Brazil’s election officials demand answers for police stops of buses carrying voters.


By BY ANA IONOVA, ANDRÉ SPIGARIOL, LAÍS MARTINS AND JACK NICAS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2SCJpKe
via IFTTT

Saturday, 29 October 2022

Halloween Crowd Surge Leaves Dozens Dead in Seoul


By BY MATEJ LESKOVSEK from NYT World https://ift.tt/2ZsBb9R
via IFTTT

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills

Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
579 by fduran | 128 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, I'm building SadServers.com, a SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers in a "Capture the Flag" fashion. I hope this is useful, to learn more about the project please see https://ift.tt/1B2GNnR

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
745 by lukehollis | 138 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I 3d scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid / Khufu's pyramid for the Giza Project this summer and just finished the guided version to share. Would love feedback and/or problems you encounter. I used both a Leica BLK 360 and Matterport Pro 2 to do the scanning and the Matterport SDK for the web viewer. Matterport's web display with Three.js has been the most accessible to a wide audience in the past (previous iterations are in Unity and Unreal, but difficult to download over slower connections). I've been interviewing social studies teachers around the 6th grade level to create teaching materials as well, and these along with other monuments that I've scanned at Giza are up at https://giza.mused.org/ Cheers from Cairo--and thanks for any feedback.

Dutch Are Investigating Reported Illegal Chinese Police Stations


By BY ISABELLA KWAI AND EMMA BUBOLA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Pe9QcL
via IFTTT

Monday, 24 October 2022

Rishi Sunak will face difficult economic tests immediately.


By BY ESHE NELSON from NYT World https://ift.tt/BAnoDsN
via IFTTT

Here is a schedule of events for Tuesday.


By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/NdCcq8h
via IFTTT

More Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of intentionally slowing grain shipments.


By BY CARLY OLSON AND JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR. from NYT World https://ift.tt/lurVinB
via IFTTT

Saturday, 22 October 2022

Hurricane Roslyn to Hit Mexico as a Major Storm


By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/SQbi384
via IFTTT

Friday, 21 October 2022

Giorgia Meloni Gets Go-Ahead for New Italian Government


By BY JASON HOROWITZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/J1l5IkV
via IFTTT

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Transform Your City

Show HN: Transform Your City
17 by gregsadetsky | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2]. And now, we're live with our own site! Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well. [0] https://ift.tt/wyZ4DPf [1] https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai [2] https://ift.tt/y70h6NH...

Schoolgirl’s Killing Shocks France and Fuels Right-Wing Fury


By BY AURELIEN BREEDEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/JYD4cvf
via IFTTT

Liz Truss’s New Economic Agenda Looks a Lot Like the Opposition’s


By BY MARK LANDLER AND STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World https://ift.tt/I3v9y2b
via IFTTT

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities

Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities
6 by cheeseblubber | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord! I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for open-source knowledge-based communities. Traditionally these communities have lived on forums that solved many of these problems. However, from talking to communities, I found most of them preferred chat because it feels more friendly and modern. We want to bring back a bunch of the advantages of forums while maintaining the look and feel of a chat-based community. Slack and Discord are closed apps that are not indexable by the internet, so a lot of content gets lost. Traditional chat apps are not search engine friendly because most search engines have difficulty crawling JS-heavy sites. We built Linen to be search engine friendly, and our communities have over 30,000 pages/threads indexed by google. Our communities that have synced their Slack and Discord conversations under their domain have additional 40,000 pages indexed. We accomplish this by conditionally server rendering pages based on whether or not the browser client is a crawler bot. This way, we can bring dynamic features and a real-time feel to Linen and support search engines. Most communities become a support channel, and managing this many conversations is not what these tools are designed for. I've seen community admins hack together their own syncs and internal devices to work to stay on top of the conversations. This is why we created a feed view, a single view for all the threads in all the channels you care about. We added an open and closed state to every thread so you can track them similarly to GitHub issues or a ticketing system. This way, you and your team won't miss messages and let them drop. We also allow you to filter conversations you are @mentioned as a way of assigning tickets. I think this is a good starting point, but there is a lot more we can improve on. How chat is designed today is inherently interrupt-driven and disrupts your team's flow state. Most of the time, when I am @mentioning a team member, I actually don't need them to respond immediately. But I do want to make sure that they do eventually see it. This is why we want to redesign how the notification system works. We are repurposing @mentions to show up in your feed and your conversation sections and adding a !mention. A @mention will appear in your feed but doesn't send any push notifications, whereas a !mention will send a notification for when things need a real-time synchronous conversation. This lets you separate casual conversations from urgent conversations. When everything is urgent, nothing is. (credit: Incredibles) This, along with the feed, you can get a very forum-like experience to browse the conversations. Linen is free with unlimited history for public communities under https://ift.tt/yswvXLI domain. We monetize by offering a paid version based on communities that want to host Linen under their subdomain and get the SEO benefits without managing their own self-hosted instance. We are a small team of 3, and this is the first iteration, so we apologize for any missing features or bugs. There are many things we want to improve in terms of UX. In the near term, we want to improve search and add more deep integrations, DMs, and private channels. We would appreciate any feedback, and if you are curious about what the experience looks like, you can join us here at Linen.dev/s/linen

Russian journalist accused of ‘discrediting the military’ has fled to a European country.


By BY VALERIE HOPKINS AND ALINA LOBZINA from NYT World https://ift.tt/hyG3ir4
via IFTTT

Saturday, 15 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
22 by ilovecaching | 22 comments on Hacker News.
In college I did a month long experiment where I only used my computer's terminal emulator to do all my work. I wrote my code/notes in Vim, browsed the web with elinks, and wrote my emails using mutt. It was a great learning experience. Recently I looked into doing this again and ran into a bunch of issues: - My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work. - The web is using more javascript than in the past. - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt. It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps. Anyone still living inside the terminal? Links to tools for Slack are appreciated.

Putin Offers to Make Turkey a Gas Hub to Preserve E.U. Energy Hold


By BY VALERIE HOPKINS, SAFAK TIMUR AND STANLEY REED from NYT World https://ift.tt/r5fHFY0
via IFTTT

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Are we all burned out?

Ask HN: Are we all burned out?
4 by nus07 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I feel burned out and every one of my friends and coworkers I have talked to are feeling burned out. Having a kid, covid , war in Ukraine and now recession and layoffs have left me fatigued and I can barely learn anything new or look forward to anything . All I want to do is look at my phone and consume more content.And I look back fondly to 2001-2007 and also 2010-2017. Do I need therapy or is everyone feeling the same ?

Zelensky Asks G7 Leaders for More Air Defense Systems


By BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/KZv2jca
via IFTTT

Ukraine Under Attack: Documenting the Russian Invasion


By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/eps9qnf
via IFTTT

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs

Show HN: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs
12 by simulo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/HstJ9Wl …a free/libré book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers. I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher). This is the link to the full book for online reading: https://ift.tt/REr9WTZ (it’s one long page, so it might take a bit to load)

Kharkiv switches to a familiar war footing as a new wave of missile strikes knocks out power.


By BY OLEKSANDR CHUBKO AND CARLOTTA GALL from NYT World https://ift.tt/Fm1baEe
via IFTTT

Sunday, 9 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is a MSc in Computer Science worth the time and money?

Ask HN: Is a MSc in Computer Science worth the time and money?
14 by 4dregress | 30 comments on Hacker News.
5 year's ago I made a career change and became a software developer. I'm 100% self taught and I've been able to start from the bottom (again! I spent 10 years working in a different industry before making the change) and working my way up to being a pretty decent mid level developer. Due to being self taught I've not had the structured education you get by being taught a curriculum and I was wondering if studying a MSc in CS would be beneficial or even supplant the experience I gain doing my day job? Would gaining an MSc in CS be worth my time and money? I'm considering taking one up whilst continuing to work full time. EDIT: I'm based in the UK.

‘Eye of Sauron’: The Dazzling Solar Tower in the Israeli Desert


By BY PATRICK KINGSLEY AND AMIT ELKAYAM from NYT World https://ift.tt/5lIgp6y
via IFTTT

Ukraine’s Nobel Peace Prize winners urge solidarity among rights defenders.


By BY OLEKSANDRA MYKOLYSHYN AND MEGAN SPECIA from NYT World https://ift.tt/ycRAbal
via IFTTT

In Ukraine, the sharing of the prize prompts some backlash.


By BY MEGAN SPECIA AND MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG from NYT World https://ift.tt/SRGmCtF
via IFTTT

Forrest Management in Gabon


By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/eALZtzU
via IFTTT

Gazprom halts gas supplies to Italy.


By BY MELISSA EDDY from NYT World https://ift.tt/hduy0AE
via IFTTT

Putin supporters are enraged by the Russian retreat from Lyman.


By BY ANTON TROIANOVSKI from NYT World https://ift.tt/9aC1R3n
via IFTTT