skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a digital divide with access and lack thereof to computers. We realized everyone had smart TVs, tablets and phones so we are bringing computing to everyone thru their existing devices!

This is the year of the Linux Desktop and we are closing the digital divide!
This smells a bit like PowerShell.

PowerShell streams Objects instead of characters/bytes. But that is more compatible with cmd than sh.

Many other points are more about the terminal emulator. terminiology has some of those features AFAIK.
You could hire someone as a way to challenge your beliefs.

My best guess: people are really bad at generalising someone's aptitude in one area to another. It's a common joke in academia actually, where obviously and genuinely intelligent people failing to manage basic tasks is common.

So, assuming you are correct in estimating their aptitude towards picking a religion/lack of (I'll say nothing either way), it'll generalise poorly to their aptitude as a developer.
In the spirit of the reporting I want to point out a perspective shift that comes after with the language used.

In my native tounge some groups started to frown upon using "homeless man/woman" and suggest to use "person in a crisis of homelessness" underlining that the state is temporal and not intrinsic to the person. When you start talking and hearing it like that it makes it more humane, it can be treated to be kind of xenophobic to say "homeless" about such individual.

Similar thing can be applied to people who are generally said to be "disabled" and there are good causes advocating for saying "people with disabilites" to shift the perspective we look them.
Achieving FIRE is relatively rare and privileged situation. Many families have non-negotiable expenses, particularly around healthcare. Even for those who don't, going lean will be a huge shock and a downgrade in quality of life. It's only reasonable such people will object. Much like I myself could survive on 20% of my income, but I wouldn't be happy about it being forced on me.

> Automatic sending wealth to capital instead of labor is another issue, perhaps better viewed as capital ownership being centralized as the actual problem.

That's the underlying issue. Not the fault of automation per se, but of the thing that drives it. It serves to highlight my point: anti-automation arguments aren't really about automation itself.
Fully justifiable. And a highly sensible move.

I just bought some $TWTR cuz of this = )

(As a Chinese I'm always glad to see an American company doing what is right without giving a F how the CCP would take it.)
I see your point now. That makes sense to me. Thanks for taking the patience to explain your view in detail!
> it barely caters to developers at all. Take for example the "Developer" menu item, which is two levels deep in Chrome.

Sure, but it's also in every single right click menu on every page and has several keyboard shortcuts (F12, Ctrl+Shift+I)

In my opinion, having to go two menus deep is not "barely catering to the audience at all". The vendor of that product just likes to have clean menus.
These days all browsers offer to generate and save a syncable password for you and fill in the email, so it's almost as easy to make a normal account as it is to use OAuth. It feels like OAuth/SSO is a tool for a different, less user-friendly era.
As others pointed out, Zen 2 has upped the game. My Ryzen 7 4800H benchmarks very neatly in line with my Ryzen 7 2700X desktop (which is Zen+ so half a generation older.) Basically I give up very little switching between my desktop and laptop. Up until a few years ago I only ever gamed on my desktop but since I got this laptop (80W GeForce GTX 1660 Ti) 1080p laptop gaming is quite good.

Do you do PC gaming on Stadia or is that all Chromecast+TV type gaming? Personally I'm much more of a PC gamer, and while I don't have the experience to have an opinion on Stadia, I'm currently assuming having good hardware locally is the better experience.
Those are basically standalone apps, not integrated into many of the other systems we use, which is the authors point.
The worst - YouTube TV

They show you ads for YouTube TV, literally while are you watching TV with your paid YouTube TV subscription.

How many ad dollars are just being flushed down the drain...
While cheaper, traffic over a VPC peering is still not free.
You absolutely can code with just a text editor and a browser. I built an entire browser RPG like that. You just don't get npm packages or Typescript, which is kinda rough.
I agree, not only their pricing is high but I also tried to upgrade to the lowest plan to use it for my one-man company, but I couldn't do that as they don't provide a business invoice and you can't add a VAT number for their "Personal" plan. So I did actually purchase the plan than contacted support to refund me as they can't provide a proper invoice.
Sidenote: It currently costs miners ~$10K to produce 1 BTC.
Do you have any sources for this? From what I've been reading the last couple of weeks, the shortages are due to ABF substrate shortages[1].

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-chip-shortage-packagin...
It's amazing to me how long deliveries take if you're not prime. Of course the actual delivery is just as fast, they just wait a few days to fill the order.

And the dark patterns on placing an order without re-upping Prime feels like the fake download buttons on download.com without an ad blocker.
Many times, you scan an IP, look at the easy hackable websites that may be on the same IP, you upload the shell and try to go all-in and take over all the websites in same IP, ez and I dont't know why we still face these problems that are outdated !
This isn't the first time I've heard this, and a quick Google search with the right keywords brings up:

https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fruit-vegetables-taste-europ...

https://www.treehugger.com/why-doesnt-american-produce-taste...

The key point seems to be that we prioritize the looks, which unintentionally affects taste.
I'm talking strictly about mature IDE-first environments. Visual Studio (which I use daily for C++ development), IntelliJ (which I used for Java some time ago) and AndroidStudio (i.e. IntelliJ with plugins, and it's probably the most leaky abstraction of an IDE I've ever seen).
He drank carrot juice which I'd say is severely limiting your caloric intake.
Small and Efficient (2020)
I have a new MBP M1. First time I've had a touch bar and I'm a fan. I don't think it's a 10x improvement on the FN row (at least not yet), but I did consciously opt for it after 10 years on an Air.

MagSafe is also surprising. I thought I would miss it more. Don't miss it yet though. Battery life is so good on this thing. However, it might just be due to COVID I work on the go a lot less, and so don't have as much of a need to be plugging in and out a lot.
In January 2020 at CES, Lisa Su said AMD had 100+ laptop design wins. This year she said they had 150+.

I am not sure how this compares to Intel, but I saw two slides for Intel's Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake, and one said 40+ design wins. The other said 40+ refreshed designs.
CES: Our Awards Are Not Endorsements
Key Challenges Impacting Restaurants in the Pandemic
Space for vim.

C-Space for tmux.

Especially with Ctrl bound to Caps-lock.
That is so cool. I think that I am going to but his book.

It has been years since I wrote assembly code. I will time box an hour or two this weekend to play with this, but just for fun.
Ask HN: Signal Down for You?
Seemed to go dead sending messages in the middle of the conversation. From phone, or either connected desktop. Internet access on all still work.
Explain to me how it is preferable to get all the Covid mRNA from an infection instead of a tiny piece that codes for nothing that will kill you and primes your immune system. What long term side effect do you see from a tiny piece of foreign mRNA, something our bodies encounter continually throughout our lifetimes?
I assume they cannot even supply enough parts to fill the demand from laptop OEMs .

I also wish I could replace my desktop PC with an H-class CPU setup. The iGPU is enough for my needs, but I could definitely use the 8C/16T in a reasonable power envelope. Intel might do it, but it's probably be going to be a very expensive NUC platform targeted at gamers that also want a dGPU. In the end it's cheaper and easier to build a mini-ITX setup using desktop parts...
It's not uncommon for organisations to be late with renewing their domains and you probably don't want to send false alarms.
I have been somewhat successful generally avoiding news. This has a benefit of taming a lot of the political backwash that everyone ends up gargling. And as many have mentioned - this doesn't equate to not caring, or being ignorant. Instead, I try trading the quick hit junk food, for material of better lasting value such as research articles, old books, historic writings, etc. (Don't get me wrong, I'm no stoic or saint. It's still easy to get dragged into some current affair. But I always feel stressed, and discouraged which encourages me to keep trying to avoid... ;)

The funny thing I have found is that there truly is 'nothing new under the Sun.' For instance, read through some of Frédéric Bastiat's stuff from the 1850s:
http://bastiat.org/

It could have been written this year.

Another goal of mine has been, if I get tangled in some current affair, to try and dig into what first principals are being addressed (or ignored) and reflect on my core beliefs in that area (rather than arguing the more surface issue that is being currently discussed). It's certain I don't have very much correct.

And lastly, and most obvious: avoid Teh socialz except where they build up value. Like, I might engage other illustrators through instagram - where we encourage each other, but completely avoid the fomenting and political bickering etc.
Anyone had good luck with beans other than chickpeas? My wife is allergic to some legumes, including (alas!) chickpeas.

My apologies if I missed something obvious on the site. I just see that kidney bean liquid isn't good enough.
When it comes to anticheat that game companies would want to use, will end up being patched away. Most anticheat software is most just abuse of OS vulnerabilities to gather as much system information as possible.

There's likely to be an opinionated stance that stops old work flat. Like when Ubuntu killed 32 bit support last year, leaving most compatibility guides useless.
I'd like to put one of your comments in a different but maybe enlightening context:

What I am saying is, as soon as someone new to gardening points out, entirely correctly, that the tools we use are weird, obscure and difficult to use for no apparent reason, gardeners will scream in rage that no, they are not, and by the way, you are stupid for saying it, you clearly have no idea what you are doing and you will never be a gardener.
In many cases, yes. Totally agree with your example. Some cases maybe not?

Some things are perhaps coincident with the politics of the thing. Whether manufacturing uses sweatshops or child labor, for instance. I'm not sure that's separable.
> I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me when I cancelled my account. They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, professional account for an ad was wrong.

I'm not in the slightest bit surprised. As product management has exploded as a role (look at the number of courses, books, etc.) there has been a huge influx of people with less experience, and most importantly perhaps, less breadth of experience. This is a good thing in the long-term, but there will be growing pains.

I feel like the usual trope for programmers is that "PMs aren't technical enough", but the bigger issue for companies is that they don't have a breadth of experience and develop a narrower set of skills than they historically have. They smart and driven, but cost is what you are seeing with the cognitive dissonance.

This is less noticeable in smaller startups. The problem is exacerbated in more mature products like Dropbox where they are trying to move an existing user base onto a higher profit line of products. You need to have the broader base that PMs at legacy companies (e.g. Microsoft) have to make this shift. Further, it's harder to appear credible with enterprise customers beyond shadow IT.
Are they sitting on it? Here in the UK they can't give it out fast enough. We're ignoring the medical advice to give people 1 dose and then wait 12 weeks so we can have twice as many people get at least one...
> Javascript is not a beginner language anymore.

Why not? You can still write vanilla JS the same way you could decades ago without much (any?) change.

> It has a lot of edge cases and traps that defeat the average person.

It's always had that. In fact, I think the reason it feels less like a beginner language is that the solutions we've created to handle the edge-cases and traps have been solved for professionals. It's more that the way we teach it has changed. It's now a "professional" tool, so most content out there is aimed at people endeavoring to become professionals, needing to deal with all the complex realities of professional-grade problems. But you can still teach it in the same beginner-friendly way you could in the early 2000's.

I've seen this teaching my son (using JavaScript). My instinct is to direct him to use all of the techniques I use because it's the "right" way. But a beginner doesn't really care about the problems that the "right" way solves. They don't even know about them yet. So it's overkill. Forget Typescript, webpack, eslint, Angular, node, etc., let's just write everything in one HTML file (not even using <script> to include a separate .js file yet) and focus on the thing he's interested in making. We'll get to all that other stuff eventually, and then he'll actually have enough foundation and context to understand and appreciate (not to say all the complexity we've built is perfect).
We take privacy very seriously [1], and respect that your notes are yours. Our business model revolves around power users paying for our product and we will never sell your data to third parties.

[1]: https://supernotes.app/privacy/
Nextcloud works quite well. And you have also a calendar and some other nice features which DropBox not provides.
Also the desktop sync client as well as the android client(s) works quite well.
Long before AWS implemented provisioned capacity, these kinds of hacks were pretty common.

I would expect that the number of customers that would roll this out and run it without any mistakes that drive up the monthly spend is small enough that Amazon doesn’t care.
> This seems a little dismissive of the Servo project.

I disagree. The servo project has not (yet) "built a new engine from scratch". In fact it is very far from being a complete engine, if you look at their "Remainig Work" Page[^1].

BTW, last year, they focused on Virtual Reality, which isn't helpful to build a basic web engine. According to their roadmap[^2], they're not even sure of what their long-term target is: a new web browser or an embedable lib.

[^1]: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Remaining-work

[^2] https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
Larry Farwell Claims His Lie Detector System Can Read Your Mind
It may not directly pay but his reputation as Security Expert is enhanced.

I don't know if "Big Internet" (ICANN, IANA, IETF, RIRs) does not have its own security group like the Commercial companies do (Project Zero, various EH companies). RFC3013???

We have to depend on people who can take time to look for exploits in exchange for reputation.
America Needs Policy Reform, Not More Corporate Money
I use a Syncthing a little, but the battery usage, especially on Android, is a big problem.

It might work fine for small amounts of files, but it doesn't scale as well as Dropbox does.
That may be fair :)

Personally, I enjoy React on the front-end but don't currently like any back-end framework, so Reflux may well be better in aggregate.

(FWIW, I have a PhD in computer science and big part of that was on web applications and frameworks for them, combined with ~15 years commercial experience mastering web development, so this wasn't meant to be a middle-brow dismissal. As I said, it is exciting, I'm just not convinced.

I think there is some merit in the argument that too much cleverness can be dangerous. Battle-hardened is tricky; I agree TodoMVC is meant to be a minimalist demo, but if a minimal demo can have subtle bugs caused by the cleverness of the data binding, how much more so a real app with a much more complex data model?

But I guess it does eliminate whole other classes of bug, so I can believe it works less buggy and more productive better than React+some back end.

I certainly find the current front/back split endlessly painful. I am also excited by the new React Server Components which might be another good solution to that.)

EDIT TO ADD: I guess what I was trying to say is: I found this interesting, and I looked at it, and then I found this bug in the example, and I wonder if this framework might make a bug like that more likely because the power of making some things easier is obscuring what is happening in some cases, and I don't know if that trade-off is worth it.
Which self-hosted solution did you go with? I am looking to switch from Dropbox to NextCloud.
Lol the demonization of Typescript continues...
Anki is free, besides the advertising, why would I consider this
I agree. Nuclear is one of our cleanest and most advanced methods of producing heat/steam, but the tech for creating power from said heat/steam is lagging behind the more direct methods seen in newer technologies. In my opinion this is why concentrated solar & geothermal also lag behind their more conventional renewable cousins.
Negative feedback loops are also a thing, the difference is if the tendency is to steady state or wildly increasing / chaotic systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_feedback
Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple, says new CEO
From Merriam-Webster: "In simplest terms, fascism refers to a specific way of organizing a society: under fascism, a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people in that society, and allows no dissent or disagreement."

"Left" and "right" here don't mean a whole lot in regards to fascism imho, just as Hitler and Stalin weren't all that different.
I'm trying to send message right now and it's not working.
Intel to wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis
Yes, although it's hard to imagine any TLD using .cd for NS.

It would also be less effective unless that TLD was using .cd for ALL of it's NS records.
I know this thread is about the severely limited energy of chronic pain sufferers, but there's some good lessons here for the rest of us healthy folks as well.

While we have many more spoons than someone who's ill, our spoons are still limited in number each day, despite most of us assuming they are unlimited.
I saw this a week ago and refused it as well...
You mean the vaccine against the virus that has already killed 300k people in the US? Its very clearly desirable to get all of the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions vaccinated as quickly as possible since they have such a high probability of dying of the virus. Even if we did just that we could cut the death rate way down.
> there is SO MUCH to learn to get started with a "simple" react app... It's not necessary.

One line of HTML: https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html#add-rea...

> Have you never wished you could save your css tweaks directly from chrome dev tools?

You can: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/work...

> Firefox could absolutely come with a standard node server and editor

A node server runs JavaScript files as do browser engines and the majority of node’s API exists in the browser in a similar form, as well as an editor. GitHub as well comes with an editor built-in, Netlify can be connected to GitHub by clicking one button.

I agree that it’s good to simplify, but are these good examples for that?
Insofar as cancer cells need more energy, starvation is also specific.
They are the only company I know that continuously pulls features from existing tiers while raising prices on all tiers.

They act like a monopoly seemingly oblivious to the many viable alternatives out there today.
It is caused by peoples' jobs not paying a living wage, coupled with high housing prices, making them one unexpected expense from being on the street.

My wife is a social worker, and something I've since learned from her is that the "poverty level" is solely for the cost of food and has utterly nothing to do with the cost of housing. It is utterly bananas that you can "not be impoverished" yet be homeless. Fixing that number to account for local cost of living for housing would be a really good step in helping fix the underlying problem (and the govt giving a crap about their citizens!)
I loved that episode of Black Mirror (“be right back”, discussed in the article).

There was a chat app a few years back — I can’t remember what it was called, but it was the hot topic for a few weeks – which was supposed to be like an AI friend that you could talk to. I installed it to see what the hubbub was about, and within 72 hours (a) it started flirting with me (I’m thinking about you ;)), and (b) I discovered that the default was to publish excerpts from your conversations, tweet-like, to “inspire” other users. What a horror show. I uninstalled it like I was holding a live spider in my hands instead of my phone.

I’m embarrassed to admit that a Her-like AI is appealing to me, but my need to not have Microsoft plunging into my inner psyche is pretty intense.
That guy's channel is great if you're in the market for a handheld or SFF PC for emulation or PC gaming. He does in-depth reviews like this of pretty much all of them that come out.
I'm in the same boat and like abduco [0], which does exactly session {de,re}attaching and not more. The author suggests to pair it with dvtm (terminal multiplexer without session {de,re}attaching), but of course just using a window manager works just as well.

[0] https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/
Hosting a WireGuard webserver all from userspace
Partially down for me
My history has hundreds of entries per day for two years (imported from Firefox). Opening the History Panel takes 6 seconds and the whole browser is completely unresponsive in the meantime.

Your list of features is the same reason why I started using Vivaldi. I have a lot of respect for the team, and I'm glad to be using a tool that explicitly caters to power users too.
From the article: "the agreed-upon waiting period expired without [DOJ's] objection"
> I believe what the law actually says is that Google should to pay news providers when it displays content from their websites in search listings

As far as I remember the more ludicrous part is that the code mandates that Google must include news results. That means that Google must pay for all news links. It couldn't, for example, decide to partner with some news orgs and not others. It also couldn't just remove news altogether. The penalties proposed are also insane. Billions if I recall.

Which then leaves them with either effectively being held hostage to pulling search entirely as described here.
Fasting certainly prolongs life by limiting resources to the cancer which can't handle it very well compared to your own cells (that do not grow as rapidly).

It can't cure tho, because liver and kidney will create most important resources for body to be able to work.