skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mek here w/ openlibrary

@rayrag, there are researchers, vendors, libraries, partners like wikipedia, authors, and hundreds of thousands of people who use Open Library to track when they're reading, to promote books and reading, and to create curated lists.

Also, organizations like Internet Archive use such catalogs to manage what books to acquire (based on interest/demand from the community).

Having a home for bookcovers, citations, quotes, ISBNs, publishers, years, subjects, related editions are all valuable even if the book (source) is not yet available.

Hope this helps!
Huh, this is surprising to me. Anecdotally, I tried Minecraft Java under Rosetta on my MBA, and it ran smoothly 2560x1600 resolution at 60 FPS with very few drops. Although I'd imagine that a JITed game might be easier for Rosetta to deal with, as it will be running the same code paths over and over again in comparison to a compiler.
> Advertising itself is good

I used to think roughly the same - I'm really not that convinced anymore.

I'd actually say your last point really drives home just how BAD advertising is right now. It's so bad that there's evolutionary pressure to learn to ignore advertisements.

Ads are like a form of social parasite - They've hijacked a human instinct to share things we like and turned it into a profit motivated, manipulative, abusive channel to suck money out of people.

Just like animals ridden with parasites are less fit - consumers who are most susceptible or surrounded by ads are less fit. Their decisions are influenced by ads to no longer objectively consider whether a product is useful to them. Like a mouse infected with toxoplasma is drawn to the small of cat urine - even though it means getting eaten far more often. Good for the parasite, bad for the mouse. Ads are good for the company, bad for the person.
> Google works just fine.

How do you search by most recent on Google? What does that even mean in the context of searching for web-page content?

Google's search is severely lacking because it's targeting a platform that has no uniform index. This is part of what keeps the public misinformed.
Not necessarily. The concern about when the shared_ptr'd value runs its destructor only matters if the value's destructor is something you care about.

If you have a situation where a value needs to be shared between multiple other values, but also the value is trivial enough that it doesn't matter when it's destroyed or what it does when it's destroyed, but also the value is not so trivial that you can copy it instead of using a refcounting pointer, then std::shared_ptr is fine.
Is that entirely true though? Many of our highest impulse engines have fewer problems with the tyranny of the rocket equation, but also have low thrust. The beginnings of trips are going to be slow even if the end is not.

Using these paths for the beginning and end of journeys may make a lot of sense, even if they make no sense at all in the middle.
In a productivist system that is... The issue is that the options we have on the table at this point are keeping such a system (possibly not keeping growth going anyway I may add) and we’re pretty much guaranteed mass death or coming up with some alternatives.
Given a similar level of insulation, yes. But I wouldn’t discount how efficient modern homes can be compared to older apartment blocks.

My 1980s home went through 99 therms of gas last month in Idaho, and that’s with us hand washing dishes (broken dishwasher) using gas hot water. After fixing the dishwasher and replacing some caulk that had failed, I think we’ll probably go through 75-80 therms per month, fewer if I went with tankless hot water. You would be very hard pressed to go through that few therms in an older apartment, especially when you’re literally heating the outside.

Newer apartment buildings absolutely crush that figure though, for all the reasons you listed. The only advantage that individual homes have over taller apartment buildings energy wise is that you can pack more solar panels on top of shorter buildings.
Seems like a good time to plug an excellent book:

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon [0]

The US Government has spent two decades and hundreds of millions of dollars building tools to undermine the security of systems around the world, and withholding information from "Industry" that would help harden those systems.

I have no idea who "did" this, I don't really care. The NSA has been loading this footgun for decades.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital-eb...
Unfortunately, this is a myth. Too many plants are needed to make any appreciable difference.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-p...

https://www.gardenmyths.com/garden-myth-born-plants-dont-pur...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/houseplan...
>Or, this was fun, my first gov't job the guy had stored passwords on a sticky underneath the keyboard (I changed them all).

Nothing wrong with writing passwords down. Or at least it's the least wrong thing you could do among all things mentioned here.
A lifetime ago, I worked for Yahoo! well after Google had won the war. That office was full of talented, thoughtful, and energetic PMs...and a middle-management layer so thick that nothing ever got done.

You'd propose new ideas, new products, new interfaces and it would just get so bogged down in the process. And invariably those talented people would leave for greener pastures, leaving behind those who were just there for a paycheck or because that was the best they could do, and things got incrementally worse.

Lots of excuses were made: our users don't like change, we need to hit quarterly numbers, have we thoroughly tested this, and on and on. And what happens? You get something that looks Yahoo! Mail.

It happened to AOL, it happened to Yahoo!, it's happening currently to Google, and will happen to Facebook, Twitter, and so on.
I see all this connectivity and the back end needed to make it work a lot like basic electricity.

Early on we had competing visions, best practices were being learned the hard way and regulation was in its infancy.

Later on, with a lot settled, electricity became utilitarian, but not a given still.

My camp trailer fridge works on 110v or propane. The table radio in it works on 110V, 12V or batteries inside the device.

I have (dangerous) gas lighting in that unit as well as electric.

Power isn't a given and the devices from the era are designed to operate under that state of things.

This all seems very early. We lack foresight because people are pioneering. Users of this tech are also pioneering. Someone is gonna do it. Let's hope they do it increasingly well and sooner.

One day, this will all be real infrastructure, with all the girls along with: regulation standards the usual.

Until then it's kind of a wild west.

Play hard, but play eyes wide open too. Or pass and watch as it all forms to be more robust just like people did with electricity.
This:
https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch

I find my "estimation" and my "reality" are always pretty far off.

You need to track this to get an accurate assessment.

This is the best tool for productivity tracking I've found; it's free, open sourced and privacy focused.

It also exposes the APIs, so you can build your own dashboard for the metrics you care about; which was EXTREMELY useful in my case.
See also Spiradisc https://paleotronic.com/2018/10/27/microm8-update-apple-ii-e...
If im being honest... they are getting more rare. And about impossible to find in a big city jungle. There is some truth behind his message, i just dont think he is completely correct.
> a paper voting system that is easier to verify and audit

Couldn't agree more.

It's interesting that voter fraud used to be a "left-wing conspiracy theory", given that Cheney had ties to Diebold (e.g. see https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/who-is-counting-your-vo...).

And prior to this election cycle there was more concern from the Democrats around potential Russian interference with voting machines.

Perhaps now we'll have bipartisan support for what should be apolitical and uncontroversial election security initiatives that researchers have been advocating for years, e.g. https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2020/11/26/three-paper-t....
Actually I don’t mind things being controlled by a smartphone over the Internet. That’s nice and convenient. What I object to is things being controlled by a company’s internet service, commanded by the user’s smartphone. One just requires my smartphone, the device and an internet connection, the other adds the company as an unnecessary middleman.
Research shows that the most effective charities in the world are hundreds of times more effective than most typical charities. Most people don't know about this. (http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200504/jdm200504.pdf)

I have created this website to motivate people to give to the most effective charities without asking them to give up the charities that they personally care most about. Donors divide their donation between their favorite and a highly effective charity recommended by experts, and Giving Multiplier adds to both of your donations.

If you're interested in the science behind it, check out this short article I wrote about it: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/maximizing-effi...
This paper is the specific issue I was talking about [0]. Individuals who were Ad5 seropositive had an immune response to subsequent Ad5-based treatments. They developed an immunity to Ad5 which is just a delivery vector for the viral protein you're trying to introduce.

The CanSino vaccine also uses Ad5 as it's viral vector. An immunity to Ad5 from say Sputnik V would apparently prevent you from being able to get the CanSino one should Sputnik V prove ineffective for you. You'd also not be able to get a booster of Sputnik V later.

There's lots of adenovirus strains and a few other vaccines are using them for their delivery vectors. Ad5 is an edited adenovirus that has it's replication system retarded/removed. There's other articles I've seen but can't find now lamenting the use of Ad5 specifically. There was also the STEP study that showed increased HIV susceptibility in people that had received Ad5 vaccines.

I am not a medical professional but I do understand immunology is extremely complex. Effective vaccines in vitro aren't necessarily effective in vivo. There's also complex issues around dosing which is part of human trials. Even if a vaccine is "effective" it's not necessarily obvious or known what sort of dosing is appropriate for wide deployment in the general population. A completely "effective" vaccine at the wrong dose can end up being ineffective.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2756115/
Show HN: Project Zero – An app for (crypto) bettors
Multi-threaded tasks rarely exist in the wild. Compiling a project runs multiple processes at once, which is strictly better because it doesn’t need synchronization.
Zero results for ISBN-13: 978-1888118049
ISBN-10: 1888118040
Unintended Consequences by John Ross

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2964952W/Unintended_conseque...
I have to agree with the OP on this one. I recently have been looking at some different home security hardware to add to my home. In particular, trying to find a video/intercom doorbell that I can hookup to my self-hosted Home Assistant server without it reaching out to the internet is a very difficult task.

Even if you know what you want, and you know it's possible, it's difficult or impossible sometimes (without building it yourself) to find hardware that doesn't rely on internet connectivity and some user account.
Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal
The original ‘RalliSport Challenge’ for the original X-box is one of my favorite racing sims.
Yup totally agree! I think when I was writing this, I was thinking about all the companies I have seen founded by engineers and found that normally they do bring a lot of value. However, I think as engineers we normally fall short in the latter department of marketing and properly positioning the product in a way that is less abrasive.
https://github.com/ccpdata/ShanghaiCCPMember
GDPR also can't be implemented in the UI layer, because it would also apply to the IMAP/Gmail API, which doesn't suck... at least from a user perspective. Gmail is just fine in a real email client.
> Are there any persons who can work, say, 8+ hours? I mean, really work, not be at office.

Being at the office, doing office things IS WORK.

Where does the idea come that you're only "working" when you're coding?

If you're filling out a TPS report, you're WORKING. If you're sitting in mind-numbing status update meeting with a 1000 yard stare on your face, you're WORKING. If you're researching something on the internet to solve a problem for you or someone else, you're WORKING. If you're watching an HR-mandated online learning presentation about IT security consisting of Kevin Mitnick clips droning endlessly, you're WORKING. If you're thinking about work, you're WORKING.
I haven't followed her career, TBH, but at the time she made the statement, she was working for Yahoo, so where she's at currently is irrelevant.

Just because she's highly visible, doesn't mean her views are correct.
I remember a period of time when it seemed like Evernote was going surge past all the other cloud-document providers. They seemed to be doing everything right. Then they sputtered out. I still pay for Evernote because ... they're holding a huge amount of my old notes that I don't quite know how to get out. But I never add anything new to Evernote.

I could tell a similar story about Notion, though it is newer. While Evernote doesn't give you enough affordances, instead almost forcing you do use its internal search for everything, Notion gives you far too many affordances, leading to a tendency to create monstrous, unusable systems where information goes to die. Also, it is slow.

Google Docs, on the other hand, has been a consistent workhorse for both my personal and professional needs ever since its inception. Google Docs does exactly what it needs to do and nothing more. In Google Drive, you move a Doc file around the way you would move a file around on your computer. Docs/Drive have never lost data due to a sync issue, or left me confused about where a file went. I like this. I want it to stay this way.

As for the UX on the Google Analytics ... yeah, the Facebook Ads interface is also completely opaque. I feel like this class of products is being optimized for something other than the feeling of transparency, and is instead cultivating particular workflows used by power users.
Well, that relies on a couple of things. A disaster can take phone lines out as well as electricity. You might not have zero cell phone service if towers are working. Land lines would get clogged at times and simply fail you (I've had this happen).

You generally have some charge on your phone, though, and lots of folks have power banks now - or cars they can charge their phones with.

Don't forget all the times when disaster strikes and the cell phones are a real help: Car accidents, for example. At one time, you were reliant on you - or someone else - stopping by a house and hoping they'd be home. And I'm sure there are lots of other examples of this as well. Now that laws changed, cell phones can pretty much always call 911 as well, even without service at all: This was not the case with phone lines. If the house didn't have service, you couldn't get help.
Before burnout I did these 8+ hours for real trying to improve software and hardware stack. It is at technical level from 90s. I wanted to have continuous integration, gigabit internet interface instead of multiple serial ports, fast DDR analog to digital converters instead of 400 kHz I2C. I coded, did project plans, calculated how quicker system will be after changes. Nobody wanted this. “Not a business case!” - I was told regularly. Then I was gone for 3 months. I came back to life and do not work more than 2 hours daily. This ancient stack recently failed very very badly, but I don’t care anymore. However, I work on my own idea for at least 4 hours daily. With longer break in the middle I can be productive for 8 hours a day.
The issue with user interfaces and web apps like Google's properties with billions of users is that you cannot change the user interface significantly, period. Doing so will alienate many hundreds of millions of users that rely on that user interface to get work done every day, and to suggest they do that is kind of naive to the bigger picture.

The apps mentioned in the article are business apps - if users really want to use Quip or Notion and their user interfaces instead of Google Apps - they can and sometimes do just use those instead.

What Google had done occasionally is introduce new apps with a different user interface over the same data, like it did with it's then new email software Inbox a while back, but you can't just dramatically change the user interface paradigms of an existing application because it's not hip anymore. Hundreds of millions of people would then have to re-learn how to do the same thing in the new interface, and billions of dollars of productivity would be lost in training, Q&A, and brand equity. An example of this is Microsoft transition to the ribbon interface for Office Apps, which was super painful for organizations.
Thanks for the course correction. Small things like that compound into big effects on the community.
> Why would you even want to search all the sites that are trying to sell you something when you're simply looking for some information?

Answering the question online is a means to an end. The 'answer' is the top of a marketing funnel that's designed to make you familiar with the answerer's product/service and sign up, or post a link to their article on your Twitter.

Look at it the other way around. If you were a cat owner, how much of your free time would you spend answering questions about their dietary restrictions?
I do this too all the time and many people in my circle are always concerned that I "Listen too much to reddit". Which is just insane to me! Of course I would rather listen to an open, commentable discussion forum than the top search result which is there because of manifactured relevancy and heavy ad spend.

Scarily whats been happening recently is that the black box turk vogon SEO machine is starting to pump out sites with random urls but that are riddled with the phrase "reddit" in the meta tags / seo texts.

The machine is learning!
Would that logic apply to people who joke about topics like death?

A lot of comedians would be demonized under such logic.
It didn't "give rise" to Arma, Operation Flashpoint IS Arma. The original OFP has been retrospectively renamed to Arma (1). Arma 2 and 3 are sequels, and as a big fan of the series I can assure you they feel very, very similar, to the extent that Arma 3 has many of the same bugs and quirks I've seen in the original one. I am 99.99% sure they kept the same engine since the 90's, and have been improving it instead of doing complete rewrites. Thank god, because it helps to keep the feel and the atmosphere of the game.
Signed up, Google flagged the email as dangerous and the "Click here" validation email link wasn't there. :(

Downloaded the eml file from Google and opened it in Mail and I can see the link there. So, gmail really doesn't like you.
Most of the OS level resolvers just forward to the resolver provided via DHCP. Which is fine for enterprise, but for home users means using the ISPs resolver, which can track users and has a history of injecting ads on failed resolutions.

Not to mention the user interface for configuring them has never evolved beyond /etc/hosts and the total disaster that is /etc/resolv.conf (on modern linux distros).

The fact that I have to run a separate device such as pi-hole to intercept DNS rather than just point my OS resolver to a blacklist indicates how OS level resolvers have not kept up with the use cases people are asking of them.

And of course, no support for DoH or DoT or even DNSSEC.
"Fine" is probably pushing it, but "not the biggest problem you are likely to have" is probably true. But, like, it's easy to accidentally get yourself into situations where somebody forgot to use std::weak_ptr somewhere and you start leaking memory.

Unless you know you must share objects with multiple potential owners, though, std::unique_ptr is a lot wiser.
I get the impression they don’t care if you enjoy using it, just that you are using it so they can continue to capture the data. They know most people aren’t going anywhere.
I actually just began the process of migrating away from Google about two weeks ago. I chose FastMail for my new email provider. It's $5/mo, but honestly, I'm fine paying that, solely to get Google out of my emails.

I find their UI to be simple and clear. I enjoy the notes/calendar features that come with the email. Their mobile app works fine on my android phone, and the push notifications from the Fastmail calendar are relatively unobtrusive.

Only downside so far was I had to cancel my NYTimes sub (honestly probably a plus) because it doesn't recognize the @fastmail.com domain as a valid email address. It's the only service I've had that problem with, including the important ones like banking, etc.
> This unasked for anti-activism is very unhelpful.

Lol, yes. All activism around people's lives is unwanted and unhelpful. But you're targeting everyone with your activism and I'm only targeting those who run around and scold people in others' names. You're bothering 98%+ of the population, I'm bothering a few people here and there who can't just let other people be.

> You are indistinguishable from people who refuse to use correct pronouns even when they know.

The "correct pronoun" says the person dedicated to not using the correct pronouns of the majority. You may have a preference but, the game of attacking people over it just that - a game.

> You do not speak for me.

And you don't speak for anyone else either. But you try, and people saying what you do, are correcting, scolding, and attacking people for doing the default thing. And by the nature of it, you're doing it in the name of everyone who's TQ. You could say "It's just me, but I like X". But you don't, nor do any of the witch hunters.

> I actually appreciate when people default to neutral when they otherwise don't know.

You think using the "correct" pronouns are important and you want to show this by assuming everyone's pronouns?

> They tend to use he/him if they don't, and that's incorrect.

Lol, everyone gets a choice as long as they're you. He/him is literally correct, and far more likely to be right. If you have a second guess it should be She/her.

Listen, I'm not telling you what you can't call yourself. I'm saying when you demand these things for everyone you're picking a fight for them. Most people don't want to spend their time and emotional energy on strange internet fights, they just want to live peacefully. You're dragging everyone into your silly tumblr stuff.

Do you have any idea why everyone's stereotypical image of a trans person is someone screaming?
Because Russia has somewhat of an oil monopoly in Europe and the US doesn't like that. We've been being fed Russia war propaganda for at least a decade. If it even feels like a "Russia kind of thing" to the general public that is just the result of intentional conditioning by warmongers.

It could have been literally any major world power, including our allies. No evidence has been presented whatsoever as to who the culprit is.
You know there are companies who build crawlers or health check agents exactly for this purpose, so that they know precisely from when to when the service they pay or they need for their business doesn't work and went out of SLA. I think it's brilliant and the only way to make any company pay.
I believe you can sometimes get away with a couple of pingdom checks/jobs.