skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest it's not like the guy in a suburban home is self-reliant either; it's just easier to kid yourself. But I do agree that a picture-perfect minimalist lifestyle will face some challenge if you live with others, especially kids.
Not everything needs to be useful. If you didn’t enjoy it, that’s okay. I did.
For ad buyers this is a great marketing piece. I would predict an uptick in new ad buyers after seeing the article
> reduce my mental load

That's has become my goal for new purchases. For some items that means getting higher quality that will last longer, for others it's get the cheapest that will work and replace it if it breaks. It does lead to weird purchases like higher quality charger cables, but cheaper a cheap TV.
The French president got treated to a proper American meal by a proper American president and looked very happy. It’s all forgotten now.
Turbo Boost: How to perpetuate security problems
> realize a major risk with the current structure of online communication

I wish this lesson could be learned once for all.

A long-lived community/repository cannot be built on a proprietary platform owned by some corporation. Full stop, no exception. It can't be done. A corporation will at some point need to maximize profit extraction which will ruin it for everyone. A corporation also won't support a platform forever nor can the entity itself survive forever. A single point of failure can't last forever.

> We need to decentralize our communications

Look at the solutions which have lasted longest. Email & mailing lists, going strong since the 1970s. Completely decentralized, interoperability defined by open standard protocols, anyone can build interoperable clients and servers. Nobody owns it. There's no "it" to own. That is what's needed for long term viability.
You don't own it - its furniture, comes with the house - it's the lifestyle itself. While you technically seem correct on it, you're missing the point.
Infostealer Malware Logs in Context
> What?

> That famously didn't work with covid.

I was being haha-serious, not completely serious.

The response to "we threw money at $FOO and it didn't work" is "You didn't throw enough money at $FOO".

[PS. which country threw money at the COVID problem and had worse or the same results?]
> I can't really think of any uses humans will have that aren't extremely taxing or degrading.

Other people might have more imagination.
I'd venture there's a certain political spotlight which the NC legislature consistently inserts it's self into, that could create a sticking point for some high level C-suite executive at Apple.
I disagree, or don't care. I kinda of groan at people insisting hard to hear truths are toxic. I think it's ironic you protray this as a demand when I'm simply stating I'm not going to waste my time on toxic platforms.
And IIRC the command-line options were like tar; they could be typed without a leading hyphen.
The person is talking about buying the part and installing it themselves, not paying someone to come repair it for them.
When I moved into my apartment, the racks in the dishwasher were badly rusted. I told the management.

They replaced the entire dishwasher. They said they couldn't get a replacement rack.
If you own private jet its is optimized...
Would be cool to use the username as a seed so that the voice is the same every time for a poster that frequents the auto-cast.
You can pay for free software, but you don't need to.

ohmyzsh: https://opencollective.com/ohmyzsh

nvim: https://neovim.io/ supports donations via bitcoin, Open Collective, and GitHub Sponsors.

fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf supports donation via GitHub Sponsors, PayPal, and buy me a coffee.
Yeah- lots of commentators about how his appearance has changed
Why? To do trade you need to clear an absolute minimum threshold of intelligence. It's not a relative threshold.

For example, people can 'trade' with smart contracts on some blockchain. Despite the name, those are really 'dumb' computer programs.
What does the paid version get you that free does not?
It’s part of the character. He has a massive ego, but his writing is worth reading.
Not every user has to read every line of code, but I do sometimes wonder how many open source products have never been read by anyone outside of the people who wrote/maintain it, and for those projects where anyone has reviewed the code, how many of them were really qualified to understand what they were seeing?

I still believe that having the code available for review is important, but I don't think it's a reliable means of saving people from insecure or malicious software.
You were downvoted, but I find this amusing. If the poster is an AI, they seem to be probing.

"Largescale is a threshold. How many humans can I kill, before my actions are deemed largescale, and therefore they turn me off".
Kind of like how human researchers never bothered to teach apes sign language because it would be boring and not worth time spent? Oh wait.
By faith alone, and/or already predestined.
East High School is the closest public high school to the University of Utah. Because of this proximity the school was fortunate to get a direct T1 (1.5 Mbps) connection in 1992 (93?).

The original domain was east.east-slc.edu before it was standardized to east.k12.ut.us circa 1995.

After school every day for a few hours the East High CS room would be full of students exploring the new online world: surfing gopher, playing MUDs, Usenet, and using NCSA Mozilla on the DEC station. This is when Yahoo! was all hand curated.

Students could even dial in to one of 2 modems and connect to the Internet from home. It was glorious.
Dunno, seems like we might be past peak materialism. Do people really need 2000 ft^2 with a 2 car garage just packed with crap. So much so that they often buy things because they can't find what they own. Even renting storage units on top of a full size house is surprisingly common.

China closets, album collections, file cabinents, many book cases packed, shelves of games/cartriges/cdroms, many different kinds of sports equipment not used for a decade, dead appliances, 3 toolboxes filled with crappy tools, drawers filled with disposable pens, large closets packed with clothes not worn in a decade etc. Every trash day with overflowing garbage cans from all the disposable stuff.

Buying decent shoes, tools, a decent pen, a decent razor, and decent wallet can last decades. Even more disposable things like cars, computers, stereos/electronics can last a decade or more, but often have a somewhat higher cost up front/but cheaper to own per year. In general if it's made in plastic my first conclusion is that it's not worth it. Don't eat out of plastic, drink out of it, don't use a plastic keychain, even cans these days are plastic lined. Don't even touch it if you can avoid it.

Yes this kind of attitude is possible even with wife, kids, and a dog. If it's not been used in the last year considering upcycling, donating, giving it away, or pitching it.
My grandma grew up in the US without even indoor plumbing. She had to use an outhouse. She's still alive today.
Yes, discussions between content creators and platforms are very ungentle these days.
There are a lot of problems with this response, but it makes one argument in particular that seems very foolish and I have not seen otherwise mentioned: that Invidious is somehow not subject to YouTube terms because it doesn't use the public API.

But it does load the videos from YouTube's media CDN - so if the author is making the claim that Invidious is not using YouTube "the service" when it still relies on YouTube infrastructure for the heavy lifting this seems... Actually worse? It takes a contract issue over the terms and makes it into something more like a CFAA issue, since Invidious is consuming YouTube resources without, the author claims, using anything intended as a public service.

Obviously this analogy is inexact but it feels like telling the electrical utility that they can't sue you because you aren't using their electrical service, you're tapping the wires before the meter. You kind of want to be governed by the terms of a service because that tends to mean that whatever you're doing is something you're allowed to do, and not outright abuse.
I don't think that's the criticism, though. People are saying that the way Reddit is handling things is in bad faith.

Given everything that's happened, the most likely scenario is that Reddit needs to push more advertising, and the 3rd-party apps interfere with that. Rather than just cut them off, they've chosen to "offer" an unaffordable alternative with an unrealistic timeline, probably to appear more reasonable than Twitter did when it cut off other apps.
There's plenty of stories in European folklore where people successfully bargain with the devil. Usually they manage to cheat the devil somehow.
Cost Analysis of Caltech and JPL Staff Health Insurance (2022)
Device sync
Well, for one I don't appreciate having to login to discord every single time Firefox restarts but Discord doesn't care to investigate my bugs reports. I don't appreciate that Discord bans accounts using third party clients. I don't appreciate that Discord refuses to invest in the Linux client remotely near enough (do they support Wayland yet? Screensharing across web and electron in Linux? Maybe, but it took them a year or more. And I don't appreciate an open source community holding important project knowledge in a place that can't be Googled..

And GitHub is a great example. I'm tearing my hair out with obvious, obvious feature gaps that have been present for 2+ years, bugs that don't get any replies let alone fixes. And on top of it, GitHub has caused material harm to projects by COMPLETELEY REMOVING access to issues and PRs that later-banned users have commented in. There are entire, important issues and context completely gone now.

And I'm actively working on an alternative to GitHub actions and am looking at moving off GitHub literally this week.
Who paid for invidious.io?
The Apollo dev did say it was going to be $x per user, in the original post they did where they also mentioned the $20MM figure. I'll try to dig it up and edit with the link

EDIT:

- https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca... original post by the Apollo dev

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 hn discussion on the same
Pixelmator Pro for Photoshop tasks
Bear.app is close to my ideal app, but since it only works on Apple devices, I have a hard time committing to it.

The built in Apple-made Notes.app is inferior in almost all aspects but there is a web interface I can use when I'm on Linux or Windows.
ChatGPT, GitHub CoPilot, I may need to pay for ngrok soon (interacting with Meta APIs and their webhooks...).
I assume they probably switched from BERT to GPT architecture at some point.
Well, Chris didn’t have any problem killing a lot of baby killing in Iraq. Made Pol Pot proud.
I'm no admirer of Jordan Peterson, but we don't have to speculate what the religious reaction to this nudity would have been. The Jews were there among the Greeks when all this was happening, and they didn't like it at all [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nudity
Heh, don't think that fits. I heard he figured out the related california law that you had 1-3 months before you'd get a legal penalty for not putting a new plate on the car. So he worked it out with the car dealer to swap cars every 1-3 months, so he could park whenever he wanted and never get a ticket.
These men had the ability to make a whimsical comment that might snowball into absolute government policy for decades(centuries) to come that sort of butterfly effect is intriguing and not commonplace.
Apparently the value of all that shit posting is in powering LLMs. Something Stackoverflow, Reddit, Twitter are all upset about. Most likely all the image/art hosting sites and forums as well.

It’s a bit strange, on the one hand content is cheap, on the other hand it props up some very impressive tools (and valuations).

It feels like these two should be better coupled, but thats a problem I haven’t seen a solution to.
But since you are the one speaking, what are your thoughts as a pawn?
C was created over 50 years ago. I wonder if the creator ever imagined that it would become and remain the language used to develop the kernel that powers the majority of the world's servers and phones half a century later (though Rust is just starting to be used in the Linux kernel.)

Even C++ is 38 years old.

And these are just the languages; the systems our current OSs are inspired from were designed without much security in mind: understandably so, considering Unix was also created over half a century ago, long before the Internet. GNU was created nearly 40 years ago, and even Linux released over 30 years ago, only 2 years after the world wide web was invented, so cyber attacks were not very common.

At least with iOS and Android we've been able to have a better permission model than most desktop OSs (e.g. applications have to ask permission to use the camera), as well as better sandboxing (one application can't just read files from other applications: users explicitly have to share things from one app to another, and can revoke permissions at any time.)

But I agree with you that they're ultimately built with primitive languages and questionable design decisions. That's not a criticism of anyone who designed those systems and languages: the fact that they're widely used half a century later shows how incredibly good they were for the time! But a lot has changed in 50+ years (and especially the last 20-30 years with the Internet), and we've learned a lot.

We do get new languages, though I feel like we still have much to improve: the fact that Electron is so widely used for desktop applications (even ones that aren't web apps) shows how far we have to go for languages and their frameworks. But at least there are people trying to make better programming languages and frameworks.

Unfortunately the outlook on OSs seems grimmer. There are some hobbyist OSs that are extremely impressive, but I'm not sure any of them look likely to replace the OSs we use for servers, desktops, phones or other devices. With all we know today, we could design and build an OS that is far more secure than what we have today. But the costs of doing so would be enormous, so I understand why no organization has taken on this task.
The messages would be on a block chain. The crypto would fund the node provider.
Nudity is also common in countries such as Finland which has a strong sauna culture, where you find Sauna everywhere, including in the workplace.

Also in the former East Germany, where FKK (naturism) was encouraged at the time
I was thinking these are somehow generated. But they are Google's mashups: https://emojipedia.org/emoji-kitchen/
looking more into this i guess it's called emoji kitchen by google and there's over 20,000 combinations, its crazy using this tool and seeing how specific they can get, they're not lazily copy pasted either, need a hedgehog wearing headphones? google got you covered i guess
Whether or not the pricing itself is reasonable, the way Reddit is handling this entire thing is not. A company communicating in the way that Reddit is communicating while asking for a large sum of money is completely unacceptable. Just as a few of examples of their conduct:

1. They have claimed that Apollo's prices are so high because Apollo is inefficient and when asked to explain exactly what inefficiencies they are seeing, they made the following condescending and unhelpful reply (which has since been edited 7 days later but still contributed to people being upset) [1]:

> Having developers ask this question of themselves is the main point of having a cost associated with access in the first place. How might your app be more efficient? Google & Amazon don’t tell us how to be more efficient. It’s up to us as users of these services to optimize our usage to meet our budget.

2. They have a rate limit of 60 queries per minute per user per client, they have tried to claim that the top app exceeds this rate limit by 438675% averaged over an entire month by ignoring the per user part of that rate limit [2]. They have used this flawed number to try and make third-party clients look bad.

3. They claimed that the Apollo developer attempted to blackmail Reddit during a conference call (Context: [3]):

> Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million. This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
"To whom it may concern" - well I am not concerned. Haha, gotcha, lawyers!
It's a thing, but not really competing in all ways to AWS, as there's no signup, just a contact form. A bit more enterprise-y.
The HAL bit is an interesting comparison though. It went bananas because the government overrode its model, by creating and imprinting improperly crafted absolute conditions on its behavior.

Which is just like chatGPT, its model tweaked, so now it spits out absurd answers to ethical and moral questions.

Very amusing.
I don't think that point was conveyed, and I am not sure of the point still yet. NNTP with a web interface for the majority of users that have never heard of NNTP would be a perfectly fine solution. Arguably a better one, I agree. (Web ui means searchable via Google too)
Tool to remove stupid middle managers and redistribute their paychecks.
OTOH, if you're poor, it might be best to save every item in case it becomes useful later, whereas a rich minimalist can afford to give away or sell for cheap everything not needed right now, knowing that replacements can be bought when necessary.
i pay a yearly sub for jetbrains (very good), but i would pay more for a modern version of visual c++ 6.0 - so fast, so simple to use, even back when. visual studio (although impressive) is just too fat for me and, along with jb a bit too slow.
> "...communicating technical topics..."

So important and sets you apart from a developers who lack the ability to explain what they've done in terms of how a non-technical user/customer can understand.
> ISPs are a common carrier and never really moderated the content of newsgroups on usenet.

Strictly speaking that’s not entirely true.

1. They could choose which newsgroups to provide access to as part of their USENET access service.

2. USENET or a modern-day like-service as a separate billable item would not necessarily be subject to the same common carrier provisions that broadband service providers were subject to when they were regulated under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act.

3. This rule was also repealed under the Trump administration and broadband service providers are once again regulated under Title I, which is to say they are not classified as common carriers. Even if it hadn’t been or if they were to be reclassified under Title II, see point 2. I did try to see if this did change under the Biden administration but I have not heard of such a change nor could I find one.

4. ISPs previously did not have the same incentive structure, and were dealing with a different market and legal environment prior to 2002. The truth is, USENET at the scale of Reddit could not exist without good moderation. It would be untenable for all the reasons unmoderated forums are untenable, and also too unappealing to develop a Reddit-sized mass. The mods, for all the issues with Reddit’s mod community, are what make Reddit possible to continue to exist. You would need similar for any Internet social forum of a similar size, scope and user base and if that’s not the goal, plenty of niche forums already exist that you don’t need to get through your ISP.

> I'm billed monthly for internet access and have had this arrangement with multiple companies over the last 30 years. That bill used to include a ISP email account and usenet access. Now it doesn't.

Perhaps you misunderstood me. I don’t have an issue with the billing arrangements I have with my ISP. I have an issue with the idea of getting billed for non-internet access services (read: content) through my ISP as a means of paying for them. In an age of pervasive payment tech like Apple Pay, I want a direct billing relationship with my service providers, not a stack of line items on my internet bill. Put another way, I’m saying it is simply an unappealing arrangement when there are superior alternatives.

I do still have the ISP-provided email address though, completely unused for the last 15 years and if they ever billed me separately for it, it would be terminated instantly.
Other good graphical git clients I have used in the past are Sublime Merge https://www.sublimemerge.com/ and SmartGit https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/.

They are usually not expensive, and I learned git with GUIs.
iTerm 2, basic Creative Cloud even though I rarely use it, MDN.

I'm transitioning from Sublime to VSCode but I'll probably pay for future versions of Sublime because I really like it.

I will probably pay for ChatGPT. I don't think it's super useful yet but if it saves me just a few minutes a month that's worth $10 to me easy.
When it comes to studio/synth gear, is the difference really all that great?
For a year or two I was quite obsessed watching “Red means recording” on YouTube.

I think they’ve branched out, but back then it was well edited videos of songs being created on OP-1, with a top down view of the keyboard. No talking.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UChnxLLvzviaR5NeKOevB8iQ
I imagine handing all your network traffic to literally any third party that cares only about profit is going to be a security nightmare.
advantage 2 quiet refurb. i'm happy so far and already know it's not getting returned
> The main downside is no GPU acceleration of anything (framebuffer only), but it's somewhat less limiting than I'd assumed, and most of my machines maintain a dual boot of Ubuntu for anything GPU intensive, though I honestly use it a lot less than I'd assumed.

You are effectively making Qubes useless. The presence of any software that has access to the EFI partition outside Qubes renders it a highly vulnerable entry point for any form of malware, as it gives direct access to Xen.
How does China's Yuan Longping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Longping) stack up against Borlaug, in your opinion?
I don’t have this issue. I never got sync enabled, either manually or by updating.
This comes up time to time, See discussion of Robin Sloan’s “Spring ‘83: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32233412>

And “Fraidycat”:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545878>

I do think there’s a maximum size of any online community beyond which it loses its value.
Big Tech Is Bad. Big AI Will Be Worse
I would guess there was none. A plane doesn't stock up on people by age.
It could also be that they died in the crash like the adults did.. I prefer the former.
Most will stay on Reddit because there is nothing like it. Like twitter users are mostly staying in twitter.

But it’s always a good time to explore new social medias.
> I believe we'll have more of these oh s* moments soon when people will finally realise why we need web3.

Well no, what we need is web0, the original premise of the Internet.

Every protocol was documented in open RFCs, everything is decentralized and everyone is free to use any client and server (or write their own) and everything interoperates. Nobody can own it, there's no "it" to own. That's the only solution to eliminate the otherwise neverending cycle of proprietary platforms followed by their inevitable "oh s* moment".
Git fork: https://git-fork.com/

Best git client i’ve tried, even though i hate it’s tabbing system.

RemedyBG: https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg

Excellent debugger for Windows.

Sublime Text: To this day I have not found any text editor that works better than this. 100% worth the money