skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credibility is only lost (by bad behavior over long periods of time) to those few who have been able to actually observe that same behavior over that long period of time. New people are constantly coming in, saying “Surely everything is good now, right?”. And the new people invariably outnumber the old people, so the new people win the day.
Dope. I cannot stop playing with this.

Groove: https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=AAIAIAAAAEBY...

Drive: https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=AUggAAAIAUgA...

Gimme my flat5!
Ebooks:

- Calibre to manage my offline collection: In case the Internet goes down or some site disappears

- Zotero (Papers and books to learn from)

Images:

- Apple Photos: I only take pictures with my iPhone

- Screenshot: Automatically goes to my desktop, which is synced with iCloud.

Movies:

- I have a old Mini that I use as a file server. Everything is there

Documents:

- PARA method (I barely produced documents on my personal devices, so I haven't upgraded anything)

Music:

- I have an offline FLAC library, but streaming is more convenient right now. I'm using the `Collection/Artists/Albums` folder pattern.

There's not much else, I only hoard books (and my favorite albums). Anything else can be deleted.
So, are we just pretending like reddit has any of that when it started out?
Sounds coincidental. It doesn't have anything to do with pricing and NSFW content is still flowing to the remaining clients (as of right now). Reddit has never mentioned that law either as far as I know.
lets showed those text pixels what we really think about them
“4 years. 250 people. 2.7M edits. 127k neurons. The fly connectome is here ”
Well said. Although one aspect that makes this both sadder and stranger is that we all watched Twitter do the same thing just a few months ago with awful results. Sure, the sites will still live for a long time, but the versions that existed as of last year are forever gone.
Freedom Respecting Technology: Next Generation Open Source and Open Knowledge
- Have a password manager that someone else also knows the password to

- Have one obvious spot to put things. For example for photos: have one directory for all of them, and make subdirectories there by either the device that took it (I remember better whether I took a photo with device A or B than whether it was in 2017 or 2016) or whatever else you prefer. Use broad, obvious categories ("photos", "audiobooks/English", "audiobooks/Dutch", "games/downloaded", "games/self-made", etc.) for the main folder names.

- Don't let data get stuck on old devices. Keep track of in which folders you've stored data and, once those are copied over, give it e.g. a few months. If you didn't need to go back to the device, wipe the device. Don't be me. I have a phone from 2012 that I still haven't finished migrating.

- Have backups. Make making a backup easy. Just take the whole disk. (Games will store your save files in places you didn't know existed.) Mark the backups as backups, so you don't have to think "eh, am I going to find any original data on this 2008 hard drive or was it just a backup copy I can wipe?". Don't be teenage me.

- When in doubt, use year-month-NAME for files and directories, then the rest of the name matters a lot less as you're likely to remember the year and season that a given thing happened in. (System timestamps are prone to being lost upon migration, or get updated when you fix a typo while reading.)

- Folders can have an 'archive' subfolder for things you may need one day, but that you aren't likely to ever touch again. I used to keep one folder per school/internship/employer, and it got a bit much. Moving old things into an archive subfolder helps and I don't have to feel like I will lose the data (it's not like I marked it for expunging).

- Have a temporary folder whose entries are prefixed with an expiry date. This contains "just in case" files, like a copy of my Signal messages database before I start messing with the database (I'll know latest in a few days that I didn't need the backup). I also put call notes here, like when someone calls me and I want to make sure I've saved the file but don't have a project folder for it, but it might turn into a project, I could put it here with some months' expiry. If nothing came of it, it can be safely deleted and I don't have to review the contents to know whether it's irrelevant.
I see your point now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I do think that some things that are nominally unethical are not, in practice, unethical at all.
I remember what Vice used to be.

Go woke, go broke.
The original comment was about giving cryptocurrency to the homeless. So you would give them a wallet with a private key. A benefactor could send that money to the wallet, no internet connection for the recipient required.
They appear to have also drastically decreased the rate-limit for viewing tweets. I've hit 429 errors twice browsing my timeline normally, and looking at the headers shows the current rate-limit is 50 tweets per 15 minutes, at which point you get locked out.

edit: Scrolling a thread counts as a hit against this every time it needs to load more tweets, so this is very easy to hit.
A lot of people trying to refute you claiming the latest AI hype has actual value. The new models people are raving about do have value way above what blockchain had but I'd argue the AI hype is also way higher. Overall I'd say the gap between AI hype and AI value is bigger than blockchain despite blockchain value basically being zero if you dont count transactions for illicit goods.
They consider it a maintenance item, because it is a maintenance item. Things in your house wearing out are not a homeowners insurance claim (at least not in the US).
Reminds me of another much more modern quote:

> People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are ‘The Advertisers’ and they are laughing at you.

> You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

> Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

> You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs. - Banksy

It doesn't give me a lot of hope we'll be able to reclaim our public spaces from being littered with ads anytime soon.
>will also generate a TON of signups

I've been meaning to make a Twitter account since I follow a few accounts for some games that I play.

Between Twitter not being owned by a loon anymore and finally a reason to overcome my laziness, why not?

And yes, I know I'm playing right into Twitter's hand. Whatever, I actually like Musk anyway (an unpopular opinion that will no doubt get me flagged around these parts).
This only makes sense for small organizations. Any medium sized government organization already has a web site.
Embrace the audience, extend the functionality, then exploit the users.
Freedom Respecting Technology Definition [pdf]
That's a very nice collection! More than I'd expect. Nice to see lots of Horseradish and Sriracha in there.
TOS does not apply if the data is not behind a login
That's not independent of the moderation, though. Topics that invite heated discussion but aren't absolutely necessary to talk about on HN get nuked very quickly. If it would be absurd for it not to be discussed here, it gets a pinned note from dang telling everyone to behave, and gets carefully monitored to make sure it doesn't degenerate into a riot.
AI discovers 4 mysterious shapes hidden in the Peruvian landscape
Like Quora, I view a whole lot less Quora. This kind of crap is how they lost many of their published top writers.

Now Twitter.

I am better off for these changes.

You can be too. Just log out. It will pass.
The History Channel getting gutted was so disappointing. I loved shows like Modern Marvels that'd do deep dives into the history of various everyday things.
> I guess I'm done with Twitter.

people been saying this for a decade +

you'll be back
Vitest[0] is a drop in replacement to Jest that we've had exceptional success with. Faster test runs, more reliable, default TS and ESM support, etc.

[0] https://vitest.dev/
Hmm I don't remember if we did dom manipulation in there. It was definitely used for video streaming though. There's a good chance we only used it for mjpeg and canvas shenanigans.
Linkding is great, and has some browser extensions to inject your favourites into relevant search pages on the likes of google, ddg, bing, etc, which was a nice idea I hadn't considered before
good riddance it is a hell hole of people promoting stuff + conspiracy theorists and manipulators. it differentiates itself as "the shitshow social network".
If that's the way they (twitter in this case) wanted it, they should have started it that way. May be then, governments and individuals wouldn't have started sharing important information on a platform that requires their audience to forgo their anonymity.
No contact info on your profile, not sure how you want me to send an invite without someone else snatching it...
Supreme Court Opinion on Compelled Speech and Protected Class [pdf]
Great to know. Offhand it seems it could be quite interesting to me as well.
More and more I find myself on the side that greed and those who egregiously practice it, need to be excised from humanity with extreme prejudice. Greed should be a short-lived terminal illness.
It was a single page link farm with votes that competed with Digg in a much simpler regulatory time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051124035428/http://reddit.com... (edit: upon reflection, I am nostalgic for the time when that the top link there was to "The Truth About Web 2.0" at paulgraham.com shared by a user named AaronSw)

If you were to try to build something today that competed with Reddit and wasn't just a "here's a bunch of links - vote on what you like (without even comments)", it would take quite a bit more investment.

If you were to build reddit c. 2005 you wouldn't even need a device local app.
Say goodbye to janky iframed Typeforms
You might not own the data of your air quality monitor
How is that solved by charging for the API?
Thank you for this information, I was not aware of this!
We've all pretty much lost any sense of our individual self. We've become statistical artifacts in over bearing ideas of organised society. States, ideologies, economies etc.

You've got little left to lose, and if you do actually wake yourself it'll be clear that you've nothing to fear from overly fancy mathematical models of processes that we don't even remotely understand.
I don’t mean I respect him, just a particular decision.
> The Supreme Court didn't make the decision to take out student loans for you or anyone else.

Do you still maintain your argument when being applied to PPP loans? The government had no issues discharging the PPP loans.

My decision was justified and my ability to pay the loans back has not been compromised. My loans will eventually be forgiven since I work in public service. At least, assuming I choose the remain in public service.

While the student loan decision today does directly impact me, I am more empathic towards others that cannot repay their loans.
That feels like a gross violation of their fiduciary responsibility. Major bummer.
Twilight: 2000 was recently revised and reprinted by Free League Publishing.

https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/twilight-2000/
> Mastodon has the mind share already as the de facto Twitter replacement.

It did, until it got infested with far-left refugees who started banning entire instances whose users their have political disagreements with. Between that and the lack of ease of signing up or setting up your own instance, Mastodon is not taking over from Twitter anytime soon, although it has formed its own community that I'm sure will continue to use it. If Mastodon becomes even as popular as Tumblr now, let alone at its peak, I would consider that a surprising success.

As for the "tech community", some hackers did go over to Mastodon. That's great, but they didn't cause IRC or mailing lists to take over the world back in the day, and Mastodon is even more technically dysfunctional than those (making it so easy to completely block instances is a major issue). Call me when VCs start moving en masse to Mastodon.
Does PhpBB have an adaptive layout? I've used several older forums that require scrolling sideways because they don't.
> an article that has yet to be updated should be called "now inaccurate", not "fake news".

I disagree. It's a lie by omission, as same-day corrections on articles are a journalistic norm. By not doing so here, it conveniently furthers the Anti-Elon agenda that the tech media, including Techcrunch, has been confirmed to be pushing. Means, motive, opportunity.

There is a huge ethics problem with "journalists" in the USA, and they need to be not treated with kid gloves here (such as your lukewarm "now inaccurate" language). But what do I know?
Trying kbin and lemmy. Both are compatible with each other through activitypub federation (aka fediverse), so choose an instance of either and browse away.

It's still very quiet compared to what reddit was. Not yet enough users to support the niche communities which made reddit special (IMO), but I'm trying to contribute anyways, hopefully building it up a bit.

Losing reddit is sad, the feeling to me is a bit similar to when we lost supernova, then what.cd. An internet jewel that will never be the same again.
I’m still shocked they renamed HBO max. HBO has to be one of the strongest premium brand names around. There’s clearly something wrong going on in the organization. Perhaps it’s a debt issue after the merger with discovery.
> Anybody feel like this is ironically going to accelerate the decline of twitter?

If Musks claim today is true ("This platform hit another all-time high in user-seconds last week"), then it is very much not in decline...
This topic is something that irked me for quite some time and I am looking forward to the discussion here.
"Emergency! Everybody to get from street!"

Probably my favorite movie line.
> Chomsky sees things as they are

No he doesn't? Chomsky's views on Ukraine are batshit.
Sam is on record, and has even given lectures, stating the key to business success is monopolization.

It seems rather obvious under his perspective to do everything possible to restrict access to all information that could be used to train an LLM.

I understand Sam’s history with ycombinator gives him leniency around here but we seriously need to wake up to the fact that he’s attempting to monopolize the most powerful tool ever created. He talks a good game but if you pay attention to his actions it’s clear he is openly hostile towards the common good which he supposedly promotes.

I see him in the same regard as I see any oligarch vying for public favor by ‘stealing’ billions, donating a few million, and riding off into the sunset being praised by media for how much of the ill gotten gains he’s given back.
Yes, at the end of the day a malicious client is always a risk with this sort of thing. But the AT Proto does have some mitigation in place—users have a signing key which their PDS needs to act on their behalf (sign posts, etc) and a separate recovery key which users can hold fully self-sovereign and use to transfer their identity in case they detect malicious behavior. It's not foolproof of course, nothing is, but it is thoughtfully designed.

But yes, the protocol does have a fair bit of trust of your PDS built in. But that's inevitable for decent UX—imo the crypto craze proved that basically no one wants to (or can) hold their own keys day-to-day. If you want to have a cryptographic protocol that the average person can use, some amount of trust is necessary. The AT Protocol artfully threads the needle and finds a good compromise that is a (large) improvement over the status quo, in my opinion.
Here’s the research directly from the source, unadulterated by whatever angle the economist is pushing.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr1061
For population level differences to be proof of discrimination, you'd have to presume the sameness of background/culture, spread of abilities and spread of interests, which is absurd on its face.
The internet is most definitely not fine. There is an incoming tsunami of chat gpt generated bullshit that is going to make most open discussion sites more or less useless. Twitter requiring accounts and Reddit shutting down apis are both related: chat gpt et al are a threat to the social media business and ironically made possible because of the social media business. TBF I think we should all be exercising extreme (even more than usual) skepticism on any discussion sites any more.
This is specifically why I call out the federated model as a nice-to-have, not a requirement. ActivityPub is way, way more demanding of CPU and transfer than a simple forum, and as a result it's extremely difficult to self-host at scale. You can easily service 10,000 daily active users on a VPS serving lean, statically-rendered forum pages.
Why would it have been anything else? Espressos, ping pong tables, and the like are simply the wool over your eyes.
> All communications to and from Ingenuity must be routed through Perseverance. That explains the recent silent spell, which the two mission teams had expected: The rover had disappeared behind a hill from the helicopter's perspective, and it didn't come back into view until June 28.

So if they expected this to happen, then why did they send Ingenuity behind a hill?
Note that SBCL forked from CMUCL 23 years ago. There's been a great deal of turnover in the code since then. I'm sure you could find some remnants of the original code, but overall it's very much its own thing now.
Ha! I'm with Lumafield--we've actually done the same thing, scanning bags of Doritos, Cheetos, and Ruffles: https://www.lumafield.com/article/bite-into-doritos-ruffles-...

To answer the question about whether these are cleaned up, these scans aren't processed beyond what our software does automatically during the reconstruction. Industrial CT scanners are designed to scan a wider range of material densities than medical scanners. We use some copper filtration to scan parts with lots of dense materials, but no extra processing is required once we've reconstructed the model.
An admitted Aspie not getting SOCIAL media. Color my surprised.
I recently described it to a friend as trying to get from point A to point B in ankle deep water when using 3rd party apps compared to waist deep water in the official app - sure, you can do it but it’s going to take significantly more time and effort.

So if you’re constantly popping in and checking things throughout the day, that extra time and effort really adds up. By killing these user friendly apps that a large portion of power users and mods preferred, it’s Reddit showing all of these dedicated unpaid contributors that their time and effort don’t matter to the company. Steve spit directly in all of our faces repeatedly over the past month and now most of us are actively rooting against the success of an IPO. I hope he continues to be the 3rd most successful Reddit cofounder, and his name never gets mentioned in a positive light within YC/HN.
I think it means "someone is crawling our data, perhaps because we made our API cost money, and we don't like it".
> I can hardly wait until everyone had to provide a license validation for all code they use, so we can finally put node crap to rest.

I don't see a reason Node dies faster than say, Java, or Rust or ...
We don’t need more garbage on our internet. MDN has been a high quality source of information forever now. This is a large step backwards. That’s the viewpoint.
If these sites were truly concerned, why not just put youtube behind a paid username and password like netflix or hbo go or any other streaming content service today? Its because there is massive value in having your content be open to the world and not gatekept behind a subscription. The financials of this business don’t suggest its lacking a means to cover its costs, so why should I pay out my attention for a rate far below I quote anyone else in the market for it?
And that's how you get black mirror - hang the DJ
Yes, I am aware of Carl and his biases.
Atom is a great feed format with a rock-solid spec.

I wouldn't call it a weird mashup for WordPress to use atom:link in their RSS feeds. It does things no RSS element can do, such as allow a feed to identify its own URL.

For those who don't know, every WordPress site with an RSS feed also has an Atom feed available by adding "/atom" to the end of the RSS feed URL, such as this:

RSS feed: https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/

Atom feed: https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/atom/
If you care about this stuff, please at least give the fediverse a try. Yes it's inadequate right now in all kinds of ways. But the main reason is that not enough people are there. It needs critical mass.

Pick whatever you want - kbin, lemmy, mastodon. Go there, find your community (it will probably look very sad compared to Reddit). And contribute something positive - comment, post, whatever. If everybody just did that, we would kickstart something durable that couldn't be destroyed and take back the internet that everybody is pining for.
I'm pretty sure they're referencing John Hanke, who used to work for the U.S. govt, founded Keyhole through funding from In-Q-Tel (CIA's VC), which ended up spawning Niantic.

It seems they're actively working with the NGA, NSA, DIA, and CIA. It could be just for 3D geo-spatial tech, or it could be for sharing data. It's secret and it doesn't look like conclusive evidence of data sharing has been published. My personal belief is a little bit of both is going on.
wow an explicitly marxist-leninist instance supports an explicitly marxist-leninist state? who would have thought
I think I am in a minority group of 1 for thinking that features that are payable extras are a good thing, actually.

I guess people who don't like it see it as losing features, and talk about _owning_ their vehicle, where I see it as the ability to fine-tune the cost of a vehicle depending on what features you do or do not want to license. With any luck, competition should end up giving a market price to each of these features, and you can just pay market price for what you want/need. In addition, the car should be easier to re-sell, as any options you cheaped out on, a secondary buyer can pay for if they want them.
Hah, this reminds me of the IRC chatbot days. Some radio email software (winlink) can operate in a similar mode.
I wouldn’t say that it defeats the purpose really, as it’s a great aid to help us reach the proper solution.
In addition to this, Guile is big in the GNU space, used for Guix and other things.
The upside is that a LOT of people probably have a spare old Android phone lying around, and keeping it around will consume very little space or electricity.
"The interesting version of the moral decline question is whether there has been a decline in things we actually care about"

Who is "we"?

I do care about church membership, the premarital sex rate, trust in government, the prime age male labor force nonparticipation rate and marijuana use.

So, I'm not sure who "we" is here, but it isn't me.