skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! It runs pretty well on an M1 Mac
edit: there’s a .dmg on the GitHub
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+1, Yes.

Though I'm reluctant to add any fuel to this tire dumpster fire bum fight. This reeks of an odd sort of reverse troll play.

Why didn't the letter get a prompt introduction to the shredder? No HN post or other public discourse required. My mother does this to bogus mail literally all the time.

Nobody of consequence cares what this person or their strange little business is doing. Pay your taxes, beyond that, shine on and have a glorious life.
CVE-2023-2868: Total Compromise of Physical Barracuda ESG Appliances
The war has long been internalized in "Banana Republic" or "Resource Cursed" situations with coups. It has the same element of fear of being killed. Of course that also has different definitions of "poorly run" and "strong". "Not funneling enough oil money into the military's pockets." could count as "poorly run" and "military well under control" as "strong".

Dictators tend to have shitty armies because they depend upon buying loyalty and/or setting up self-sabotaging hierarchies beneath them to stay on top. They are good enough to oppress their own populace just fine but tend to get their asses handed to them when they ill-advisedly attempt external use.
Does it have a terminal app? For some reason I couldn't find it even though I'm certain it would have this.
#quitreddit
> No I much prefer email groups to online forums or Reddit. Easy to register, just send a subscribe message. Trolls can be ignored or banned by the list administrators.

Do you also prefer email lists over a moderated newsgroup? If so, why?
Actually, I am thinking of a different old quote:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

This could show that older people always think these things about younger people. Or, it is possible that the respective cultures were in a period of decadence both then and now, and that the views of older people are at least somewhat accurate or meaningful.
They're really more like card holders, but I looked up that term and found they've now been rebranded as "minimalist wallets." Hey, even minimalism can be commoditized and sold. All that is solid melts into air after all.
These days I think that isn't true anymore. There are a lot more ways to share files now, so if you threw up enough barriers people who want to do it would just go find another platform.

I'd be completely fine with a Usenet type of protocol that disallows file attachments altogether, adoption might not be huge, but maybe that's fine - projects like Gemini and Mastodon are valuable for me even if they're not replacing the WWW and Twitter.
Not even humans with PhD can do physics research without a lab. How could a model with just a few tokens of context window and no body do that?
tl/dr: author wants sandboxing everywhere
> The job at that bar was the best job I’ve ever had, in concert with the life I’d always wanted—publishing my writing, running a literary magazine, having several close circles of friends, living in the city I’d always dreamed of. I loved my apartment and I had the money to do things like get facials and use ClassPass. I took vacations and went to literary awards or friends’ book launches and plays and fancy dinners, and one night when I was sad I bought a pink suit, and then I felt better. Waiting tables gave me a life I didn’t think I’d be able to attain for myself.

Remember when a job such as being a waiter still meant you could in fact survive and have money left over for the occasional niceties in life like a bit of relaxation, or a frivolous purchase like (gasp) some clothing that isn't needed for a particular purpose?

All gone...because billionaires drowning in yachts, jets, vacation homes, and ultra-luxury, hyper-sports cars...aren't satisfied, and also want tax writeoffs they get because politicians tell us that if they don't give them a tax break, someone else will get the trickle-down economic benefits.

The greed is so extensive, they've gotten the USSC to rule that workers are now liable for damages to their employers, from striking...in what is almost certainly a response to the railroad strikes that scared the shit out of the 0.01%.
> [Thunderbird] badly needs spam filtering for its NNTP client

It already has the capability to filter newsgroup posts based on header and/or message body content.
I have been thinking about this recently in fact. I hate the way Android collects telemetry, but any process and likely most websites I use on Linux can access my clipboard, filesystem, list of programs, OS monitoring tools, even log my keypresses if they want to.

The question is what can I do about this?
This was an interesting perspective!

Also, I want to say, we do use ants to labour for us; something he describes in his post. Meat eating ants are used in museums to obtain clean bones for display purposes! You leave a dead rat and you come away with the cleanest rat skeleton you could produce in a matter of weeks.

It would be really nice if we could engage in more of these symbiotic relationships with them.
Depends on what Xi is planning over Taiwan, that is where things get complicated.

They are all trying to build alliances for that contingency.
We’ve been hearing rumors about this Apple complex for at least 3 years now. It’s making real estate prices go bonkers. I drive by the site all the time and nothing has been done at all. No signs, no foliage cleared, no road work, no cranes. I think they’re blowing smoke up the governor’s rear.
> You need independent studies and environmental monitoring.

Certainly. Clearly so.

As to my point, how do we change things? How do we put that into place?

> The blame game gives the politicians and bureaucrats a nice excuse for inaction, and not much else.

I didn't make my point clear enough.

The blame game results in "much else" - corporate profit. Enough profit they can fund efforts to tilt the system in their favor.

It's not just inaction. The Supreme Court is actively weakening, for example, EPA power to enforce Clean Water Act. Even something like Ryan Zinke's order to lift the ban on lead bullets in national wildlife refuges was an active action which increased lead pollution in the environment, to favor of cheaper bullets.
haha, imagine any HN'er giving social-media users (sorry, "community reps") a position of power and governance in their startup. No. God no. Fuck no, nobody in their right mind is letting the redditors drive the bus and set strategic direction and monetization/profitability/ec ("governance").

and you're probably guaranteed those community reps are the most annoying powermods/etc who you really kinda want gone anyway. No, don't, stop, come back, etc.

Look, this is going to be a bit blunt but I've seen these crises in major social media before (see: the Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka story) and the reality is that people's estimations of the value of their posting is much higher than reality. Yes, it will be a big ding to have powerusers and powermods depart the site. Yes, they will get some shreddit and GDPR removal of valuable content. The vast majority will not GDPR, and will keep posting cat pictures and discussing the merits of Android phones and scrolling memes and jerking off to hentai and onlyfans models, and that's what Reddit apparently wants to optimize for.

The takeaway from the Q+A with spez today is that they get it, they understand where you're coming from and they understand the community frustration, and they don't care. They've set their course and they're going to ride through it and the traffic on new.reddit and the native app is more important than losing 20-30% of users. And you can debate whether that will have long-term negative impacts (probably!) but that may not even be something that spez cares about after he cashes out. Or he may view it as a critical long-term goal that is worth a substantial amount of short-term pain.

But when you're Twitter, or Reddit, or even Tumblr, you can ride it out. Hell even Facebook is still fine.

Nobody is going to put redditors on the board to keep powermods from leaving. If that's your metric for success, put powermods on the board or I'm Going Outside, just close the browser window and get started with the grass-touching.

If you do that on your ycombinator startup you probably won't be running a ycombinator startup anymore.
Clojure programmers are welcome here.
Only if you are lucky to get an invite.
Note that GDPR requires that it's actually easy to delete your data if needed. Hiding the way out if a service is also an offence.
What a ridiculous analogy. Add statistics to the pile of topics that you're overconfident yet completely naive about.

What you're describing is a scenario where you take a sample, and use its measure of central distribution to make inferences about SAME METRIC in the population. This is perfectly valid!

But the obvious flaw with your argument isn't "this paper says that 75% of X volume is speculation, but it's excluding some data", it's that the paper presents literally no claims or evidence about the % of volume that is speculation lmao.

You have been conflating 2 entirely unrelated metrics this whole time. I said this before, but I guess it needs repeating: the % of volume that happens on-exchange is not a proxy for the % of volume that is speculation. These are completely different things!

If you want an accurate analogy, this would be like if you said "this paper shows that the average human lifespan is 4 years", but what the paper actually said was that the Olympics are held every 4 years. It's a completely unrelated data point, irrelevant to the topic at hand, and you'd have to either be ignorant or intentionally deceitful to pretend that they are the same thing.

Just bush league stuff... and as I said earlier, if you can't grasp this concept then I don't know what you're doing on a crypto thread.

I actually do think that you have serious underlying confusion about the nature of what speculation even is, because you keep pretending like it's something which can be objectively measured by using on-chain data. Data is obviously a useful tool when it's available, but making up bullshit statistics to support your argument is malignant.
Yeah we know don’t let the normies in or we will have to fix it.
And I don’t I don’t want to buy a Mac.
I doubt you could find any direct metric that attribute new members to that UI change, and it is more likely because of reddit becoming more popular and commonly mentioned in other places.
As far as I know, downloading and installing each mod is the main method for the modding-openmw lists.

There is a tool to try to automate game modlist installs called Wabbajack [1]. It was briefly discussed on the openmw forums [2]. I'm not sure if anyone has tried further to get the modding-openmw lists working with it. I have never used Wabbajack, so I don't know too much other than it exists. It still seems to have extra requirements according to the post, including a premium NexusMods account if you don't want to manually download everything.

Just as I typed all the above I saw a mention of portmod [3] in the modding-openmw guide about mod managers. Seems it's like Gentoo's portage, but for game mods. I see it has some meta packages for modding-openmw in their ebuild-like repository [4], but I don't think any of the big lists have been updated in awhile. Also, there again seems to be issues with it auto downloading from NexusMods mentioned in the issue tracker. Nevertheless, it looks to be an interesting project.

[1] https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack

[2] https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=7581

[3] https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod

[4] https://portmod.gitlab.io/openmw-mods/meta-momw/
Unrelated, but anyone know a good desktop program for home inventory? No webapp, no mobile app.
There is two categories on the page, one for 15 minutes, one for 5 minutes.

As for losing your connecting train, it's definitely a danger if you arrive with 15 minutes delay, yes. That's also why if you reclaim parts of your ticket price, they consider the whole journey and not just the delay of some individual train. So a 15 minutes delay can in the end mean you arrived 1:30 hour late.
Growing up in India, i went to a School whose timings were 11:30am to 4:40pm (with a 30min break for lunch).

In hindsight it was one of the best things about the school. You slept well, did some studies/homework in the morning when fresh, had a good "brunch" and then left for school all rested/fueled and ready to go.

Getting back from school, you had something to eat and then went out to play with your friends until 6pm (or when it got dark). Washup after play and hit homework from 7pm onwards. Dinner around 8:30/9pm and hit the bed around 10pm.

I think a schedule like the above is just what is needed for today's times.
Linux absolutely has a plethora of software one can use to improve security - AppArmor, Flatpak, Snap, and whatnot; the "all or nothing" approach the author mentioned is also not inherent to Linux, just a common setup people use. You can absolutely limit user access to a subset of superuser commands.

The problem is nobody cares. Linux users don't care, and even the users of sandboxed OSes don't care. I'm more irritated by macOS constantly popping up with "iTerm2 wants to access your Documents folder" than comforted. Some distros implemented e.g. AppArmor to generally positive reviews, but Ubuntu's transition to Snaps has been seen very very negatively.

Wayland "features" some protections too - apps can't access the global clipboard, or move themselves, screen-record, whatever. And nobody likes it! Because the inconvenience far outweighs the benefits.

Overwhelmingly I think the "problem" is that Linux users don't really want, or need, this protection macOS/ChromeOS offers.

An aside: Windows has sandboxing? Where?
>Approximately as ludicrously expensive as audiophile gear, but you don't need to be talented to get some extra fitness and joy out if it.

Bikes are kind of different. There's an order of magnitude difference in your experience with a proper carbon road bike versus a steel Huffy. People who've only experienced the latter tend to think of biking as miserable. It's the one thing that I tell people to either spend the money on or don't bother.
For the tool conundrum, I’ve found that the best course of action is to buy the cheapest option (within reason) to start with. If you don’t use it, no sweat, it was cheap. On the other hand, if you use it soo much that it breaks it you outgrow it then you get to buy the best version of that tool. At that point you know what you like and don’t like, as well as what’s worth paying extra for, so you end up with the perfect tool for you.
> I wonder what the chess pieces were all thinking...

talk to those in ukraine and taiwan now.
This whole "Walled Gardens" approach reflects a mindset which is all about controlling the users, telling them what's good for their devices, when it's the right time to update, etc. instead of letting them have the control. And this mindset is prevalent in all products of the tech companies across the world, be it corporate America or communist China.
Could & should things be better by default? Sure, but in practice, all of the proprietary software I don't trust but need to run for work all have a web app that is sandboxed in the browser which is generally good enough for my threat models.

Hilarious though that the author thinks is Nix is “imcomprehensible”. You can even do things like nix shell nixpkgs#proprietary-crap and ditch the application after using it to do one thing.
If you want to look at it from that point of view, even with that as a business it needs to maximise the number of successful trips in the smallest amount of times possible, as a whole in aggregate as that will lead to the maximum revenue.

Airline margins are razor thin, and it is a commoditised industry so an airline company can only compete on scale and efficiency. Which means that it has in aggregate the most number of people transported to their destinations in the shortest possible times, as a whole.
He was talking about the student protests of May 1968. The quote later got misunderstood to be about the French Revolution.

From https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/06/it...: "I distinctly remember the exchange. There was a mis­understanding that was too delicious to invite correction."
What do they do with the ants after the bone is clean?
Rudeness aside, if you only have a newborn you may find yourself eating these words in the near, and medium term future.
Author is totally correct to promote ChromeOS as a modern, sandboxed, low-attack-surface alternative.

Unfortunately, Achilles heels of ChromeOS are in the usual places: browser extensions and integrations that can access any web page you view, or do anything they want with your Google account, which can wreak havoc for people with a lot of stuff in there.

Now what I will say for consumer Linux distributions is that it's eminently possible to easily reduce your attack service in a few ways: judicious configuration, and strip down all unnecessary software packages! I was sysadmin for a long time before I realized that I was a glutton for apps and I had a tendency to consume them and hoard them without regard for what I really needed to run on a day-to-day basis. I would install software, try it once, and finding it boring, I abandoned it, but it was all still installed.

So I began perusing my list of installed software and I'd just remove anything that was obviously unnecessary. I'd even remove stuff that I didn't know what it did, just to see if something broke, but things rarely broke! My position was validated!

If you remove unneeded software, you will automatically reduce the number of network services running too. That thing you installed probably started up a server, started listening on local and global addresses, and may have even poked holes in the firewall for itself. Do you need that? Can someone make a lateral move from your pwned router into your desktop machine through your neglected services? Get rid of them.

Linux affords much more latitude to a security-minded administrator than Windows. Windows will not let you turn stuff off without causing breakage or it will just gratuitously come back in an update and be turned back on. The Linux philosophy is beyond that nonsense.

Yes, Linux out of the box, or Linux in the hands of an ordinary end-user, it's insecure. But it has more potential than Windows.

For a while, I pondered whether I could outsource my personal, home IT work to an MSP. But MSPs don't do personal networks, they do B2B. I think Geek Squad is possibly missing a bet here. Not that I would let Geek Squad into my Linux homelab, but it's a thought.
Whenever I try to do this, I inevitably settle on wearing one of the three 100% of the time. How do you manage it?
"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."

This is why it's funny to see people view the war in Ukraine as a "good guy vs bad guy". The geopolitics are incredibly complicated and there is a lot behind the scene the average person doesn't see.
> As an analogy a lot happened to HTTP and other protocols to increase user experience, better content deliverability, and control.

On a protocol level, do you have any examples of what you're referring to when you say "increase user experience, better content deliverability and control?" Based on what I understand of the NNTP protocol, it allows for pipe lining commands to retrieve data, allows multiple, and persistent connections, and some commands will instruct the server to send compressed responses.
Yes, this is a commonly recommended strategy. But you do run the risk of being stuck with an unsatisfying but functional tool you feel guilty getting rid of, and even in the best case, who feels good about having bought a lousy tool that breaks?

I tend to go with a bit of a sliding scale based on factors like "how often do I expect to use it?" and "how afraid am I of it injuring me?"
I'm just thinking about the egalitarian aspect. Maybe they fought each other in sports but with the same weapons. Not by the richest guy having the biggest weapons. That was the spirit I think.

Incidentally naked sports seems to be and has been big in Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freik%C3%B6rperkultur

https://chrisduggleby.com/archive/update-on-german-naked-win...
The soviets were patronising. Mao resented Stalin's operatives telling him what to do all the time pre 49. Post 49, nothing much Russia did was in China's longterm interest. China and India were in border dispute which still rancours yet the soviets wanted some degree of amity with India, leading the non aligned nations in the UN there was much for them to profit from not supporting China across that boundary dispute. The Korean war probably started overt resentments which had things like inner/outer Mongolia to stew over since day 1. When Russia blew hot, China was cold, and vice versa. When Russia went with peaceful coexistence China was still militant. In the end, they were "much too much in love to get along"
Long before actual space travel there was science fiction which imagined every possible plot.

And since fiction has to have protagonist and an antagonist, [1], the "disease from outer space" was well earned.

So I expect its a bit of both. Good PR to head-off the space-bug narrative, and arguably prudent behaviour in the face of no experience.

[1] real life is mostly boring. They went to the moon, they came back, nothing happened. By apollo 13 it was so routine they didn't broadcast the launch, or live feed. The drama was because something unexpected happened. Then again quickly forgotten.

Most people who lived through that time can't tell you a single thing about apollos 14 through 18, or that 18 didn't fly.

Equally I saw the first shuttle mission launch on TV, but then mea. There were 135 launches. 2 ended badly. Oh, and they fixed hubble. And they built a space station. But I couldn't tell you much of anything in any detail.

Life is boring.
Reddit or any other business that thrives on user data will eventually, at some point, will have to use their data for profit. Especially during the period of LLM training with huge dataset, I understand the API rate changes. But I don't understand why they can't have reasonable exceptions for third party apps like what they have done for accessibility apps except the opaque 30 day exception withdrawal clause. While reading everything together - blocking NSFW data, increasing API prices hastily etc seems like Reddit wanting to disallow users third party apps and limit the users to use only their first party app.
My problem isn’t that I’m worried I’m spending too much, I know for a fact that I’m spending less than I did on ChatGPT Plus, I can check my usage regularly, and I do.

My problem is that before I send each query, I think to myself “is this worth a fraction of a penny?” and, when I have a bunch of follow up queries, I think “the previous query/response history is getting pretty big, should I trim some of it before I send my next query?” or “Should I skimp on this one and just use GPT3.5?”
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