skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I made the jump from tmux+vim to Doom Emacs, the learning curve was steep, and the only thing that made it manageable was to start a Google Sheet where I recorded questions that were bothering me and their answers, if/when I discovered the answer. It was a valuable process because the act of writing down the solution helped crystallize the knowledge in my brain, plus whenever I reviewed the spreadsheet, if a question remained open too long, I knew it was time to take the question to /r/emacs or to this forum.

You can see the spreadsheet if you want! (But please don't spend any time chasing down answers for me; this is an old sheet and I don't have too many open questions about emacs right now).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BcEsENMSLmOfsjTORHLt...
https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.B...

Don't forget about hosts.deny (but you probably need it at your router if you are behind one).
Show HN: Design your own hardware product starting with a single LLM prompt
If a browser user is concerned about privacy, I don't see how Firefox is really all that much better of an option.

Read the Firefox Privacy Notice, for example: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

It sounds to me like Firefox can collect and send out a lot of information beyond what is necessary for user-initiated browsing actions to be performed.

There are also numerous references to sharing information/data with "partners".

Maybe that data collection, transmission, and sharing can be disabled easier than in other browsers. A browser that truly respected user privacy, however, just wouldn't include such functionality to begin with.
It was hilariously and recklessly irresponsible for these guys to basically use a regulation to put a geoengineering experiment into play that is the exact opposite of what we want to be doing right now.
Twitter has also been bleeding advertisers, the estimates I saw in a recent NYT article put it at 59% down from the same time last year. I don't see how that's sustainable for a company with a debt structure like Twitter's.
I think this is a symptom. Sure they are very fat and you might think "I am not very fat, so this won't affect me." But it's very likely that you are at least overweight, since a good chunk of the wealthier population of the world is at least overweight (they get a lot to eat, after all). Now airline seats are shrinking, and people are getting fatter, and there will come a time soon when the odious minority of the morbidly obese turns into the minority of obese, into the large minority of overweight--and finally even those at a normal weight may start to become uncomfortable, because there are no standards set for seat size or basic human comforts on an airplane. The irony is that 50 or 60 years ago, there were significantly less obese people, yet they would be far better accommodated on an airplane.

(I will refrain from indulging in the fantasy-land scenario where we all take Semaglutide and become perfect little sticks so we can easily fit into increasingly shrinking airline seats. I do not want to live in a society where people are forced to take medicine just to function.)
Years ago I kept a journal of every bug, coding in pre-ANSI C. I figured that with care, I'd never make the same mistake twice.

I found the list years later. Last entry: "Forgot to eat. Got sick."
> A big monitor everywhere you go isn’t a solution to any real problem.

I get that you don't care about having a big monitor, but it shouldn't be surprising that other people want big monitors. Personally, I hate working on my laptop screen, if I can use the Apple Vision Pro as a remote monitor while traveling, that's certainly worth some amount of money to me.
>Never rains anymore

Sweden average rainfall seems to be trending up on a 100-year scale. https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/precipitation

> We've got drought and fire here in Sweden already

Forest fires in Sweden are a complex dynamic and the risk factor from climate change is only one part. Here is an interesting discussion https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-020-01718-2

Droughts in Sweden have been on a downtrend for the last 60 years, with quite a bit of variability. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221458182...
> - They have to deal with some level of DDOS or site scrapers hitting every page at once

Sadly, that is the norm with everything since Shodan made it trivially easy to find out targets for websites. Once your hostname or IP ends up there, you will get blasted with exploits a couple minutes after a 0-day was published.
People keep beating the 2.x dead horse. Moving to 3.x was a non-issue in 90% of the stuff I've seen "upgraded" written as far back as 2010 (at a telco, with a lot of legacy). I stopped writing 2.x code in 2013, and 3.5 (the version that became the new baseline there since I left, which was updated to 3.5.10 in 2020) dates from 2015.

I'm now running mostly 3.10, solely because there are a few binary wheels for 3.11 that aren't yet on ARM for some reason (mostly ML stuff, which tends to be maintained by academia).

Any kind of argument that the 2.x -> 3.x transition is still relevant has to take in these timescales for context. Otherwise it just looks... dated.
Why should you need to? Just use a stable language, or a language that has a standard or a specification.
I'm guessing hit on the open subreddit mostly goes directly out of caching layer while hit on private one incurs DB hit to check whether user belongs there
Well if current temperatures and predictions are anything to go by, big chunks of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh will become uninhabitable, wet bulb temperatures wise. Just from that area you can easily get to 1 billion; there's also Africa and the Americas that could experience droughts, destruction of wildlife habitats relied upon for sustenance (mostly fishing), unviable temperatures, floodings, etc.
> But the Wuhan institute withheld information about the mine deaths from EcoHealth and the US government.

This reads more like CYA piece
Demo here I think: "This video shows the IMAGINE Robotic Disassembly System at Milestone 3. The system is able to analyze an electronic device (here a HDD) placed in its workspace."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aEZnSdiCA
I always understood reserve storage to be one of the main concerns. Your disk might have decommissioned some sectors / flash cells without wiping(or being able to) wipe it.
The data you can pull if you bypass the drive controller e.g. by flashing custom firmware or desoldering flash chips is probably not zero.
I don't understand how having little money implies making decisions for your children
I guess I don't understand that criticism. I'll just host my own instance, why would I care about the "main" instance. It's a criticism of the people on that platform and not of the platform itself...
On the contrary, I wrote this as a reflection on our tendency to focus on technology systems instead of social systems. Another way to think about it is that a social system is just a different type or level of technology that can exist independent of or in close harmony with a technical system.

For example, the air transportation system is a complex social-technical system, where both the human patterns and the technology those humans use have evolved together over many years. Another example: a call tree, where the technical system is the phone line, and the social system is the training of people on who to call in the happy path and what to do if someone doesn't pick up.
Seems like a good source of cheap visual design!
It seems the business model is to throw enough cash at the problem and you'll get a profitable business.
The end result look like a a cartoon filter applied frame by frame. Or, each frame is basically going through stable diffusion in photo mode
The Temporal Kit write up was amazing.
What if an alternative was to make $70M or $7M a year without giving up anything? I know more companies that do turn down the crazy homerun deals and pursue the modest, yet still wildly profitable, ones on their own terms. We just don't hear about them.
Automation of what if you don’t mind sharing some general information? A physical machine? Filling and filing of a form?
> it's become foundational and isn't going away soon.

It's not foundational yet, at least in the parts of the US I go to. Being without a smartphone is occasionally less convenient, of course, but it's hardly a serious impediment.

In the future? Who knows. I can see a day when I may have to carry a burner smartphone that is only brought out and powered on to do the occasional important thing.
Absolutely. I had a post here about how Cloudflare is locking out Linux users[1] (which was momentarily resolved and they're back to blocking them again), but it was quickly flagged, suppressing any real discussion about it.

I have to assume jgrahamc was one of the flaggers, given their indignant comment at the top of this thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197401
Can someone explain why Airline pilots are allowed to go on strike, pretty much at will, without government intervention, but railroad workers, who are paid a tiny fraction of pilots, are forced back to work? I expect the UPS drivers will be forced back to work just like the railroad workers.
The question is whether the API pricing is designed to lock out thirty party apps. The pricing being orders of magnitude greater than the revenue from advertisers makes this clear.

You say we should ask whether pricing is aligned with the rest of the industry. Well, the new reddit pricing is not far off twitter. The latter are infamous for freezing out third party clients.
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The only one I can do
Then you don't need billions in order to provide for that.
They are completely separate programming languages. Go for the original to get the real Perl experience with all the good and bad.
I never worked at this scale, but could it also be that different subs are horizontally scaled and with so many people reverting to the subs that are still open the load is unevenly balanced?
think random events that change the entire world
I intentionally write boring, plain English, mostly painfully bland error messages for this exact reason.

I long for the intellectual honestly and emotional sturdiness of “Error 123 in Handler XYZ. You should never see this.”
What definition of "a US Standard" are you using exactly, and why do you think CCS meets it but NACS doesn't?
This is maybe more interesting.

Anti-Asian 2019: 0.2%

Anti-Asian 2020: 10%

Anti-Asian 2021: 25%

EDIT: Regarding an uptick in anti-jewish etc.

Anti-Jewish 2019: 57%

Anti-Jewish 2020: 43%

Anti-Jewish 2021: 37%
Ah ok, that's fair
All poppies produce opium, but of course in different concentrations.

I guess there's a critical opium threshold the law applies? Or does it just name the forbidden ones?
In general? Probably. If you actually do a targeted search like "is midi 2 backward compatible"? No, Google's still perfectly fine.
Didn’t work well for me last time I tried, I think entire IPv4 stopped for ~5min on each reboot with this.
AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd
B) Unclear what you mean by extensions - please give some examples?
some of the nokia feature phones have whatsapp, if that interests you.
The super resolution "feature" is a pretense for the data collection. This is not accidental.
In a First, Wind and Solar Generated More Power Than Coal in U.S.
a public figure like Bill Gates who is trying to provide solutions (or whatever he is doing, I see some other posts pointing to other less noble agendas he might have) can't exactly come out and say "well, this will probably all not work, most of the observations point to collapse of most farming and mass die-offs due to heat / starvation within ten years", that would work against his goal of getting people motivated and interested in working / voting towards a solution.
For tech issues, I recommend stackexchange and the various gpt-based products that repackage it. Phind.com is pretty good, but they're move back to gpt 3.5 has really neutered the quality of answers.

For general discussion, there is no alternative, and reddit was not an option even before today. I was active on two non-tech subreddits: /r/judaism and /r/buttcoin. I am a classical liberal politically, but I am also an Orthodox Jew. I was banned across several accounts for respectfully stating Jewish beliefs in /r/Judaism and for saying that hating Jews isn't acceptable "anti-zionism" in /r/buttcoin. (I'm an anti-zionist, and my statement that hating Jews isn't ok led to a ban from the subreddit for "defending Zionist agression" or something equally absurd.)

I've seen media become more polarized in the last ten years or so. There is little left and right discussion. There are places where left is OK and anything else is fascism, which is ok to ban. On the other side, there are conspiracy theories, and anything else is lies by communist pedophiles and groomers to discredit great patriots. (I guess I'm a fascist and a communist because I believe Trump is a criminal and men can't get pregnant.) HN stays pretty clean by avoiding politics, but if you're looking for good political discussion, please make your own site. I'll help with the infrastructure, and maybe some good discussion will come of it.
It seems to coincide with /r/programming getting set to private
> The difference is that the mh370 pilot deliberately took actions to avoid tracking.

I'll bother to defend myself here -- we don't know what happened. It could have been hijacked, it could have been a CIA operation, it could have been many different things. That you conclude it was the captain doing a suicide run does smell of something strange, considering the plane was in the air for 8 hours before disappearing from satellite contact.

That's all I will say on this. Downvote me as much as you want.
Here, I made a quick video to show the process.
Sorry for the video quality, I am a bit tired its late in Taiwan.
https://peertube.tw.chapuis.ovh/w/3CPvFXfuZ4i6Y7ea6V6etQ
(dont mind the audio, I just put the first thing that came under my hand in my old harddrive, its just a microphone test I did, the pitch isn't great)(And NativeAccess didnt like that I put scaling 200x for the video recording in order to better see the text for the rest of the UI)
It’s bikeshedding.
Home CCS chargers don't exist.
We should pay by the pound.
The internet does work around issues at the inter-networking layer through BGP and similar protocols, though the same resilience is sadly absent at the higher layers.
I think you vastly underestimate the overlap between people visiting /r/animecatgirls and techie folks that come to HN.
Congrats on the launch! Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog, are expensive beasts. It's great to see an opensource alternative!
I wrote a _lot_ of Perl 4. Really a lot, mostly for Radiator (a RADIUS server), and then upgraded it to Perl 5, and then moved to Python.

I can still _read_ Perl code (and used to read PerlMonks for the koans), but it is definitely an acquired taste when whomever wrote it decided to golf a bit to save typing or do some clever re-use.
Exactly. The headline isn't untrue, but it is misleading. Most people hear "Cloudflare is having issues" and assume Cloudflare as a whole, and this is not an unreasonable assumption.

Reductio ad absurdum can be used to demonstrate the logic flaw. Let's assume that one person using Dynamo DB got a 500 error response from a two successive API calls (so an error rate of ~4.0e-09). It would technically be true for the headline to say only "AWS is having issues." A headline like that is going to rocket to the top of HN, and it's not going to provide many people with useful information.

It's also silly. There's plenty of room in the headline to instead of "Cloudflare is having issues" to say "Cloudflare R2, Stream Live, and others are having issues."
and i still havent been given an explanation why

I'm just guessing, but an obvious reason would be because the vaccines were not as effective against the new variants? As in, while the vaccines still protected the vaccinated person, they did not effectively prevent spread of the disease, so other ways to do so remained relevant...
This is why I don't use Firefox/Chrome/Edge or Linux.

I don't want to be the product.
Very cool! When building it, did you encounter any unexpected obstacles, or found any cool tips that you'd like to share?
There's no books man. This stuff is too new. But all the components are in place and exist.

This guy just demonstrated what's required to generate a theme, and it's not far off from extrapolating further from that in using a LLM to generate Lore and just some random maze generator to create the base control image.
We use Cloudflare primarily for CDN, but they are having issues a few times a year and I am looking for an alternative. Any suggestions?
What does the NYT have to do with this?
That doesn't make any sense. I'm assuming by "chimera" that you mean, for example, the spike from natural virus A on the backbone of natural virus B. The WIV could have taken the spike from a virus similar to BANAL-20-52, the backbone from a different, unpublished virus that they'd sampled from nature, and a human-designed FCS. This is basically what they proposed in DEFUSE (in collaboration with Baric at UNC), and what this Times article is now saying they did internally after DEFUSE got rejected.

Of course such a virus could also have evolved naturally by a similar path; lots of sarbecoviruses are just a single mutation away from that FCS, and perhaps there's some yet-unknown natural animal host where that gets selected for. The point is that no genomic evidence can distinguish between these two cases, though.

For emphasis, it seems like you're assuming that we know all the natural viruses that the WIV was working with. Sampling of novel coronaviruses from nature was a core part of the WIV's research, so that's not a reasonable assumption. RaTG13 was sampled in 2013, but not fully published until 2020. At least one novel coronavirus was identified in contamination of rice samples sequenced on the same equipment that the WIV used:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.12.528210v2

That's a merbecovirus, so it couldn't possibly have any relationship to SARS-CoV-2; but if they had one unpublished novel virus, then it's hard to reject the possibility that they had more.
I've seen those three character prefixes in real code. It's not unjustified criticism at all. Luckily I've not needed to work with perl for ~15 years, but it was something like \$@, maybe.

> but you can write messy code without spaces like that in many languages

I think it's fair to say that Perl forces these extra hoops more than any other language.
"Another example, the war in Ukraine is accelerating the clean energy revolution in Europe, cutting down on air pollution."

Maybe in the long run it helps, but right now, not really:

"European coal-fuelled power generation climbed last year as countries scrambled to replace Russian gas, but the increase was smaller than feared as renewable energy helped to plug the gap, ...Outright coal generation in the EU increased by 7%, or 28 terawatt hours (TWh), in 2022, pushing up power sector CO2 emissions by nearly 4%."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-coal-rebound-smal...
... You worked with POOF too? https://metacpan.org/pod/POOF

Maintaining that in house codebase that used it was such a pain. I had to help keep that ORM up to date with the new data models after the acquisition.
> In the general population, someone making 6 figures complaining about cost of living (particularly tech workers, since we are usually blamed for the problem) is frowned upon.

This is one of the reasons why people generally associate with people in similar circumstances. As in, it's normal for people making 6 figures to feel comfortable griping to other people making 6 figures because we get it.
The problem from Reddit's perspective is that moderators hold a huge amount of power, and Reddit has very little leverage over these users.

Reddit is heavily reliant on moderators for basic functionality of the site. Reddit just doesn't have the staff to take over moderating even the top 100 subreddits. This is far more power then any subset of users for any other social media site, and the mods are using this power to try and enact change.

It's unclear how this will proceed. In the long term, I suspect Reddit will try and reduce moderator power so that this sort of protest can't really happen again. But right now, it's a matter of which party blinks first.
That's another reason I prefer the term "free exchange of ideas"; by using different wording it helps avoid the confusion created by people conflating the general principal of such freedoms with any specific legal provisions that exist in the U.S. constitution. (Though I agree in this case my wording is in agreement with how the courts define "freedom of speech" in practice.)
While I understand the sentiment, like all attempts at outsmarting stupid people, it is misplaced. If they're not copying your fake private key they're just copying someone else's.
As we humans "essentially" are... On our desktop we tend to do a thing at a time, at least if made well...
I moved to Grand Rapids for precisely this reason.
The separation is useful. Corporations are governed. There's no debate to be won, we're talking about understanding society better. Put your guard down, man...
yes, the correct syntax would be: ./ not /.
Degrowth is a great solution for those who didn't get degrowth'd.