skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily job: apart from it I have plenty of time on my hands: wfh, no family or kids, my diet strictly utilitarian(the most complicated meal I make is an omelette which takes less than 3 minutes), I am incapable of sleeping for over 6 hours/day. I've always had at least 6-7 hours a day to dedicate to whatever I want to do(usually more).
When saying "RSS" are we talking about the protocol/file format, or using it proverbially for 'syndication'/feeds?

Any reason(s) to use RSS (0.9x/1.0/2.0) over Atom (RFC 4287)?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed
It has been my experience that people who put stock in, use, talk about, share, and promote political ideology quadrant images are typically the biggest fucking losers of all time, similar to social media parasites who gather followers through manufactured and calculated displays of extravagant wealth: slimy, horrible, crass, disgusting, repulsive people.

Phrenology is a more valid predictive or descriptive test.

How much longer before some weirdo tries to measure ChatGPT's skull bumps with some calipers?
Happy holidays, dang! Thank you for all the effort you pour into making HN as useful and vibrant a forum as it can be. You help set the bar for productive online discourse, and that means something and is more and more important in the world.
The zeroth should be "don't fuck with the middle mouse button". Though it's not as bad as it used to be.
You are not fully arguing his point:

>writing software for banks or insurance companies

Look at Gimp. It's the software that people like to write but not the one designers like to use.

There was this submission: 'Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?' [1]. With Mastodon, people create a social network, but one that is unnecessarily inefficient. Why hasn't that submission led to a better social network?

Ford is quoted with saying: 'People would have asked for faster horses'.

How do you give the people with new ideas the power to implement them?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999296
In my circles, which admittedly may not be representative, RSS is/was a tool for people whose job it was in part to proactively ferret out a wide range of information and insights from obscure corners of the internet--so journalists, analysts, and the like. Which just doesn't describe a mainstream audience.

While it's satisfying to blame Google, the killing of Reader always seemed like a natural effect of RSS not being popular than its cause. It's not like there aren't other RSS alternatives. And, of course, social media does a pretty good job--for all its faults--of surfacing those various tidbits with or without RSS.
Success and Velocity
Prior to Snowden those people were derided as part of the paranoid tinfoil hat crowd. The only thing known was some vague discussion of Carnivore and Tempest.
Probably not very different from wearing a swastika armband.
Do you work for TurboTax by any chance? :)
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Addendum.

1. I did not write what I mean, to say the account is new : I mean to say, it has sprung into life, for this thread. Farm accounts can be brand new, and many are, but you also find accounts which have been around for a long time, and then start being used. I suspect Farms constantly make accounts, bank them, and then consume them however many months or years later.

2. Having read the comments from this account, I does not feel like a Farm account. However, I could be wrong. Farm accounts in my experience use different approaches - some are combative, some are mild, some use the usual twisted Russian or Chinese logic ("we had to invade Ukraine because of NATO!", etc).
Yeah, but it doesn't run in parallel, does it?
One hopes. If they decide to stop providing/maintaining the API, you're out of luck.

Just using APIs also misses out on the learning, community, and collaboration of open source software.
I still use it on a daily basis like many others.

But a revival isn't dependent on the technology or the type of apps that can consume RSS. It is the lack of outlets publishing on a regular basis. Social media's grip on attention has only grown stronger since RSS readers were more popular.

Blogs are mostly gone comparatively speaking to 10-15 years ago. Many authors do an email newsletter.

RSS is still around but it's a content supply problem and not a technology issue.
And NNTP before that...
TL;DR

> constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips. But the reality is that it's not that simple. It's fucking hard and it takes more than just a positive attitude to make it.
Don't use the slider checkbox from example 2. It's not obvious what the state is, especially without color/contrast.
Some intros on how to build your own RSS feed (structure of the XML file):

https://www.xul.fr/en-xml-rss.html

https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_rss.asp

However, I notice that JSON feeds are also an option and might be preferable for various reasons (i.e. Python's json module makes parsing easy, etc.):

https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/

As far as Twitter, I'm not sure it was ever that great of an information source. Musk has at least said they're trying to improve Twitter search, but who knows what it will look like. It's still pretty weak at present.

Why corporate media journalists and politicians flocked to Twitter in the past is unclear, unless that it was that Twitter's structure was deliberately designed for propaganda distribution. The low character count and leader-follower structure helps with the standard propaganda routine, which typically involves reducing complex arguments and ideas to the point that a small child could understand them, and then repeating that dumbed-down argument over and over while browbeating anyone who raises objections.
I don't know you, and I don't have startup advice to give. But take care of yourself. There are people in your life that will care about you outside of your success or failure with startups. Try something else for a while and forget that this echo chamber exists. Hope you are able to put this behind you.
I know GNU/Linux since Slackware 2.0, know pretty well how it goes.
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I still have `Press` - an old android rss reader app for android - installed and hooked to my self-hosted aggregator.
I'm not sure what you're missing. I think aggregators are great for a lot of things, but I primarily use it for discovery. I infrequently contribute (like this, I guess?). After discovery, RSS is really convenient to continue consuming that source's content, regardless of its appearance on an aggregator a second time.
> To "launch" something is jargon?

Not if it's a boat or a plane. Otherwise, probably yes.
>Seems like instead of spending Christmas with my family, I will spend it changing passwords for 100s of accounts.

Why didn't you just use decent passwords in the first place? You were using a password manager, what's the fucking point if your password is still "kittens1"?

This is all on you.
since it is a vehicle that is named *panzer, "panzer=tank" feels more correct
yeah they'll have to wait until they ship physical RSS readers out
That wasn't what we were discussing about, goalkeeper.
I don’t think you can describe at least Sweden and Norway as monocultural. They’ve had waves of immigration since the world wars and I think Sweden had the most immigration per capita in Europe during the Syrian refuge crisis.

That’s not to say it’s a rosy picture of multiculturalism, there has been at least a building up of angst in the minority parties over immigration (and islam).
Sounds like you ignored Product Market Fit and were building solutions in search of problems.
"Grass is greener on the other side."
> Wear a MAGA hat in a solid blue county

Pre January 6th, you'd get about the response someone wearing a BLM shirt in red country would. Heckling and adversarialism, but generally civil interactions. Post January 6th, yes, someone wearing a MAGA hat is showing specific stripes.
A lot of your personal property rights of throwing out who you want when you want why you want go out the window when you have a liquor license that says you are to not discriminate members of the public
Again, you are talking about a world where the economy is not static: where there is room for overall economic growth that exceeds the wealth-concentrating effect. That’s the world we’ve lived in for at least the past few decades. But there’s no immutable law that says we’ll be able to maintain 3-10% GDP growth forever. There have been many periods of economic stagnation in the recent past where wealth concentrated exactly the way this model suggests. And there will be similar periods in the future, whether that’s the near future (demographic decline) or slightly more distant future (exponential growth can’t continue forever.)

In either case it is useful to understand the underlying concentrating effect even if one believes it is tolerable because other effects dominate.
Getting nothing on my iPad with sound turned up.
The lawyer who's organisation is involved in a case, is being denied service.

Specifically, the lawyer being denied service is a personal injury lawyer, who works for the law firm who is representing people suing the company.

So they work in an entirely different branch of the law firm, but are being denied service because their firm is representing someone who is suing the company.

I mean do you prefer the world where you are punished for the actions of 3rd parties who are semantically or logically connected to you?

Irrespective of the fundamental issues of this case, this seems a bit of an overreach.
Thanks, indeed. With the increasing traffic, and the spikes in polarization, it must get harder to keep up every year.
that's a much harder problem to solve tho
We're actually waiting for VF2 boards to be delivered and then we'll have a go at porting Fedora 37.
Yeah been there, luckily enough i almost always had also a job so failure was always an option.

Only projects that worked for me where of different nature which didnt require marketing to make money, one could say hacking side projects.
Right, you can't force people to use good passwords, but you can set up requirements that try to maximize the chances that that's what you get.

As others have mentioned, there's no way to fully evaluate password strength short of providing your own entropy, so while the distribution is an important one to know about there's not much we can do to apply it while retaining a traditional password model.

NIST has some recommendations[0] that can detect when a password is not strong, such as checking a list of cracked passwords, but we can't prove that it is.

[0] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memsecret
Apple brought their chipset in house, using ARM is a base, to control their supply chain, cut costs, and allow for a RISC based architecture (which honestly just makes sense now these days). The biggest hinderance to RISC-V adoption will be if ARM remains customizable, cheap (from an IP perspective), and has widespread adoption. Honestly, I'm okay if RISC-V remains somewhat niche, but provides the necessary market pressure to keep non-open competitors honest. There's a meta-benefit to open standards as well.
Implications of anomalous relative sea-level rise for peopling of Remote Oceania
Guiding principle: Speed generates quality
No, but I'm aware they do the same thing for psychological reasons. Our road to hell was much less formal (Business: "I like the way it feels").
I feel like the missing piece is letting AI model users define the personality they want their model to have and accepting that it can produce content we disapprove of.

Just like we don‘t hate Microsoft and Microft Word if it is used to create offensive content, we shouldn‘t hate GPT. The responsibility should lie with the user, not with the model creators or model itself.
I didn't see you shut down Uber who did worse things.
Doesn't matter as long as the country is correct.

Only if logged out or course, if logged in you can display the price for the default address.
I understand that this means "center" as per USA standards. Given that USA leans towards the extreme individualism and quite strongly to the right (Sanders would be considered center-left in Western Europe) I guess this means that now chatGPT is right wing by European standards.

That's a bit concerning, to be honest.
No, you absolutely bullied him. And now instead of apologizing, you're doubling down. He never claimed to be a starving African child. He told us what he had to do to make up for his limitations, and instead of working with that conversation, you chose to denigrate his efforts.

You're right that I'm not adding to his discourse. I'm just trying to hush the people who are attempting to bully him.
In those cases with valuable and informative content in brackets, I would love to see more authors integrating the content into the sentence directly or adding a new sentence.
What a coincidence—this is also the year of the Linux desktop!
The star64 (from pine64) might have a better chance of being well-supported
One good complexity check would be “contains a single dictionary word as the main content.” I don’t know if library does it, though.
Apologies for the naive or off-topic question. I'm still a relatively new hobby Pythoner, and no formal training in CS.

I clearly get the security risks associated with random libs available for Python. Is this also the case for other languages like Java? Are the dependencies available to them also a relative free-for-all, or are bugs mostly accidental?

Thanks!
That doesn't mean his dad's a plumber, it means his dad showed him some basic plumbing and he took an interest in it that later turned into a career. That's fairly basic reading comprehension so the "........." like I'm an idiot isn't necessary when you're the one adding a bunch of additional context that isn't there.

And let's not forget it's a made up example.
I'm pretty sure they are doing the latter. I'm not aware of any feed readers that don't accept Atom and you will get much more consistent results as it is more clearly specified.
WLED got me back into programming micro-controller and soldering. Tons of fun to be had at a relatively low cost of entry.
Feeds are NOT just a way to craft a personal selection of news in a personal LOCAL UI, with optional full-text-search, local storage for articles, tagging etc BUT also a simple form of asynchronous/lazy push-pull notifications.

For instance we can have feeds for:

- all software project we use/follow, to get info about a new release without having to go to a site/read an ML etc and perhaps finding the Changelog directly in the feed;

- be advised of a new invoice from some company, a simple way no enterprise I know offer, but on par with emails to give an invoice, perhaps with the attached pdf and an easy to auto-parse data fields to munge easily relevant infos in a personal system, like match the invoice with a banking transaction, adding it to a personal agenda etc ALL with few lines of code from ALL parties instead of utterly complicated crapware monsters;

- follow some books authors or special offers as a form of self-chose, not invasive ads

- automation as machine-to-machine, using the XML in automated (and eventually authenticated) fashion.

The real issues are:

- all modern IT is designed for CONSUMING contents in eterodirected ways, users MUST BE powerless dumb sheep;

- most users actually ARE CL from Simon's BOFH memories with systems force them in such sorry state.
Hypothesis: In post-AI era real estate will be the most valuable investment
This is all a guess and a hypothesis, point out where you think I'm wrong.

There's a high likelihood that rapid development in AI will result in vertical productivity boost which will lead to new technologies like nuclear fusion leading to pretty much free energy for everyone, also improved farming leading to pretty much free food for everyone.

In such world which assets will still maintain value? My guess is that it will be real estate, land specifically. Intelligent AI robots could 3D print new apartment complexes and what not, but they won't be able to magically create new land in prime real estate locations. Owning prime real estate will be the best way to flex and invest in the future, since everything else will be too easily accessible.

Thoughts?
>Still, it doesn't mean I _deserve_ a high salary: I totally get why I get it, but I don't work harder, or studied harder, or really did anything more special than 95% of the population.

I don't think any other (widely popular) work occupies so much of a one's mind as software engineering.
I think the reason RSS is not appealing to content creators is because authors don't "own" the email list. And it's quite difficult to have paid content delivered via RSS (still pretty much open/sharable)

But from reader perspective, RSS is awesome. You don't have to deal with all the email subscriptions double opt-in etc. The ability to unsubscribe/resubscribe in one click is fantastic. And you have number of good RSS readers to fit your need.

Pro tip: you can add “/feed” to any Substack publication to subscribe to its RSS feed

To my surprised, RSS is still my most requested feature for my little SaaS[0]

I wrote a short blog post on how to read RSS on Kindle here[1]

[0]: https://ktool.io

[1]: https://ktool.io/blog/read-rss-on-kindle
> That's crazy. A $41 million kickstarter - my head is exploding.

After which he turned around and used some of that money to fund other people's crowdfunding projects:

* https://www.tubefilter.com/2022/03/25/brandon-sanderson-back...

* https://winteriscoming.net/2022/03/29/brandon-sanderson-back...
If you've learned Rust then you've learned a lot about the importance of ownership and lifetimes, something C will never teach you directly. It will only punish you for failing to understand.
A publicly traded corporation is not "someone." They don't have points of view or the ability to speak. In many ways, they are far more similar to government institutions than to private citizens, and should be treated as such whenever free speech is concerned.

The customer banned from MSG is not involved in the lawsuit, but even if they were, we shouldn't allow corporations to retaliate against people by banning them from public venues.
The hash is constant length regardless of input size. DoS is on processing power.
> Software can be so exciting and fun, and this “careerist” perspective really sucks the joy out of it.

This reminds me of people arguing that scientists miss life’s beauty because they attempt to analysis it.
You can enjoy the wonders of programming while still being mindful of your career progression, one does not preclude the other.
I like Neil Gaiman's quote in there, and I agree if you record someone reading a book you can copyright that, but that copyright has no bearing on the copyright status of the recording of a another person or machine reading the book. If I own the content, I can format shift, that is actually in law in the US. Audio is a format.

I think what actually happened is that they convinced Amazon that there was more money in audiobooks than they thought, and it wasn't worth using it as a feature to sell kindles. Now Amazon knows how much money is in audiobooks and they aren't sharing. Are they surprised?

Copilot and chatgpt are going to replace me, so I say this with all humility, don't protect jobs from AI. They are saving us effort we can spend on other things. This is just industrialization taken another step.
Kanmail.io for managing your Gmail in kanban board style
https://kanmail.io/
They're still subject to economic considerations (assuming a non-state actor). If the expected value on a cracked account is less than the expected cost to crack it, a rational actor won't bother. That they may use cracked AWS accounts, or botnets, to perform this cracking does not change these economic considerations.
> Developers are cheap bastards

Am a developer and can confirm. I am a cheap bastard.
OP mentioned it as a “national security issue” so I think they meant to invoke First Amendment freedom of speech.
A server is an appliance. Just needs a type 1 hypervisor, a container daemon, and a target application binary. The end.
The year of RSS reader will be when users decide to be users again instead of lusers (from Simon's Chronicles CL definition), witch unfortunately it's not something really in agenda...
> It's just a term to refer to your stereotypical middle managers high on their own farts.

It means “young urban professional.”
But as that came, some people thought they’d want an electric car, and they didn’t turn to Tesla.

This seems mostly like anecdotal.

Note that all three big players (Hyundai, VW and Tesla) sells all cars they are currently producing, and have people in line for future cars (disclaimer: We ordered an Ioniq 5 2023 as soon as orders opened up early 2022, haven't gotten it yet). The difference is Telsa sells 10x as many cars that they produce at a lower cost (same price, smaller battery). As an example, while traditionally being cheaper - nowadays an Ioniq 5 is about as expensive as a Model Y (at least in Sweden where I live) due to Hyundai not being able to keep up with the demand. They simply can't produce the same number of cars Telsa can.

Telsa are able to sell more cars at a higher price point. They can do so due to their bigger production, superior software, charging network and efficiency of the drivetrain. Given that demand would decrease for EVs in general, Telsa has a way bigger margin to decrease prices than VW or Hyundai. Their product is just better - full stop. This comes from someone who thinks Elon is an absolute idiot, has ordered a non-Tesla EV and absolutely hates the driver experience in the Model Y/3 (no buttons/switches, no instruments in front).

I think neglecting what Tesla has accomplished so far and that the position they are in reflects on their market value is just lack of knowledge into how many EVs Tesla produces compared to anyone else.
I'm a C# guy who learnt C over the past 2 years. It absolutely made me a better programmer. I learnt by going through K&R first and then Expert C programming by Peter van der Linden. I also went through OS books, books that talk about the machines like Understanding the machine. I program in many high level languages. The main difference I felt when learning C is, I felt like I needed to learn how the machine actually works (what happens when we run a program) to really appreciate C. I continue to pursue this learning, these days I'm looking into embedded stuff.

Also look at C programs. I study old, small unix programs like "more".

I must also say that I see people asking about learning C on sites like Stack Overflow and getting discouraged saying that it's outdated and all. These people are doing a great disservice.
I like firearms as an analogy here.

Rust is like a modern rifle, unloaded, with six safeties and three locked triggers in a gun safe. The ammunition will harmlessly self-destruct if you don’t focus properly before firing.

C is sort of like Rust except the rifle is on the couch, loaded, one in the chamber, all the safeties are off, the numerous open triggers are held by RNGs, and the business end is pointed right at your most prized possession.

It is fun, in a way. Use it in an environment that you don’t care too much about.
He didn't expect to rake in that much and iirc kickstarter doesn't let you pass on economy of scale to your backers (hence stretch goals in a lot of campaigns).

Like with his Audible comments, this also served as another way for him to use his clout to help other authors. I think he has said that he was trying to pull in people who don't normally back projects so they'd be more comfortable doing it with other authors. They even highlighted some other projects and redirected some of them money to them (https://youtu.be/TVdZ018gsRw)