skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my thread was probably not the relevant one to ask this question in? I was contradicting buddy's claim that history doesn't matter. I believe it does. I wasn't saying anything about the new ownership or actions thereof.
old.reddit.com has been gradually accumulating minor bugs and quirks. I don't think this is due to anything other than simple neglect, but it would make sense as a deliberate strategy to gradually push people away from it without having a hard exit point like just shutting it down would.
https://archive.is/6zmOv
Actually, also as an Australian:

Australia is a country where you call your mates "cunt" and call cunts "mate".
Apple Lisa Source Code
Battery drain. I managed a big fleet of iOS devices around the iOS 6 to iOS 10 time period when battery drain was a common complaint (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13054056). Completely wiping the phone and setting it back up without restoring the backup fixed those battery drain issues 100% of the time. If you wiped the phone and restored the iCloud backup the battery drain would persist because you restored whatever glitched config file was causing it.
The time when cars were more expensive than servants was 1890s-1910s, not the 1940s though.
> I wonder how many people in zombie apocalypse (of a viral kind) would just infect themselves voluntarily to avoid getting chewed by the horde of zombies.

Probably very few. Infecting yourself is pretty much an equivalent of killing yourself. Except in movies they often make it look like an extremely painful, prolonged, and torturous way of doing so. But I imagine quite many will resort to other methods of accomplishing the same end-result.
Remove the sweatshop and there are higher suicide rates, less access to healthcare, less schooling, and worse standards of living. These may be counterintuitive but have been studied.
Damn that is good customer service. I like how y’all do things at Retool.
It's not like the federal government sends you a letter to tell you about it and what to do if you have an issue with it. While you raise a valid concern, I think it's a lot more likely to function as the basis of a class action suit - a sufficiently plausible and timely piece of evidence that would move a court to compel proper discovery.
The reason they failed is that 1,100 is simply not enough... Everyone knows there should be at least 4 "Agile Delivery Leads" and "SCRUM masters" per developer
Looks like we need to wait for the Digital Markets Act. But the pessimist in me thinks Apple will somehow worm their way out of that.
I had not heard that, and Juan's twitter says he works at the European Space Agency.

On the other hand, they certainly have on a few ocassions gone out of their way to help Headscale, like documentation the changes to the V2 control server protocol, and even putting some relevant code in the open source repo to make it easier for Headscale.

Plus they try to keep backwards compatible with older control servers in the client, and trying not to break headscale is something that has been mentioned a few times in pull requests reviews.
I managed a big fleet of iOS devices (hundreds) around the iOS 6 to iOS 10 time period when battery drain was a common complaint (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13054056). Completely wiping the phone and setting it back up without restoring the backup fixed those battery drain issues 100% of the time. If you wiped the phone and restored the iCloud backup the battery drain would persist because you restored whatever glitched config file was causing it.
Except we're talking about Prolog, so we're talking about SWI-Prolog, the insanely academic flavour of this programming language.

It's basically the flavour of Prolog that won the popularity contest exactly because of its academic sponsorship (by the University of Amsterdam).
> Wealth reveals character

feel like this is probably demonstrably wrong, but too lazy to google it.

i'd go more with, 'wealth can allow one to become monster', or 'wealth creates monsters', or similar.

the difference is 'creates' vs 'reveals'.

i.e. give anyone a billion dollars and watch most of them become monsters, probably. and one might turn out to be like mackenzie scott.

give everyone a hundred bucks and make them dependent on each other for survival, and watch antisocial behavior drop to near-zero near-instantaneously -- i.e. no monsters.

wealth creates power.

power corrupts.

it's why socialism has always probably been the answer. and if not that, then some semblence of equality - of power, in particular.

if people are able to operate largely without consequence, then they might act in antisocial ways - like musk, in this particular example.

but you wouldn't have to go outside your own daily lived experience to find all sorts of people doing all sorts of bad things because they are relatively unaccountable - they don't face real consequences for their behavior.
Some of Tron was rendered on the F1: http://www.cosonok.com/2012/07/the-super-foonly-f1-computer-...
Though if true, it does beg the question, how can these services possibly be offered profitably if a single query requires many high end GPUs to run?

Doesn't really track logically either. Though I'm not in the know. Perhaps ChatGPT is run with massive operating losses and its all VC subsidized.
I too am moving away from acme.sh for the same reason. Dehydrated looks nice but I started using goacme.

https://github.com/go-acme/lego

I wasn't set on only bash though.
There are a few companies that control 99% of the access to information on the internet.

We've been shown recently that both the government and pharmaceutical companies have used these gatekeepers to stifle speech.

I disagreed with it in the 80's when it was the right-wing acting as the morality police for TV and radio, and I disagree with it now that it's the left wing (weirdly?) acting to stifle speech and wholeheartedly embracing cancel culture.

If the active suppression of speech of qualified health care professionals by pharmaceutical companies in partnership with a few tech companies and the government doesn't give you pause, I'm not sure what will.

Maybe when they suppress something you believe in?
Yeah, pull-to-refresh doesn't make sense on a web browser at all IMO. Its obvious, specific application is "refreshing a vertical list of entries, typically populated via a network request". This action doesn't map well to "loading a page of content".

One fundamental point of the interaction is that you're already scrolling to the top of the list because you're viewing a reverse-chronologically-sorted list of network-driven content. If, after hitting the top of the list, you keep trying to scroll up, you're already suggesting to the software that you want to see more. On a website, this implication doesn't apply. I'm just trying to get to the top of the page.
I'm also not convinced that Twitter (and it's community/prior management which yes already neutered the API) was some holy thing that needed to be protected and we should all care if it destroys itself. Twitter getting a fire under its ass to become better or die off is not the worst case scenario in my mind.

At least as far as I can tell everyone is still using it with rare exceptions. The people most likely to post alarmist and FUDy stuff also tends to be the people least likely to abandon social media for some higher social/moral purposes.

Once enough time passes and we have enough inside information (and less current day emotion) we'll be able to better analyze these decisions and trends from a macro perspective. Twitter encourages debating things immediately with limited information on overall strategy and actual outcomes/consequences, so ironically I'm also critiquing the very thing Twitter morphed the Zeitgeist into, but oh well.
> The difference is Valve is a platform built with the intent for others to build upon.

Not necessarily. I'm not selling a game on Steam, I built my business providing a third party service around one of Valve's self-developed games. Generally speaking, Valve is friendlier to developers so it was a safer bet, but it was in no way a contract nor guaranteed.

Twitter actually used to promote third party apps in their sidebar. Even though they long ago made it clear that third party apps were being hamstrung, for quite some time they actually encouraged third party apps being developed and didn't bother them too much beyond limiting their access to the streaming API.
Even best tested chemicals are tested for their effects for what, 6-months? If something takes longer to damage, or damages only few, you're going to potential pay the real price.

Not unlike fake UV protection fitted glasses, that not only don't filter out the radiation, they're dimming enough to make your eyes allow more of it in the result.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew#cite_note-...
Yeah, I guess reflecting on this, there are a lot of good conversations that happen here, and because of that, I forget how much terrible shit also gets posted here. A lot of it gets downvoted into oblivion, but the bell curve on quality’s got some fat tails.
> No, and it’s frustrating for people who had it hammered into their reading and writing habits all through school. I can’t read a singular “they” without mentally tripping on it.

If you mean "no" in the sense that this specific sentence isn't true:

> Hasn’t it always been the case that you could use “they” as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender?

then you are mistaken, as sibling comments point out. Certainly there is a history of teaching people not to use singular 'they' (I don't know how long, but I was certainly taught it), but people have actually been using singular 'they' for a long, long time, and usage trumps fiat at least in English.
Yeah that's the first I've heard of that one. Turn deleted comments on and you'll see a fair number of people banned for racism.
Secure Maintainer Workflow (2022)
Paper tiger.
I agree with the person who said that men should be in touch with their emotions for their own well being.

The relationship that one has with oneself shouldn’t be dependent on others ‘ignoring/dismissing/ridiculing’ them. Then it is a relationship they have with the outside world.
Netflix to Expand Crackdown on Password Sharing in Q1 2023
They explains it here:

https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM#the-rwkv-language-model-a...
Flamebait comments will get you banned here. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The solution is to give users a toolkit for making 'apps'. They enter their username and install the generated app which does a thing. When they run the app, enter their password. 1P apps only.
Lol nice! :-)
Ask HN: Do you prefer Powershell?
I’ve used it here and there throughout the years for small tasks and didn’t think much of it. The last 2 weeks, I’ve been using it more cause I have to do some work on a Windows VM and it’s nice! I’ll go back to bash after I’m done with this work cause that’s what everyone uses. I wouldn’t mind the switch though.

I know bash is the standard but does anyone opt for powershell even on a Linux vm?
As in posts or comments? Because there's plenty of disagreeable opinions in the comments who get upvoted at least some of the time.

I'd disagree with characterising everyone who uses the site like that, but also don't agree with people who think the comment quality is flawless.
Yes, people will understand what you meant if you used wa.
Obligatory link to the very thorough free book, Nuclear War Survival Skills: https://ia800501.us.archive.org/35/items/NuclearWarSurvivalS... , originally published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
There's very much a debate about the assumptions that went into the original nuclear winter work. Cities today have a lot more steel and concrete, and it's not clear if the heat necessary for high altitude plumes would form. AFAIK no one has definitively settled the matter, but it is something think tanks publish papers on occasionally.
If you've set this and it doesn't work properly still, try swapping out the cable. A bad quality USBC cable would always make my phone (occasionally) charge my MacBook but not the other way around, for some unknown reason. Drove me crazy until I changed the cable.
https://sflow.io is a software service (SaaS) that provides project management, agile software development, ticketing, customer support, project documentation, and DevOps ticketing. It is designed to streamline and automate these processes and does not require code customization. It aims to help teams work more efficiently and effectively to achieve their goals. As a bonus for hackers, you can customize it to do whatever you like with low-code tool inside.

sflow.io offers an intuitive UI with multiple view options: Kanban, List, and Calendar. With built-in communication features and a user-friendly documentation generator, it's the perfect solution for small and large teams alike. Experience faster and smoother project management with sflow.io.
>There's a known case a few years ago where a woman was trapped away from the US for 3 years - her estranged husband put her on the list when she went to visit her parents, and boom, she's not allowed into the US and no-one will tell her why, making it easy for him to get divorced and keep the house.

How does one "put her on the list"? It's not that easy.
Git-sizer: Compute local Git repos size metrics
This is very serious.

JWZ also provides some very colorful images if you link to his site from here. I think "techbro man children" is his commentary.

And from Twitter before the fall, HN was known for alt-right hard libertarian hypercapitalist hellscape.

So having this person be hard negative here is not at all surprising.
Thank you, I'm considering adopting this as job title, like "senior unfucker".
This incident has been resolved.
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Oof, 4+ hours of troubleshooting... #HugOps.
>I think you have は and が backwards

I do not.
This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities.

However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?
U.S. airline accidentally exposes ‘No Fly List’ on unsecured server
Yeah I'm kinda the same. I stick around because interesting/useful stuff gets posted here, and the discussion is mostly also interesting/useful.

But some days I wonder if I really want to hang around in a space where comments about "race realism" and obviously willfully ignorant climate change denialism are tolerated.

(like you said they usually get downvoted into oblivion, but not consistently enough for me to be comfortable that those people aren't still a fairly large minority of those engaging in discussion on this site).
No, I haven't, because I don't want to support users with something I'm teaching myself with (it changes quickly as I learn that I did something wrong). In short, I use aluminum extrusion on optical breadboard to build a rigid frame and then mount linear stages based on stepper motors, smooth rods and 3d printed bearings and mounts. This forms a 3-axis stage to move the sample (could be a slide, or a dish, or whatever) which I control using FluidNC (normally intended for CNC) and some hand-written Python scripts for the UI/camera interfacing. It uses industrial vision cameras.

Most components are fairly inexpensive- at least compared to scientific systems- but aren't cheap for a typical hobbyist. The breadboard is >$200, the extrusion is another $100, the cameras at least $250, and my total personal time investment (converted to salary dollars) would be ludicrous.

The important advantage of my design is that I control the closed loop camera/motor control stack (with machine learning inline), and I can raster scan to make large field of view stitches with the camera moving constantly and super-short light exposures.

Here's an example video tracking a tardigrade (keeping its snout as close to the center as possible) I made with the previous generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYaMFDjC1DQ
Cool, but I hope his is never used as is, just submit with some keyword and call the latest version of GPT on the diff when looking through the history later. A bad commit message is worse than no message and it can’t be easily fixed.
Hello there, confirmation of stated reality, I was hoping you'd show up.
They never even tried to insert ads in to the API feed for third party clients.
The idea that a family, a household, or even just roommates, with no gmail, no login to much of anything, might all use the same computer, or even share a tablet? Well, that must give people at google a conniption fit.
Oh, it's Thursday already?

I know that seems blase but this is basically buttressing Russia's ongoing propaganda narrative that it's facing an existential threat and had to pre-empt it by invading Ukraine. This bluff can be called at any time by a senior US or EU figure saying 'nobody wants to invade your junk country, just move your military back inside its own border and STFU.'

Does the West want to see Putin weakened or gone, and Russia less powerful? Sure. Is there any appetite to actually seize Russian territory? Not outside of the community that plays Hearts of Iron 4.
it seems impossible to assess risk of current environment based on history

i wonder if that’s been perpetually true for all of history?
To complete the analysis, you should (a) use the high temperature combustion heat to run a heat engine to power the oxygen concentrator, and (b) include the waste heat from the oxygen concentrator in the overall heat output of the device. Then you have a box with (wood, air) in and (combustion products, heat) out.
> the reputation of this community outside of this forum

More like "the reputation of this community has with mega-narcissists who lack the empathy to cope with the fact there are people in the world who don't quite see things the way they do, and can't stand forums that allow people to voice opinions they don't like".

There are plenty of thing I don't especially like about HN, but "filled with literal white suprematists" is not one of them. I'm sure you can find the occasional post here or there that gets by unnoticed in some little seen thread, but that's certainly not the norm.
> But I want to move to a new CMS. The most polite thing I can say about WordPress is that it's moved in a direction away from what I need. The new(ish) WYSIWYG editor, with the blocks, is very far from what I need or want.

Why don't you just turn off the block editor? https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/ or similar.

> Right now, the biggest problem I face is the security flaws. The last time I upgraded I was immediately hacked, and after many attempts to get WordPress setup correctly, I found I could not avoid being hacked unless I chmod everything 0444, which means I cannot currently upload images, which I find frustrating.

Switching to another CMS is likely not going to change the possibility of getting hacked. There are plenty of Wordpress sites out there that don't get hacked. I would politely suggest that you may be doing something wrong and that there might be something less invasive that you can do than migrating to a different CMS.

> A static site generator would be fine with me.

I highly recommend Hugo if you're going to switch to a static site generator. Lots of Wordpress importers available, some of which you can find here: https://gohugo.io/tools/migrations/#wordpress
You may see it differently having profited but I think good riddance. Shoppers shouldn't get the false sense they're doing something good by buying at Amazon. We spend $100 and they donate 50 cents but the remaining 99.5% of the money is spent in ways that do not benefit us common folk, often to the contrary. Better to be mindful what and where you buy, shopping at Amazon and then letting them do a small donation seems a bit like they're handing out indulgence certificates.

People can make donations in their own name and get tax deductions for it, unlike with Smile where Amazon claims the deductions for itself. And why should a giant multinational corporation decide for us a list of eligible donation receivers? Some of those "charities" are very questionable and I doubt the average customer looks much into if what they do with the money even aligns with their own vision of a better world.
You don't have to be mom and pop to give a crap about your reputation/perception.
Between the two genders, men also disproportionately take the lion’s share of the spoils of war/relationship/employment/power/clout.

So here when men are judged by utility, it is essentially competition between the males of the species themselves.

It isn’t dissimilar to ape societies or lions. The alpha wars are happening due to testosterone. There is most certainly an evolutionary and biological reasoning for this.

This has nothing to do with women. Please leave us out of this.
The fact that they can do it so casually means there's a problem journalists need to know about.
> The conclusion on the mailing list was roughly: look, we're not here to find you guilty in a court of law, we're here to decide whether we trust you, and after all that we definitely don't.

I get the same feeling when I read the paroxysm about HN at the top of the page.
For people to whom anti-racism is a philosophy, you're a racist if you do or say racist things. For people to whom anti-racism is a religion, you're a racist if you're not sufficiently and publicly pious.
> people shun people who engage in slightly dangerous behavior.

I have not noticed this. Risky behavior now has challenges on tiktok. Heroin is popular again.
I'm sure that's not the whole truth!
That's the curveball, haha. Nicely done.
Absent outside influences, I agree the issue would be resolved peacefully over time. The problem is the Western elite want to use the issue to justify aggression and containment of China since China poses a mortal threat to the US-centric global financial system which is in a deepening state of crisis.
Part of the problem is that normally you're also very explicitly instructed to not lie on such forms.
If you continue to post attacks like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879609, were going to have to ban you.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Attention is Turing complete
it isn't a guy and it uses it/its pronouns.
Ironically, even C has the tools to avoid this. You just need to be running OpenBSD: https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2
"George Orwell a life" by Bernard Crick isn't bad (that said, he was a rude prick to my mother about some of the CP (UK) history, so I have reasons to dislike him at a personal level)
I don’t get, nor appreciate the low-effort dismissal.

In the world of traditional science and engineering that I come from, these kinds of methods are relatively unknown, let alone used to any real benefit. A document like this aggregates and distills the relevant methods, references, and beneficial applications in one place, which is helpful to decision makers and R&D leads who would otherwise not have known where to look or what to look at.
Is Chris Rock a comedian?
There is a stage past [flagged] where a post can also be [dead].

You only see dead posts if you have showdead=yes in your settings.

So you may have seen their comment before it was killed, or you may have showdead=yes in your settings.
Let's use this as an opportunity to educate. Trying to label other groups things that are not true can be very hurtful to the people you pretend to be on their side. Here is a list of African American Libertarians. You should lookup things before you comment.

https://lpedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Libertarian...
It's possible you are using the word "chill" in a way that is unrecognizable to me. And, from context, how other people responding to you interpreted your usage. I don't think so, but then again I may have have no idea what you meant.

Anyway, if you want to explain what you meant, great.