skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the alphabet invention was precisely that the same alphabet could be used for different languages.

They did not agreed on using certain sounds for specific things. They already did that on their own languages, each with their specific sounds. What the Phoenician Alphabet did was transcribing those sounds that already existed to a writing system that was common.

The Phoenicians did not invent the alphabet but they used it so much that developed it a lot. They used it for communication as a Lingua Franca for commerce in the Mediterranean.

It actually became a language on its own. They will use a native word from the native language of some particular good or commodity and then everybody around the Mediterranean Sea will use that written name and sound for referring to that thing.

It was extremely useful, so people used it more and more creating over time latin and greek scripts.
Is this mysterious feed reader one that you made yourself?

I agree about the need to have some means of filtering. This is a major weakness of RSS, alongside onboarding and discovery. Algorithms serve the purpose of filtering well. The problem is their opacity.
Let it go Paul. It's like the word "hacker". We ain't getting it back.

It's sad the popular perception of a fundamental computer science
concept, the great progeny of Al-Khwarizmi Musa, the life work of
heroes like Donald Knuth, is sullied and stained with dire B-movie
comic-book Bond villainy. Thank the hooligan broligarchs and their
manchild ambitions for trashing that bit of computing culture.

Even my mum spits in the dust like a cowboy at the sound of
"Algorithm".
Behind the Curtain – Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents
He must simply _claim_ that the 3 requirements have been met according to his own interpretation of the facts on the ground. It doesn't mean that his interpretation must be correct; He has the discretion to provide the extension per the law.

If someone challenges his interpretation of the 3 requirements in court, then presumably he'd have to explain why he believed that to be the case[1], but he does not have to prove this certainty ex ante in order for the 90-day extension to be valid.

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[1]: IANAL but whether he can successfully prove it or not is also ultimately irrelevant given the SCOTUS recent interpretation of presidential power. If he's found "guilty" of making a bad interpretation of the certainty of the 3 requirements, what is really going to be his punishment? There's really nothing you can do against a sitting president with regards to the exercise of their executive power...
It's time to make computing personal again
I think this is something browsers should enforce. Different people may have different preferences for what they consider comfortable contrast ratios, and the tool in the stack that directly serves the user, is the browser. And even if websites should consider proper design, browsers should also enforce user preferences, because badly designed websites will probably always exist.

I'd suggest browsers come out of the box with a decent contrast range that they will use to display text, but users should be able to modify those settings. In general, browsers should be a lot more willing to override bad webdesign ideas. They already block popups and blink tags; there's plenty of other behaviour they simply shouldn't tolerate from websites.
If we're talking issues (i.e. reports from external parties, like OSS users, and not internally defined tasks), then care is needed to avoid it working out like the Stack Overflow experience. What is it, you ask?

[Closed; Locked: not constructive; Duplicate of: #1701, #74656]

Users will fight such things for a simple reason: every larger OSS project has tons of open[0] issues that look like duplicates, and perhaps even are duplicates, but no one can tell because they're all ~forever old and unresolved, so new people keep adding them again to bring attention to them.

Perhaps Github should start sorting issues by "Last updated" instead of the issue number - then some of the duplicate reports would just turn into "+1"s and "bump!"s on the existing issues.

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[0] - Or closed by stale bot, which is effectively still open, but with an insult on top.
How comes this isn't obvious to someone they should just respect the OS/browser settings and use the color scheme the user chose?

I prefer black on white (and dream of a eInk-only laptop and a perfectly lo-fi UI with no unnecessary elements/decorations/effects) because that feels more ADHD-friendly to me. Dark modes look cool and make sense when you work in the dark, as long as you set the text font color to grey rather than bright white/green/whatever. The user should choose, using a single system-wide switch.
This doesn’t really follow…

It largely depends on what you’re automating, no? That standard seems absurd.
Serious question, how does that compel the president to enforce laws?
It's a distinction without a difference. Musk is effectively an agent of the state, with billions in subsidies he wants to protect, and a Chinese auto market he is desperate to be allowed into.

The CCP would not miss out on taking advantage of the situation and demanding trade concessions for agreeing to sell. US government would absolutely be involved in raising the necessary finance, as banks won't be bending over backwards to lend Musk money for another speculative venture.
Oh yeah, the good old segregation times.
Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse
DOS notably used eye-friendly grey text, not bright white.
If they're not using an RSS-capable platform maybe they're not so great?
yeaaahhh, not so fast:

https://bsky.app/profile/auonsson.bsky.social/post/3lg4nutmt...
Sure but not all websites — HN and This article don't support Reader view. Are you using a special browser or plugin to do it to all websites?
I used to love dark mode when I was younger but now the bright white text on black background is murder on my eyes with astigmatism, it's like driving at night.
You might have this. (I do as well).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_palinopsia
> Common Lisp in particular is extremely unfriendly to threading macros. Arrows imply a consistent thread-first or thread-last functions. But CL's standard lib is too inconsistent for that to work. So we're left with picking an indentation style we don't necessarily like.

Diamond arrows exist, you know.

(-<> foo
bar
(baz)
(quux 1 2 3)
(fred 4 5 6 <>)
(frob 7 <> 8 <> 9))

All in all, this post reads like a rant, and I realized that upon reading "now what I'm about to suggest is likely not to your taste". That style of indentation is something I use often when writing calls to long-named functions like COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS and I haven't ever thought of it being not to my taste, or even of it being ugly as the author suggests.
It is very clear that it is Trump doing the negotiations around TikTok. The current administration is at this point powerless.
It's kind of shocking that debug-formatting a backtrace allocates enough memory to OOM the process, though. What's going on there?
I have a feeling the algorithm used was not the smart merge mentioned in the grandparent. That "slower" spell was in v6 Unix { https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_(Unix) } which came out in 1975 and by 1973 there were already Winchester drives doing 885 kB/s with 25ms seeks { https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_d... }. A 250e3 word dictionary with average word length of 10 bytes would have only taken about 2500e3/885e3 = 2.8 seconds to scan and the unique words in most documents in practice would have easily fit in RAM (as mentioned in Doug's 1982 paper). Not great, but not so bad, either. People didn't spell check on every key press for another 10 years. ;-)

Someone probably could look all this up in the "unified version control of all Unix" history, but the way Doug describes it in the 1982 paper linked in the article, it sounds like the v6 spell did a "doc word at a time loop" instead of "sort all doc words at once and merge against a pre-sorted dictionary", and in fact it sounds like Johnson selected a small dictionary to facilitate that instead of "merging".
Yeah you say that, but I just saw Elonia Musk stirring the pot by calling for MEGA “Make Europe Great Again”, so it seems he’s trying to spread his cancerous views into your political systems now too.
Dark Reader can force light mode. It's just that most people want it for the dark mode functionality, so that's what they called it
The most recent notice IA have blogged was in 2017, and there's no indication that the service has reversed course on robots.txt since.

<https://blog.archive.org/?s=robots.txt>
TikTok operated in a way that did not need to happen. Biden's administration was explicit in that the enforcement of the ban were to be performed by the Trump administration. Trump signaled that he would sign an EO allowing a 90 day extension to the ban terms on Monday. TikTok are now operating based on this information.

Who is currently in charge of the oval office is an irrelevant quality.

Note that the ban was not really on TikTok, but the ownership. TikTok could be owned by many other parties in the world. It just can't be ByteDance or parent/subsidiary which has ties to China.
When Google and Facebook agree to also base their servers in China and follow Chinese censorship law.

You're welcome.
Exactly, absolutely nothing you can do.

On a brand new night, someone outright stated that "they pick guy X, since he is always the first one to go". I guess empathy is lost on that one.
"Trouble Every Day", a song by Frank Zappa released in 1966, that's just as relevant nearly 60 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNkacckLBU

(but not in a way relevant to the TikTok topic)
Light/Dark modes at their extremes are both annoying. White on black or black on white are both to extreme. The best solution IMO are mid-level colors. I personally prefer the schemes with darker grey backgrounds and lighter grey (or other lighter color) foreground, but the opposite isn't bad either. What are bad is that the default light modes are generally much to light. A random site I have open right now has a background color of #f2f2f2 w/ text color of #151515, it is only tolerable to read if I have my monitor red-shifted to around 4200 degrees (in a well lit room w/ lots of natural light).
Divesting the US operation would be pointless, the goal of the law is to control the algorithm, and that isn't something that the US office has access to. If they did they could simply be poached like Uber did to Waymo.
> a company "shut themselves down" to make a big political statement

They were following the law. Anything else is just promises by people who are not exactly known for following through with them

Shutting down because the law says it, and to prevent really big penalties, is not making “a big political statement
I'd say the new addition is more of a special case of rounding than it is messing up types.
You would need some party with standing to ask a court to intervene
What people are calling an "algorithm" is really a heuristic.

In the public discourse over "algorithms", the definition seems to be "something that maximizes your (time on site|outrage|clicking)" and not the real definition

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (/ˈælɡərɪðəm/ ⓘ) is a
finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used
to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. [1]

By that definition any well-defined process that creates your feed (sorting chronologically, alphabetically) is an "algorithm"; in the machine learning age it is easy to make an algorithm that selects for anything at all, except for the capital-T Truth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
We replaced Matrix's custom authentication protocol with genuine OIDC: see https://areweoidcyet.com/ and the rest of this thread for details.

Therefore, we needed a basic Matrix-aware OIDC identity provider which could ship with Synapse and other homeservers in order to auth users (and optionally delegate to fully fledged IdPs like Keycloak). So we wrote matrix-authentication-service (MAS) in Rust, which is released as FOSS: https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-authentication-service.

This is released as a separate project because: a) it's written by a different team, b) it's intended to power OIDC auth for other servers than Synapse. For instance, https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite/pull/3493 is the pull to make Dendrite support OIDC via MAS.

In future, we may end up for admin convenience also bundle it by default inside FOSS Synapse (especially given Synapse is part-Rust these days) - so that folks running `pip install matrix-synapse` magically get OIDC-based auth without having to also run a separate MAS. However, this is a while off, and even then we'll continue to support MAS as a standalone service as the primary configuration.

(N.B. none of this has anything to do with Synapse Pro, and is an example of Element continuing to pour the majority its effort into FOSS work like MAS and native OIDC in Matrix...)
IDK, but maybe, for the sake of people working in projects that are managed using Github/Gitlab issues, they'll spin off a separate "Tasks" features and allow to set dependencies on them.
haha IKR!
From my Werewolf experience, translated back into Faithful/Traitor:

Most Faithful explain their elaborate theories of what's going on and are quite often right. But it takes just one Traitor's "but what about X, who voted to banish a Faithful?" to completely derail the noobies.
Even if the "Seer" calls out the bad guys and gets murdered/banished the next night.

Meanwhile, half the players are just socializing, drinking and not paying much attention at all. They're wild cards and seem to vote randomly.

The game is a pleasurable experience, but I wouldn't go too deep into theory, you'll be frustrated how people actually play the game.
The executive branch has the power to decide whether or not to enforce a law. For example, see weed laws not being enforced.
Even if you typed 120 wpm, which is "competitive typing" speed according to this thing[0], it's going to take you 200ms to type ctrl+c, and even if you hit both more-or-less simultaneously you're going to be above the 100ms threshold. So to realistically be able to do something like beat the threshold during normal work and not a speed-centered environment you're probably looking at regularly 160 wpm or more?

I'm not a competitive speed typist or anything but I struggle to get above 110 on a standard keyboard and I don't think I've ever seen anyone above the 125-130 range.

[0] https://www.typingpal.com/en/documentation/school-edition/pe...
4 year olds have always gotten some amount of TV time, right? Is it that horrible for a parent to give them the TV time at the restaurant so they aren't running around / screaming / bothering other patrons instead? (Which of course you can also judge a parent for, but then the only answer may be for one parent to have to leave with the kid).

It doesn't mean the kid is also using the iPad at home for hours on end. Or consuming anything other than Bluey / Paw Patrol / Sing 2...
Cool indeed but 1856CE is not quite as incredible as 300BCE.
Do you think I'd look it up instead of going by my aging mushy memory?
Not for sale as much as adjusting to the new reality of feudalism.
This should be a lesson: most prosecution and enforcement is discretionary.

This isn't a power grab. That already happened when the Supreme Court invented out of thin air the idea of presidential immunity. There was no basis for that.

Supreme Court justices are political operatives and the conservative supermajority has gone on a spree of overturning precedent and inventing law on a scale not seen since Marbury v Madison.

“Historical tradition” as a legal doctrine is completely invented. “Major Questions Doctrine” is a massive power grab over the other two branches. Presidential immunity is simply the “unitary executive” doctrine, also completely invented.

We already have a dictator.
What if it doesn’t? The next generation of “developers” will be even more clueless and we’ll get old and grumble that sites now take 200 megabytes to load, and they will laugh, cause who cares with 7G and terabit internet speeds and neighborhood-local cloudflare content pushing networks. And who even visits sites nowadays lol, when all the content is already prepushed to you.
i built this site (https://fanzine.world) to help people discover micro-creators and share their top 5 faves. not sure what to do with it. maybe someone here has a suggestion?
Fair - the video could be expanded to be way bigger (1000s of posts)

I found 1-2 minutes was decent (30+ sample size on average), and a tradeoff for convenience. Background sampling would be ideal but privacy concerns and technical limitations (especially on mobile devices)
They would be more terrified by a company not being regulated by their ever increasing internet surveillance laws, backroom deals, and censorship

When I went to UK 2015 there were big billboards in Manchester saying "Be careful who do you speak on the internet, you don't know who is on the other side" with a terrorist in front of a keyboard and monitor
No idea and we might never know, but, do you think ByteDance would just lie about it?
China isn't going to send me to death camps for posting an authorized opinion. Most Americans don't care if China has any of our data and would prefer to be protected from US corporations than random far away countries with no physical reach.
I heard they opened Douyin registration recently
You, actually, do not have the right to spread viruses around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

All individual rights are balanced with the rights of other individuals/society. You can be given the choice to vaccinate or be forcefully quarantined. This has occurred many times in the US and the right of the state to do this has been upheld.

While corona was weak we will eventually seem some dangerous bullshit spread and the anti-vax dipshits are going figure out exactly what their rights entail as they are being drug from their house at gunpoint with the express will of the majority of the population.
Feedbro is my favorite reader.
back in 73, people were extremely, physicaly passionate about the gameplay.

the most extreme i ever saw was someone holding the joystick in a double fisted deathgrip and throwing the full size standup machine around on its balance like a judo match.

arcade components were very tanky then, the stick was bent and its grip was cracked.
be careful who playtests your prototype, or else design durability testing with extreme abuse in mind.
There's a few exceptions. HN like you pointed out, which I consider an absolute dog usability wise. For HN i use custom stylesheets.

But the linked article opens fine in reader view for me. You can also force reader view for any site in desktop Safari with CMD+Shift+R
Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm on a Gitea version that will migrate easily (and have confirmed that) and will not upgrade or migrate until I have decided. (I am leaning toward migrating to Forgejo.)
Agree. I installed an extension for reader mode since it is so buried (no shortcut key) and limited (only appears in sidebar) in Chrome.
Is RSS really coming back? :) (you'll say it was never gone!) Lots of RSS related posts and comments recently. I've released Mashups a few weeks ago.

https://www.mashups.io

It's yahoo pipes clone - so you can mix and filter RSS feeds that you want.
This satisfies my curiosity about why TikTok didn't try to push app users to the website, which is not so easy to ban. They were always hoping to cozy up to Trump by offering him the opportunity to "save" TikTok.

It's only for 90 days though, unless Trump decides to completely ignore his duty to enforce the law (a distinct possibility).
Day 50 trillion of begging Github for a functional notification system so I can stop receiving infinite numbers of emails from all the bots and similar things commenting on PRs.

Also being designated a codeowner in a large repo, the number of notifications I get daily from the number of PRs is fucking absurd, with no way of turning them off. Drives me up the wall daily. If a colleague doesn't straight up send me a PR in a DM, I'll basically never see it because I've given up on the notification screen a looooong time ago.
In this case having more people asking for it or expecting it can contribute to expanding the availability of RSS feeds to more websites.
While the vast majority of technical stuff I follow uses RSS, the same cannot be said for some other resources I like to read.
While some are kind enough to enable them when asked, I don't expect them to want to support them for just a handful of people in their target audience.
Supposedly adipocyte hyperplasia is even more common during childhood weight gain.
Calling him a genius isn’t quite accurate. He’s not a genius anything. But he does have orbiters who know what they’re doing. He’s mostly just a puppet.
I disagree with the premise that the US will be totally different tomorrow.

One characteristic of the US that differs from most other countries is the degree to which the states retain a lot of power to govern themselves, and states will continue doing what they do mostly independently of things at the Federal level.

The way that most Americans talk about the president also overstates the actual power of the office. I half-joked earlier today that most Americans seem to imagine this country as an autocracy in which they get to vote for a new ruler every four years. But it's not. Congress still has more power than the average person-on-the-street seems to realize. Part of what makes Trump taking office tomorrow a bigger deal is that he's also getting both houses of congress for the next two years, which isn't always the case, but we're seeing flashes of congressional Republicans being unwilling give up their powers to him.

Anyway, I also agree with the other answers about nuclear command and control and the dysfunction in congress, especially in terms of congress exercising its power to declare war.
I saw the first two images and was instantly relieved that I'm not the only one experiencing this.
Staffers unload on Amazon 'leadership' after return-to-office for desk shortage
If you want 1 dependency rather than 0, there are various low-level libraries designed for building full-featured databases.

For one of these, RocksDB, one reference point is how CockroachDB was built on top of them for many years and many successful Jepsen tests (until they transitioned to an in-house solution).

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-on-rocksd/

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/pebble-rocksdb-kv-store/

Another possibility is Apple's FoundationDB, with an interesting discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37552085
> Disregarding a law that was passed by a bipartisan majority, signed into law by the president and ruled on by the supreme courts feels like the start of a very dangerous path

The very dangerous path started a long time ago, or at least that's how it feels from abroad. "He can't" followed by "He wouldn't" then "He did".
Lisp is an objectively goofy language,* I appreciate someone pointing out the pain points around trying to cobble together readability via indentation.

* Not a bad language - well, maybe bad by today's standards, but undeniably a very important language - just goofy
> As some of you may have guessed, it's based on a fairly simple, modified Levenshtein distance algorithm

One day it'll dump the recent bash and git history into an LLM that will say something along the lines of "alright dumbass here's what you actually need to run"
It might turn useful again with the rise of OLEDs and micro-LEDs.
In the Music Business, 80 Is the New 20
It's not a "mode" if it's just the design. The amount of whining from people who get "uncomfortable" when exposed to dark/light designs is pathetic. What an utterly stupid thing to complain about.
It didn't have to though.

Lotus 1-2-3 mimicked a spreadsheet and it is not searing white.