skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RSS requires a lot of developer resources to work with.

AdSense, for example, is super hard to fit into RSS. How do you do it?

Sorry, we tried everything but the user agent support for Javascript in RSS is simply lacking. Unfortunately, it has to be dropped, there is no alternative.
wtf, emmigration is in the 120,000 range while immigration is in the 1,000,000 range. This is literally the opposite of the article title. Immigration to Canada is at world war levels. You might think, 'but we're not at world war' oh but we are... but you're censored from talking about it.

Reuters come on. You're better then this, you aren't usually like the rest of these pretend journalists.
I think that one of the issues with edge-connectors (beyond thickness and distance as mentioned in another comment) is capacitance, which is one reason why CAMM is structured the way it is.
Starling-7B, OpenChat, OpenHermes in that table are Mistral-7B finetunes, and are all above the current GPT-3.5-Turbo (1106). Note how these tiny 7B models are surrounded by much larger ones.

Mixtral 8x7B is not in there yet.
I went through and corrected all the little problems the validator was reporting. Maybe that will fix it.

Can you try again?
I have a NAS.

I run a daily cron job on the NAS that:

a) uses rsync to copy the important bits off various Linux & macOS machines back to a directory tree on the NAS.

b) I use PhotoSync to copy photos from phones to the NAS.

c) I use Bvckup2 to copy from Windows machines to the NAS.

d) mounts a HDD used as the backup medium. Currently a 16TB Seagate HDD. This just lives in one slot in the NAS, except when it's offsite, so the mount is unattended.

e) After the drive volume is mounted, I make a btrfs snapshot of the synced file tree, and save it on the mounted backup drive.

f) umount the volume.

Every month, I exchange the backup drive with a friend who lives in another city (so, I have _two_ backup drives: one local, one offsite, and swap them).

So I kinda have four copies of everything at various ages: the original, last night's synced copy, daily snapshots going back alternating months locally, and the opposite month's daily snapshots remotely.

At this point I have coming up on 10 years worth of snapshots. They're pretty small, because not a lot changes day-to-day.

I need to recover something a couple of times a year. One thing I'd like to do is add some automated testing of the recovery, but for now I just check the cron emails for errors every so often.
OK, just spent twenty bucks. Don't regret it.
So how would we distinguish a paid-for article about best books of 2023 from a non-paid one? Would we conclude everything is above board only if there’s no such article at all?

Seems like a claim that’s bordering on unfalsifiable…
Can it export the result to Excel?

Somewhat related. An old post by Joel Spolsky about how Excel ate Lotus https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/03/strategy-letter-ii...
Elite Afghan troops face return to Taliban after UK 'betrayal'
> we would have found plenty of other wooden structures in the period

Well, wood is not exactly known to survive for hundreds, much less thousands or hundreds of thousand of years.
Yeah, if you’re actually using it as an alternative to microdata, maybe there’s value. But the only times I think I ever see it it’s just WebSite or Article, at which point I’m dubious if there’s any value. In smaller providers like this they seldom include all of the fields that they reasonably should, too, e.g. datePublished.

(Oh yeah, that’s another point I missed in my comment: the <time> needs to be <time datetime="2023-12-01">. Also, 12/01/23 in the text, ugh, yucky USA middle-endian date format, and with a two-digit year at that.)
I love this writeup.

The solution the author comes to is great, AND, I think it says that as a blogger you should probably always own or create your own tools.

I went down this same path, and Svekyll is my result (combination of Jekyll conventions with Svelte).

(https://svekyll.com or https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli/)

Svekyll offers a different perspective to get the same benefits as documented in this great post. I love that we generally reached the same conclusions as to what is important.

* WYSIWYG editor: Svekyll just builds from Markdown files (https://svekyll.com/Markdown)
* Customizable themes: Svekyll lets you configure DaisyUI themes in your _config.yml (e.g.: theme: dracula, https://svekyll.com/Theme)
* SEO out of the box: Svekyll has this too (https://svekyll.com/SEO).
* Runs forever: Svekyll compiles each post to a single independent HTML page (zero JS or CSS links, it is all inlined, https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli#technical-notes-on-svekyll-cli)
* RSS Feed Support: add rss: true to the _config.yml and get RSS. And, you can even add RSS feeds for each tag. (https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli/-/merge_requests/11, and see an example here: https://webiphany.com/2023-10-16-building-webapps-for-the-amazon-kindle-paperwhite-browser)
* Improved post creation: while not a feature of Svekyll itself, ExtraStatic (my hosting service) let's you create posts as Markdown by sending an email. This is an example where building on a simple foundation like Markdown opens a ton of possibilities.
* Analytics: Add matomo analytics to Svekyll in your _config.yml (https://svekyll.com/Analytics).
* Featured posts: stumped by this, but definitely a problem!
Bramus, a google engineer did an inoffical workaround:

https://mastodon.social/@bramus@front-end.social/11144816695...
That kind of makes logical sense, though. Physical hidden chests are, after all, how almost all real life shops implement inventories. Those are typically inaccessible to players, too.

(There is a part of shopping experience where the player grabs items and puts them in their own chest/basket prior to purchase. This works thanks to the security scheme of law enforcement NPCs dragging your ass to jail you can't save-scum your way off, should you steal something. But this is too complex to implement in a game, unless you're making the next GTA.)

Hell, even the bunnies and spectral radio cats make sense, to a degree. This reminds me of the ol' Flash games or Klik&Play/The Games Factory-made games. In all of them, you'd find yourself placing support objects on the scene but outside the screen boundary. I used to laugh at it, but eventually realized it kind of makes sense, if you think of the game as a theatre play - there's lots going on at the edges of the stage, just beyond what the audience can see.

Or think back to RAD tools from Borland (Delphi, C++ Builder) - they had a notion of abstract objects like "Timer" as invisible UI controls that could be placed in the window you're designing. On the one hand, this makes no sense - an abstract timer doesn't have "position" or "size", not at runtime. On the other hand, it was intuitive and convenient at design time.
This may be an unpopular opinion but there won't be a Twitter replacement. There may very well be a "next big thing" but it won't be like Twitter the same way Twitter wasn't like MySpace or MySpace wasn't like FARK etc (not to say these are in any way directly related but Twitter certainly wasn't the biggest social network by far even if it was culturally influential).

Mastodon exists and it is good at being a federated microblogging service. Threads exists and it is good at the metrics it's built to deliver. Bluesky exists and it is good at being its own little club house. Truth Social exists and it is good at being Trump's soapbox. Gab exists and it is good at being whatever it is.

Twitter hit a magic sweet spot that can't be replicated. It was also a terrible place even before the cultural shifts (including those prior to the leveraged buyout). It was the place celebrities would show their entire ass to journalists and everyone could tag along to tell them how terrible they were. It was also the most readily accessible source for "citizen journalism" with unfiltered live coverage of major tragedies and other "breaking news" - but this has now become impossible as it has also become easily accessible to spread falsehoods that overwhelm any attempt at fact checking.

X's "revenue sharing" mechanism that effectively monetizes outrage bait may be what's killing Twitter for good but even prior to that Twitter was already dead. Heck, Twitter was always bad even when it was useful. At times the up sides just outweighed the down sides if you knew how to use it. For many this involved "not being political" (which is already not an option if your identity deviates from the "norm" in obvious ways, e.g. being a woman) and sticking to specific niches. But the discoverability of these niches is also what made them prone to the inevitable Twitter drama.
From: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

>TRUTH:

> We are being lied to.

> We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.

> We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.

> We are told to be pessimistic.

> The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.

> We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

> We are told to be miserable about the future.

Yep, Silicon Valley has become its own cult now.

Maybe even worse, they are still best friends with big finance.
FaceTime or iMessage doesn’t matter, it’ll never happen. They want you to buy their expensive hardware to get those features, and releasing an open proto would create dozens of android implementations and hurt their sales, in some amount
this is an excellent step towards the useability revolution, interesting to see how long it will take to permeate to a standard for high-school and undergraduate students to get to real work faster and in a more interactive way

more reactions on X
https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/17340800431967683...
Which is why I tend to look at homicides as it will be less biased. Every homicide will be accounted for (materially). And if anything you would expect less efforts to be made by the police to identify the author in poorer black areas, which would lead to an under representation. But from memory I think close to 50% of the homicide in the US have black authors (and predominantly black victims too which is consistent with your point). Which is broadly in line with their representation in police shootings.
Yes, it used to have RSS then they migrated to a new publishing platform that doesn't support RSS

For now this can be used: https://chrome-for-developers-rss.bramus.workers.dev/blog or /articles or /case-studies

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/314910854#comment2
So he was manipulative towards his colleagues and aggressive in the way he pushed their ai to the public with little consideration for its consequences?
The actual paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374057808_Evidence_...
The more I read about this, the more it seems like the most "boring" and predictable reason for this to happen. He is a toxic psychopath working in an (apparent) not for profit. The guy says one thing and does another, who'd a thunk it ? Sound exactly like the worst person to be in possession of some "powerful" technology.

I know a lot of people won't care because "he ships", but ultimately, this shit sucks and if true is really sad he got to keep his job. People like this are really toxic and destructive.
Cue...

- commercial AI refusing to generate RSS XMLs from a webpages' content.
- "illegal" AI that is willing to browse webpages without disclosing that their'e bots
Also, considering mistral is open source, what will prevent their competitor to integrate any innovation they make?

Another thing I don't understand, how a 20 people company can provide a similar system as OpenAI (1000 employees)? what do they do themselves, and what do they re-use?
> My question was why google reader was good, not why it was popular.

Once you learn about Venn diagrams it's going to completely blow your mind. One easy first pass at making inferences as to best services is to use popularity as an imperfect first proxy. So if someone says that a service became a de facto standard used by all of the internet, it's one of the ways to helpfully frame the conversation about whether the service proved to be useful. Of course there will be exceptions, but it's one of those functional literacy things where everyone can understand the significance of why people would bring that up in the context of a conversation that ultimately was closing in on making assessments about the value of the user experience.

Google's RSS reader was simple, ad free, fast, had an elegant design, didn't attempt to push superfluous services or subscriptions, set a standard for accessible anywhere at a time when many popular RSS readers were used on the desktop, and, in contrast to most of the best services now around, was free. I would go so far as to say it was almost unimproveable because it had one job and it did it correctly and didn't try to do other things, which used to be one of the things Google did best.

And I feel like none of this information is new, hard to discover, controversial, but is instead part of the generally accepted canon of internet history. So it's a bizarre question to me, if I'm being honest.

Edit: regarding the prevalence of RSS adoption in the present day, it may be true that as a numeric total there are more sites using it, but that as a percentage it is down. The same way that a winning candidate for president from the 1940s will have fewer votes then a losing candidate from the present day. Numbers will grow over time just due to population growth. Or in the case of the internet, The growth in the number of sites. But to understand whether RSS enjoys the same status as a de facto standard it's necessary to look at more than just the numbers, but at the proportion of adoption today compared to the proportion as an existed in the past.
> Unless there is a war

I think you will have trouble finding many places that haven't been touched by conflict in 800 years, given anyone lives there. If there's humans, there will be war.
> AdSense, for example, is super hard to fit into RSS. How do you do it?

You don't.
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Global warming doesn't come from heat from the ground, but from the atmosphere absorbing extra heat from the sun due to the increased amount of CO2 in it. If this geothermal energy generates enough power so we burn less fossil fuels put less CO2 into the atmosphere, it will slow global warming. The amount of heat we'd get from the ground would be comparable to the amount of heat we get from burning fossil fuels, and both would be negligible compared to the amount of additional heat we get from the sun.
yep, since 2013
That's not present on another omglol site that was linked elsewhere in the thread, though.

I would agree with you if they automatically set this for everyone. I'm not sure how come that other sites aren't showing up in the archive. (I'm not a customer of theirs or anything, I'm already hosting my own stuff)
Oh I have! Was very very nice. Got into lisp a bit, then gave it all up when something in the tower of babel broke in a subtle way and I realized I didn't need all the complexity.

Was super fun though. The experience is probably part of the reason I'm writing my own editor (in Lua).
Like diffserv? Allowing to tell the ISP about low latency traffic?

Ofc, ISPs would have to aggressively limit this type of traffic as it would be abused otherwise (video game gameplay traffic, and voice call streams).
- "Major performance improvements over 3.2"

- "Significantly improved memory usage over 3.2"

Seems pretty good to me.
dupe,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593616
When chrome started taking over, all other major browsers (probably even internet explorer) had native RSS read support (read at least). They use to show rss icon in the url bar or some other indictor that this site has RSS available. But Chrome ever since has been throwing raw xml at you when you try to open an rss feed link and never indicates if there is RSS here. I believe this to be the main reason for decline of RSS.
It’s about 100 for x86_64 https://www.computerenhance.com/p/waste
The battleground, Strand of the Ancients, was originally started using two invisible NPCs that were hostile to each other; one on each faction's boat and dock. The first boat/NPC to reach the dock would trigger a spell/script when in proximity, starting the first round. [1]

[1] BlizzCon 2016 - WoW Engineering Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1y2fdDeSbU&t=227s
Okay, but "open source" implies you can change and fork the code. "Free and source available" does not, even if you can in some cases.

That's literally all I said.
Why I'm Switching to Linux Mint Debian Edition (LDME)
- Ubuntu snap store UI doesn't open half the time. Apps don't install half the time.

- I want to stay in debian ecosystem because installation instructions typically provide `.deb` files

- The LDME app store shows both flatpaks and deb apps. if you really need a snap, you can install it on debian.

- I also like apt packages more than yum. Plus nala looks like a great way to manage packages.

- I like mint's cinnamon UI more than stock gnome UI.

- People claim Linux Mint provides sensible drivers that default Debian does not. I want to be as close to debian as possible, but don't want config hassle.
You can have checksums without signatures. Not that either a commonly checked after installation so most systems are still vulnerable to random bit flips.
Fun little story, at Kansasfest 1992 (the Apple II conference that persists today) I was incredibly young but was roaming the dorms at night between various groups hacking on stuff and begging for underage-beers, when I heard some chatter about some people who had developed an interesting 3D game and promptly received over $800KUSD in shareware fees in just a month, enabling the purchase of fast cars. I ran into those people and saw a brief demonstration of Wolf3D on a plasma-screen laptop, it looked mighty fancy.

The next day, I saw Carmack stick his head into a computer lab where and friend and I were hacking on something, and I said "Hey John! I really liked Wraith! I just beat it!" (Wraith was an 8-bit tiled 2D adventure game that he had released). He smiled and said "Oh, I've gotten a bit better since Wraith..."

Of course by that time, he was about to release Doom. Not to belittle the ray-casting problem of determining which 2D tiles to hide and show in those adventure games, but he had indeed gotten a bit better.
You may be fine with shipping your data to OpenAI or Mistral, but worry about what happens if they change terms or if their future models change in a way that causes problems for you, or if they go bankrupt. In any of those cases, knowing you can take the model and run it yourself (or hire someone else to run it for you) mitigates risk. Whether those risks matter enough will of course differ wildly.
Aren't they mostly funded by private American funds? what is EU involvement in this projet?
The code is licensed under Apache 2.0, but the weights are CC BY-NC 4.0 according to the README, so no commercial use unfortunately.
I think of it as the difference between blank paper and a note-taking system: paper is hyper-versatile, but sharing systems of using it, that's where all the richness of paper is :)
This post is what got me into mechanical watches as I've always wondered how the analogue clocks/watches work but couldn't bother myself to actually read upon it. But after the article, I even got myself a clean Seiko 5 automatic, not because I wanted a fancy watch, but I wanted to own a piece of mechanical wonder.
If the entire company's work has been laid up into a single prototype, then an oscilloscope does have such buttons :)
Because lift isn't a popularity contest?
Leveraging SuperDuperDB to Create a Simple De-Duplication System Easily
Ask HN: Why RSS resurgence instead of Atom?
I've seen several posts here and elsewhere touting RSS support or advocating a resurgence of RSS.

In my experience Atom, and the Atom Publishing Protocol, are much superior technically to RSS. There's a JSON version, richer vocabulary, more specific about the content being transmitted, Atom is an IETF standard, namespaces support, and full internationalization.

However, RSS seems to be the one in resurgence. I'm looking for people thoughts on why. I'd also love thoughts on how Atom could have its own resurgence.

Some of the differences are also discussed in more detail here:
http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-rss-and-atom/
Really? Well that's very exciting. I don't care about wasting my battery if it can do my menial tasks for me, battery is a currency I'd gladly pay for this use case.
So humanoids were already building things half a million years ago. Can you imagine what they'll be building in half a million years in the future? (if we're still around)
You can automate a lot of that stuff in the DevTools command-line, using basic DOM APIs. It's not ideal, but it allows you do to most of the things you'd do manually (click things, read text, write to textboxes) and it's easy to learn.
Thanks for sharing this journey! I've been considering Love2D for a while so it's important to read about the challenges others run into. You should definitely not have to package Mesa to ship a game! I wonder why it hooks so far deeply..

Coming from PICO-8 myself, I'm wondering if I should just skip the frameworks to babystep and just jump into C+SDL, or pygame or something. I like the different ways that games can be made -- like your procedural graphics not needing a graphics library.
This article is about the cute generating function trick. Not exactly sure why you're showcasing the usual recursive fibonacci in haskell.
The third party tool is based on the official google-api-python-client. It’s about as non-approved as ad hoc shell scripts.
> The web seems to be becoming paradoxically less and less machine/automation friendly

Less distributed/democratized machine/automation friendly... But definitely automation friendly for giant search scrapers, with lots of compute, cash, IP blocks and AI.

I'd like to change that. I originally created BrowserBox^0 as a platform to serve "web scraping authoring tools". These tools are normally served as extensions, or even downloadable electron apps. But what about something easier to distribute, more powerful, more lightweight, and less beholden to walled-garden gatekeeping? BrowserBox changes all that, as it's clientless and runs in a regular web browser even on mobile. Anyone can build a scraping script on top of it, even from your mobile device while riding the bus. That's the vision anyway. But I got side-tracked by how the "embeddable browser" is a useful product in its own right. I still intend to return to fulfilling its original purpose however.

The key is to build a good "extensions-like"-but better-API atop the Chrome DevTools protocol and our BrowserBox functionality. We're open source so come visit if you'd liked to get involved or check it out! :)

0: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
"Most people" do a lot of stupid stuff, I don't really care what everyone else does. Because the majority of people do something is absolutely no justification.

At one point in time, > 50% of people used to smoke cigarettes too.