skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collecting people's personal data is malicious behavior.
I'm not sure I agree with your definition of spying anyway. Is a hidden camera recording my bedroom not spying because I'll never know what the person who receives the video is doing with it?
https://github.com/sdr-enthusiasts

If you want to go overboard and do it with docker - this is as good a starting point as I can recommend.
It does mean that Discord has the ability to read them, which is what the original reply to your comment was about.

The "convenient history of all the messages" does not require a service having access to your messages.
Where I live psychoactive drugs are blacklisted by law. If you want to sell a new one legally you need to apply to get it put on the whitelist.

They did this so that hypothetical you can't dodge the law by tweaking molecules and that new legislation doesn't have to be enacted every time you come up with a new recipe.

I'm not saying that twitter shouldn't exist, I'm just saying that it and platforms like it don't have to exist in their current state. Section 230 _is_ the workaround that didn't have to be created just so that the platforms could operate outside of the regulations that other publishers are bound by
All this stuff might true, but from both a user and a developer perspective it actually works today and has a vibrant community of motivated, talented and interesting people building on it AND using it.

There are ways to address all of these problems if and when they occur.

I think one of Nostr's biggest contributions is its culture of pragmatism and speed. Do something simple, quickly that works instead of sitting around worrying about every edge case (which is a what a lot of "decentralized" projects do). If you have no apps and no one using them, none of the problems you mention exist. If you come up with something ridiculously complicated (think some recent w3c proposals), you've built a massive barrier to contributors and to developer and user adoption.
I am not sure why they thought it was a good idea to include a live feed like that. 1000's of stations sending in 100's++ messages a second ...
yes, because print media's business model allows it to operate responsibly
Take notes via WhatsApp.
I am building this WhatsApp bot that you can use to add notes to Notion (and other apps), files to Google Drive just by sending it to the bot.

I made it with the help of a friend cause I needed something like this for myself. Would you use it? Do you think it helps your workflow?

Being able to schedule meetings, drop files to cloud, check to-dos via WhatsApp text sounds convenient to me.
I'd appreciate a bit more detailed answer.

If the problem that Nostr solves is, say, posting NYT headlines, pub crawl reports, or cute cat pictures, it's fine, but most centralized tools are also fine.

If the problem which Nostr is trying to solve is being censorship-resistant and allow for dissemination of information which is actively being suppressed, relay safety considerations become important. Less safety means fewer relays, and a need of a personal connection / trust to be admitted.
Sometimes it seems to tweak out on 'x'.

https://imgur.com/a/l5X7oBL
This reminds me of a recent experience of mine. I was raised bilingual Greek and English (English is my primary language). For my entire life I heard both of these languages and use them both the same. What I had never heard, until recently, was someone who learned Greek as an adult. I was so excited to speak to them because it was something completely new to me.

When they began speaking (Greek) it was like my brain shorted out. I was so excited for them but it took active mental effort to translate what they were saying. I began speaking to them in English and I nearly couldn't force myself to speak Greek.

This was not elitism or snobbery, it was like my brain decided the path of least resistance was English and I used it automatically. Very strange experience.
there is no way a person, a single person, an unauthorized person, can have access into such system/functionality like this. utter BS.
I switched to only eating food I prepared myself because it seems all restaurants have the same endgame: spread salmonella.
MS Teams allows an attacker to leverage code execution outside the sandbox
Industries don't try to scale up pollution. The pollution is a by-product of trying to scale up profits. And one wrong doesn't make the other a right.
I have a serious if not possibly ignorant question here, but shouldn't experimenting on human behavior without consent be just as illegal as any other human experimentation and shouldn't that be extended to imitating art or language?
My stance is that GP is asking misleading questions that distract from the main issue (all-source emissions).

> And I dispute, "but don't you dare try to help", since you it's not known it helps.

The critical word is "try."

Apparently, the rule is that your intent is all that matters. If you're trying to profit, it's pollution and it's fine. If you intend to help, all hell breaks loose.

Exxon can burn down the world, but utter the words "geoengineering" and you can't so much as swat a fly.

I'm not saying this is logical or correct. I'm just saying that these appear to be the rules as constrained by (not always rational) public opinion.

> There's justifications for Mexico to stop these experiments, do you agree or disagree?

There are justifications both "for" and "against" (like any complex real-world issue), but the public debate has been extremely skewed.
Supply vs demand, won't there just be more supply availble for other cases ?
Eh, it shares data with Russian government.

If I have to choose between the two, I'll go with the US one.
They only take responsibility for the profit margins. Over hiring affects those but often not significant enough and can be corrected with layoffs.
You are saying "this is not true" while agreeing with me -- confusing. :)
Not really. I've attended a meeting on the subject where people decided to use English "not to be loosers" and I've heard similar stories from other teams and departments.
Except that you were warned about this, but you still chose to use platforms, hence becoming part of the problem yourself.
And just yesterday I started toying with “orderless” Emacs package which allows that (and more!) - both for underscores and camel case.

Since such features often cross environments I wouldn’t be surprised if other editors/IDEs had similar stuff.
Weak blame game.
No it doesn't, as that is a 3rd party dependency.
and neither is a bug free OS!
Nostr is very interesting, for some aspects it looks like a decentralized NNTP.
Apple makes what is easily the best value of any mobile device with the SE line, and I already called out that you can support Android for reasons other than raw profit.

Maybe save the childlike angst for when you have an actual point.
Asteroid 2023 BU: Space rock to pass closer than some satellites
> Why would you need to challenge that?

That's precisely the question, yes.

> Are you implying something that's more than one in a million?

Court cases aren't about the common occurrences.
Going to China for that long and not trying to learn Mandarin is a misstep. Chinese is spoken by a lot of people, but spoken fluency isn't that high. Moreover, outside of the major cities, you will meet very few English speakers.

Where I lived, Shanghai, there was a western community that essentially interacted with each other in their enclaves and never developed any meaningful relationships outside maybe dating someone who was Chinese. In Shanghai at least you can get along just fine without learning the language, but you will miss out on so much because most people around you can't hold conversations in English.
Yandex is complicit in the war and willingly helping Russian government with censorship. Its existence is unethical.
+1 for a cool title, and great choice of a camera. I once used a friend's Hasselblad in the Scottish highlands, and the photo looked almost nicer than reality.

A refusal to share the source code of a driver in the 1970s (on the side of Xerox Corp.) angered RMS enough back then to start the Free Software Foundation, and the rest is history, after all. So let's see what your solution will be...

What you could do is buy the scanner and after your project offer others to scan their slides to get some of the money back. Or team up with others and split the cost of the scanner upfront (this latter scheme requires someone to hold the physical device, I think donating it to a library after the project would be a fair mechanism, so each party - and others - can still use it later).
This misses why dependency analysis matters.
When I first heard of DoNotPay, I was honestly impressed by the idea of having an AI fighting cases in court (simple cases that is). But after a few minutes or so when I actually started contemplating the reality, my impression about it got dimmer and dimmer. In my honest opinion, I really don't think it is necessary that AI should be introduced in court systems especially to fight cases. There might be other implementations and other problems for it to solve but not for this. So, I don't disagree with the CEO saying that "court laws are outdated and they need to embrace future that is AI." But embracing can be done in other ways than this for instance I did read about a startup that uses AI to read law related documents or something similar to that don't remember its name though. That was quite interesting as well!
I mean, if someone isn't willing to take a day off work to visit a retail establishment with no parking that is only open 10-4 just to be told the thing they want is out of stock, that's on them really!
> "The converse question is 'why aren’t we all doing visual programming?'"

IMO this is not the right framing because it suggests a dichotomy where we must choose between a CLI or some kind of GUI node spaghetti editor.

It's perfectly possible to add structure to data and still edit it on a CLI. After all that's how file systems work. We don't address our data by raw sectors on disk; instead there are layers of data structures on top, and they're designed to be reasonably easy to use via CLI through concepts like directories and files (rather than having to poke raw inodes for example).

The problem is that a tree of directories and files is clearly not a very good abstraction for structuring programs, but there hasn't been a lot of experimentation on how we could layer a more suitable data structure on top. Smalltalk had a completely different (and incompatible) approach with its image model. It kind of feels like everyone in the PC space looked at Smalltalk, said "oh that's not going to work either", and then gave up on trying to improve program structure.
> Discord is spyware because it collects all information that passes through its communication platform

Yeah, you lost me at sentence one.

If that's the definition of spyware, what are things that do this in the dark? e.g. I install it to make snapshots on my computer, but it also records my browsing activity in the background for no reason other than to send it back to the vendor.
This relates to a hotly contended topic in style-insensitive Nim https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/456
How will Google solve its AI conundrum?
case in point: Makefile tab vs spaces are a pain.
So what if I just decided of my own accord to use ChatGPT and train it myself? Or someone on GitHub made a fully trained version of it available in a Docker container, for free?
Successes are management's, failures are individual's :)
No? The reply mentions storing them encrypted. If the reply meant end to end encryption, the reply could have said that.
It sounded off to me. The thread was useful.

I'm not sure which side will prevail here. It isn't especially relevant to my usage.
fun consideration:

any file system can act as a key-value store

any key-value store can act as a content addressable data store

through with limitations like fundamental constraints not being enforced, performance problems and potential unexpected problems (like the number of files per folder)

for above reason and given that content addressable storage is a poster child for fast(1) distributed reliable solutions (1: At least in "single entity owned backend database case") I would never recommend using the file system for it outside of prototyping (and system internal use cases like docker storage).
> If the problem which Nostr is trying to solve is being censorship-resistant and allow for dissemination of information which is actively being suppressed, relay safety considerations become important. Less safety means fewer relays, and a need of a personal connection / trust to be admitted.

Because almost all of Nostr logic is in the clients, you can always run your own relay or pay someone to run it. There will always be someone shady that will run a relay for you if you pay enough for it. And people that follow you will still be able to see your posts.

I agree that the current state where there are hundreds of open relays and people people posting to 20 of them at a time isn't likely to be what the network looks like in the future. But that's fine - it's good enough for now.
Interesting, but has relatively low character limit.

Can’t even fit the “Tears in Rain” soliloquy from Blade Runner :/
I found this chuckle-worthy in the changelog:

* Many more buffixes and improvements.
The NASA original printable of the star shade is better.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/space-origami-mak...
The issue here (as with many disruptive tech companies), is the regulatory system. It is illegal in most states to give legal advice if you are not licensed to practice law. If DoNotPay isn't licensed to practice law in California, they can't do this. And unless they have a plan to either get licensed in many states, or somehow change the law, then their business model sucks. It sounds to me that they haven't actually solved the real problem with the $28 million in investment money they took. The particular AI tech will have very little bearing on the company's eventual success or failure.

The real problem isn't the complexity of the arguments in most cases (as your story shows). The real problem is the complexity of the regulatory system. Tesla has to deal with the dealership rules in several states. Fintech companies that handle real money have to deal with financial regulations or else they are smuggling money. Biotech startups have to follow the FDA rules or they are just drug dealers. Legal advice companies will have to deal with the rules too- and their opponents are particularly challenging.
Encryption at rest isn't the same as end-to-end encryption.
For data transformations and analysis, because snowflake is a pretty rocking SQL database if you're cloud hosted.
One of the very few things giving me joy lately: People being afraid of AI, feeling threatened and insecure in their capabilities, because maybe those aren't so great after all...
I agree with this--however it was largely accidental. Apple supported open podcasting because that is all there was. I also agree that changes to Apple's podcast efforts for the worse are mostly about countering Spotify, which by the way is the real bad actor in closing down podcasts, by a country mile.

It sure would be nice though if instead of just praising podcasts as they have been, if there were open solutions to various problems open podcasts face that are not shared by closed ecosystems: There is still no good way to share a link or a clip for instance, unless the podcast app bakes its own (which will not work with other apps). There should be RSS syncing back-ends not tied to any one app as well.
The rule for kebab-case (regardless of whether or not it has a sigil) in Raku is:

- each part of the identifier must start with an alpha character

- cannot end with -

So, "foo-bar" would be legal, "foo-" would not, "foo-4" would be considered "foo" - 4. If you want to substract two sigilless identifiers, you *must* have whitespace between them. So "foo - bar" instead of "foo-bar".
OK, one thing I don't understand. You're talking about a ~1MW supercomputer. With 100K funding you could just about pay for the cost of electricity of this thing for 3-4 weeks (using US electricity prices). Actually building it would be on the order of at least 10s, if not 100s of million. I gathered from one video that you're an independent researcher group - how is this all being funded?
I joined a Nostr relay the other night, and every time I posted a Lightning Node invoice for 100 sats, within minutes I got 2 cents in my wallet.

So at least I made some money from this. :)

I'm following the project/protocol, it seems interesting. Here are some NIPS https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips
Programming languages aren't really based on English. I'd say they are farther from English than English is from Proto-Indo-European.
No.

We need to stop compromising.

Yes, there is a lot of old code.

No, I can't do it all on my own.

But we can do it as a profession.
Refuse to take jobs, nag managers, refuse to by hardware that only supports C, etc.

If construction was as ridiculous our fiels, we'd still use asbestos.
PAWK – A Python line processor (like Awk)
Show HN: I made voicevox API wrapper for Python
> To be fair, the average person doesn’t know that henge is a word with a specific meaning

It would take a journalist literally 1 sentence to explain what a henge is and why this is not it. But hey, saying they found Stonehenge II in the US probably sells more.
The HMCTS held a hackathon for the future tech in the UK court system a few years ago. The judges were people like the CEO of the courts, they also had lord chief justice. There were all sorts of firms like Linklaters, Pinsent Mason and Deloitte. We won with a simple Alexa lawyer that was to help poor rental tenants. It generated documents to send a landlord and possible legal advice. The idea was specifically for people who can not afford a lawyer. There was a lot of influential people who were very excited about this space, so it is strange when it actually gets implemented it's not allowed.

I wonder what the wider implications are for the legal system. Will there be less qualified human lawyers in the future due to the lack of junior roles that are filled by AI? Will lawyers be allowed to use AI to find different ways of looking at issues?
Not only is there not much pressure, it's actually more difficult as Swedes are generally happy to speak English and will often switch as soon as your accent gives you away as a foreigner. After 15 years living here I am now fluent, it was a challenge though!
They're not mutually exclusive. A staffer leaving a backup system running may well have been the proximate cause of the issue but, if true, it was also likely a management/system issue as you say. The article is a bit strange in that it doesn't attribute the fact in the headline to any source. I don't see anything from the NYSE saying "it's all that guy's fault". On the contrary it says:

> [NYSE execs] plan to examine the platform’s procedures and management, potentially reworking rules to be more flexible and provide further protections.

Sounds like they know it's a management issue. The headline probably focuses on the staffer leaving the backup system running simply because it's a better headline.
I think the legibility slider can go quite a bit lower. None of the models are anywhere close to real world illegibility.
Beside from Discord not being open-source and forcing me to disclose my personal information to them when I log in through some glorified proxy, using discord to engage with the community is a bad idea.

Here are my reasons to use alternatives (of course, I have no say in what you should use).

1. A centralized platform like discord can kill your community engagement plan whenever they want (you own nothing, and they don't owe you anything).

2. You don't really get a "closed community" as they collect your messages in plain text[1]

3. There are better alternatives that won't spy on you and has better accessibility[2][3][4]

If the alternatives make one think that no one uses them, it is because the projects are promoting discord in the first place.

If more FOSS projects start using an alternative (matrix, for example), more users will be hesitant to use discord.

I have more reasons, like Discord community usually end up in less meaningful discussion, have significantly less searchability, and visibility than a forum has -- but they are not really a big problem in a closed community.

And if the project wants a place to have civilized discussion, engagement, and visibility, it is far easier and better to host a forum like discourse[5] than using a chat based system.

[1] https://discord.com/privacy#3

[2] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-11-29-announcing-the-chat.sr...

[3] https://matrix.org/ (is much more reliable than in the past)

[4] https://zulip.com/

[5] https://www.discourse.org/ (a forum)
> A physician doesn't injure herself when she mistreats you either.

She can be sued and lose her license.
True. But when that happens, that's a textbook sign of lack of leadership.
People choosing to represent themselves with an AI assistant is a big no. It is too dangerous.

Choosing not to vaccinate is a yes.

Owning a gun is a yes.

Wearing bullet proof vests and shooting each other for fun is also a yes. https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/aug/22/case-dropped-in-b...

What a strange way of having freedom.
It’s obvious that the only value in using different cases is so you can differentiate between different types of thing:

1) functionsLikeThis

2) variables_like_this

3) ClassesLikeThis
The capsid is one thing but it's utterly mind boggling to me that you make a stretch of amino acids and they reliably crumple into like an enzyme.

That and prions are crumpled proteins that crumble other similar proteins into themselves. Mental!
SF_RANK_DOOR2_2

hmm...
Transformative experience and revelatory autonomy (giving advice is wrong)
Sure there is. For example if you want to use one client on one platform, another client on another. I want not just my subscriptions to be updated on an ongoing basis between two unrelated clients, but play position and play/unplayed to sync.

That said with RSS I just use NetNewsWire which does local crawling of my feeds, and it updates its state via iCloud. But I'd definitely want a web interface if I needed one to access my feeds on a work computer or something.
Some, and maybe most, of the complexity is organic. But there are specific instances, like the tax code, that have been kept intentionally complex at the bequest of special interest groups.

And of course, laws are made mostly by lawyers. So they don't have much of an incentive to change things.
YouTube is very different in that its videos are not DRM protected, but the alternatives are (today at least) much worse in terms of content diversity.
It is actually about holding authorities responsible for enforcing the peace instead of allowing riots. You are junking up some basic moral issues with political and social media foolishness.
That's a lovely bunch of non sequiturs you got there.

Most primarily we're more sick than ever because of two things that have absolutely nothing to do with "curing symptoms":

* We're so good at curing diseases and conditions that used to be fatal that people get a lot older than they used to, and old people get sick far more often.

* Automation and increased productivity make a sedentary lifestyle possible and even incentivize it.
Nostr is a protocol. Are there moderation functionalities in RSS, SMTP or HTTP? Do matrix and XMPP protocols have some central authority overseeing what server a talks to server b?
It’s up to the relays implement their own moderation features and clients filter what they don’t want to see.