skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goodness Powershell is gross. Why would I went to do get-command or some junk. Ah well, I just need to work with it more. Tried the month of lunches book, but it got rather in-depth pretty quickly to me. Maybe ChatGPT can break it down a bit more.
Show HN: File Based Documentation Site – Next.js
Hello everyone,

I've been building a simple open-source documentation site on top of Next.js. It works similarly to Next.js' file-based routing system, but instead of JavaScript, it uses Markdown and MDX.

Before I continue, I would like some feedback on whether it would be helpful for y'all. Should I continue or stop?

Any feedback would be appreciated!
Cross key syncing service.

You plug both yubikeys in. Authenticate on both keys using the tool and then you're able to transfer/backup.

Corporate management offerings around Yubikeys, inventories, call back home to renew an expiry if the yubikey itself when touched should give out the information.

Trust me, if Yubikey hires me and goes IPO it is all downhill but the company will make a boatload more money.

Every company I have worked for I've found significant ways of increasing margins and EBITDA.
For sure karma doesn't mean anything and if it was just somebody rage downvoting it hardly matters. Rage flagging appears to give regular users mod like powers.

I understand the counter argument you're making to my suggestion, hopefully somebody can come up with a better one.
That’s already how Google works.

The publishers either aren’t aware of that, or think captive readers are more valuable than SEO.
Can always move on to Koselig, even shorter distance to ‘cozy’
that’s not true at all. the process of learning is a dopamine hit. the concept that phones made us antisocial is dumb, it’s a default. arguing to end phones avoids dealing with the problem
Software engineer isn't a protected title in the US.

My cat can legally be a software engineer - no degrees required.
24 hour cable news, where news became entertainment, definitely sowed the seeds of this.

There is a great movie from the 70s called Network that predicted the slide of society in this direction.
Companionable. It's the most direct translation, and it's very close to how we use the word "gezellig". We just use the word a lot more frequently. The warm feeling you get when you are with friendly company, even if that's just your own company, that's what we call companionable and it's a theme that's central to Dutch culture. If you'll agree Christmas is the most companionable time of the year, I think you're very close to understanding to why the Dutch want everything to be companionable.
> creating a safe environment where they can learn the needed skills that can help them in that situation.

He literally wrote a book calling for Universities to stop creating "safe spaces".
If the hardware itself is the reason for the long startup time, kexec allows you to boot a new kernel from within an existing one and avoids the firmware/HW init.
Making ChatGPT Encrypted End-to-End with Homomorphic Encryption
yes, but my experience is speaking to caltrain in the 90s
This was always attractive to me, how are you running a linux host on the phone or are you just using native android hosted services?
Similarly, Germans might find the Dutch usage of "lekker" (lit. "tasty", same root of German "lecker") quite... inconsiderate: it of course applies to food, but it's way common to use it for relaxing, enjoyable activities (you can sleep and sit "lekker", and something can also "go lekker" - meaning it goes well).

At least, that's what I made out of, but I welcome a proper explanation from a native speaker!
I understood what he meant, and in fact I even missed the typo until you pointed it out.
Fire and firing - you forgot the layoffs
The Rachael Maddows and Don Lemons of the world are probably feeling pretty uncomfortable right now.

The truth is that none of them, Fox personalities included, are journalists or even "news". They should all stop misleading people and call themselves "entertainment".
They way they can say whatever they want.
> There has been a complete loss in any interest in meeting a middle ground

There's no middle ground between wanting to kill someone and wanting to let them live in peace. If a person thinks someone is a born child molester (a "groomer" in the modern Newspeak) and that person thinks the punishment for child molestation is death (as is fashionable in Florida of late) there's no way they can meet that person in the middle.

And that, sadly, is not new, either, as Matthew Shepard demonstrated so memorably in my own lifetime, but things are rather coming to a head now that sexual and gender minorities are forcing their longstanding plight into the public eye. They don't die quite as quietly now, in other words, and the great mass of people is more sympathetic to them now than it ever has been in the past. This, naturally, makes their would-be killers feel a bit persecuted.

> and like the use of stocks in medieval times the concept of cancellation is much more power than any reality.

Here we go, right on cue. The notion of being run out of employment for holding the traditional bigotries is a bit new, isn't it?
The website is actually pretty de-HAVE YOU TRIED USING THE REDDIT APP? IT'S THE BEST EXPERIENCE-cent.
Because the German citizens voted for it.
I exist because I want to exist. I want to exist because I exist.
Distance per time seems like a very poor choice of unit for something that's roughly rotating about one corner of itself.
The filibuster rule is from a time when the Senate was selected by the States, not the people. It was designed as an effective State Veto.

It works for that purpose and in that context and IMO is good.

We should return the Senate to be the States representatives in congress, and the House is the People. Instead of having both the Senate and the House be popularly elected.

Return to more republican (i.e Republic not the party) style of governance, and less democratic, but I know that is heresy today where democracy is the new religion and people fail to learn the lesson of Athens
I'd suggest "convivial" is a little closer.
Considering that:

The U.S by itself consumes and pollutes an excessive amount even proportionally compared to China, there's definite optimizations in consumption patterns that can be made to reduce total overall carbon footprint. Plastics are still everywhere and recycling is considered a scam here. It's done so by design by oil companies. Yes, every single Styrofoam takeout container accumulates waste, especially for a country so prone on eating out. I get bottles of Mexican coke that show clear signs of wear and multiple usage in Mexico...only to finally end up on American store shelves were they'll be dumped in the trash like everything else here because nobody bothers with glass recycling bottles. Recycling plants are zoned out because the only people even bothering to return plastic bottles for 5 cents in a handful of states are the homeless, and even for them it's barely worth the fucking effort.

The amount of car traffic in America is ludicrous and an endemic problem of poor, lobbied city design. This country had better public transit that was muscled out by automobile lobbyists, some of which actually privatized the transit and let the infrastructure die. Asphalt retains heat, and every new damn road built is a contributor to making the world just a little bit more warmer than it used to be. China is a leading adopter of rail commuting and freight transport. We're twiddling our thumbs and letting our rail networks deteriorate and become unusable, because its cheaper to move less material over trucks.

These are just two simple examples. There's no zero sum result of completely eliminating plastics, but we can definitely consume much less. But we don't. Because we are lazy. Instead we exploit pollution loopholes where we classify SUVs as light work trucks so they don't have to conform to strict emission standards. This is why Ford cut down most of its car production lines in the U.S and almost exclusively focuses on trucks for their consumer market, and why increasingly more cars on road today are arguably less safer SUVs
Yea, don't get me wrong. At the end of the day there is no way I would want to trade the Swedish system for the US system, no matter how flawed I find the Swedish system.
Is there a way I can learn more about this? A resource for non-lawyers.
Humans will never thrive in space, unless we turn into digital brains housed in radiation-hardened robot bodies.

In which case you might as well turn everyone on earth into digital brains in normal robot bodies and skip the space shit.
You never shut up, do you?
Finder is the only think I don't like on OSX. I just wish I could natively install something like Caja and be done with it. I'm a bit new to OSX but I have no idea how anyone could prefer Finder.
what on earth are you talking about? newspapers have existed to control the narrative since inception. look at how they’ve been used, and listen to the lead editors talk about using their influence.

it’s a slightly less targeted ad, sure, but my dad only reads conservative papers, and they don’t seem to be written with a common perspective
Whether you can make sense of what I am writing is out of my control.

However there is nothing in what I said that isn't factually correct. If that makes me boomer contrarian the so be it.
It's not a tax credit. The tax credit is still there.

It's the deduction which has gone away.

And yes, small businesses are hit hardest by it going away.
Yes, but I think most people care about availability of data over true ownership of data.

If I’m running a business and my internet goes out, there’s a huge selling point to a local DB that allows my operations to keep chugging along until Comcast figures out their mess. Internet returns, my DB syncs with a server offsite, and now I have that backup.
I often get downvoted for suggesting this, but why not simply host all your chats, videoconferencing etc. on your own website? Make it a gated community and only post little teasers to the likes of Instagram and YouTube and TikTok and Twitter and Facebook. Let them come to YOUR site to participate and abide by YOUR terms. Why make a Facebook Group or a Discord server?

Why do so many of us, including the biggest influencers in the world, spend so much money only to post all of our content on the Big Tech’s sites and infrastructure? You give all your social capital to them too, and they turn around and sell it back to you (access to your own followers) and can deplatform you. They encourage you to pay them to attract eyeballs away from other videos, and vice versa, in a zero-sum game on their own platform.

They now increasingly even control our conversations and our democracy. Why not have these conversations on our own forums, powered by our own software, the way we do on HN?

We gave away all our social capital and our content, to these platforms. And then they turn around and train big data on it internally, and scrape it for their AIs.

People have complained for years yet do nothing about it: https://readwrite.com/mark-cuban-facebooks-sponsored-posts-a...

I ask again: why not simply host it ourselves?
Well of course they are, they poor dears grew up in a world without it and while there are exceptions, most of them lack any natural immunity. Just look at people over 50 (present company excepted, of course) trying to use the web without an ad blocker.
Ask HN: Fb.org Instead of Fb.com?
Facebook/Meta is basically at a point where people will keep an account for basic life stuff although posting and interactions are obviously not what they used to be. It's basically once again just the phonebook of the internet now that the hype has worn off. Because continuing to try and monetise and squeeze out profits can only end in more crappy experience and death spiral, surely it could be a positive for it to transition into a solid NFP like Wikipedia and be something that is nurtured by the community rather than just used for corporate gain? Surely Zuck has enough money that it could be funded into infinity and beyond by a large donor. Obviously Mastodon is cool but lacks the network effect needed to get to ubiquity.

Thoughts?
Ah yes, another fellow Ted Lasso viewer.

For context, this word was a key plot point in this last night's episode of the show.
The concept of "ARP Stand-in" brought to mind Proxy ARP:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_ARP
So far, you can remove all of these on Windows 10 and I recommend doing so. I do agree with the sentiment that I might finally learn Linux just to avoid all the ads.
And the wind itself backs (anti-clockwise) and veers (clockwise) with height.
One of my friends was trying to figure out "how" ChatGPT knew about tried something I hadn't thought out, just ask it "do you know paper xyz by author abc?" and in fact it had.
People who don't understand PowerShell are doomed to bikeshed two aliases from an entire shell, programming language, and ecosystem of OS integration and tooling.

> "Yes, because it's not broken (certainly not for interactive use)"

It's not /broken/, it's dated, limited in the way "turn everything to CSV or JSON and turn it back" is becoming common as a clunky workaround, limited and weak as a programming/scripting environment with hard boundaries making it difficult to extend or build on without having to switch to a completely different thing like Python/Perl, inconsistent and arbitrary with all commands doing their own thing for argument parsing and input/output formatting and style of human interface, and all being isolated silos, it's easy to do badly and difficult to do well.

PowerShell parses command parameters at the shell level. So they're all consistently handled, there isn't the same "this command has weird argument parsing". That means the engine can look into the cmdlets and interrogate them in standard ways and present hints about usage from their help comments. PowerShell is a scripting language and lets you reach for the .NET framework when its builtin commands aren't enough, and then lets you build commands in C# still for more flexibility or performance but still using the PowerShell engine for parameter processing and from there lets you build modules for ease of deployment to different machines. PowerShell engine has scriptable tokeniser, AST, meaning your code can process PowerShell code and editors can lean on the engine for syntax highlighting and autocompletion instead of using regexes from before LSPs.
You gotta let go and learn to love getting down voted. I look at my HN points as a bank account. It goes up and it goes down. I spend the money I have in there on the freedom to say whatever I really think. It would be so boring if my bank account only went up up up. The up down up down cycle is life.
No, that's what I meant, but said in a facetious way. If someone is complaining about lower right abdominal pain that could be the appendix, when lower left would not be.
This is a good point.

I suspect that one reason is that "digital natives" have been raised with the tech, so have sort of a "natural resistance," yet the oldtimers were hooked almost immediately.

For myself, I have been using electronic communications, almost since they were invented (BBSes and UUNet, anyone?), so I have "more resistance" than most of my peers.

Yet, I still have to stay off of Facebook. This is pretty much my only social media venue. The main reason I stay, is because people play [relatively] nice, hereabouts.
If you were worried about behavioural problems, including UB, tests would help.

But alas the problem here is IFNDR [Ill-formed No Diagnostic Required] so the compiler can't help you. All semantic constraints are your problem as the programmer, C++ decided that it's not the compiler's concern whether the program meets semantic constraints. Testing doesn't necessarily help at all, which is probably surprising.
whoa, they claimed deviantart is a text-to-image generator being sued by artists? is that really a thing? Last I heard Deviantart was really against it
Perhaps they have -1 now.

Either that or my recent C excursions have me thinking in buffer overruns and index errors.
cool. just saying- consider yourself fortunate as I was born in one of the most violent cities in the world (Baltimore) to an over-bearing mother who had a very hard time with me leaving despite the riots, corruption, and nightly gunplay I could hear ring out from my row home. We are quite close but she didn't speak with me for months when I moved.

I do sympathize though. I do not have kids (yet) but our move from TN > Maine is definitely partially motivated by the fact that I said I would absolutely never raise a child in the south due to gun culture and archaic legislation in general. For example most states in the south still allow school teachers and administrators to hit children- most of this happens in Mississippi and TN, then basically other states where lots of poverty, christianity, or mormonism are.
I think you're going the wrong way with this.

The problem is that there are too few representatives and so they can build collations that explicitly exclude your interests while still representing you.

I think it would be much better to have some dual-system to send representatives to congress where you could either Vote or Petition to get a representative. If you Vote its basically the same as currently. But if you Petition you and ~150k other people do not get to Vote but the person you're petitioning for is your representative.
VAX assembly is much higher level than x86. It’s closer to like B than assembly we’re familiar with. I believe they ported the kernel to C or Bliss in the alpha transition in the 90s because well alpha doesn’t speak VAX and no one wants to write an OS in RISC assembly
I was hoping this article would be about that. It's not. It's a waste of time spent pearl clutching about how the authors find some small percentage of the internet/Common Crawl "troubling." I don't know what they expected.
What about software written on contract? It's my understanding that a signed contract with a customer to deliver something for $x is usually enough to convince a bank to lend you $x for approximately the length of time until you get paid. IOW if I'm an engineering firm that has a contract with the DOT to design a highway interchange, I can go down to the bank and a get a loan to pay my engineers' salary until we deliver and get paid. Can I do the same as a software shop that has a contract to rewrite the DOT's payroll software? I guess this scenario is still different because I'm (probably) not paying the loan off over several years -- it's more like an inventory loan.

In any case, it seems like the result of these changes (if they stand) will probably be to change in some way the amount /and type/ of software that gets written. If the tax treatment of software essentially requires it to be a capital asset, we will probably see people write more software that behaves like a capital asset: shrinkwrapped software rather than SaaS. This may not be a bad thing.
This article is so misleading. First there’s nothing secret about all this. Also these chat bots don’t just “sound” smart, they are providing value to millions of users.
I'd argue that a lot of modern web engineering pretends to be built for problems must people won't have. So much resume-driven-development is being done on making select, easy parts super scalable while ignoring some elephants in the room such as the datastore.

A good example is the obsession with "fast" web frameworks on your application servers, completely ignoring the fact that your database will be the first to give up even in most "heavy" web frameworks' default configurations without any optimization efforts.
The question isn't whether it's possible to constrain the road environment such that self driving cars can work, but whether it's desirable. The article is simply answering in the negative.
look at a picture of folks on public transport from before phones. note that _everyone_ is reading a newspaper or magazine.

I know the image you have in your mind. I've seen it, too.

What you actually mean is "I saw this one picture on social media of a bunch of people on a train all reading newspapers at the same time because war just broke out."

Using that as a logical crutch for social media addiction is like the alcoholic saying "everybody does it."
In German it can also mean a place is cosy and vibrant. We use it for more than just people.
Facebook is my main argument why IPOs suck. Facebook used to be a decent platform, post-IPO it's awful. Might be unrelated to the IPO, might not. But yeah, financially it might be "better", as they're more heavily exploiting their users' attention.
As a parent. It's a hard topic. And not black and white.

For the 10+ crowd, the days of kids roaming the streets, finding their friends and playing are gone. I think the causes for this are complicated, and social media (and screens) are just one part of the puzzle.

Consider a few things:

1. The percentage of households with kids has gradually declined over time, while the percentage of retirees has gone up. So you just generally have an older population. Not everyone lives in a neighborhood where kids can roam and likely some other, known, parent will keep an eye on them.

2. Tolerance for children (esp teenagers) IMO has declined. Understandably, they... can be obnoxious :). There used to be more IRL activities for teens. I've seen, however, even movie theaters don't want ANY minors there without a parent. There's not a shopping mall to drop them off at. And the pandemic has REALLY hurt this.

3. The pressure for teenagers to fill their time with activities is very high. The parents feel to perform / get into whatever good college / do well in life, they need to have their time spoken for by a large number of activities. Helicopter parenting has really taken new heights in the last decade.

Combining these, society, for a myriad of reasons, doesn't have a lot of opportunities for teenagers to truly be independent. And that too has been cited as a cause of mental health issues (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230309101330.h...).

It's a doom spiral too, the fewer kids that are free roaming, the less likely your own kid, when kicked out of the house, will find friends to play with. The less likely other parents will be conducive to your kid knocking on their door, etc etc.

So without kids roaming the streets, how do they connect with their friends? They use some kind of screen / video games / social media / etc. And depriving them of this can mean limiting an outlet of some degree of independence.

Case in point, my son and his friends have a small discord server. And they play minecraft on a shared server. This not the same as scrolling TikTok / Instagram. But it's a degree of independence somewhat away from parental eyes.

Should I ban them from screens, and send them to ride bikes out in a world with few other kids? Or let them have this niche of a social / independence outlet?
I suspect that those who grow up as social media “natives” will have some social norms that protect them somewhat, whereas many of those who came of age pre-social media will not have learned the social norms that can protect them.

We can see lots of useful examples of a protective social norms with alcohol. For example, it’s quite common for people to not drink any alcohol before a certain hour of the day. It’s not illegal to drink alcohol earlier, but it’s “just not done”. We can easily see the benefits of not drinking at the start of the workday.

I’m not going to guess what kind of social media norms people are developing in general. For me I only follow boring, topic-focused people on Twitter, and I only use the “Following” feed. Nobody is making me do this.
The title is "my emacs eye candy", not "my emacs eye candy is the best emacs eye candy", there are definitely better "eye-candy" emacs setups out there than OP's, but it doesn't matter as it's not a competition, OP's emacs is still eye candy, good enough for some people. Thanks for pointing the others though