skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you working overtime?
In this case you are making a choice even if it's unconcious.

For me the biggest turning point was when I decided that I don't want to get promoted, I only want to make wealth by investing my money (even if it's less money). This frees up a lot of time and energy and simplifies life.
Speed of light between Earth and Moon in real time
Good sellers are bad. The point is there is a seller and his manager and the space they sell to you. It is overhead. Prices increase to pay for all that. Nobody thinks they've been "had" in part because good sellers know how to sell and in part because its part of the system people expect a middleman markup cause how else is that middleman gonna earn enough to live.

We are in a post middleman economy. Its goining to be hard for people to adjust. But we aren't going back.
I have spent lots more for non-stick pans that were supposed to last. My last one was a Le Creuset for $120. The previous one was a Calphalon for about the same. Both wore out in about two years, and only lasted that long because I didn't want to give up on such an investment. My current $30 pan has lasted about a year with a slicker surface than any of the others, so it's already a better value.

I'm willing to fall for some credible marketing that convinces me I could spend a few hundred on a non-stick pan I could hand down to the grand kids, as with cast iron. But it doesn't seem to exist at the moment.

Given the additional soap and water, I wonder if it would be greener to scrape and scrub my eggs off of a sticky pan instead. It'd be better exercise.
> I don't fully understand your point about Kubernetes cloud lock-in

The kubernetes folks describe a tentative solution to cloud lock-in here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/f... OP isn't the only one with those concerns.

It would be nice when you can switch your cluster load from any of the cloud providers, or your own on-prem setup as you go. For instance, I could see people wanting to have a default small cluster on their on-prem setup, and be ready to scale on cloud when needed.
Er isn't that what scripting is for?
I've been trying to get lots of disparate teams that are experimenting with python to use notebooks for shared, resuable tasks. Its been really hard and I think I'll give up. Intellisense is the big one, modern IDEs are really good at this. Modularity is next. Shared modules are really important to avoid the high level scripts from getting too complex.

That slide #143 though is perfect. I'll have to send this around.
It's dumb, but in the past when I felt I was wasting too much time on the internet, I added some entries like this to my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1	reddit.com
127.0.0.1	www.reddit.com
127.0.0.1	m.reddit.com
127.0.0.1	old.reddit.com

This is such a minor impediment, but I found in practice that it greatly reduced the time I was just fooling around websurfing. I don't think I ever disabled Hacker News, but I've rarely been able to blow multiple hours here, either.
In other words, baby steps. If the workout GP is thinking of is too much then do something you can pull yourself to do. In time, one should feel slightly more energized and be able to do increasingly more difficult forms of exercise.
> Thinking about it, I think this would be a great idea for a startup. Cheap data storage for long term storage, with competitive prices, the ability to per-pay, user-side encryption and a simple UI that grandma can use to drop photos. It should be able to guarantee that the information you desire to will outlive you.

As a consumer, I wouldn't trust a startup for such needs, because there's a likelihood that the startup would either raise prices, pivot to a different service offering, or shut down entirely.

Google Cloud Platform lets you make a manual prepayment [1], so that's an option worth considering. I know Google gets a lot of flak for shutting down consumer services, but I'm inclined to believe that they wouldn't shut down Nearline/Coldline without a significant amount of notice.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/manual-payment
I got my parents and mother-in-law to get a chromebook. Never had a question.
What makes you think a car just needs one? Many of their videos on the website suggest surrounding your car with a dozen of those sensors with overlapping fields of view.
Literally zero chance of this not being reversed on appeal.
Hytale will pull some players from Fortnite when it is released, although it may not reach the same scale as Fortnite.
This know reads like a college philosophy essay, piecing together famous bits from various sources and glueing them together into a (dubious) logical sequence.

"The two standard explanations of the fine-tuning are theism and the multiverse hypothesis."

..theism is rejected because of "the problem of evil" (which I always thought should be the "problem of suffering")

Multiverse is falsified by... Some sort of reverse anthropic argument.. it's complicated," ergo...more stuff ..and.. "If we combine holism with panpsychism, we get cosmopsychism:"

It's fun to read, in that a lot of the stuff it references are (individually) interesting bits of science, theology and such.

As a coherent argument.. this is exactly what Monty Python were making fun of in the duck-witch sketch.
It has been referred to as the "Assembly Language of the Web"

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageF...
It's ironic that the mass adoption of SSDs also coincides with the gradual disappearance of HDD activity lights on laptops, because with a completely silent SSD the light becomes the only way to know if the machine is slow because of heavy disk activity or something else. Nonvisual/"side-channel" cues are extremely useful for understanding what's happening.

I suppose it's similar to the situation with newer cars, where the engine is so quiet that one sometimes forgets whether it's even on, and attempts to start it again. There have even been laws introduced to make sure that cars can be heard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8925126
It's not so much about the money as it is about the convenience of not having to maintain that VPS with security patches and so on and automatically getting it scale without any effort if needed. You can just focus on the actual code.

It's also more convenient if you are shipping your software to your users instead of running in SaaS mode, like I do with my https://autospotting.org project. I wouldn't want to ask my users to pay, run and maintain an EC2 instance for it.

Those who appreciate me doing this would hopefully donate those $5 to me on Patreon :-)
It seems to me then that a big problem is designing interfaces to the lowest common denominator, then removing options for advanced users. This is a problem I see even (especially?) on Linux, which gives you limited GUI control and if you want to do anything beyond the most basic changes, expects you to know how to configure everything on the command-line.
But surely if a subset of brains experience reading Hacker News, what proportion of those will be reading a page with text that is intelligible, or about subjects that make sense, or with posts that are coherent? Or with brains capable of parsing a text? Surely only one in many trillions or more?

Maybe that explains Reddit.
This response echoes my sentiment. I've been coding for 20+ years and have found that literally writing the code becomes a smaller and smaller portion of my day-to-day as my career moves forward. The solution design, guidance for less-experienced team members, pull-request reviews, solution design with customers/partners, etc. becomes a larger portion of my daily responsibilities.
If that's your argument, then you should use a CRT filter, not hq2x or lanczos :)
Rowhammer Exploit Demonstrated in JavaScript
Awesome, I enjoyed a lot the article and found it to be the best guide on how to switch parents over to Linux :D

My fav part is cheating with SSD, made my day!
I experienced something similar. Set up ubuntu for my mom, even put in the hours to get all the funny videos/PowerPoints working. When I visited her again next time, a friend of hers had installed windows on the machine. Probably a pirated copy.

I provide very little tech support for my family since then. I'm no longer convinced that I really know what's best for them.
Not everything can be scripted, automation doesn't always repay the work expended in creating and maintaining it[0][1], and sometimes it's just worth having a human in the loop to know what's going on.

So, no, it isn't.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1205/

[1] https://xkcd.com/1319/
Ha, reminds me strongly of 'The Scene' [1]. Does anybody remember that series?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
Simple.

It is itself a simulation.

Ad infinitum.

Simulation / turtle. Tomato / tomato.

Who made god? Same question really.

And around we circle.

Pot profundity, drum circle debate.
Recently, I was searching for a new office chair. Amazon offers the popular Steelcase Leap at full price, $978. You'd likely think you're paying full price to get a new chair. See if you can tell that you're getting ripped off:

https://www.amazon.com/d/Office-Desk-Chairs/Steelcase-Fabric...

Spoiler: buried in the fine print, and listed as a "feature," it says "open box refurb".

Customers are unwittingly paying full price for refurbished chairs, which typically sell for under $400. Many reviews claim that the chairs do not seem up to standard quality. You might think this is from some shady third-party seller, but it's in fact, "Ship from and sold by Amazon.com." And if you list all New/Used/Refurbished sellers, Amazon.com shows up in the New category, despite being described as a refurb in the product description. What a mess.
The good part of "microservices" is "services". The bad part is "micro".
The simplified model is a sigmoid function, if it looks like exponential growth, exponentially dampened, or linear depends on where you are on the curve.
You can remove the second reason and it's still just as valid. But that said, this kind of thinking is exactly the sort of problem we have when looking at complex systems. You can't examine any piece of it in isolation. Health is not isolated from environment.
I worked in a company where micro services succeed.

To succeed, the ratio has to make sense. We had more than 2,000 engineers with fewer than a few hundred services. So, of course, it made perfect sense.

I've also seen a startup where it had 30 people and used the micro-service architecture. That didn't work very well. To make it worse, they used Node.js. It's like using Micro service wasn't difficult enough... they had to go with a dynamic-typed language.
The Old Testament...

1. Is not and has not been considered entertainment.

2. Is considered obsolete by both Christians (preferring the New Testament and a variety of more or less formal commentaries) and Jews (preferring the Talmud and its very formalized commentaries).

In what sense is it supposed to be timeless? How can a timeless work be so outdated as to embarrass its notional devotees when you bring it up?
That reminds me of a story. A gossip magazine editor said, our competitor is not other gossip magazines, but a cup of coffee.
Eh... Spotify provides dedicated app for Linux users. No need to use Google Chrome for that.
If you were older you'd know we've all ready had a massive breakthrough. 6 to 8 weeks nude to be normal. Now its couple days for free. Next day even same day is possible. I can get food, other perishables. Stuff is delivered from Hong Kong in days. You often get tracking of status, location, and eta. All of this without having to call and wait and wait on customer service phone line.

Its mindblowingly amazing.
I am not sure I understand how it works, but if I had to take a guess it is because normally your thoughts and attention are invisible to others, but if policy mandates you to use body language to indicate your attention, then the employee realizes any lapse in attention will be visible from afar, so the employee who doesn't want to be seen losing attention it becomes mandatory to constantly show that yes you are in fact still paying attention...
Sadly, you can't tell them by telling them. You have to be subliminal.
Oh man, I miss BeOS. It was one of the two OS's I'd bought back in the day. The other was OpenBSD 3 iirc I have the CD around here somewhere, too.
I don't know. I find VBA to lack so many modern features (type inference, linq, generics, etc) that I favor using a more modern language over edit&continue. VBA and interop have nearly the same syntax so you can always toy in VBA and then implement it in .net. NetOffice sometimes has a different syntax so is a bit more iterative.
https://patentpandas.org/resources/prior-art

I believe they have to pay the expenses if they sue and you prove there is prior art.
If you know C++ and want to embed C++ objects in Excel you can use a library I wrote. Here is an example of how single inheritance works: https://github.com/keithalewis/xll12/blob/master/sample/hand...
I agree, if you can make a mistake doing a deploy eventually it will happen. Likely at the worst possible moment because you are under pressure to put out a production issue. All our deploys are push button deployments, it takes a lot of stress out of my daily life to know that once I approve a deployment things take care of themselves.
Something I'm genuinely curious about and not trying to downplay success here, but is Product Hunt really a metric of achievement now?
This week I ordered from Amazon a 4tb Flash Drive. What arrived in 4tb packaging was a 250Gb flash drive with the manufacturer's label removed. Amazon did replace the fraud drive with a proper one.
The media really has it out for Facebook after Facebook decided to reduce page reach.

It seemed like Facebook can't do anything right.

The '10 year challenge' is a good feature. Some people enjoyed it. It created joy for those people. And, like other comments, the data isn't really useful.
This was what turned me off from Linux Mint for my own use. The catch-22 of you need to upgrade to a supported version, but the servers / packages you would need in order to do the upgrade were turned off in the meantime. To be fair, Linux Mint states that a complete reinstall is the recommended way, but since I do development, it's a pain to have to locate and reinstall from scratch all the packages I need.

Also I think Ubuntu suffers the same problem, if you wait long enough. I'm pretty sure I have an Ubuntu install that I waited too long to upgrade.

It is enough to make me serious consider switching to FreeBSD, except I don't think the 3D (game engine) library I want to use is supported.
I hate that as well.

I got in from work on Friday and got handed an ipad that wouldn't connect to the wifi and a laptop that has some weird malware.

I love my family but after a hard days programming dealing with that stuff is tiresome.
Aside of the obvious of testing the effects of reduced iron intake directly.
Minecraft doesn't have a single huge social/multiplayer server so when players reach their teens they tend to migrate towards more social games with lots of players, Fortnite being the prime example, and Roblox being another (cringe). The current dominant Minecraft server, Hypixel, is developing it's own 'voxel-based' game called Hytale. It will be interesting to see how that goes once it is released.
This is interesting, I remember watching "Carrier" and noticing that the 'shooters' at the catapult controls followed the same process of pointing at their board (and even out the window at the plane) as they went through their launch checklist.
It's surprising that with the ultra-high-resolution monitors common today, this might actually be on the verge of being practical.
I will say that as a current Redux maintainer, I _hate_ that I seem to have to spend more time cautioning people about when it's appropriate to use Redux, than I do actually promoting its use. :( I can't think of any other lib off the top of my head where the maintainers have had to do that.

That said, yeah, we've got a Redux FAQ entry that discusses when you should use Redux [0], and some other "caveat"-type sections scattered throughout the docs.

We're currently planning a revamp of the Redux docs structure and content [1], and we'll see if we can improve some of the messaging as part of that. Would appreciate any suggestions you can offer.

[0] https://redux.js.org/faq/general#when-should-i-use-redux

[1] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/3313#issuecomment-45...
Wonderful exposition. One nitpick:
please do NOT suggest seeding random functions with &main. Although ASLR is widespread, it is by no means guaranteed, and the default compilation options on many platforms will still produce non-PIE executables. This would render your seed completely static.

A separate problem is that ASLR on some platforms has limited entropy. For example, on 32-bit Linux platforms the executable randomness has between 8 and 16 bits of entropy - which means your program would only ever have a small, finite range of possible random streams (16 bits correlating to less than 1 day of time() output taken once per second).

Don’t rely on ASLR for randomness. At best it can be used as an additional source of random data. The C standard provides no mechanism for obtaining high quality entropy, as some environments (especially freestanding ones) may be unable to offer such randomness.
> I remember up to this day a dream i had when « my » mac (the one with the portrait format monitor) suddenly turned into a color monitor.

I had this dream too! Waking up to 4 color grayscale was a total bummer.
Exactly! I can imagine an article in this Puddle Universe:

>"Is the Puddle a conscious mind?"

>"Cosmopsychism might seem crazy, but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the Puddle became fine-tuned for water"
Mechanical Keyboard Simulator to Improve Macbook Keyboard
> 1. There's no way to discover content. Sure you can search for tag but that's absurdly inconvenient

Coincidentally, there's a new directory feature to help with just that. Just go onto any 2.7 instance that has it enabled and /explore would list users you might want to follow based on somolar interests, i.e. [1].

1 - https://mastodon.social/explore

> There's just so much spam.

Either go to a particular interest instance if you want to see a useful local timeline, or follow people and then look at your personal timeline, which is not really different than how Twitter does it.

> Only now proper moderation tools are introduced

Moderation tools have been pretty robust for a long time.

> This was heavily abused by mastodon.social administrator

Mastodon.social is based in Germany and has to follow local speech laws, which are more restrictive than in the U.S. It also has several moderators, not just the admin. But you can just join a U.S. based instance, which is the whole point of federation.

Now if your content is such that no respectable instance wants to take you, there's still the self-host option, which is quite straight forward with Docker, but perhaps also reconsider why you're getting banned.
What abilities do Admins of Gsuit have?
Recently I was jolted away from the naive world I used to live in. I received an email from a manager in the company I work for. Quickly noticed that I wasn't supposed to be reading the poor performance evaluation of one of my co-workers and that everyone else in the company was also copied in the email. Probably a common enough snafu that should be followed by a sincere apology and pleas not to read. Instead, after five minutes, the email disappeared from my inbox and all other inboxes in the company. No follow up email explaining or apologizing. Just a pure cover up. I am left pondering if anything in my work mail box is reliable. Have they deleted stuff before? What can I do to keep proper records of my email communications? What else can admins do in addition to visit everyone's email inbox and deleting a particular email?
Beware the permanent exclusive
Another person could put forth ten more reasons in favor of a conservative approach.

The reality is that no one actually knows which direction the market will go on any given day, even though it often goes up over time. Gut-based and heuristic-based predictions are dangerous.

When making assumptions about why the market will rise, the most dangerous thing which can happen is for the market to rise for a different reason. You may then be tempted to go back to your gut reasoning to make another decision, which is equally baseless. But this time, you won’t just bet your investing money, you’ll bet your child’s education fund and your parents retirement and your second mortgage. After all, you are smarter, right?

This concept is the plot of “How to Lose a Million Dollars” and I recommend it to all investors.

Tl;dr: Maybe. You don’t know. Stop pretending like you do.
A special app for “Tu Bishvat”
contained.af
At least he tryied, instead of just blowing on the hype-trumpet - or resting intellectual easy by snipering with snarky comments.
Just put it on Github like this and the Serverless one I also created after I saw this.
Installing Linux on your parents' computer and then having them give up and get support from a local store is less work for you than properly teaching them to use Linux before installing it on their computer and then providing support whenever they have issues.
Well, as long as the over the net authentication works so your local copy of Office will let you use it.
the same as you would deal with any serious addiction. You need to treat it seriously. Make a plan, take a wow or swear an oath whatever works for you. Important not to be too tough, but not to give up. In case of quitting smoking no one succeeds if they quit gradually, so I imagine an oath to quit all news and social sites would be a good start.
Cross-platform hybrid mobile app development platform and tools in the cloud
90% of the issues when it comes to tech and my parents is dealing with accounts(aka setting up accounts and keeping track of usernames and passwords).
This is just a fun project I did with a friend of mine. It's a "dating" app to find your soul mate tree :)
(No money, no ads, no affiliate links, no data collecting, just pure fun!)
The book I'm reading currently 'modular habits' uses the Japanese train conductors usage of this finger pointing an example of how to reinforce habits - the accident reduction noted with this technique was quite significant.

On another note - how strange is it when you learn something new of which you haven't known about your whole life only to several days later see it appear on hn.. is there a name for this sort of thing?
For a lot of stuff, I agree. For certain things, though, Best Buy is a complete ripoff. I once went to get an HDMI cable and all that had was a $100 gold plated one. I walked up to the guy in that department and told him I knew this was a scam and he agreed. I told him I'd not buy anything from them and wait the 2 days to get a $5 one from Amazon. Best Buy isn't doing themselves any favors by this behavior.

There's a mom and pop computer store down the street. I went in for a USB cable that I really needed and ended up paying > $20 for that should have been less than $5. I never went back.