skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere. I deleted Apollo and started using the official Reddit app on my iPad and phone. I hadn’t used it for years and while I don’t think it’s better than Apollo in any way, it’s not that bad. I’ll just keep using Reddit.
It's a great technique, but I'd rather focus on reducing purchases instead of getting rid of purchased stuff. The environmental damage is already done, unless it finds a second user.

I like that Konmari can also apply to obligations and how you allocate your time. Thats the premise of a book: the life-changing magic of not giving a f**.
The login uses OTP: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289

No need for HTTPS.
I've recently had a realization, while arguing with LLMs is pointless in the sense that you can never get them to change their mind (given fixed weights and all), I can also probably count the times I actually convinced anyone online that their opinion is wrong on the fingers of one hand. So in that sense it's not that different, in that it's an exercise in expressing ideas.
What captn3m0 said

+ try to open Twitter in Safari... (okay, one could argue that it is 50% forced obsolescence from Apple, and 50% utter garbage frontend work from Twitter, made by "professional" "software" "engineers")
Wow, I remember reading this article when it was new. This was such a trip down memory lane. I really enjoyed The Daily WTF, but for whatever reason I stopped reading it over the years.

But reading this reminds me of my favourite article there: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/itappmonrobot

It has an odd beauty to it.
Are you thinking of "the Paris exemption"? The reasoning goes like so: if it is easier for you to be a 99% vegan if you every couple of months allow yourself to eat a fancy egg and cheese omelet in a Paris restaurant.

That kind of life is preferable to not being vegan. I think it is a realistic perspective instead of an idealistic one.

The same goes for meatless Mondays. If you get one population to eat vegan food on Mondays, it is as if you turned one seventh of them full vegan.

I have been vegan for 12 years, and telling people it is not about being 100% pure, but about striving towards 100%. That is probably that made me stay 99% vegan in bum-fuck-nowhere northern Sweden the first couple of years.
Also: how much did this system cost to build? There's a real chance it was more than the €10 million it brought up in revenue thus far, and total revenue is expected to be "up to €40 million" once it's rolled out nation-wide. Even without taking in to account the costs, €40 million is basically nothing considering total taxation revenue is in the hundreds of billions.

At some point "fighting fraud" just becomes a cost-ineffective jihad rather than something meaningful.
Intro to Computer Organization: ARM Assembly Using the Pi (2021)
An interesting study would be “outrage” culture. It seems that social media and global connections certainly exacerbated our feeling of seeing or being closer to other cultures and countries. And feeling that what is different can be scary.

It may also have started with the industrialization and its effects on becoming aware of stuff outside your locale, and ofcourse missionary work in the colonized world.

From local accents, local customs, local dresscodes that pretty disappeared in these two hundred odd years. Only recently do we see lots of reclamations and restoration of that (and sometimes a form neoism where the original as completely disappeared)
> Oxford Dictionary: the process of considering or reasoning about something, using rational judgement

Sounds like something a couple of if sentences can do.
Facts Don’t Change Minds: A Case for the Virtues of Propaganda
And who are you to certify?? Look at yourself first.
Are you logged in?

If not, here's what I got (Firefox on Android):

- Mobile = "Unreviewed content" banner, must open in app, no option to view

- Mobile, pretending to be desktop browser = loads fine

- https://old.reddit.com/r/kbin/ = loads fine
Digital sovereignty
You’re shitting me. No way.
The article says "The public finance authority DGFiP said the AI programme would now be rolled out nationwide, potentially leading to €40m in new taxes on private pools in 2023".

So total revenue is not that significantly higher than €10m.
I will gladly tell you my reasons, but first I'd like to know something: why are you telling me that my decision makes no sense at the same time as asking for my reasons? How do you know it whether it makes sense without knowing why I do it?

This approach to conversation doesn't make me hopeful you will honestly think about my reasons, since you already decided they don't make sense.

> Thats extremely principled and selfless.

Thank you, that's very nice to say! :)
I don’t have reddit account anymore. I found it pulls me in too much so I deleted everything and just browse ye olde reddit. I’ve been tempted to do that here and other remaining social media accounts. When I step back and think about it, it is such a large amount of time spent.
Try using a better keyboard layout, like Dvorak or Workman.

I've been using dvorak for over 20 years and never had pain.
So in Lua the "first" element has an index of 1. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. And most people who haven't already been exposed to C and related languages would find this perfectly natural. Because it's an index number, not an offset.

It's only in C and C++ where the memory location of an element can be expressed as base+offset that we end up using the offset rather than an index. That has clear logic behind it and absent optimising compilers it may be marginally more efficient, but it does not make for the most user-friendly interface--it does break the expectations of most other people.

If I'm working on providing a Lua library interface for non-developers, they will find the default Lua behaviour far more natural than were I to force zero-based indexing upon them.
Wrong. Guix's ecosystem is very much behind Nix's.
Oh yeah, I know about that. But that is commonly called "colored functions" not "multi colored functions" no? So I thought there was a difference.
Do you have criticism against his more confident claim that factory farming is wrong? To him it seems like ultimately sentient animals (capable of feeling pain and suffering) are moral patients.

You can also see his perspective on dolphin gangbang in his discussion about reintroducing or controlling predator species (these seem to me to be morally similar situations); he is not very confident on such marginal cases.
They claim things but the sources are not of good quality. The screenshots I've seen were the usual data: Name, address and phone number.
How Chinese Analysts Understand Taiwan’s Geostrategic Significance (2016)
I think this is an unfair criticism of the Quanta articles.

I'll just say up front that I am not an academic, and I enjoy the breadth of coverage in the Quanta articles. I would liken them to science articles in American Scientist. (Perhaps you don't like that either.) Yes, they are popularized, but they are still technical.

Are you bored by a description of an algorithm you know well? This article clearly describes the process of Huffmann encoding. It's not one of the most amazing discoveries, but is this topic ever going to be exciting? I'd say it's easier to follow their article than either Wikipedia or the top animation hit [1].

There are two other claims you make that appear baseless.

On the first point:

> Quanta magazine articles are written by journalists

The first bio I checked [2] is a Ph.D. mathematician. If they also write, that does not make them less qualified. I'll grant that the second bio I checked [4] was "only" a journalist, but the third was a professor in a named chair [5]. Just clicking, not searching for examples.

On the second point:

> oversimplifies the problem and gives no idea about the actual solution

In your reference [3], it describes the problem clearly and devotes several paragraphs to what looks like a sketch of a solution. Certainly it outlines the ingredients used. (Search for "To see how they arrived at their new upper limit." and "In their proof [...]".)

[1]: https://cmps-people.ok.ubc.ca/ylucet/DS/Huffman.html
[2]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/authors/erica-klarreich/
[4]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/authors/kevin-hartnett/
[5]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/authors/stevenstrogatz/
I don't know how you can prove the existence of voluntary exchange in the real world. Also neoclassical economics tends to get marginal cost structures completely wrong. When you ask them, companies report constant or falling marginal cost. The text book authors that do the study then proceed to teach their students that marginal cost must rise. I am not sure I should trust people like that. If they are willing to straight up lie about this, what are they going to lie about next?

The thing about economics is that you can keep studying and studying and get none the wiser. All the low hanging fruit are still there to pick but nobody is interested in that research because it is the equivalent of going from geocentrism to heliocentrism.

The "obvious" conclusions you can derive from a continuous neoclassical model make no sense the moment you add multiple goods because at that point you now need to run NP hard optimization algorithms to get an equivalent answer. Yes, the proverbial corn economy works if all you care about is corn.

From my perspective neoclassical economics is just a disguised form of centrally planned communism so that capitalists can claim the supposed benefits of communism for themselves, while they do something different behind the scenes. Communism should be rejected because it is not possible to implement it and so should neoclassical economics. This leaves us with a lot of research opportunities that nobody is willing to take.
You know that in many parts of the world, living near your work and your shops is normal right?

Only in the U.S. is such an arrangement unusual, and where living miles from everything is normal. The U.S. is like this by choice, US zoning laws make any other way of living practically illegal. The U.S. could choose to do something different, or at least give people the freedom to try something different. It is meant to be the land of the free, and the free market after all.
Opt in to opt out. Very funny.
I do not need a newsletter to say to no.
They claim things but the screenshots I've seen did not have any of those.

check this: https://eksisozluk1923.com/img/bei0vtuj

It's the usual stuff: id number, name, birthday, address, phone.

Then they have the "relatives", which is deductible from the id number.

Then you have some promotional materials advertising the sale of additional data but I have not seen anyone confirming it.
As an example of twisted logic this provokes, here’s one I’ve encountered in Schlosser’s Command and Control a couple of days ago:

> [Truman administration head of Joint Chiefs, General Omar] Bradley accused the Navy of being in “open rebellion” against the civilian leadership of the United States. The admirals were “Fancy Dans” and “aspiring martyrs” who just didn’t like to take orders. As for the accusation that [an “atomic blitz“] targeting [seventy] cities [hosting a plurality of the Soviet population] was immoral, Bradley responded, “As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.”

I can’t model or even try to imagine the mental gymnastics it takes to just stop at this—as opposed to continuing to “therefore we should not engage in it”, which is of course refuted by that (supposedly) being even more immoral, which in turn breaks the original assumption that all immoral things are equally bad.
Fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
The highly processed ones that are hydrogenated, such as cottonseed. Trans fat forms from that process.

I think the more worrying thing about vegetable/seed oils is the omega 6. A small amount is not an issue from my understanding. And in fact omega 6 can be healthy for some specific situations. But it’s the fact that these oils are used in just about all processed foods and restaurant cooking to the point where people are consuming more omega 6 than they should be and we’re seeing negative health effects as a result.
Are there any straight up knock offs of Reddit?
By default windows user is administrator thanks UAC.
By default you install steam as Administrator and there is steam system service.

But you can create a separate user and leave default one as Administrator.
In system policies you can activate a rule where you don't allow users to become Administrator through UAC.
And you can install steam as user without the service.
Correct. Your comment boils down to “they don’t want to lose money.” That’s fine for them. No idea why it’s spun into hysterics because some other guy complains he doesn’t want to lose money, with the rationale that he pretends he’s on the hook for a year of API calls for free. If that was true he wouldn’t be shutting down.
I made some quick changes. I am working on adding more sites to the crawllist once its done i will work the issues that mentioned

thanks for the feedback.
You still didn't answer their question. Creating well made privacy first browsers, web tools, apps is expensive. Open source is great, but isn't going to appeal to the masses, who prefer features + convenience over privacy. Someone has to build it.

Who is going to win in the long run? The small number of people who care about privacy/their data VS the billions willingly using these malicious services? Even in tech/IT crowds, most don't care about privacy first products. Even on this forum it seems to be pretty split down the middle. Internet users have been getting free browsers, email, search, etc, for a very long time now.

I don't see the average person waking up one day and saying, 'I want to take my data back'. The government is not to be trusted. Personally, I think abstinence is the only solution.
That's really nice. I'm going to practice camping in my backyard first...
Doesn't seem to be -- here is the source:

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

It's ActivityPub though, so it can communicate with Lemmy and others.
I think we should dig a little bit deeper to find a thing worth resurrecting. What worked in FidoNet and earlier networks was the social organization, not protocols. A usual way to enter a net was to get a point level address from someone with a node. You had to know the person in the real world, and the person had to vouch for you. Your actions could have jeopardized the whole node, so there was a certain level of accountability.

I don't know to which level this element is resurrectable though. Why would one want accountability if there is internet where there is none?

The technological side is secondary. You can make an hierarchical network on mail protocols alone with a simple echo script.
It’s the default mode for humans, we believe something first and then add our reasoning to it. Aka confirmation bias and belief bias.

https://effectiviology.com/belief-bias/

I think this is so widespread! Investigation in your biases is always worthwhile.
While the situations Apple showed in the Keynote were cringeworthy and unrealistic, I don't think Apple Vision is a dead end. On the contrary, for the first time I see a use case for a VR/AR headset: it's a tool for knowledge workers.

Some people manage to get all their work done on nothing but an iPad or a tiny netbook. They can keep everything they are working on in their head.

I struggle with this. I work best when I am surrounded by my work. Notes on a desk, a design outline on a whiteboard, the website open on my laptop, the code on a different screen, facetime on my iPhone... I'm way more productive when my work is spatially arranged around me, instead of stacked in browser tabs.

Of course, that requires lots of screens and devices, and a big dedicated space. Apple Vision looks like it could allow me to work like that when I'm not in my office.

I don't really worry what I look like when I work. Sure, the headset looks stupid, but so does my respirator when I'm in the workshop spraying something.
This is what happens when 2,000 people are employed to run a site that can probably be run with 200. What the heck are 2,000 people doing, considering that 95% of the site is run by unpaid volunteers...
> Without friendly terms with the west they would have to maintain an enormously big army.

They don't?
Thanks for the suggestions.

I will add those features soon.
Vivaldi is even worse than Chrome in privacy features
https://xnux.eu/log/088.html
https://archive.is/WnsZA

Excellent journalism.
yeah it's a rambling incoherent piece, i don't know what people are connecting to in this - i admit there are decent ideas scattered all over it but none of them are pursued meaningfully.

it outright contradicts itself at points.
> standard issue coder’s laptop

Why do all the coder's have Macs when the server code they write will run on Linux (most likely) and client code will run on Windows (most likely)?
It also depends on if Xi is planning to take Primorsky Krai from Russia in the future or not.

When Russia celebrated its 160 year anniversary of taking Vladivostok from China, there were descenting voices in Beijing calling to reverse another so called "humiliation".

Countries are allied until they are not.

Putin signed a treaty to protect Ukraine, it didn't stop him from attacking them in 2014 or escalating that again last year.
Show HN: A simple Telegram bot for creating notes on the fly
A simple Telegram bot for creating notes, flashcards, and diary entries on the fly :)
Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life
Cryptography could still prevent the usage of copies of valid passports. I.e. where you have all valid names and numbers on the front, but cannot copy the passport's secret key and digital signature.
We all feel the same. The reason is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server?
More than 80% of college students get the following question wrong.[1] I'd say this is an example of naive pattern matching with no real reasoning.

Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.

Which is more probable?

a) Linda is a bank teller.
b) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy
You're wrong, just check it yourself: https://kbin.social/
I am not sure I need numerology for accounting identities. You would be better off just reading one of Wolfgang Stützel's books. E.g. "Volkswirtschaftliche Saldenmechanik"

https://books.google.de/books/about/Volkswirtschaftliche_Sal...
I am curious for one if the long peace is passing the test of time in the last two years.

Not only the Russia-Ukraine war is threatening to spiral out, but also there has been a very bloody war in Ethiopia. We are not at WWII levels of warfare, obviously, but I wonder where we are compared to the '80s or the '50s
I'm not sure I've even met a person I believe would be deeply disturbed by aliens being confirmed as real.

Most find it interesting, exciting, or vaguely potentially alarming - in the same way an unknown rustle in the jungle might be alarming until you know it isn't dangerous. But not "deeply psychologically disturbing".

The only people I think could be genuinely deeply disturbed by the prospect of alien life may be deeply religious folks, surely not a representatively high percentage of HN visits.

My guess is a text-only message board with zero identity verification contains a higher percent brigading and sockpuppet content in general.
> A typical pool of 30 sq metres would be taxed at about an extra €200 a year.

I assume the average pool is less than 30 m2. I wonder how much effort people actually made to 'hide' their pool for not having to pay such rather small amount compared to pool building and maintenance. Plus there is the effort of building and maintaining this 'AI' system.
I created a "Reddit for News" where various RSS feeds provide an initial stream of stories but people have Reddit-like abilities to upvote or submit their own.

It's at https://www.goobix.com/news/ , I would be happy to get feedback or build capabilities people feel as missing.
Numerous people are currently sitting in jail in Saudi Arabia for having posted tweets critical of the regime under their own names. Without HTTPS, jails around the world would be a lot busier if authorities could see everything that their populace reads online in clear text, in order to build dossiers on who is most likely to be a dissident.

I don’t think the kind of traffic analysis you mention works as well as you think it does for identifying individual pages e.g. which tweet someone is viewing. Moreover it requires a level of technical sophistication that is beyond all but the most advanced countries, countries that tend to have some measure of rule of law.
You had me for 2 paragraphs. But claiming that a branch of economics is trying to implement communism but somehow hide in plain sight, is a real stretch. Like a giant leap over the grand canyon stretch. Is there anything to this argument?

I really would like to know. I read a recent theory that late stage capitalism does naturally morph into socialism, as a way for the rich to quell dissent in the poor. But not sure that is what you are going for here.
https://archive.is/0ZmpS
Same here with Thunderbird but I use these guys;
https://Usenet-News.net

They are not free but they have a nice payment system;
"A "Block Quota Account", or just "Block Account" instead means a pay-per-gigabyte account with no time limit;"

I do not use it much. I keep the alt.privacy subscription for the occasional jewel.

Thank you for the link!
Tax authorities already use Benfords law to detect unusual returns.
They had 50 pre-release units, yours and mine should arrive sometime in August-September.
I agree that in our present society, infanticide is frequently illegal. There have been societies in the past, however, where infanticide e.g. infant exposure was still ultimately a practice; wikipedia tells me that it was extremely common in the stone age. Presumably, it was tan accepted form of population control before easy birth control. Conversely, apostasy was illegal and disgusting in many medieval societies but more widely tolerated today.

So whereas your disgust (and our illegality) at infanticide today serves as a good starting point to thinking about its morality, I don't think it's infallible and certainly not a veto over Singer's reasoned argument.
The reason Third Room has persisted is because there are enterprise folks willing to pay for it and support the team as a standalone thing - you can see the enterprisey showreel video at the end of the OP. It’s also very useful when fundraising for Element and Matrix to be able to point at an exotic shiny project to show Matrix’s long-term potential - a bit like Beeper have their Beepberry device. You can almost think of it as a marketing tool.

Separately, “the entire Matrix trust & safety team” was not laid off - today there are somewhere between 3 to 5 people working one way or another on T&S (between tooling and operational) on behalf of Matrix at Element. I don’t blame folks who are laid off for feeling aggrieved though, but we categorically did not throw anyone under the bus (or, if we did, it wasn’t intentional).
I get it why Microsoft wants to buy Activision. I don't like it, but I find it perfectly reasonable, makes a lot of sense for them.

But what's in it for Activision, beside the payout day for the folks on the top?
Except that “risks and inventives” aren't laws of physics, they are pieces of the dogma (and worshipers dont usually see the difference between the later and the former: it is the essence of religion to believe the dogma as if it was some kind of transcendantal law)
There is a literature on arXiv where people evaluate a range of prompts, you really want N > 100, not the N = 1 that you see in blog posts.