skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People used to download MP3s from AOL chat rooms. There were these people that just served up their music libraries using a chat bot for other people to request downloads.

>Once you had enough tracks, you could serve up your own bot to let others share in on the fun.

And nowadays people torrent. It's not as if piracy and file sharing are dead or anything.

But I think you're really saying the web is terrible for you, because it no longer resembles what you used to enjoy, and because other people use it in ways you don't find interesting. And that's valid for you, but it's a subjective opinion, not objective fact.

Personally, I'm happy giving up downloading random mp3s from the web to have the depth of content and interactivity the modern web offers. But I care more about content than culture.
How about that.
Most of my spam calls originate from a number close to my area code. Now that I live on the other side of the country, it’s easy to tell when I’m getting a spam call from where I first got my number
This could in a sense be viewed as a form of bundling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_(antitrust_law)) where the services being bundled are the OS and the weather app.
Almost like we should vet them before we all jump aboard.
Was it this?

https://web.archive.org/web/20080808121324/http://www.facebo...
No. Even if they were helping, they would have to communicate things to you in a way where you could interpret them and react more quickly than just doing it yourself.

Passengers are largely not helping, and certainly are not good at communicating problems.
Switch to OpenBSD ;-)
I've added it to the title.
Trolling is not a security advisory. If it were intended that way it would be sufficient to hold up a sign saying 'warning, this meeting is not secure'. Instead people are using it abuse others. Stop making excuses for that behavior.
Can someone explain to me what the problem is? If you run the installer, isn't that consent to install the software? That's the whole point of it. I guess this isn't the "Mac way" but this is exactly how I would write an install script if I was slapping together support for other platforms. In fact this is the same way most installers work: it unzips an archive somewhere, then creates the links for remove/launch/etc.

What is the typical install process for software on a Mac?
Alternative thread:

Google shapes the Internet and that shape leaves many things in ruins.

Google shapes the Internet by motivating so many people to produce content to make money through advertising. Most people make virtually nothing, a few people make a lot. There is an enormous amount of content on the internet whose driving purpose of making money is secondary to that of sharing something with the world.

Google shapes the Internet through it's algorithm. Ever read or angrily scroll through pages of BS when trying to find a recipe? The only reason anyone does that is for google. My grandmother's recipe for deviled eggs was stored on an index card in a box on the stove. I bet it didn't have 200 bytes of data. A search algorithm can't do much with that so everybody has to add a grand story about their grandmother, her toenails, and how nice a vacation to the Balkans was which nobody ever actually took. It also has to be on top to force people to spend more time on the site, so they're more "engaged".

I just want to know a good amount of time to hard boil eggs in an instant pot, but fuck me for wanting to know the number of minutes. "Organizing information" became being as much of an impediment as possible and directing me to the winner of the SEO race.

Before Internet advertising was so popular people would put things out there much more just because they wanted to, not for some profit motive. Now everybody doing that is doing it on somebody else's platform, making somebody else money, and often tracking everybody who comes past.

Much of the ruins are "caused" by Google, because Google won the race, next in line would have done the same thing. Probably.

It occasionally brings up the question of how to fix it. That probably requires new transport layers, new browsers, and well chosen limitations. Doubtful it would get off the ground. Decentralized solutions tend to get overwhelmed with extremely unsavory things. A new "browser" based on an entirely different stack would be hard to compete, especially if your goal was eliminating ads and tracking and general money-grubbing.
Yellowstone rounded up ~550 wild bison and sent most to be slaughtered
Dang: Can we actually change the link to this instead of a PR with loads of cooperate gibberish.
Using Raspberry Pi for Networked Time Machine Backups
Which language, other than assembly, most accurately represents how modern computers work?

What high language could I use that gives me most performance because it accurately matches the underlying platform?
This has been going on for a long long time - while the FCC was trying to expand it's mandate to net neutrality instead of actually doing it's job.
I always remember that the plant will recover and releaf for the winter season in those cases.
I don't want to get banned but what is the point of this substack post? I know four founders who would have applied to YC only if it were remote. One has a startup with a $10MM valuation, the others not so much.

But the March 16th date has passed. So why announce it now, of course it would have been remote.

edit: ignore, reading is fundamental.
No. The spammers will relocate to India lol.
Lesson I've long learned: never bookmark anything. Bookmarks are to temporarily remember a URL, not to archive content. If the content is important or meaningful to you, save the page.
That's a fair point. I use either a ssh config file with all the correct options in it, or the -p option if I'm doing it without a config file, perhaps that's why I've never had a problem.
Ask HN: I lost my job
About a week ago I was laid off. In 15+ years I am working as developer, I was never considered for a layoff. I am soul searching for a week now, and finally I got over my anger, disappointment and anxiety and ready to move on.

I believe it was nothing to do with my performance of skills as a developer. I believe I was expected to perform as a leader on top of solving problems, writing applications and my lack of leadership skills made me not worth my paycheck. In retrospect, higher ups did mention in passing about an year ago about how I need to speak up in meetings etc.

I think I don't know how to be a leader at a workplace.

So I come here being humbled. If you are a leader/team leader/c-suite people/managers please enlighten me. Or point me towards videos, books, ted talks, internet articles. I want to learn and be a better person and also don't want to repeat the mistakes in a new job.
Alas, I never got the chance to give a presentation and draw on the screen with fire. I always wanted to.

KDE has zooming built in nowadays.
Just as an anecdote, DDG also suggested Gmail as the first result for me (past the news carousel, ofc).
Give the user real time feedback from the reader NN.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the biofeedback allows the user to retrain their brain to encode information in low frequency signals—the raw channel capacity necessary to transmit text is quite low, plus the reader NN can also use context if hooked up to a recurrent submodel.
I really wish there still existed a search engine which would absolutely, without reservation of any sort, simply respect the quote and minus operators. I searched both DDG and Google this morning for something with a minus operator, and the search results for both included the unwanted keyword in the bloody page title. And no, quotes never ever meant "search for similar terms", but the big players now just ignore all the syntax the power users have been used to for decades. Luckily the "site:" prefix still seems to work, but for how long?
3 Problems with GitOps: Auditability, Approvals, Versioning
Yeah, it is strongly associated with the flu seasonality. It makes sense considering what sick often people do, their first reaction is to type their symptoms into Google.
I still cannot tell what glitch is after landing on their site a few times. There’s lots of ideas laid out for how you could use it, but I can’t find a good use case for me.

Users of glitch: what do you use it for?
Yes, however one needs to take into account the difference in viewing devices (screens are self illuminated and film/paper subtract colours from a light source) as well as the limited colour depth on modern monitors. After all, 10-bit colour wasn't available on mainstream GPUs until the last couple of years.
I came to that conclusion. I'm trying different searches that might be more unique to covid-19, like labored breathing. I'm trying to think of other proxies, maybe things like "coronavirus home remedy", etc.
Yes. My experience is really bad too in mac OS. I thought may be something wrong with my setup.
No, you can't. It says March 16th was the due date to apply. Why even get the country remote people excited?

edit: nope, i'm a dumbass. you can still apply.
> That's a critical detail and I never know how to really get that point through to people.

I haven't had a look at either of these platforms (and have in fact only learned about them just now) but I think you just did.
Why not? Isn't it in fashion to not take yourself too seriously these days?
I sometimes use NetBSD's pkgsrc on macOS because it installs super cleanly in any prefix you like and never, ever breaks the system. It doesn't have everything, and you will occasionally encounter a package that won't build, but it doesn't even dream of taking over /usr/local or disrupting your system. You could install it into your home directory if you wanted to (which I have done, on systems where I don't have root or enough ownership to just throw things anywhere)
Pacifist is also handy https://www.charlessoft.com/
But a lot of video conferencing systems are designed for office environments, where you tend to have symmetric bandwidth.
Going deep on https://cuelang.org and https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

Picking up my guitar again.

Avoiding TV or anything video. I need to do more reading like a3n said, books, not news or with a screen. I'm actually doing more writing than reading, aiming for 2 hours / day. Words that is, code is what I do all the time.

Learn and make new things.
Because I live in a world where that term is pretty ambiguous because they aren't security experts.
Completely agree, it's just a tough line sometimes.
Territorial aggression.

There is trolling-as-prank which is inclusive of others in the forum where it takes place (although it may involve mockery of individuals) and raiding behavior, which is designed to damage the forum itself. The latter is area denial which is meant to gain leverage over a platform and (ideally) to take it over. This originated in rivalries (friendly not-so-friendly) between bulletin- and image-board operators, but has since been weaponized to quasi-political ends.
It might be because you use a bunch of different sites for your different writing, which means each one gets evaluated by first impressions and people's first impressions tend to be suspicious. If you had a single unified site/identity like some of the other writers on HN, people might be more likely to recognize you and realize that they know you already, but a site like this seems like a one-off. The name "write pay" probably brings up sketchy associations in people's minds too and there isn't necessarily any trusted association to offset that. Now that you've posted the above, that will probably change. If your main audience is people who need to get paid and didn't know that they can write to do it, that's a great name. But maybe not so much for the audience here.
If those quality hours could be spent tinkering with a robot and debugging control software, why not mechanize
Even reviews. Searching best TV brings CNET, techradar, digitaltrends, Tom's hardware rank above rtings. Almost every one of those sites has the same paragraph of mumbo jumbo next to a TV name. It's become an art. There's nothing wrong with the CNET or digitaltrends roundups, but they also don't really add to the conversation or offer any unique insight, do they cut clutter better than their competitors? Hell 3 of my top 10 are futureplc results (Tom's hardware, techradar, whathifi.) The same company has seod its way to 3/10 results for that search.

There's obviously a level of notoriety beyond just quality. I don't need the same article 3 times under 3 logos.
The Three Sisters: The Traditional Intercropping Agricultural Method
Bitcoin enthusiasts, liberal lawmakers cheer a Fed-backed digital dollar
Could be off-topic for this thread... but what shade would you like to throw NestJS's way? Or do you have a write-up somewhere else, by chance?
The law actually requires the companies MITM the video to give them access. It doesn't place any requirement on the end user.

So use a solution that doesn't put a company in the middle. Use open source, E2E encrypt with keys secured by the user and not central server and you are good. One solution available now - Signal.

Despite the heat being laid on Zoom, they have no choice. Any platform that does mixing to produce a composite image with Picture in Picture like Zoom does has no choice. That includes Hangouts, Skype and so on. They do it to save bandwidth - something I've been grateful for.
Sick leave is just "higher pay + unpaid leave" with extra steps. Sick leave means "get a doctor's note to prove you are sick" or wrestling with what counts as "sick".
Ask HN: Which static compiled language do you use for web backend?
There are many mainstream dynamic language for web backend development, but so pity not many mainstream static compiled language for backend, but for medium to large projects, the static compiled language can give big benefits.

As i know, the mainstream for web backend just goes: C++ Java C# Go Rust (V D Nim Crystal OCaml Sml Haskell Idris maybe too good to be mainstream), with Java/Go as the king.

Maybe i am wrong, can you say what are you using or what you used in the past few years?
Google Japan defends the impartiality of its search results amid lockdown rumour
What happens during turbulence when you can't accurately touch a specific point on the screen? It doesn't take much turbulence, either, as I cannot reliably use the GPS on my phone, while driving, when it's in its (very stable) mount, and I'm on an average paved road.

Touch screen looks awesome on Star Trek, but in actual use it's an inaccurate, attention-magnet, nightmare.
I'm not missing the air pollution either.
There is a broad pattern of software that uses undefined behavior that gets compiled exactly as the authors of that software want. That kind of code isn’t going anywhere.

You’re kind of glossing over the fact that for the compiler to perform an optimization that is correct under C semantics but not under structured assembly semantics is rare because under both laws you have to assume that memory accessed have profound effects (stores have super weak may alias rules) and calls clobber everything. Put those things together and it’s unusual that a programmer expecting proper structured assembly behavior from their illegally (according to spec) computed pointer would get anything other than correct structured assembly behavior. Like, except for obvious cases, the C compiler has no clue what a pointer points at. That’s great news for professional programmers who don’t have time for bullshit about abstract machines and just need to write structured assembly. You can do it because either way C has semantics that are not very amenable to analysis of the state of the heap.

Partly it’s also because of the optimizations went further, they would break too much code. So it’s just not going to happen.
"Reduce" is at odds with people's desire to consume. Unfortunately, due to the way evolution optimized humans to select mating partners, it's going to be nigh impossible to address the cause of the problem.
None of your references say that anyone has used fMRI for interrogation, let alone for decades. At most, your first two links say that the CIA and DoD respectively are interested in using fMRI for lie detection, but that's not necessarily the same as interrogation (both agencies currently use polygraphs extensively on their own employees, a case where the subject would be cooperative), and they don't say the agencies have actually put that idea into practice. Your third link cites the first one and does suggest that using fMRI for interrogation is possible, but doesn't say whether anyone has done it. Your fourth link does not mention the government or interrogation. The other two links are not about fMRI.

So we're left with the anecdotal hearsay, which might well be true, but even if true, doesn't really show that fMRI was effective against prisoners beyond its use as a psychological trick.
To deal with the coronavirus crisis, Orban is being granted vastly greater powers than any other EU leader. I can think of no reason for this than he wants to turn Hungary into a full dictatorship. That is certainly the direction he has been heading, in a step-wise fashion, for many years.
If you're looking for an alternative, try Weather Line. It has Dark Sky-like features and so so much more. I have no connection to the company, just love the product.

http://weatherlineapp.com/
You also like the destruction of the economy, the 30% unemployment, the lost retirements, the collapsing mortgage market?

If you just think this is a short break before we get back to normal you are in for a rude awakening.

This will change everything both for us, our children and their children.

Millions of companies are going to go bankrupt and people are going to get poorer which means more people are going to die from this not the least from famine.
IANAL but the article you link to claims that it is unclear in the usa if shrink wrap contracts are enforceable/real contracts.
It’s also a culture of managers sending you home for the good of the team without it being punitive.
Is it safe now to just assume that most everything about me has been exposed to someone? My only hope is that the number of places I've provided bogus information to creates enough noise that the truth is obscured some.
Sure, neither would a billion have been lifted out of poverty the last couple decades.
No. All employers should be required to tell employees “if you believe you have a communicable disease that could infect your coworkers or customers, then you MUST NOT come to work, and we or the government will find a way to take care if you.”

This should be the case regardless of any pandemic. Allowing an employee with a mild flu to come to work is irresponsible.
Yeah, the problem is you double-counted the population there due to also including the UK. I didn't check the others.
Wow. Fuck these people. These are the same group of selfish assholes who have setup this unfathomably-dysfunctional government and economic system in the US (and have managed to spread it to Europe).

What pains me most is that these motherfuckers will be dead before the reckoning comes. Their offspring will suffer along with us and ours.
From experience with many options, and having used zoom for over a year now: Video quality is better, audio quality is better, video and audio are streamed separately and during low bandwidth situations audio takes priority over video (video starts lagging but audio remains as perfect as possible), seamless to join meetings even when youre not a 'user' of their ecosystem, and has neat UX like informing you that your microphone is soft-muted when it notices you speaking, etc etc.
The book Trust Me, I'm Lying expands on this point greatly.

It is well worth a read.
> He means to do a hydroponic setup up at his house

Why would someone use a hydroponic setup in a house, instead of planting as normal? I think hydroponics are cool, but other than that I'm trying to understand the value proposition. All hydroponics setups (including the ones linked) tend to be very expensive.
It ensures that they will always be paid enough to be able to take days off when sick and that they will always be able to take them when needed with 0 notice. There is a reason the rest of the world requires permanent employees to have them.
Remember, Trump believes that global climate change is a hoax that was invented by the Chinese to undermine the American economy, and the Republican party and conservative media largely agree.
This sort of already exists. Many companies take on university students to intern for 3 months over the summer, and offer full-time return offers to seniors. At least in the US Bay Area, this is substantially more common than offering internships to full-time employees. Mainly for the reason people mention: 1-3 months is a huge time investment for what amounts to an extended (albeit paid) interview, when they can interview somewhere else and get a full-time offer with no uncertainty.

Google also offers associates or something similar to that. But it's for much longer, 6 months or a year.
Fortunately for Amazon, while their retail side may be suffering, their cloud side should be booming.
Can’t you just lock the system down and isolate it enough so the security vulnerability is a non-issue? Certainly there’s an ops solution to things like this.
First and foremost - it's not about you. Millions of people are getting laid off daily now due to the exceptional circumstances.

It's ok to feel down for some time, but it's important to understand the broad picture and not take this personally - regardless of what you were told.

Now, regarding leadership resources, I would recommend to start with the following (in this order):

Moneyball (movie), books: The Goal, The Phoenix Project, The Mythical Man-Month, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, The Culture Code and in-between those - various Simon Sinek videos.

If you read this far, you should be able to continue finding materials on your own from here ;)

Best of luck!
Now let's go back from this flat UI nonsense everywhere to the kind of solid look that Windows '95 had and make my decade, not just day!

https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...
They're also a great way to keep out competition - see hollywood union requirements for membership. They limit the competition.
That's why there is a difference between a contractor and a W2 employee.

Contractors get "higher pay + unpaid leave"
99.999% of all of us got that just from the title, thanks. Congrats on puzzling it out.
Yeah if people stopping by my desk in an open office is good then people dropping in to my desktop environment must be better.
Finally a privacy-aware digital experience product for mobile apps!
It's not that interesting if you take a moment to think about how either company makes money.
Out of curiosity, how much money did it take to get Dark Sky to fuck half their users? What was their soul worth?
"preferential treatment"????? your baseline is privileged. diversity hiring is attempting to negate reduced or lack of privilege.

your competition is not women or minorities. it's other majority groups, because more of them are interviewed and hired.
... technology to share pictures. Online wasn't a thing then. Sharing pictures with strangers wasn't a thing then either. You'd be sharing the pictures with family and friends.
It's an awesome machine, if you don't need a webcam on your laptop.
Which...
Oops.
I've been interviewing for a role within AWS and the process is frustrating. I've had two situations where the interviewer didn't show up and they rescheduled later.

I hope this isn't "business as usual" when interviewing with Amazon.
Interviewing for a job over teleconference (During the Covid-19 Pandemic)