skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"vacaracted" = homophone for "Baker Act'ed"? referring to the Baker Act of 1971: Florida law for involuntary examination and potential commitment for treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Mental_Health_Act
I forwarded any emails that contained info I might want to search for. When tabs got good with Gmail I pretty much stopped using Yahoo for signups and the like. Whatever still defaults to Yahoo isn’t anything I care much about at the moment.

I should have a backup address but I should probably just use Microsoft for that.
Black mirror is creepy and dystopian. What's changing is that it becomes less and less speculative over time.
Most DSPs have zero overhead loops (still branches) which don't incur a branch penalty. So something like below may take 1-2 cycles atmost, per iteration.

for(i=0;i<howmany;i++) {

out[index] = random();

}

Ofcourse variable length loops would still have the branches.
"Requires more muscle energy" seems like such a weird metric to base design decisions around but if we start the phone in similar states for both, ie laying on a table, I have a hard time believing they're going to be that different.
Japan has homeless encampments also...I saw a nice tidy one in an Osaka park, and also around Uueno in Tokyo. They are fairly clean about it, however.
I see two separate issues here.

(A side note: Talent may be largely derived from riches, but rich parents definitely don't always result in talent. There can be, and are, incompetent children of the rich.)

First issue: We want the people with talent to wind up in the positions that need talent. We (society) actually need talent in those positions, rather than incompetence. It doesn't matter whether the incompetent ones are the children of the rich or of the poor; there are positions where we don't want them.

Second issue: The children of the poor (or even middle class) shouldn't be locked out of success in the economy simply because they're the children of the poor. Those with latent talent or undeveloped talent, or whatever you wish to call it, need to have that developed, so that it becomes actual talent. The school system was supposed to be the way that happened, but the school system has largely failed at that task, at least in much of the country. Now what do we do? Can we fix the school system? Or is it just a reflection of problems in society, and we have to fix the society in order to fix the school system? If we can't fix the school system, what do we do instead?

It seems to me that the biggest variable is the parents' attitude toward education. Children whose parents see the value of education will, on average, get more out of a mediocre school system than children of uncaring parents will get out of a good school system, unless they're rescued by someone - a great teacher, perhaps, or someone that they look up to. But if their social capital doesn't include people who value education, and their schools don't have great, inspiring teachers, from where are they going to get the spark?

I don't have good answers for you. I wish I did.
> researchers presented both depressed and non-depressed participants with a button and a green light. They then asked the participants to figure out to what degree their responses (pushing the button) controlled that light. Depressed participants were much better at judging the degree of their control, while participants who weren't depressed tended to assume that they had more control over the light than they actually did.

so they gave a depressing scenario to people and the depressives were quicker to identify that it was, in fact, a depressing situation.

however, put depressives into a fun party where people are open and accepting and the depressives will often instead focus on a negative, antisocial view that is manufactured by their mood disorder and takes them out of this very welcoming and positive situation.

As a lifelong depressive I've struggled to see reality for what it is and not as what my depression is constantly misrepresenting. I of course also have the experience where I can see an actually depressing situation for what it is more readily than others, but I think the premise of the article is still generally absurd. The world seems like a very hostile and dangerous place to me, and while you can of course find limitless examples of this being completely true, it nonetheless it prevents me from doing things that other people do quite safely and successfully all the time and for which this dark perspective is completely exaggerative and distorting.
Right, SPARC has both register windows and branch delay slots, truly a great collection of architectural dead ends :).
Thanks for clarifying this for me. I didn't know about libdrm. I'm going to read the source code now to learn more.
That graph is biased in that it only covers discovered groups and only half have been discovered (older groups are likely more likely to have been discovered). Assuming it's NOT biased something happened in the 2nd half of 2014 to destroy traffic to Yahoo Groups.
> the ability to come over and interrupt you by tapping you on the shoulder whenever they need something.

Yeah, the answer to the OP articles question about why the remote studies work out that way isn't a big mystery.

The first thing you learn working from home is self-motivation and training yourself to get "in the zone". Then try doing the same at an office, where interruptions are far more often.

But that said not all offices are like this. A lot of companies work to 'protect' their creatives/engineers from disruption from the extroverts/talkers. Either by isolating them in separate closed office rooms or having rules like headphones on = don't bother them.
That's not a big argument, as a process doesn't have to be "the most" time consuming part of programming to have a big negative impact.

Annoying context switches and slowdowns to lookup function naming and possible options (without autocomplete) can still interfere with the flow of a programmer as he writes a program...
And a non-donation in-app payment isn't open for fraud?
I hope we can get spectroscopy done on the tail! It would give us a really unprecedented look into the material composition of other solar systems.
Storage is cheap when host it yourself.
I found it fun to use cassettes, laser discs, CDs, DVDs, mini discs, mp3 players even though I no longer use any of them. Also found it fun to go Atari -> Amiga -> DOS PC -> Windows. And Atari 2600 -> NES -> SNES+Genesis -> PS1 etc..

I agree it sucks when support ends but I enjoy it checking it out while it exists.
I don't think it will work with your phone in your pocket or backpack.. and typically your headphones have controls for volume, skip, back, play/pause, so not really compelling on that front. For presentations a small remote control is superior in every way. The only use case I can see is cooking, and there are probably better solutions (e.g. better UI design).
Homeless people are also fairly mobile, it doesn’t take that much to come up with a $50 bus ticket even if they don’t bother hopping freight cars anymore. Hell, many can even scrounge up enough for one way tickets to Hawaii (...and Hawaii will often take care of the ticket back).
I can tell you, I'm in the same boat. I can't really do more than 4 -5 hours of actual coding on a typical day. I've done days with 7 - 12 hours of coding but those are outliers. Also by Thursday, I'm pretty burned out. I rarely get a lot done on Friday.
I don't own the law firm I use to defend myself in court, but I do pay them to act on my behalf. Blizzard has also not done anything to backpedal on that statement. Honestly, how many mental hoops did you have to jump through to convince yourself that Blizzard doesn't endorse what NetEase said?
But my weekly commuting is less than 5 hours total. And I live in the Seattle area. I will add before I switched jobs to one on the same side of the lakes as I live on, it was 10 hours / week ;-)
enlighten me here, how AGPL can protect Mongod been AWS-ed? i.e. AWS makes money out of it without paying Mongo
There are people who dream of terraforming Mars, and there are people who object to filling in the southern end of San Francisco bay. And I wouldn't be surprised if there is some overlap between the two groups.
Which laws in the U.S. Constitution grant such powers over municipal governments?
It's a bummer it's gone that far downhill, I'd love to go back and visit someday when it gets better. We used to take random taxis all over the place, back when all the taxis in DF were VW bugs with the front passenger seat ripped out. Never had an issue with any drivers, but I remember distinctly how the driving in the city was total madness, traffic rules and conventions we take for granted mostly ignored. I had fears about being in a crash, but no fears about being randomly mugged or killed.

I did once wonder if I was going to get hurt when I was pulled out of the audience during a circus show in Leon for the clown's knife-throwing act. I was mostly sure it'd be safe and faked and funny, but they blindfolded me and I certainly had a few thoughts run through my head about what I was thinking being in the middle of Mexico having knives thrown at me.
Definitely! Which is why I try to moderate myself. I don't want to bring people down by any means at all.
> Why have we built a society in which anybody who doesn't accept the lifestyle of sleeping in a static, hardened structure, and working to pay rent or a mortgage so as to have the right to do so, is diagnosed with some kind of illness?

Equally amusing is that we attempt to make this a requirement, but do not make this a fundamental right in association with said requirement.

If you're going to MAKE people have something, it should be provided for them IMO.
Must be sarcasm. In the 90's, I was a sysadmin for almost every Unix/Linux under the sun: SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, HPUX, IRIX, Digital Unix, AIX, FreeBSD, various Linux distros. Yes, some of the early "distros" were primitive but by the end of the 90's the writing was on the wall... commercial Unix was dead.

"Unreliable" PC hardware is a myth. It was once true, in the early 90's. Today, even low end x86 are rock solid and last for years, running trouble free.
Tbh, it reeks of self-help guru. It's almost a meme now, along with "delete facebook, hit the gym, lawyer up" circlejerk you see in relationship forums.
This. Telling that it’s arguably less of a lift to fill in 50 square miles of the bay vs. rewrite zoning with some practical common sense updates.
That tv remote in the picture you linked is awful. Very little tactile differentiation to let you feel your way around, and way too many buttons.

I remember when the TiVo came out, that remote was a game-changer:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Tivo-Remote-Control-/26439...
Most of my money goes to health care, food, and housing none of which is made in China. Many other things I buy second hand. I can't say that none of my money ends up enriching China given how pervasive Chinese made goods are especially on the low end of the market but it would be inaccurate to say I am still "happily buying Chinese products".

That is you imposing a preconceived narrative on me without bothering to find out or care if its accurate.
You can now legally stream some sports matches in Kenya
I found this when looking for information on the fact that there was apparently a lawsuit over gnu Emacs on the gosling thread.
Lawmakers hit Trump administration for tech legal shield in trade negotiations
It kinda does. Pretending otherwise is like asking people to pay 10$ before eating at a community kitchen. Or forcing people to pay to enter a public park.
Headless Brands
I can't find the definition of id in bel.bel file. Did I miss it? @pg
I agree, I guess that noum.verb() is indeed better to find those
Same way you eat an elephant
Exploratory Public – Free UI tool for learning data science by doing
Okay, now I get it. I missed that part of the article. That's the arrogance. I like the ideas in a lot of these articles, I just don't have time to read them all. I miss the old days of tldr's.
What a sad and myopic take on art, especially coming from a self-proclaimed artist. Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but why make such bitter sounding absolutist statements about what other people create or enjoy? There's enough negativity in this world already.

Additionally, the fact that you're judging the relative worth of a piece of art based on it lasting for 1000 years is pretty sad, in my opinion. What is wrong with art being created for a specific time and place? Life is ephemeral, and there is beauty in that.
Show HN: I’m building a startup and recording the entire process on YouTube
Doesn't have to be "hundreds of dirty needles on the ground" in the same spot . It's enough that there are hundreds of dirty needles on the ground to be discovered in the span of a couple square miles or so...
Blame the companies that want & use DRM, not the DRM provider.

It's the same thing that happened on PC ages ago. If you don't like DRM, don't support games & apps that use DRM. Complaining to SecuROM that they are supplying market demand isn't useful. At least SafetyNet isn't a badly made rootkit that destroys your hardware and it's only real flaw is being semi-functional DRM.
Hey HN,

Having been part of a fast-growing YC startup, I wanted to show what the early days of making a product are actually like—so I'm building a startup product myself and video recording the entire process.

Literally every minute I spend working on Shuffleboard is recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Each video is a couple hours long, and shows both my face and my screen as I work. There are about 30 sessions and about 70 hours of work so far.

All videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP8wPiIB7kz7pbYCnjIc...

See the live product: https://getshuffleboard.com/

What I've been doing:

- Talking about who my customers are and what value I'm trying to create for them
- Designing the basic UX
- Interviewing potential users
- Running usability tests
- Designing a brand
- Maintaining a product backlog
- Reading documentation
- Writing code
- Fixing bugs
- Learning how to write unit tests
- Spending days trying to figure out Firestore security rules
- Prepping for a mini-launch (including writing this HN post)
- Getting stuck/bored/tired
- Making lots of mistakes

Next steps:

- Sales
- More usability tests/interviews
- More features
- Improving the visual design
- Subscriptions with Stripe

Tech stack:

- React + Create React App (with styled components)
- Firebase for the db (Firestore), plus Firebase auth and hosting

Like in any startup, there's a rollercoaster of ups and downs. The visual brand was designed in a couple hours, but figuring out how to finally secure the Firestore database took almost a week. There are moments where I'm having a blast, moments where I want to give up, and lots of hours where nothing much happens at all.

Would love to hear what you think :)

Sam
That's pretty impressive. I didn't think there were many cities with such good infrastructure and cheap housing prices.
I'm a big fan of open source, but why is it obvious that "proprietary is bad for society", exactly? I'd venture to guess that most of the people that frequent this site work for companies that sell proprietary software in some form or another. People being employed is pretty beneficial to society.
Or maybe the person is just an introvert or has sensory issues - then a fun party becomes a torture chamber. As me how I know.
Every time something like this comes up, I imagine a bunch of giddy "world-changers" sitting behind Mac Pros with Retina displays and T3 lines, building something that works great under those conditions, and then convincing each other that they've helped people over $16 microbrews.

I know this is a caricature but it's how I get my kicks.

To wit, the conditions that the engineers inhabit in their lives has basically zero resemblance with the technology experience of the vast majority of people. Designing websites for 4K screens only, expecting <20ms latency over home lines when everyone else in the house is streaming video to their own personal devices, etc. One thing we can do collectively as an industry is put in place guidelines which steer development to minimalism and attention to the resources available to the median user.
That's not really a fair comparison.
Okay, not the center, but possibly the largest general-interest forum near the center. Can you name another Internet forum where discussions are similar to general-interest Usenet tech groups, where even internal details or confidential information about tech companies such as Microsoft [0] or Oracle [1] leaks out from time to time?

Mailing lists? Well, yes, but there are all single-topic forum.

Twitter? Probably, but it's not a forum, and it's even responsible for killing the forums.

Reddit? Those programming groups are large, but they are closer to newsfeed where you can submit links than a forum (Hacker News is also a newsfeed, but it's discussion-orientated, some people don't even read the news). Although some communities such as r/bitcoin has plenty of important history preserved here, but not a general-interest tech forum.

4chan? It has some historical significant for Internet subcultures, but probably not in general interest.

Chatrooms? Yes. Freenode is still big, Discord has a lot of communities, but they are not forums.

My conclusion about Hacker News being the center was after a long depression that the social media has killed large forums where long opinions are elaborated. But Hacker News is still kicking around, like it was 1995.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689391 (original comment deleted, reposted here: http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w...)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
I wonder how much this has to do with GDPR and other data regulations? Presumably Yahoo Groups has too little activity to be worth keeping in an active state. But even in a static, archival state, Yahoo would still be obligated to fulfill data requests for it, right?
your wording indicates it is a guess, giving a specific percentage wouldn't have doxed you
Makes too much sense to work in California. If something so sensical could be accomplished, SF would have built more housing by now.
I have had various friends over the years who were clever and funny but relentlessly cynical. I found spending time with them to be quite enjoyable and amusing, but only for limited amounts of time, occasionally.

With too much exposure their cynicism just got tedious. The edgy jokes lost their edge. The worldview seemed more defeatist-for-its-own-sake than inherently more perceptive than alternatives. Making fun of all the clueless optimistic imbeciles out there started to seem pointlessly mean. The conversations started to get boring and repetitive.

YMMV.
It's sort of a convenience fee. I agree with your App Mafia take but my guess is folks that can't be troubled to use F-Droid probably weren't going to donate in the first place.

For instance, D-Sub is available for free on F-Droid but costs something like ~$4 on Google Play.

AndOTP is available on F-Droid, not sure about Wireguard but I'd assume so.
Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection
Launch HN: Hawkeye – Learn where people look in your products
Hey HN, Matt from Hawkeye Labs (https://usehawkeye.com) here!

Everyone knows understanding user behavior is essential to improving products. As recent success stories like Superhuman and Notion have shown, good design is everywhere these days. This means it’s more important than ever to get actionable insights into how people use your products.

However, existing research tools could be a lot better. One option is event-based analytics and always-on screen recorders, but these services only show you which pages the user visits and what actions they perform. Another approach is conducting narrated studies with paid participants. These sessions give you a huge amount of information, but can become boring to watch and often aren’t representative of real users.

Hawkeye takes a different approach to user research. Using the TrueDepth camera on iOS devices, Hawkeye lets you track where people look in your products without the need for any extra hardware. This gives you a far better understanding of the user’s thought process than traditional screen recordings. You can see where they get confused, what grabs their attention, and begin to understand why they perform the actions they do.

Today, we’re excited to launch the Hawkeye testing platform. Right off the bat, you can test any mobile website or InVision prototype, with more test types coming soon. The platform lets you invite participants to complete tests on their own devices and makes it easy to play back screen recordings and view heatmaps from your product.

This is just the start of what we have planned. Zooming out a bit, we believe providing automated, yet deeper insights into user experience can make it far easier for anyone to improve their products.

You can sign up for free at https://usehawkeye.com. We'd love to hear your feedback and I'm happy to answer any and all questions! Feel free to reach out in the comments or shoot an email to matt@usehawkeye.com. Thanks everyone!
I have been disappointed in the Play Store for a while now. Last I checked, they don't display licenses either, so you can't easily tell what's free software. I get everything from F-Droid these days, and on my primary devices I never even install the google apps after flashing LineageOS.
It isn't [1] but an average Joe doesn't know about alternatives and what's worse doesn't care about them because he's not affected by Google's foul play (or at least he thinks he isn't).

1: https://f-droid.org/
It is a fair trade. Qt works this way and is very successful in both the commercial and open source worlds.
Also the first X-Files movie; it had a whole spaceship buried in Antarctica.
Archive Team routs its collected data to the Internet Archive, with tools that I believe any individual could apply independently. As far as storage, apparently the Internet Archive has a $10M budget, which will go quite a long way if you accept slow or even offline storage for the content.

But I'm still not sure how an individual would extract the images fast enough. Archive Team's largest project was ~1.5 petabytes of Google+. In 2012, Imgur had 300M images uploaded, which at 5MB per image would be 1.5PB. Simply keeping up with daily throughput would be an enormous undertaking, much less digging out all of the historical content.
The idea of not being able to scratch my nose for six days is horrifying.
Maybe the Software Freedom Conservancy[1] or Software in the Public Interest[2] could help open source Android apps take donations.

[1]: https://sfconservancy.org/
[2]: https://www.spi-inc.org/
Russia at least was conducting a disinformation and agitprop attack during the 2016 election. That's not "hacking", exactly, but it's still something that matters quite a bit.
I was never arguing against their point