skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to be arguing that the technology (i.e. MT in this case or CMS-es in general) that enabled many more people to blog (and therefore they all look alike) is what broke the web.

I understand the sentiment. But I rather have more people blogging than not.

Because blogs are the web. Many more people should be blogging.
My dad is nearing retirement and has never thought of himself as someone who is capable of programming. However, he is mechanically inclined. Was a mechanic for sometime and knows construction fairly well. This mechanical aptitude leads me to believe that he would be able to pick up programming just fine.

Anyway, I think this would be an excellent resource for him to take his first steps.
So you'd get "PNG" printed out when you accidentally "type"ed that file in MS-DOS. The 1A was the EOF character for text data back then.
This was in October 2022.

I might give OpenSUSE/KDE another shot. Any ideas what's broken on their wayland session?
Yes, if you go to their site there is a video of it working. Basically it makes a windcatcher drive a turbine inside the unit.

https://www.aerominetechnologies.com
To have the time to focus on things like that
I am 100% sure it will happen someday.
That's true. However, I am a grad student and I can't afford a wallet.
Demographics and density matter.

1899 was a detailed slow burn, not something you could throw on in the background while you're doom scrolling and still capture 90% of. Wednesday was a shallow faux-dark drama for the kids on holiday. We watched one episode, decided it wasn't for us, watched one more just to make sure, then never picked it back up.

Minors are where the money's at. Just look at YouTube and Twitch. Content for mature audiences is effectively over.

Edit: I should explain. We preferred to sit down to give 1899 our full attention. It's shot very dark, so we had to watch it at night after work and dinner, and when we were too tired, we waited until the next night to continue. Between holiday planning, wrapping gifts, shopping, travel, and all of the obligations that arose shortly after 1899 came out, we only managed half the season and haven't had time to complete it or any other show since returning to work. 1899 isn't really a show you can watch on your phone while you're brushing your teeth or async with another person, but it's so a bit much to binge.

So, obviously, we're not who Netflix makes shows for. We don't buy merch or follow stars on the social media we don't have. Our interaction is limited to watching and rating in the app and talking to coworkers and family about it.
I don't think your wife would appreciate that.

(joking, but the point is that non-para-social relationships, "real" ones, exist and can usefully be distinguished)
I did, and it was shortsighted for my retirement savings and investments. While I was able to adjust, my lifestyle and expense is downward, you really just can’t scale down 401(k) contributions.

My advice: don’t do it. Look around while you have a job, but stay fully committed to your duties at work (stealing from your employers is still stealing and is wrong).

If you need to, take some vto to clear your mind and relax.
Yes, we can. It's called zoning and code violations. Marijuana smell is annoying and when enough people get annoyed, there will be change.

Your comment also reminded me of a notice from the city director that daily fines would be issued for yard waste set within 10' of the curb for more than 7 days. Apparently it was against city code. Yard waste in my own yard! Now imagine day after day, marijuana smell wafting out of my yard into the surrounding yards. You bet that's gonna get locked down sometime.
I've never once seen a built-in nav that I liked. They're always clunky, take weird routes, and cost an arm and a leg to update every [other] year. I'd rather buy a Garmin and have dedicated than use the manufacturers option.
This article makes me feel old, having lived through a time where you avoided using PNGs on the web because IE6 didn't support the transparency
Ah, that makes a lot of sense!

So what's 0x89 at the start? It's outside the ASCII range.
> What kind of router, raspPI or kitten blog will you Mom be visiting at the hotel that would be of any importance? As I said, I wouldn't suggest allowing this scheme for anything important, such as Google, banks etc...

That is part of the problem. How is she supposed to know what's okay or not in what context?

The simplest answer that ensures security as well as we can is to simply not give the user any options. Everything must be encrypted, nothing can be self-signed, plain HTTP support is disabled.

> Right now, if I want my Mom to configure her Huawei wifi router, she has the choice between sending her password in plain-text to a trivially spoofed website, or being trained to ignore TLS warnings and overriding those warnings in her browser, before sending her password into a still-spoofable website.

I think that's solvable, and may have already been solved.

I think current ASUS routers already contain a valid certificate for something like router.asus.com, and the router responds to HTTPS on that address. Or something along those lines, I've not really interacted much with it.

But the point is that in such a scheme, the router would contain a valid cert, issued by a valid authority.
On mobile, you just use pin. So easy!

On desktop, you use pin, type code, then scan. I find the flow quite smooth.
https://www.pola.rs/benchmarks.html
I just use Everything by voidtools and assign a taskbar icon to it so it can be launched windows + 3. Other applications I often use are in the taskbar so windows + <number> (0-9) work for opening them. Beats using the Start Menu.
Love the writing style, much more light and fun than one would expect for an update on a point release from an industry consortium.
I was about to correct you and say "Dell Latitudes still have them" but I just checked the website and: the latest redesign does not include them.

If you are ok with last generation's design: they had them.

Latitudes are, notably, designed for business.
Power companies where I have lived can charge a percentage over costs. Basically, they can build nuclear all they want; amortize it and charge 10% above cost to customers.

Further, I can imagine an insurance broker (similar to the FDIC) collaborating across areas of nuclear was an option.

Laws are what’s stopping nuclear, not finances or economics. I’ve mentioned it here before, my family was in the industry building nuclear plants. They’d have 3+ people for every weld, fit; etc.

example of real situation: contractor is supposed to weld frame, the union guy is supposed to weld pipes, there are different inspectors for each. Pipe inspector comes Wednesday, frame inspector comes Thursday. Frame must be inspected before pipe is in.

Contractor welds pipe and frame Tuesday because union guy is out sick. Pipe inspector approves on Wednesday. Pipe welder returns Thursday, frame inspector comes and pipe welder complains, take it out.

Next week, the pipe welder drinks all week. Frame welder welds frame, inspection complete and passes.

Following week pipe welder completes weld for pipe. But inspector was out sick. Further sections must be put on hold until inspected.

Following week pipe inspector inspects and approve.

At this point the project is 1 month behind where it could have been due to union rules (enforced by law) & legal requirements of inspection.

What really put the nail in the coffin, was (I believe it was GE) was caught faking photos of pipes. There was then a requirement to remove and replace all the piping for a project(s) - at cost. Which was a hell of a lot of money and regulations were then dramatically increased. Haven’t built since.
>The breakaway feature of this release is Firefox now officially supports Manifest V3 extensions ... Manifest V3 protocol is a brainchild of Google to restrict the ad-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions functionalities to gain more control over Ads. If implemented, the ad-blocking extensions may not work correctly, as many other privacy-related add-ons...

Nice one, Mozilla. Out-Googling Google.
I think publick key encryption is already broken in secret
What are the odds you think encryption is already broken behind closed doors?

Do you think governments would even announce it first before spying?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurherman/2021/06/07/q-day-is-coming-sooner-than-we-think/

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09749
I had forgotten about that but yes, TGA was easy to deal with even doing low level programming.
Word? Excel? I have used them since the mid 1990s and can't think of when they've been as poor as Google's offerings.
Hey, author here.

When I wrote this, I had no idea it was going to receive so much attention. It was immediately after a call with my boss where I committed to leaving.

I have learned a valuable lesson: how important it is to be crystal clear with the words you choose and the message you convey.

Reading my post now, I agree it sounds like I'm naively planning on going to live in the mountains where I'll immediately die in a storm or get eaten by a bear. I also wrote "I'm the least fulfilled I've ever been". I should have written "this is the least fulfilling work I've ever done".

I am leaving an unfulfilling job, and an unfulfilling place, to move to a smaller settlement where I am a short walk from the seaside and a short drive from the mountains. I'll have a way higher quality of life, being able to do the things I love (hiking in the mountains and other general outdoor pursuits) at the cost of losing a significant amount of income.

This is a trade I'm willing to make, and it reverses the decisions I've made over the last few years. This is an important learning I hoped to share with others who may be in a similar predicament.

I don't have FU money, I still want to work as a software engineer and will have to very soon. The difference is that I will not trade quality of life for money, and I will try to find or create work on the terms that maximise happiness for me. These terms are different for everybody, so my solution is unique to me.

The TL;DR of my original post is "don't optimise for income over quality of life".
>> de-duplicate, clean, wrangle. this is a lot of work regardless of $.

This sounds like a great job for a specialized GPT!
maybe EU countries could save a bundle and co-develop these apps. might also improve quality / ensure best practises are available to all etc.
I don't know why you think it's obviously false. The problem is that the child sees chores as arbitrary labour without value to the themselves, not realising that by serving the family they help themselves as well. That's something that every child has to learn - are you going to claim that a girl in this situation is going to go "whoopee, chores, that's really what makes my feminine brain tick"?

I absolutely agree that we need adult male role models to tell male adolescents that they need to take care of others. We need it for women too, but that's a less pressing need for most of our societies. I suspect that the original tweeter would agree to that too. But the point the tweet was making is that "look after your mother while I'm gone" is not that. As I pointed out in the comment, it (a) doesn't give any actionable instruction or help, and (b) doesn't come from a decision made by the whole community. Instead, it's just a harmful reinforcement of the idea that men have an inherent "protector" role that defines their identity.
It’s just stenography – each pixel stores a byte in the least significant 2 bits of ARGB.

https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat
If you leave the country without setting up SMS you can’t ever use 2FA. They claim to support adding foreign numbers, support people being abroad, support adding new DigiD accounts from abroad, but oh no you can’t just add a number. Not even by going to an office or doing a virtual interview. I would think this violates EU law on discrimination. If you live in the UK post-Brexit it’s now totally impossible, I believe (since you aren’t even allowed to make a new account).
> * My biggest issue with this whole situation, is that the user gets a better UX with no encryption whatsoever on a http:// site than a self-signed or expired cert on https://.\\*

I think that's a well-acknowledged issue but those who disagree on less-severe expiry warnings would simply argue here that it would be preferable to be strict in both cases and that the lax approach to http:// is just legacy baggage we should work toward getting rid of.

Personally, I'm a little on the fence. The expiry UX could definitely be "improved" (made more helpful) without making it more lax. Another thing to consider is that going from lax to strict is MUCH MUCH harder than going from strict to lax, so easing severity now would make it difficult to undo that change later.
On this topic one of the most bewildering and frustrating trends I see is when people create a GitHub repository, but don't check include README.md.

This results in a totally blank repository and just a page of git commands to run to set it up yourself locally, set origin, commit some junk file to get started, and then finally push. This takes a couple of minutes.

Compared to: Create GitHub repository, have README.md included, and then just clone it locally. 20 seconds.
>Am I _am_ lazy but I've also been able to hold a job (and find new work) in the past, so something changed.

Well, ADHD/ADD you don't suddenly catch. You have it or you don't.

>ADHD has become such a fad that people tend to be dismissive of new diagnosis, especially in adults.

I'm not so sure it's a fad. People say it's a fad, but could be because they dismiss people who genuinely have it, and also because it was not something diagnoses back in the past (say, pre 90s), so every boomer or even Gen-Xer can view it as just an excuse (as in: "we didn't have that excuse back in my days..").

It's also because like any mental issue, it's invisible. Same way people ask people with depression to just "snap out of it" or "be more positive".
Only if one uses the flawed metric of measuring trade in dollars. Otherwise, mutually-beneficial "trade" would still happen - but in the form of sharing older, out-of-copyright works.

After all, it's mutual benefit that economists tout as the motivation for increasing trade, not the siphoning of money from consumers to media oligopolies.

It's also a huge market inefficiency - how many millions, if not billions, are wasted on creating new works, when in many cases older works would satisfy consumer demand just as well? Oddly, economists have little to say on this - they only speak up against inefficiency when doing so aligns with corporate interests.
But how do you know the OS is being honest? Or the hardware?
Sorry all I can see is comical pair of glasses and a fake nose on a plane!

It’s an interesting idea, but that they’re leaning into VTOL implies the efficiency is less than a conventional jet engine, which is a shame. I’m sure it will have military applications though if they can vtol working.
How Eco-Friendly Is That Product? Here Are Four Ways to Spot Greenwashing
Yes - the UK had the Royal Society pioneering the idea of organised research and result sharing on a national and eventually on an international scale.

Before that "research" wasn't really a thing. Discussions between intellectuals were scholastic and often implicitly about political status. The scientific tradition of hands-on experimentation and observation shifted the emphasis to building and trading rather than debating and conquering.

So effectively the UK invented the concept of invention. Other cultures were imperial, martial, and slave-owning, and ambitious men didn't concern themselves with hands-on work. That was for tradesmen and slaves. Although some invention happened, it was outside the main power hierarchy. It wasn't a tradition.

The UK - only partially, but enough - combined mercantile opportunism with practical invention. It took about a century, but invention became a recognisable tradition in its own right, and a credible high-reward career path for ambitious people. (Mostly men of course. But even so.)
Yeah people forget that we went from an internet where ANYTHING you wanted, if it was there, would be on a university site or some personal site by someone slightly obsessed with the topic (otherwise why would they have build a website about it by hand or in Dreamweaver and bothers to host it?) - Wikipedia didn’t exist so even relatively simple searches would bring up these little almost “fan” sites.

This was the era of massive FAQ posts that were just becoming webpages in some cars - an example being the Doom FAQ: that would never be written as a single document today. (Even the modern linked copies are “new”: https://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/doomfaq/index.html ).

A game like Factorio or Dwarf Fortress certainly has similar or greater depth; but a single massive ascii text file will never be written for them, as there are more modern ways to transmit the information
Usually, if it's a letter that's signed by the C-suite and reviewed by 5 layers of internal and external PR, it won't say anything interesting.

This is because, to be interesting, it has to be something unexpected.

But the job of the PR is to minimize disagreeableness.

It's rare to that something is both unexpected and minimally disagreeable. A sudden advance in medicine resulting in a cure for cancer would be both (but even then, if it were e.g. an mRNA vector some people might find it disagreeable). But a company's position on a technological advance almost never meets both [Google PR: "Google also supports cures for cancer!" Yawn.]
> To develop the third world, it might be more informative to look at the postwar trajectories of Japan, Singapore, Korea, and of course China.

That's the exact sentence, and it doesn't sit right with me for three distinct reasons.

First, it can be read as an an implication: "these 4 countries where part of the "third world" and now aren't given their post-war trajectory." which ignores the history of those 4 nations long before WWII or Western involvement.

Second, makes the same a-historical mistake by assuming that the particular path followed by those nations can readily be transposed towards other regions in the world.

Third, it's a take that ignores the agency other cultures and peoples have to carve out their own place in the world. Moreover, many of the problems in the so-called global south are a direct result of this exact thinking. Countless cultures and ways of living have disappeared over the past 2 centuries because it.
It’s all been downhill since physical bells were removed.
There is some app/web to speak with strangers to learn English? No general chat web, a specific one oriented to learn the language.
> this is just another anti renewables "I know better than all the experts" blog post

https://judithcurry.com/about/

"Interview with Ron Paul"

"Interview with Tucker Carlson (Fox News)"

"Interview with John Stossel (Fox News)"

Impressive list of disqualifications there.
Check out the Tex Shinobi to bring this addiction over to desktop.

Its one guy making these keyboards, a lot of love go into them. I absolutely love mine.
Then talk about 'scalpers' or 'scammers'. Not 'bots'.
> OpenAI decides to close or charge for access to it's API?

They already do: https://openai.com/api/pricing/
So pedestrians should wear helmets to protect themselves from cars, same as cyclists?
It's a bit disingenuous of you to skip the immediately preceding paragraph, which explains how the court determined whether the website operator "has the legal means" or not, and highlights that in Germany, specific legal channels exist for a website operator in the event of cyber attacks to get this information.

> Although the referring court states in its order for reference that German law does not allow the internet service provider to transmit directly to the online media services provider the additional data necessary for the identification of the data subject, it seems however, subject to verifications to be made in that regard by the referring court that, in particular, in the event of cyber attacks legal channels exist so that the online media services provider is able to contact the competent authority, so that the latter can take the steps necessary to obtain that information from the internet service provider and to bring criminal proceedings.
So that's what happened to Bender! Next March when we're visiting Tokyo, I'm gonna look for him by taking a picture of all the covers I see. I wonder what district I'll find him in? :)
Does anyone recall why he said that?

There was also a lot of y2k doomerism and a lot of work put into preventing it.
What is the collective term for a group of Wangs?

Is it Wangers? A wank? Management? Parliament/senate?
1) Today's "conservatives" all about being anti-liberal, anti-woke, anti-EV, anti-trans, anti-science (unless it is for making big honking guns, of course), anti, anti, anti. They define themselves by being anti. They won't define themselves as "anti-conservative" only because they have redefined "conservative" to mean "fascist" because its bad PR.

2) The last "conservative" president spoke openly about about ways to get additional terms past the limit, refused to accept the results of an election, and encouraged a mob to action in the name of that cause resulting in the invasion of the capitol building to disrupt the democratic process. Many "conservative" congresspeople supported the goal, if not the actual actions (openly, anyway). Then they mourned that the rioters were punished at the RNC, because law and order isn't about rule of law, its about maintaining power.

The military, which the US largely uses to maintain an economic empire, is one of the few things they will fund. The other is authoritarian police forces, at least until they do anything against them, then they need to go (see law and order vs rule of law).

3) Ok, I'll grant that the politicians themselves rarely openly encourage violence for now, and while I would say all the anti-trans bullshit is an expression of promoting masculinity at its core, I suspect you'll disagree and say it is merely "traditional values" conservatism. The undercurrent of pro-masculinity is definitely there in their base, and they are all about romanticism (that is, feeling over reality).

I know I'm just digging this karma hole deeper, but I can't sit by and let people pretend this isn't how the right is acting these days. And say what you will about the left's problems and extremists, they're certainly there, but I don't fear that they're going to start rounding people up and putting them in camps the way Texas looks like it is preparing to do with trans people.
I suppose that, in a way, the chronological model is a reaction to the immense volume that the Internet grew into. Only focusing on new content can be a good way to drastically reduce the time spent deciding what to actually read or watch. It is also a good way to help everyone focus on a few things at a time so we can have meaningful conversations about them together.

Forums, Blogs, RSS, Newsletters, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News... Sure you often first filter for (or subscribe, or get recommended) content from topics and people that you know you like. But there's still too much stuff to choose from. If you just look at the content from the last day, it is much more manageable to decide what is worth your time. If you come back most days, you know you won't miss much quality content and it will all be mostly fresh and relevant.
that would take another essay… which i have done! https://www.swyx.io/bottom-up-ideas
Not sure I agree with this.

Once you look closely enough, the distinction collapses.

I used to think otherwise, but that was largely based on a refusal to look, knowing that if I did, the perceived reality would fall apart, and the naked nothing would be revealed.