skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, the whole point for many homeschooling parents is isolation of kids and ideological inctrination.

We just don't think it is noble.
I would love to try this out, but I would like to see a headless version of the desktop app as I do all my programming over SSH.
The issue is - as ever - what 'harmful information' is and who gets to define and police that. The EU is overly confident in it's benevolent paternalism; I hope that US Gov has greater humility
If you know the right ffmpeg options...

ffmpeg challenge: more Richard Spencer getting punched!
Very well put. I have tried to argue the same point here and on reddit in past. The only real argument against I get is from the privacy perspective. That people tend to use alternative youtube clients or other such hacks to be able to consume ad free content anonymously and with the current state of google are not very keen on providing it with more information about them.
Personally I am trying to degooglify my life including working my own open source alternatives for some services I don't find much other good alternatives for- google keep and google books. But my youtube usage pattern being the data shared with google is quite low on the priority list for me but reasonable minds can differ.
On the other hand, if enough do start to pay for youtube premium then we would be able to much more fruitfully present our demands including for privacy when we are actual customers and not the product as in the current dynamics.
One Device to Do It All
Wow. This is such an original take. I think it's utterly fascinating and borderline genius - no joke - to tie this alleged impulse for pity/sympathy to the abandonment of family bonds in western culture. That abandonment is what allows individuals to pursue all these artistic and footloose paths without having to care for their elders, but it's also what alienates them from a framework of people who would care about what they do.

In my experience, so much of what you do for kinship is based on guilt, that I find it hard to trust that my kin actually care for anything I ever did. (This could just be because I'm Jewish, but go with me here for a second). My first and last fans have always been my brother and my mom, since I was 12 years old strumming a guitar, all the way through sort-of-rock touring status with a few hundred people per show, up til I'm no longer playing music but for late night solo demos to a few people. One has to ask: Are my kin only kind to my efforts out of some sense of mutual support rooted in guilt if they don't respond?

I think that question kind of answers itself.

So then, what about people who don't have anyone who they can email music to at 3am who has to pretend to like it? What becomes of those people?

It all jives. I think you nailed it. The public pity party is directly related to lacking a family who'll bullshit and pacify you for your own good.
Will AI destory us? – AI Virtual Roundtable [video]
with Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, Scott Aaronson
I too am happy pay for nice things, but I am never happy to pay a monopolist just on principle; so I don't.
To be honest, that’s kind of what I already do. MacBook Air with a portable battery gives me about 12 hours. I live in BC so I’ll grab a coffee, drive up the mountain where I can get cell service (not needed in all cases) and just code away until I run out of battery, coffee or energy. The future is here.
They do say that old blades are the most coveted, as are old hilts made of rhino horn

I imagine the focus on the scabbard is partly because it was largely decorative and served a very different function - such as being collateral.

So all parts of the blade were important, but the part "used" the most has highest investment. If you don't draw the knife, then it gets most use by having obvious skill in its crafting.
I use Youtube through Piped (https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped) to preserve privacy, block ads, and prevent getting sucked in by the algorithm.

The only part of Youtube that I find valuable is the content. Not the UI, not the comments, algorithm. Free content hosting is nice, but it's not the only platform hosting videos for free.

If I wanted to pay for a streaming service, it'd be Nebula (https://nebula.tv/), because I know it benefits creators.

But I'm never turning off the adblocker, thank you.
> Jim Butterfield

I had a 6502 machine language book of his as a kid. I figured out in my head what I thought I wanted to do with the various instructions, then wrote out on graph paper the (decimal) number for the op or it’s args, then transcribed the whole affair into memory manually via POKEs. Good times.
More like, learn how to evaluate those decisions and advocate for their own healthcare, which is something everyone needs to learn and practice in the US eventually.

Medical interventions for adolescents is always going to be controversial and no simple heuristic will solve it. Hopefully if kids are more comfortable expressing their identity and not comforming to traditional stereotypes then medical treatments will feel less necessary.
I dislike the attitude of those who reject ads but also refuse to pay.

How is this any different from changing the channel, leaving the room, or just hitting the mute button and closing your eyes in the scenario of "regular" TV when adverts or any other content you don't want to see appears? Compelled consumption should be illegal.
Users of free and open source software also give back by contributing feedback, bug reports, and patches. They promote the software through word of mouth and offer support to other users, building a community that extends the longevity of the software. The FOSS movement encompasses more than monetary payment in exchange for software, and it is not "freeloading" to use software exactly as prescribed by the license the developers selected.

While n8n is not open source, n8n is at least upfront about its business model and does not falsely brand itself as open source, which is more than can be said about some other companies.
I appreciate I'm making a "No True Scotsman" point, but Spark isn't really "a typical S3 client doing basic object storage stuff". I'm thinking of your standard web app persisting uploads and static files.
So many of these sites exist. I even made one as a hobby project for learning React. Mine is a bit more involved (learn mode with mnemonics, quiz mode with a timer and different fonts, character filtering and modified characters). Thinking about expanding on it if anyone would like to suggest ideas or fork it. I mostly made it to force me to learn Katakana and Hiragana.

https://github.com/fama-623/Kana-Cards
There are so many reasons to block ads. Aesthetics alone. Protecting your valuable time. Consenting to watching an ad is not the same as consenting to your entire life being tracked and monitored.

But the most important issue is that as long as malware can spread through ads (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising), everyone should be blocking all ads.
Yeah I don't know about that. In F/OSS there is traditionally no EULA to accept. There is a license to use/modify/share the software, and it may be a page or two long, and most licenses are found in just a few categories, such as MIT, BSD, Apache, GPL. Literally none of these licenses, in their original forms, place any restrictions or conditions on how an end-user can use the software; they're aimed at developers and contributors' use and distribution of the source and binaries.

Also, I don't know how non-Ubuntu package management organizes software, but in Ubuntu, you need to make a conscious decision to include the "nonfree" type of software.

Now presumably for a Linux package manager, any installation action should hopefully import any license terms to a known, readable place for the user to peruse, before launch, if necessary.

Perhaps many Linux users don't care, as you say, but I know a lot more who are exquisitely sensitive to licensing and EULAs and will scrutinize this stuff a lot more than a Windows user who just gobbles shareware from C|NET.
It does have your entire codebase context using the Claude 100k context model. You can have a look at this white paper for more info about how Cody uses the right context: https://about.sourcegraph.com/whitepaper/cody-context-archit...
So you're saying there's a final frontier in the mapping of intention and the discernment of preferences ... and you'd like some bright young things to explore that possibility space under the guise of (unimpeachable good cause) ?

Go to hell.

Unless, of course, you'd like to commit the funded work to the free commons, unencumbered by patents and copyrights, and free to use by any entity for any purpose.

That's what we'd do for ALS, right ?
I've got to believe this is the phone call that saved Apple in the 90's too.

For all the different interpretations of history and motivations that happened at that time it was clear to everyone that Microsoft stepped in because of the anti-trust investigations already happening and couldn't afford to have them expand beyond Internet Explorer, which would have definitely happened if the Mac disappeared.

Google's in a much safer place with Chrome (its open-source and other browsers are actively using the engine in the market), but why risk it? It's cheap insurance.
> the article begs us to pass judgement on this behavior

The people behaving like this are the ones who are begging for judgement, probably feeling "safe" that anyone condemning them for doing it will be mobbed by the majority who will not miss their chance to virtue signal their support for the self-pittying person.
What's a Smoot? (2011)
I've got a core 2 duo with 2GB RAM that I used for around 6 hours yesterday to write an application.

Only slightly noticeable waiting times when I accessed some sites, but it worked and the application works too.
Increasing the framerate of this game seems to have a strong impact on how players perceive the cars and their handling. The feelings of weight and momentum seem all but gone in the 50 fps versions (there is a hack for the Amiga port too).

Apparently the mind interpolates the missing frames better than the engine.
Great video ... tastefully and humorously uses phrases like science hippies and godzilla. Thus is like the honey badger narration for slime molds.
All they need to do is slightly bias their recommendation engine, maybe in different ways for different users. Not too hard using Monolith.
Incidentally, this is probably the best getting started guide for pfSense. When I set mine up last year, all tutorials were lacking. It was usually just installing pfSense, or some random settings that anyone would probably go through anyway. Took me awhile to collate the relevant information and set up my pfSense. I did eventually removed it and installed OPNSense, which has similar issues.
Well, yes, but it can get out of hand.
You know how good black / gray hat hackers are at circumventing the law or just don't even think about it?

Yeah, bullies generally aren't scared by "the rules" or by the fact that what they're doing is technically illegal either.
If you are renting property to businesses for commercial purposes, why would you give, rent, or tolerate the occupation of that space by someone who is paying less per square foot in rent, unless they are consistently doing something that increases the rent you can get from your other customers?
For LG TVs, if you set the region to "Other," it completely disables all the ads, recommended content, and telemetry [1], presumably because they can't keep track of all the changing laws for every nation on earth.

In my experience, there was a noticable performance improvement as well. Bootup times alone are probably 2x-3x faster.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/1571djx/guide_how_t...
it's computationally expensive if it's more computation than all the other things you'd like your hardware to do, i think is a better definition.
The issue with paying for youtube premium is that you are still left with tons of ads. Until YouTube themselves doesn't tackle this issue as it should I refuse to pay to see sligtly less ads.
That's exactly what it reminded me of too; there's been plenty of HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19762928
> among other things

what else do you MITM for?
I can make an eye tracking keyboard with tensor flow, if anyone is interested in this problem.

It would be great to hear from paul about how his friend uses the keyboard and what kind of tasks he’d love to do but can’t with current solutions.

It seems like a throughput problem to me. How can you type quickly using only your eyes?

Have people explored using small phonetic alphabets or Morse code style encoding?

Once I got tensorflow working, I’d start mapping different kinds of ux. Throughput is king.
This might surprise you, but as a parent, I can tell you that seeing my daughter happy makes me happy. Yes, sometimes you do things out of guilt, but that's not the prime mover most of the time.
The "your choice to homeschool me harmed me" is point of contention and literally the conflict in some cases.
Thank you for this recommendation. I was looking for a FOSS replacement for n8n with a similar user interface and feature set, and Activepieces seems to be a great fit.
> JSR [$]FFD2. (I think that's right)

Yes, that is the "print char in A and inc screen pos" in the lookup table for the actual subroutine.
Behavioural advertisment runs counter to the goals and aspirations of a free democratic society. We have enough atomization of the information space as it is.

What makes me pause is that there are truly people who are like "Pff! Free society!" or "Pff! Survival of the human race on planet earth!" and then go to explain how their profits are really what the rest of us should care about. In their worst version these people would sell Cyclon-B to the nazis if it just made them a good enough profit and there are people who see that kind of apocalyptic nihilism and confuse it with strength and power.

The rest of us should ban, tax, punish and prevent more of this totally braindead behaviour. Go ahead and make a profit, but if you can't manage to make it in a way that doesn't impact the rest of us, you can go fuck yourself.
A walk in the park, identifying plants, studying birds and other wildlife, can be "we did biology today". I went to school and I basically learnt zero biology in all 12 years of school. I didn't have a ton of interest and I didn't have good teachers. You learn very little at school in general which is something you find out in your first year of university.

I had to make up a final exam at school for a subject I didn't take. I covered the entire material for 2 years in a couple of weeks and passed the final. That's pretty much my experience of school- 2 weeks worth of material stretched over 2 years. A glorified daycare system. How can you teach a class of 25 young individuals where 90% couldn't care less, anything?

That said I agree this (EDIT: homeschooling) is not for everyone and not everyone does it for the right reasons.
Breaking Out of the Snail Maze
No, it isn't. Because a place isn't a video. No matter how many tens or hundreds of thousands of people know about some B&B room, no matter how "viral" it goes, only one set of guests can actually stay in it on a given night.

I've stayed in places whereby I phoned the owner to make a reservation and that was that. It is actually a "thing".

There are sites that aggregate listings of places like that without serving as a go between. It's not like the operators of the B&B just put up a page and rely on nothing but search engine indexing.
If each AZ is siloed, then how can different AZs serve the same user/workspace?
If this becomes a functioning dense city with plenty of housing, it would be hugely needed in the region!
My blog actually is a shell script that runs pandoc.

For a blog, anything more is overkill.
Why does it need a power cable? To me the main selling point of e-ink displays is that they should be able to last weeks if not months on a single charge...
How do you know when you've been exposed?

Just always wear a mask?
I'm subscribed to a couple of GitHub issues from external projects, and I wish we would go back to private bugtrackers like Bugzilla (or some sort of federated solution). Since with the subscriptions you get the comments via Email before they are deleted/moderated, you can truly tell whats going on. The level of insults, entitlement and useless spam comments ("I need this to!", "What is the ETA?", "If you do not implement this, I'm gonna use something else!") has made it a sad, sad place. But everybody has a GitHub account and typing out your rage is a quick thing to do.
Does anyone recall when cable TV first came out - "Pay for cable, see no ads!!!"

That didn't last long...
> Parents won't force their kids to continue to be around others they dislike

Ha, you would be surprised. Parents will totally force kids to be around people they dislike. I mean my parents knew that I was bullied in my private, free association school. Even after one asshole pulled a knife on me and the school wouldn’t do a thing because he was from a rich family in my small town, they still decided to kept me in there because “it has good academic level/learning to deal with these people is good/kids will be kids/<insert other bullshit excuse>”.

But hey, maybe you are right and free association is good. After all they kicked me out because of absenteeism when I decided to bail out of school because it was living hell.
Residential water usage makes up ~10% of water use in California. The vast majority of water waste is commercial, e.g. flood irrigation. While I'd love to see efficient water usage residentially (e.g. fewer water-wasteful lawns), they're just not the bulk of the problem.
I'm getting a lot of use out of my ancient Sony DPT-S1 for this purpose. It has a huge screen but is very light and well-balanced so holding it for long periods is not a problem for me, compared to holding a similarly-sized lcd tablet. I've converted most of my epub ebooks to pdf (thank you Calibre) just so I can enjoy reading them on this device.
> So I happily pay for premium and while I'd rather that were the only option (I think ad supported content is an inherently socially corrosive model)

Still doesn't protect you from in-video sponsorships (skullshare, OstVPN, etc.), product placements, etc. Some creators especially do these because it protects them from platform demonetization risk.

Same shit with paying for cabletv & movie theatre tickets. If anything, people that pay are their most valuable targets for ads.

Even a newspaper that I sub to runs ads and a zillion trackers against me. Ugh.

I get where you're coming from, but the platform could more to protect paying members from this. E.g. creators with over $x revenue must tag promos so the platform ships them for paying users
> The Proxomitron

Googling this, development ended in 2004? An informed summary of the current state of play would be interesting, since a lot of different "continuations" of it seem to be around. Also, is it Windows-only? (I've been casually looking for a simple proxy that would enable injection of local links into remote content.)
build stable countries

you can't do that remotely. and people who build this will develop a strong sense of identity and won't accept migrants in their community
How to spot the outlier dataset when you only have the statistics
Oil is usually traded in USD, regardless of which countries are buying or selling. It's a big deal.
Now someone needs to do the same with a ZX spectrum ;-)

As others have mentioned, a 6502 is very poorly suited to C-style code, but a Z80 should be somewhat better with that.
Wolfram's long and rambling biography of Fredkin, with detailed accounts of their interactions:

Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin...

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/08/remembering-the-...
You mean like PBS?

But now they have ads.
That's not a screwup, that's the point of fish.

You can't make a sane shell scripting language without dropping POSIX compatibility.
The deeper analysis here is more interesting imo. How much of what ails society is downstream of the increasing atomization of individuals?

the need for community hasn’t gone away, but I can’t help but wonder if we’re pursuing it in the wrong places.
Does pg visit HN to give explanations? HN is his baby afterall
I think you're underestimating the effort involved in writing something to poll an IMAP folder, checking for new emails, pull the right mime attachments, etc, etc, and then turning around and post them to the right place.

Yeah I could write some Ruby or Python or Perl to do the job but I can also spend way less time and use something like Huginn to do it for me.

Honestly, your argument could apply to virtually anything you might do with something like Zapier or equivalent. Nothing they do can't be done via scripting. The point is these tools simplify the grunt work so you can go from idea to implementation much faster, with proven code that you don't have to write and maintain yourself.
Everyone should block ads and everyone who can pay for the use of the platform should.
After ruling, Kansas HP argues against rules to prevent rights violations
While parts of the objection might be legitimate for logistical reasons (ie, requiring the same supervisor for every shift), the unmitigated gall of the prosecutor is telling.

I know that the US judicial system is adversarial where winning is the only thing that matters, somehow we should see the prosecuting (who represents the people in their jurisdiction) standing up for justice.
Russia is testing a drone-carrying drone
How much power consumption is being used for these API calls and special scripts to calculate CO2 usage?
That's worked well for the past few years.

In recent weeks, however, Archive Today has been throwing endless CAPTCHA requests to many people. Given that there are few if any well-known alternatives (12ft.io, Ghost Archive, and Google Cache are all far less effective), this is a real problem. I've raised the issue with dang.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681>
Ah yes, people just stopped taking personal responsibility these last forty years, resulting in an obesity epidemic and mass addiction to phones and social media. Makes total sense. Just have some more willpower!
The assumption is that not many people would leave the room, close their eyes or mute the ads.

If you created a painless, super easy way to remove all ads, i'm sure that TV channels will also find it hard to sell to advertisers, and thus, their revenue would decrease.
How to Survive a Penetration Test
By that logic we shouldn't be even a allowed to look away or mute our sound when the ads are playing, after all if enough people did it it would be just as "damaging" as people with ad blockers.

Also, YouTube is a video streaming monopoly, if it didn't exist there would be a significant chance of new streaming platforms to succeed, but given that it captured the marked such chance is unlikely to exist, monopoly that they achieved hosting videos free of ads (or very light on these) and now that they have the control want to force people to pay or watch a ridiculous amount of ads.
> In home school, there is less people and more choice.

I think you meant "there are fewer people." Were you home schooled? Perhaps public school English would have been a better option.
They often have content worth discussing. Why ban over paywalls? Plenty of us have subscriptions.
Expanding from Johnwbyrd's nearby:

-- Commodore sold a Ram Expansion Unit named "1764" to bring the C64 to 256kb of RAM;

-- it was possible to use the REU for the C128 named "1750" to bring the C64 to 512kb of RAM;

-- and it is possible to expand on that to have a 2MB REU for the C64 - see https://www.neperos.com/article/rlut8ce90fbb7701

You can have two megabytes on the C64, pretty "legally".
Blur My Shell, Espresso, Just Perfection, Pomodoro, Reorder Workspaces, Top Bar Organizer.
People paid for cable and they still forced ads on people.