skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the issue of the original author not receiving payment, counterfeit books can actually have textual errors as well. A few years ago when the 3rd edition of The Art Of Electronics was published, I saw quite a few warnings posted online not to buy from Amazon. These counterfeits were poorly printed and had many typographical errors, many of which made the information factually incorrect and caused that specific copy to be untrustworthy. So especially for a reference text like that, a counterfeit can actually cause harm if the information isn't correct.
Apple doesn't charge Amazon that fee, so it probably doesn't charge Haraj either.
One of my hallmates in college ran A/UX on her SE/30. It was rad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/nyregion/23slave.html

“Muttontown slave trial” will bring up lots of search results.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nye/pr/2008/2008jun26.h...

https://sherloc.unodc.org/cld/case-law-doc/traffickingperson...
You're right; my Californian is showing!

Edited.
Um, we are talking about people, right? So 'anthropomorphising' is maybe not the word we wanted here?
> Sounds like an argument for nationalization.

No, it sounds like an argument to never fly SWA again.
You're correct in some sense. But the kind of "social media" we're actually talking about is the one that tries to hook you up and manipulate you. I mean, this is what I am talking about here.

In that sense, everything is social media. A blog post is social media, because the strict definition of social media is something like that :

"Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks"

Do we agree on some points or I am totally off?
Surprisingly, the link requires a final '/'. Usually this is optional, but not this time: https://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/slave.labor/
The marketing site is nicely made and actually quite unusual
How does the average consumer feel about plugging something other than the OEM adapter into a router? Things always say "Use only the original power supply", maybe they underestimate people's intelligence and think they will be too afraid to put the UPS in between?

I'd really like an affordable 5v/12v UPS though. Maybe it will happen when more things adopt USB-C and there's more of a market for power banks designed for seamless switching.
The solution to child and worker exploitation is not look sad and just buy the cheap garments and cobalt.

This is a coordination problem first and foremost. The solution is to tax the shit out of supply chains that don't provide the basics.

...

And yes, development economics is ugly. There's no royal road from subsistence farming to Switzerland-level, but whatever road there is it's not composed of separately inscrutable steps. It's perfectly okay to strive to make each step better and less horrible. Just as on the other side of globalization it's not some unknowable force closing non-profitable mines, and again it's a coordination problem that the disadvantaged folks and regions of globalization, in the developed economies, only got a big pat on the back. (And yes yes, there were a few programs to try to retrain unemployed people here and there, but it was simply a waste of money, because they got no help to mentally deal with the situation. Folks should have been encouraged very heavily to move where the jobs are instead of wallowing in semi-deserted corporate towns of misery.)
archive.org only seems to have indexed it for one month in 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080712034359/http://www.cnn.co...

edit: nevermind, original link needed a trailing slash
Group selection is as obvious as the nose on your face. So many, many animal populations have non-breeding members that benefit the community. Individual selection cannot possibly be used to support that.
As for being a man - I think there was research that showed that men indeed have it worse during common cold :)

Also, I was one of the men that complained a ton during cold. Turned out, at the age of 34, that I had a deviated septum and the level of nose congestion when I was healthy was comparable to when I was healthy. Even slight cold was absurdly doffucult for me. Since they fixed it, the colds are super light for me.

But I had to take my girlfriends’ laughs for 8 years each time I had cold.

I never miss an opportunity to mention this story when people laugh about some people having „man colds”.
Simple WiFi QR code reader for Windows
Hi HN,
Just wanted to share a simple - yet useful - tool.
It's able to decode a WiFi QR code and copy its password directly in your clipboard.
Usefull when you need to connect à new network and you've a WiFi QR code under your hands.
Just show the QR code in front of your webcam (required obviously) and the tool decode it for you.
The tool is open source so build your version if you does not trust mine :-)
Edit: It also respect your privacy as no data is sent anywhere and nothing is recorded, decoding is done "on the fly".
I really appreciate reading this, i lay in bed this morning feeling all the doubts the author is experiencing. I’ve spent about 3 months on a new product, i spent all day yesterday trying to figure out how to sell it effectively. I met with sales reps i worked with in the past, wrote really thoughtful messages to prospects…No one has bitten yet.

I’ve been here before, this is certainly not my first startup, but man it hurts still. I feel like I’m missing something, despite all my efforts, I’m just not there yet and i need to step back and try figure out the missing pieces before i burn too much time.

It’ll be ok, but until it is ok, it’s exhausting.
Sometimes, growth isn't the point (I too point to metafilter). Cash up front is a barrier.
Ancient Asian Memory Methods
There are ~1m slaves in the United States.
Syria? What about cartels run groups in the US?
This is neat.

A word of caution, depending on how the network is laid out, this could cause severe bandwidth overhead if there isn't a dedicated, and unmonitored, interface for the capture to flow over.

One needs to be careful not to have the captured traffic flowing out to the monitor via an interface that's being monitored, otherwise load will snowball.

The example here omits eth1, so I'm presuming that's the path the capture takes, but it would have been nice to see the author call this out. Otherwise, without some sort of capture-side filter, which the fritzdump.sh script and example doesn't seem to include, the capture will include a copy of the monitoring stream and the bandwidth will snowball.

There's also the issue of the monitoring port likely not able to capture full bandwidth of the aggregate of the other ports being monitored. Since the buffer in the device likely isn't unlimited, there's a possibility for lost data during times of high traffic.
Spelling mistakes can easily be added, as can reply delays. I think the mainstream will soon realize that Sybil resistance is not just important but essential for any forum or social network in the future. We need ways to ID users as humans, preferably in a way that preserves privacy for those who do not want to have their real identity linked to random internet comments.
Chat-GPT great science, unclear commercials, hate the hype
The motivation behind my side projects has been mostly having an entertaining outlet for learning new things. One of these is https://yare.io that taught me plenty about building something end-to-end. From concept, design, front end, back end and failed marketing efforts. Despite 0 revenue, the experience itself is greatly rewarding.
Yes, I have, that guy is amazing, the engineering and machining abilities are pretty awesome. I wished I had 10% of that talent.
Show HN: VideoBox – Easy video processing as a service
In Kindergarten we were asked to bring in $ to send a mouse to college. I still feel horrible once I figured out what they were going to college for.
You can also have it check it's self after the fact. which is the advantage of this over GPT3.
> Once your brain is attuned to anagrams, you start seeing them everywhere.

I had a moment like this when I was obsessed with Scrabble — studying and playing 20+ hours a week.

I saw a guy at work with Demetrius on his nametag. Instantly I saw that “with another U you could make ‘deuteriums.’” It was the weirdest feeling because I had no idea where that realization came from.

I lost probably 4 years in my 20s to Scrabble and then quit cold turkey. I’m about 40 now and I’m pretty good at Wordle and the other NYT word games but that’s about it.
You can ask yourself the same question in any job:

Is there anyone around who is better than you, who you can learn from?

If the answer is "no," you should move on to somewhere where you can find such people.
Yep, a functioning society that benefits the most needs some form of anonymous dissent.
How is IRC a gateway?
Everybody has their preference. But none of them are well documented. And all BSPs are buggy messes.
In consideration of wrong statements by LLMs

Earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26685694
I've been reading Gopher under MacOS 8.1 (emulated) over the holidays, and it's been nice. Light WWW sites work in Netscape 3 on it, but you have to offload https to a proxy because it's not compatible with modern TLS.
> If overnight, HN became the new Facebook, the single server model wouldn't work, and the business opportunity would be lost.

I know you're probably being /s but just in case ... all they'd need to do as a stop-gap hack whilst they worked it through is spin up another couple of servers and stick a load-balancer in front. If it does have a filesystem back-end then move that into cloud or network storage. Not ideal, but it would probably survive long enough for a more thought-through solution to arrive.
I made the switch from dual-booting in 2007 to avoid Windows Vista (I think it was). Ubuntu was great. Linux Mint was and is better, but early on it couldn't handle my graphics card. I've been using Mint since then. The Mate desktop environment appeals to me because it's simple and understandable. I really thought that KDE 3.5 was perfect, but when KDE 4 came along, I found that I couldn't understand it. I like simple and reliable above all else.

Now I'm considering an alternative to Linux Mint since the Debian ecosystem sees a significant refresh only once every two years, but I would suggest Linux Mint as a great starting point. You might also look at Zorin, which is designed to appeal to Windows and Apple refugees. MX Linux has high ratings on DistroWatch. Fedora updates twice a year, which is appealing, though I had problems back in the 1990s with Red Hat 2 and Red Hat 4 and dependency hell, and have an irrational emotional reluctance to try Fedora, though I need to.

These days Ubuntu has seen some friction, particularly with its use of Snaps for installing/updating software out of the control of the user. Back in the early 2000s Ubuntu was light, clean, and honest. And a little plain, compared to Linux Mint. These days I myself would not use Ubuntu. But it's your life, so you need to do your own research and make your own decisions. Don't forget about trial runs of Linux from a thumb drive. Genius.
Social media’s addictive nature is driven by a personalized feed using every trick in the book to maximize the time you spend there.

Nothing about HN falls into that category. The UI is as unaddictive as it can get. The feed is not personalized. There are restrictions on how much you can post. You cannot follow anything. You cannot express interests (beyond the broad interest you’ve expressed by visiting HN in the first place). There is no endless scroll. Heck, even the pagination with very limited options is almost designed to ensure you don’t go beyond a couple of pages.

And it’s obviously not social media because there is no friend/follower/connection graph
Yeah, AI must be personal and aligned to each individual rather than centralized and aligned to collective / group of high priests / profit-maximizers.
I just assumed that, because the server was providing resistance to the flow of packets on the network, it was properly called "an ohm server".
I agree with what you just said. One cannot compare HN with Facebook for instance. Even though I understand what others are saying. We need a better definition for "social media" I guess. Or we might need a new definition to target specifically those you mentioned.
The automation for checking out and bagging groceries is terrible unless you are only buying a few things. It is slower and puts the work onto the customer.
Hate this. So much. It's effectively demanding interaction from a user they know is operating a vehicle.
This comment really should be the first one seen in this discussion.
Authors making this argument (which we see often now) really need to sketch out why cryptographic solutions will fail.

The entire thesis rests on this erroneous sentence in the second point: “This can be done in two ways – just move to invite-only silos where you already know everybody, or big platforms where the owners do the vetting for you.”

There are more options. We employ them when we are forced to; when it becomes cheaper than not.

We can sign posts or sign that somebody is real or to sign that somebody has earned rep, or that somebody has burned their rep… and subjectively score every piece of content that crosses our phone against our social trust graph.

We can rhizomatically scale social networks, can deputize our people in our extended social network to mark content as appropriate for kids or not, or otherwise filter. There’s no specific reason why we cannot grow a kind of social nervous system that has a kind of myelin sheath against noise and spam. It doesn’t have to be specifically only people we’ve shaken hands with or our like 3 closest buddies.
Also worth pointing out that LLPSI is essentially Hans Ørberg's life's work. It's been adjusted and fine-tuned for decades, and it really shows.

While at a surface level it looks fairly simple, it is no small task to repeat the process with another language.
> Do we agree on some points or I am totally off?

Yes.

> In that sense, everything is social media

Correct.

> But the kind of "social media" we're actually talking about

There are social media that you think are good and social media that you think are bad. Both both are still social media.
What are some of the things you can do when you have wireguard in your embedded device?
"Big change was sweeping through automated vending.." oof Dad joke majesty lol

I used to stock vending machines. It's an art to know what people like in the area you stock. At the time I had to be fast since July and 30C and chocolate bars in a cheap no AC car made my job tough.
Check out VNM, the country ETF, for a chuckle.
'Pop up' here is referring to notifications like 'we found a faster route, press X to stay on the current route' and other such annoyances despite putting the thing in a mode where it knows I'm driving.
You’ve just made up your own definition of ‘social media’ that conveniently excludes HN — much as I made up my own definition that includes HN.
What I would want to see is a project for automatically converting the math literature to machine verifiable proofs. It would have to do NL to formal notation translation, as well as filling in the gaps that are left in any math paper.

This is a difficult problem, but if solved it would enable every trick used in every published proof to be internalized into the theorem proving tooling.
Ja… same for the last 12 hs. Absolute trash
Let’s have this conversation after the world does not want or need Saudi oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(standard) I see this usage here more often than the mysticism one.
The vending company owner was upset at this 'unexplained reference' to the unreliability of vending machines.

What? Is he living in a bubble? Every person on earth has a story about how a vending machine failed them. Billions of failures.
Sorry, fixed. (URL needed the '/' at the end.)
> You see it a lot in IoT sensors (like Ruuvi tags)

Even Apple AirTags (nRF52832 to be precise).

https://www.ifixit.com/News/50145/airtag-teardown-part-one-y...
Anything is *possible*. It's possible to drive drunk without crashing.

But as with drunk driving, the problem is that the statistics show a significant number do not succeed and are unnecessarily endangering others around them in their attempts.
> the vendor must acknowledge it as one or respond explaining why it is not.

Huh? So what happens when they do neither?
Self host your website and do POSSE (Publish once and syndicate everywhere else).
You can use Hugo or other Static Site Generators (SSG). Then republish your articles on other platforms like Medium, Substack and use canonical links so the search engines know your website is the source of the article. This means none of the policy changes of platforms effects you. Not even if the platform dies. Another thing is that you can experiment by isolating audiences. Like experiments with provocative titles, writing style being simple vs very direct and detailed technically. Also, I republish everything to Medium but only share developer stuff to Dev to and Hashnode. You can do all of this stuff cos you have a safe haven called your own website.

Tips:

- Start small and progressively improve or change things. Instead writing everything from scratch for instance, find a SSG with tons of free themes. Find the one which fits your needs. This means you can start right away without doing a full blown software project. And it reaches a time where you will need more features or need changes. Then and only then work on your own theme.

- Writing and Keeping the website alive is always the hardest part. Not the part of creating a website.

- Don't worry about the article counts or traffic. Everything will happen organically.

- When republishing, find platforms which have a high chance of discoverability for your older content. You website as people starts seeing will always have regular traffic even if it just 50 or something cos your website link is more likely to be discovered more than the platforms which almost always prioritise new content.

I find medium useful like that, for example I get people's comment and likes to an older content of mine in Medium. Meanwhile with Dev.to, they are always on a rat race for new content. Write your content and in a week it will never get another view. This pushes you to write new articles all the time. But I like to write some articles on my pace and not be a karma farmer.

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If you still want to use a platform, I recommend Bear Blog. It's a small project, made with love and respect for Indieweb. Good luck! :)
The most thought-provoking ideas of 2022
The absurdly uncritical coverage of Biden making up with MBS comes to mind.
It’s interesting that most of the issues described there are specific to the online version of news. Breaking news updates, hyperlinks, etc.

I’ve been seriously considering going back to what my dad used to do and I did when I was young, and having a physical newspaper delivered to read for 15-30 mins in the morning, and then cutting off all online news.

This article (although unfortunately it’s largely unsupported by evidence, but I have indeed been feeling some of these effects personally) is a pointer in that direction.
I whiled away so many afternoons at Barnes & Noble. We'd drive 30 minutes from our small town to the nearest big city and go sit and enjoy an afternoon reading. I would say maybe 1 out of every 3 visits would result in someone buying a book, but we never felt compelled to buy anything. For where we were in the country, the magazine selection felt incredibly cosmopolitan, and a window into the broader world.

To me, a Barnes and Noble still symbolizes the joy and worldliness of reading. Whenever I'm with family and shopping, if I'm not out to buy anything I still opt to spend some time reading in a B&N. I'm glad this chain is back on its feet and growing again. For lots of places, and lots of people, B&N is a lifeline.
Nice, I did almost the exact same project a couple years ago, but using an almost entirely different software stack... I used imgcomp for taking and comparing the pictures, Syncthing for sending them up to my vps, and gotify to ping my phone when motion is detected.

It's a bit of a duct-taped solution at the moment but it's been working flawlessly to monitor a property without wifi, I hope to clean it up into something I can present to the world eventually.
This is my worry as well, and I think the governments (out of all entities) could assist here.

I (EU member) already have an ID card and a government issued electronic signature, perhaps a service like reddit could just ask me to sign something to verify that I'm a real and unique human being.

Of course there are all kinds of risks of people being hacked, no throwaways, leaked signatures being traded, government refusing to issue IDs to whistleblowers on the run, and so on.
This is fantastic. Very impressive video. There is an web app I used a few years ago, https://citystrides.com, that links to your Strava/Garmin account and would give you a percentage of roads you traversed for a particular town. Haven't used it in a while but it seemed to work pretty well.
To me they brought it to that extreme when referencing authoritarian socialist dystopia when originally talking about carburetors. Hard to not see it going that direction about rights/freedoms when not having the ability to tune your carb means you're encouraging an authoritarian socialist dystopia.
this article explains the concept of a market for lemons rather clearly. This kind of simple and thorough explanation for other economic phenomena would be rather valuable
It still seems derivative, not creative. It is damn good at it and will only get better but still derivative from my limited experience playing with it.
People will encounter the same kind of issue in Psychiatry.
Because neuro-science is not advanced enough.

Quite an interesting article.
Pretty sure slavery is corrosive to the slaveholder too. Source: slack ass economies love slaves
But it cannot be solved by sending helium balloons woth sulfut into the stratosphere, or by getting saudi money through softbank. So the idea is not the best match for VC funding.
Perhaps she isn't a programmer and wanted to hire someone to do it.
No. I’ve done 2 things.

1. I’ve described the factors that make social media especially addictive.

2. I’ve defined social media.

So your criticism, however accurate, applies only to the single sentence at the end of my comment.
Max Stirner
There's probably some linguistic confusion surrounding the word 'media'.

WhatsApp is without a doubt a medium for social activity, in the same way that telephone lines and the postal service are.

However 'media' has kind of stopped being the plural for 'medium' and is now a term on its own. This means you can interpret also social media to mean the social exchange of information media, though perhaps it is more accurate to consider them an extension of the other broadcast media as social media seem to be increasingly in the grips of media magnates who fill it with advertising.
https://linuxczar.net/blog/2019/10/28/prometheus-histograms-... and maybe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apdex ?
I am not berating workers. They are all doing the best they can and what makes sense for them. I am berating corporations and employers for not solving their own labor problem by offering higher wages and the government for being a too restrictive with immigration policy for years.

There is a very real economic impact to low or negative population growth.
Libpb: PocketBase wrapper with serialization/deserialization support for D