skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was blown away when I installed Ubuntu via Wubi. (It wasn't my first time installing Ubuntu, and my first time was much more traditional.)
I installed from a couple of graphical CDs around 2008 (... how did I even burn that first CD?) ... then shortly after that Linux finally made full-resolution TTYs work by default and I used text mode thereafter. Usually via `mini.iso` (since I install rarely, start with a small base system, and like not starting with out-of-date packages).

I'm trying not to have a panic attack that "Windows 98" unambiguously counts as retrocomputing now though.
Sigh…

Why do you keep talking about things you have no idea about?

Art 288 TFEU:

> A regulation shall have general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

The “direct effect” of European Union's law is one of the key features of the EU and one that makes it so different from regular international organization. See this if you want to actually learn something:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/the-direc...

Member countries are actually delegating their sovereignty to the EU on certain topics (TFEU art. 3)
I hoped it was about how deep life goes underground.
"i like things that work for years with as little interaction from me as possible."

Shell scripts written in NetBSD sh/Debian ash will work for as long as I live.
There's a Dirty Money (one of the few great Netflix docuseries that never renewed for a season 3) episode on this topic which I can recommend https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7909168/plotsummary/
The alternatives then are self service, or private businesses providing assistance? If we want to endorse the former then educating people on the best way to painlessly end their life might be a good idea, the latter though seems like a bad idea with some very badly aligned incentives.
It doesn’t have to be a technical ban. Just make it the law and let companies, schools, parents, and kids take their punishment when found to happen.

This should be enough for the risk averse to take open devices away from children and bolster parents.

It’s not important to stop every possible access, simply that adults have the authority to say no and be supported by society instead of undermined.
I made something a bit similar to this when trying to make a new shorthand. It was made by translating to stenotype and then following rules to convert the stenotype runes to a kanji like form. Eventually I decided it wasn’t faster than existing shorthand, mainly because of the mental overhead of converting to and from stenotype.

I never coded it (I only used it a few times for handwriting before I decided it was bad) but it might be a cool project.
Or there's Van Allen, who built himself a 14x10 concrete bedroom under part of London's Hampstead Heath...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22493078

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-...
If [0] is to be believed then a YT career requires beating at least 96.4% of the other channels. To be a millionaire you'll need to do even better. It's probably easier to try for a career in data science, law, or medicine.

[0] https://alanspicer.com/what-percentage-of-youtubers-make-mon...
Very good code indexing, good refactoring tools, impressive debugger and overall better developer experience (IMHO)
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39986095
Brushing, flossing, and mouthwash doesn't kill all of the bacteria in your mouth. Your entire mouth is coated with a biofilm... and after cleaning, your mouth gets recolonized by bacteria from between your teeth, beneath the gums, plaque, and other small crevices in your mouth.
The Orwell quotes right-wingers never mention
I mean it's a standard age for allowing privileges (driving) to start in the US at least.
Achieving 90% of not is simpler than you think: ban smartphones from schools during school bours. If the parents want the kid to have a phone, then the parents can get a flip phone.
Wayback Machine Homepage is missing from Google results
It shows up on bing, yahoo, and yandex, but not google.
> ...because I think you'd write mathematical history if you can prove it?

No, because this is an informal conversation not a mathematical paper.

Clearly you understand what is meant if someone says that subtraction is a subset of addition. You also clearly understand they're not saying it as a statement of proof.

If you can understand someone well enough to correct their usage of words, you understand them well enough that they communicated successfully. So why create a problem?

> Listen, currying is a defined term[0], as is partial application[1]. Those are primarily mathematic definitions, and your choice of words "...is a subset of..." is also stemming from a rather mathematical terminology if you'd ask me. Therefor its interpretation will primarily be itching logical intelligence.

Yes, I'm well aware, I just don't care. People use words outside their dictionary definitions all the time and if we understand it, it doesn't matter.

Perhaps you should look up the word pedant? Dictionary authors are well aware of the pitfalls of relying on definitions as prescription rather than description.

> I'm not going to discuss visual, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal or naturalistic understandings with you on Hacker News about your intentions,

Well, that's your prerogative, but I'll note that you haven't said anything interesting about currying because you keep assuming your audience knows less than they do. Learning to listen at an adult level would help you to have more interesting technical discussions, too.
Misusing public money (instead of their own money) was wrong but I don't have a problem with the squatting part. There wasn't a clear victim and it satisfied someone's need for housing in otherwise unused property. That's commendable, even if it was illegal.
Creating an impossible barrier by vague demands of evidence for when someone knows they don't want to be their assigned/apparent gender. I don't see how you can argue with someone after they've passed the hurdle of it not being a phase throw extensive counseling and parental interviews, but that they truly would be more comfortable living as another biological variant. It's unlikely to be strictly healthier long term because of the vast differences in X and Y chromosomes, epigenetic interactions, and drastic shifts in hormones, but that's better than someone killing themselves or suffering without the quality of life they could have if they weren't denied.
Internet before 9/11 and after 9/11 basically. What the Patriot Act did was eat at the foundations of freedom that American founders set out to create and the internet became public enemy #1 overnight, something that had to be controlled, regulated, and monopolized by American corporations in the form of social media, search engines, youtube etc.

Like the rebellious soviet youths finding itself through Viktor Tsoi, the pre-911 internet offered us Western kids a brief moment of true freedom, we didn't need heroes, because our minds were free from algorithms designed to sap every bit of happiness.
Or over $1M for a modular toilet

https://www.silive.com/news/2023/03/1-million-for-a-toilet-i...
Am I missing something is or Salesforce (the og SaaS) missing from your list?
OP didn't reply on what distro or hardware he's using and mentions years of posts on some mailing list about what would be a completely showstopping bug, but never posts a link or replies to specific questions about the issue.

User error or bad hardware. Move along, nothing to see here.
I would not feel safe painting a target on my back if I was required to attach my legal name to my comments, especially the ones advocating for queer rights.
> It doesn’t have to be a technical ban. Just make it the law and let companies, schools, parents, and kids take their punishment when found to happen

You’re describing a ban.
Text-to-SQL that asks the LLM to predict the result set
I work in the field and have read a good number of papers on the topic. All existing approaches send DDL commands, semantic layer data, few shot samples etc. This one actually sends a version of the DB. First time I have seen this approach.

Anyone tried this yet or have thoughts?
Missed an opportunity to can this uSql!
>elevate internet anonymity to a new fundamental principle for organizing society

You mean privacy? Internet anonymity is a downstream byproduct of our right to privacy, not some new concept devised in the internet age. We've had the fourth amendment for quite some time.
I think the correct answer to your question is almost certainly some combination of "it depends on the jurisdiction" and also (in many cases) "nobody can be entirely sure because no court has considered the issue yet"

There have been a handful of court decisions on what "non-commercial" use means – the Creative Commons legal case database records [0] records three cases involving non-commercial CC licenses in the US, one in Belgium, one in Israel, plus I also know of one in Germany [1] which their database seems to be missing. I don't know if any of them addressed the contra proferentem rule which you mention.

The German and US cases on this topic appear contradictory – from what I understand, the German case assumed that all government use is commercial, interpreting "non-commercial" to basically mean "private home use", whereas two of the US cases (Great Minds v FedEx Office and Great Minds v Office Depot) were about use by commercial entities acting under contract to public school districts, and the holdings of those cases assume that government-operated schools are "non-commercial" (and furthermore, the commercial entities were engaging in "non-commercial" use, even though they were acting commercially, because they were doing so on behalf of a "non-commercial" customer). That said, all these cases have somewhat limited precedential value – the US cases are binding precedent in two federal judicial circuits (2nd and 9th) but have merely persuasive value in the remainder of the US; I don't know what the ultimate outcome of the German case was (Deutschlandradio said they were going to appeal but I don't know if they did and what the outcome was if they did), and German law doesn't view precedent as "binding" in quite the same sense that common law systems do anyway

[0] https://legaldb.creativecommons.org/cases/?keywords=&tags%5B...

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2014/03/27/german-court-says-creati... and if you can read German, here is the actual court judgement: https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/OLG-K%C3%B6ln-CC-NC-Entsch...
I've used the web since round about 1995 already. Altavista emerged at that time as yahoos competitor. fireball was their competitor. If you know the the difference, then you know what Google did. I used Google since the very beginning. I used usenety I know IRC and each of the messengers msn, AOL, QQ.. I did peer to peer streaming, sharing and DC++ .. ah.. i started with Windows for workgroups 3.11 and DOS6+, I used Linux, tried BSD.
It was my hobby at that time I was 15. I had to discover the computer and system without much books or Internet. My father worked with HPUX. And, I thinkingy I'm a true digital native if you want to have a calling name. Don't judge me here.

I'm a rational man. I know what f.e Google did for the Internet. But it's completely going by your definition of technofeudalism. Just am example for you to think of.

If you don't realize why and whats happened, what lead to it, then please talk further about open protocols and open APIs.

It's just a left orientated thinking you show here. Same as varoufakis, a leftist who is against the capital. Always arguing that's bad, the other bad - but happily living in a world, consuming and having a good good life. Build up by the so wrongful capitalist. ... Lol

I'm out. Please go and get a economic understanding and thinking. Each part of your life has been built around that and you now say "it's bad". Typical survivor bias behavior (go look it up ...) bye
I've seen "lowercase is easier to read" much more often, though I lack sources either way. Intuitively it does seem that a meaningful contour on top would make mental processing easier.

Lowercase letters requiring descenders (g, j, p, q, y) might be relevant.
Yes, when you click on End of Life Customer Information it recommends moving to Aiven, which was down when I attempted (and still is).
I agree.
I also wear a seatbelt and do not ride a motorcycle, but I think people should be allowed to take risks with their own life if they want to.
The next natural step from this legislation is government mandated diets and exercise regimens to combat the obesity epidemic — and the resulting mortality — in the United States.
I don’t have as much to say as the author, but I’ve been doing this since June last year. I like it. I don’t have plans to switch back either. I have my watch maybe 95% of the time. I use my phone very rarely and I find I’ve come to dislike it. I’ve got particular reasons for that, though. Not everyone will come to the same conclusion.

Like the author, I was using my phone too much. I got the watch as part of the ongoing effort to curb the abuse. It worked exceptionally well in this regard, but it was helped tremendously by my insights into just how much I was missing out on by using my phone too much.

Watching my screen time reports drop induced a special kind of shame. I went through periods where I was hitting 3.5 to 4 hours in a day. I used it around my kids too often. I gapped out on it without realizing it. I was a paragon of the unexamined life.

So, if you don’t have the same issue then the watch might not serve the same purpose or yield the same returns.

As far as what the watch can do, frankly I don’t give a shit anymore. I’m in the camp now that I more or less grew up in. I never had this stuff and I was fine without it. At times, I was better off without it. I like timers and reminders, otherwise texting and phone calls are the primary reason it’s on my wrist.

I’m glad I made the switch, but it’s definitely not suitable or otherwise necessary for everyone. If you’re a slave to impulse like myself, give it a shot. Put your phone in a cupboard and leave the house. Retrain your brain to do more with less.

Edit: Something mentioned in the article is the difference between phone screen time and computer screen time. It’s quite remarkable in my experience. I’ve come to think of it like the healthy association of sleep and bedrooms, though. For example, I’m conditioned to think of my computer as my place of work, research, and learning. Sometimes it’s for play, but that’s highly regulated for all kinds of reasons (it helps that I can’t pull a Mac Studio and 32” monitor out of my pocket at any given time or location). Over the years I’ve taught myself that a computer isn’t for wasting time. On the other hand, the phone was rarely anything other than that.

The parallel here is that a treatment for insomnia which sometimes works is retraining yourself to think of your bedroom as a place of sleep rather than anxiety, phone use, tv or movie watching, etc. You only allow yourself to sleep there and do all other activities elsewhere in the hope that over time, your bedroom provides the set and setting which encourages and supports a restful state.

I suspect similar mechanisms are at work here, and if so, I’m grateful because being productive on a computer is what keeps bills paid here. Had that association not been cultivated early, my life could be a lot different. Similarly, I suspect we should be very careful about allowing ourselves (and our kids) to associate phones with slacking off, spacing out, doom scrolling, etc.
Would this be a federal ban, a state-level ban managed by education boards, or something else?

And how is it enforced exactly? Are parents held responsible, or are state education funds impacted somehow based on smartphone use?

Would we need a federal mandate to require flip phone / feature phone support? The last time I tried to find a feature phone it wasn't easy, many depend on 2G/3G networks which are losing support and carriers have absolutely no incentive to carry feature phones when smartphones are all that sell.
HN ranking history for this thread: https://hnrankings.info/39986589/
"Key escrow" by encrypting secrets yourself with trusted tools and storing the result in various object stores. Problem solved.

Also solved by on-prem secrets and password managers without cloud features or dial-home.

Trusting a new third-party with their new and likely unproven construction is a recipe that has failed spectacularly over and over again.

It's possible, but it's very, very difficult and, like email or DNS, becomes a kind of commoditized utility that rarely/never changes.
> that can't really be done without completely destroying internet anonymity.

This is why I can’t take any calls for banning social media for kids on HN seriously: The moment anyone introduced any legislation to limit social media access by age, this creates a de facto requirement to verify ID. The people in this thread would be up in arms as soon as the government tried to force companies to collect their ID to use social media.
I'd love for others to think that way. I am a very vocal (in my own bubble) advocate for human-in-the-loop ML.
Overshoot: Why It's Already Too Late to Save Civilization
> paragraph on the internet doesn't show you step by step visually how to do something.

It does, images existed long before YouTube, and plenty of tutorials used them

Social media domination is usually associated with less productivity, so that's a negative factor
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/77a294d98a9d2d4...

Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and
the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into
XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when
this was discovered.
Definitely. They have to.
because all narratives ever written about/in music are 100% true and no one ever made up a story for entertainment purposes.

AI-generated music will just have AI-generated backstories to provide a narrative and story behind the lyrics for people that want that.
… okay so yeah yes um ahem. Ahh.

reread my first and last sentences a couple times in the first comment. Perhaps try asking an LLM to weigh in on what the comment meant.
There are two avenues to deal with a hazard. You can try to manipulate the environment to eliminate the hazard, or you can try to strengthen people to make them immune to the hazard. I think we should prefer the latter over the former whenever possible.

For one thing, it's more robust. The environment is messy and control is often illusory at best. Control limits freedoms and introduces centralized points of failure that can be manipulated by bad actors. Making people strong and free creates more opportunity and innovation, even though it scares the people who long to be in charge of the centralized control.

What does it mean to strengthen people to make them immune to the harms caused by social media? I don't know exactly, but I bet we could find out.
EU's new tech laws are working – small browsers gain market share
Checking ID to prevent the sale of tobacco to children may not prevent them from ever smoking but is considered better than nothing. This product would be sold in exactly the same manner at the same locations.

Prevents kids from stumbling onto it by accident at very least.
From what I've seen, parents have been made extremely fearful of a mass shooter type of incident. The "need" for smartphones in school is seen as a way to get in touch with a child when the absolute worst has happened.

Ironically, the same logic often isn't appreciated for those who choose to legally carry a gun.
An incomplete list of software development metrics
Maybe there isn’t a benefit to closed-source Llama either.
> the constant comparison hellhole like Instagram that is causing mental illness.

Anecdotally, Instagram ranks much lower than Reddit for causing problems among the young kids I’ve worked with.

Reddit is an absolutely cesspool of misinformation, fake stories, propaganda, and rampant doomerism. Scrolling Instagram can’t hold a candle to the militant doomerism that seethes from sites like Reddit.

I think it’s an uncomfortable truth for techies who grew up with Reddit while sneering at photo sharing social media, but the content on Reddit is extraordinarily cynical and depressing.
I'm inclined to disagree based on my personal experience. I was never subjected to the kind of pressure you're talking about with regards to mental health and medication, but I spent too much time on social media and not enough in real life since I was a teenager and I am almost certain that it negatively impacted my mental health. The only thing is that I wasn't really aware of it and so I didn't dwell on it too much. I could see the fixation on mental health exacerbating the issue.

On the Internet it's easy to feel surrounded with people even though you're not really socializing. Low-res text-based interactions that characterize most social media today don't provide enough signal for people to develop their social skills adequately, and the asynchronicity doesn't help either. Most people won't just tell you how they feel about what you're saying, but in real life that's what body language and other indirect signals are for. We've all heard stories of zoomers being less socially capable than previous generations. Now consider that the social awkwardness is not only curious from an outside perspective, but is also a perpetual source of anxiety to the people affected with it and can lead to self-isolation and other unhealthy coping behaviors.
Yep used an Exim setup on a VPS for years for a small traffic site with little issue. I’m running something still on there but a little more modern docker setup with DKIM etc.
Once you are big enough to have a procurement department this isn't just not frowned upon it's expected and very much "part of the game".

I personally hate it but it's just how the game is played and it's why all enterprise software has stupidly high advertised prices so they can give "90% discounts" and let people think that is a good deal when it is ultimately just the real price that all the big players are getting anyway.
Assuming that's going to be the datasheet naming.
But then they will contest the claim, it will then have to be investigated, and that will cause huge amounts of pointless busywork that will amount to no clear evidence. Not worth it for such a small fine
He was found guilty of owning an improvised firearm that he maintains he had nothing to do with
That’s the point of this subthread though. What’s the new thing Chronon is doing? It can’t just be point in time features because that’s already a thing.
They have three tiers of pensions- the government pension, the employer/union pension, and the private pension. The government (“public”) pension is the primary one that everyone gets, whereas the US counterpart (SS) is more “break glass in case of emergency” (by design, anyway).
ChatGPT estimates if this system were in the U.S., I’d be getting around $7,000/month as a retiree, from the public and employer pensions. Private is essentially our 401k/IRA system so it could be 0, or could be substantial.
Social Security pays about half that best-case, and that’s before we factor in the private pension.
I like that one’s retirement is funded by both the government and the employer, and optionally by the individual. It’s clear that Americans cannot be trusted to set aside money for retirement.

I also like that Sweden looks at the highest 15 years of employment income, while US Social Security looks at the highest 35 years. I won’t have 35 years of employment if I retire at 59 1/2 (which I guess is a pipe dream anyway) so there will be 0’s for purposes of calculating average annual income, hurting my monthly SS benefit amount.
Trust me SF's office can spend $4.2M on the exact same shit.
What is the official name of this minimal Windows 3 system? I know it used to have a name. It was used for other purposes too, but I can't for the life of me remember what.