skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm saying is that the analogy of alcohol is not helpful.

Social Networking is not inherently toxic, and quitting many things: sugar, television, even meat, might have the similar effects for some small group of people.

In fact, the entire thread is based on three levels of indirection of misinformation: the Bloomberg article misquoted the paper, and the short-summary referencing Bloomberg made it worse.

Here is the summary of the findings [1]:

"We find that deactivating Facebook for the four weeks before the 2018 US midterm election (i) reduced online activity while increasing offline activities such as watching TV alone
and socializing with family and friends; (ii) reduced both factual news knowledge and political polarization; (iii) increased subjective well-being; and (iv) caused a large persistent reduction in post-experiment Facebook use"

So that's a little bit more information now isn't it? And completely conflates the Facebook/wellbeing issue with a host of other things.

Most poignantly, stopping Facebook usage reduced the amount of factual knowledge a person had access too. So maybe that's not so good?

Maybe by 'removing Facebook' people are simply a little bit more removed from the issues of the day (like elections) many of which can be contentious.

So 'ignorance is bliss' is the result of the study? Or is it really something materially related to Social Networking.

I think we'll need to do some more studying to find out.

[] http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf
Your comment suggests that you were fortunate enough not to experience frequent moves and social issues during your childhood.
At the same time, you seem to lack empathy towards others' pain. I am sorry for people around you.
tl:dr

The 32-bit signed integer clock rolls over in 2038.
This is mitigated by OS updates to a 64-bit clock
for most reads of the clock.
Hi, Yev! Thanks a lot.

I am fancying the idea to move our CDN from AWS stack to B2 + CF, thanks to Bandwidth Alliance. There's at least one thing stopping me: for simple schema of hosting static content out of bucket we should deploy Workers just for URL rewriting. Guys from CF recommending that way and not URL rewrites by simple rules[1]. But it puts us in a weak position of raising cost twice: for increased edge trafic AND for increased number of requests.

Can anything be done on BackBlaze side to address the problem, like custom domains for buckets? Like https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket-name/file.jpg => https://bucket-name.f001.backblazeb2.com/file.jpg ?

[1] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/page-rule-setting-request...
Bringing Git-like file interfaces to Git-for-data product Dolt
I blogged about adding LICENSEs and READMEs to Dolt, a version controlled database with Git semantics. The Dolt database now operates in two modes, files and tables, which means you can ship documentation that travels with and is versioned alongside your data.

Similar to Git, Dolt uses three root values to represent repository state. Each root value stores a commit history and plays a different role in the user workflow. The working root stores local changes in the repository. The staged root stores the changes that have been added and are ready for commit. The head root stores the commit history and represents the tip of the current branch.

We took the existing table root structure, and modified it to support files stored on the filesystem.

Read more about how we did it here: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-02-11-license-and-readme-in-dolt/

Check out a README.md in action on DoltHub: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/Liquidata/corona-virus
I appreciate your stance :) Keep fighting the good fight, maybe one day I can and will join you :)
I feel like telling the trade caravan that you want to buy from a specific place they visit is something your average merchant could do.
Back in the day I used TKGate. Not so UNIXy, but it's TCL/TK.
A EE video[1] shows such a bad power factor on a mere smoke alarm that the VA reading is 20VA for less than 1W actual consumption. An unsuspecting "power meter" might overestimate actual dissipation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kI8ySvNPdQ
Given your qualifications, what would you like to see happen?
I see this as a win-win, too, but in a different way.

Early on, the US companies cut their costs: good for them, and likely their customers. In the long term, China developed the expertise needed to contribute to the development of advanced technologies: good for them, and for humanity's aggregate progress.

There's a lot of acrimony over how to divide the surplus, but this shouldn't overshadow the technological and economic development happening before our very eyes.
Can we design sociotechnical systems that don’t suck? (2016)
My utility also installed smart meters recently - the Focus AXRe with Gridstream RF. It theoretically has Zigbee in it. It even has the Zigbee logo on it. I haven't figured out if I can read it yet, but in fairness I also haven't put a lot of work into figuring it out either. At the very least I could not get Smartthings to see it. So if anybody knows anything more about this meter I would love to know. :)

But I DID discover that my utility, buried down in like 5 menus on some random screen of the account portal, offers a usage graph at 15 minute intervals. It's not real time - it seems to be delayed by 1-3 hours - but it is far better than getting a surprise bill. And while it used some weird SAP JSON interface, I could deduce what was what and could get the data out of it.

So I whipped up a script to basically scrape this "API" and shove the data into InfluxDB. I also added daily scrapes for the billing page and the rate page so I know when I was billed and how much the current rate is. This is because my utility bills at a lower rate for the first 1,400 kwh, and a higher rate for everything over that. I was not able to discern any pattern to when the bills were issued and the utility company was very unhelpful in this regard, just "sometime ever 27 to 35 days depending on holidays and weekends."

This [0] is the result of combining all the data. While I would really like realtime data directly off the meter, even being delayed a few hours is better than a random surprise $370 bill. I've written enough scrapers in my life to know it will probably break at some point, but it's been humming along nicely for the last few months.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/SwdHnCV
This is the most shit-tier advice I've ever seen posted on Hacker News, and I've seen a lot. Basically you are implying "fuck you for being bullied, don't come to me for advice or sympathy." And you are their parent. Isn't this how pent up rage develops? Are you trying to turn your child into a school shooter?
If this is the case, quitting drinking will still not likely yield 'more happiness' ergo, the fact remains.
The USFS has had defined color schemes for everything since at least the 40s. I cant find a reference offhand but I recall it goes back Pinchot around the turn of the century. They are very intentional about a consistent image and ensuring human elements fit in the local biome.

https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm07732807/paint.do...
This is the answer. Journalists cannot work for free, and trying to run a newspaper entirely supported by ads creates perverse incentives.
Probably a PHP microframework like Slim or Lumen. It highly depends on your background and how you define the scope of what you want to be easily understandable. I would recommend different systems depending on whether you are a computer scientist, frontend developer, webdesigner, data scientist etc.

For most people though it probably is PHP. There is a reason for PHP's popularity and it is its low barrier to entry for beginners. Hosting is plentiful and comes with a standard way to store data (MySQL), deployment is simple and everything being bound to a request (and dieing afterwards) lets you get away with mistakes.
So I'm assuming that this

U.S. technology company headquartered in the Northern District of California (“Company 1”)

is Cisco?
> These American companies thought they could build their products for a fraction of the price in China and increase margins.

Perhaps a bit of an over generalization. Some were interested in licensing technology to Huawei as was the case with Akhan.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190204005211/en/AKH...

This case was especially alarming considering the dual-purpose potential of the IP.
May I suggest consuming news through text rather than video? In fact, the more boring the better.

I see a big issue is that the news is frequently emotive based. In some cases this is helpful, when terrible stuff is going on. Other cases it makes mundane things seem worse. Or it makes things that don't affect us and/or we have no control over emotionally important. The latter is particularly harmful, imo. A lot of these make you feel like you are more informed than you are, because you're highly emotionally invested. I think video really promotes the emotional investment.

But the boring stuff allows you to become emotionally invested in what __you__ care about. Then the lack of emotional forcing makes you feel less informed, so if you care you spend time finding out more. This prevents people from being "armchair researchers" and fighting.
> Jobs in corporate software development can feel pretty much like that, at least for me. Startups are better, but, on the other hand, they work you harder.

You might be confusing cause and effect; you feel those things after being burnt out. Once upon a time, I worked at a start up doing very rewarding, high-impact work with cutting edge technology...just too much of it. I could feel burnout creeping up[1] and I asked my boss for time off, he agreed, but feared I would not return after my break and pressured me to finish the project before leaving by working at an even faster pace - you can guess what happened next. I walked in one morning, sat and my desk and I discovered I no longer had any gas left in the tank: I was completely empty inside, no motivation, no interest in any doing anything work-related, all I could do was browse web comics all day, and even this didn't bring me any joy at the time.

I took my break and switched employers soon after (which wasn't my plan initially), fortunately the new organization had a much slower pace, it took me months to get close to my previous level of productivity. Never again.

1. When weekends doesn't feel like enough time away from work, you might be on your way to burnout
Are ‘Near-Death Experiences’ Real?
There's a great short story that makes use of this in its setup. Lostronaut, published in the New Yorker in 2008: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/17/lostronaut
This assertions along the lines of "it's a privilege to be able to be politically disengaged" is just an empty slogan weaponizing empathy to guilt whoever it's directed at towards supporting your political leaning.

It's also a privilege to be able to be politically engaged. Both ways of being are completely protected and legal (in America at least). And both privileges are available to all - even the disadvantaged groups that the slogan implies must be politically engaged for their own survival. It would probably serve their self interest to be more engaged, sure, but in reality they still have the choice. The ethical standard of mandatory political engagement that you're appealing to is not universally recognized or enforced. And if you think of places/times where that ethic of mandatory political life is or was enforced, do you really want to be like that?
Less required tooling, better performance, smaller bundle sizes, and more interoperability.
> Of course, then you have to police yourself by not saying unpopular things just to be difficult, but only if you genuinely think they need to be said and are adding something to the discussion and the site.

It seems like you're impugning their motives here.

Do you honestly think that most people whose thoughtful comments are downvoted are engaging in bad faith, “saying unpopular things just to be difficult”?
Usenet died because it cost infrastructure owners to make space and bandwidth available for it, over and above the cost of the infrastructure itself.
This is Gold, though I'm not sure if this is satire.
Especially point 8 sounds like satire, but maybe that's just my Linux-infected brain and not what normal people think.
Whisky cured my coronavirus, says Wuhan-based Brit who contracted deadly flu
Even if Facebook/Twitter didn't make me less happy or turn me into a person I didn't want to be, I would have quit them for the sheer opportunity cost of time spent on them that my long-term self would rather be spending on other things. (Obviously could apply to HN as well haha.)
The fancy new lossy mode has some incremental loading too; could be interesting for both.
Very true. At some points some friends were having a contest about most packaging needed for their meal. I don't remember who the "winner" was, but there was at least "bag-bag-box-bag" combos and up! (this was in the UK, but I bet US can "score" pretty high too)
Uber Begins to Test Booking Rides by Phone Call with Human Operators
Why do you think those sources are nuanced or provide decent coverage of topics? Are you sure you're right?

Here's one example among many that perhaps these are not good sources of information.

https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/how-iraq-war-sti...
Group Is Collecting Designs for a Martian City
> I have absolutely no passion for my job

Are you talking about the job itself, or the thing being produced?

I don't care about the products my company makes, and I think that's a good thing, at least for me. When I've cared deeply about the actual thing being made in the past, that led to emotional attachment, which sucks when your idea doesn't win. It also led me to tend to bias effort towards my own particular hobby-horse, instead of what the data or the plan told me.

Now, the job itself is different - I care what activities I spend my time doing and who I do it with. Make me do things that bore me, and I will eventually do a bad job, because I'm a bit undisciplined. And shitty or incompetent people will chase me off faster than anything else except obvious management disfunction.
It's kind of sneaky that the last tool in the list happens to be sold by the company publishing the list.
A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas
The NYT I definitely now class with all the rest. In my opinion The Economist stands alone as the only publication I can trust to be nuanced and informative.
People will keep singing and dancing and making music like they have always done. Most didn't make money from it. Sheet music changed that briefly, tapes/records/cds. Music = Copyright = money is a modern thing.

Getting billions invested in anything won't happen without a return. If a company is limited to a short window before everyone can copy means less funding and more valueless throwaway products.
I assume it's mostly symbolic, like when Chinese military personnel were charged with cyber crimes. It's mostly outside of our jurisdiction, it just elevates the international rhetoric beyond "we don't trust you guys" to "we have hard evidence that you're committing crimes". Could have an impact on Europe's usage of Huawei infrastructure, for example.
That's right, collisions in LEO are not a problem. All objects in LEO are being slowed by atmosphere, the smaller and less dense the object the faster.

If two objects collide in LEO (I really mean close to Earth at this point) the perigee of any resulting fragment must be at the same distance or lower so even if resulting apogee is high the object must spend at least some time close to Earth where it will be captured by atmosphere.

The real problem are objects that collide above LEO where it is possible for collision fragments to have orbit that will never hit appreciable atmosphere and they can orbit for hundreds or thousands of years.
Some workplaces are really bad though. I've had one that was complete insanity with bosses yelling etc. Better to get out sometimes.
Sure. Still a good place to start if you are looking to trial the idea.

Continuing to think "inside the box" of built-in Firefox tools you could pair it with different windows in different profiles, train yourself to open the "addictive" sites only in the throttled profile. I don't have the Containers add-in installed, but I wonder if you can throttle Containers separately (and if not, might be an interesting feature request).
Ask HN: Music Streaming Options for Ethical/Privacy/Quality/Catalog Concerns
I am currently a paying customer of Google Play Music. It has its limitations and concerns:

- Missing certain artists altogether
- Missing certain albums from specific artists
- Quality of the music is not the best
- Owned by google

I would like to support a music streaming service that:

- Is ethical - actually pays royalties to artists
- Has a sound business model and is not being propped up by VC money and bleeding money continuously. I don't want to support the new status quo, which is actually worse than before streaming.
- Quality of music is at least CD-quality/FLAC.
- Music catalog meets requirements for a person who listens to a mixture of music, including some more obscure genres and artists.
- Is not going to disrespect my privacy by using the app as a data mining opportunity, above and beyond what is required to offer the service. I was considering Amazon Unlimited, but I really don't trust Amazon and Alexa at all.

I realise that there are not many services that meet all of these needs. Hell, I still have a lot of CDs/vinyl records at home. I don't want to go down the route of ripping all of them and hosting them on my own cloud (eg NextCloud). That is a lot of overhead. Paying for a streaming service is also paying for convenience at the end of the day.
Also known as hazing.
Find the most qualified engineer in the world to desolder the surface-mount MCU, read out its firmware using the documented debugging mode from the datasheet, and then resolder the MCU back to the system. It won't happen, but it would be nice for posterity.
It's like how people say Microsoft had resolution independence before Apple. It's true... if you don't care that it was shit. This is HackerNews though, the spiritual successor to "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
Even if we stipulate to all of these points, why would anyone believe that the sponsors of this protocol are entitled to profit from it? See, for instance, Handshake.org's discussion of the "10 million dollar grant" it offers to FOSS developers.
I had the exact experience.

My tech career started at around 22. Everyone past the 28 mark seemed to have a generally apathetic vibe to work (compared to my 22 year old excitement). I had no idea how that could happen. Tech was awesome!!!!!!

I'm almost 30 now. Fuck tech. Fuck clients. Fuck management. And especially fuck 22 year olds. I want to put on my headphones, finish my 8 hours of sludge, and run for the exit.
How many people would actually listen if they aren't at least mildly interested in technology?
As is the state of OSS medicine.
The knowledge needed to compile a C program into executable code will never die, as long as there is a human race.
This is federated video hosting services like XMPP designed for federated communication infrastructure.

Player use webtorrent to use BitTorrent protocol for video streaming. This system gives limited control to the company or individual hosting the federated server to manage videos hosted on their platform only.

The only issue I see in this service is same faced by email and XMPP servers. So hopefully the federated server is not controlled by few players like happened in case of email and in spite of being federated controlled by large players like google, in another instance WhatsApp and google both used XMPP and removed support for federation when they became sufficiently large.
Nah, sounds like you're doing fine.

I'd point out that (IMO) you feel like you DO provide value, that you are good at what you do, recognized for it, and there aren't active negatives in your work environment. All that's lacking is a meaningful "greater purpose" that results from the value you provide. Which is fine, although may eventually transition to less than fine.
The Unspoken Rules of Visualisation
I would love to run this in my homelab with a few users, is there a path for that or do I need a registered company?
In the United States, TD Ameritrade offers (and has for many years) an API (both trading and account stuff) to any account holder upon request.

https://developer.tdameritrade.com/
I burnt out 3 years in - just wanted too much, too soon instead of enjoying the process. May have come down to the employers. Have taken it easy these last 5 years, working not for a FAANG but very close and I've never been less stressed. Lucky my employer was acquired, because it sounds like the culture pre-acquisition was much, much more toxic.
I guess you give them your email address and then find out?
The source indicates that they check-in DNS blocklists as JSON files [0] and txt files (one of which has Facebook IPv4s) [1]. So, the updates to those would require app updates, I guess, unless there's OTA for the blocklists somewhere in the code that I missed.

My experience with running client-side DNS based blockers are they consume additional battery and need a lot of RAM if you block with aggressive lists that have more than 1M+ domains. Besides, DNS based blockers can be circumvented by apps that do their own resolution over DoH or use clever techniques like CNAME cloaking [2]. Some nameservers such as the one run by Cloudflare flatten the CNAMES [3], effectively rendering even nextdns' solution ineffective [4].

I must also note that, Cloudflare does hide origin-IP if they are setup to reverse-proxy the traffic, which then would render IP based blocklists ineffective, too, unless Cloudflare's IPs are blocked, as well.

The folks who build the lockdownhq apps are also the makers of https://confirmedvpn.com.

u/willstrafach's https://guardianapp.com (VPN and ad-blocking), u/poitrus's https://nextdns.io (no VPN but imo the best DNS based content-blocker in the market today), and https://adguard.com (cross platform all-in-one network security suite) are other comparable alternatives.

Disclosure: I run a competing ad-blocking service.

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[0] https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/tree/master/Lo...

[1] https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/tree/master/Lo...

[2] https://trackingthetrackers.com/

[3] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc...

[4] https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disg...
This is total scam covered with nice UI. All the results indicate burn out is high if you select tech industry.

Do not take the survey.
I am still worried about privacy, and it seems like the design of PeerTube is no longer flexible enough to consider making the desired improvements. In particular, it sounds like peers can still know which videos somebody has requested.
Whales evolved from small aquatic hoofed ancestors (2010)
Seems to operate the same way adguard from mac/android does?
> reviewing high quality sources every few weeks or once a month will probably give you better information then following the daily news cycle.

I have found this to be effective. I'll read something like Reuters a few times a month. Events that are major that I need to care about sooner are talked about and I can't escape, so I go read up on them.

The truth is that there's not enough happening every day that needs your attention for you to stay informed (at least informed enough. Because we can't all be experts on everything, which I think the daily cycle gives you the impression that you are).