unable to make "good decisions" from that perspective?

On the other hand, I think that people like Macron and Merkel, but also May, Truss and probably even Johnson, are more motivated by their legacy and truly would like to improve the status quo of their country - and they believe that that is their path to greatness.

So I think this sets apart the UK politicians from the "real" grifters. But at the same time I think they are also easily distinguished from people like Macron and Merkel and even Von der Leyen, because the British leaders are just so spectacularly bad at it. Starting at least with Cameron's referendum decision we have witnessed a remarkable sequence of massive unforced errors by UK politicians, the likes of which I have not seen in other "Western" countries or the EU (despite your insistence to the contrary).

Maybe "terrible governing by people who nevertheless care" captures it well.

So I guess where you see "evil" I see "haplessness" as a defining factor among UK leaders. A competence gap was my way to explain its origins.
Never is a very long time.
Thank You for My Service
Quick question to the author: Do you have any references for the "From First Principles approach"? Or is it more just an informal thing?
At basic linear scripting level it is pretty simple. Import stuff, write code, run it.

But when you get to structuring it whole thing feels quite hacky and weird in places. Like why do I have this empty file here(__init__.py). Or what is the whole point of this "__main__" thing. Two examples of most basics ways of building a more complicated program and both are quite weird.
It really is. Protected political speech is much easier to have and the liberal doxxers are being punished.
The Go was certainly not "ahead of it's time". It was a standalone version of the GearVR, which was released three years earlier. At the same time Oculus released the Go with 3DOF tracking, Google released the Lenovo Mirage Solo with 6DOF tracking.

That said, there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the Go. It was and still is, the cheapest entry point into VR. The lack of features made it much more lightweight and comfortable than its successors, which also cost double of the Go.

The only real problem with the Go is that Facebook didn't continue that line of product. There is plenty of room for a 3DOF/2D content focused headset, but Facebook never really cared about that area of VR.
Should WebAssembly Get a PaaS?
This is such a hyperbolic point of view that even though it's been on my mind for days, I still don't know how to respond.
To me, the biggest problem with javascript as a backend language is - especially in large teams: people tend to mix backend code with frontend code after a while.

Looking at next.js for example. There are so many ways to fetch data for a page:
getStaticProps, getInitialProps, getServerSideProps and the API handler (I hope I didn't miss any now). Each single one of those uses their own naming concepts (context vs req/res, query vs params). It is very easy - especially for newcomers to the frontend - to break things or leak data by not following the concepts of the frontend.

By dividing backend and frontend on a language level, you get a clear boundary on an API level which helps developers having a clear focus on their actual problem scope.

I guess you could solve the problem by having two node.js applications: one providing API endpoints and one taking care of the view. By then, I'd just switch to a properly type-safe language for the backend.
Work bought me an M1 laptop. I bought a Steam Deck. Paired with my PS5 and Switch, I haven't found a game I _want_ to play that I can't. For AAA titles, I can play them on PS5, indies on the SD, and Zelda on the Switch.
Where I live, Canadian Geese were here all over the place, pooping everywhere. Then 2 year-round swans moved in, the geese disappeared and have not been back. Seems they hate each other.
I love seeing more ESP32 based projects and hardware. It’s a remarkably capable platform with a robust ecosystem that for a “microcontroller” somewhat resembles that of the Raspberry Pi.

I have an irrational frustration when I see people doing simple GPIO, etc with a Raspberry Pi 4 (when you used to be able to get them). I mean come on people, it has four cores, gigabytes of RAM, and can drive two 4k displays(at 30Hz) and you’re using a pin?!?

The Raspberry Pi has relatively low power consumption compared to what most people are used to with anything x86 but an ESP32 based solution comes in at 1/10 the power consumption (or less), a fraction of the cost, and you can actually get them these days.

Then I calm myself down when I remember GPIO on a Raspberry Pi is following one of the 100,000 guides that’s been written on the topic and can be done in a comfortable, standard Linux environment with a few lines of python (or whatever).

Question for this project - does anyone know the specific regulatory issues of a “commercial” product that calls for an external WiFi antenna? From my little understanding on the topic it seems that ERP, etc could pose a regulatory issue although I think there are exceptions for low scale/hobby products.
Presumably OP means “would it really make a difference if all web apps were rewritten as native apps?”
Next is far from battery included, right now I'm trying it (not the first time, I used it to make static sites before) to make a back end and and have been bitten multiple times by the fact that the same files can be bundled differently on back-end and front-end. For example `next-auth` generates the page `/api/auth/signin` (yes a page behind `/api`) and when I tried to hit it. I got a complain about a knex dependency. Obviously they never expected anything behind `/api` to appear on a front-end bundle, but here it is, they default to such a page.

How about the fact that no one ever has a clear answer on where to put your global server objects, like singletons? connection pool or socket.io server?

In all my search I only ever came to some example where they put the prisma object on `global`. Why do they have to do so instead of just have it the export of some module? If it's because the handler is "serverless" wouldn't that make it a different `global` every time? There is absolutely no explanation on their website on why such trick has to be done for such basic need.
> Wouldn’t a 24 hour delay be enough to satisfy the curious about Elon’s flying habits, without creating a possible security risk? I don’t know how real the risk is, but it is certainly not zero, as he is a controversial public figure.

I agree with you, but I think the problem is that if you publish Elon's flying habits with a 24 hour delay, then you're effectively doxxing which airplane is Elon's jet, which would allow anyone to track Elon's jet in real-time for the next month, basically.

This could be somewhat avoided if Elon's jet received a temporary private aircraft identifier for every flight (instead of every month, which is how it works currently [1]).

But even then, if the airplane landed on a small airport (i.e. with few aircraft on the ground), it would still be possible to determine whether an airplane that is taking off is Elon's jet or not, based on the fact that Elon's jet landed there on the previous day and the destination for today's flight is [some place where Elon commonly flies to].

[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
Lol. Kneecapping competitors is what billionaires do. You dont win capitalism by following all the rules.
> Also, TIL you can put a meta-redirect inside of a data:text/html URI and it will indeed redirect. That will probably come in handy at some point.

> Also TIL, <script> works just fine in data:text/html URIs, despite me having NotScript installed... Also remembering that one for later.

This seems pretty concerning to me… I would’ve expected the browser to prevent this somehow. Any security experts able to verify?
> Is this worse than trusting Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok?

Yes for the first two, no for the third. US-based companies are large targets for potential lawsuits, and consequently have processes in place to prevent random employees from accessing your DMs without cause. I obviously wouldn't trust those companies completely -- we're really arguing about probabilities here -- but there's at least some measure of accountability that makes them unlikely to do something trivially stupid.

> there are no private messages on Mastodon

It does have a DM feature -- that they aren't private is exactly the point.
Just a note that DRH's doctorate was in computational linguistics. This is reflected on SQLite in the sense that the part he likes working on the most is the front-end as opposed to features like concurrency for example. So, i guess a deep dive into the topic is required.

What the above comments showed in terms of what is taught at unis seem to be great starting points. Since he already knew classical stack-based VMs from the start, this maybe shows he learnt it at uni. Would love to ask him about it!
https://archive.is/FkbEK
Far-left? On twitter?

A site that famously stated that if they applied their rules equally, they'd have to ban almost all republicans, so they currently don't apply the rules to those?

Twitter is a site where a statement as simple as ACAB, which is legally protected speech [See https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...] would get you a ban.

Twitter is as center-right as it gets. If you think twitter is far-left, you're living in an extreme filter bubble.
We're not talking about the average user, but about users trying to link to Mastodon.
I actually think this is quite a long way away from funny. We've been able to watch Elon Musk get radicalized in real time. That's quite worrying when you consider the amount of resources he has available to him. During the Trump years there was a lot of talk about how Trump is bad, but fundamentally incompetent. Well now we're going to see what extremism looks like when a far more competent person is orchestrating it.
Again a stark remainder that "cloud" connected devices are "internet of shit" objects that can't be trusted.

We don't care so much about the Russians, as their government is of their responsibility, but imagine if suddenly all our somehow Chinese products, phone, routers and switches become brick because we get into a conflict with the Chinese gov.
Hack Amazon Fire Tablet with Fire Toolbox (Add Google Play, Clear Amazon Apps)
Most devs don't develop on/for Apple platforms. HN has a huge amount of SV developers though and FAANG which lean Apple anyway. If you work at Google, you need to make sure your products work on Apple devices, so you probably use a Mac since the dev environment is locked to the platform.

If you work for a shop in Omaha Nebraska making software for surrounding businesses, you probably use Windows.
Self driving can't be compared to generative AI/ChatGPT. Self drivings single mistake can be fatal but if ChatGPT is accurate for 99% of cased that would be good enough.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you but when they start fighting you, you know you've won.
> if a bicycle was enough in the first place, there's no point in even using a truck for such a simple task.

Right, but people still use the truck, because it's what they know, and maybe because they like the form factor. A lot of Pis are overkill for the projects they're used in. If those projects could start using this, freeing up Pis for projects that actually need them, that would be helpful.
I am open! Since new material is constantly being added, feel free to bookmark it and check in about a week. You can also raise a pull request!
You can't migrate your followers that way, can you? Which is (arguably) for many people more important than the content of their posts.
I wonder how common these are in Europe and how common it is to explore them. My uni and the neighboring one share much of their infrastructure and as such the tunnels reach almost every building on campus - but most students from both institutions have no idea they even exist.
Less violent alternatives include:

Finding nests and oiling the eggs to prevent them from developing.

Landscaping parks to include more tall grass and similar obstructions to sight lines. Geese are comfortable where they can see predators a long way away.
Yes, and how smooth it's been going. Human groups are still not well trained to resist this (especially if the rumor of remaining employees being under work visas)
Mastodon wouldn't have become so popular if it weren't for all these Elon actions. Elon is single-handedly leading a massive 'Streisand Marketing' campaign to sublime perfection.
Fair enough, I just don't have sufficient numbers and analysis to have a good opinion on this.
If the Tories hadn't canned the solar feed in tariff and home insulation schemes we'd be in a much much better position than we are.