skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it, but also plastic is fairly ubiquitous in gardening at this point. It's pretty hard to find plants that haven't spent months to years in plastic containers already. Plant labels are commonly plastic. Even soil and mulch come in plastic bags (if you buy in small, city landscape quantities).

All things in moderation.
> Ok, for these employees, do you also consume audio and video?

Clearly GP's firm doesn't run a webcam and microphone capture on the thin client. They could potentially monitor audio/video I/O from the cloud workstation that the thin client logs into.
It’s a great documentary!
To paraphrase the apocryphal Churchill somewhat, now we’ve established that people have a right to privacy at work, we’re just haggling over what those rights should be.

Laws are reflections of attitudes. People in the US believe that they have limited right to privacy at work and so laws are written to reflect that belief. People in the UK don’t buy into that theory and so laws are written that are more nuanced. The first step to gain rights is to believe in them.
I don’t disagree with this, but it would be better to have a stack that’s not controlled by any government but is based on technical standards - not governmental dictates or corporate control.

I would also note that in your country the US agencies have no authority. However your own government can use that information to imprison you or otherwise exert its jurisdictional control. I think that’s generally what people worry about. It’s hard to imagine a reason the US government would care about you as a citizen of X country, whereas there are lots of governments who oppress their citizens for being themselves and for who they associate with.
I'd pay for this service
Smart. With a bit of SEO/marketing, this will become the way consumers judge their internet quality. If connection quality = ping to cloudflare then that puts cloudflare in a very strong negotiating position for peering agreements etc.
Using Links+ to proxy all info into that not leaking everything should be mandatory. TOR, I2PD, anything.

If you are using a JS based browser, you don't deserve security in first place.

If any, you can always use torosocks and yt-dlp to fetch all media.

If I had time I could set up a tutorial not to use SSH as a proxy, but as a client to a remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites anonymously. OFC you won't get images, but at least you could be able to read news nicely formated either from gemini://gemi.dev or natively from offpunk.

Non-techie Russians can use Lagrange in Android and gemini://gemi.dev to read most media through an HTTP->Gemini proxy which makes a great job on reformatting the sites and cutting down the bandwitdh.

Basic English it's required, but if you can read "News Waffle" and copy the URL into that dialog box, you can get lots of interesting sites.
For the case in China, they use statistics, entropy of packets (may not an accurate term) and other DPI-like methods[1],

also HN discussions of it[2]:

[1] https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity23/en/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531485
Free the camel!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36648949
Is there a way to or has anyone been able to use milkytracker as a decoder for a music player or even as a standalone player with the usual amenities such as playlists? I quite like how it sounds, specially when you tweak some of its settings such as setting an appropriate resampling filters for each song.
Oh, okay, so it's just more sugar over Perl 5-style qw(), which is itself sugar over split().

I heard something once about "cancer of the semicolon"...
yeah, see also image-2023-04-25 which is way earlier and comes really close, surrounded by garbage
Link speed has always been measured in bits/s or as sibling comment suggests baud which is, still, just bits per second.

Obviously a huge part of this is marketing for modems, ISPs, network cards, etc. but it’s consistent. The conversion to GB/s is fairly simple and doable with the super key, or super space on Mac in every modern OS…

I agree with you that the difference is irritating, but wouldn’t have done any different if I were Cloudflare.
Anyone has any recommendations for a cheap braille display and can explain quick quick how it integrates in a programmer's workflow? I'm an EMACS user, I've seen a bunch of packages that integrate with BRLTTY, but I'm curious what's the day-to-day.

I'm not blind, so this shouldn't be something that'll take away from someone with a real need; this is just one nerd's attempt at learning another (practically speaking, useless to me) skill for the sake of learning. I've already glued braille stickers on my normal keyboard, but they don't last, on that side I'm already considering DIY keys, maybe from a 3d printing shop online.

I've looked at a few online and the prices are in the range where I can't justify it just a fun learning experience, so I'm considering a DIY approach, but that seems equally if not more fraught with difficulties. Thoughts?
You do great work.
Indian lab observes LK-99 sample standing vertically in magnetic field
When my dad died my mom needed access to all the accounts to do things like pay the electric bill. That is all done online so without him logging into the online bill pay she would have no way to know what was owed. I suppose after a few months of not paying they would send a paper bill, but then there are late fees and the like.
>Also Western billionaire versus Russian oligarch - even if the source of wealth is virtually identical and their political power probably higher in the West.

The term "oligarch" has a specific meaning and, surprisingly, Western media uses the term correctly about the subset of corrupt Russian and Ukrainian businessmen who got rich in the 1990s by buying billions worth of state monopolies for pennies.

I have never seen Russian tech billionaires like the JetBrains founders being called "oligarchs".
No comment suggested otherwise. But if the divorce rate is in the 40% ~ 70% range then the callous nemesis rate is in the 40% ~ 70% range too, even if the latter is a slightly lower number than the former.
Ask HN: ChatGPT Custom Prompts for Developers?
Hello - I google searched for examples of good custom prompts for developers but found a lot of low quality content.

I figured I'd ask directly here and get some good ideas.
If by batching you mean bad code that fails to sort or relies on hardware to best-guess how things sort, then sure, that's called a bug. Also, "we're pretty sure" is rather self-important while also admitting total, abject failure to produce a deterministic result. You shouldn't blame yourself. A lot of people had the same feeling after staking their life on the revolutionary properties of NFTs.
It mostly happens via private messaging, but yes. It's part of the "you are either with us or against us" mentality of many campaign groups.

See ~2 years ago when every opensource project was forced to publish a code of conduct and diversity and inclusion policy... Often the people asking for the policies weren't even users of the software involved, let alone interested in writing code for the proect. That campaign seems to have ended, and nobody cares if your project has either anymore.
> Russian corruption doesn't generally touch Western governments - the atmosphere is too hostile to it.

Some recent parts of the government welcome the corruption.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizens-and-russian-intel...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/election-inte...
Weird story that (I am South African) but my wife is a fan.

In the end I am glad he realized that his music meant something to lots of people in a country down by the southern tip of Africa - think he toured here as well.
Going back to the mid-90s every company I worked for had a computer use policy which I had to sign as part of onboarding. These always included a section regarding monitoring and that signing the policy was agreeing to the monitoring. This included small businesses up to large global enterprises.
In addition to the other comments: high vacancy and landlords who'd rather hold out for prices to come back up. They should be taxed into oblivion.
I think dismissing the relationship and impact adtech and search continue to have on web culture is an incredibly pointy-headed misstep. It's the sort of willful oversight that someone makes when their career relies on something being true.

Unless you have a clear view by leadership of what they desire the web should be and are willing to disclose it in detail, then there's not much to add by saying you work in Search.
Python cmd2: immersive interactive command line applications
Really need to see more of this attitude in the workplace.

I'd like to think it's not controversial but I'm surprised at how often it seems to be overlooked for workplace romances as well.
> While there probably isn't anything on them, it's always been a pain to not know.

I know I wouldn't care because I'd be dead, but I really do not want my family getting on to my personal devices after I'm dead. Those are things that I will never give them the passwords for, not everything is their business.
You should go outside, make an attempt at socializing
Controversy over MOND at High Sigma
What is this user data
Building DOS-Compatible Hard Disks
https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio...

> The idea behind GPT Unicorn is quite simple: every day, GPT-4 will be asked to draw a unicorn in SVG format. This daily interaction with the model will allow us to observe changes in the model over time, as reflected in the output.
Yes, but Jack isn’t a micromanager.
Supercharging your Rust static executables with mimalloc
That's true for anywhere you live. If I get a new job in New Jersey and buy a house there, then I will have to get another job in New Jersey or sell my house if I lose that job.
> Both are just as safe

With a single execution context this is true. But, whereas you simply can't write data race bugs in Safe Rust† in Go you can write them and they blow up your safety guarantees. If you race something trivial Go promises (unlike C or C++) that this doesn't immediately set fire to the world, the raced trivial object (say, an integer) is ruined and you must not touch it, but if you stay away from that object your program has clearly defined behaviour. Unfortunately non-trivial objects (say, a slice) are immediately Undefined Behaviour when raced.

† This falls out of the mutability rules. A data race is when somebody else modifies something at "the same time" as you're using it, e.g. thread A changes actor to "Steve Buscemi" from "Susan Sarandon" at the same moment thread B is printing the actor out and oops, we write "Susan Sarcemin" or crash or something different happens, who knows. Rust says you can't have multiple aliases and mutability, so this never happens.
There are decent alternatives for this. Fast.com is hosted by Netflix, making them an excellent speedtest to check for service throttling. Google has a speedtest as well (Google "speed test" and it'll show a button).

The more of these tests start appearing, the better.
That is because it is popular. Any language that was as popular as java for nearly 30 years will have a large collection of problems. Java avoids a large number of possible problems by being memory safe, but it doesn't avoid them all.
> Or sit watching Netflix all day.

Meh. I know a bunch of people who like having the TV or the radio on in the background. They're not actually listening to it, but they say they like the feeling of not being alone.

My mom does that when working around the kitchen. She'll have some news channel or similar on. She'll hear the same bulletins 10 times a day. And when in the evening something comes up at the dinner table, she'll have no recollection of ever having heard about it.
https://twitter.com/8minutesold/status/1667141734055264256

Thread with some more info.
yeah same here. Do I have to give out my passwords, or can I just make a doc with important things?
Why don't you just click on Google Image Search's Pinterest links?
that's what i'm doing now, but it's probably only about 3 years away that google disables the api level that termux depends on; then you'll have to install lineageos or something in order to be able to use termux
But it's not measuring link speed directly. It's measuring transfer rate through TCP which is byte oriented. It's not possible to receive partial bytes via TCP (or UDP for that matter).
Amazingly, there's also a term for that disorder, too. Compulsive decluttering.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/ocd-obses...

I think this was front page on here a while back.
Hyperbola GNU/Linux ditched OpenJDK becasue either bugs or patents. The list on Java CVE's it's atrocious. Java should've died long ago with Golang and some cross-plaform (basic) GUI libraries promoted from Google. Nothing fancy, something like plan9/9front UI's, but enhanced.

Java exists today because of corporateware. Outside of it, it's dead. De-ad.
No one uses Java seriously for emulators, browsers, or basic software. Just ad-hoc company-graded enterprise, live VB6 back in the day.
One of the big ones for me was Wayland support in neovim-gtk (https://github.com/Lyude/neovim-gtk), which therefore, unlike gvim, fully supports fractional scaling.
Hoarding IME has been about severe resource anxiety -- not unlike the fad of prepper and adjacent lifestyles, but rather generalized in contrast. It's an attachment to, even a personal identification with, the hoard of goods that the afflicted have collected and stored.

Anecdotally, it seems to have affected a high proportion of the Silent Generation -- those who grew up in scarcity (Great Depression, etc.) but then experienced in their adulthood the social pressures toward consumerist abundance. Being afraid of suffering what is seen in retrospect in such societies as an undignified and painful life, they seek to collect things (value, utility) that will ensure they never again experience the same feelings of destitution.

So it makes sense in the current climate of economic precarity ("one bad accident away from total ruin") that such feelings are surging again.
FWIW, for a period that I was inexplicably waking up halfway through the night, just telling myself it was probably "normal", and that I'd probably go back to sleep in an hour... might've relieved some self-fulfilling concern that I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep.
> That campaign seems to have ended, and nobody cares if your project has either anymore.

Has the movement to rename every master branch to main quietened down as well?
I've never used a pi-hole; but assuming it works as a DHCP server and a DNS resolver, then you should only need to disable DHCP in your router. I've never seen a router than wouldn't let you disable the DHCP server.
my take from this document is that it is enabled for the low-energy variant but not the normal bt (with more reach).

care to verify?

my 1st-gen se with ios 15.whatever does NOT randomize the mac address in normal bt probes
The obvious part is compiling Clojure source code into WebAssembly bytecodes.
Did you notice that nowadays a lot of websites have a lot of uninteresting drivel giving a "background" to whatever the thing was you were searching for before you get to read (hopefully) the thing you were searching for?

People discovered that Google measures not only how much time you stay on a webpage but also how much you scroll to define how interesting a website is. So now every crappy "tech tips" website that has an answer that fits in a short paragraph now makes you scroll two pages before you get the thing you actually wanted to read.
gvim and vimscript9
https://archive.is/U2JVr
Considering this Javascript file: [...] write a test using mocks for the following Javascript function: func(x, y)
i think that the esp32 is probably a decent microcontroller to use for this purpose, in place of the pi zero; it does have a decent sleep mode and also wifi

its energy efficiency per instruction is not the best but is certainly acceptable
I guess anyone who was at some point at the receiving end of supply and demand freak show ("we see you really need that item/tool/furniture/service, here is special price for you") starts to put into storage one more item, rather than one less. Answer - tracking, profiling, ads, and predatory assholes.
With caveats:

- Different servers may have different versions of the program. Some distros are very "stable" and have very old versions of programs.

- It's common (especially for vim) for users to have significant configuration files to make use easier.
I’ve seen some reports that he did allow commits but he would “re”-commit them as part of his workflow. I’m not sure about the reasoning there.
Person who is productive while listening to death metal checking in.

I have two jobs currently - one is regular 40h/wk salaried day job, another is part-time, nights and weekends, hourly pay. I only need to work 15-18 hours a week at the part-time one to exceed my full-time pay, but the part-time one is:

- Windows
- internet routed through a hardware appliance that I'm sure logs every bit and packet
- forced to run an invasive full-system virus/malware scan on start-up and at 5AM every morning (takes 4-4.5 hours) forcing me to leave the thing runnings for days or weeks at a time and preventing any early morning work
- random things that were fine for years suddenly blocked, e.g. spotify/youtube
- I will occasionally get emails from IT asking why I have a random application installed, what it does, and why it's "operationally necessary"
- Once had trouble working during an active malware scan so did non-sensitive but time critical work on a personal machine and got an email the next day why I was clocked in when the computer was off

Compare to my full-time job

- Not windows
- VPN is off by default and IT makes a conscious effort to move things *off* of VPN instead of the opposite
- No tracking of any sort
- We literally play Steam games for work events sometimes so it has Steam installed

Now clearly there are some big culture differences between the two as well, but needless to say it's rare the side gig beats my full-time paycheck, precisely because it's such a horrible work environment.
> Yet I'd very much like my country having its own national software stack

The question is would you take that at the expense of blocking the big American corporations? That's probably really how the Chinese have developed their own to this degree. For example they weren't ubiquitous but Google was starting to make headway in China and Chinese in the late 00s when gmail hack/Google ban/GFW started. Baidu is not a quality service (though maybe because of government restrictions)
This is an ad for their service.
Can someone copy-paste the text, please? I cannot read it because Google hates Firefox users apparently.

EDIT: The Internet Archive has a functional copy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230810094255/groups.google.com...
Useful checklist: https://getyourshittogether.org/

Others in this thread have talked about safety deposit boxes and buried crates. I'd add that you can just give some trusted party a normal encrypted USB flash drive, and eliminate the risk of getting absolutely rinsed out in the event of a house burglary by splitting the password amongst an arbitrary number of your other contacts using the Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm.
Nothing to thing about here.

He could've left russia long time ago along with family and friends.

But he enjoys russian money even though he has more than enough for 100 lifetimes.

So yeah, I can in good faith demand from him and most other russians to condemn the war. Because the reason it happened is precisely that everyone does nothing in russia.

Most of them flee the country because they don't want to get into army, and even when they are abroad and in safety - they still don't condemn the war.

So fear has zero to do with their position.
A year

> Is the Internet Archive at least saving some of it for now?

Probably.

> Do you not keep anything interesting enough on your site for it to matter anyway?

No
Exactly. Going to bathroom during ads is just a display of disrespect to creators and marketing people. You could go during the show instead.
Google groups I can't comment but Github is a relative new thing. They were also still accepting patches on the mailing list(I believe the github pull request were mirrored to the ml or something like that). Bram was often replying to issues and pull request via email so github adoption doesn't seem to what Bram wanted. So no migration away from github.
A lot of this stuff is just plumbing, I feel it avoids the hard part of software - developing applications. Like it's quite easy to get on the new stuff roundabout, its a lot harder to develop an application, so developers focus on the new stuff because its comparatively well defined, the old developer perhaps realises this intuitively.
Here is a Fed governor explaining how she can’t feel inflation anymore.

Why is that a controversial statement? If you're rich the current rate of inflation simply isn't a problem for you. Rich people have so much money that even doubling the prices of most consumer goods won't affect their quality of life in the slightest. I thought that would be painfully obvious to everyone. Or is the controversy that she said the obvious thing everybody knew out loud?
I love that more operating systems, like Android, are beginning, as of like last year or so, to take Braille seriously. In the US, the National Library service for the blind (and print disabled) are rolling out a service where Braille readers get a free Braille display, a device which connects to a screen reader on a device to offer Braille input and output. The Braille display they're giving out can also download and display books from their service. The display I got, one by a company called Humanware, uses the Braille HID protocol, which Apple readily accepted and implemented, along with NVDA, and I think BRLTTY. NVDA is a screen reader on Windows, and BRLTTY is a cross platform but mostly Linux screen reader that mainly works with Braille instead of speech.

So, The NLS EReader as they're called works pretty well with the iPhone and Mac, NVDA, JAWS, BRLTTY, and the Chromebook. But it wasn't until a few weeks ago, when the TalkBack folks released their six-month-update, did TalkBack even support the NLS EReader... over USB. Apparently, the Bluetooth stack has to be substantially changed to allow Braille HID over Bluetooth. So yeah, Apple has the advantage of supporting this thing for a few years, although there are definitely bugs. Hopefully, as these devices become much more prominent in the US, screen readers will try to grab onto the fact that many more people have Braille.
You can't fix stupid.

Plenty of people take medical advice from their neighbors or friends who have no medical background.

Some people are going to make bad choices, you can't avoid it.
I use SvelteKit + MDsveX
A list of ingredients is hard work. openai.gpt4.prompt(f”gimme a recipe using {ingredients}”) is much less work.
Google partners with Measurement Lab (M-Lab) to run this test.
> even stupid Firefox just hung trying to load or trying to redirect from what it thinks should be the default https version

Cannot reproduce.

The only problem(s) I'm seeing are related to operator error; nothing to do with browsers "loop[ing] themselves into a frenzy". The server at www.randomhacks.net works, but the server at randomhacks.net, on the other hand (and which is not the same as www.randomhacks.net), is for whatever reason failing to respond to the HTTP request. Reasonable guess: it's not a Web server.

At best, the service operator has the server (arguably) misconfigured, and the client operator is expecting the browser to do something it shouldn't while blaming failure on the browser after assuming it's doing something that it isn't actually doing.